Sentences with phrase «early test subjects»

The early test subject could be the new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan, one of the newest vehicles in the FCA showroom and the vehicle chosen to launch the automaker's hybrid and plug - in hybrid capabilities.

Not exact matches

We offer a space for developers and entrepreneurs to attend and organize events with speakers, mentors and other entrepreneurs; a «hack space» and device library to develop and test new ideas; and Google Launchpad, a two - week boot camp for early stage start - ups helping with subjects including user interface, product strategy & technology, marketing, business development and more.»

Senator Stewart Cousins, who has not taken a position on whether parents should opt their children out of the tests, spoke on the subject earlier this year.

«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.

A Martin victory would signal the depth of the nation's desire for change, but a new president - elect with soaring popularity may not want to subject himself to such an early test on not - entirely - hospitable terrain.

But if the test ended artificially early, with their computer screens pointing at Wikipedia.org, about two thirds of the subjects who had planned to use IMDb overlooked the alternative right in front of them.

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to manipulate the Tetris blocks mentally with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

It appeared that the escalating difficulty of the game trained the test subjects to mentally manipulate the Tetris blocks with such skill that they barely broke a cognitive sweat completing levels that would have utterly confounded them a month earlier.

Yes, using mice in early drug studies can spare human test subjects from harm, which most people would argue justifies the frequently misleading findings.

It is early days — so far we have been testing this on healthy subjects — but we think it does have potential to improve the health of the heart and might even become part of the treatment for heart failure.»

Australia's Full Federal Court this week began proceedings in an appeal of an earlier decision that upheld the validity of breast cancer diagnostic tests developed by Myriad Genetics — the same tests that were the subject of oral argument before the U.S. high court earlier this week.

By looking at activation of different brain regions while test subjects were exposed to different listening conditions, Dr. Johnsrude's research has revealed that the early processing of sound, which occurs in a brain region called the primary auditory cortex, depends on higher - level linguistic knowledge encoded in other regions of the brain.

PI3K inhibitors are the subject of some 100 clinical trials, including one that will test whether a cancer treatment's early failure to reduce glucose uptake, as measured by FDG PET, can predict whether the therapy will fail to shrink a patient's tumor.

«Probably among the earliest designations of a coral reef protected area, this site has been subjected to massive military development, high atmospheric nuclear testing, chemical waste disposal, and other threats,» the institute notes.

These 36 students who did not participate in the earlier test then had pick letters and numbers out of an array within a designated amount of time, finding that the subjects who viewed the baby animals were able to concentrate more and perform better, increasing accuracy by 16 percent and speed by 13 percent, while performance.

We built instrumentation to detect those changes early, and tested them in human subjects.

To test whether clinicoanatomic heterogeneity in AD is driven by the involvement of specific networks, network connectivity was assessed in healthy subjects by seeding regions commonly and specifically atrophied in three clinical AD variants: early - onset AD (age at onset, < 65 y; memory and executive deficits), logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (language deficits), and posterior cortical atrophy (visuospatial deficits).

In an early study, Backman et al. (1995) found substantial inter-individual variability in an isometric time - to - exhaustion test, particularly with changes in age, as well as differences in rating of perceived exertion (RPE) between the subjects.

Since early 2009, she admittedly has used her husband as a «test subject» on many of the ideas that come in.

Certainly when dealing with a subject who is not only alive but still serving in office (unlike Stone's earlier films about Nixon and Kennedy), it would be impossible to create a political piece that passes everyone's test of objectivity.

The second set of data includes school - level information on test scores for certain grades and subjects, collected since the early 1990s as part of Illinois» ongoing accountability program.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

So you will see that by early next year [2012] we have to deliver on the first model, which is [teacher evaluations in] the tested subjects.

Now consider building knowledge: Individual teacher accountability on a fourth - grade reading comprehension test, for instance, is unfair because children's comprehension depends on what they've learned every year, in school and out (a reading test is a de facto test of background knowledge); it's also unproductive because it lets the early - grade teachers off the hook if they don't contribute by teaching the knowledge - building subjects.

Senator Stewart Cousins, who has not taken a position on whether parents should opt their children out of the tests, spoke on the subject earlier this year.

While not mentioned in the Times editorial, the appropriate use of student test scores is an issue in LAUSD because of the new teacher evaluation system that had seemingly been agreed to earlier this year but is now the subject of much dispute.

Our library of pre-made tests, worksheets, and activities covers all K - 12 subjects, early education, and AP level materials.

With skill - based subjects, such as math and early reading, the end - of - the - unit tests work well.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed legislation in early May that both reduced the number of standardized tests that students are subjected to and lowered the importance of «student growth» for the evaluation of teachers.

The Century Foundation's Greg Anrig has argued in Pacific Standard magazine that reducing teacher evaluations to standardized tests amounts to subjecting education to Taylorism — the time - and - motion studies that so entranced corporate managers (and even Lenin) in the early 20th century and that boiled down worker performance to basic, repetitive tasks.

«The standard - setting and writing of the standards included a significant number of people from the testing industry, but did not include a significant number of experienced teachers, subject - matter experts, and other educators from the outset, nor did it engage other informed and concerned interests, such as early childhood educators and educators of children with disabilities,» explained Ravitch.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

White said earlier in the fall the state did not yet know which tests individual districts chose in subjects like foreign languages, art, and music.

This may be done through completion of the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST), the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) including the basic writing test, the California State University (CSU) Early Assessment Program, or the CSU Placement ETest (CBEST), the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) including the basic writing test, the California State University (CSU) Early Assessment Program, or the CSU Placement Etest, the California State University (CSU) Early Assessment Program, or the CSU Placement Exam.

But here's why I'm worried about leaving out the link between those subjects and reading comprehension: Even if we got rid of high - stakes reading tests tomorrow (which is unlikely to happen), people would still place a huge emphasis on teaching kids to read, especially in the early grades.

In most state tests, «difficult» means testing student achievement in conventional academic subjects at an earlier age, such as algebra in grade 8.

Require all early childhood candidates who are eligible to teach elementary grades to pass a subject - matter test designed to ensure sufficient content knowledge of all subjects.

Honda says there has never been a Type R quite like the subject of this road test: the fifth - generation Civic Type R, which might be a little more helpfully classified as the performance version of the 10th - generation Civic hatchback, itself introduced earlier this year.

Twenty - two years earlier, government search parties, guided by prophecies and omens, had arrived at the boy's humble peasant home and subjected the two - year - old to a series of tests.

A distribution of earnings that fails to meet these tests will be taxable, and may be subject to the 10 % early distribution penalty as well.

If you plan to receive benefits earlier than your NRA and continue to work, your earnings will be subject to the «earnings test.»

Since the early 2000s the artist has explored the social and cultural implications of political acts through painting, sculpture, installation, and performance — both live and filmed — using himself as protagonist, proxy, and test subject.

His earliest performances, including 12m2, 65 kg and To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond, subjected his body to grueling tests of endurance while addressing the relationship between physical endurance and spiritual tranquility.

In an earlier post by Altman & Altman, we discussed Zofran's pregnancy safety rating, which it purportedly received a rating of «Pregnancy Category B,» meaning that animal testing of this drug did not produce any concrete evidence that it would later become harmful in subjects who are pregnant.

Each discarded earlier subject matter tests that looked primarily to the result of a method to determine whether the method was patentable.

Standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials recommend that authorizations identify the subject of the protected health information to be disclosed; the name of the person or institution that is to release the information; the name of each individual or institution that is to receive the information; the purpose or need for the information; the information to be disclosed; the specific date, event, or condition upon which the authorization will expire, unless revoked earlier; and the signature and date signed.

But Honor is the winner when it comes to depth effects — in early testing the Honor 9's low depth - of - field mode was able to more accurately measure the edges of subjects in our photos, whereas the OnePlus 5 routinely over or under - blurred certain areas.

Interestingly, when the Android device was subjected to a drop test early this week, it managed to survive a couple of falls, including one that involved it tumbling to the ground face - down.

Remember the three - word test for writing the subject line of your e-mail message that I explained in earlier in Chapter, «E-mailing Resume».