Sentences with phrase «effects are of a high standard»

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It was a costly period which surely had some effect on Arsenal's season, as we would've surely performed to a higher standard with a player of Sanchez's quality in the side.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

In the same way that soda made with cane sugar in lieu of high fructose corn syrup is not a healthful beverage, there needs to be a clear message that «slime - free» ground beef is by no means the golden standard, especially when an ever - growing body of research continues to highlight the harmful effects of red meat consumption (the latest: it «contributes substantially to premature death»).

Southwark council say they will be putting measures in place with immediate effect to ensure staff are fully trained in domestic abuse awareness and always apply the highest standards of customer care to anyone who has experienced domestic abuse in any form.

In the largest nursing home study to date on the effect of high dose flu vaccine, researchers found that shots with four times the strength of standard flu shots significantly reduced the risk of being hospitalized during the influenza season.

In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15 - year period after 1998, during which globally averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards, but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.

«While there appear to be no risks from taking a standard multivitamin, the effects of high - dose single supplements are unpredictable, complex and often harmful.

CB1 antagonists have been shown to decrease nicotine self - administration in rodent models of nicotine dependence.24 While CB1 agonists increase feeding in rats and humans, CB1 antagonists have been shown to have the opposite effect, significantly suppressing rats» food intake regardless of type of diet (standard lab chow, high fat or high carbohydrate).

However, studies that are listed in the review compare the effects of a standard low - fat, high - carb diet to a high - fat, low - carb diet.

Type 2 diabetes refers to a condition where the cells of the body become resistant to the effects of insulin, which is typically the result of obesity and / or the consumption of excessive amounts of sugar and high carbohydrate foods associated with the standard American diet.

Levels of a number of thyroid blocking toxins, including bisphenol - A and PBDE's, are significantly higher in individuals in the United States (PBDE's being especially high in California)(275,276), resulting in reduced T3 effect in all tissues in almost all individuals in the United States compared to the rest of the world that is not detected by standard thyroid testing.

Of course we need to keep in mind our nutrition and the dietary foods we eat as the Standard American Diet is full of highly processed and high - glycemic foods that contain chemicals which cause side effects such as breakouts and other negative health effectOf course we need to keep in mind our nutrition and the dietary foods we eat as the Standard American Diet is full of highly processed and high - glycemic foods that contain chemicals which cause side effects such as breakouts and other negative health effectof highly processed and high - glycemic foods that contain chemicals which cause side effects such as breakouts and other negative health effects.

If we take into consideration the prevalence of women's health - related conditions, the potential for reliance and side effects of drugs and the high cost of not treating this condition effectively, it is critical to examine the best natural alternatives over the standard options provided by conventional medicine.You do have natural options; let's have a look at what we can offer the woman who has PMS.

▻ matcha is a type of green tea that is grown in Japan ▻ matcha is technically a «loose - leaf» tea, but it's different than other standard teas because the tea leaves that have been ground into a powder ▻ because the entire tea leaf is consumed, you get more nutritional benefits than regular steeped tea (like vitamins, minerals & antioxidants) ▻ matcha has less caffeine than coffee and the effect is said to be gentler and more gradual on the body ▻ when making matcha, make sure you select a high quality, ceremonial grade matcha that is shade grown from Japan

Little argument is given about the detrimental effects of eating «safe starches» and glucose spikes on raising insulin, and resultant insulin resistance, with the exception of the (very poor) study that compared people eating a standard American diet to those eating a controlled, very high fiber (22 tablespoons!)

Wyrmwood is standard stuff with a few good kills and a handful of compelling makeup effects, pulled together with high, some would say manic, energy, culminating in a strangely zeitgeist - y mutation where it turns out that some of the zombies can be controlled telepathically or someshit.

Yeoh gets to do plenty in the final half - hour, though much of the action doesn't really spotlight what makes her different from Western action stars; it's as though the producers — so used to standard Hollywood action, with its high - tech hardware, special - effects wizardry and stunt doubles — didn't know what to do with an actress who has actual physical skills.

The special - effects sequences are up to the usual high standards of Marvel excellence, but by far the best elements of «Homecoming» are the writing, which brims with humor, and the performances.

The combination of all these characters into one film has created such a high standard for special effects that will be difficult to match.

In high - poverty schools, we estimate that the overall effect of all teacher turnover on student achievement is 0.08 of a standard deviation in math and 0.05 of a standard deviation in reading.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

However, there is consensus among three key federally funded agencies (What Works Clearinghouse, National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, and Florida Center for Reading Research), as well as several peer - reviewed journal articles that review research on education products, that Accelerated Reader has met high standards of scientific rigor with positive effects and no contrary evidence.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

On average, students in countries with performance - related pay score 24.8 percent of a standard deviation higher on the PISA math test; in reading the effect is 24.3 percent of a standard deviation; and in science it is 15.4 percent (see Figure 1).

The uncertainty surrounding the achievement effects of the DC voucher program is because we set the high standard of 95 % confidence to judge a voucher benefit as «statistically significant», and we could only be 94 % confident that the final - year reading gains from the DC program were statistically significant.

The results are consistent with other studies that show a substantial return (up to 50 percent of a standard deviation on standardized achievement tests) to achievement from observed classroom quality, with greater effects often accruing to children with higher levels of risk and disadvantage.

Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.

It's worth pointing out that the standard errors are such that modest effects on the order of 0.1 σ would be detectable in middle school, though the high school design has less power.

To estimate the effects of states» adoption and implementation of college - and career - readiness standards and aligned assessments on student outcomes, C - SAIL is analyzing National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

It was not until 2002, 36 years after the Coleman Report, that the education research enterprise finally began to adopt higher standards for inferring the causal effects of interventions.

While the average effects of grading standards are important, the theoretical literature on grading standards suggests that higher standards could produce both winners and losers.

We found that the positive effects of higher grading standards were restricted to those students who were no more than 0.8 and 0.9 standard deviation below the average score in reading and math, respectively.

It also bolsters our argument that it is high grading standards rather than some unobserved measure of teacher quality that is responsible for the positive effects on students» performance gains.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which... Read More

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

We're analyzing data from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) and other sources to estimate the effects of college - and career - readiness standards on student achievement, high school completion, and college enrollment.

The effect is large: Finance reforms raise achievement in the lowest - income school districts by about one - tenth of a standard deviation, closing about one - fifth of the gap between high - and low - income districts.

The wrap - around effect in the cockpit, with the high line flowing in a single sweep from the driver door across the dashboard to the passenger door is flanked by generously pro- portioned and finely detailed trim — in the case of the AMG flagship model, this comes as standard in burl walnut wood veneer.

Given the high deterrent effect of the undue hardship standard, it is, therefore, imperative that courts accurately determine which educational debts are nondischargeable.

Sound: There is no voice acting, but the background music and sound effects are of a very high standard.

There are five levels, and not only do higher levels allow you to do more with your super stance (an extra powerful mode of some of that character's standard moves), higher levels also grant the pair special bonuses like resistance to different status effects, higher max HP and all sorts of other things.

Even the standard radiative GHG effect of 33 or something K is on very shaky ground, i mean the explanation for higher than black - body temperature of the surface (the average) using only radiative «forcing».

Overall, it concluded that it would be in the developing world where the net adverse effects would be greatest, and that, as a consequence, by the end of the century, if nothing was done to stop the warming, living standards in the developing world, instead of being rather more than nine times as high as they are today, would «only» be rather more than eight times as high as they are today.

Furthermore, with carbon - neutral housing due to be introduced to Ireland as soon as 2013, you need to consider adverse effects on the value of your property if you do not build to the highest possible standard.

If there's going to be suddenly a global standard imposed on India and China that would presumably would be to match the idea cap - and - trade systems in terms of effect, which is quite a high [standard], then there will be an overwhelming demand [to the effect of] «You've made us do this, now you've got to give [the technology] to us.»

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

On the other hand, if the EU insists on including investment protection standards in its FTIAs, but keeps ISDS, then the incentives of the investor not to rely on domestic courts are fairly high; especially, if the presence of ISDS is couple with a «no direct effect» clause.

Its aim was to identify a software provider able to assist in the goals of providing clients with the highest standards of services while doing so in a cost - effect...

[7] This means that the ECHR should not be interpreted as having the effect of lowering the higher standards found in other relevant provisions of international law or the law of a Member State.