Sentences with phrase «first measured the data»

When they first measured the data, their time resolution was pretty course, so the two lines looked to move together.

Not exact matches

In latest data, for the first 10 months of 2015, governments around the world passed 539 protectionist measures, up from 407 in the same period of 2014 and 183 in 2012.

Their first wearable product, Reveal, measures the body's response to stress and anxiety in real - time by tracking physiological signals and sending data via Bluetooth to its accompanying app.

Another report earlier this week showed that the Fed's preferred measure of inflation accelerated to its highest in more than a year in March, while data last week showed that wages grew at their fastest pace in in eleven years in the first quarter.

Data through June 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three headline composites ended the second quarter of 2012 with positive annual growth rates for the first time since the summer of 2010.

Tuesday was also the first day of F8, the social network's annual developer conference, where it was expected to address many of the privacy changes and quality - control measures put in effect since it was reported that data firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly abused the private information of up to 87 million Facebook users for political operations.

The first baseline measure of milk waste was derived from milk waste data collected during the spring of 2012 in 5 of the 15 elementary schools, which were located in New York State.

The first measure will create more transparency in cab drivers» travels by outfitting their vehicles with equipment to record and store all fare data, including passenger pickup and drop - off locations, and make the information available to riders.

First, the spacecraft will gather data on Bennu's internal structure by measuring its exact shape, its surface geology and its gravity field.

By combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia mission, University of Groningen astronomers have been able to measure the proper motion of 15 stars in the Sculptor Galaxy, the first such measurement of stars in a small galaxy outside the Milky Way.

In the first experiment, the researchers write, the data indicated that the participants «ignored information [in the case]... about the CEO's emphasis on CSR initiatives, and consequently perceived CSR performance measures as less relevant for performance evaluation.

«To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to measure the second largest economy by mining such unprecedentedly large scale and fine granular spatial - temporal data,» the Baidu researchers write.

1743: John Winthrop is the first to scientifically measure a hurricane; he gathered tidal and pressure data on a storm that passed through the northeastern U.S.

The authors state that their study is the first to measure smartphone exposure prospectively, but caution that the study also had some important limitations, including the self - selection of study participants and self - reporting of data.

Research from Wageningen University in the Netherlands shows — for the first time — real time data of the brain, the stomach, and people's feelings of satiety measured simultaneously during a meal, in a study to be reported this week at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, held in Porto, Portugal.

Although transplantations were performed in the 1960s, the study began gathering data from 1987 when the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) first established measures for evaluating transplantation outcomes.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

Phillips and her team are the first to use high - resolution, whole - brain MRI data and sophisticated analysis techniques to measure cortical thickness and tissue density within specific brain areas.

«People have been measuring two - way contacts for a long time,» says Robert Beagrie, joint first author on the paper, who was a PhD student with Ana Pombo at the LMS when he collected the data for the study and is now based at the University of Oxford.

«Our investigation includes one of the most robust analyses of physician adherence to AUA guidelines on the management of BPH / LUTS in the published literature, and represents the first published analysis to our knowledge of the rate of performance of measures that are challenging to extract from administrative data (i.e., subjective symptom description, I - PSS, sexual function evaluation, performance of a physical examination and specific examination maneuvers),» says Dr. Auffenberg.

These data were obtained on November 17, 2013 during the first week of operation of GPI and in relatively challenging weather conditions, but with GPI's advanced adaptive optics system and coronagraph the planets can still be clearly seen and their spectra measured (see Figure 2).

The data is only 33 years in length, but based on that data, there is no first order correlation between temperature and CO2 during its 33 year period and this suggests that then signal to CO2 (ie., Climate Sensitivity) is so low that it can not be measured within the sensitivity, resolution and errors of our best current temperature measurements.

«We're the first to have developed a strategy using data assimilation to successfully forecast the evolution of magma overpressures beneath a volcano using combined ground deformation datasets measured by Global Navigation Satellite System (more commonly known as GPS) and satellite radar data,» explains Mary Grace Bato, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) in France.

Using the techniques of strong and weak gravitational lensing on archival data obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope, we determine that the average mass overdensity profile of the lenses can be fit wi... ▽ More We measure the average mass properties of a sample of 41 strong gravitational lenses at moderate redshift (z ~ 0.4 - 0.9), and present the lens redshift for 6 of these galaxies for the first time.

NASA has already acquired satellite data from the first year of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 Satellite, which was designed to measure CO2 from the top of the Earth's atmosphere to the surface.

In the past year the first results from the Breakthrough Listen project were published; FLAG, the world's most sensitive phased array feed receiver was commissioned; first data was released from the ammonia survey of the Gould Belt; two new molecules were detected in the ISM (HC5O and C7H); the first full season for observing with ARGUS and MUSTANG - 2 was completed; and the recent Terzan 5 results directly measured the gravitational potential of a globular cluster for the first time.

Based on these data, we present first evidence that mobility patterns measured by passive monitoring correlate with disease severity as measured by clinical gold standards.

From these data, we first measured allele - specific expression, where a heterozygous site in a gene can be used to distinguish gene expression from the two copies of a gene.

On the basis of data collected during the first few months of operation, the astrometric precision for a single 30 minute measure appears to be better than 4 milliarcseconds (0.001 pi... ▽ More Although not designed as an astrometric instrument, Kepler is expected to produce astrometric results of a quality appropriate to support many of the astrophysical investigations enabled by its photometric results.

On the basis of data collected during the first few months of operation, the astrometric precision for a single 30 minute measure appears to be better than 4 milliarcseconds (0.001 pixel).

Those first three questions, I can back up with data from my glucose monitor, rowing machine, scale and measuring tape.

In fact, when the Feskanich group analyzed the Nurses» Health Study using only the data from the first FFQ, the association between the fifth and first quintiles of retinol intake fell from a statistically significant (meaning consistent and unlikely to be due to chance) 89 percent increased risk to a non-statistically significant (meaning inconsistent, with a high probability of being due to chance) 17 percent increased risk.9 This suggests that one one - week FFQ does not measure retinol intake with sufficient accuracy to detect an association, and that, had the intake data more accurately estimated real intake of retinol, the Lim team might have found such an association.

I measure the kindergarten enrollment rate with the state kindergarten - to - first - grade enrollment ratio, calculated from the federal Common Core of Data and earlier published dData and earlier published datadata.

First, we calculate a value - added measure of effectiveness that combines data from all available years and both subjects (averaging math and reading).

The first edition of the Digest, Laying the Foundation to Measure Sustainable Development Goal 4, finds that many countries struggle to produce the data needed today, and will find it even harder to It focuses specifically on areas that are difficult to measure, such as education quality, learning, equity and incMeasure Sustainable Development Goal 4, finds that many countries struggle to produce the data needed today, and will find it even harder to It focuses specifically on areas that are difficult to measure, such as education quality, learning, equity and incmeasure, such as education quality, learning, equity and inclusion.

There is no dispute that the first 20 % component is based on «student growth data» as measured by state assessments or comparable measures.

In the second step, we calculate a growth measure for each school using test - score data that have been adjusted for student and school characteristics in the first step.

Of course, organizations first need to fix their authorization and other security measures (Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2021, 27 % of corporate data traffic will bypass perimeter security, and flow directly from mobile and portable devices to the cloud).

The deal, reached last week after months of intense negotiation, would allow data from the tests and other sources to be used as one measure of teachers» effectiveness for the first time.

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In addition, new measures (like college enrollment data) can be added to report cards at a later point in time and need not be reported the first time states produce their ESSA report cards.

The teacher survey administered to all participating schools during the first round of data collection included a set of items designed to measure the relative influence of those in multiple roles on school decision making (see Section 1.1).

First we entered three measures of data use (principals» view of district data use, their own data use, and teachers» perceptions of principal data use), as a block, into a regression equation.

We obtained data for this section from responses to the first round of principal and teacher surveys and from state - mandated measures of students «achievement in mathematics.

While Kraft and Gilmour assert that «systems that place greater weight on normative measures such as value - added scores rather than... [just]... observations have fewer teachers rated proficient» (p. 19; see also Steinberg & Kraft, forthcoming; a related article about how this has occurred in New Mexico here; and New Mexico's 2014 - 2016 data below and here, as also illustrative of the desired normal curve distributions discussed above), I highly doubt this purely reflects New Mexico's «commitment to putting students first.»

New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing country - level measures of teacher subject knowledge.

For the first time in the history of American public education, federal education policy set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, and finally focused attention on using data in measuring teacher quality.

The first argument against its use relates to how it might be applied for accountability — that teachers should not be held fully accountable for any one test or data point, given the range of factors and measures involved in student learning.

Yevonne Brannon, chair of the advocacy group Public Schools First N.C., says state legislators should have waited until testing data was available for the schools before stripping any accountability measures from the law.

While one measure of progress may be student achievement data, for 6th grade reading teacher Ashley Croft, another telling measure is that «for the first time ever, every time slot for parent - teacher conferences was filled this year.