Sentences with phrase «first national definition»

It provided the first national definition of a heatwave in January 2014, describing it as:

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A seminal report from the National Research Council (NRC) published in 2005, called Bridges to Independence: Fostering the Independence of New Investigators in Biomedical Research, suggests that the traditional definition of an independent researcher — as an individual, usually in a tenure - track position, who has received his or her first RO1 research project grant (or equivalent) as a principal investigator — is too narrow.

The National Assessment Literacy Task Force's definition of assessment literacy takes an important first step toward getting the profession on the same page regarding assessment.

Like our last post, let's first take a look at the overall definition of assessment literacy as defined by The National Task Force on Assessment Education:

First, the more appropriate scientific definition of climate is that it is a system involving the oceans, land, atmosphere and continental ice sheets with interfacial fluxes between these components, as we concluded in the 2005 National Research Council report.

This isn't the first effort to linguistically break down the Royal Society's two - family definition of «geoengineering» — previous attempts included «climate remediation», or the National Academies two - volume report on «climate intervention.»

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)

This is also the first Valentine's Day to see more than 800 colleges and universities, according to the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, including all those in California, adopt some kind of «Yes Means Yes» affirmative consent definition of sexual assault.

In the first study of its kind, national findings released today by Better Homes and Gardens ® Real Estate reveal this generation of teens ages 13 - 17, part of Generation Z, is very traditional in their views toward homeownership and is willing to give up modern luxuries for the mainstream definition of the American Dream.