Sentences with phrase «focus tested over»

We developed and focus tested over 100 variations before finalizing a subtle curvature that perfectly matches look and feel with durability.

Not exact matches

In fact, to get it right, you have to really test, over and over again, «honing in on usability and making that a core focus,» Rusenko says.

The newly formed enterprise collaboration includes over 30 companies to test - drive Ethereum blockchain technology for best practices focusing on security, privacy, scalability, and interoperability.

While I have traditionally always invested in index funds in my SEP IRA, over the past few months I have been considering using my SEP IRA to also trade stocks, with a focus on building a dividend growth portfolio, as well as testing my own individual strategies.

Based on the near - term outlook for real rates, as well as uncertainty over Brexit, rising populism in Europe and Trump's trade and foreign policies, Metals Focus analysts see gold testing $ 1,475 an ounce this year.

The Nevada Test Site is the focus for religiously based national public action, for instance, and struggles over gay rights and abortion are endemic everywhere.

Our testing of inorganic arsenic in rice has focused on our brown rice, and over the five years we have analyzed (2011 - 2015), the average level in our brown rice is about 93 ppb.

And I would love to test the chakra oils, I have been diggin deeper in the world of chakras and energy over the past months as I am attending a yoga class focussing on chakras and meditation (Spectral yoga), its so interesting and i would love to explore the effects of those oils!

It creates more economical means for our industry to self - regulate, focus on testing, spot audits and compliance checks, and to build on TOP members» great work (much of it voluntary) over the past decades promoting Tasmanian organic products.

The article focusses on concerns raised by Prof Graeme Samuel over the National Farmers Federation's proposed hybrid effects test.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

Instead of focusing on the final performance results of a test or paper (in other words, the grades), talk about the learning and revision process and improvement over time.

Senators and Assembly members remain focused on the controversy over the growth of standardized testing, and the exam boycott movement.

While the national focus is on Flint, Mich., a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation has identified almost 2,000 additional water systems spanning all 50 states where testing has shown excessive levels of lead contamination over the past four years.

The reason the 1998 tests received more attention and more condemnation was largely because at this point the cold war was long over and the rest of the world could afford to focus on the fight between India and Pakistan, also now you had two nuclear - armed countries that had a long history of going to war.

Using high - speed cameras focused on bats trained to obtain nectar from artificial «test tube» flowers containing honey water in the lab, the researchers» video captured bats hovering in short flights (rarely lasting a second) over the feeders.

Above all, Mankoff says testing of new imaging methods should focus on applications where they clearly represent an advance for patients over other imaging or biopsy - based techniques.

The current study of single orifice jets injected into a chamber of sub - to supercritical temperatures and pressures was focused on the effect of the chamber - to - injectant density ratio on the jet disintegration with 48 tests run over an extensive density ratio range.

Led by Philip De Jager of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Broad Institute, and Harvard University, and David Bennett, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the study will focus on drugs that have completed phase 1 testing, and could be granted $ 7.9 million over 5 years.

The notion of transmitting power over the air is at least 100 years old, with methods from high - powered microwaves to focused beams of infrared being tested.

According to Christian Weilke, manager for new product marketing at Roche Applied Science, the biotech industry - focused MycoTOOL PCR test is «thoroughly validated» for 11 species of interest to U.S. and European regulatory agencies; this test can detect «over 120 further Mycoplasma species,» with good specificity against non-Mollicutes bacteria, as well.

Future work will focus on collecting SSIP over a much wider range of frequencies (e.g. 0.05 - 500 Hz), testing the method for detecting naturally occurring zones of bioreduction, and specifying system requirements for widespread application.

It supports researchers at national laboratories, universities and research institutes focused on developing and testing the next generation of adsorbents that will exhibit higher adsorbent capacity, faster binding and lower degradation over multiple use cycles in seawater.

The company was acquired in 2010 by Medco Health Solutions (with over 55 million Medco members) to provide pharmacogenetic testing services and clinical support focused on drug / gene interactions.

This page will focus on the various tests I use with Candida patients who consult with me all over the world

«Over the last few years, we tested a variety of premium services focused on delivering a more personalized online dating experience.

Speaking about the new $ 30 subscription layer, eHarmony CEO Grant Langston said: «Over the last few years, we tested a variety of premium services focused on delivering a more personalised online dating experience.

A second Rorschach - Test themed poster for P.T. Anderson's The Master is a more focused improvement over the already excellent one we posted last month.

«And, the pattern that I saw, over and over again, was schools that would either devote themselves to getting the kids to score well on tests, or they would focus on the culture - and in either case they didn't seem to succeed very well.»

These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).

Although these standardized tests have improved over time, the focus on them still narrows the outcomes that we care about improving.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

Yet you focus on the negative finding: that higher - performing Texas schools were more likely to keep their low - performing kids from taking the test, and those kids did worse over the long term.

Over the past three years, Lagemann has continually emphasized the need for the School to focus on translating the findings of research into tools (texts, toys, tests, and the like) that teachers and learners themselves can use — usable knowledge.

I wrote this after realising that some children had trouble concentrating during the test and it was over before they had a chance to focus, additi...

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

... Focusing on test score gains may lead regulators to favor schools whose benefits could easily fade over time and punish schools that are producing long - lasting gains.»

Perhaps the greatest contribution of MI theory, I would argue, has been its role over the past decade as a counterbalance to an educational climate increasingly focused on high - stakes testing, such as the IQ test, the SAT, and the various state assessments that have emerged from the No Child Left Behind Act.

A health expert writes that while there isn't likely to be peace in the education world over charter schools and standardized testing, on this everyone should agree: The need to focus attention on disparities among our youth in education and in health.

In this case, although middle - school teachers had students write across a wider variety of genres (an emphasis of both CAP and instructional recommendations), most of their writing assignments mirrored the test - like setting of CAP (e.g. limited time, one - to two - page writing assignments, teacher - assigned topics, focus on one of the eight CAP modes, emphasis on form over function).

«Testing has sort of taken over what we are supposed to be focused on in the classrooms,» added Waiakea High School teacher Mireille Ellsworth.

While negotiations between the union and district have stalled over the issue of how much weight to give student test scores, E4E - LA members found that teachers would support incorporating student growth data, but worry about focusing myopically on one high - stakes test.

The specific focus on mathematics meant the work was relevant to all... This elementary school showed a substantially greater increase in standardized test scores than other district schools over the period of their school - wide lesson study in mathematics.

League of Education Voters is hopeful that with this new focus from OSPI, and new investments from the state — over $ 8 billion — we should be able to see improvements over the next 10 years in high school graduation rates, test scores, and entrance to certificate, apprenticeship, 2 - year or 4 - year programs.

One of the critiques of the API score used for over 10 years was that it only focused on test scores to rank schools.

This singular focus has resulted in several unintended and undesirable consequences, including over testing, a narrowing of the curriculum, and a de-emphasis of untested subjects and concepts — the arts, civics, and social and emotional skills, among many others — that are just as important to a student's development and long - term success.

California is showing what's possible when we focus on teaching and learning over testing.

So, if I had my druthers, I'd focus on end - of - course tests for (say) Algebra and Biology and Am History / World History with aggregate data over several years by grade 12 to test the kids when they take the course, rather than a cross-sectional test for any given grade level.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

The tendency to casually focus on student achievement, especially given the testing system's heavy emphasis on reading and math, allows a large number of employees to either be excused from results - driven accountability or be held accountable for activities over which they have no control.