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In April, online test preparation platform Oliveboard raised an undisclosed amount in funding from India Educational Investment Fund, an early - stage impact investment fund established by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.

So just to clarify, have you tested and in maybe a little bit more granular detail maybe how many stores, how long is the third quarter menu been in test, what have maybe you learned from this in terms of like actual impact on sales.

«The authority has talked with Qualcomm about how to reduce the negative impact on the market and has conducted market tests using the remedy plan from Qualcomm.

They test robustness of findings with data from selected international developed markets, different return variable specifications, different subperiods and impact of transaction costs.

From relationships, to friendships, to tests and careers, we will all feel the impact of hitting rock bottom on more than one occasion.

introducing legislation to establish an «effects test» in national competition law to protect small businesses from the impact of anti-competitive conduct by large, counterparty businesses

It seems like the young Frenchman will be brought in slowly, but he's made such a great impact in his short spell on Sunday that it makes sense to test him from the start against a stronger opponent.

Arming sideline personnel (especially a certified athletic trainer) with new, cutting edge tools and technology, including impact sensors to track hits and alert sideline personnel to those which might result in concussion or brain trauma from an accumulation of sub-concussive blows, and a battery of quick and reliable sideline assessment tests to make «remove from play» decisions;

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

They learned that these tests were similar to ones carried out by the NHTSA in 2008, which revealed problems with some seats, such as failures in side impact crashes and numerous cases of infant seats detaching from their bases.

46 % had at least one score on the ImPACT computerized neurocognitive test which decreased by a statistically significant amount from their baseline;

Traits like self - control, optimism, intellectual curiosity, emotional intelligence, and conscientiousness — habits that will cause them to turn off the TV because they have a test the next day or complete a college application without needing reminders from others or having the belief system that working hard will positively impact their life.

This booster has been side impact tested to absorb energy from side collisions or minor accidents.

Because they can detect subtle signs of cognitive impairment indicating that an athlete's brain has not fully healed, even where the athlete claims his symptoms have cleared, the tests are designed to help to protect young athletes against the risk of suffering a second concussion by returning too soon, which can lead to short - and long - term cognitive problems, and catastrophic injury or even death from second impact syndrome.

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitiveimpact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitiveImPACT neurocognitive test.

If an athlete's sensor picks up an abnormally high impact, an athletic trainer could remove that player from the game to perform a concussion test.

Impact testing of side rails and slat strength / integrity testing - intended to prevent slats and spindles from breaking and / or detaching during use;

Rowson and Stefan Duma, the Harry Wyatt Professor of Engineering and interim director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, began evaluating football helmets in 2011, designing the test methods based on millions of impacts they recorded from Virginia Tech football players.

If a traumatic impact occurs and the Head Case Mobile App test is deployed, once the data from the sensor is uploaded, it is automatically paired with the test data and is placed confidentially in thatathlete's file for reporting and analysis.

If a traumatic impact occurs and the Head Case Mobile App test is deployed, once the data from the sensor is uploaded, it is automatically paired with the test data and is placed confidentially in that athlete's file for reporting and analysis.

Once an athlete has completed the field - side concussion symptom detection test, the data from the test is relayed to that athlete's personal profile on the Head Case Website, where it is paired with impact data collected from the sensor.

Apart from meeting or exceeding the USA safety standards, it has also been tested for side impact for occupant retention with the built in five point harness system, thus making it safe for your baby.

«We found that the proposal had a unique formula to offer which served to set it apart from the others presented to us in terms of the full range of our specific remitted criteria of best test of social impact, regeneration need and benefits and willingness to license.»

Apart from 2017 elections in two states, the November 2018 general elections will be the first significant test of the impact Donald Trump's presidency will have on down - ballot races.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has reiterated his call for the Government to do an «objective test» on the impact of a potential takeover by Pfizer of AstraZeneca, despite the British firm's board rejecting the apparently final offer from the US drugs company.

Apart from individual special elections held throughout 2017, the November general elections were the first test of the impact a Donald Trump presidency would have on down ballot races.

NUT Cymru says it has received alarming reports regarding the impact of the introduction of literacy and numeracy tests for all pupils from Year 2 — Year 9.

The changes include protecting students and teachers from the impact of state assessments and reducing the amount of local testing associated with the teacher evaluation law.

The Legislators also supports an explicit law that ensures school districts, individual schools, teachers and students are protected from any withholding of state funds, sanctions or negative impact on a teacher's evaluation associated with the outcomes related to test opt outs.

New York State United Teachers said it will be delivering 10,000 letters from teachers to Commissioner King detailing the adverse impact they say state's reliance on standardized testing has had on its students.

She said she wanted to see teacher evaluations permanently unlinked from test scores, because she was skeptical of the methodology used to calculate a teacher's impact on a student's scores.

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Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

«The results from the exenatide studies justify continued testing, but clinicians and patients are urged not to add exenatide to their regimens until more is known about their safety and impact on Parkinson's.»

At the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford, researchers Nathalie Schaller and Friederike Otto analysed results from almost 40,000 climate model calculations to test the impact of climate change on Britain's winter rains.

But those results were widely criticized by educators and software makers for lumping together the outcomes from many different products and for testing their impact on student achievement in the 1st year the teacher had used the material.

«The emergency department is an important test case for whether we would see any impact from HIEs on rates of repeat imaging,» says Lammers.

He expects it will be a decade or more before ESRU's turbines are ready to be used in earnest in the sea — much more testing must be done, in addition to the environmental impact studies and garnering of support from utility companies.

The blood test study data were obtained from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development's Hospital Annual Utilization Data files, the Area Health Resources Files, and the Impact Files from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

As a result, the repaired material is somewhat weaker than an intact sheet; in tests, it can absorb only about 62 % as much energy from an impact.

To our knowledge, never before has a videogame intervention been developed with such extensive input from its target audience, and tested through rigorous scientific methods over a long stretch of time, demonstrating that kids will engage in a game with serious content and learn things that impact the way they think and potentially what they do.»

The IODP team wants to test a leading model for peak ring formation, in which granite from Earth's depths rebounds after a major impact, like water struck by stone, to form a central tower, taller than the crater rim.

The test unit and setup contained numerous hazards, so all components of the system had to be evaluated to ensure safety from installation to impact to recovery.

A team of 20 Australian scientists headed by Peter Davies, a marine geologist from the University of Sydney, was commissioned by the Australian environment minister, John Faulkner, to analyse the impact of testing on the atolls.

To test this possibility, Gregory and Berman measured the impact of Neanderthal variants on MRI measures of brain structure in a sample of 221 participants of European ancestry, drawn from the NIMH Genetic Study of Schizophrenia.

His corporate partnership with Nike - Baur has given him access to their expertise and equipment, which has allowed him to expand his testing capabilities from prototype design to impact testing.