Sentences with phrase «general measure»

Prior research has found significant associations between daily mood and general measures of psychological well - being.

The screening is a quick, general measure of your child's skills and development.

pCO2 in water is a mix of temperature, pH, bio life and total carbon (DIC) content... In general measured by mixing seawater with air till equilibrium and measuring the CO2 level in the air.

City Council Speaker and Democratic mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn championed the inspector general measure in the council.

The Country report covered ten thematic areas which include: General measures taken to realize the rights and welfare of the child in the policies and law of the State party or in any other international convention or agreement in force in the state.

Treatment — prescription antibiotic ointment as well as the above general measures.

«We found that general measures capture overall instructional quality and its associations with child outcomes similarly for dual - language learners and the wider early childhood population, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all children experience learning environments in the same way,» said Peisner - Feinberg.

I used to suggest that being within a couple of inches of ones high school graduation belt size is a good general measure — but in recent years the epidemic of overfat children makes that notion obsolete.

People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of academic performance.

Subsidies granted to individuals or general measures open to all enterprises, such as general taxation measures or employment legislation, thus, do not constitute State aid.

States condemned by the European Court of Human Rights have the obligation to erase the consequences of the violation for the victim and to take general measures such as amending their legislation or their juridical practices.

Finally, although the QMI is a very general measure of relationship satisfaction, and the questions it poses are not specific to marital relationships particularly, the fact that the measure was intended for married couples poses an additional limitation to the study.

Results also indicate that CBMS subscales are distinct from general measures of sexual wellbeing, personality factors, or relationship quality (i.e., discriminant validity) and are associated with self - reported condom use with different partner types (i.e., construct validity).

The GHQ - 12 is the most extensively used, self - administered screening instrument for common mental disorders, in addition to being a more general measure of psychiatric well - being.

The inspector general measure was overridden with 39 votes.

These data indicate gender differentially impacts the benefit of valuing athletics on measures of athletic anxiety and general measures of psychological well being.

What encodes the shape of the planarian body plan and how can tissues in general measure and maintain proportions?

Fortunately, there are general measures you can take to potentially reduce the long - term damage to your net worth during times of economic stress.

Just to make sure, I swabbed a subway car handrail and had it checked for two bugs that are often in the news lately, E. coli and staph bacteria, as well as for a general measure of bacterial activity, known as the standard plate count, or SPC.. The E. coli and staph test came back negative, and the rail's SPC count of 480 compared favorably with the SPC of 200,000 that was obtained from a swab taken at a water fountain in a park near DISCOVER's offices.

While muscle bulk does not necessary directly relate to strength, this provides a general measure of imbalance potentially caused by exercise or lifestyle factors — such as too much development in one muscle or muscle group compared to another.

The GI has evolved over the past 30 years, and is a general measure of a carbohydrate food's influence on blood sugar levels.

The general measure of audience enjoyment for a film based on Simon has everything to do with one's tolerance for the playwright.

If one uses student gains or losses as a general measure, then those who teach the neediest children — English - language learners, troubled students, autistic students — will see the smallest gains, and teachers will have an incentive to avoid districts and classes with large numbers of the neediest students.

To provide for a more comprehensive view of the subject, this section provides a general measure of the ease with which new businesses can start based on the total number of firm births recorded for each industry by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy for the 2009 - 2010 period.

Cash is represented by the ICE BofAML U.S. 3 - month T - Bill Index, which is an unmanaged index used as a general measure for money market or cash instruments.

U.S. bonds are represented by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which is an unmanaged index used as a general measure of fixed - income securities.

While it is only a general measure, it does give you an idea on what you have.

Many of the general measures to prevent house fires will prevent pets from inadvertently starting a fire.

Fame raises the more you do missions and side quests, and is a general measure of how famous you are in the west.

The Commission's 1994 Aviation guidelines for example reflected this view by stating that «the construction or enlargement of infrastructures projects (such as airports, motorways, bridges, etc.) represents a general measure of economic policy which can not be controlled by the Commission under the Treaty rules on State aid».

«The amount of the economic advantage resulting from the STL as a whole corresponds to the advantage that the EIG would not have achieved in the same financing operation by the sole application of general measures.

In the United States the general measure of inflation is the Consumer Price Index which tracks a basket of products and measures the average price increases over time to determine a general level of inflation.

In addition to knowing each set of twins» genetic overlap (identical = more, fraternal = less), the researchers focused on individual twins» reports of marital satisfaction (a general measure of the quality of their marriages) and self - reported health that asks participants to indicate their overall health, from «the worst possible» to «the best possible» health.

The MSLQ, often used as a general measure of self - regulated learning, contains a 5 item test anxiety scale.

It does not consider parenting that is likely to be associated only with specific health outcomes (such as parental control of diet, or parental modelling of physical exercise), although some parenting items that relate to specific behaviours have been used as part of more general measures.

It is possible that our general measures of negative affect in birth parents may be less sensitive than specific measures.

However, these conclusions presume that general measures of marital satisfaction, widely assessed in large - scale sample surveys, have the same meaning for men and women.

Psychosocial adjustment was measured considering as indicators: level of self - esteem, depressive symptomatology, perceived stress, feeling of loneliness, and a general measure of satisfaction with life.

Most parenting research has assessed the efficacy of social support by evaluating relationships between retrospective measures of social support processes and general measures of psychological distress (i.e., depressive symptoms, stress).

However, as the authors discussed, a general measure of perceived alternative scenarios was used, which does not necessarily reflect romantic interest, whereas in our study we asked participants to report their initial attraction to a specific attractive target.