Sentences with phrase «higher ability test»

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We compared children from the same social backgrounds who achieved similar tested abilities at ages five and 10, and discovered that those who frequently read books at age 10 and more than once a week when they were 16 had higher test results than those who read less.

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

That's the rate most lenders use when testing a prospective borrower's ability to handle higher payments.

We offer analytical and microbiological testing as well as the ability to meet high - volume complex production of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

The only semi-compelling argument behind teams testing for pot is itself a rationalization — that the testing is simply an «intelligence test» to see if the player will follow (or successfully skirt) an arbitrary rule that has no bearing whatsoever on their ability to do their job at a high level.

We provide the path for athletes to test their abilities, in order to reach their highest potential.Clinics are available for beginners, girls fall ball and skills specific, boys skills specific, open play and private lessons.

But if high school swimmers are refused the right to test their ability against others in competition on a national level, what incentive will there be for them to continue?

The Germans have more experience in this competition and it will be a real test of Spurs» ability at the highest level.

Another perspective for improving maternal care was offered by the group of Young and colleges who tested the potential contribution of musical training in depressed adults to their ability to interpret infant crying in relation to changes in pitch.51 Using auditory recordings of infants crying manipulated such that the pitch of the crying increased gradually to sound more distressed, it was shown that depressed adults with previous musical training showed higher sensitivity in discriminating distress variations in the infant crying.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success After Adjustment for Covariates

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success

The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

The questions have been field - tested by over 100,000 middle school and early high school students for their ability to assess students» knowledge of life and physical sciences and to identify students» common misconceptions about the sciences.

To evaluate the A1c test's ability to screen for diabetes in high - risk patients, the researchers analyzed the medical history of 10,201 patients who were given the test in central Israel between 2002 and 2005.

In order to test its ability to predict patients with a higher risk of complications, Dr. Parvizi and colleagues enrolled 829 patients who had a planned total joint replacement between 2012 and 2013, and assessed their glycemic levels via the traditionally used maker called HbA1c, side by side with fructosamine.

Arguing that «this high degree of complexity both in terms of immunological outcomes and underlying mechanisms, necessitates that HDAC inhibitors be studied in a context that is matched to their intended utility,» Brad Jones, from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Boston, USA, and colleagues set out to test whether the three drugs affected the ability of CTL to eliminate HIV - infected target cells.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, the researchers demonstrated their Doppler wind LIDAR system's ability to measure horizontal wind speed with high accuracy and showed that the system remained stable throughout a 10 - day test period.

The main advantage offered by the platform is its ability to run eight test for HIV and HCV in parallel within 20 minutes with high accuracy, sensitivity and specificity.

However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high - status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.

The test met expectations and demonstrated the team's ability to design and implement high - consequence tests.

Even if the company could test multiple combustors, access - visibility and camera technology currently limit the researchers» ability to understand and visualize the causes of high - frequency flame instabilities.

Researchers found that people who engaged in more regular sexual activity scored higher on tests that measured their verbal fluency and their ability to visually perceive objects and the spaces between them.

Sandia engineers developed and tested the new receivers at the National Solar Thermal Testing Facility, studying their ability to withstand high temperatures and pressures while absorbing sunlight as heat that can be stored or transferred to a power cycle to generate electricity.

They used high - resolution 3 - D images of the brain, questionnaires evaluating temperament and personality traits of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their non-bipolar relatives, and an extensive battery of cognitive tests assessing long - term memory, attention, inhibitory control and other neurocognitive abilities.

«But when we hold mathematics ability test scores constant, effectively taking it out of the equation, we see boys still rate their ability higher, and girls rate their ability lower.»

A much tougher test of the scaffold's abilities came this fall, with much higher stakes.

The researchers tested the auditory abilities in adolescents from lower economic backgrounds at three public high schools in Chicago.

I've been experimenting with T10 dextran coated iron oxide nanoparticles, obviously not the same as fullerenes, but still a very interesting tool, I've been testing if the coating is giving the particle antioxidant abilities because of it's the (basically) indigestable sugar chains (glucose) creating a high surface area which are largely made from hydroxyl groups, I hypothesised this act's as a «sink» for reactive oxygen species converting them to water.

With the ability to receive high - quality mRNA constructs in a short period of time, scientists are able to run experiments very quickly to test a concept.

Even if glcosepane's low tissue burden in rats means that cleaving it will not have dramatic rejuvenating effects in these animals (which is a reasonable prediction, but might be happily disproven in the event), its high prevalence in aging and diabetic human collagen, and its implication in the complications of diabetes, will make the mere demonstration of a candidate's ability to cleave glucosepane crosslinks in vivo a sufficient proof - of - concept to spur further work to move it down the therapeutic pipeline into human testing.

Teresa Doyle and Ursula Bellugi of the Salk Institute, along with Julie Korenberg and John Graham of UCLA and Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, found that children with Williams syndrome scored significantly higher on tests measuring behavior in social situations, including their ability to remember names and faces, eagerness to please others, empathy with others» emotions and tendency to approach strangers.

The team also tested SBMOF - 1's ability to hang onto xenon in conditions of high humidity.

MONDAY, May 7, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Children who were exposed to antidepressants in the womb may score higher on certain tests of mental abilities at the age of 12, a small, preliminary study suggests.

In test animals, diets high in polyunsaturates from vegetable oils inhibit the ability to learn, especially under conditions of stress; are toxic to the liver; compromise the integrity of the immune system; depress the mental and physical growth of infants; increase levels of uric acid in the blood; cause abnormal fatty acid profiles in the adipose tissues: have been linked to mental decline and chromosomal damage and accelerate aging.

Test of transfer (long - term): Loturco et al. (2015) compared the effects of high - velocity and a low - velocity jump squat training programs on the same zig - zag COD test as described above, and found that the high - velocity group tended to improve COD ability by more than the low - velocity grTest of transfer (long - term): Loturco et al. (2015) compared the effects of high - velocity and a low - velocity jump squat training programs on the same zig - zag COD test as described above, and found that the high - velocity group tended to improve COD ability by more than the low - velocity grtest as described above, and found that the high - velocity group tended to improve COD ability by more than the low - velocity group.

Test of transfer (long - term): high - velocity strength training does indeed improve sprinting ability (Hoffman et al. 2004; Moore et al. 2005; Tricoli et al. 2005; Chaouachi et al. 2014; Ayers et al. 2016), but not always (Holmstrup et al. 2015).

Test of transfer (cross-sectional): sometimes, high - velocity strength measures are better predictors of sprinting ability than low - velocity strength measures (Alexander, 1989; Nesser et al. 1996; Blazevich & Jenkins, 1998; Dowson et al. 1998; Baker & Nance, 1999; Newman et al. 2004; Misjuk et al. 2013; Loturco et al. 2017), but this is not always the case (Swinton et al. 2014), and there are often no associations between strength at any velocity and sprinting (Farrar & Thorland, 1987; Wilson et al. 1996; Cronin & Hansen, 2005; Requena et al. 2009; Alemdaroğlu, 2012).

Because of the partnership, Match members will now have the ability to add a Mensa badge to their profiles to express their interest in the High IQ organization and will also have the opportunity to take the Mensa practice test for $ 1 at the Match.com Blog now through July 6, 2014.

Their abilities are tested when one teacher (Megan Mullally) takes them out of the safety of the high school and pushes them to perform in front of a real audience at a nightclub.

With supplies dwindling and emotions running high, not to mention certain bodily fluids covering the house, this is a true test of their ability to survive.

While some thunder was stolen from Telluride, who managed to nab a handful of high profile pictures to show off first — «Labor Day,» «12 Years A Slave,» «Prisoners» — one could argue that it's in Toronto where the sustainability of a critically acclaimed film, the ability to survive the conversation through the noise and buzz of the season, is truly tested.

Some resources are differentiated for higher or lower ability sets, and there is an end of unit test focusing on what the prophets show about God.

In a time where high - stakes testing and accountability overwhelm new and veteran teachers alike, I want to empower teachers to feel confident in their abilities.

Both of these admissions tests fail to assess most of the material - economics, civics, literature, foreign languages, and the ability to write an essay - that high - school students are expected to learn.