Sentences with phrase «impact test into»

The frequency of whiplash and its cost to European society has motivated Euro NCAP to integrate a new rear impact test into its crash test programme.

Not exact matches

The impact of floating NAVs has not been tested in a meaningful way since the new rules went into effect 15 months ago.

Duma's ratings system has come under fire for not adequately simulating real - world impacts, but he has tweaked his equation and testing so that rotational acceleration — which occurs during blows that cause the head to turn — will be taken into account in the ratings that will be released next year.

They properly installed the car seats and then conducted 12 rear impact crash tests of moderate the severity with dummies strapped into the car seats, measuring how each crash would affect each body part.

Today in Washington, D.C., Indian and U.S. diplomats resumed talks on the impact of the economic sanctions put into place against India after the May tests.

The fish shoots a water stream that merges together into a single, globular mass just prior to impact; the fish can determine how far its target is and can adjust accordingly when jet merging occurs.This finding implied that forces to distant targets could be similar to forces delivered to closer targets, and Burnette and Ashley - Ross set out to test this idea.

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

The group has set up pilot screening programmes for cystic fibrosis, and in its first three years it has spent about $ 10 million on research into issues that surround testing, such as its psychological impact and who should have access to the results.

«While most past studies only demonstrate the applicability of similar solutions for small programs and «artificial bugs» [bugs that are intentionally inserted into a program for testing purposes], our approach can automate the debugging process for many real bugs that impact large programs,» Dr Lo explains.

Placing these rapid and accurate tests into clinics may also have a big impact on the fight against antibiotic resistance, as they enable correct diagnosis of infections that have similar signs and symptoms.

«While genetic modification of crops can introduce new beneficial traits into existing crops, the resulting products need to be tested for long - term health effects before making assumptions about their impact on human health,» said senior investigator Frances Sladek, a professor of cell biology and neuroscience at UC Riverside.

Last week, after a series of additional side - impact crash tests on the Volt battery, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched what it called a «safety defect investigation» into the risk of fire in a Chevy Volt that has been involved in a serious accident.

The goal of pre-emptive pharmacogenomics testing is to take into account the impact of each individual's genetic variants when selecting therapy thus providing personalized medicine.

Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene — each one - atom thick — could be made to transform into a diamond - like material upon impact at room temperature.

When we started we didn't even know who those players were so I think a lot of the work of the CFC consortium has really mapped out who the players are, what are the molecular pathways that are involved in the course of disease, and we actually have invested significant effort into developing strategies and therapeutics that are going to take some time to develop and test but we think that we are well on the way to having in hand approaches that will have a significant impact.

In addition, a 24 - Hour Urine test captures metabolites that are not measurable in saliva and can not be reliably measured by a single, or even multiple, blood draws, e.g., 16α - OH estrone, an estrogen metabolite shown to impact bone loss in men, and a number of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid metabolites (discussed in Part II of this review) that provide greater insight into long - term adrenal health, short term stress response, the cortisol / cortisone balance, and other measures of adrenal health and function than assessment of cortisol alone.

When I was trying to get my Hashimoto's into remission, I developed «The Thyroid Journal» a tracking tool to test the impact of the various interventions I was making.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

These days, he's jumping into a new research project based in Texas and Massachusetts that looks at the impact of high - stakes testing on outcomes other than the actual test scores.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

In recent research with Guido Schwerdt and Lei Zhang, we turn to international comparisons to test the proposition that the life - cycle impact of vocational education might be quite different from that observed at entry into the labor market.

All week I've been digging into a recent AEI paper that reviews the research literature on short - term test - score impacts and long - term student outcomes for school choice programs.

We have launched the Innovation in Opportunity project, an effort to integrate education technology into our schools, getting the best innovations possible tested to ensure the best impact on students and families.

Low teacher salaries, discipline problems, standardized testing, poor principals and administrators, and the impact of poverty are among the reasons South Carolina public - school teachers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, pushing K - 12 classrooms into crisis.

Nor is Ryan optimistic about the impact of the standards and testing movement, primarily because the bars have been set too low, which means that the urban schools, placing all their efforts into passing, manage to do so, while the suburban schools easily surpass the state's yardsticks.

New Jersey, like Connecticut, claims that high school juniors must take the Common Core test despite the fact that college bound high school juniors should really be focusing on getting their grades up and taking the SATs, ACTs, and AP tests, all of which will actually impact their ability to get into the college of their choice.

Deasy had called for using a district - developed, value - added method of interpreting a teacher's impact on students» test scores, taking into account a student's family income and ethnicity.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

Since poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the demographics that have the greatest impact on standardized test scores, perhaps these charts and the CTMirror article will remind the media and public officials that next time Jumoke claims that schools like theirs are such a success, and schools like Milner are such failures, they will look deeper into the different populations schools serve.

Standardized test results don't take into account how factors outside of a teacher's control impact student performance on the day the test is taken; these include factors such as whether or not the student slept and ate well prior to the test, social and emotional occurrences (e.g., student's parents are going through a divorce, there is a serious illness in the family, student had an argument with a best friend just before the class in which the test is given, student doesn't feel well that day).

Rand Education, however, recently waded into years of research to identify and analyze the key issues and answer two fundamental questions: How has testing influenced instructional practice, and what conditions and policies have will make the impact of new assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards more positive for teachers and students?

Side - Impact Test: Forecasts the chances of severe injury when one side of the vehicle is hit by a fixed barrier at just under 40 miles per hour and also when the vehicle is launched sideways at 20 miles per hour into a narrow pole.

The 2013 Toyota Camry sedan and Prius v hybrid (above, right) failed a new crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that simulates a frontal impact overlapping a small portion of the car — say, piling into a tree from your left headlight.

Debuting at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show and rolling into Hyundai showrooms this month, the revamped 2017 Santa Fe family has, evidently, been modified to resolve the single most significant reason consumers had to skip this model in the past, and that is its «Marginal» test result in the tough small overlap frontal - impact crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

Maruti claims that the Brezza will meet the Indian offset and side impact crash tests that come into effect from 2017.

The four tests include front - and rear - into - flat - barrier plus two localized impacts, front - into - angle - barrier and rear - into - pole.

Two full - scale crash tests are done: a full - width frontal impact at 50km / h against a deformable element; and a side impact test, also at 50km / h, in which a deformable barrier is driven into the side of the vehicle.

NHTSA crashes vehicles into solid barriers at 35 mph for the frontal test and rams a deformable barrier into the sides of vehicles at 38.5 mph for the side - impact test.

This score takes into account a 10.95 out of 16 rating in the frontal offset crash test, and a score of 14.4 out of 16 received for the side impact test.

The car gets a 4 - star rating in frontal - impact testing, and in side - impact testing the NHTSA determined that elevated rear seat occupant injury risk exists due to excessive rear door intrusion into the passenger compartment.

Most organizations do side impact testing by slamming a massive metal block into the side of the car.

The Institute's series of four bumper tests includes front - and rear - into - flat - barrier plus front - into - angle - barrier and rear - into - pole impacts.

When test dummies fitted with sensors were strapped into seating systems designed for three year old and one and a half year old children, reassuringly at the moment of impact these «children» were all registered as maintaining stable positions with minimal head movements.

While the Impreza is considered to be a compact car, Subaru packs a high - impact punch into its modest frame — and you can feel the effects of this skillful sedan when you test drive any of the new Impreza models here at Subaru Stamford.

Vehicle lights were damaged in both this test and the front - into - angle - barrier impact.

The first sends a 3,015 - pound barrier into the side of a vehicle at 38.5 mph similar to the Side Impact test conducted by the IIHS.

The quality of virtual design has been materially confirmed by running 200 tests on components and subsystems, some 150 Hyge slide shock test simulations and more than 80 crash tests (frontal impact, side impact, roll - over and shunting, taking various speeds, different types of obstacles and the need to protect occupants, physically very different from one another, into account).

Testing showed that this can occur if the mats are moved forward from the clipped position approximately two inches into a position in which the rear edge of the mats will abut the retention clip (s) when installed singly and align with the clip (s) when stacked on another floor mat.The pedal interference incidents reviewed by the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) include 1 crash and 9 incidents with allegations of brake friction materials smoking and / or requiring repair for heat related damage.The crash incident occurred after the parking brake was applied at speed, resulting in loss - of - control vehicle yaw event caused by lock - up of the rear tires.The spin - out resulted in a side impact collision with an oncoming vehicle in an opposing lane of traffic.

To analyze the impact of age, this variable was divided into 3 groups (young 0.5 — 2 years old), middle age (2.5 — 6 years old), and older / senior (7 years and older), and the Kruskal - Wallis test was used to assess the impact of age on trainability.

This project was embraced by scientists worldwide, prompting Saraceno to further pursue his research at the European Space Agency (ESA) with his proposal to send spiders into space, testing the conditions of micro-gravity and its impact upon spiders» sociability, web building and the spider web itself.