Sentences with phrase «in background variables»

Moreover, there were no differences in background variables between the 291 who completed and the 54 children who did not complete the WPPSI - R test, or between children (n = 284) who completed and children (n = 61) who did not complete the PDMS.

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In order to figure out why, the researchers ruled out a number of possibilities by controlling for variables such as family background and health.

The latter is embedded, so to speak, in the former, so that a determination of the variable physical quantities which characterize the electromagnetic society is obtained against a background of relationships which comprise a uniform metric structure:

This may be different in other countries, but it is not unexpected in the Netherlands, where home birth has been an approved option for a long time.1 5 12 After background variables were controlled for, the perinatal outcome for primiparous women with low risk pregnancies was similar for those who planned home births and those who planned hospital births.

In multiparous women, perinatal outcome was significantly better for planned home births than for planned hospital births, with or without control for background variables.

Perinatal outcome index in planned home births and planned hospital births controlled for background variables in low risk pregnancies

Recent measurements demonstrate that the «background» stratospheric aerosol layer is persistently variable rather than constant, even in the absence of major volcanic eruptions.

After controlling for background variables such as family status and income, the researchers determined that each hour of lost sleep was associated with a 38 percent increase in the odds of feeling sad and hopeless, a 42 percent increase in considering suicide, a 58 percent increase in suicide attempts and a 23 percent increase in substance abuse.

Claiming that education is misguided and misdirected, Orr supports his argument by noting that students live mainly in urban or suburban settings and come from variable and uncertain home backgrounds.

The real boon here is the Zen options that allow you effectively turn the game into a mental yoga exercise, with ambient background noises and a breathe - in - breathe - out visual indicator that turns the game into a relaxing puzzle solving experience with no timers or other variables thrown in.

Lesson 3 — Underwater Game Learning Objectives You will understand how to: • Import sprites • Edit costumes of sprites given in Scratch • Animate sprites using scripts • Control the movement of sprites using the arrow keys • Create scripts that move sprites around automatically • Create interaction between sprites • Use co-ordinates and random numbers to set start position of sprites • Use variables and scripts to allow scoring and countdown • Use backgrounds built into Scratch • Making autonomous sprites

For instance, the family background variables we used to control for such differences may have failed to capture more nuanced variations in parental interest in education.

Each lesson includes some background information, how to carry the practical out, how to record results, the variables in the practical and a 6 mark AFL question.

In fact, a multivariate (probit) analysis, incorporating all the background, context, attitude, and performance variables outlined earlier, suggests that it isn't.

The reality is that youngsters» musical development is: a) extremely variable; and b) dependent very much on family background and in particular on the musical opportunities offered to them early in life.

This approach privileges family background over any indicators of school resources or peer group relationships, as it implicitly attributes all shared variation to those variables included in the first step of the stepwise modeling.

There are a number of reasons: 1) student achievement probably wasn't used as the measure of teacher effectiveness; 2) before the advent of the modern computer, in the mid-1960s, some of the more sophisticated analyses were not feasible; 3) the structure and makeup of schools change, making the findings less applicable to the current situation; 4) most important, older studies may not control for critical variables, such as students» backgrounds or past achievement.

Finally, the type of regression - based analyses used to support the performance pay conclusion does not properly consider that the background variables used in these analyses can vary in terms of relationships with student scores and have different definitions across the countries under study.

However, researchers generally agree that up to two - thirds of the variation in student achievement is explainable by individual student characteristics like family background and such variables.

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

Since the early 70s, there has been recognition that there are specific differences in achievement based on variables, such as gender and socio - economic background, in terms of mathematics performance.

[24] We say «surprisingly» both because the two types of models have different motivations and because the kinds of student background variables that are in value - added models are often found to influence student achievement.

One study, for example, found that under value - added models that had very limited controls for student background variables, the two percent of teachers who had half or more students with disabilities received value - added scores that, on average, were low; they ranked in the 20th to 25th percentile in math and the 25th to 33rd percentile in reading.

Although evidence about the influence of student and family backgrounds on student success in school is incontrovertible (e.g., Henderson, 1987; Sanders and Epstein, 1998; Snow et al., 1991; Walberg, 1984), there remains considerable conflict about how this variable should be addressed in district and school improvement efforts.

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This, even if Race mode sets its variable dampers to their firmest position, invokes the sharpest responses from its accelerator, gearbox and steering, while turning stability control off, with only vital rollover protection running in the background.

The electrically assisted steering isn't much of a talker, and the variable ratio can feel a little too noticeable on first acquaintance in the way it speeds up as you apply lock, but it quickly disappears into the background, and you come to appreciate its consistent weighting and speed of response.

Perhaps it is my background in the Equity Indexed Annuity [EIA], Variable Annuity [VA], DC pension and GIC businesses — we had all sorts of guarantees and non-guarantees floating around, so we were used to analyzing the risks.

To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and get them placed at friends» companies.»

There are many variables in this undertaking — beginning with your lifestyle and ending with a pure economic background, like the sufficiency of funds for keeping the kitten.

The real boon here is the Zen options that allow you effectively turn the game into a mental yoga exercise, with ambient background noises and a breathe - in - breathe - out visual indicator that turns the game into a relaxing puzzle solving experience with no timers or other variables thrown in.

Global calculations determine the background in which regional models are applied, but they don't have the same level of detail or use as many variables.

Site - to - site differences in LSL projections are due to varying non-climatic background uplift or subsidence, oceanographic effects, and spatially variable responses of the geoid and the lithosphere to shrinking land ice.

The noise criteria for wind farms applied in Australia establish fixed noise limits for low background noise environments and variable noise limits when background noise levels are higher.

One of the things to keep in mind is that the background is considerably more variable than we have seen in the 20th Century.

There could be a degree of randomness on short timescales as regards any ongoing modulation by other variable or chaotic influences but they remain present in the background nonetheless.

Recent measurements demonstrate that the «background» stratospheric aerosol layer is persistently variable rather than constant, even in the absence of major volcanic eruptions.

All I contend is that sun and oceans together with the variable speed of the hydrological cycle assisted by the latitudinal movements of the air circulation systems and the vertical movement of the tropopause overwhelmingly provide the background trend and combine to prevent changes in the air alone changing the Earth's equilibrium temperature.

He must have a strong background in mathematics to be able to deal with abstract and tangible variables.

There are also indications that they do so in relatively complex ways that interact with family background and social context variables such as ethnicity, family structure, maternal employment status, socioeconomic status, and gender (Schiamberg & Chin, 1986; Milne, 1989; Tocci & Englehard, 1991; Zimilies & Lee, 1991; Lee & Croninger, 1994).

Treating childhood obesity: family background variables and the child's success in a weight - control intervention

These included age (in years), gender (1 = male, 2 = female), education (1 = less than high school, 2 = high school diploma or equivalent, 3 = some college / vocational education, and 4 = college education or higher), and ethnic background (coded as a dichotomous variable, 1 = White vs. 2 = non-White).

Furthermore, ethnic and racial background significantly moderated the effects of family systems variables on engagement in the intervention.

Finally, although a large number of family background variables were controlled for in our analysis there may be many more that can impact on children's outcomes.

Associations between background socioeconomic variables and offspring conduct problems and depressive symptoms are presented in S3 and S4 Tables.

The results are as follows: There are no significant difference in nearly all background variables except sex on adjustment to university and social support.

Only those with the requisite backgrounds including: education; fortitude; attitude and character, the latter variable being the most important of the four, belong in the real estate advocacy business.