Sentences with phrase «in observation rates»

It is difficult to quantify the extent to which these variations in observation rates will have biased the estimates of child temperament, but based on evidence from the first birth cohort about children's socioemotional development which showed that conduct disorder is less common in children from more advantaged social groups (Bromley and Cunningham - Burley, 2010), it is likely that some bias will have been introduced.

Focusing on the systems as a whole also would have encouraged districts to be more honest in their observation ratings rather than creating the incentive for subjective observation ratings to compensate for value - added results that, by definition, grade teachers on a curve.

Not exact matches

The observation that low tax rates coincide with significant growth in Eastern Europe is of dubious relevance to the United States.

Like review sites in other sectors, Whitecoat gives consumers the ability to rate their experiences with a variety of medical practitioners, but currently this is limited to observations on a doctor's manner or listening skills.

As Chart 2 shows, policy rates in Canada have on average been only 0.25 % higher than the US (using quarterly observations) since the introduction of inflation targeting from the Bank of Canada in 1992.

I would make one other observation that I think is important here, and that is that we believe it is very important to keep in mind the level of interest rates, not just their changes.

This comes out to a 60 % growth rate, but the figure changes significantly based on the observation points: if the index experiences very slow growth for most of the term, only to see rapid growth late in the term, then the average appreciation will decrease, since 67,500 divided by 5 is 13,500, or 35 % growth.

But MacIntyre's observation also shows why, for non-emotivists, such surveys must always issue in a complete non sequitur: one does not abrogate the Ten Commandments by pointing to the number of murders in Detroit, or the divorce rate in Reno, or the decline in church attendance in Peoria.

At any rate it is remarkable that this is the only place in the gospels where the belief that Christ had risen is a direct inference from observation of the state of the tomb.

«Not only in Europe and North America but equally even in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, we find countless Christians with the same strongly held suspicions of the World Council of Churches or at any rate the same type of evangelical faith».37 Then Berkof makes an important observation.

A study last year, «Gender Disparity in the Rate of Partner Abandonment in Patients with Serious Medical Illness,» backed their observations.

The answer seems to have been found during observation of the rate of peanut allergy in Jewish children living in Israeli.

Additionally, differences in breastfeeding rates, available alternatives to breast milk (e.g. commercially manufactured, derived from animal sources), socioeconomic structure and other environmental and cultural factors may also explain some of the conflicting observations (21).

If a teacher receives a rating of Developing in Measures of Student Learning and Effective in Observations, the final rating would be Effective.

In a 20 - page letter to Cuomo, Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch recommended getting rid of the local piece, although her solution was to double the ratings» reliance on state exams to 40 percent, leaving the observation component at 60 percent.

In his State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo argued that rooting half of a teacher's evaluation in student test scores and the other half on observation is the only way to improve stubbornly low pupil performance rateIn his State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo argued that rooting half of a teacher's evaluation in student test scores and the other half on observation is the only way to improve stubbornly low pupil performance ratein student test scores and the other half on observation is the only way to improve stubbornly low pupil performance rates.

After Schwarzenegger hit back with an observation that approval ratings were «the worst in history for an incoming president», Trump tweeted his response on Friday.

Observations of type 1a supernovas imply a faster expansion rate (known as the Hubble constant) than studies of the cosmic microwave background — light that originated early in cosmic history (SN: 8/6/2016, p. 10).

Observations are continuing to monitor variability in the production rate, and to determine the global gas production rate, as a function of its distance from the sun.

Given widespread observation of habitat change and individual species declines — and knowing that extinction rates are many times higher than normal — the scientists predicted a drop, over time, in the number of species observed in most of these studies.

The sheer volume of data — totaling millions of observations — makes this the first study able to identify vehicle color as a main contributor to accident rates, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Prior analyses have found that climate models underestimate the observed rate of tropical widening, leading to questions on possible model deficiencies, possible errors in the observations, and lack of confidence in future projections,» said Robert J. Allen, an assistant professor of climatology in UC Riverside's Department of Earth Sciences, who led the study.

Using satellite observations of meteoric «flares» in the atmosphere («shooting stars») and acoustical data that record cosmic impacts on the surface of the earth, Peter Brown and his co-workers at the University of Western Ontario and Los Alamos National Laboratory estimated the rate of smaller impacts.

And in a preprint paper we submitted immediately after Advanced LIGO's February 2016 announcement of its first gravitational - wave discovery (https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05234)-- published this past March — we noted that it had probably detected the merging of such PBHs and estimated the rate of events expected in our scenario, which seems to agree with more recent observations.

To explain the current abundance of dark matter in the universe (as inferred from galactic observations and other data), the rate of annihilation, which governs how often WIMPs were produced in the early universe as well as how often they annihilate now, must fall within a narrow range.

«By mixing [the data from] these instruments, we'll get information about the current star formation rate, but we'll also get information about the star formation history,» explained Hans Ulrik Nørgaard - Nielsen, an astronomer at the Danish Space Research Institute in Denmark and the principal investigator for the proposed observations.

In one lung cancer study, the most telling observation was that for those getting screened regularly, the rate of cancer detection was almost the same in smokers as it was in nonsmokers — even though we know that smokers face about a 20-fold increased risk of dying from lung canceIn one lung cancer study, the most telling observation was that for those getting screened regularly, the rate of cancer detection was almost the same in smokers as it was in nonsmokers — even though we know that smokers face about a 20-fold increased risk of dying from lung cancein smokers as it was in nonsmokers — even though we know that smokers face about a 20-fold increased risk of dying from lung cancein nonsmokers — even though we know that smokers face about a 20-fold increased risk of dying from lung cancer.

In the most detailed observations of hydrogen loss to date, four of MAVEN's instruments detected the factor - of - 10 change in the rate of escapIn the most detailed observations of hydrogen loss to date, four of MAVEN's instruments detected the factor - of - 10 change in the rate of escapin the rate of escape.

The ability to accurately determine the rate of this H - 17O fusion reaction provides nuclear physicists with another key puzzle piece, alongside direct observations of oxygen elemental and isotopic abundances in stellar atmospheres and in primitive meteorites, to zero in on complete and accurate models of stars.

Recombination occurs at a high rate in retroviral replication, and its observation requires a virion containing two different RNA molecules (heterodimeric particles).

Their theory was based on the observation that many of the original studies reporting PICC bloodstream infection rates included non-hospitalized patients who are fundamentally different from those in whom CLABSIs usually occur.

But when Demos Kazanas at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues looked at 18 years» worth of X-ray observations of neutron stars in binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud, they found that half were slowing down — at the same rate as the others were accelerating.

Both methods of observation found the hand cleaning rate after toileting was higher among girls — a 4 percent difference, according to video surveillance, and a 3 percent difference, according to in - person observation.

There was also a statistically significant absolute 10.3 percent improvement in the 5 - year overall survival rate (20.7 percent vs. 10.4 percent) and a 4.5 percent improvement in the 10 - year survival rate (12.2 percent vs. 7.7 percent), compared with observation alone.

The observations of altered rates of force development and relaxation during maximal twitch contractions suggested an alteration in calcium - related markers in the muscles from IL - 15Rα — KO mice.

Together, these observations demonstrate that blood - forming stem cells require a highly regulated rate of protein synthesis, such that increases or decreases in that rate impair stem cell function.

«We've done the world's best job of decreasing the uncertainty in the measured rate of universal expansion and of accurately assessing the size of this uncertainty,» said Filippenko, «yet we find that our measured rate of expansion is probably incompatible with the rate expected from observations of the young universe, suggesting that there's something important missing in our physical understanding of the universe.»

Since the UHI effect is reduced in windy conditions, if the UHI effect was a significant component of the temperature record, then we would see a different rate of warming when observations are stratified by calm or windy conditions.

Observations of gravitational lensing at that time already hinted the presence of dark energy, but both due to the small sample size and large uncertainty in the theoretical modeling of lensing rates the result was not widely accepted.

Modern observations have recorded sudden changes in the rotation rates of pulsars.

«We have found that the relationship between mass, rotation rate and age is now defined well enough by observations that we can obtain the ages of individual stars to within 10 percent,» Sydney Barnes from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, said.

«We have found that the relationship between mass, rotation rate and age is now defined well enough by observations and is sufficiently supported by the theory that it is possible to obtain the ages of non-cluster stars to within 10 percent,» Sydney Barnes from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, said, according to a report by Discovery News.

Estimations for the amount of snow from satellite and surface observations improve flow rate predictions in water systems

The paper's lead author describes his findings thus — «Recent observations suggest the expected rate of warming in response to rising greenhouse gas levels, or «Transient Climate Response,» is likely to lie within the range of current climate models, but not at the high end of this range.

The observation in the placebo group that the rate of atrophy was related to the baseline concentration of tHcy is consistent with, and may explain, a number of cross-sectional studies reporting that regional brain atrophy is related to tHcy [17], [18], [19], [20], [21].

Michel and colleagues took advantage of the wealth of geophysical data that have been collected in this region, using a catalog of earthquakes that have occurred in the area and models of the fault slip rate inferred from surface deformation given by Global Positioning System (GPS) and satellite observations of ground changes.

Therefore, the hourly rain rate is stronger in urban regions,» explains Vasu Misra, the study's lead investigator and an associate professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, adding that this observation is particularly true during summer months.

In a life table model, assuming that these observations arose from a causal relation, we estimated the benefits of cessation to be substantial; the benefits on all cause mortality seem likely to be mainly due to reduced progression of cancer rather than prevention of cardiorespiratory disease, but no studies reported cancer specific death rates to confirm this.

This recommendation was rooted in an earlier observation by Williams et al, 19 based on both priority scores and funding rates, that clinical grant applications do not fare as well in the review process when evaluated by study sections reviewing relatively few clinical applications.

This approach allowed them to compare the rate and distribution of warming predicted by models with those shown in observations.