Sentences with phrase «large differences across»

Summer and autumn were close to normal when averaging over the whole domain, however there were large differences across the domain.

There were, however, large differences across teachers.

There are large differences across states in the demographics of students in the three sectors, as shown in Table 2.

Length of relationship before marriage (months) was computed based on the largest difference across all waves between the item, «How many months have you been in this relationship?»

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And, to our surprise, these previously ignored behavioral differences across CEOs have quite a large association with firm productivity, about one - fifth as big as the impact of a firm's capital inputs (machinery, equipment, buildings, and so on).

It documents large differences in household debt - to - GDP ratios across countries but a common increasing trajectory that was moderated but not reversed by the global financial crisis.

Only in the event of a large supply shock (such as the oil price shocks of the 1970s) might any difference in response across the different frameworks become apparent.

In fact, a report published last month — Differences Between Rural and Urban Areas in Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban counties.

The study of 4,764 men and 5,389 women in 33 countries and 37 cultures showed that sex differences in mate preferences are much larger than previously appreciated and stable across cultures.

The Policy Tracker shows large differences among states across many program policies.

· Natural differences between pristine forests and variation in forms of disturbance to the forests — such as logging and fire — across large landscapes means that simplification of species is not playing out equally everywhere.

Across the whole genome, some groups will show large differences even if they all left Africa at about the same time, explains geneticist Peter Underhill of Stanford University.

«Conversely, a majority of excess infant mortality in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana could be explained by compositional differences due to a larger proportion of non-Hispanic black births, which reflects a persistent racial gap that exists across the country.»

Generally, large sex - ratio differences across countries are observed.

The temperature - difference mechanism for sex determination found in alligators and turtles depends on eggs being left in unattended nests, typically sun - warmed, with clutches large enough to have a marked temperature gradient across them.

We also conducted preliminary analyses to determine whether age was associated with participant sex, residence (rural vs. urban), or relationship status (i.e., those demographic variables with large enough cell sizes across categories to permit tests of differences in age between groups).

In response to lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school funding.

Both the campaign and ongoing communication will continue to acknowledge the efforts of all involved in the education of children, while demonstrating MTA's unique points of difference, including 220 - local staff, in - house customer service team and the largest educational resource field force — who visit schools and early childhood centres across Australia and New Zealand every day.

Simply put, just because a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the average outcome differences between the poor and non-poor it does not mean that a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the difference in outcome between the very poor and the very wealthy or differences across other measures of socioeconomic status.

In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy / high - income and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.

In fact, the trends here are even more stark than found by Looney and Yannelis (2015), due in part to the large and rapidly growing differences in borrowing rates across sectors.

This analysis makes clear that large differences in the performance of high - SES students and low - SES students in the same schools do exist; that these apparent gaps are not simply reflective of gaps in preparation; and that while the variation across school districts is substantial, the variation within school districts may be even larger (at least among the largest districts in Florida).

This large cross-school variation in SES performance gaps could be because they educate high - SES and low - SES students differently, or it could be that there are major fundamental differences across schools in the relative pre-school preparation of high - SES and low - SES students.

Other reform tactics included reducing the size differences between secondary schools (secondary schools used to be the largest across OECD countries but are now the smallest), decentralization, increased school autonomy, professional development, and the introduction of national exams.

We undertook a large - scale consultation with hundreds of individuals and organisations from across the sector and sought out the highest quality research on what types of professional development seem to make the biggest difference to teachers» and students» learning.

... the difference between advantaged students and disadvantaged students (those in the lowest quartile of socioeconomic background) is even larger: 90 score points on average across the OECD and 87 score points in Australia.

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long - run growth performance across OECD countries.

The U.S. public school system is characterized by large funding differences across districts, but what about differences in school spending within districts?

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

«On the other hand, large scale gains in Chicago and suburban Chicagoland, and more isolated gains in individual districts across the State, offer good evidence that school effectiveness is making a difference and that demographics are not the only important influence on student learning outcomes.»

My colleagues and I have studied spending patterns in large districts such as New York City, Chicago and Cleveland, and consistently found systematic differences in resources across schools within these districts (Rubenstein, et al., 2007; Stiefel, Rubenstein and Berne, 1998).

Tracking four cohorts of students throughout Florida, I find that large differences in math achievement across racial lines exist as early as elementary school and persist through high school.

He has studied extensively the impact of vouchers and charter schools on educational quality, and has recently focused on differences in teacher preparation and teacher salaries across countries as well as larger issues of the impact of economic inequality on educational quality.

The research found large differences in what the impact of retirements would be on school districts» budgets over the next decade, which reflects a larger pattern of variation across states.

There are differences across the State as to what constitutes humane dog and cat breeding, as witnessed by some counties who have chosen to restrict large commercial breeding kennels within their area versus other counties who approve large commercial kennels with unlimited puppy production.

It's an extremely diverse country, with vast differences in geography, climate, culture, language and ethnicity across its expanse, and prides itself on being the largest democracy on Earth.

The numbers appear close, but multiplied across a large network, the difference in profit becomes clear.

The only problem that pretty much every game that is quite new with a large fan - base suffers with is server issues and this is going to get better and better as the game further develops so i am not going to rant about how the only problem i have came across is so bad as the story makes up for it because the quality is amazing as the animations are beautifully done and the feeling of playing a story that isn't too driven on dialogue but more actions and feeling that you are destroying a castle and are making a difference within a massive scale war is greatly satisfying.

Including emission along a path (Schwarzchild's equation), a flux will approach saturation as the optical thickness becomes large over scales where the temperature variation is small; at smaller optical thicknesses, the temperature distribution may vary and larger temperature variations make the nonlinearity of the Planck function important, but over short distances, the temperature variation can be approximated as linear and the associated Planck function values can be approximated as linearly proportional to distance for small temperature changes, so the flux will approach an asymptotic value as a hyperbolic function (the difference between the flux and the saturation value of the flux will be proportional to 1 / optical thickness per unit distance (assuming isotropic optical properties (or even somewhat anisotropic properties), it will have that proportionality for all directions and thus for the whole flux across an area).

However, there remains uncertainty in the rate of sea ice loss, with the models that most accurately project historical sea ice trends currently suggesting nearly ice - free conditions sometime between 2021 and 2043 (median 2035).12 Uncertainty across all models stems from a combination of large differences in projections among different climate models, natural climate variability, and uncertainty about future rates of fossil fuel emissions.

As shown in a previous large ensemble paper from those some authors (see figure 1 in that write - up), the global response across the ensemble is very similar even with those large regional trend differences.

Importantly, however, day - to - day and month - to - month departures from average temperature (the difference between the individual daily or monthly value and the long - term mean, also known as temperature anomalies) are consistent across very large distances.

Since heat conduction is a slow process, heating a fluid from below normally creates a large temperature difference across the depth of the fluid.

Arctic sea - ice cover will diminish rapidly under global warming, but its rate of retreat in boreal winter shows large intermodel differences across the models involved in Phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project...

The trend differences are largest for minimum temperatures and are statistically significant even at the regional scale and across different types of instrumentation and degrees of urbanization.

This transformation is no easy job, yet Pentney sees some of the ideas he and his team have implemented making a difference across what's sometimes called the country's largest law firm.

There can often be a large degree of difference in the rates offered across age groups.

The 3rd gen's differences are primarily aesthetic: a larger, brighter, high - resolution screen, a slightly thinner profile and the feature Farsight — which lets you see either the current temp, target temp, a clock face, or current weather from across the room.

However, it is common for there to be large price differences for the same currency across different exchanges.

The general pattern showing large jurisdictional differences after controlling for the covariates is consistent across each of the five developmental domains with children in Queensland and the ACT showing higher vulnerability compared to children living in the other jurisdictions.