Sentences with phrase «large number of the gap»

UNC - 7S and UNC - 9 are widely expressed and contribute to a large number of the gap junctions identified in the locomotory nervous system.

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In May, the World Economic Forum (WEF) estimated that by 2050, the size of the retirement savings gap — unfunded pensions, in other words — could be as much as $ 400 trillion, an unimaginably large number.

The 62 percent gap between these two numbers is the largest of the cities we examined.

Yes, the distribution of incomes matters: high inequality means less income for large numbers of people and the mega mansions probably don't make up for the gap.

«This has caused a large generation gap in both attitudes toward premarital sex and number of sexual partners,» she explained in a statement.

The apparent gap between nonliving and living has now been bridged by nucleic acids, a class of polymeric organic molecules composed of a succession of small units (nucleotides) of four sorts, the order of which determines an indefinitely large number of different specificities.

Insiders claim Woolworths is confident it has not done anything wrong and that Mind the Gap only attracted attention because the retailer went to a large number of suppliers at the same time.

One of the main reasons why a large number of Arsenal fans and almost all of the football media have been so hard on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players for not maintaining the Premier League title challenge this season, apart from the 12 year gap since the Gunners were last champions of course, is because the struggles of our big Premier League rivals Man City, Chelsea, Man United and even Liverpool seemed to have opened the door.

A higher ratio number provides indication of a larger gap.

These 306 voters represent 16 per cent of the remaining 1,900 — a far larger number than the tiny gap between the two main parties.

Where local private sector wages are high, recruitment is much more difficult and large numbers of expensive agency staff are needed to fill the gaps.

Following up from his 2015 analysis on the economic and cultural positions of party supporters in England, Jonathan Wheatley uses 2017 data and finds that party supporters have become far more polarised — leaving a gap in the middle, occupied possibly by large numbers of undecided voters.

«There is no question now China is the largest emitter, and the gap between Number 1 and Number 2 is enlarging,» Qi said as part of a Brookings Institution panel discussion on China's low - carbon development.

The narrowing of achievement gaps has been greatest in low - income Norwegian communities that made large increases in the number of children attending early childcare centers

Yet because of the difficulty in collecting samples from so far below the ocean surface, and because of the large area that was impacted by the spill, a number of gaps in understanding the fate of the oil over time remained.

Nations with the largest number of «gap species» or species whose range lie entirely outside of protected areas include the U.S., Canada, and Brazil.

The mice seem to develop normally when only one copy of the gene is removed, but microscopic inspection reveals a number of small «gaps,» or disorganized regions of tissue (on the scale of a few nanometers) on their aortas, the largest artery in their bodies.

There is a gap in our knowledge about brain network function because we lack the tools to study large numbers of neurons spread over large regions of the brain.

And while there are a variety of reasons this gap may exist, parents and others we interviewed told us that the proportion of IEP - eligible students in DPS is growing rapidly in large part because a number of Detroit charter schools simply don't offer many special - education supports.

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.

Key SDP findings include: identifying a large gap between the number of students graduating and the number who are deemed college ready through completion of their A-G requirements — such that only one - third of 2011 graduates had completed the requirements necessary for admission to college within the University of California and California State systems.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

Computing and ICT GCSEs accounted for only 1.5 percent of the total number of exams taken by female students, compared to 3.7 percent for males, a larger gap than last year's figures of 1.8 percent female and 3.8 percent male.

The academic says that although the total number of Indigenous teachers identified by the National Teacher Workforce Dataset (NTWD) was larger than anticipated, a three-fold increase by 2018 would be required to meet the Close the Gap employment target (in the education sector), as agreed by all Australian governments.

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

Closing down large, chronically low - performing schools and replacing them with a greater number of smaller, new schools was central to Bloomberg's expansion of school choice and his overall approach to the achievement gap.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

This led to us launching a major themed funding round (in partnership with Bell Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy) focused on addressing this gap, identifying high - potential projects ready to be evaluated across large numbers of English schools.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

The state of California has implemented a number measures to close one of the largest and most persistent achievement gaps in the nation, Recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test for fourth - and eighth - graders in math and reading given every two years, show that California's students are still performing below the... Continue reading California: Moving the Needle on the Achievement Gap

Now retired, Holtz says his experiences teaching and working in a number of school districts of various sizes and demographics make him a superior choice to Evers at a time when Wisconsin has been labeled as having the largest gap in academic achievement between black and white students in the nation.

Here we have an example of a school district with a serious achievement gap, large numbers of low - performing schools, and municipal top - up money in the tens of millions, and they still lose the well - educated teacher candidates that they so badly need to «nicer» suburban districts.

But Sonja Santelises, vice president for K - 12 policy and practice at The Education Trust, a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit that works to close achievement gaps, sees a danger in large numbers of children with disabilities opting out of state tests.

This disconnect contributes to gaps in the workforce, as well as a «completion crisis» in postsecondary education, in which a large number of students enter postsecondary education but leave before obtaining a degree or credential.

Looking at achievement - gap data, Superintendent Runcie said one of the first things he noticed was the large number of students being arrested for misdemeanor offenses they committed in school, such as throwing spitballs, getting into shoving matches, or cursing — and in particular, the disproportionate number of arrests of African - American males.

At Brown's urging, the Legislature overhauled state school aid laws to provide more funds to districts with large numbers of poor and / or English - learner students, aimed at closing the academic achievement gap between them and more privileged classmates.

His Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which went into effect five years ago, provides more money to school districts with large numbers of poor and / or «English learner» students on the assumption that it will close the much - lamented «achievement gap» in learning.

Jonathan Morris, the trust's CEO, said the gender pay gap was «merely a statistical measure» and claimed SLT's figures were influenced by its small size, and that it directly employs a large number of female catering staff and learning support assistants, who attract lower salaries.

As a recent issue brief on the achievement gap from the Educational Testing Service points out, schools having high numbers of minority students tend to have larger classes of 25 students or more, and the class size gap between high - minority schools and low - minority schools actually worsened between 2000 - 2004.

With positive appraisals and reviews, we have been able to reach a large number of students around the world and bridge the gap between global professionals and scholars.

It's worth noting there is a more than $ 100,000 gap between the average and median household incomes ($ 193,879 vs $ 82,722, respectively), suggesting a small number of families account for a large part of the wealth.

There are still a reasonably small number of investors that manage their own investments in this country, but there is a large gap between $ 5 DIY trading fees and 3 % mutual fund MERs.

While the world environments stay mostly the same, the level designs now include a larger quantity of enemies, a major number of gaps for Luigi to fall through, and rarely does it allow a place in which the player might feel safe to stop and rest; the game is all about speed and it makes it quite clear from the very beginning.

Due to higher knowledge requirements, observed yield gaps might further increase if a larger number of farmers would switch to organic practices.

Now if the gap is in fact large so the shell OD is somewhat larger than the planet OD, the 235 W / m ^ 2 number will change, inversely as the area of the shell.

Sam noted that it highlighted the problems that solosmall attorneys already know are problems: the access to justice gap, that a large number of people don't even understand when they need an attorney, and the profession's resistance to technological experiments.

Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the second magic circle firm to reveal its gender pay gap data, with the firm's report providing more hard evidence of the disproportionate number of women in lower - paid roles at large law firms.

Though the numbers show that Apple is in the lead, with quite a large gap, it's not necessarily a reflection of the quality of the system itself.

Like the firms reported on today, Linklaters put its pay gap (23.2 % mean and 39.1 % median) down to its large number of female secretaries and junior business staff.

The Hesa survey did not break down its results by gender and industry destination to explain the wage gap, but one factor may be the larger number of women earning degrees: 172,000 female first - degree earners were recorded, or 57 % of the total, compared with 129,000 males.