Sentences with phrase «local bias in»

A review of over 50 empirical studies of coherence suggests robust findings of local bias in ASD, with mixed findings regarding weak global processing.

The local bias in CO2 levels can be compensated for by calibrating the stomata data to direct measurements, firn and... ice cores over the past century.

There is a local bias in that several of the contributors come from Texas A&M College.

Not exact matches

Closing our stores for racial bias training is just one step in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities.»

But in Moldoff's admittedly biased view, franchising is better suited to thrive in local markets.

In the press release detailing the decision, the company noted: «Closing our stores for racial bias training is just one st:p in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities.&raquIn the press release detailing the decision, the company noted: «Closing our stores for racial bias training is just one st:p in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities.&raquin a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities.&raquin our local communities.»

Against this environment, our strategists remain bullish on equities and continue to favor emerging market currencies and, in the fixed income space, prefer local markets over external debt and maintain their higher - yielding yet better - quality bias.

My strong bias is toward the local, small, geographically determined local parish where people live in authentic community.

Without access to the city's internal records, we may never know what really brought about Milwaukee's dangerously substandard medical care implicated in the Fetal Infant Mortality Review, or discern the cause of the extreme bias toward African - American babies dying in Milwaukee, or discover the root of the subsequent bizarre publicity campaign by the local Milwaukee government against cosleeping, but we can be sure of one thing, «Something's rotten in Denmark... er, Milwaukee.»

The Scotsman is «on a suicide mission»; he takes «considerable pleasure» in phoning The Times editor John Witherow to chastise its «anti-Scottish bias»; he's incredulous when the Sunday Post splashes on his hotel expenses («it would be possible to meet company CEOs or international dignitaries at the local Holiday Inn, but I'm not sure how well that would work for Scotland's benefit») and records with relish his attempt to offer a young Telegraph journalist «a packet of liquorice allsorts for good attendance at every press event».

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

Last month, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers, began paying the first installments of $ 12.7 million in back pay to hundreds of black and Hispanic members in a partial settlement of a bias lawsuit decades old — the oldest such case in the hands of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The lead counsel for the 1,000 plaintiffs in the new round of Love Canal litigation has asked state Supreme Court Justice Richard Kloch Sr. to remove himself from the case, claiming he showed bias in remarks about past Love Canal cases in a newspaper article written by Kloch's daughter, and seemed to act a little too favorably to the local attorney for Occidental Chemical Co. during a past court session.

Among other things, Local Law 3 protects against bias in areas including public accommodations,» Kelly said.

«The question in these difficult cases is not whether a local prosecutor, including one with understandably close ties to his or her fellow local law enforcement officers, is capable of setting aside any personal biases in deciding whether to, or how vigorously, to pursue the case,» Schneiderman wrote, adding, «the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury.»

A Democrat running for governor in Maryland is vowing to not run any ads on Sinclair - owned stations after the network mandated local news anchors read messages decrying «fake news» and «media bias.»

Ottawa's biotech companies tend to have a bioinformatics bias, benefiting from the local resources in the IT industry.

«RAIs are important because they are widely used in the United States in an attempt to reduce biased assessments of recidivism risk and are increasingly being mandated at the local, state and federal level,» says Sarah Desmarais, an associate professor of psychology at NC State and lead author of a paper on the research.

► Speaking of policy and bias: Also in this week's Science, Edwin Cartlidge reported on the controversy surrounding an industry - sponsored report that holds «activities at a local oil field» blameless for two deadly earthquakes that struck Italy in 2012.

The panel discussion, comprised of local science and healthcare industry leaders, addressed identifying gender bias in today's workplace and strategies of how to change it in the future.

[13] AN1792 was an active vaccine, with Aβ aggregates as the antigen, and the meningoencephalitis is postulated to have been the result of the vaccine having roused a T - cell response against Aβ along with the necessary B - cell response, leading to a Th1 - biased inflammatory attack centralized on sites in the brain with local Aβ deposits.

We show that synNotch receptors can be used to sculpt custom response programs in primary T cells: they can drive a la carte cytokine secretion profiles, biased T cell differentiation, and local delivery of non-native therapeutic payloads, such as antibodies, in response to antigen.

Umetsu, D., Aigouy, B., Aliee, M., Sui, L., Eaton, S., Jülicher, F., and Dahmann, C. Local increases in mechanical tension shape compartment boundaries by biasing cell intercalations.

Local increases in mechanical tension shape compartment boundaries by biasing cell intercalations.

This crap is the very reason I don't watch the news, whether it be local or national, because of all the bias, as CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and NPR were all in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.

After revelations of harassment and bias in Silicon Valley, a backlash is The last time I got groceries at our local food shelf was this past February.

But whether in an attempt to case - plead international viewers or biased local ones, everything here is spelled out in pedestrian fashion — most often verbally, no matter how easily we might glean that intel from the general events.

In January 2014, the Obama administration's Department of Justice and Department of Education jointly sent each school district a «Dear Colleague» letter urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.

Their analysis of 13 federal, state, and local improvement efforts in rural schools suggests that a longstanding «urban bias» in education policymaking has resulted in programs that do not take the variety and special characteristics of rural communities into account — and thus are less effective than they could be.

Local union presidents, at least, are aware of the strong liberal bias in the national union's agenda.

Research efforts are aimed, for example, at ensuring bias - free results, validity of technology - enhanced items, stability of measuring student growth across time, developing testing accommodations for students with special needs, software for computer - based testing, and technical support and scoring for local standards - based assessments in Iowa and the nation.

In 2014 the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice sent a joint letter to every school district in the country, urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling studentIn 2014 the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice sent a joint letter to every school district in the country, urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling studentin the country, urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.

Essentially, they have a lower proportion of disadvantaged pupils than their local communities — or to be precise, a -15 percentage points bias, as shown in the graph below.

In addition, since these assessments are self - report surveys, there is also the issue of response bias — meaning a student's tendency to give answers that they believe are socially acceptable or to consistently answer «yes» or «no» regardless of the question asked.48 Since self - report measures tend to be weak in reliability and validity, state and local policymakers should refrain from including measures of learning mindsets and skills in high - stakes accountability systemIn addition, since these assessments are self - report surveys, there is also the issue of response bias — meaning a student's tendency to give answers that they believe are socially acceptable or to consistently answer «yes» or «no» regardless of the question asked.48 Since self - report measures tend to be weak in reliability and validity, state and local policymakers should refrain from including measures of learning mindsets and skills in high - stakes accountability systemin reliability and validity, state and local policymakers should refrain from including measures of learning mindsets and skills in high - stakes accountability systemin high - stakes accountability systems.

In the absence of such a guideline, local districts may use their student data to detect and remove any potential bias in teacher recommendations, which we discussed earlier in this reporIn the absence of such a guideline, local districts may use their student data to detect and remove any potential bias in teacher recommendations, which we discussed earlier in this reporin teacher recommendations, which we discussed earlier in this reporin this report.

So on the whole, charter schools in both cases tend to reflect the demographics of the local neighborhood school, and there does not appear to be a selection bias.

To acknowledge concerns related to marginalization and institutional bias associated with transgender students; state the association's opposition to legislation and policies that discriminate against transgender students; and to provide recommendations for federal, state, and local policymakers and school leaders on how to better support transgender students in the K - 12 education system.

In general, we would tend to recommend that Democratic candidates pick - and - choose their preferred solutions among the top shaded five above, given local realities, their own personal priorities, and a bias toward the classroom.

If we allow tests to be biased toward only one approach to teaching the standards, we are narrowing local district, local school, and classroom teacher options for choosing the best way to teach CA's extremely diverse student body in the best way teachers deem possible to maximize individual student learning.

And most laugh in the face of home bias — so inevitably, there's a multitude who just surfed their killer local market & totally crushed your puny performance, esp.

As I said we've had two credit counsellors on the show explain why credit counselling is a good solution for some people and I've told you my personal bias, local, not - for - profit credit counselling is a good solution in many cases.

And maybe this reveals a personal bias; at local galleries I usually end up liking what's found in basement offices or back rooms.

Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.

It is possible that any of these changes (or others) could have altered the local microclimate at these stations (a problem we discuss in this essay), or introduced some instrumental biases.

So what we are all studying is the Anomaly = (Raw data = «local signal» + «local contamination bias and error» + recording error) + Corrections for what is known + error in corrections + bias in corrections.

The reduction in nighttime cooling that leads to this bias may indeed be the result of human interference in the climate system (i.e., local effects of increasing greenhouse gases or human effects on cloud cover), but through a causal mechanism different than that typically assumed.

«The identified biases include station moves, changes in instrumentation, localized changes in instrumentation location, changes in observation practices, and evolution of the local and microsite station environment over time.»

See for example the ludicrous desalination plants built in Australia, or the ten successive years of positive bias in year - ahead temperature forecasts in the UK, and the local difficulties encountered with shortage of de-icing resources at airports and for roads after heavy snow followed not long after forecasts of a mild winter there.

Local effects in the daytime and solar heating in the maximum temperatures show that the HO - 83 has another bias which is quite variable and is at least 1 °F warm at some locations.»

(I added land use change, because it has a local effect on ground based temperature leading to a warming bias, in addition to its global effect).