Sentences with phrase «low background level»

«This method has a very low background level, which allows for higher confidence in the results obtained.

Before Colombia's recent report, the number of cases had hovered near the normal, low background levels, notes Yaneer Bar - Yam.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, the most comprehensive study of such things found atheists to be above average intelligence and education, but with lower levels of success and achievement than Christians of camparable background.

Your baby may sleep better with some background music or a low level of noise.

Perhaps our modern condition is best described as a low level gnawing discomfort like background static.

As it currently stands, pupils from deprived economic backgrounds have lower levels of attainment than their wealthier counterparts.

This was Michael's link to his LabourList piece, arguing that «Now of course, we all know the background behind the idea: the shocking levels of inequality, the people struggling to get by, working huge numbers of hours, living in a heavily taxed world, and trying to do it all on a terribly low wage.

A health department spokesman, on background, said the state was acting on the belief that the EPA sets health advisory levels at levels far lower than a level expected to cause health effects.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«On the island with the lower risk this kind of background choice, to improve their level of camouflage, is much less evident than on the island with high predation risk.»

But in humid places with relatively low background air pollution levels, such as over the Amazon, supersaturation is common, she says.

Deep blue regions, such as Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, have background noise levels lower than 20 decibels — a silence likely as deep as before European colonization, researchers say.

BACKGROUND OR LOW - LEVEL noise in the home, work or school often disrupts people's concentration.

In analysing 28 studies that reported an association between socioeconomic status and bullying, and adjusting for bias, the review showed that bullies were not more likely to come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and were only marginally less likely to come from the highest socioeconomic levels (2 % less likely).

«According to our long - term measurements, the atmospheric levels of PCBs at background sites in Africa are lower than in Europe, but the urban, and especially industrial, sites have the same PCB levels in Africa as they do in Europe.»

High winds raise the background noise level, seismic surveys» intense pulses are unique and easily identifiable, and marine vessels are clearly identified by low - frequency rumbles.

Maybe fluids aren't reaching the bedrock there, or background stress levels in the crust are lower, says William Ellsworth, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.

• In a bungled attempt at clarification of a letter by Valerie Yule about using concert technology to help older people discriminate dialogue (19 March, p 33), we added a sentence saying that compensating for the difficulty of picking out voices from low - frequency background noise «often requires that the radio or television be turned up to a level unpleasant for younger ears».

In a study of 6,654 middle - aged and older U.S. adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds, participants living in areas with high levels of traffic - related air pollution tended to have lower HDL levels.

This reduces background noise to even lower levels.

This method is laborious, and samples with low levels of mutated cancer cells can be missed in the background of DNA from non-mutated cells.

At the same time, there is a low level of spontaneous activity at synapses whereby neurotransmitter is released occasionally, producing a kind of background «noise» in terms of neuronal signals.

Importantly, we found a high degree of overlap between these two metrics of differentiation (102 overlapping regions)(Table S3) and most differentiated regions were well demarcated (i.e. appearing as single peaks surrounded by background levels of much lower differentiation; Figure 2).

The TCGA analysis showed tumors with PTEN loss in the background of BRCA1 / 2 deficiency had lower levels of cytolytic immune molecules and immune - activating pathways that would normally drive immune responses against tumors.

ES cell cultures also express low levels of Gata4 and Gata6, suggesting the presence of either background levels of PrEn gene expression or basal levels of PrEn differentiation [25], [27].

If you're suffering with TATT you can be sure that you'll have a level of low - grade inflammation running in the background, so it's best not to fuel the fire anymore.

I have — I have a low level of Hashimoto's kinda in the background, I had elevation antibodies TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies and you know, I had some adrenal stress going on.

This low - level activity should be the background of your day and will only serve to augment your training and health.

At best it is a low level background sensation, at worse I feel like I can not think at all.

The problem, of course, is that these days, in our hectic modern lifestyle, even though we might not experience life - threatening events very often, we are under a constant background of low - level or even sometimes high - level stress, which causes the chronic overproduction of cortisol.

- The cutscenes look a bit rough - Repetition of the hidden object backgrounds does get a bit tiresome - Very low difficulty level

This is exacerbated in rural and remote areas, and contributes in part to the low achievement levels of students from Indigenous and disadvantaged backgrounds in science.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

Fifty percent of students with an ethnic background from Asia and the Pacific Islands, however, were proficient in math, placing them at a level comparable to students in Belgium, Canada, and Japan, if lower than that of students in Korea and Taiwan.

Pupils from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may be held back by their A Level subject choices when applying for elite university places, a study has found.

The University and College Union (UCU) General Secretary Sally Hunt, said: «Successive Governments» efforts to transfer the bill for higher education teaching onto graduates have created unsustainable levels of debt, with students from low and middle - income backgrounds being hit the hardest by the repayment burden.

By providing access to private and parochial schools as well as charter and other public schools, vouchers begin to level the playing field for families from lower income backgrounds.

«We are working closely with Explore Learning to ensure that children from low income backgrounds make the same level of progress as their peers.

But the longer school days, intensive support, and individual attention public charter schools provide is often exactly what it takes to level the playing field for kids from low - income backgrounds.

Low - level readers with high baseball knowledge significantly outperformed strong readers with little background knowledge.

If the American dream is to mean anything for children from low - income backgrounds, they need access to a public education that helps them overcome economic and social barriers and achieve at high levels.

«Northern pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve lower attainment levels than disadvantaged pupils elsewhere in the country (1.3 points below the national average and 6.5 points below their peers in London).»

Part of the problem in attempting to close the diversity gap is that recent graduates from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds are discouraged from becoming teachers due to the cost of teacher preparation programs, which is compounded by low entry - level teacher salaries.

While graduate study participants had less formal music training and lower music confidence, they perceived themselves to have a good background in music and felt positive about teaching music at higher levels than expected.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

Linked Learning is the right fit for students of all achievement levels and aspirations, with an essential commitment to equity and a focus on improving postsecondary and career outcomes for all students, including students of color and students from low - income backgrounds.

My «fairest» interpretation of the current albeit controversial research surrounding this particular issue is that bias does not exist across teacher - level estimates, but it certainly occurs when teachers are non-randomly assigned highly homogenous sets of students who are gifted, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), who are enrolled in special education programs, who disproportionately represent racial minority groups, who disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have been retained in grade prior.

CHSA believes that greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels will significantly improve the secondary and postsecondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

She found that students with high levels of arts participation outperform «arts - poor» students by virtually every measure and that high arts participation makes a more significant difference to students from low - income backgrounds than to high - income students.

Because CTL is a non-profit demonstration school, a place where other teachers come to learn about innovative methods, we work hard to attract a student body that represents a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds and ability levels, and we fundraise twelve months a year so we can set a tuition rate that's as low as possible.