Sentences with phrase «measures used across»

Our review was restricted to a limited number of behavioural outcomes and we were unable to exploit the full range of behavioural outcome measures used across included studies and for some studies reporting of multiple measures of child behaviour in the meta - analysis.

But while assessment tests were standard practice, there was substantial variation in the types of other measures used across colleges and across subjects.

Our review was restricted to a limited number of behavioural outcomes and we were unable to exploit the full range of behavioural outcome measures used across included studies and for some studies reporting of multiple measures of child behaviour in the meta - analysis.

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It's worth noting too that across all participants, cortisol levels at baseline were not associated with any of the study's other measures, such as intensity of Facebook use.

While the HRC noted that the Company was not ranked # 1 in every financial measure used to compare its performance to that of its Peer Group, its overall average # 1 rank across these measures over all three time frames confirmed the Company's strong, consistent, and superior core results.

To test robustness of findings, they: (1) account for one - way trading frictions ranging from 0.02 % to 0.05 % across assets; (2) consider five subperiods to test consistency over time; and, (3) perform out - of - sample tests using the first part of each subperiod to select the best rules and roughly the last year to measure performance of these rules out - of - sample.

«A «failure of diversification» during the global financial crisis has prompted wider use of factor analysis across portfolios and reduced reliance on simplistic asset allocation measures.

Use a 10 ″ (measure across the bottom) cast iron pan.

Use an offset spatula or the back of a spoon to make sure the batter mounds are round and measure about 3 inches across before they're baked.

Use a 5 - inch cookie cutter or an upturned bowl that measures 4 1/2 to 5 inches across to cut out as many circles as possible.

I was using a skillet that measured 7 ″ across the bottom & 9 ″ across the top.

FoodLogiQ, a software solutions company that measures food safety, has joined with the product information network, 1World Sync, to create a tool that allows food service managers to trace products that they use daily across the supply chain to ensure...

Using your fingers or a straight - sided measuring cup press about half of dough firmly up and around the sides of tart pan (or 1» high if you are using a springform pan), then press remaining dough firmly across bottom ofUsing your fingers or a straight - sided measuring cup press about half of dough firmly up and around the sides of tart pan (or 1» high if you are using a springform pan), then press remaining dough firmly across bottom ofusing a springform pan), then press remaining dough firmly across bottom of pan.

This is the basic measure of value - added assessment in use today; teachers in many states across the country are evaluated (and sometimes compensated or fired) based on similar measures.

Although you can measure your nipple diameter across and use it as a basis to start from, every woman's body behaves differently when pumping.

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

«This easy - to - use, non-invasive thermometer reads your baby's temperature by measuring the heat coming from the temporal artery, which runs across your little one's forehead,» according to What to Expect the First Year.

Given the ambiguity surrounding the concept of satisfaction, it was not surprising to find inconsistency in the instruments, scales, timing of administration and outcomes used to «measure» satisfaction across studies.

When comparing outcomes across birth settings, the use of consistent definitions and inclusion criteria across cohorts, and reliable outcome measures, is imperative.

The police will have their powers chipped away across multiple fronts, after Theresa May used the Queen's Speech to put forward a raft of tough measures against them.

The Metropolitan Police says that security has been reviewed on London's 33 bridges and the use of barriers and other measures are being considered at other locations across the capital.

Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.

«The 15 measures will help ensure people with diabetes are getting the care they need, and if they're not, Diabetes UK wants people to use the checklist and ask for the standards of care that have been recommended by expert bodies and patients across the UK.

Peers from the across the political spectrum (but notably many Liberal Democrats) voted for a number of measures which guarded against the plans, including giving judges, not Ministers, the say over the use of the secret trials.

The team took scans of twins» faces using 3D cameras and custom built statistical software to generate thousands of points that were perfectly aligned across the faces and then measured how «curved» each face looked at each one of those locations.

A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed «DNA origami».

A strategy to improve care should be based around quality measures that can be routinely assessed across the military health system, with the results shared broadly both internally and among military members who use the system.

Now, researchers from Imperial College London and the World Health Organization (WHO) have developed a new model to quantify yellow fever dynamics across Africa using not only annual averages of these climatic measures, but seasonal dynamics.

In particular, the researchers found that general intelligence was associated with how efficiently the dorsal attention network is functionally organized used a measure called small - world propensity, which describes how well the neural network is connected within locally clustered regions as well as across globally integrated systems.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), an interlinked system of 10 radio telescopes stretching across Hawaii, North America and the Caribbean, the astronomers have directly measured the distance to an object called G007.47 +00.05, a star - forming region located on the opposite side of the galaxy from our solar system.

They include both fixed costs associated with implementing a quality measurement infrastructure and measure - specific costs, which can vary substantially across measures and often depend on local measurement capacity and simultaneous use of other measures.

«The beauty of this method is that you have the data to store and code to indicate what was selected, what was consumed, and what was wasted as opposed to weighed plate waste, where everything needs to be done on site,» said Amin, who hopes to develop an online training tutorial that could be used by schools across the country to measure consumption and waste.

The tower is part of the AmeriFlux network, a consortium of scientists using a network to work with the eddy covariance technique, measuring fluxes of CO2 and CH4 at multiple sites across the Americas.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

Using a global climate model, a team led by Princeton University researchers measured how severely heat waves interact with urban heat islands, now and in the future, in 50 American cities across three climate zones.

While some research was previously done by his and other groups on a smaller scale, «This is the first real description of a method that could be used broadly across a range of conditions to operationally measure diagnostic errors and associated bad outcomes so that we can track our performance and see whether our interventions are making a difference,» Newman - Toker says.

And the measure Sam is using is called a smoot, named after a Lambda Chi Alpha pledge whose body was used in 1958 to measure the distance across a bridge that spans the Charles River near MIT.

«The unique capacity to measure sweating across multiple body locations simultaneously opens up the possibility for using anomalous sweating as an indicator of recovery status.»

For the JCI study, the team applied the radiotracer to monitor olfactory sensory neuron population dynamics in a rodent model, using PET to measure its uptake across the animals» lifespan, including during age - related neurodegeneration.

Using the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Hipparcos space observatory, astrophysicists Benoit Famaey and Alain Jorissen of the Université Libre de Bruxelles teamed up with astronomers across Europe to measure the distance and motion of more than 100,000 stars within 1000 light - years of the sun.

By precisely measuring the orbital movements of MESSENGER using the subtle Doppler frequency shifts of its radio signal, geodesist David Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and 16 colleagues measured how the pull of gravity varies across Mercury, as the team reports online today in Science.

Now, using a method described today in Science, researchers show that fame can be rigorously measured across history.

Researchers from Binghamton University, Cornell University, the International City / County Management Association (ICMA), and two divisions of the American Planning Association measured local government action on energy, water, waste, land use and transportation, as well as social equity and economic development across 1,900 local governments.

As a protective measure, the spacecraft used its large, dish - shaped high - gain antenna (13 feet or 4 meters across) as a shield, orienting it in the direction of oncoming ring particles.

Using data gathered in visible and near - infrared wavelengths by sensors on a NASA / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, researchers compared the average intensity of nighttime lights across the southern United States in December of 2012 and 2013 with the average measured in non-December months from January 2012 through autumn of this year.

To measure the mass and growth rate of these galaxies» active nuclei — the supermassive black holes at the galaxies» centers — the researchers used data from 12 different ground - based telescopes spread across the globe to complement the data from the Swift satellite.

The authors note there were considerable variations in definitions, measures used and results cited across the 36 studies they included.

When stellar cataclysms known as type Ia supernovae flare up far across the universe, their brightness and consistency allow astronomers to use them as so - called standard candles to measure cosmological distances.

In his research Dr van Rens used data on job finding rates, earnings and profits across states, industries and occupations to measure the extent of skills mismatch or gap on the US labour market, and the underlying frictions that gave rise to it.

For morphometric analysis, the gastrocnemius and plantaris muscles were sectioned serially to their widest point using a cryostat, and fiber diameters were measured (as the shortest distance across the fiber passing through the midpoint) from hematoxylin and eosin stained sections.