Sentences with phrase «much higher background»

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I started this show as background noise a few years ago, not expecting much, and here we are 4 season in, and it's still one of my favorite shows, while I don't believe this season is as good as season 2 or maybe 3 as a whole, it has its high points, a couple of things fall a little flat, but no single episode failed in my opinion.

But what most struck me about the Austen domestic background was not so much the high achievements of most of the siblings but the moral universe into which they were all raised.

An example might be the pupil premium approach which ensures that young kids from poor backgrounds get much higher funding (at around fee - paying school levels) thus ensuring that they keep up with their wealthier peers at school.

Nonetheless, given the remarkable increase in the participation of young people in higher education that has taken place over the last 20 years, the brief analysis presented here reveals little evidence that the much vaunted policy ambition - to provide better access to higher education to those from less privileged backgrounds - has been successful.»

«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.»

As part of that effort, he recently found that children from lower - income families responded much better to a summer reading program than children from a higher socioeconomic background.

With a science and technology background, McGinty is passionate about the competitiveness of U.S. high - tech companies and she spent much of her fellowship year working to strengthen patent protections, manufacturing, and science education.

In the third test (audio and video), the younger children with ASD, ages 6 to 12, performed much worse than the typically developing children of the same age, particularly at higher levels of background noise.

In immunoelectron microscopy the densities of CB1 - positive signals in hippocampal excitatory terminals and cerebellar PF terminals were much lower than in inhibitory terminals but were clearly higher than the background.

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).

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

But despite its lofty position as one of the high - profile categories of the Internet, in recent years it has faded to the background as social media has emerged and co-opted much of its mindshare.

But despite its lofty position as one of the high - profile categories of the internet, in recent years it has faded to the background as social media has emerged and co-opted much of its mindshare.

While the 42 percent rate of math proficiency for U.S. white students is much higher than the averages for students from African American and Hispanic backgrounds, U.S. white students are still surpassed by all students in 16 other countries.

Despite his solid Minnesota credentials, Pearlstein comes out of Far Rockaway High School in Queens, New York, whose decline from a nurturer of future Nobel prizewinners, furnishes much of the background to his distress over American education (as the decline of so many other once - great New York City high schools serves so many others, including this reviewHigh School in Queens, New York, whose decline from a nurturer of future Nobel prizewinners, furnishes much of the background to his distress over American education (as the decline of so many other once - great New York City high schools serves so many others, including this reviewhigh schools serves so many others, including this reviewer).

(This is a much better outcome than most Colorado high schools promise, particularly for students from low - income backgrounds).

After studying tens of thousands of Texas students who completed college courses in high school, this research found that these students attended and completed college within the state at much higher rates than students with similar backgrounds who did not take college courses in high school.

Ethnic backgrounds varied by school, with one school containing a much higher percentage of Hispanic students (72.1 %) than the other schools.

The Prichard Committee recognizes educators as the key to ensuring Kentucky students of all backgrounds learn at much higher levels, and that students who have traditionally had less opportunity to excel catch up with their peers.

This is in contrast to students with the same test scores and grades who come from high - income backgrounds: they are overwhelmingly likely to apply to a college whose median student has achievement much like their own.

Lastly, we find that high school achievement measures explain much of the racial gaps in BA attainment and annual earnings and some of the gaps by family background, though they account for little of the continuing gender gap in annual earnings.

So what you get now is a high resolution user customizable background with icons that are so much more attractive.

The company offers credit card holders with sterling payment histories on cards with high balances «as much as $ 10,000 a month or more» simply by accepting unseen borrowers with poor credit backgrounds as «authorized users» on their card accounts for 90 days.

There's also guaranteed life insurance — it's exactly what it says it is — however, the premiums will be much higher to match the risk of insuring someone with an unknown background.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

I particularly liked the infusing of 8 - bit level graphics with much higher resolution backgrounds seen in the standard mode.

Extinctions, according to biologists, are running much higher than the «background» extinction rate.

I hope it is not since this LNT - hypothesis kills more people then radiation itself, as has once again been shown in Chernobyl (or any other place where radiation is much higher then average background).

He was right about so many things — the background nineteenth - century CO2 concentration level and its increase over the twentieth century; the importance of high - quality temperature data and the warming trend observed over much of his lifetime; the infrared spectroscopy of CO2 and its effect on «sky radiation»; and more.

Remember that this planet was made from the debris of a supernova and billions of years ago, the background was much higher than it is now.

But given that most tech companies want to quickly develop and deliver new features to their users, having someone on staff who has a legal background and can identify with the users would help get those features developed much quicker with a higher chance of success because you have a user in - house who can give you instant feedback.

You can move the aperture from f / 0.95 to f / 16, depending on your requirements — the simple rule is that a low aperture value will blur the background more, while a high value will not blur it as much.

When I tried Resunate with a test job description that pretty much fit my background, I got a JobFocus score of 7 (out of a high of 10), not bad.

With experience working at both the elementary and high school levels, as well as in activities outside of the traditional classroom, I have a diverse background with much to offer.

Now we have a high impact document that is an easy read and gives a much more professional presentation of the client's career background.

Releasing the results, VicHealth warned the prevalence of racism may actually be much higher in schools than this latest survey shows, with far more students reporting that they had witnessed racism directed at someone else every day, and more than two - thirds saying they have seen another student being teased because of their cultural background at least once a month.

The life - course persistent antisocial group was characterized by high - risk childhood backgrounds (e.g., inadequate parenting, neurocognitive problems, and temperament and behavior problems) and appeared to be at highest risk for adverse outcomes in adulthood, whereas the adolescent onset group was considered to be quite normative, and thus at much lower risk for such adverse outcomes (Moffitt and Caspi 2001; Moffitt et al. 2002; Odgers et al. 2008).