Sentences with phrase «nature of the data used»

Sub-study one focused on the types and nature of data use by principals in their decision making; district influences on data - informed decision making by principals; and the relationship between school data use and variability in student achievement.

Given the narrow and limited nature of the data used to measure this growth, however, there's often less than meets the eye in the results.

They found errors in the description published in Nature of the data used — errors that prevented them from duplicating the study.

At the back of the new Conservative Manifesto, there is promise of a new digital charter that «balances freedom with protection for users, and offers opportunities alongside obligations for businesses and platforms», alongside a new Data Use and Ethics Commission which will advise regulators, including the ICO, and Parliament on the nature of data use.

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Elsewhere, digital photography is used to capture and analyze data in thousands of other fields as well, from nature photographers documenting never - before - seen flora and fauna to revolutionaries snapping and sending photos that will spark change, proving that digital photography truly is one of the most important advancements in the history of technology.

in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

Whitehead's «method of extensive abstraction» is used not only in his early writings in the philosophy of natural science but also in his later, more metaphysical, writings to abstract from the complexity of the relations which comprise the datum of sense - perception and to isolate by a conceptual analysis those relations which express a uniform metric structure, that is, to «exhibit» a basis of uniformity in nature.21 It is the sense in which this uniformity is «required» that is the crucial point for further investigation.

Ignoring the stratified sampling does not affect point estimates and may have resulted in slightly overestimated standard errors.14 Robust variance estimation was used to allow for the clustered nature of the data within units and trusts.

State officials have argued that the data will be secure and not used for commercial purposes, but the parents who filed suit are reluctant to allow the transfer, given the sensitive nature of the information, which includes demographics, test scores, behavior and suspension records and parents» contact information.

It has helped scientists win more than a dozen Nobel Prizes, including the 1962 award for revealing DNA's double helix, according to a news article in Nature, and by 2015 x-rays had been used to determine the structure of about 90 percent of the approximately 100,000 molecules in the popular Protein Data Bank.

Using a mix of live - action sequences, animation and satellite data, the NASA - produced film Water Falls melds science with art to convey the dynamic nature of the water cycle.

The researchers have now reported in the journal Nature that the normal process of blood formation differs from what scientists had previously assumed when using data from stem cell transplantations.

The other ocean temperature study, also published Sunday in Climate Nature Change, used Argo and other data to tentatively conclude that all of the ocean warming from 2005 to 2013 had occurred above depths of 6,500 feet.

In a study published December 11 in Nature Neuroscience, the team used data of 23andme customers who consented to participate in research and answered survey questions to assess delay discounting.

«All too often, in fact, data from the brain are analysed using linear methods, but the brain is a complex system that produce signals that are non-linear and dynamic in nature and analysing with these linear methods results in loss of information.»

Although data on how the trails are used are limited, it is known that they inspire some exercise: in a January 2007 study by PATH foundation staff and Emory University researchers, sponsored by Georgia Healthcare Foundation, a third of 315 trail users surveyed at Davidson - Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve said that most of their weekly physical activity has involved the trails.

This approach is used for determining the statistical self - affinity, or fractal nature, of a set of data, particularly relevant for data with long - memory characteristics.

Reported in Nature Methods today, the new open source computer tool called Single Cell Consensus Clustering (SC3) was shown to be more accurate and robust than existing methods of analysing single - cell RNA sequence data, and is freely available for researchers to use.

«The plant - pathology community has a responsibility to allow data to be used to combat diseases that are happening now, and not worry too much about whether they may or may not get a Nature paper out of it,» says Talbot.

The researchers stress that in its current form, the study uses a simplified version of biological data and has a «proof - of - principle nature.»

Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications today (11 April 2016).

Published in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper uses laboratory simulations of an Earth impact as evidence that a stratified layer beneath the rocky mantle — which appears in seismic data — was created when Earth was struck by a smaller object.

In the study, published in Nature Communications, the Southampton research team experimentally demonstrated an ANN that used memristor synapses supporting sophisticated learning rules in order to carry out reversible learning of noisy input data.

Gido, Perkin and their colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado State University, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Westar Energy and The Nature Conservancy used groundwater well data from the 1950s to 2010 to track the rate of change in the water table of the High Plains Aquifer.

The study, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, analysed data of 2415 species of mammals alive today using computer algorithms to reconstruct the likely activity patterns of their ancient ancestors who lived millions of years ago.

The study, published Sept. 25 in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, used geospatial technologies and remote sensing data to map recent land - use changes and the development of roads within the panda's habitat.

In a Nature Photonics article whose lead author is Stanford graduate student Alexander Piggott, Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering, and her team explain a process that could revolutionize computing by making it practical to use light instead of electricity to carry data inside computers.

Along with statistics about the use of dbGaP data, the Nature Genetics report outlines the challenges facing the field, such as the increased volume and complexity of genomic data.

The researchers report in today's issue of Nature that they used their scheme to write data in three colors and two polarizations in the same physical space.

Using high - speed photography data on the apokamp dynamics, the authors elucidated its nature as consisting of ionisation waves — so - called plasma bullets — that move with a velocity of 100 - 220 km / s.

The history of these observations is quite long (volunteers started to collect this data in the 1950s as indicated in their Nature Scientific Data publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scadata in the 1950s as indicated in their Nature Scientific Data publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scaData publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scales.

As highlighted in today's paper in Nature Methods (Liechti et al., 2017), SourceData offers a novel method to describe research data and a suite of tools to generate, validate and use this information, providing scientists with an efficient method to find and re-use published results.

Betts and Christopher Wolf, an Oregon State Ph.D. student in forest ecosystems and statistics along with six co-authors, used forest data assembled by Matthew Hansen at the University of Maryland and categories of extinction risk for 19,432 verterbate species, the so - called Red List, maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

The initial transit signal was identified in KELT - North survey data, and the planetary nature of the occulter was established using a combination of follow - up photometry, high - resolution imaging, high - resolution spectroscopy, and precise radial velocity measurements.

At the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in early January, a team led by University of Illinois researcher Dominique Segura - Cox used data from the VANDAM survey to shed new light on the nature of dusty disks and the process by which they form and eventually become planets.

We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature.

Due to the heterogeneous nature of the sequencing data, for each platform we used different alignment algorithms.

Reporting in the journal Nature, scientists used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study WASP - 121b, a type of exoplanet called a «hot Jupiter.»

A study of 460,000 people in Nature Genetics used data from 23andMe to discover 15 regions on the human genome associate with risk of major depression.

Given the specialized nature of this kind of quantitative analysis, we also recommend that schools identify a «data specialist» in the faculty who can support his or her colleagues in using data in real - time.

Furthermore, the challenges associated with the use of student achievement data, and the political nature in which these processes were mandated in the first place, all make this a very challenging problem to address.

As our data suggest, the controlling nature of the context in which children learn literacy may not only limit children's opportunities to use emergent literacy, they may also undermine their motivation to do so.

The use of real - time data collection and analysis tools can change the nature of science labs.

Ikemoto and Marsh (2007; see Patterns of data use, above) provide a compelling case for the hierarchical nature of four such approaches in terms of their value for school - improvement decisions.

Together, these analyses suggest that district data use matters, but further research will be needed before we fully understand the nature of that influence.

Understanding the nature of teachers» proficiencies and difficulties in data use is important for providing appropriate training and support to teachers because they are expected to use student data as a basis for improving the effectiveness of their practice.

If this concept is new to you, problem analysis can be defined as the process of using assessment data to understand the nature of a problem and to find a solution to that problem.

Although accountability reporting systems can be used to hold institutions responsible for outcomes, given the aggregate nature of their reported measures, they do not provide actionable data to assess individual student progress toward college and career readiness and success.

The National Education Association expressed satisfaction that the bill maintains the disaggregation of student performance data and provides states more flexibility in their use of federal dollars, but displeasure of the prescriptive nature of the bill's school turnaround proposals.

Using data on Detroit's Work First program, Sari Kerr, Ph.D. will show that the nature of the job placement (temporary - help versus direct - hire) during the program is a crucial determinant for the success of that strategy.