Sentences with phrase «need quality measurements»

We need quality measurements everyone agrees on, and the National Physical Laboratory is in the driving seat for such international programmes.

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An independent report into the statistical measurement of the UK's public services has concluded that the system needs to be more accurate and should start to measure quality.

We've showed an improvement in subjective sleep quality after higher dietary protein intake during weight loss, which is intriguing and also emphasizes the need for more research with objective measurements of sleep to confirm our results.»

The team created its «masks» without additional equipment or measurements, allowing researchers to use a more robust image encoding method that increased image quality while reducing the time needed to acquire the image.

They show that 1) Different academic indicators measure very different aspects of school performance, suggesting that states should be allowed and encouraged to make full use of multiple measures to identify schools in the way they see fit instead of reporting a summative rating; 2) The ESSA regulations effectively restrict the weighting of the non-academic «School Quality and Student Success» indicators to zero, which is not in the spirit of the expanded measurement; and 3) The majority of schools will be identified for targeted support under the current regulations, suggesting the need for a clarification in federal policy.

Measurement researchers, as we might expect, are most interested in the assessment components of reform and are particularly concerned with validity issues and with the psychometric qualities of new assessments that are needed for accountability and policy purposes.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

The overall quality of this smart rolled leather dog collar is very good and the price is reasonable, but you need to be careful with the measurements.

FMI is conducting important research related to climate change, weather prediction and hydrological modeling, where high quality field measurements are still needed beside models and satellite data.

To continue climate - quality measurements beyond the first series of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) research satellites (NASA is not developing a second series of EOS satellites), it was assumed that the NPOESS system would continue, in an operational environment, the mature EOS measurements, many of which address the nation's climate monitoring needs.

NOAA's scientists not only are involved in maintaining a large portion of the world air sampling and measurement network, but also provide the calibration necessary for an integrated network and serve on several advisory groups and expert committees for assuring quality control, improving understanding, and identifying future needs.

Reducing uncertainties in the evaluation of the trends will require: (1) implementing an improved climate monitoring system designed to ensure the continuity and quality of critically needed measurements ofcontinue

This report describes traditional measurement systems and promising new technologies that together may provide the continuity and quality of observations needed to improve our understanding of water vapor in the climate system.

From an oceanographic perspective, there is a need for vector wind measurements, and many participants noted that surface vector winds from passive microwave did not fulfill the need for climate - quality surface vector winds and for observation of extreme weather events.

It scares one sometimes that live feeds of quantitative data via online summarized metrics dashboards are: a) reliant on alogrithms / formulae constructed by humans b) may only reflect a point in time that is transient and needs to be somehow replicated accurately later in the future if needed for evidence c) may draw upon real time data from multiple sources for different parts of the screen (via widgets) d) data source quality needs to be interpreted against the data owner's original meaning of that measurement and criteria.

Other commenters asserted that covered entities need complete data sets on the populations they serve to effectively conduct research and quality improvement projects and that restrictions would hinder research, skew findings, impede quality improvement, and compromise accreditation and performance measurement.

Kimball International, Corinth, MS 5/2012 to Present Assembly Worker • Study assembly instructions and blueprint specifications and gather parts and subassemblies • Position parts and subassemblies by following specific reading measurements • Gather, collate and stack materials and pack cartons with finished materials • Ascertain that end materials conform to quality control specifications • Mold metal parts, mount tires and add fluids to machines • Make sure that manufacturing machinery and tools are in proper working order and that they are maintained regularly • Identify product defects and report problems to supervisor on immediate basis • Create labels and tags and place them in correct boxes • Clean and inspect finished products and ensure that they are safely stored away • Maintain inventory of supplies and material needed for assembly work