Sentences with phrase «of ceiling effect»

This low reliability was likely because of a ceiling effect (M = 4.82 and 4.64 for Caucasians and Latinas, respectively).

First, Democrats tended to endorse high belief (Ms = 5.94 on a 7 - point scale), raising the possibility of a ceiling effect.

To use a norm - referenced test that is grade - level calibrated to make judgements about students at the top end is not justifiable, given the problems of ceiling effect.

Not exact matches

Further, according to BofA - Merrill's analyst team at a midyear press conference on Wednesday in New York, any positive budgetary effect of the tax increases would be overshadowed by the growing burden of the U.S. debt ceiling as spending and hiring decisions are put on hold and the election heightens partisanship.

In times of annual deficits, the debt ceiling is another powerful tool that Congress has to effect potential changes to the President's budget plan.

There's another question for Facebook: What if the «network effect,» the self - reinforcing dynamic that encouraged a cascade of connections around the world to open accounts since Facebook's founding in 2004, has a ceiling?

Let your child enjoy the soothing effects of a soft glowing nightlight and beautiful projected light - up stars on the ceiling alongside the white noise sounds.

This type of study would contribute to the progression of the literature towards more fine - tuned understanding of the group effects of IMF programmes and of budgetary cuts in line with established expenditure ceilings identified in programmes.

As the political parties assess the shutdown / debt ceiling fight and its effects on the political landscape, a lot of Democrats are perking up at the possibility that Republican congressmembers who looked unbeatable a month ago might be more vulnerable than they appeared.

The campaign warns voters about the effects of a possible default if the debt ceiling isn't raised by Aug. 2 and spins a near - doomsday scenario of high gas and food prices along with dire consequences for 401 (k) accounts.

With the ceiling on school and local property taxes in effect, a consortium of groups representing school districts, business and local governments today renewed calls for sweeping changes to required state spending.

«The new FDA - approved drug nusinersen may have a «ceiling effect,» in that it may not completely treat the disorder,» says Charlotte Sumner, M.D., associate professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The overall effect is James Bond modern — a high - tech workshop in the middle of nowhere, complete with exotic machinery and electronics, the brilliant light of scores of fluorescent lamps, and cranes in the ceiling to ferry heavy components from one place to another.

The artist installed them in a 10th - floor penthouse dining room on campus in January 1964, and had curtains installed to cover the floor - to - ceiling windows on two sides of the room to produce the low - level uniform lighting needed for the effect he sought.

You can increase the effect of these exercise by lifting the top leg up toward the ceiling.

Now, should we talk about the negative effects of being tall, like going head first into the signage hanging from the ceiling at the grocery store?

The special effects are nifty enough (demons hanging from the ceiling, fingers being chopped off) and you can tell the directors are well - steeped in the subterranean worlds of The Exorcist and Blue Velvet but even as an act of homage, the film falls flat.

Think furniture on the ceiling, curtains and blinds on windows, elegant rugs on top of the regular floor, and even background sound effects to choose from.

There's also a separate 10 - minute featurette on the film's green - screen special effects work (one gets to fully appreciate the imaginative nature of a ceiling - mounted spinning camera), a trailer, and a scrollable «concepts gallery.»

Although she acknowledges the «devastating effect of gender norms on daughters» who were born before 1979, and that China's social structure still has gender inequality, the absence of brothers has act ually allowed girls to push the limits of the glass ceiling.

This is a question asked by Harris himself, who described the effects he's measured in New Orleans as «the ceiling of what's possible with this kind of approach.»

This prediction is reinforced by evidence of «ceiling effects» in standardized tests; students in the upper tracks, as described above, are likely to have higher scores and to hit the ceiling with little growth.

Computer adaptive tests address predominantly the so - called «floor» and «ceiling» effects of the test — students far below or far above the grade level.

In other words, her argument rests on the real concern (and very real concern in terms of the current research) that «ceiling effects» are / were preventing her students from growing upwards, enough, when compared to other «similar» students who are also to demonstrate «a full year's worth of growth.»

Now, almost every item will have a unique effect on gameplay, which has effectively broken the score ceiling and added an exponential amount of depth and strategy to slicing.

An increased dose of (0.01 - 0.04 mg / kg IV) provide improved and longer lasting analgesia, not less.21 Buprenorphine was thought to have a ceiling effect, this is when a medication has reached its maximal response.

Moreover, the lack of correlation in three scores (cylinder task and two detour problem - solving performance measures) was most likely due to a ceiling effect on the task at the time of the second testing.

We stayed in the bachelor, styled as if a jail cell, with polished concrete walls and floors, fake handcuffs hanging off the grill around the entrance, a cell - like bed (with a comfortable mattress and linen, ruining the effect somewhat), and plenty of chains - from - the - ceiling style.

Vaulted ceilings, lavishly decorated in trompe - l'œil details to create effects of depth and perspective.

Anchored by a Möller theatre organ, its Moorish - style interior features vaulted blue ceilings with recessed lights that appear like stars, giving the effect of an open sky.

As well as opening onto the garden, the bathroom has a clear glass ceiling above the tub to give the effect of bathing under the stars.

Raked ceilings and windows above French doors create a magnificent cathedral effect that provides you with a unique experience of connection with the serene rural environment.

* Bugfixes - Super Armor effect: Fixed bug where characters» white glow disappeared for a moment before fading out once the effect ends - Fixed shuddering effect when killed while incapacitated by a spin - Brynhildr (Character Special Ability): Fixed cancel effect while doing a wheelie in Overdrive mode - Brynhildr (Special Move 2): Fixed bug where the cancel effect remained in place while keeping an opponent in the air with attacks - Odin (Ranged mode, Special Move 2): Fixed bug where the marker would appear out of bounds when using move near a border - Odin (Ravens): Fixed bug where Odin would stick to the ceiling upon hitting it and be unable to move up or down - Odin (Ranged Attack): Fixed bug where the hitboxes for the Ravens» shots were reversed if you changed lock - on targets immediately after launching Ranged Attack - Odin (Sweep mode, Special Move 2): Fixed bug where satellite - cannon shots would land on the ground even in areas with roofs.

Think furniture on the ceiling, curtains and blinds on windows, elegant rugs on top of the regular floor, and even background sound effects to choose from.

Drilled into each of the glass panels is a hole through which Rauschenberg has inserted elements that could have been used to agitate the water, if it were there, thus creating a rippling effect of shadows on the ceiling and nearby walls.

Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away encompassed a cube - shaped, mirror - paneled room that featured a shallow reflecting pool as its floor; hundreds of multicolored LED lights were suspended at varying heights from the ceiling, flickering on and off in a strobelike effect.

The artificially aged floors slant (an important aspect of Kienholz's work is achieving special patinas, for which he has developed an inventory of techniques using varnishes and shellacs, inks and oil washes, epoxy, fiberglass and flocking — a close - clipped rayon fiber applied with a blow gun to produce a textural effect like that on a phonograph turntable); the louvered ceiling has been duplicated; and the perfect carpentry of the bar itself had somehow to be badgered into an aging crookedness.

James Turrell's Skyscapes, rectangular cuts into the ceilings of spaces that frame a patch of the sky moving above, encourage viewers to meditate on the beauty of the heavens and use light from to provide insight into changing natural forces, while Ólafur Elíasson uses blue to probe the phenomenological effects of the sky, for instance enveloping entire gallery spaces in blue.

Rosemarie Fiore burned firecrackers to get the fumage effect of her paintings; Odili Donald Odita relied on Michelangelo - style scaffolding for the weeks it took him to paint his Heaven's Gate on the walls and ceiling of the museum's lobby.

Her voice echoes off the soaring ceiling of the hall, creating dramatic effects.

Pill Clock (2011 - 2015), a ceiling - mounted timepiece that will drop over one million pills onto the gallery floor during the course of the exhibition, poses a different kind of conundrum for visitors: the installation includes a drinking fountain for those visitors who decide to take one of the pills and face its unknown effects.

Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away encompassed a cube - shaped, mirror - paneled room that featured a shallow reflecting pool as its floor; hundreds of multicolored LED lights were suspended at varying heights from the ceiling, flickering on and off in a strobelike effect.

These paintings seem tailor - made to enhance the dramatic effect of this reconstructed, brutalist church, with incredibly high ceilings on the third floor gallery dwarfing the visitors, while relying on the paintings to impose layers absorbing their viewer.

In his celebrated work, I am Innocent, 2010, Wallinger makes a life - size, double - sided reproduction of Velazquez's Pope Innocent X (in the Palazzo Pamphilj, Rome), one side as Velázquez painted it, the other reversed, and, suspending it from the ceiling, sets it in motion so that it spins continuously, to beguiling optical effect.

Additionally, we have Anderson's computations showing that ~ 10 % CO2 emissions reduction per annum is required for years to stay within a (dangerous) 2 C ceiling target, and these numbers don't include the adverse effects of major carbon cycle feedbacks.

Another aspect of suitability of a zone for viticulture, as the NAS report evidently mentions, is grapevines» debilitation when there are excessive numbers of days warmer than about 88 degrees F, though there is a ceiling in the mid 90s beyond which leaf turgidity effects, wilt, and the like inflict damage on the vine.

It might be that serious authorities such as Hansen and the head of the UNFCCC secretariat are wrong to declare that goal of a 2.0 C ceiling of warming poses unacceptably dangerous climate destabilization, but it seems widely accepted that a peak of 450ppmv CO2 would allow a near - even chance of staying below 2.0 C and thereby avoiding the feedbacks taking off with catastrophic effects.

(7) A requirement that building retrofits conducted pursuant to a REEP program utilize, especially in all air - conditioned buildings, roofing materials with high solar energy reflectance, unless inappropriate due to green roof management, solar energy production, or for other reasons identified by the Administrator, in order to reduce energy consumption within the building, increase the albedo of the building's roof, and decrease the heat island effect in the area of the building, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards.

Not only that, Curry goes past it, to, somewhat fantastically, conclude that «My assessment is that it is > 2/3 likely that there is such an extreme end «coincidental» natural variability mimicking effect (just as laid out above) and then on to say — after limiting the range of possible natural variability («coincidentally» enough) to only that which is close to this high «could» be (acc» to the IPCC) state of 50 %» natural» effect (that is, giving that itself only a 20 percent range in either direction (meaning, depending on interpretation, either a positive40 % or 30 % floor to the input of «natural» and a ceiling of 60 to 70 %)-RRB-, and thereby negating any possibility of the opposite — TO, again, the new mean representing the one directional and full extent of what, could plausibly be natural variability, and then concluding from there that «At this point, I think anthropogenic is 50 % or less.»

«This heat map of a test room clearly shows the stratification effect created by a convection heater when there's little air movement in the room: the yellow bar at the ceiling represents about 22 °C, the purple bit (where your cold feet would be) about 14 °C.»