Sentences with phrase «of equal scale»

Whilst this makes practical sense (Lewis Carroll's fictitious map drawn to a scale of 1:1 blocks out the sun to his Kingdom and is discarded, Jorge Luis Borge's map of equal scale is abandoned to the desert) it raises questions about the role of maps.

«As the Chinese saying goes, it is only polite to reciprocate,» the embassy said, adding that China intends to pursue the matter with the World Trade Organization and enact «corresponding measures of equal scale and strength against U.S. products.»

Not exact matches

Finally, the scales may slowly be tipping in favor of digital shopping, but the movement isn't picking up equal speed across all demographics.

It then started tracking and releasing data about the scale of foreign buying in Metro Vancouver (about 10 per cent of the value of all deals, equal to $ 885 million over a five - week period).

Although these innovations are operating on different time scales — MPLs are an immediate consideration, and blockchain - based supply chains could take a few years to mature — wholesale bankers need to get up to speed on each, at an equal degree of urgency.

There exists no guarantee of equal scope and scale for any institution, compared to the kingdom of God, in the material world of humanity.

Governments must create a more equal society by prioritizing ordinary workers and small - scale food producers instead of the rich and powerful.

-- Check Ancient Egypt hieroglyphs for a start, particularly the Weighing of the Heart ---- In the pictograph, on a scales, is a heart weighed equal to a feather — the feather equals truth — the heart being a decision making process (a conscience), which equals truth ---- How does a conscience equal truth?

It is clear that, by setting the arbitrary constants in (2) equal to the particular values a, b, c in (1), the hue scale will be in the units of wavelength.

They then examined the data for past use of hot peppers, one of the 34 unusual foods, on a 4 - point scale with 1 equal to «I have never eaten this» to 4 for «Eaten it many times.»

For a scale using more than one load cell, vmin must be less than or equal to the scale division divided by the square root of the number of cells.

According to the Scoville Measurement Heat Scale, Pure 16 Million (SHU) Capsaicin Crystals would need to be diluted with 16 Million equal parts of another liquid (oil) before fully diluting until there is ZERO heat remaining!

The aim of this strategy is for the values shared by the Basque community (such as a culture of effort, commitment, the ability to overcome, a will to transform, and equal opportunities for men and women) to become ingrained in the image of the Basque Country and to act as our «business card» on an international scale.»

If you push down on the towel then you're taking weight off the scale equal to the amount of force exerted on the towel.

Tuesday's 6 - 0 thrashing of Champions League debutants Qarabag equalled our best - ever result in the competition, previously notched against Maribor three years ago, and scaled new goalscoring heights for any competition under coach Antonio Conte.

His story however signifies to me the times that we live in today where the scales of balance have tilted so far that things are no longer equal but men are under attack.

Many scales weigh using pounds and ounces (an ounce equals one - sixteenth of a pound).

Respondents were asked to rate «a pact with UKIP that avoids the two parties standing against each other in marginal seats» on a scale of -5 to +5 (where +5 equalled a «very positive impact» and -5 equalled a «very bad impact».)

«There's still plenty of time for the Tory leadership to develop radical ideas but the grassroots are probably correct to sense that the party's policies aren't yet equal to the scale of Britain's challenges.»

«The foregoing, coupled with his continuous strives to change the face of the state of Osun, and place it to the first amongst its equals makes Governor Aregbesola to conceive the lofty idea of introducing standardized scales and measures in all facets of commercial transactions in all items which are sold or distributed by weigh, measure or number in the state.

Further muddying matters, some researchers claim that the disorder is simply an extreme variant on an existing disease, pointing to similar, if smaller - scale, outbreaks of «disappearing disease» among bees that struck in the 1930s and 1970s, with equal lack of explanation.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Like the Richter Scale for earthquakes, each step along the Explosivity Index is equal to a tenfold increase in the magnitude of the eruption.

Researchers are scaling up a variety of projects to minimize livestock's carbon and water footprint: the nutrient load of one cow is equal to about 25 people.

The scale bar equals 10 micrometer, or 1 / 8th the width of a human hair.

But UC San Diego researchers wondered, if they kept all these large - scale effects equal and changed only the topmost layer of molecules, could humans still detect the difference using their sense of touch?

A baby grand piano, which has 88 keys, is tuned so that each octave is divided into twelve equal intervals, called half - steps, that form the 12 - note chromatic scale underlying most of Western music.

Researchers discovered in the 1970s and 1980s that three of the forces of nature attain equal strengths and unite into a single force at exactly this energy scale, as long as the known laws of physics are rounded out with a few missing parts.

One cup of almond flour for all brands equals 112 grams on the food scale.

All of these participants underwent formal psychiatric evaluations and met the criteria of clinical depression based on both the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD: scores greater than or equal to 21) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI: scores greater than or equal to 13).

SLAVE MARKET FOODS: Studies, and a bit of common sense, show that classifications on the socio - economical scale such as low income, inner city and / or ethnic minority [Hispanic / Black] predisposes consumers (who are equal under the law to protections against harm) to diabetes, obesity and other health risks as grocery stores in their area tend to sell lower qualities foods while food producers price high quality (or even halfway decent) foods out of reach.

Results showed that people who started dating within a month of meeting were more similar on the attractiveness scale, whereas couples who knew each other, or were just friends for more than a month before dating, were less equal on the attractiveness scale.

The film suggests a contemporary vision, equal in weight and scale to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead.

If you were looking for economy of scale, this debut effort by the mono - monikered writer - director Kogonada had no equal.

Though if you are looking for an equal amount of story to go along with the massive scale action sequences, then you are definitely going to want to watch the international version.

2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small - scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

The critical question, given that neither ability nor item difficulty can be measured directly, is whether the procedures of inference are powerful enough to put the resulting ratings of ability and difficulty on equal - unit scales.

We need to be assured that the scale on which we measure achievement is one of equal units: one student's five - point increase on an achievement test, from 15 to 20, must represent the same gain as another student's five - point increase from 25 to 30 (see Figure 1).

When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

[T] he summer loss equaled about one month on a grade - level equivalent scale, or one tenth of a standard deviation relative to spring test scores.

First, Ballou overstates the risk to value - added assessment that comes from the question of whether or not scales can be developed with equal intervals.

It's true that there is some uncertainty as to whether gains in one area of the test scale are equal to gains at another point in the test scale.

There is one school of thought that says equal - unit scales can be developed and used.

William Sanders (see above) writes that psychometricians are not all of the view that achievement scales lack an equal - interval property.

The question should instead be, «If scales from a testing regime are used within a value - added process, is there evidence that measures of student progress are influenced by the distribution of student achievement levels in schools or classrooms because of a lack of equal - interval scales?»

Each of the five rings in the set is divided into equal intervals and contains a well - marked scale.

«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic] gains were not equal across groups: white students gained more than black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income students may have resulted in inflated growth scores for the charter schools.

In addition, given that scale score points do not equal raw or actual test items (e.g., scale score - to - actual test item relationships are typically in the neighborhood of 4 or 5 scale scores points to 1 actual test item), this likely also means that Kane's interpretations (i.e., mathematics scores were roughly the equivalent of 1.4 scale score points on the PARCC and 4.1 scale score points on the SBAC) actually mean 1 / 4th or 1 / 5th of a test item in mathematics on the PARCC and 4 / 5th of or 1 test item on the SBAC.

After working to scale the impact of Equal Opportunity Schools, as the Senior Director of Programs serving as a member of the leadership team managing the organization's IT, product development, research, and analytics, Maile is returning her focus on the communities of Washington state and to her passion for science, technology, engineering, and especially math (STEM).

INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade 7 with 32 lessons TOPICS Ratios and Proportional Relationships Proportional relationships Constant of proportionality Equations of proportional relationships The Number System Add and subtract integers Multiply and divide integers Expressions and Equations Mixed numbers, decimals, and percents greater than 100 % Covering fractions, decimals, and percentages Fraction, decimal, and percentage combinations that equal one Solving linear equations Two - step linear equations Geometry Scale factor Construct triangles Circumference of a circle and pi Area of a circle Area of irregular figures Polygons: exploring area Statistics and Probability Population sampling Modeling probability: building spinners Theoretical and experimental probability with spinners and dice Modeling probability: relationships between events Probability and fairness Finding probability without replacement Compound events: making an organized list and tree diagram