Sentences with phrase «of local biasing»

A review of over 50 empirical studies of coherence suggests robust findings of local bias in ASD, with mixed findings regarding weak global processing.

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Closing our stores for racial bias training is just one step in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities.»

In the press release detailing the decision, the company noted: «Closing our stores for racial bias training is just one st:p in a journey that requires dedication from every level of our company and partnerships in our local communities.»

«While the bias of networks like Fox News or MSNBC is well - known, local stations are much less likely to be considered left or right.

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

There is a local bias in that several of the contributors come from Texas A&M College.

And of course your local OB will just fill your head with biased lies.

Without access to the city's internal records, we may never know what really brought about Milwaukee's dangerously substandard medical care implicated in the Fetal Infant Mortality Review, or discern the cause of the extreme bias toward African - American babies dying in Milwaukee, or discover the root of the subsequent bizarre publicity campaign by the local Milwaukee government against cosleeping, but we can be sure of one thing, «Something's rotten in Denmark... er, Milwaukee.»

The Scotsman is «on a suicide mission»; he takes «considerable pleasure» in phoning The Times editor John Witherow to chastise its «anti-Scottish bias»; he's incredulous when the Sunday Post splashes on his hotel expenses («it would be possible to meet company CEOs or international dignitaries at the local Holiday Inn, but I'm not sure how well that would work for Scotland's benefit») and records with relish his attempt to offer a young Telegraph journalist «a packet of liquorice allsorts for good attendance at every press event».

John W. Bailey, Abelove's attorney, said their case focused on the fact that Cuomo, when he signed the executive order two years ago, stated that while he believed district attorneys would appropriately handle fatal police incidents, he wanted to alleviate «public concerns... that such incidents can not be prosecuted at the local level without conflict or bias, or the public perception of conflict or bias.»

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

Last month, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers, began paying the first installments of $ 12.7 million in back pay to hundreds of black and Hispanic members in a partial settlement of a bias lawsuit decades old — the oldest such case in the hands of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Sinn Fein have insisted that gaining control of local justice is the only way to bring Catholics on side and end the traditional argument of loyalist bias.

The lead counsel for the 1,000 plaintiffs in the new round of Love Canal litigation has asked state Supreme Court Justice Richard Kloch Sr. to remove himself from the case, claiming he showed bias in remarks about past Love Canal cases in a newspaper article written by Kloch's daughter, and seemed to act a little too favorably to the local attorney for Occidental Chemical Co. during a past court session.

Since Ferguson, 24 states have passed at least 40 new measures addressing such things as officer - worn cameras, training about racial bias, independent investigations when police use force and new limits on the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.

«The question in these difficult cases is not whether a local prosecutor, including one with understandably close ties to his or her fellow local law enforcement officers, is capable of setting aside any personal biases in deciding whether to, or how vigorously, to pursue the case,» Schneiderman wrote, adding, «the question is whether there is public confidence that justice has been served, especially in cases where homicide or other serious charges against the accused officer are not pursued or are dismissed prior to a trial by jury.»

The governor's order said a basis of the intervention would be to alleviate «public concerns... that such incidents can not be prosecuted at the local level without conflict or bias, or the public perception of conflict or bias.»

After a local newspaper reported a front - page news story of the Wicomico County schools» field trip to Assateague, readers accused the teachers of «brainwashing the kids with biased information» that climate change is occurring.

«RAIs are important because they are widely used in the United States in an attempt to reduce biased assessments of recidivism risk and are increasingly being mandated at the local, state and federal level,» says Sarah Desmarais, an associate professor of psychology at NC State and lead author of a paper on the research.

► Speaking of policy and bias: Also in this week's Science, Edwin Cartlidge reported on the controversy surrounding an industry - sponsored report that holds «activities at a local oil field» blameless for two deadly earthquakes that struck Italy in 2012.

The panel discussion, comprised of local science and healthcare industry leaders, addressed identifying gender bias in today's workplace and strategies of how to change it in the future.

[13] AN1792 was an active vaccine, with Aβ aggregates as the antigen, and the meningoencephalitis is postulated to have been the result of the vaccine having roused a T - cell response against Aβ along with the necessary B - cell response, leading to a Th1 - biased inflammatory attack centralized on sites in the brain with local Aβ deposits.

We show that synNotch receptors can be used to sculpt custom response programs in primary T cells: they can drive a la carte cytokine secretion profiles, biased T cell differentiation, and local delivery of non-native therapeutic payloads, such as antibodies, in response to antigen.

Factors such as local sequence context, replication timing, transcriptional status or paternal age at conception are known to bias the occurrence of spontaneous mutations.

This crap is the very reason I don't watch the news, whether it be local or national, because of all the bias, as CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and NPR were all in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.

After revelations of harassment and bias in Silicon Valley, a backlash is The last time I got groceries at our local food shelf was this past February.

Localities would also need to cultivate a spirit of tolerance so that certain kinds of schools were not prevented from opening because of local majority bias.

In January 2014, the Obama administration's Department of Justice and Department of Education jointly sent each school district a «Dear Colleague» letter urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.

Their analysis of 13 federal, state, and local improvement efforts in rural schools suggests that a longstanding «urban bias» in education policymaking has resulted in programs that do not take the variety and special characteristics of rural communities into account — and thus are less effective than they could be.

Local union presidents, at least, are aware of the strong liberal bias in the national union's agenda.

Research efforts are aimed, for example, at ensuring bias - free results, validity of technology - enhanced items, stability of measuring student growth across time, developing testing accommodations for students with special needs, software for computer - based testing, and technical support and scoring for local standards - based assessments in Iowa and the nation.

In 2014 the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice sent a joint letter to every school district in the country, urging local officials to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students.

Measures that allow for more subjectivity and local control, such as classroom observations and SLOs, are subject to their own types of bias.

Essentially, they have a lower proportion of disadvantaged pupils than their local communities — or to be precise, a -15 percentage points bias, as shown in the graph below.

In addition, since these assessments are self - report surveys, there is also the issue of response bias — meaning a student's tendency to give answers that they believe are socially acceptable or to consistently answer «yes» or «no» regardless of the question asked.48 Since self - report measures tend to be weak in reliability and validity, state and local policymakers should refrain from including measures of learning mindsets and skills in high - stakes accountability systems.

In the absence of such a guideline, local districts may use their student data to detect and remove any potential bias in teacher recommendations, which we discussed earlier in this report.

So on the whole, charter schools in both cases tend to reflect the demographics of the local neighborhood school, and there does not appear to be a selection bias.

This group knows that they have an inherent bias towards certain groups of students that would be nullified by local school districts.

And most laugh in the face of home bias — so inevitably, there's a multitude who just surfed their killer local market & totally crushed your puny performance, esp.

One is to have a globally diversified portfolio with a bias toward the local currency; while you lose some of the diversification benefits of a fully global portfolio, this is generally very easy to set up and maintain.

I understand that based on the cap weighting Canada only makes up about 3 % of the global market, but we overweigh it because of home bias, currency risk and local dividend tax advantages.

Frankly, I'm surprised: My default view posited that emerging & frontier markets offer investors some of the cheapest growth opportunities globally... but as long as they enjoyed local bull markets, home bias would deter them from re - allocating / rushing into more exotic markets.

Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.

General conclusion: never measure at locations with huge diurnal variation, if the intention is to calculate a «global» or «background» CO2 level, as that has always a positive bias of variable magnitude, depending of local release / uptake and wind speed / diurnal turbulence changes.

It is possible that any of these changes (or others) could have altered the local microclimate at these stations (a problem we discuss in this essay), or introduced some instrumental biases.

The reduction in nighttime cooling that leads to this bias may indeed be the result of human interference in the climate system (i.e., local effects of increasing greenhouse gases or human effects on cloud cover), but through a causal mechanism different than that typically assumed.

We should use only station records that have been checked individually for local bias, re-siting, change of instrumentation, trustworthiness of station keepers, etc. (I insert the issue of trustworthiness which certainly may apply to Russian towns looking for higher winter warming allowance).

«The identified biases include station moves, changes in instrumentation, localized changes in instrumentation location, changes in observation practices, and evolution of the local and microsite station environment over time.»

Although it is found that this data can include large biases at local scales (Pallé & Butler 2002b), a correctly recorded compilation of these observations may provide a relatively reliable data source (Angell et al. 1984).

But there is no knowledge how the local bias changed over the centuries... Thus while the stomata data give a good idea of the local CO2 variability, their absolute CO2 levels should be taken with a lot of salt.