Sentences with phrase «of socioeconomic trends»

Reardon describes a constellation of socioeconomic trends that have led to the widening gap, and discusses the role that schools can play in helping to close the gap.

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Amazon's AI consolidates data from all departments to see the larger trends — and relate them to socioeconomic data, customer - service inquiries, satellite images of competitors» parking lots, predictions from The Weather Company, and other factors.

Noticing this trend throughout a large variety of cultures, socioeconomic classes, and settings around the world, researchers began to study how breastfeeding impacted fertility.

There are a number of possible explanations for these trends and the fact check is correct when it states that the improvement in the socioeconomic gap in achievement at age 11 can not be specifically attributed to the pupil premium.

Professor Paolo Boffetta (MD), the Annals of Oncology associate editor for epidemiology and Director of the Institute of Translational Epidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA), commented: «These results are extremely important in showing that reducing cancer mortality can be achieved: priority should be given to research in cancers with unfavourable trends, such as pancreatic cancer, and in reducing cancer mortality disparities, both between countries (Central / Eastern versus Western Europe), and within countries, for example, between socioeconomic groups.

By drawing on the World Bank's projections of socioeconomic development over the next quarter century, researchers at the World Health Organization set out to forecast global trends in death and disease.

Twenge and colleagues W. Keith Campbell and Nathan Carter, both of the University of Georgia, found that as income inequality and poverty rose, public trust declined, indicating that socioeconomic factors may play an important role in driving this downward trend in public trust:

CPE's report investigates the 12 percent of high school graduates who didn't enroll in college, and it reveals some interesting, though not necessarily surprising, trends: They are more likely to be male, two out of three come from the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, and about half have parents whose highest level of education is a high school diploma or less.

With a few exceptions, our analysis sample closely resembles the nation in terms of student demographics (e.g., percentage African American and percentage Hispanic), observed socioeconomic traits (e.g., the poverty rate), and measures of the levels and pre-NCLB trends in NAEP test scores.

With technological advancements continuing to change our world and daily lives, the need for more focus on the socioeconomic, political, and environmental trends youth will face in the future is a critical part of the discourse on the learning that matters most.

In 1999, achievement gaps based on race and socioeconomic status were large and persistent, and there were few examples of schools, much less school systems, that defied this trend.

She and Dr. Pielke both say that the unreliable data and a confounding mix of simultaneous socioeconomic, climatic and other trends make it nearly impossible to isolate any contribution from human - induced climate change to mortality from disasters and related threats to human communities.

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

ERA4CS DustClim (DUST storms assessment for the development of user - oriented CLIMate services in Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe)(2017 - 2020) will provide high - resolution baseline and trend information on sand and dust storms over Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East, and will develop dust - related climate services tailored to key socioeconomic sectors.

71 William M. Gray, John D. Sheaffer, Christopher W. Landsea, «Climate trends associated with multi-decadal variability of Atlantic hurricane activity,» pp.15 - 53 in Hurricanes: Climate and Socioeconomic Impacts.

We conclude that the most valid model of the spatial pattern of trends in land surface temperature records over 1979 — 2002 requires a combination of the processes represented in some GCMs and certain socioeconomic measures that capture data quality variations and changes to the land surface.

McKitrick & Tole find the combination of some GCM's and socioeconomic variations to best represent the spacial pattern of surface climatic trends.

It is a study of socioeconomic effects on climate trends.

So for these and any number of reasons, one would expect that there could be correlations between temperature trends and measures of socioeconomic development.

FAIL The nonclimatic effects they are talking about are Urban Heat island trends caused by «socioeconomic determinants of surface processes and data inhomogeneities.»

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.