Sentences with phrase «on measurement system»

Frankly, the surprisingly spot - on measurement system isn't nearly as offensive as that passive - aggressive little «Oh!»

Schools with low ratings on the measurement system were then paired with higher - performing districts to receive support and mentorship.

Not exact matches

And in place of the standard fitting system, which relies on cup and bust size, the company uses 10 distinct measurements, including nape to waist, bust point to bust point and the length between the armpits.

As managers and academic researchers have tried to remedy the inadequacies of current performance measurement systems, some have focused on making financial measures more relevant.

Recurring to Whitehead's own explanation of co-presence, events are co-present only if «on some or other system of measurement» they «are in the same instantaneous space (CN 177).

Even to speak of a millennium, or 1,000 years, is to impose one particular numbering system on the measurement of time — and a humanly invented one at that.

West Liberty Foods maintains product quality through an automated floor reporting system that provides information on yields and other productivity - related measurements.

There's a measurement converter in the sidebar on the right you can use to convert into US system.

This audit sets strict requirements on internal areas including Senior Management Responsibility, Quality and Food Safety Management Systems, Resource Management, Production Processes, Measurements, Analysis, Improvements and Food Defense.

In the spring of 2016, schools in these eight districts began using a new assessment system that includes a measurement, based on student self - reports, of students» growth mindset, self - efficacy, self - management, and social awareness.

Studies on Human Lactation: The Development of the Computerized Breast Measurement System.

First, government and politics and the need to change priorities — and systems of measurement so that government focuses more on real people that abstract numbers.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

While the Rockland County Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Ruppert stated that measurements did not reach levels that represent a public health concern, turbidity can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for microbial growth; may indicate the presence of disease causing organisms; and those dynamics can have effects on health, particularly those with compromised immune systems.

«Tweed's measurement system depends almost completely on standardized tests, and its «engagement» process does little or nothing to help struggling schools improve.

Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»

Measurement System: We touched on this but these tools come sized in inches or millimeters.

We got a value higher than the CMB measurement, but we need more systems to be really sure that something is amiss with the standard model of cosmology,» says Thomas Collett, an astrophysicist at the University of Portsmouth and a co-author on the new Astrophysical Journal paper.

The Office of Management and Budget estimates costs for measurement initiatives, but these estimates focus on the annual burden of entire measurement and reporting programs (eg, Physician Quality Reporting System) rather than the burden of individual measures or the burden for individual institutions.

Better predictions would require improved climate - measurement tools, more sophisticated climate models that work on regional scales, and a better organized system to integrate all the data, the report concludes.

But before that can happen, universities that educate the dietitians who review the photos need to provide more consistent, formal training, particularly hands - on work in food measurement and preparation and the use of computerized nutrient database systems.

They pinned more faith on a local system developed for them by the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, which bases its predictions on rainfall measurements collected electronically from a network of rain gauges.

«Our measurements reveal: Home storage systems on the market differ considerably.

«The intimate skin interface created by this wearable, skin - like microfluidic system enables new measurement capabilities not possible with the kinds of absorbent pads and sponges currently used in sweat collection,» said John A. Rogers, who led the multi-institution research team that created the «lab on the skin.»

Protein motion depends on energy, and temperature is basically a measurement of the energy of a system.

Although this is the first direct measurement of supercritical fluids in nature, they are believed to be a common (if difficult to observe) phenomenon on Earth and throughout the solar system.

Like earlier efforts, the scheme, designed by Paul Townsend of the British Telephone Laboratories in Ipswich, U.K., relies on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — the German physicist's famous insistence that any measurement of a system changes its state.

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

On the basis of his lab measurements, he says, systems incorporating the particles could show «efficiency improvements of 20 to 30 percent,» enough to match a high - temperature system.

And currently there are about 10 tall towers that monitor greenhouse gases, whereas the original plan for the measurement network called for around 35, said Arlyn Andrews, a NOAA researcher at the Earth System Research Laboratory who is responsible for the tall tower network and was a co-author on the paper.

All the team's proposed tests hinged on being able to make measurements of the quantum system at some intermediate time; but the physics books said that doing so would destroy the quantum properties of the system before the final, postselection step could be carried out.

Spacecraft instruments will gather continuous data on the interplanetary environment where the planetary system orbits, including measurements of the high - energy particles streaming from the sun and dust - particle concentrations in the inner reaches of the Kuiper Belt.

Using the measurement data and information on when and how rooms are used, the system will be able to adjust the intensity and duration of ventilation.

The GRAIL data also suggest that astronomers should not use measurements of the basins on the nearside of the moon to draw conclusions about the rate at which craters struck the planets of the inner solar system 4 billion years ago, the researchers report November 8 in Science.

Building on earlier work which teaches computers to recognise emotions and expressions in human faces, the system is able to detect the distinct parts of a sheep's face and compare it with a standardised measurement tool developed by veterinarians for diagnosing pain.

Future work includes scaling down the signal processing module and capacitance measurement system to be co-mounted on skin with the sensor.

Toward the rational design of RO membranes, we performed contrast - variation neutron scattering measurements and atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on polyamide / water systems with various water contents and deuteration ratios.

Based on 14 years of radial velocity observations from four ground - based observatories as well as astrometric measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronomers found that planets «c» and «d» are inclined by 30 + / - 1 degrees with respect to each other is expected to affect theories of how multi-planet systems evolve.

Targeted BR measurements were run on an Atlantis T3 column (Waters) and Agilent 1200 series HPLC system and injected into a 6460 Triple Quad MS / MS (Agilent Technologies) in positive ESI mode.

Older calculations indicating that the Wolf 424 system would get as close to the Solar System as 0.95 light - years within around 7,500 years have been determined to be based on a «probably erroneous» radial velocity measurement (Vadim V. Bobylev, 2010; and Mülläri and Orlov, system would get as close to the Solar System as 0.95 light - years within around 7,500 years have been determined to be based on a «probably erroneous» radial velocity measurement (Vadim V. Bobylev, 2010; and Mülläri and Orlov, System as 0.95 light - years within around 7,500 years have been determined to be based on a «probably erroneous» radial velocity measurement (Vadim V. Bobylev, 2010; and Mülläri and Orlov, 1996).

We then measured the planet mass by acquiring twelve radial velocity (RV) measurements of the system using HIRES on the 10 - m Keck I Telescope.

Based on accumulating measurements of microbes in the subglacial environment, he calculates that the concentration of cell and organic carbon in the Earth's ice sheets, or «cryosphere», may be hundreds of times higher than what is found in all the planet's freshwater systems.

PNNL is using an integrative research approach that draws on our depth and breadth of capabilities in atmospheric chemistry, climate physics, modeling, and measurement to address critical scientific questions related to the role of aerosols in the climate system.

We demonstrate use of a matched filter algorithm for the processing of elongated laser guide star (LGS) Shack - Hartmann images, using the CANARY adaptive optics instrument on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope and the European Souther... ▽ More The performance of adaptive optics systems is partially dependant on the algorithms used within the real - time control system to compute wavefront slope measurements.

This is especially important because these were the first direct chemical measurements of an object from the Oort Cloud on the edge of the Solar System, where the comet originated.

Abstract: The performance of adaptive optics systems is partially dependant on the algorithms used within the real - time control system to compute wavefront slope measurements.

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The uncertainty of 120 km on our measurement of the planet's size currently renders it one of the most precisely measured planetary radii outside of the Solar System.

Previously classed as spectral type M4.5 e (with emission lines), the object was observed to be four times brighter than would be expected for a dim red dwarf of that type based on a revised parallax measurement of its distance from the Solar System (Ken Croswell, Science@Now, September 6, 2011).

Statisticians can advise on how best to combine data from different sources, how to identify and adjust for biases in different measurement systems, and how to deal with changes in the spatial and temporal coverage of measurements.