Sentences with phrase «performance test designed»

Basically, it's a performance test designed to measure hand - eye coordination.

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Army Research Lab engineers are officially testing a mechanical third arm designed to help soldiers wield oversized weaponry and hump heavy loads downrange without sacrificing their performance, the service announced on Feb. 27.

After AMD's event, Intel said its Xeon line of chips «is proven and battle tested, delivering outstanding performance on a wide range of workloads and specifically designed to maximize data center performance, capabilities, reliability, and manageability.»

After almost a year of work behind the scenes, the tech giant at a price recently on 7.5 billion dollars, has introduced a tool designed to test the performance of the main Blockchainów, which are currently being prepared for formal submission to the Hyperledger consortium, whose leader is the Linux Foundation.

In addition to testing and certifying a wide array of home products and small appliances under its Home Products Certification Program, NSF also tests and certifies large home appliances for design and performance under separate criteria, including residential dishwashers as well as clothes washers and dryers.

In addition, pre-shipment distribution tests aid in optimizing packaging by establishing a means of evaluating multiple designs and materials to a standardized performance threshold.

Profile Fabrics» designs are quality tested by trusted organisations to meet Australian and international standards guaranteeing longevity, performance and safety.

* uses craftsman and women who use upholstery techniques taht give the product a luxurious look, with an emphasis on quality and feature stitching; * the construction uses solid timber frames using local plantation grown timbers, which are kiln dried for stability; * frames are assembledby tradesman who nail, screw and glue the components; * corner blocks and a lining board are added to outside arms and backs for stability; * uses the No Sag steel spring system, which is used for its greater travel capacity for seating comfort; * uses Dunlop Enduro seating foams in its designs for their unique 36/38 density; * in addition to Garstone leather, they use Warwick fabrics, which have been tested to world standards for performance, durability and safety.

The insights from the testing and analysis were used to create the SofruPak and SofruBox designs which provided the best logistic performance by reducing the storage space by 70 %.

My own children have been subjected to relentless test prep, bribery, teacher - induced guilt trips and even overt falsehoods designed to boost their performance on the standardized test that's linked to school rating / teacher performance.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

From the stylish stroller design with functional, high performance wheels and suspension system to the safety certification by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Baby Jogger double strollers offer an array of models to suit the needs of lots of families.

The Recaro Performance Booster is tested to international standards and offers racing - inspired design to protect your child in case of accident.

All members of the Local Vehicle Wrapper network deliver assurance to customers large and small that all components used to produce the vehicle graphic have been tested and designed for optimal performance, functionality and durability.

The commissioner says New York teachers who are seeking more input into standardized tests that will be used to rate their performance, will get more chances to design tests going forward, under a new contract signed with testing company Questar.

The commissioner said New York teachers, who are seeking more input into standardized tests that will be used to rate their performance, will get more chances to design tests going forward, under a new contract signed with testing company Questar.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

These tests were designed to measure a «bit rate» of information akin to typing on a keyboard and to compare performance after using the traditional calibration method vs. using the new method.

Scale models are built and collected for many reasons including, in engineering, for testing the likely performance of a design object at an early stage without the expense of building a full - sized prototype; in remote control vehicles; and on TV and in the movie industry, for constructing objects or sets that can not be built in full size.

These deficiencies were parallel to poor performance on behavioral tasks designed to test learning and memory.

Researchers at Loughborough University design and test custom sprinting shoes to help propel athletes to next - level performance.

And the decrease in oxygenated blood flow and lower test performance were detected during certain, more cognitively strenuous aspects of neurocognitive testing: word memory, design memory and symbol matching.

In a second paper at UIST, Kumar and her group will present a testing platform for correlating app design with performance without requiring access to the app's code.

Sandia engineers designed the March 9 test both to evaluate the weapon's performance and to calibrate a computer model that predicts what can happen to a weapon under various conditions, Brewer said.

Graduate student Dayne Swearer worked with them, Rice materials scientist Emilie Ringe and others at Rice and Princeton University to produce, test and analyze the performance of the «antenna - reactor» design.

Such enhanced modeling and simulation capabilities held the potential to dramatically accelerate future product development cycles and could provide GE with new insights into turbine engine performance earlier in the design process instead of after testing physical prototypes.

The tests in September are designed to validate Kilopower's design and performance.

On February 17, 2015, NuScale Power announced an agreement with AREVA for the performance of fuel design, testing and analysis services in support of NuScale's Design Certification Application using AREVA's proven HTPTM fuel techndesign, testing and analysis services in support of NuScale's Design Certification Application using AREVA's proven HTPTM fuel technDesign Certification Application using AREVA's proven HTPTM fuel technology.

-LCB- The tests were performed using the instrument s... ▽ More We present the performance of the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) of SPHERE, the high - contrast imager for the ESO VLT telescope designed to perform imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planets, obtained from tests performed at the Institute de Plan \ «etologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble facility during the integration phase of the instrument. -RCB-

The «Integral and Separate Effects Test Program for the Investigation and Validation of Passive Safety System Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulators.

They are also used in research projects, as students design aircraft models and test their performance.

So whilst organic acid testing was designed to help with fatigue in the chronically ill, it serves equally well to increase athletic performance.

The researchers then set up six different controlled experiments designed to test how these beliefs might affect performance on a variety of physical and mental tests.

And there is a responsibility on me as a teacher to know those tests and to know the concepts that will be on them and then to design the types of products and performances, the types of projects that will require students to use those particular skills.

This includes using it to identify who is or isn't a good teacher — at times — performance pay keeps cycling back into educational discussions, and the tests are not designed to evaluate teacher performance,» she says.

In Part 1, we discussed how the Common Core tests are being designed, and looked at a sample ELA performance task for assessing research skills.

Since we group our students (on the basis of their exhibited performance) into three Divisions, each with an approximately two - year curriculum designed by our teachers, the state's pattern of testing 8th and 10th graders (a designation we don't make, on philosophical grounds) is especially hard on our students.

We measure FCAT performance using developmental - scale scores, which allow us to compare the test - score gains of all the students in our study, even though they took tests designed for different grade levels.

Studies reveal a correlation between daylight in school classrooms and the performance of students on standardized tests, and more and more new K - 12 design plans have sought to distribute as much natural light as possible.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

Is it possible for students to get the same or better scores on an AP test with a well - designed project - based learning course when compared with students of similar backgrounds and prior academic performance who are taking a traditionally taught course?

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

My main recommendation, therefore, is to maintain the law's current annual testing requirements, while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems, including how schools and teachers are identified as under - performing and what should be done to improve their performance.

In all other grade levels, they use locally designed performance tests, called PACE, and give SAT in 11th grade.

Separate and apart from NCLB, which focuses on the performance of schools and districts, the public strongly supports reforms designed to hold individual students accountable for their performance on state tests.

Results of the tailored test design studies show that the delivery of multistage branching tests for NAPLAN online is sound and feasible, and that these tests offer better measurements of student performance, particularly for high - and low - achieving students.

The hour that children went to bed had little or no effect on their performance on different tests, including basic number skills, reading out word cards, and constructing designs from flat or solid shapes.

-- Overall Student Performance Standardized tests are not designed to be the single determinant of a student's achievement and knowledge.

These studies also are weak with regards to external validity because the research design does not permit a determination of whether the pre-k program improves performance in elementary school — the control group begins to receive the pre-k program just after the children are initially tested, which means there is no untreated control group with which to benchmark performance in kindergarten and thereafter.

Bill Would Overhaul Student Testing in California A key hearing is set today for consideration of what may prove to be landmark legislation that would replace the state's existing statewide student performance testing program with one that is designed to be taken online and is also aligned with the new common core curriculum staTesting in California A key hearing is set today for consideration of what may prove to be landmark legislation that would replace the state's existing statewide student performance testing program with one that is designed to be taken online and is also aligned with the new common core curriculum statesting program with one that is designed to be taken online and is also aligned with the new common core curriculum standards.