Sentences with phrase «performing systems studied»

«Researchers found that potentially unsafe levels of mental distraction can last for as long as 27 seconds after completing a distracting task in the worst - performing systems studied,» AAA said in a statement.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to the Oxford English Dictionary, focuses on the study of «computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence — such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision - making, and translation between languages».

The de Blasio administration halted gains made by some low - performing schools when it removed former Mayor Mike Bloomberg's letter - grading system for the public schools in 2014, a study by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research shows.

We are seeing increasing number of students coming from other West African countries to come and study here in Ghana because our education system is much better and is performing well than the system in their country,» he said.

The study was performed at a multi-surgeon, multi-center community based integrated health system.

Principal investigator Charles H. Tegeler, M.D., professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist, and his team, performed five - minute recordings of heart rate and blood pressure in 131 study participants, during the enrollment visit, to assess the effect of the autonomic nervous system on the cardiovascular system.

One of Mehrotra's Harvard colleagues has been studying how the AI - boosted Human Dx system performs in comparison with individual medical specialists, but has yet to publish the results.

The piglet models the anatomy and development of the nervous system of human infants well and provides a practical platform to perform these clinically relevant studies.

Interferometry — combining light collected at the exact same time at several different telescopes — performed in infrared light is, so far, the only technique that allows this kind of system to be discovered and studied.

Therefore, according to the researchers, it has so far been difficult to pinpoint the effects, but the new - generation regional earth system models now enable such an impact study to be performed.

To study how the creatures perform such movements without stressing their nervous systems, a team led by neurobiologist Binyamin Hochner of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, filmed them scooping up morsels floating in their tanks.

Now, Rutgers University scientists have performed the first study of how evolution unfolds after invasions change native systems.

The study showed that they performed better after the lighting system had been installed and slept up to two hours a day more.

In a study to be published in Psychological Science, researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen demonstrate that brain cells in what is called the mirror system help people make sense of the actions they see other people perform in everyday life.

«Students emerging from the oft - criticized K - 12 system appear to be studying science and math subjects more and performing better in them, over time,» said Teitelbaum in Congressional testimony in November 2007.

As statisticians studying the methods and policy uses of ILSAs (1), we believe the obsession with rankings — and the inevitable attempts to mimic specific features of the top performing systems — not only misleads, it diverts attention from more constructive uses of ILSA data.

In future studies, scientists will test how the Tongue Drive System performs outside of the controlled clinical environment.

«We have developed a new type of protective coating that enables a key process in the solar - driven production of fuels to be performed with record efficiency, stability, and effectiveness, and in a system that is intrinsically safe and does not produce explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen,» says Nate Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes the film.

The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.

The study looked at how the three systems performed across a range of global regions, including China, India, Latin America, Africa and South - East Asia.

To better understand how the different pieces of the immune system develop, immunologists Florent Ginhoux and Naomi McGovern at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) in Singapore and their colleagues studied tissue from nearly 100 elective abortions performed between 14 and 22 weeks of gestation.

Although the cage running wheel system and the ambulatory photobeam break system used in the current study are measures of spontaneous activity, the dramatic increases observed in both studies reflect a consistent behavior of increased activity that suggests an increase in the capacity to perform exercise.

Now I am expanding my investigation on the olfactory system of the honeybee, performing in vivo calcium imaging and behavioral assays to study the neurobiological basis of the associative learning and memory.

One of the major parameters was the safety of these agents in the respiratory airways and lung parenchyma, since several of these agents are known to cause adverse effects.23 The main adverse effects observed were cough, transient fever and transient decrease in the respiratory functions after the aerosol administration.8, 19, 20 Moreover; it has been observed that excessive deposition of these agents in one site of the respiratory system can induce non-specific side effects in the form of pulmonary edema as observed with many other drugs.16 These side effects were milder when a premedication with bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids were administered.8, 19, 20 Until now no long term trial (> 9 months) has been performed since all patients included in previous studies had stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The ICS is a large - scale facility open to the community that ensures the generation of mouse models à la carte, the validation of genetic models, the expansion and preservation and distribution of models with the housing department, and offers in its phenotyping department a series of standardized functional analysis of mouse models that can be performed in a comprehensive pipeline or on demand, as well as for more specialized studies, that cover the major functions and key physiological systems.

CSNE member, Mehrdad Jazayeri, and his research team at MIT study neural system dynamics involved in sensory and motor coordination, which are key to performing everyday tasks.

We performed a pilot study with the extreme - AO system on the Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) on the Very Large Telescopes (VLT) to look for giant planets around a young white dwarf, GD 50.

Methods: To study bond formation between ions and reactive surfaces, researchers previously had to expose surfaces to a beam of mass selected ions, then take the substrate outside the vacuum system and perform the analysis.

Thorough analysis of interferometric data was performed to meas... ▽ More We aim at resolving the circumstellar environment around beta Pic in the near - infrared in order to study the inner planetary system (< 200 mas, i.e., ~ 4 AU).

Because apoE is believed to play a critical role in brain function11 and is expressed in the central nervous system and retinal pigment epithelium, 12 extensive studies of retinal and neurocognitive function were performed.

Many studies performed on the effects of red maca on our system show that the herb is a potent substituent to anabolic steroids, which are more detrimental to one's health.

Neural adaptations are very difficult to measure, and therefore few studies have been performed that can inform us about the unique changes that might occur in the central nervous system after eccentric training.

One study showed that creatine supplementation reduced the «oxygen cost» of activity, meaning that less strain was placed on the cardiovascular system when performing aerobic work after creatine supplementation.

One study, focusing on castor oil's effects on our lymphatic system, found a «significant» increase in the number of T - 11 cells within patients after performing a castor oil treatment.

Abstract: This paper contributes to the study of self - presentation in online dating systems by performing a factor analysis on the text portions of online pro?les.

Third graders performed «It's All Greek to Me,» translating lessons from science (the solar system), social studies (geography of Greece), and language arts (Greek mythology) to the stage.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Some studies developed by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK pointed out that there are interesting innovations in assessment methods being performed in limited circles, but these have not yet been transferred to a larger scale.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

Hanushek overstates the cost of many of our contracts and fails to note that usually the work includes additional studies to assist policymakers in developing funding systems for high - performing schools.

NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in reading.

The McKinsey study of the world's best - performing school systems found that top - performing countries recruit teachers from the top third of school leavers.

Studies on evaluation reform efforts in Cincinnati, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C. have found that comprehensive evaluation systems can help identify teachers who need to improve their practice, nudge low - performing teachers out of the profession, and, ultimately, boost student achievement.

Dan Leeds is the founder and president of the National Public Education Support Fund, which organizes the Education Funder Strategy Group and international study tours of high performing education systems for policy makers, practitioners, business executives and philanthropic leaders.

From lead - researcher Linda Darling - Hammond comes this groundbreaking international comparative study of teaching quality in the world's top - performing education systems.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

High quality teaching is key to student success in high - performing countries and school systems, study finds.

The study of teaching quality in the world's top - performing education systems reveals that one of the most important strategies to achieve these results is developing policies to ensure that every student receives high - quality teaching.

An earlier study published by Education Next looked at whether an evaluation system based on classroom observations performed by trained professionals could identify the teachers whose students demonstrate the largest learning gains.