Sentences with phrase «prior analyses by»

In this paper we extend the five prior analyses by identifying the changes in state proficiency standards between 2011 and 2013, the last year for which the relevant information is available.

«Stronger» results than IPCC Even after the Berkeley project's initial findings last year agreed with prior analyses by NASA, NOAA and the Hadley Centre, Muller resisted pinning the blame for climate change on man - made greenhouse gas emissions.

Not exact matches

The three biggest banks combined - JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo - increased their deposits by $ 118 billion in 2017 from the prior year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis today of FDIC data.

The three biggest banks combined — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo — increased their deposits by $ 118 billion in 2017 from the prior year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis today of FDIC data.

Utilizing information discerned in the prior two filters, investors can properly evaluate the economic merit and commercialization of the company by combining what was learned from the product analysis, business model, and customer base.

IDRs enable corporate issuers to review the key data points used by Glass Lewis in its analysis prior to a full Proxy Paper research report being published for institutional investor clients.

By claiming, for example, that Arkes has incorrectly interpreted the reasons for the Civil War and the debate over abortion, and has neglected to provide a fuller picture of the Founders and their beliefs, Prof. Smolin is presupposing a moral notion that is logically prior to his analysis: historical texts and events should be interpreted accurately.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

As an analysis by the Empire Center showed, the affordability gap between New York's insurance market and the national average actually got smaller when a previous prior approval law was phased out under Gov. George Pataki.

The ruling by the commission that oversees the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reversed the Atomic Licensing Safety Board's approval of a prior analysis used in Westchester - based Indian Point's 2007 application for relicensing.

Prior to this study, diet inference was primarily based on analysis of prey remains consumed by the whales at the surface, and it was uncertain if these were always representative of the total diet.

To complement the prior set of analyses, we also present associations of breast and ovarian cancers among groups of BRCA2 mutation carriers defined by known DNA binding domains (Table 4).

Using samples of centuries - old herbaria and DNA analysis, the researchers reconstructed the genetic adaptations undergone by the Pyrenean rocket prior to its rapid spread in Belgium.

At day 34 post infection, human CD4 + T cells were purified by positive selection prior to analysis to reduce any bias from low frequency contaminating human cells.

Tissues to be analyzed by FACS were processed immediately; other samples were frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at — 75 °C prior to RNA extraction and immunohistochemical analysis.

A synthesis of prior research and analysis conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research examines policy reforms and initiatives for reducing gun violence in the U.S.

Additionally, an aliquot of 4 × 106 splenocytes was stained for Foxp3 expression using methods and reagents, provided by the manufacturer (eBioscience), prior to flow cytometric analyses.

2 By studying the record of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about changing environmental conditions by chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatureBy studying the record of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about changing environmental conditions by chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatureby chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatures;

Primary outcome comparisons are presented as hazard ratios (HRs) and 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) from Cox proportional hazards analyses, 17 stratified by clinical center, age, prior disease, and randomization status in the low - fat diet trial.

Requested cell lines are tested by PCR analysis for mycoplasma spp. and Murine Parvoviruses (MPV) upon completion of expansion and prior to shipment.

In today's post, I'm going to look back at U.S. computer security analysis (especially by Cisco Talos) prior to the arrests by Russia.

Quantum — coherent dynamics in photosynthetic charge separation revealed by wavelet analysis — E. Romero, J. Prior, A. W. Chin, S. E. Morgan, V. I. Novoderezhkin, M. B. Plenio, and R. van Grondelle, Nature Scientific Reports, 7, 2890 (2017) ArXiv This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Prior to this, he was involved in the development of Strand NGS, a tool for the analysis and management of NGS data, used by many researchers across the world in various universities and medical research institutes.

These must be extracted prior to analysis either by LU or by the user after appropriate training, including techniques to stop metabolic activity during sampling.

CT values for cyclophilin were somewhat more variable in cells isolated by flow cytometry and frozen prior to analysis, compared to freshly isolated and unmanipulated cells, but the gradients in patterns of gene expression were similar for cells isolated by the two techniques (Figure 3a — d).

However, this analysis does not account for the possible sorting of students into particular schools based on characteristics not captured by their prior achievement and demographic characteristics.

By controlling for a wide variety of other characteristics, including the students» own prior performance, our analysis is able to estimate the likely effect of desegregation within the school.

But the data available for this analysis clearly show that KIPP's impacts can not be explained by advantages in the prior achievement of KIPP students.

Following consideration of the Forum's views, Welsh Ministers would submit a «final» remit for scrutiny and analysis by an independent expert body prior to taking any final decisions.

We supplement our analysis on math and reading achievement with similar analyses of the effects of entering a middle school on the probability of students» not being enrolled in a Florida public school in 10th grade (a proxy for dropping out of high school by this time) and on being retained in 9th grade (often a strong predictor that a student will leave school prior to graduation).

In our analyses of Florida data, 37 percent of the variation in students» middle school course tracks can be explained by a combination of their prior test scores, race / ethnicity, and family income.

By focusing and honing their skills on tasks like subject matter expert interview techniques, content analysis and organization, learning objective identification, focus and user group testing, and more, these instructional designers can design and direct the production of training materials with little - to - no prior experience with the content.

We used a swap set analysis that captures both the change in consumer distribution across the FICO ® Score range and the improved predictive value over the prior version of the score in use today by the industry (FICO ® Score 5).

Though stocks pared some losses by midday Monday, valuations for most assets are a long way from the tops typically seen prior to bear markets, according to my analysis using Bloomberg data.

This analysis could be improved by using prior year reserve releases as a fraction of beginning of year reserves, and then discounting by 25 % each year.

I believe the way that they would have handled it (although I could very well be wrong) is the assumption that so much of the carbon which we emit expressed as a percent will be taken up by that sink — prior to any climate forcing / feedback analysis.

A paper by Kass and Greenhouse on the ECMO study (published in Statistical Science in about 1988) presented Bayesian analyses with 75 priors.

Scientific papers are often made available prior to publication (i.e. see arXiv, and by Watts himself), and there's no reason to believe that limiting their analysis to the past 30 years will change the BEST results (though Watts is welcome to try and demonstrate otherwise); obviously the 60 - year period includes the 30 - year window.

It makes no sense that we can increase the precision of current information by augmenting it with prior information in a Bayesian analysis when we know that all of the information, past and present, has been corrupted.

■ A thorough forensic analysis of Heartland's computers (and those owned by Heartland's president and his spouse) by Protek International concludes «the Memo was not created on Heartland's computer systems and never existed there, or within Heartland's email systems, prior to its posting online on February 14, 2012.»

Miker613, Jeffreys» prior means that the outcome of the analysis is influenced strongly by the method we use in the measurements in addition to to the true value that we are trying to find out.

That the «objective» Bayesian method using Jeffreys» prior will produce perfect probability matching is most easily seen as being due to the general fact that an analysis using the Jeffreys» prior is not affected by applying some monotonic transformation to the parameter (and then interpreting the results as transformed, of course).

I think that Piers Forster did answer that point telling that choosing the prior can be used by everyone using the information provided by the empirical study in their subsequent analysis.

Why isn't S just a straightforward result of the experimental analysis and why should it at all be influenced by a «prior distribution»?

There is no reasonable argument that can be advanced for utilizing a prior on the answer with a median value that is rejected by all previous analyses.

By not considering prior conditions, he assumed his analysis period was «normal».

«The assessment is supported additionally by a complementary analysis in which the parameters of an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC) were constrained using observations of near - surface temperature and ocean heat content, as well as prior information on the magnitudes of forcings, and which concluded that GHGs have caused 0.6 °C to 1.1 °C (5 to 95 % uncertainty) warming since the mid-20th century (Huber and Knutti, 2011); an analysis by Wigley and Santer (2013), who used an energy balance model and RF and climate sensitivity estimates from AR4, and they concluded that there was about a 93 % chance that GHGs caused a warming greater than observed over the 1950 — 2005 period; and earlier detection and attribution studies assessed in the AR4 (Hegerl et al., 2007b).»

Insisting on analysis broken out by Gregorian calendar decades allows you to discard the last three years of the current 17 year long flat trend, and it also allows you to lump the first four years of that trend in with six prior years that you freely admit lie on the other side of a discontinuity in the temperature record.

Not one of these priors has been justified by an analysis of data published in peer - reviewed journals, yet the IPCC includes the opinions anyway because the scientists are experts.

By expanding the analysis to include all 12 months - not just the month February alone - there have been 247 monthly instances prior to 1988 when long - term the 30 - year global temperature warming change exceeded that for February 2018.