Sentences with phrase «provide measures of»

Specifically, maternal behaviors were observed at ages 6, 12, and 24 months, and 3 and 4 years, to provide measures of acceptance, flexibility / responsiveness, and verbal and non-verbal stimulation.

To be sure, gifted teachers everywhere provide measures of this in their instruction, but the result is contingent, haphazard.

BUN and creatinine both provide measures of the amount of nitrogenous waste products present in the blood stream and are frequently used to check to check kidney function.

Return on Capital Calculations and Ratios provide measures of quality for the value analyst searching for long term investments.

Here's how the latest push to provide measures of school quality fall short.

Washington State Report Card data provide measures of racial composition, student - teacher ratios, the percentages of students enrolled in the free or reduced - price meals program, total enrollment, and the percentage of students who passed the reading and math Washington Assessment of Student Learning exams in each teacher's school.

I provide measures of blood pressure, eyesight and grip strength.

While current levels have provided a measure of support, TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon cautions that further highs could be difficult to attain.

In Canada, however, the printer companies are prevented from excluding third parties by the Competition Act, which has enabled refilling businesses such as Island Inkjet to operate and provide some measure of competitive pricing discipline.

Start - ups that provide a measure of reassuring comfort in our newly cost - conscious era are doing particularly well.

The various «core» components are captured by Total Social Financing (TSF) data, an official gauge that provides a measure of credit and liquidity supplied by the entire financial system in China.

Millennials use robo advisors because they remove the perceived «guess work» out of investing, which provides a measure of comfort to hesitant millennial investors.

Fixed - rate loans provide a measure of certainty, although your monthly payments on a federal loan can still go up over time if you choose an income - driven repayment plan.

This same mix of performance - based and time - based awards has been granted by the Committee for the past several years and reflects HP's primary emphasis on performance driven compensation, with the time - based awards providing a measure of retention value, which is also an important component of the overall executive compensation arrangement.

The SCE also provides measures of uncertainty in expectations for the main outcomes of interest.

University endowments play an important role in providing a measure of financial independence and in sustaining scholarships and bursaries, libraries, chairs and professorships, and other programs critical to a rich educational experience.

It suggests that macroeconomic policies can and have provided a measure of counter-cyclical stabilisation, but that they can't serve as a magic bullet to achieve sustained growth in living standards.

This provided our measure of perceived success in Asia.

For institutional investors, including McKinsey clients, there's an obvious attraction in the prospect of upfront government money providing a measure of security in what might otherwise look like risky infrastructure ventures.

Sharpe Ratio The Sharpe ratio, developed by Nobel Prize winner William Sharpe, provides a measure of a fund's historical risk - adjusted performance.

Effective duration provides a measure of a portfolio's interest - rate sensitivity.

These simple treats provide a measure of happiness; they are material blessings from a bountiful God who loves me deeply.

By so doing, it could provide a measure of justice to some victims.

But they do provide a measure of perspective.

And monuments have long provided some measure of consolation by inserting individual suffering within the larger framework of a communitarian endeavor or identity.

All this seems to have helped provide a measure of stability to the rest of Williams» life — but that's something not everyone is happy about.

The resulting immunity is far from total, but it provides a measure of protection.

In PS 1/3 (Fall, 1971), 174, Gutting has asked this metaphysical doctrine to provide a measure of similarity, or positive analogy.

Better to toss Judaism and Christianity into the mish - mash of generalized religion for which «mainstream faiths,» fortunately, provide a measure of control.

The glycemic index (GI) also is extensively used as a tool to help diabetics manage their condition by providing a measure of the effect of foods on blood glucose levels after eating.

Testing assesses cognitive function and can also provide some measure of the extent to which cognitive work stimulates concussion symptoms.

Oneida County residents should be prepared to provide a measure of safety and security for themselves and their families should an emergency arise, natural or manmade, until such time that the appropriate agencies can respond to their needs,» Picente said.

The high proportion who give by regular standing order provides some measure of resilience, but these are uncertain times, particularly with other sources of Church income also under pressure.»

Scipione, who is 23 and said he pays $ 225 a month to split an apartment with two other people, said, «Fifteen dollars an hour and union rights are the least our bosses can do to provide any measure of economic justice.»

«We were interested in providing a measure of how long people would have to wait until the effect of mitigation becomes tangible, in terms of avoided warming,» Tebaldi said.

DWI reveals differences in the mobility of water molecules in tissue and the results can be used to create apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps that provide a measure of local cell density.

This technique provides a measure of blood oxygen concentration in surface blood vessels, indicative of activity in the brain's outer layers, using a set of wearable probes in a cap that is placed on the head.

The result provides a measure of the magnetism in the space between galaxies, an essential step in determining how cosmic magnetic fields are produced.

The team plotted the maximal intensities of volume current densities for specific trends of increasing magnetic field chaos, which provided a measure of the production of current sheets.

Variations in the thickness of the layers is determined by a combination of the amount of water seeping into the cave and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the cave's atmosphere so, when conditions are right, they can provide a measure of how the amount of precipitation above the cave varies over time.

Because friction generates heat (like rubbing your hands together), taking the temperature of a fault after an earthquake can provide a measure of the fault's frictional resistance to slip.

Whereas insulin provides a measure of future fat reserves because glucose levels rise when we eat,» Professor Tiganis said.

The OMI and GOME - 2 instruments are spectrometers, which can pinpoint different trace gases in wavelength ranges, providing a measure of Earth's entire atmosphere in a single day.

The approach provides a measure of distances, on the order of a billionth of an inch, between two beacons glowing in different colors, and this can be used to detect shape shifting as it occurs and the attached beacons move.

The finding is exciting «because it suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine boosts antibody responses and may provide some measure of protection against a new pandemic strain that could emerge from the avian population,» said senior study author Paul G. Thomas, PhD, an Associate Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude.

The survey results are from the Gallup - Purdue Index, which provides a measure of how college graduates are doing on five key dimensions of well - being: purpose, social, physical, financial and community.

Combined with observations from standard telescopes, this can tell us how space has expanded during the time the waves took to reach us, providing a measure of dark energy's effect on space.

But although a TA or RA does provide a measure of financial security, the stipends are, shall we say, not very generous.

The vast volume of space probed by such a galaxy survey will provide a measure of the relationship between the amount of mass and the amount of radiation emitted by galaxies throughout the Universe.

Thus, this difference in magnitude provides a measure of a star's temperature.