«Achieving
this quality of measurement required an enormous effort and precise timing, and everyone hit their mark exactly.
Large - scale portfolio assessments in the US: Evidence pertaining to
the quality of measurement.
The quality of the measurement tool is critical — the data must be accurate to ensure you're focusing on the correct skills and maximizing instructional impacts.
The funding is intended to address
the quality of measurement tools to be used to assess the importance of these non-cognitive traits.
Until now, no one had ever conducted a comprehensive review of
the quality of the measurement environment of those stations.
Curry wrote that it «seems rather ironic, since this is the period where there is the greatest coverage of data with the highest
quality of measurements — ARGO buoys and satellites don't show a warming trend.»
These numbers, and in fact all numbers you will ever see in the press, are not the raw instrument measurements — they include a number of manual adjustments made by climate scientists to correct for both time of observation as well as changing
quality of the measurement site itself.
There is a burgeoning grass roots movement (described here, in part) to better document key temperature measurement stations both to better correct past measurements as well as to better understand
the quality of the measurements we are getting.
Item response theory analyses provided item parameter estimates and information functions for 18 externalizing subscale items, revealing
their quality of measurement along the continuum of disruptive behaviors in preschool - aged children.
Not exact matches
Finalist cities are refining their pitches based on many
of the factors that usually motivate corporations in site selection — economic development opportunities, transportation access and infrastructure, skilled labor force and
quality -
of - life
measurements, like education and real estate costs.
The
quality control activity during production consists
of taking samples from the run continuously, taking
measurements on the samples immediately, and then plotting them rapidly on a Shewhart Chart.
The technique can be applied in service and retail settings as readily as in manufacturing, although
measurement of quality will be achieved differently.
The deal is less important financially and is more a way to reduce the likelihood Disney management will attack the
quality of products released by the audience
measurement company, according to a report from The Drum.
The assumed discount rate utilized is based on a broad sample
of Moody's high
quality corporate bond yields as
of the
measurement date.
YouGov BrandIndex's entire universe
of 1,100 + consumer brands were measured year to year with its Index score, its chief
measurement of brand health, which combines the average respondent scores for
quality, value, general impression, satisfaction, reputation and willingness to recommend.
Providence Equity Partners LLC is taking a majority stake in digital
measurement firm DoubleVerify, betting on tools that can suss out fraud and verify the
quality of digital media for online advertisers.
In the 1980s, a chemicals company became committed to a total
quality management program and began to make extensive
measurements of employee participation, statistical process control, and key
quality indicators.
By marrying innovative information technology, state -
of - the - art
measurement science, and insights from clinical experts, ArborMetrix helps clients make better decisions to optimize the
quality and cost - efficiency
of hospital and specialty care.
To ensure that surface water
quality is maintained,
measurement and reporting
of water
quality parameters in key water bodies is carried out on a weekly basis.
It'll be a process with many steps, Bulgrin added, one that involves education
of the new standard, establishing a research program to understand what
qualities work for
measurement, and then consensus and implementation amongst invested vendors.
Access to those numbers would enable outside economists to assess the
quality of StatsCan's MFP
measurement independently, which can help defy groupthink, catch mistakes, and lead to higher -
quality statistics.
With offices in both the US and Canada, DALBAR develops standards and
measurement systems that improve the
quality of products, service and compliance for the retirement, mutual fund, broker / dealer, discount brokerage, life insurance, healthcare and banking industries.
Two important bond
measurements — credit
quality and duration — can give you a good indication
of the income you might receive and the risk you are taking on to pursue that income.
The fact is that our experience gives us all this together, as being profoundly one in impact upon us; we can not cut up the world
of experience, after the fashion
of an earlier philosophy, and speak as if that which in its aesthetic
quality has subjective appeal must lack any genuine reality in the world itself, simply because it does not lend itself to a particular kind
of analysis by
measurement or testing.
In addition,
measurements now cover all three forms
of oil contamination — aerosols, vapor and liquid — providing a true picture
of air
quality.
Accurate
measurement and control
of temperature is critical to the
quality and safety
of food products.
Scientists gauge this particular
quality in tomatoes according to the Brix scale — a
measurement of the sugar (per 100 grams) in liquid.
Sensing solutions specialist SICK UK is hitting the road with a series
of its popular Technology Days to bring expert advice in Machine Vision, Auto Ident and
Measurement to the production doorstep The free «drop - in» workshops are specially - designed to enable
quality and production engineers to take a short time out
of a busy day to gain -LSB-...]
For intelligent and networked data processing, at Interpack, Minebea Intec will be presenting a new software release for statistical process controls: SPC@Enterprise 3.0 converts all
measurement data into useful information, even in the areas
of foreign body detection and dynamic checkweighing, which help to ensure product
quality, food safety and productivity.
Our ingredient suppliers are subject to additional
measurements to further ensure the
quality and food safety
of our supply chain.
So winning the championship is the true
measurement of your
quality, your endurance and your mentality.
We use only the highest
quality materials, and take 4 - 6 compression
measurements at precise intervals along the length
of the stocking.
From the higher
quality of plastic, exact
measurements, versatile shape, flexibility down to the lids, Milk Trays ™ are the right choice for you, the breastfeeding mother.
Air
quality measurements conducted by Buchanan Energy experts at two gas stations
of a similar size did not have a measurable impact on air
quality, officials said.
Protein
quality measurements such as PDCAAS, PER, BV, NPU are always lower for connective tissue than for muscle tissue, so that part
of the BPI statements is a LIE.
A major field
of research is human milk for preterm infants:
measurement of its composition, optimization
of the fortification, best way to pasteurize human milk to preserve its
quality.
The first draft version
of the ResQu Index contained 25 items, relating to five domains addressing:
quality of design, sample definition,
measurement of outcomes, comparability
of cohorts, and accuracy
of interpretation and reporting (domains indicated in Fig 1).
An independent report into the statistical
measurement of the UK's public services has concluded that the system needs to be more accurate and should start to measure
quality.
Not only will the Withings WS - 50 Smart Body Analyzer track weight, body fat, and heart rate
measurements, but it will even analyze the air
quality of your surroundings.
The investigators estimated coarse PM (PM 10 - 2.5) in each zip code using
measurements of particulate matter collected in the EPA's Air
Quality System database from Jan. 1, 2009, through Dec. 31, 2010.
And in general, yields and
quality both began crashing below irrigation levels
of 75 percent ET, which is the
measurement of total water utilized during crop development, he said.
Measurements of fine particles PM2.5 and PM10 serve as indicators
of air
quality.
As more and more departments begin to realise the value
of enterprise for their subject areas, I believe there will be more demand for enterprise lecturers from a range
of backgrounds, including Ph.D.'s, particularly if the Research Assessment Exercises (RAE, a U.K. government
measurement of the
quality of an institution's research) begins to recognise patents and spin - off companies as a valuable part
of university productivity, rather than counting only research papers.
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.
They include both fixed costs associated with implementing a
quality measurement infrastructure and measure - specific costs, which can vary substantially across measures and often depend on local
measurement capacity and simultaneous use
of other measures.
Second, cost estimation could lead to better understanding
of the magnitude
of the cost
of quality measurement.
Better understanding the cost
of measures would not only inform decisions about which measures to use, but also guide future development
of high - value measures that maximize benefit while optimizing use
of finite
quality measurement resources.
From the leading scientists at Bologna, Cassini learned the importance
of using high -
quality instruments to make the most precise
measurements possible.
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling
of large 20th - century eruptions, annual
measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record
of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions
of Nile flood
quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height
of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.
«Light - based method improves practicality and
quality of remote wind
measurements: Innovative technology could aid hurricane forecasting, aircraft safety and wind energy generation.»