Sentences with phrase «reduction in size from»

The phone, a marked reduction in size from Lenovo's own Phab 2 Pro effort, will come packed with a Snapdragon 821, 6 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, DTS surround sound enhancements and all the sensors it needs to detect real world distances and performance incredibly complex GUI adjustments.

It's just common sense that skin won't shrink quickly enough to compensate for the reduction in size from engorgement to a closed factory.

Not exact matches

Another reduction, though the relatively small size of Berkshire's holdings makes the sales discernible only in the 13F filings, is that Berkshire cut its investment in Moody's (MCO) from about 32 million shares at the end of 2009 to 28.4 million a year later.

Using the savings from those benefits to reinvest in American business — of all sizes — through reduction in taxes (and, since we're making the argument, reducing some of the regulatory burden to boot) would help business owners to grow their operations, increase sales and, yes, hire workers.

Most of this reduction is due to less debt issuance from eliminating Social Security deficits; some comes from an increase in the size of the economy because of that lower debt.

This allows for a reduction in the serving size along with a decrease in the negative side effects known to come from excessive protein intake, such as bloating, poor digestion, gas, etc..

It also improves the barrier for sensitive (moisture / oxygen) drugs by using the space gained from the reduction in blister size for increasing the seal width.

Conservatives accept their opposition to Lords reform could cost them another of the coalition's constitutional changes - the reduction in the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 MPs and equalisation of constituency sizes.

It means David Cameron's prospects of winning an overall majority in 2015 have suffered a severe blow, as the reduction of the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 MPs would have handed the Tories an advantage of around 20 seats.

Some of the changes were agreed upon by all parties, such as the reduction in size of the parliament from 386 to 199 and the accompanying redrawing of districts.

It would cut more than $ 2 billion in grants for teacher training and class - size reduction and would reduce after - school grants from $ 1.2 billion to $ 1 billion.

In order to mask the full size of the budget gaps that his multi-year tax cuts would create, the Governor is proposing large service reductions, growing in value from close to $ 2 billion in 2006 - 07 to over $ 3 billion the following yeaIn order to mask the full size of the budget gaps that his multi-year tax cuts would create, the Governor is proposing large service reductions, growing in value from close to $ 2 billion in 2006 - 07 to over $ 3 billion the following yeain value from close to $ 2 billion in 2006 - 07 to over $ 3 billion the following yeain 2006 - 07 to over $ 3 billion the following year.

A press release from the governor's corrections agency, titled «Right Sizing New York's Prison System», cites as the reasons the «dramatic reduction in the number of drug offenders».

That additional aid will help support everything from bilingual education and school libraries to reductions in class size.

Bulging class sizes, stagnant salaries, fewer teachers and limited supplies of everything from books to copy paper: That is what the reduction in per - pupil state funding looks like in thousands of classrooms around the country since the Great Recession — despite a much vaunted economic recovery.

Kamel Fezzaa, a team member and beamline scientist with Argonne's X-Ray Science Division, concurs, adding, «Full - field imaging techniques will greatly benefit from the order of magnitude reduction in horizontal source size.

Results from bowel cancer - prone mice given the smaller dose showed a 50 per cent reduction in tumour size while the high dose showed a 25 per cent reduction.

«There is still no ancestor - descendant sequence from Flores that supports body size reduction from a larger bodied H. erectus ancestor,» says Peter Brown at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the original hobbit excavations at Liang Bua.

Evidence from fossil hippopotamuses also shows such dramatic reductions in brain size in mammals are possible.

Injections of antibody molecules that block CD47 from interacting with SIRPA are already being tried in the clinic based on observations of some reduction in the sizes of tumors in mouse models.

Dated to 3.43 billion years ago in sandstone from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia, the microstructures were found with micrometer - sized pyrite crystals (fool's gold, an iron - sulfur mineral), as would be expected as the metabolic by - products of sulfur - based life that employ «sulphate - reduction and sulphur - disproportionation pathways.»

This could be as populations separate geographically from each other, or if one population experiences a severe reduction in size, or any number of scenarios that change the history of the population.

Skin: Cryotherapy websites report significant benefits for skin, from a reduction in blemishes and pore size to an increase in collagen and elasticity.

The greater gains in strength - to - size that result from an increase in specific tension are not reflected in improvements in muscle power, because the reduction in contractile velocity counteracts the effects of the increased muscle fiber force (Erskine et al. 2011).

Our canines are an adaptation to the enlarged cranium and the reduction of our jaw size (molars from dead humans that get dug up in archaeological diggings can get mistaken with molars of some other omnivores, funny isn't it).

I have recently had my eyes on a gorgeous trench coat from Mango which was on sale but all sizes were still available so I decided to give it a few days in case there was a further price reduction.

The gains in Tennessee may have come from extra resources, not anything specific to class size reduction.

He found no detectable benefit from mandated class size reduction — either for students in general or for any student subgroup, racial, ethnic, or level of disadvantage.

However, from a historical perspective, class - size reduction is a remedy in search of a problem.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

Also supporting my hypothesis is the evidence from class - size reduction experiments in Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Proposition 300 Would direct earnings from public lands that are above the 2000 - 01 level to be deposited in the state classroom - site fund, to be used for such things as class - size reduction, teacher raises, and school facility bond...

Early results from a class size reduction program introduced in California also seems to support the President's plan.

As a further point of comparison I provide results from a study [xvii] of Project STAR that examined the impact on middle school test scores of exposure to class size reduction in the early grades.

What would Americans in the 1960s reasonably have expected from their public schools if they had been told that the future promised a tripling in real spending for education; a major reduction in class size; and increased job security, higher pay, and sizable new fringe benefits for teachers?

A story in the Feb. 5, 2003, issue of Education Week inadvertently omitted the word «not» from a sentence describing the views of Bill Montford, the superintendent of the Leon County, Fla., public schools, regarding a class - size - reduction plan put forward by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

An article published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2000 by Caroline Huxby on The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation reported that reductions in class size had no effect on student achievemSize on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation reported that reductions in class size had no effect on student achievemsize had no effect on student achievement.

But what we're talking about in the U.S. is marginal reductions to class size, going from 30 to 25 students per class, and the benefits versus the costs of such reductions.

Also in 1998, Stanford's Caroline Hoxby found that «reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement.»

In his budget proposal for 2017 — 19 biennium, Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal underscored the importance of investing in teachers, noting, «Student success from the state's increased investment in full - day kindergarten, K — 3 class size reduction, and other... basic education components depends on making significant changes in Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.&raquIn his budget proposal for 2017 — 19 biennium, Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal underscored the importance of investing in teachers, noting, «Student success from the state's increased investment in full - day kindergarten, K — 3 class size reduction, and other... basic education components depends on making significant changes in Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.&raquin teachers, noting, «Student success from the state's increased investment in full - day kindergarten, K — 3 class size reduction, and other... basic education components depends on making significant changes in Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.&raquin full - day kindergarten, K — 3 class size reduction, and other... basic education components depends on making significant changes in Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.&raquin Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.»

For two decades, advocates of class - size reduction have referenced the findings from the Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project, a class - size experiment conducted in Tennessee in the late 1980s.

In this way, they differ dramatically from large - scale interventions, such as class size reduction or curriculum overhauls.

Precise sorting around cutoffs in the regression - discontinuity design: evidence from class size reduction

Baron notes that the magnitude of the decline in student performance is nearly the same magnitude of the increase in test scores that studies have found come from a reduction in class size of eight students.

Yet here in New York City, our youngest students are suffering from the largest classes in 13 years, despite the fact that surveys show that class size reduction is the top priority of parents, year after year.

Indeed, esteemed researchers such as Peter Blatchford have found that there is no particular threshold that must be reached before students receive benefits from smaller classes, and any reduction in class size increases the probability that they will be on - task and positively engaged in learning.

The front wing is smaller, as is the rear wing which sees a more drastic reduction in size and scope from the previous year.

Yet, despite a reduction in size, both Carrera versions see 20 - horsepower increases over 2015 models — 370 hp in the Carrera hardtop and convertible and 420 hp from the Carrera S.

All in, Honda's changes for the fifth generation CR - V look to elevate the crossover in nearly every aspect while keeping it accessible from both a drivability and financial standpoint, though whether or not the larger dimensions of the vehicle give it a «just right» size as Honda sees it or make the CR - V slightly more cumbersome in practice is something of a subjective call on a per - case basis, as the move seems to buck the current industry trend of reduction rather than expansion.