Sentences with phrase «representative of a larger group»

One of the things young statistics students are supposed to learn is that results only count to the degree that your sample is representative of the larger group you study.

If the latest findings are representative of that larger group, Clouston said, they suggest as many as 4,000 or 5,000 responders may be developing mental impairment and hundreds may be at risk for early dementia..

Bulldog Investors, the representative of the largest group of shareholders of FAV, has agreed to vote the shares of FAV for which it has the power to vote or direct the vote in favor of the proposed transaction subject to applicable law.

Most works are representative of a larger group of paintings mediated through similar formal processes.

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While Phillips acknowledges that representatives of Jesuit schools get together, he notes that similar gatherings occur among other groups in business education, including large meetings among members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the primary U.S. B - school accreditation body.

The zero - sum S&P 500 futures / options market involves three groups of traders: (1) commercial hedgers; (2) non-commercial traders (large speculators); and, (3) non-reportable traders (small or retail speculators) representative of the public.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

I think of our group as representative of a fairly large community of Christian thinkers who are a product of a very particular history.

Again on January 10, the larger group of the Catholic faculty (including some student representatives and the equivalent of American instructors and assistant and associate professors) issued a declaration expressing hope for an amicable resolution of the conflict, and insisting on faculty, autonomy in all academic matters.

Having refined the characterization in this way and made it the property of diverse representatives of the parish, the larger group then was able to portray and dramatize the story to the congregation as a whole.

In October, Emanuel stood with representatives from the nation's three largest soft - drink companies and the American Beverage Association, a lobbying group, to announce a $ 5 million soda industry - sponsored fitness competition between city of Chicago employees and those from San Antonio.

ELDR Group leader Graham Watson MEP denounced the grand coalition in 2007 and expressed a desire to ensure that the posts of Commission President, Council President, Parliament President and High Representative were not divided based on agreement between the two largest groups to the exclusion of third parties.

A representative group of workers from Unite, Britain's largest union, whose companies have been sold off by the John Lewis Partnership, will protest against the decision at the partners» meeting this Monday morning.

Many would complain that a coalition of the second and fourth largest parties would be «undemocratic,» but in our representative system it is the grouping that can win a confidence vote in the House of Commons that forms the government.

For the study, the researchers used an unusually large dataset made up of the sequences of 128 proteins from 55 species, including representatives of all the major animal groups, focusing in particular on those that diverged very early.

They are representative of a very large group of scientists who have worked in this part of West Antarctica, all of whom are deserving of recognition by ACAN.

The China, Oxford and Virginia Commonwealth University Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology (CONVERGE) project on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) sequenced 11,670 female Han Chinese at low - coverage (1.7 X), providing the first large - scale whole genome sequencing resource representative of the largest ethnic group in the world.

A cosmetics industry representative interviewed for this story pointed out that the EWG report «lacks many of the rigors that you would normally associate with a real scientific report,» such as a large study population and control or placebo groups.

This study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, identified the most important symptoms linked to late - onset hypogonadism (low testosterone levels in aging men) in a large group of men representative of the general population.

Further observational and epidemiologic studies are necessary to confirm this preliminary finding and to extend it to larger representative groups of people and a wider range of dietary schedules.

In the case of a lesson planning process, teachers could work with other teachers in a grade band in groups of 3 - 5 teachers and then share their work with the large group in one of several ways: a gallery walk of a product, small group presentations to the large group, or forming several K - 12 groups that have representatives of each grade band to look at and provide feedback on the work.

The large, high windowed - room overlooking all of downtown was filled with education advocates, parent groups, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) representatives and many other members from different organizations supporting L.A.'s massive school system.

However, graduate programs (like the M.A.T. program in this study) have been shown to attract a variety of candidates, including a larger representative sample of minority groups, gender, and occupational backgrounds (Darling - Hammond, Hudson, & Kirby, 1989).

We present results from a five - year long randomized evaluation of group and individual teacher performance pay programs implemented across a large representative sample of government - run rural

The core of the selected 58 artists consisted of the major artists of the «85 New Wave such as Geng Jianyi, Gu Wenda, Huang Yong Ping, Liu Wei, Long - Tailed Elephant Group, Qiu Zhijie, Xu Bing but also, to a lesser extent, younger artists such as Zhang Huan, Cao Yong, and Wu Tien - Chang.7 As numerous group exhibitions featuring contemporary Chinese arts in Europe and North America, Inside Out also claimed to be the first and most representative large presentation of the recent art production from China providing a unique space to understand «China.&rGroup, Qiu Zhijie, Xu Bing but also, to a lesser extent, younger artists such as Zhang Huan, Cao Yong, and Wu Tien - Chang.7 As numerous group exhibitions featuring contemporary Chinese arts in Europe and North America, Inside Out also claimed to be the first and most representative large presentation of the recent art production from China providing a unique space to understand «China.&rgroup exhibitions featuring contemporary Chinese arts in Europe and North America, Inside Out also claimed to be the first and most representative large presentation of the recent art production from China providing a unique space to understand «China.»

[Response: You are certainly right that a particular group of scientists may not be representative of the actual position of experts at large.

Portland's BIKETOWN will also sponsor a ride with the Corporate Sustainability Collective, a group of «green team» representatives from large and midsize businesses, and both Hubway and Citi Bike will support their cities» «Car - Free Days.»

U.S. Representatives represent a much larger group of people than their Canadian counterparts.

Therefore the set of stations I used is, as a whole, likely to be representative of the larger sets used by Jones and Moberg and other groups.

The large group is represented by «representative plaintiffs» who give instructions to the lawyers and act in the best interest of the group.

A class action, also known as a class proceeding, is a lawsuit in which one party, or a group of parties, may sue or be sued as representatives of a larger class.

Since October 2003, Stefan Heinisch has provided outstanding legal support to Hannover Re, the third largest reinsurance group in the world and has a network of subsidiaries, branches and representative offices on all five continents with a total workforce of almost 3,000 people.

VERIZON, Belton, SC May 2014 — Present Customer Service Representative • Increase customer base by 50 % at the new Verizon store on Denbeck Road by eliciting exceptional customer services to interested inquirers • Introduce an order tracking system that increased efficiency of order delivery by a staggering 88 % • Retain a corporate customer by providing him with colossal discounts and deals, in direct competition with his preferred brand • Lead 12 group product demonstrations, increasing onlookers interest in the company's products and eventually converting a large number of them into business providing customers • Greet customers as they arrive at the Verizon outlet and engage them in conversation to determine their technology needs • Lead customers or direct them to appropriate sections according to their areas of interest within the store • Introduce customers to the store and provide them information on products and product lines • Maintain professional interactions with customers, providing them with product demonstrations and advice • Assist customers in choosing products of their choice and provide them with information on each feature and pricing • Walk customers through the purchasing procedure, facilitating buying, documentation and payment procedures • Accurately document and report sales to the manager and provide customers with warrantee and after sales services information • Ascertain that the store is kept clean, organized and functional at all times, in sync with the company's policies

Yet «client satisfaction» is based on the satisfaction of «peak bodies from mining and local government; State and Commonwealth agencies; native title representative bodies; individual native title claimants; businesses engaged in mining; development and environmental consultancies; individual local governments; large commercial developers; pastoralists; environmental non-profit groups; various elected officials at all levels of government; and lawyers and consultants working in native title.»

Large meetings that include as many traditional owners as possible are important to authorise representative groups to negotiate agreements on behalf of traditional owners.