Sentences with phrase «robust indicators of»

«bserved increases in ocean heat content (OHC) and temperature are robust indicators of global warming during the past several decades.

This study makes the first direct comparison between the optical emission line and the ultraviolet and infrared tracers of star formation and indicates that, despite the underlying uncertainties, astronomers can trust the nebular emission lines as robust indicators of the star - formation rate and the amount of light that is obscured by dust in distant galaxies.

To develop robust indicators of ecological health and socioeconomic benefits that can be utilized by resource managers.

Certainly there is no easy fix or robust indicators of causation for what the world is witnessing in the last year.

In a release, he explained that they investigated facial adiposity (the amount of fatness in your face) because it is a «robust indicator of one's health.»

Substantial research evidence demonstrates that CBMreading is a robust indicator of reading development and a useful predictor of student performance on state tests.

aMath functions as a robust indicator of broad math achievement.

There is at least one other robust indicator of planetary warming that has not been discussed in this posting — warming of the continents.

Not exact matches

«There is robust evidence that social isolation and loneliness significantly increase risk for premature mortality, and the magnitude of the risk exceeds that of many leading health indicators,» Holt - Lunstad said in a statement about the research.

The fact is that while your executives and managers may express interest in more data (more metrics, more dimensions, raw data access, more chart choices, etc.) this is an indicator of uncertainty, not of an interest to do more robust analysis.

Prices for copper, a key industrial metal and a strong leading indicator of economic growth, have remained robust at above $ 4 a pound.

Some programmers have started to accept payment in Bitcoins, but that's not really a great indicator of a robust monetary platform — in a sense, it's just like people exchanging goods or services in a barter system, something that is a big part of what economists call the «underground» or shadow economy.

This is a strong indicator of a healthy market — with robust demand — and an appetite among developers and operators of space to increase the supply of centres to meet demand.

«Driven by the robust performance of our fundamental operating indicators and continuous expansion, both geographic and into adjacent businesses, in 2015 Arca Continental's outstanding results distinguished us in our industry and the markets we serve,» the company says.

However, the neutrophil count is a robust indicator and it was shown in the EPIC Norfolk study that a raised neutrophil count in healthy middle - aged subjects was a predictor of earlier death.

The authors found that only after November 2007 (when ARGO was 100 % complete) is the ARGO network sufficiently robust to give accurate short - term trends of what they term «global ocean indicators».

The paper highlights the indicators of a robust talent pipeline so that charter supporters of all kinds can evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their own efforts.

The Scholars» Paradise model would use «scale scores» or a «performance index» for the «academic achievement» indicator; measure growth using a two - step value - added metric; pick robust «indicators of student success or school quality,» such as chronic absenteeism; and make value added count the most in a school's final score.

· Create robust measures that utilize all of the data [and related indicators] available via required reporting at the U.S. Department of Education such as: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and related reporting with the SPP, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Civil Rights Data Collection.

«A summative rating, in contrast, necessarily glosses over differences in performance across indicators and inappropriately draws school leaders, stakeholders and the public focus on the single rating rather than a more robust reflection of performance demonstrated by the individual indicators,» they wrote.

State high school accountability systems have primarily been based on proficiency on state tests and high school graduation rates, rather than a more robust set of indicators.

Matrices allow states to determine a school's rating using a more robust consideration of performance on a single indicator.

In Chicago, which has been subject to a variety of reforms over the years, research by Carnegie Foundation president Anthony Bryk and his colleagues found that schools with community school characteristics were more successful in terms of academic achievement in reading and math scores, and in reducing chronic absenteeism, along with other key indicators of student success.16 Spanning many years, the research concluded that successful schools had robust parent - community ties, a student - centered learning climate, and instructional guidance.

The indicators and door handles aren't the most robust feeling ones around, but neither do they feel flimsy either, and there are plenty of soft - touch buttons around to improve the interior ambience too.

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The robust and versatile trading platform come with a wide array of trading tools such as advanced charts and a large library of technical indicators.

And it would interesting also if you're able to demystify conterproductive beliefs surrounding the methodology through which one backtests and designs a robust trend following system (such as number of parameters, indicators chosen, opmitization, «walk forwards», etc.).

Please keep in mind that these indicators are far from conclusive, but they are useful instruments to get an idea of how robust the market internals are.

According to the report, the robust population of juvenile sea turtles is a positive indicator of long - term health of the species as well as proof that a well - managed protected marine zone can produce positive results.

«On the other hand, the long - term trend in NH is relatively robust to the inclusion of dendroclimatic indicators in the network, suggesting that potential tree growth trend biases are not influential in the multiproxy climate reconstructions.»

Meanwhile, with projected demand growth appearing robust, at least for the near term, a third straight year in 2017 of low investment in new conventional projects remains a worrying indicator for the future market balance, creating a substantial risk of a shortfall of new supply in the 2020s.

What is very clear is that MBH98 is not robust to the presence / absence of all dendroclimatic indicators, as was claimed (since it is not robust to the presence / absence of bristlecones).

Until this study, much of the previous research included analysis of only one drought indicator and results from fewer climate models, Cook said, making this a more robust drought projection than any previously published.

Amazingly enough, Mann now admits his original hockey stick existed solely because of «one set of tree ring records,» directly contradicting his 1998 paper which said the reconstruction was «relatively robust to the inclusion of dendroclimatic indicators» (dendroclimatic indicators are tree ring data).

The issue of bristlecones was not even on the table, because Mann said that their results were robust to the presence / absence of all dendro indicators, so who would have thought to wonder about bristlecone validity as an important issue in assessing this study?

«the long - term trend in NH is relatively robust to the inclusion of dendroclimatic indicators in the network»

MBH clearly attempted to give the impression that their reconstruction was robust to the presence / absence of dendro indicators without limiting their claim to the AD1760 network, as shown in the review in the head blog post here.

MBH clearly attempted to give the impression that their reconstruction was robust to the presence / absence of dendro indicators without limiting their claim to the AD1760 network

But regardless, if Mann et al knew that the AD1400 network was not robust to the presence / absence of dendroclimatic indicators (which they did), then they had an obligation not to omit this fact (just as they had an obligation not to omit reporting the failed verification r2 statistics for networks prior to AD1820.)

However, for the present point, the issue is quite different and has never been confronted by Mannians: the discrepancy between reconstructions with bristlecones and without bristlecones means that the representation that the reconstruction was «robust» to the presence / absence of all dendroclimatic indicators is untrue.

A climatechange.gov.au document on the indicators of climate change states there is a «growing and robust body of evidence that climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events».

If they had been honest and had reported the true and disconfirming scope of their statistical indicators, they'd not have been able to claim a «robust» reconstruction, would not have gotten published, and would not have been able to make spectacular millennial claims about 20th century temperatures.

Analysts based the list on markets with appreciation that is expected to be robust; a «Breakeven Horizon» that is relatively short (the Breakeven Horizon is the length of time before owning a home becomes better financially than renting one); favorable inventory - to - household ratios (an indicator of inventory); concentration of price reductions; and lower median values.

The promise of strong rent growth and robust investment activity moves San Francisco up seven spots to lead the nation in Marcus & Millichap's annual National Apartment Index (NAI), a snapshot analysis that ranks 43 apartment markets based on a series of 12 - month forward - looking supply and demand indicators.