Sentences with phrase «scale study released»

Teachers» effectiveness can be reliably estimated by gauging their students» progress on standardized tests, according to the preliminary findings of a large - scale study released Friday by leading education researchers.

A large - scale study released this week showed that the herb gingko biloba has no effect in preventing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

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Two organizations that know megachurches well have released a new study they describe as «by far the biggest - scale, cross-denominational response anyone has ever collected about church finances.»

«This is the first study, to our knowledge, that demonstrates the mechanical continuity, strain transfer, and conformational changes that result from chemical energy release from the atomic scale up through the whole - cell level, as well as how tensegrity guides those changes to drive cellular movement,» says Ingber.

The U.K. study recommends prohibiting large - scale release of nanoparticles for remediation purposes «until it can be shown that the net benefits exceed the risks,» says Dowling.

But even if the carbon released during production were somehow captured and sequestered — a technology that remains unproven at any meaningful scale — some studies indicate that liquid coal would still release 4 to 8 percent more global warming pollution than regular gasoline.

The team has yet to release its final numbers from the Wyoming study, but Hower and O'Keefe's earlier studies of the Ruth Mullins fire provide some sense of scale.

Results of the study suggest that plate - scale horizontal thermal contraction is significant, and that it may be partly released seismically..

Just try to decipher this recent press release about a new study proving «rubric - based assessment can be taken to scale and can produce valid findings with credible and actionable information about student learning that can be used to improve curricular and assignment designs and to increase effectiveness of programs and classes in advancing the most important learning outcomes of college.»

But the new study released this week shows that, as a large - scale effort, School Improvement Grants failed.

The release of the study Thursday gives Democratic lawmakers renewed ammo against the larger - scale voucher proposal.

While Kno has already seen laudable results from its recently released interactive, feedback - based student study dashboard Kno Me, Kno's Advance platform allows publishers to create an ebook edition from PDFs or print editions of their books while maintaining the scale of the book.

«A couple of small - scale studies have shown that when owners interact with their dogs, the human and their dog appear to release oxytocin.»

The release from struggles with often pointless interference in the University's study programmes, and the domestic scale of the white - clad studio in his house looking straight out onto the garden, have brought forth works with the intimacy and concision of chamber music, but with the same uninhibited spirit of freedom to invent new forms and use his materials in a way that is immediately recognisable.

The study predicted large - scale releases in the multi-gigaton range from the southern region of the East Coast methane clathrate store due both to changes in the Gulf Stream circulation and to warming bottom waters — both impacts set off by human - caused climate change.

The study was uncertain how fast such a release could occur, but noted that the eventual release was likely due to wide - scale clathrate degradation associated with ocean bottom warming.

On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. — along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies — has released a report that begins to tackle the conundrum faced by just about every development finance institution: how to design and operate a large - scale fund that actually meets the needs of ordinary people in developing countries in an ecologically sustainable...

The hubbub was sparked when retired NOAA data scientist John Bates claimed in a blog post that his boss, then - director of the National Centers for Environmental Information Thomas Karl, «constantly had his «thumb on the scale» — in the documentation, scientific choices and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus» and rushed a study published in the journal Science before international climate negotiations.

Soils are providing an environmental service of sequestering this potent greenhouse gas, but the trunks are releasing methane equivalent to 4 percent of what could be captured by CWD and soils at the ecosystem scale,» said Rodrigo Vargas, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and lead investigator of the study, in a press release.

Berkeley professors Marjorie M. Shultz (law) and Sheldon Zedeck (psychology) released a report last September, only now picked up on by the New York Times, that releases the results of a study done with a newly devised law school admission test and that recommends that this line of inquiry be pursued on a larger scale, with an eye to replacing the standard LSAT.