Sentences with phrase «scale using specific»

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For years scientists have used a standard psychological test called the Domain - Specific Risk - Taking Scale.

However, Rainforest QA has now released their mobile app testing platform («Quality Assurance as a Service»), along with an ebook about scaling mobile testing itself, using their crop of over 50,000 crowdsourced testers to zero in on specific issues (and they get into this in detail in a recent eBook).

ChemPro can even scale its manufacturing processes to produce single purpose chemical products such as a degreasing agent it created exclusively for a specific machine used by the automotive industry.

Importantly this means that Ethereum mining will always be limited to GPUs and will be resistant to specialized hardware and the application - specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that are used to scale Bitcoin operations.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Recommendations for actions include: specific targets to reduce single - use plastic packaging; scaling up the use of reusable packaging; reviewing food cosmetic standards and labelling; greater investment in waste prevention systems; and looking at how market - based instruments like extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes can prompt behavioural change towards avoiding food and plastic waste.

RA's «Use of Seal» Guidelines dated December 2007 (PDF) states that «Companies requesting to use the RAC seal on single - ingredient products with less than 90 % certified content should also agree to a SmartSourceTM plan: a step-wise approach to scaling up the percentage of certified content over time with specific benchmarks and timelines along the path of sustainability.&raqUse of Seal» Guidelines dated December 2007 (PDF) states that «Companies requesting to use the RAC seal on single - ingredient products with less than 90 % certified content should also agree to a SmartSourceTM plan: a step-wise approach to scaling up the percentage of certified content over time with specific benchmarks and timelines along the path of sustainability.&raquse the RAC seal on single - ingredient products with less than 90 % certified content should also agree to a SmartSourceTM plan: a step-wise approach to scaling up the percentage of certified content over time with specific benchmarks and timelines along the path of sustainability.»

It is really more a formula than a specific recipe so feel free to scale these amounts up or down depending on how much use you think you'll get out of them.

Critics of the program's limited scale, including State Senator Diane Savino and Assembly health committee chairman Richard Gottfried, said the governor's plan also relies on an unstable source for the drug's supply, and could potentially use marijuana seized by law - enforcement officials, instead of the purified and specially - grown strains developed to treat specific medical conditions.

The study was a collaboration with IBM and offers a large - scale survey of the commonly used container management framework known as Docker, a platform that facilitates the deployment of microservices by providing a registry service that acts as a central repository for software components focusing on specific functionalities called images.

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

By using gene drive, a method targeting specific genes, they could go in and tip the scale in the mosquito's favor.

Percival added that a government agency would likely use ASICs — application - specific integrated circuits — for password cracking because it's «the most cost - efficient — at large scale — approach.»

Using biopsies of the patients» tumors collected before the start of treatment and at the time patients developed resistance, the researchers performed large - scale genomic analyses to search for mutations specific to the cancer cells in all of each patient's 20,000 genes.

While prior studies have examined how monarch wing size varies within a migratory season, this study went beyond to include specific measures of wing shape and color that were obtained using fine - scale computer software.

A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus: A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome - scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

However, with few exceptions, the stem cell and regenerative medicine industry has remained inadequately capitalized to carry out large - scale clinical trials independently, and major pharmaceutical firms have tended to show more interest in the use of hiPSCs as a source of large, pure populations of specific somatic cells for use in drug compound screening and toxicology tests, than they have in therapeutic uses of stem cells and their derivatives.

Our recent demonstration of high levels of classification accuracy based on examination of specific intrinsic large - scale networks in 7 — 12 year - old children highlights the utility of using data from narrower developmental windows to identify potential biomarkers for the disorder (Uddin et al., 2013).

Of course since nuts have about 2800 cal / pound and are high on the calorie density scale... see CRON - O - meter for calculating values for specific foods (use 454 grams to convert to pound)... if your goal is to lose fat they are best avoided until you obtain your desired weight.

We discovered that there are specific rep scales a bodybuilder can use to achieve specific goals.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

Details Below: A. NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS HEREIN DCI's: ESS3: Earth and Human Activity, ETS1: Engineering Design Cross Cutting Concepts: Cause and Effect, Scale Proportion and Quantity Scientific and Engineering Practices: Asking Questions and Defining Problems, Planning and Carrying Out Investigations, Designing solutions, Using Mathematical and Computational Thinking B. SUGGESTED USES Prior Knowledge: Students do not need to have any specific prior knowledge to complete this activity.

A points system is often used to give a high - level estimate of the scale or size of a specific task.

Rubric: A scoring scale used to assess student performance along a task - specific set of criteria

By adding scales to our classroom practice, we can easily use the formative assessments to provide specific feedback to students about their progression toward the learning goal.

Click here for an example of a learning scales using language related to specific learning goals.

Building on this work, the school plans to continue developing performance - based tasks and scale up their inquiry processes using rapid inquiry cycles around specific, targeted skills.

CLASS (Pianta & La Paro, 2003) describes and measures classroom quality from PreK to Grade 3 using a common set of dimensions and rating scales, with grade - specific examples reflecting both instructional and socioemotional aspects of the classroom environment.

Also, while states are required to measure academic proficiency indicators — which are static, point - in - time indicators within their school classification systems — there may be an opportunity to measure specific aspects of proficiency data, such as growth or scale scores, which are further described below.24 That is, ESSA may provide states an opportunity to use differentiation within an indicator, as well as differentiation between schools.

If a Likert scale questionnaire is used to give teachers more specific examples of knowledge and skills essential to each domain, teachers can easily average their scores across the domain to come up with a single number to plot in the diagram.

Since this isn't your average c - Class, the instrument panel is also using the AMG signature of a «checkered flag» design, while the speedometer uses specific AMG typography and red needles to show a scale of 175 mph.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

Use of breed - specific ranges for the vertebral heart scale as an aid to the radiographic diagnosis of cardiac disease in dogs.

You're also seeing developers that used to make content for the company scale back and stop releasing specific series like Ubisoft not releasing watch dogs or Assassin's Creed or EA not releasing Mass Effect or Activision not releasing Call of Duty.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

These puzzles typically involve commanding Trico so that he can allow you to access higher platforms, scaling walls, knocking down barriers, avoiding enemies, finding hidden levers or pulleys to open doors, and using Trico's animal instincts to manipulate situations so that you can reach new areas (e.g. putting an apparently irresistible pot of blue goop in a very specific place so that Trico will stand beneath a ledge that you need to reach).

LAND supports dynamic and unconventional artistic practices using a tripartite approach: Commissioning public projects of site - and situation - specific works with national and international contemporary artists Collaborating with a variety of institutions and organizations, such as universities, museums, and theaters as well as other types of spaces, industries, and entities Offering additional programs such as performances, workshops, residencies, discussions, and publications LAND is an ongoing endeavor with three primary types of annual programming: LAND 1.0 projects are large - scale, multi-artist, multi-site exhibitions and single - site group exhibitions, LAND 2.0 projects feature a new commission by a single mid-career or established artist, and LAND 3.0 projects feature new work by lesser known or emerging artists

But despite his deliberate use of specific scale and media and his reliance on multiple perspectives, which announce Kim's relationship with traditional styles, his work is resolutely contemporary.

Mary Evans uses paper cutting and printmaking techniques to create large - scale, site - specific installations that fuse the boundaries between the fine art and craft, and between the work and its surrounding space.

Buren has long engaged in creating large - scale site - specific works, conceiving and executing these works in response to their specific architectural and institutional setting and using these elements as cues for reimagining the space.

Robert Smithson, an artist associated with the Land Art and Post-Minimalist movements, used natural objects in both his large - scale land installations, such as Spiral Jetty (1970), and his smaller museum installations made of stones and dirt removed from specific locations.

Ilene Sunshine brings the outdoors in with her use of twigs and branches and cleverly reimagines the detritus of found plastic bags in a colorful large scale site specific installation which bisects the gallery space creating a wall «of air» and pays homage to and playfully subverts formal concerns of mid century modernism and color field painting.

Employing formal decisions and shifts in scale, I address the ways that human experience is inscribed upon a landscape and how outside of this specific process in my studio, we gain and lose information using any form of communication.

A site - specific installation from the sculptor and UCSB MFA candidate consisting of large - scale linear creations of yarn and wire that make use of both the gallery space and its exterior deck.

For Pat Steir's large - scale paintings Dusk (2007) and The Dark (2007) are examples of her specific technique, using the process of dripping to create a delicate interwoven curtain - like surface texture.

For several years Sharon Louden, who studied painting when she got her MFA at Yale, has been making large - scale, site - specific installations using flexible sheets of shiny aluminum.

The show includes, amongst others, Let us see if a million people can be silent, a full - scale, site - specific wall mural made of regular, diagrammatic waves, each one representing a font used to quote Fidel Castro.

The show includes, amongst others, Let us see if a million people can be silent, a full - scale, site - specific wall mural made of regular, diagrammatic waves, each one representing a font used to quote Fidel Castro; a series of fruit sculptures; a room installation made with modernist reclaimed furniture; a series of works on canvas and offset printed paper; and Years, a 6 metre high, fragile construction of rusty steel, a partition of numbers, namely of the years 1959 to 2008 in descending order.

The overall subtle, but specific, use of color focuses the viewer on the composition and the sheer scale of the canvas.