Sentences with phrase «science test issue»

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The American Statistical Association and other research groups have issued serious cautions about using test scores to measure teacher effectiveness, with some concluding it is junk science.»

A simple method of testing «twilight vision» gives reliable results in identifying people who have decreased visual acuity under low light conditions, according to a study in the May issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

This issue is a major test case of the conceptual and practical merits of science diplomacy in the management of international spaces beyond national jurisdiction.

«But that's really not what the study tested,» says Manji, whose commentary on the study was published in the same issue of Science Translational Medicine.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

«The general idea is to test for the present and past and hope that [the model] works in the future,» says Timmermann, who wrote an accompanying perspective in the Science issue.

Now, in tomorrow's issue of Science, * researchers report that a protein in yeast wreaks similar havoc all by itself — at least in the test tube.

Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news, specifically the November issue of Scientific American magazine.

The findings, reported in today's issue of Science, * offer a promising new avenue for testing drugs against EBV, which has also been implicated in sinus and throat cancer.

In the December 2007 issue of the biannual International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law, phoneticians Anders Eriksson of the University of Gothenburg and Francisco Lacerda of Stockholm University said there was no science behind the Layered Voice Analysis technology produced by Nemesysco Ltd. of Netayna, Israel, which is being tested by municipal governments in the United Kingdom as a means of weeding out fraud among benefits applicants.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

They do social science, health, philosophical, policy, or legal research on topics such as privacy, confidentiality, the psychological impact of genetic information, informed - consent issues in genomics research, commercialization of genetic products, genetically modified foods, behavioral genetics, gene testing, and gene therapy.

Expert panelists from government, private industry, science and medicine provided invaluable information on the legal and regulatory challenges faced by professionals practicing in areas affected by personalized medicine, including labeling issues, laboratory developed tests, IVD approval and reimbursement and PGx - tailored drugs and companion diagnostics.

Several virologists around the world practically sprinted to their labs to redo the experiments, and the discovery that a clinic associated with the Science paper was selling a $ 650 diagnostic test for XMRV made the issue more pressing.

Lauren Y. Chan, Queen's University: Genetic Testing and Screening: A Review of the Current Ethical Issues Shannon Chen and Grace Lin, Cornell University: Legalized but Limited: Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States Catherine Dillon, Rutgers University: Urban Forestry, Brownfields, and Human Rights Philip Rodenbough, Columbia University: Peace Through Chemistry: Teaching High School Chemistry in West Africa with the US Peace Corps & Ways to Continue Working at the intersection of International Science, Education, and Human Rights in a Chemistry PhD Program

In the February issue of the Journal of Earth Science, Criss and visiting scholar Mingming Luo of the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, China, take a close look at data for the New Year's flood, treating it as a giant natural experiment that allowed them to test their understanding of changing river dynamics.

In research published in this week's issue of the journal Science, a team from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research used common baker's yeast as a living test tube to show how just a small amount of a Parkinson's - related neuronal protein called alpha - synuclein (aSyn) can convince neighboring proteins to abandon their normal shape and form these deadly clusters.

Elementary and middle schools — attendance, science test results, «program quality» (improving school climate, reducing behavior issues, and increasing engagement.

Published in the December issue of Psychological Science, thestudyevaluated two groups of 8th graders on such factors as grades, standardized - test scores, and IQ - test scores.

While refutation texts have been widely used to correct misconceptions about controversial science issues (e.g., global warming, GMOs), to our knowledge they have never been tested to correct misconceptions about policy.

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After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

Issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), PISA tests the skills and knowledge of fifteen - year - old students in mathematics, reading, and science.

AIR implemented a fix to this issue overnight, so scores will now appear correctly upon submission of the High School Science test.

Timing could be an issue for those states that have recently revamped their own science standards and have already devoted significant resources to related materials, training, and tests.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

In a study published in the June 2016 issue of Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Swedish researchers tested the play, mutual grooming, and inter-cat aggressiveness... Learn More

Judith Curry and colleagues have an interesting (and possibly provocative) article, «Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming Is Causing a Global Increase in Hurricane Intensity» in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

As a former professor, senior civil servant and current CEO, I know that solving large problems involves the thoughtful, careful application of science, but I have come to respect the fact — a word I don't use lightly — that there are often a multitude of non-science issues that keep possible solutions from ever leaving the computer or test bench....

In 1991, it was nothing more than a suggestion to invite science - based rebuttal back into an issue Al Gore and his friends hijacked with assertions that catastrophic man - caused global warming was settled science; a suggestion which came out of a leaked non-profit coal association's public relations test market campaign which was so obscure that practically no one ever saw or heard about it.

For highly important public issues we need a science policy that further formally allocates a substantial portion of funding to «Red teams» to test hypotheses and generate the evidence, and analyses which such a tentative science court could weigh.

Trial lawyers buy it by the pound, pro and con any issue testing science literacy.

The American Statistical Association of which I am a longtime member issued an important statement today which will hopefully move statistical practice in engineering and especially in the sciences away from the misleading practice of using p - values and hypothesis tests.

Until this is done, little progress is possible in many of the major issues in climate science, and no further expenditures should be made responding to climate alarmism until the new methodology has been thoroughly tested and the basic surface temperature data has been reconstituted in a useful form.

In its June 1, 1984 issue, The Washington Post reported the issuance of a massive new report by the White House science office supporting the scientific consensus that «agents found to cause cancer in animals should be considered «suspect human carcinogens,»» and that «giving animals high doses of an agent is a proper way to test its carcinogenicity.»

I would say the same thing in a math class or science class about a student test answer that did not adress the key issue.

If mainstream «scientists» were truly interested in the science of this issue, they would welcome all perspectives to test their hypothesis.

Climate science can not test it's models equally well, but these issues are not really their immediate concern.

That's the part of the atmospheric science where these issues are developed and tested.

The keynote will be followed by workshop sessions on a wide variety of topics of interest to criminal, juvenile, child welfare and mental health practitioners, including but not limited to the wrongful conviction and exoneration of Frederick Clay, litigating nursing home admissions, appellate advocacy, criminal case law update, how to use social science research in your case, the new sentencing guidelines, restorative justice, ensuring language access, advanced issues in Superior Court litigation, representing emerging adults, how to contest preliminary drug test results, a practicum on mindfulness, as well as the latest from the immigration impact unit.

But she also addresses myriad other legal issues related to the work of genealogists, including copyright, privacy laws, records access and the laws regarding DNA tests, as well as explaining the science behind that testing.

Last February, the National Academy of Science issued a report criticizing the sloppy practices of crime labs, imprecise scientific tests, and the exaggeration in court of the scientific reliability of results.

Hudson's Psychometric Testing incorporates science into the decision making process to reduce the risk of making the wrong choice about vital issues such as:

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This alchemy for creating healthy relationships is based on significant study and research across a broad spectrum of areas in science and religion and then tested through years of applying to challenging relationship issues.