Sentences with phrase «significant number of subjects»

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WHO and UNICEF, based on an evaluation of the evidence and information submitted by the collaborative, appear to have made significant changes to the proposed initial draft, including the retention of the order, number and subject matter of each of the original Ten Steps.

Mr Darling said: «Like any lender on this scale, we have ensured that the Bank's lending is subject to significant conditions and controls to ensure that our interests are protected, and in return for this facility Northern Rock has agreed a number of controls.»

DSS has identified a number of programs that are subject to significant cuts as detailed in the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint as follows:

The number of friends, on the other hand, had no significant effect on how happy a subject was.

There have been significant limitations, however, beginning with a necessity to extensively catalog each subject's unique brain patterns, which are then matched with a small number of pre-programmed images.

While the materials from the CFI subjects are extremely valuable and our results are statistically significant, greater numbers of subjects must be analyzed to determine whether the correlations we detected continue to hold up when more patients are studied, and whether such correlations exist within people carrying other haplogroups.

For example, TW Hya has already been the subject of a significant number of ALMA First Light and Early Science programs aimed at investigating the chemistry and structure of its 200 - AU - diameter disk.

«The results seem pretty dramatic,» says Mark P. Mattson, PhD, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. «Even though the number of subjects in the study was not really high, they had really high, statistically significant improvements in their performance on the memory test,» added Mattson, who studies caloric restriction and the brain in his role as chief of the Cellular and Molecular Neurosciences Section at the Laboratory of Neurosciences but was not involved in Dr. Floel's investigation.

Bacterial overgrowth occurs when the gastric pH was > 3.8.23 Oro - pharyngeal - like bacteria and fecal - like bacteria are significantly more abundant in patients on PPI therapy than in patients on H2 - antagonists and untreated control subjects.24 Treatment for 2 weeks with PPI reduces gastric acid secretion by 75 % and this was sufficient to permit bacterial colonization of the stomach in healthy volunteers.23 Omeprazole (40 mg / day) for 3 months induced gastric bacterial overgrowth in 10 of 30 patients, compared with 1 of 10 control subjects; however, after only 14 days of PPI treatment (omeprazole 30 mg / day), the total number of gastric bacteria had increased to a significant level.25

Given its real life origins (subject to legal woes) and controversial subject matter (including a number of apparently graphic sex scenes in the original cut), I Love You Phillip Morris struggled to secure distribution in the U.S. despite receiving significant acclaim at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

There has been significant recent press coverage given to the decline in the number of students taking advanced maths or science subjects both in the later years of secondary schooling and at university.

The report warns that in the absence of any significant extra government funding, academies may need to reduce teacher numbers, impacting on the quality of education and the scope of subjects being taught.

For instance, ensuring disadvantaged pupils are entered for the same number of subjects as all other pupils would lower the forecast gap in Attainment 8 scores from 10.8 points to 8.8 in 2021, a significant reduction.

He said: «The small window in which examinations can be taken, the large number of candidates taking examinations and the diverse range of subjects available to candidates, places significant limitations on the changes that can be accommodated for any one group.

Some of these schools are adding significant numbers of new students and new grades each year, and there are limitations in both the state data due to redaction rules that impact certain grades and subjects, and the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) data, since we don't test all grades in every school.

«The standard - setting and writing of the standards included a significant number of people from the testing industry, but did not include a significant number of experienced teachers, subject - matter experts, and other educators from the outset, nor did it engage other informed and concerned interests, such as early childhood educators and educators of children with disabilities,» explained Ravitch.

There had been a significant decline in the number of state schools offering arts subjects taught by specialist teachers, it added.

Though the test has undergone some changes, a 2007 study of North Carolina teachers found significant overlap in the effectiveness distributions of elementary teachers who did and did not pass the Praxis II Subject Assessment Test, while large numbers of teachers who did not pass the exam achieved the same or greater levels of effectiveness in the classroom.7

The total number of students per teacher over the course of an academic year is significant, especially in junior and senior high schools where, as a consequence of subject specialization, teachers typically see many different groups of students over the course of a week.

For the 2013 SEMA Show, vehicle models that were the subject of measuring sessions and subsequently showed up at the SEMA Show in significant numbers included the Chevy Silverado, the Acura RLX, the Mazda3, the Ford TransitConnect, the Jeep Cherokee, the Ram 1500, the Honda Civic, the Ford Focus and the Ford Fiesta, among others.

Based on an extensive review of available research on the subject, OVMA has concluded that BSL is not an effective method of reducing the number of dog bites in humans, and that it has resulted in significant negative consequences for both people and dogs in Ontario.»

Though he is primarily based in New York City, where he has painted numerous cityscapes and urban scenes such as his series of four paintings, entitled «Four Spots Along a Razor - Wire Fence», [4] Downes has traveled widely, creating a significant number of landscape paintings on site in Maine and Texas, of subjects including the harbor of Portland, Maine and the Donald Judd structures in Marfa, Texas.

Subtitle E: Additional Market Assurance -(Sec. 351) Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to: (1) require energy derivatives to be traded on a CFTC - regulated exchange unless CFTC issues an exemption; (2) require CFTC to fix limits, with respect to energy transactions, on the aggregate number of positions which may be held by any person for each month across all markets subject to the CFTC's jurisdiction; (3) require CFTC to convene a Position Limit Energy Advisory Group to give CFTC recommendations on such position limits; (4) give CFTC exclusive authority to grant exemptions for bona fide hedging transactions and positions from position limits imposed on energy transactions; (5) revise provisions concerning bona fide hedging transactions; and (6) require CFTC to issue a rule defining and classifying index traders and swap dealers for the purposes of data reporting requirements and setting routine detailed reporting requirements for any position of such entities in contracts traded on designated contract markets, over-the-counter markets, derivatives transaction execution facilities, foreign boards of trade, and electronic trading facilities with respect to significant price discovery contracts.

· Subject all such information to proper peer review by independent scientists, including the significant numbers of experts who are skeptical of alarmist pollution and climate change claims;

Medical records submitted to the WCB established that the deceased did not have a pre-existing heart condition, but he was treated for a number of concerns during a period in which he was subjected to significant stress at work.

While emanations may seem innocuous in isolation, the ever - increasing number of technologies designed to: locate, track, store, process, mine, buy, use, break, fix, trash, change, melt, upgrade, charge, pawn, zoom, press, snap, work, erase, write, cut, paste, save, load, check, rewrite, plug, play, burn, rip, drag, drop, zip, unzip, lock, fill, curl, find, view, coat, jam, unlock, surf, scroll, pose, click, cross, crack, twitch, update, name, rate, tune, print, scan, send, fax, rename, touch, bring, obey, watch, turn, leave, stop and format information gleaned from emanations means that single bits of emanation information can be manipulated with such significant degrees of control that it is now possible to build a comprehensive profile of an individual's biographical or biological life without that individual ever knowing that he or she is, was, or will be a subject of surveillance.

RBS was facing Regulatory Investigations in a number of jurisdictions that could have had (and did have) the consequence that RBS was subjected to very large regulatory penalties and consequent private actions for very significant sums of money.

Google has been the subject of third party disclosure applications for extensive material to be made available from its user bases, potentially revealing the names and details of a significant number of subscribers.

How wonderful it would be if CanLII could also provide subject access (in the form of case digests organized by key topical catchwords or key numbers) to an intelligent selection of significant case law (formerly known as «reported» case law).

For example, in mid 2005 and in early 2006 [9], a number of the islands were subject to king tides which were so high that the life of one young girl was threatened, and significant damage was caused.

This matching method has been shown to be superior to simple and stratified randomization in producing balance for separate prognostic variables, particularly when the number of strata is large compared with the number of subjects.36 Based on 0.8 power to detect significant differences between conditions (P =.05, 1 - sided), this procedure was used to randomize 101 subjects to DBT (n = 52) or to CTBE (n = 49).