Sentences with phrase «significant number of the measures»

Although the pace of change has already been very rapid, a significant number of the measures outlined above are due to take effect in 2017.

Not exact matches

On the basis of what evidence is at hand one can conclude that while there has been a gradual rise in the level of theological education in the last half century the training of a significant number of Protestant ministers is very inadequate, if adequacy is measured in terms of college and seminary training.

The building was designed with significant regard to sustainability, and incorporated a number of environmentally responsible and resource - efficient measures, including:

While these teams measure up pretty similarly when it comes to a number of advanced metrics, FIU does have a significant advantage in the red zone, where they rank second in the country in scoring percentage, while Temple ranks 96th.

A significant number of these injuries could be prevented if parents, athletes and soccer organizations employed the following safety measures:

Finally, a Finnish trial of universal home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the large number of effects measured in this study, replication of the findings is warranted.38

Information includes type of comparison; child behaviour outcome measures demonstrating a significant difference between comparison groups; numbers of children in each comparison group.

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

Whether or not the British people are particularly obsessed about fairness is hard to measure (it seems to be so), but for a very significant number of them, it seriously affects the way they think about politics.

As well as increasing the number of GPs from 40 to 50 %, the new measures also include a significant increase in dementia training and a push to get more medical students working in accident and emergency services (A&E).

A significant number of schools that are safe but below average in absolute academic performance (perhaps half to the 10 % of schools that over perform) are excellent by a value added measure.

If that number is significant, it could negate the climate benefit of natural gas — measured against coal — unless the leaks are plugged.

«Québec universities plan to hire a significant number of professors in the next 3 to 5 years,» says Francesco Arena of the Québec Ministère de l'Éducation, «but I do not have sufficient information to tell you how many new faculty will take advantage of the new tax exemption measure.»

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

We report here a significant improvement in the resolution of array CGH, with the development of an array platform that utilizes single - stranded DNA array elements to accurately measure copy - number changes of individual exons in the human genome.

Our second research question asked whether a statistically significant difference existed between all three intervention groups on five sleep measures at intervention - end: length of time needed to fall asleep, total time asleep, number of nighttime awakenings, length of nighttime awakenings, and fatigue level next day.

We do not find any statistically significant relationship between the number of years a teacher has taught and students» achievement, though this is probably due to the necessary omission of first - year teachers (because we can not measure their value added for a previous school year).

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

This process begins with the highlighting of places, whether in the US or abroad, where teaching is seen as an attractive profession including sensitive and profession - appropriate measures of which candidates are promising; excellent training given over a number of years, without candidates having to acquire significant debt; placement of apprentice teachers in settings where they can be expertly inducted into the profession; expert and appealing professional development where teachers feel that they are continuing to acquire new and needed skills; and career paths that are multi-faceted and rewarding.

Perhaps 2011 was an unusual year for school reform only because of the number of school - choice programs enacted, which was significant by any measure, but not because students swarmed to the new programs (Indiana is a notable exception).

While observers will judge Bloomberg and Klein's tenure using standardized test scores — and even they agree those scores are important measures — Klein has made no secret of the fact that he wishes his team's work to be marked in the end by significant upticks in both the graduation rate and the numbers of students who pass basic tests in order to qualify for a Regents diploma.

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.

[10] They find that given the correlations we typically see among different measures of teacher performance, there is likely to be a significant number of false positives and negatives: teachers falling into one performance category according to one measure and into a different category according to another measure.

[20] Though access, as measured as the number of transit stops per square mile in the neighborhoods, seems to be different in high and low boundary participation neighborhoods, these differences are not statistically significant for the two groups of schools.

This decision impacts a small number of schools (6) but has significant impact on students in those schools being able to access all the benefits promised by the tax measure.

But a review of the best evidence on teachers» sentiments shows that educators are not unhappy because they resent the new emphasis on teacher evaluations, a key element of President Obama's Race to the Top program; in fact, according to a separate survey of 10,000 public school teachers from Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, the majority support using measures of student learning to assess teachers, and the mean number of years teachers believe they should devote to the classroom before being assessed for tenure is 5.4, a significant increase from the current national average of 3.1 years.

A number of things help give the FT - Bh this impressive figure, including the use of high - tensile steel, aluminium and magnesium in the construction saving a significant amount of weight, measuring in at just 786 kg.

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.

Readers will play a significant role in the competition with the award shortlist compiled based on a number of factors that measure customer interest in the titles, followed by an esteemed panel of judges — made up of both Amazon experts and literary authorities — selecting the Kindle Storyteller 2017 winner.

Readers will play a significant role in the competition with the award shortlist compiled based on a number of factors that measure customer interest in the titles, followed by an esteemed panel of judges — made up of both Amazon experts and literary authorities — selecting the Kindle Storyteller 2017 winner, says an official statement on Amazon.co.uk.

If a trainer has a certification from one of these programs, you know that their abilities have been individually measured and that they have completed a significant number of training hours.

True — it probably will not have a measurable effect of atmospheric temperatures per se» but remember a significant number of temperature measuring stations are close ground level and these stations may record lower temperatures in each locality.

The measure of success or failure in California is the number of tons of carbon no longer emitted once significant energy conservation measures have been taken and after carbon emitting energy resources have been substantially eliminated in favor of green energy resources.

«Appropriate legal aid funding is a significant measure, among others, that will reduce the number of people representing themselves and provide greater access to justice for families and First Nations in the province.

However, neither of our multivariate analyses showed a statistically significant correlation between likelihood of success and the moving party's total number of case appearances, size of law firm, or size of law office.114 Thus, to the extent that these measures of experience or firm size are proxies for lawyer skill, our multivariate analyses cast doubt on the theory that readability is merely a proxy for lawyer skill.115

In addition to making their mark regulating the practice of law and, in particular, post-entry competence, the courts have also taken a number of significant measures in the last several decades with respect to regulating the business of law.

Next week's federal budget is expected to make a significant investment in building up Canada's cyber defences and the funding package will cover measures to protect 2019 election from foreign interference Several government sources say up to $ 1 billion has been requested by federal departments to address a growing number of cybersecurity issues across multiple departments and agencies.

Significant correlations were obtained between the BISQ and actigraphic sleep measures related to sleep - onset time and the number of night wakings.

Number of Children Who Are Positive (as Measured by CBCL and PSC) for Clinically Significant Behavior Problems

This treatment has been shown to produce clinically significant improvements on a number of measures, often resulting in changing the diagnostic status of the child from disordered to normal.

EIP showed favorable impacts on 8 outcomes, including fewer days and episodes of hospitalization, relative to those in the comparison group, covering a range of 6 weeks to 2 years postpartum.13, 23,24 EIP also showed a favorable effect on the percentage of children who were adequately immunized by 1 year, but the difference was no longer statistically significant by 2 years.13, 24 Early Start demonstrated favorable effects on 3 outcomes, including percentage who received well - child visits and dental service.25 — 27 HFA had favorable results for 4 health care outcomes, such as the number of well - child visits and whether the child had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcomes.

Small numbers and different dose effects (weeks in treatment) reduced the chance of finding statistically significant findings in the self - report measures.

Both MCS and GUS results suggest that parenting is more strongly associated with social, behavioural and emotional difficulties than with general health, in terms of the greater number of significant associations between parenting measures and difficulties.

Because of the large number of comparisons (each predictor variable for three outcome measures), results were only considered significant at the p <.01.

Results indicate that compared with the other conditions, significant treatment effects in the EMDR condition were obtained at posttreatment on a number of self - report, psychometric, and standardized interview measures.

The most apparent is that single measures of absolute concentrations of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give significant findings; deviation measures, in terms of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a number of factors, such as Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic disease.

Most studies were small and none of the studies reported a power calculation to estimate the number of individuals required in order to detect a significant difference in effect for the outcomes measured.

The stability measures of ODD and CU between ages 3 and 5 yielded significant (p <.001) but moderate - low coefficients: intra-class correlation was.31 for callousness,.40 for uncaring,.03 for unemotional,.40 for total score and.42 for number of ODD symptoms.

Correlation analysis yielded a number of significant relationships between family functioning and measures of parental adjustment.

Previous MCS studies have related broad composite measures of father engagement in caring activities to subsequent child behavioural outcomes using subscales of total difficulties (emotion, conduct, attention or peer problems)[38 — 40]: most effects were very small and not statistically significant, but (among the large number of analyses performed), inverse associations were reported for (a) engagement at 9 months with emotional problems at 3 years [38], (b) engagement at 3 years with attention problems at 5 years [39] and (c) engagement at 5 years with peer problems at 7 years [40].