Sentences with phrase «significant observations of other»

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He then writes a book to inform others of his groundbreaking observations of the most significant kind, knowing that many will persecute him and reject his findings for hundreds of years based on their older religious beliefs.

On the other hand, it must be admitted, this distinguished company has as yet been unable to achieve any significant measure of unity on the actual identity of the «Reed Sea» - other than in the astute observation that it must have been a body of water in which reeds commonly grew!

In contrast to most other bird groups, parrots have a prominent tongue, raising the possibility that tongue movements may also be of significant importance in vocal production in parrots, but evidence is rare and observations often anecdotal.

Though blue - green algae is not a significant source of EPA or DHA, some research indicates that it has a very high conversion rate in comparison to other plants (R Kushak et al, unpublished observations, 1999).

take into account data on student growth as a significant factor as well as other factors, such as multiple observation - based assessments of performance and ongoing collections of professional practice reflective of student achievement and increased high school graduation rates; and

One of the commitments that Washington — and every State that received ESEA flexibility — made was to put in place teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that take into account information on student learning growth based on high - quality college - and career - ready (CCR) State assessments as a significant factor in determining teacher and principal performance levels, along with other measures of professional practice such as classroom observations.

In the very next sentence, he points out that the MET project has two stated premises guiding its work — that, whenever feasible, teacher evaluations should be based «to a significant extent» on student test score gains; and that other components of evaluations (such as observations), in order to be considered valid, must be correlated with test score gains.

When the performance of the three groups on the classroom observation test was contrasted using an ANOVA, F (2) = 2.822, p =.067, the probability that the mean differences were due other than to chance alone, with alpha of p <.05, was not considered significant.

Over the past twelve months I made the observation that CEO's, Board of Directors and other corporate officers weren't buying shares in any significant amount throughout this credit crisis.

Encompassing tests show that none of the three classes of variables account for the contributions of the other two, though 20 of 22 GCMs individually contribute either no significant explanatory power or yield a trend pattern negatively correlated with observations.

I'll bet he uses one of the NWS or other studies which claims the errors from the erroneous observations are negligible and not a significant factor in the error range of the climate models.

Dr. Seitz's introduction concludes that «we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.»

This interpretation is strengthened by the observation that the associations among television and children's consumption of fruits, vegetables, and juices; all meats; and pizza, salty snacks, and soda remained statistically significant in the full regression models, where the effects of socioeconomic and other confounding factors were controlled.

Home visiting for the purpose of support and observation of newborns with low birth weight who are sent home early has been shown to be cost - effective by saving significant costs for the health insurer while improving overall health status.38 Unfortunately, the savings from home - visiting efforts often accrue at some point in the future to entities other than the payer of the initial program.