The research investigated academies that have been open between two and five years with local authority maintained schools with
similar characteristics using several attainment measures.
Not exact matches
You can
use that information to buy mailing lists of people with
similar characteristics, and design email and direct mail campaigns and websites that will appeal to your target audience.
Bismuth has
characteristics similar to lead, but is non-toxic, and new markets are developing for its
use that are supported by growing environmental awareness and legislation restricting the
use of lead globally.
The interview format
used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a)
characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality
characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married,
similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
Using studies of twins who had been separated at birth, yet displayed remarkably
similar characteristics of personality despite differences in environment, Harris demonstrated the importance of genetic predisposition as a factor in human development.
At that time we
used the language in the General Labelling Directive 2000 / 13 / EC on labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs for sale to the ultimate consumer Article 2 (1) of which stated that: «The labelling and methods
used must not: (a) be such as could mislead the purchaser to a material degree, particularly: (iii) by suggesting that the foodstuff possesses special
characteristics when in fact all
similar foodstuffs possess such
characteristics.»
Characteristics of the mothers and infants were
similar between the two breastfeeding groups with the exceptions of the proportion of women who
used fluoxetine during the third trimester of pregnancy and of the mean infant birth weight (Table 1).
The underlying logic of this stance is articulated with
characteristic clarity by Larry Bartels, who has written: «In a world where most campaigners make reasonably effective
use of reasonably
similar resources and technologies most of the time, much of their effort will necessarily be without visible impact, simply because every campaigner's efforts are balanced against more or less equally effective efforts to produce the opposite effect.»
Young adults are at an especially high risk for behavioral addictions, Snyder and her co-authors said, and Problematic Internet
Use is considered a behavioral addiction with
characteristics similar to substance abuse disorders.
This electrode was
used to make a micro-supercapacitor with energy density 0.5 J / cm ², which is about 1000 times greater than existing micro-supercapacitors, and very
similar to the density
characteristics of current Li - ion micro-batteries.
«Single - walled carbon nanotube field - effect transistors (FETs) have
characteristics similar to polycrystalline silicon FETs, a thin film silicon transistor currently
used to drive the pixels in organic light - emitting (OLED) displays,» said Mark Hersam, Dodabalapur's coworker and a professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.
«But the issue with Meningitis B is that the coating of this bacterium has
similar characteristics to a human protein found in the brain, and therefore if we
used the same method, we would potentially create antibodies against the body's own protein.»
When Ekström and colleague Colin Stark analyzed the seismic data associated with those major landslides, they realized that certain
characteristics of the slumps were contained in the ground motions —
similar to the way that researchers can
use seismic data to estimate the size of a quake and the directions at which the two sides of a fault zone slipped past each other.
This can include identifying microscopic amounts of blood, saliva or semen on evidence; carrying out a DNA analysis on any samples found and comparing the resulting profile against the UK's DNA Database; or
using microscopy to see if two fibres have
similar characteristics.
Previous attempts to model snowflakes
using a
similar approach could not reproduce both growth
characteristics.
Two space telescopes given to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office, both of which have
characteristics similar to the Hubble Space Telescope (seen here), are being opened up for proposals for innovative
uses.
First, we identified an A. cerana homolog (Acks = Apis cerana kakusei) of kakusei, an immediate early gene that we previously identified from A. mellifera, and showed that Acks has
characteristics similar to kakusei and can be
used to visualize active brain regions in A. cerana.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are taking a
similar approach,
using PDX mice to match genetic
characteristics of an individual's tumor to specific drugs.
Functional assessment of Brn3b / Thy1 cells
using whole cell patch recordings found
similar electrophysiological
characteristics between iPSC - derived RGCs and those isolated from rat and primate retina.
(The ESA spacecraft arrived at Sol's hottest planet on March 11, 2006, where it is being
used to investigate how Venus — although
similar to Earth in size, mass, and composition — evolved over the past 4.6 billion years to have atmospheric and planetary surface
characteristics that now appear very different from those on Earth.)
Increasingly, clinical trials and interventions that
use dietary treatments with nutritional
characteristics similar to those found in preindustrial and preagricultural diets have confirmed the beneficial health consequences predicted by the template of evolutionary discordance theory.
Gay members can
use the app's premium 5 - Factor Personality Questionnaire to match up with a partner who shares
similar hobbies,
characteristics, and lifestyle choices.
Derived from the theories of Jung and Freud, the testing
uses simple questions to gauge the ways people think and interact with others and matches
using a balance of
similar and complementary
characteristics.
Answering the questions will give you a Personality Type that will be
used to match you with people who have
similar characteristics.
The director of photography, Lance Acord,
used a lightweight Aaton 35 camera to reproduce a nostalgic aesthetic
similar to the snapshot, «like a memory and a love story» according to Coppola, to photograph the particular combination of traditional and western influences
characteristic of contemporary Japanese culture (Coppola quoted in Mitchell, n.p.).
Given these
characteristics, the
use case for tablets is more
similar to laptops / desktops than it is to smartphones.
Propensity Score Matching was
used to create a control group of students who did not take part in CREST, but had
similar characteristics to those who did.
Then, to achieve more diversity, the university
uses a process
similar to what is
used at many selective colleges — individualized review for the remainder of students (who are evaluated on both academic and personal
characteristics).
Because Indiana public and private schools
use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school students who shared
similar achievement trajectories and demographic
characteristics with these voucher students at baseline (the year prior to a student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups» academic progress for up to four subsequent years.
We define online hate speech, or cyberhate, as the
use of electronic communications technology to spread bigoted or hateful messages or information about people based on their actual (or perceived) race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other
similar characteristic.
However, recent studies
using randomized admission lotteries at charter schools and the random assignment of teachers has suggested that simple, low - cost methods, when they control for students» prior achievement and
characteristics, can yield estimates of teacher and school effects that are
similar to what one observes with a randomized field trial.
To measure the effects of private school choice, we compare the long - term outcomes of more than 10,000 low - income students who first
used FTC vouchers between 2004 and 2010 with outcomes of students with
similar characteristics who never participated.
This is based on the assumption that schools in the same neighborhoods will have student bodies that have
similar characteristics, which we will attempt to verify
using available data.
In addition, gaps in participation among student groups persist even when participation is measured
using methods that compare students with
similar background and education
characteristics.
Use the Venn diagram organizer in vocabulary activities to help learners discover
similar and dissimilar
characteristics between vocabulary
used with two different subjects, themes, topics, etc..
Alignment studies are often
used to help determine the extent to which two assessments are
similar with respect to their purpose,
characteristics, and content.
For this reason, Nokian Tyres introduced the WR family of products in North America with
similar characteristics found in Performance Winter products, but with modified compounds to accommodate
using these tires 12 months out of the year.»
Similar to the S - Class's Magic Body Control system, it
uses cameras mounted within the windscreen to scan the road 18 times per second and then alter the damping and spring
characteristics for each individual wheel.
Bookish Recommends
uses an algorithm that identifies recommended books based on
similar characteristics.
The performance of these systems is excellent: (i) the transistors have
characteristics (e.g., on and off currents, etc.) that are comparable to, or better than, those of
similar devices fabricated on rigid silicon supports by
using conventional photolithographic methods, and (ii) the optical
characteristics (e.g., switching time, contrast ratio, etc.) of the resulting displays are as good as those of low - resolution signs that
use similar electronic inks and direct - drive dressing schemes.
The discount rate you
use to compute present value is the prevailing yield for bonds with
similar characteristics.
Tracking a large bond index is difficult and expensive, so index funds pegged to the DEX Universe always
use «representative sampling,» selecting a smaller of number bonds with
similar overall
characteristics.
Therefore I will have to
use two different properties with
similar characteristics and located in the same area for my article.
At Insurance and Estates we
use a common comparison between permanent life insurance and real estate are
similar ASSETS because they tend to share a number of common
characteristics such as:
A benchmark ideally should have
similar portfolio
characteristics as the fund which intends to
use it.
There is one breed of American Pit Bull Terrier, but the term «pit bull» is a term
used to define a group of breeds that share
similar characteristics.
1 - there is not such thing as a pit bull, it \'s simply
used to describe dogs with
similar physical
characteristics 2 - without knowing exactly what breed it truly is you can not accurately determine what breed is biting 3 - as the article points out, it \'s impossible to determine the number of dog bites as many aren \» t reported.
Ischemic dermatopathy is a term
used to group multiple vasculopathic syndromes unified by
similar clinical and histopathologic
characteristics.
It's a generic term often
used to describe all dogs with
similar traits and
characteristics known to the public as «Pit Bulls.»
It's a generic term often
used to describe all dogs with
similar traits and
characteristics often known by the public as «pit bulls.»