Sentences with phrase «similarly high results»

They thought this spike might be an anomaly due to an unusually accelerated class, but a second year with similarly high results from eighth graders convinced them to extend use of Apex Learning digital curriculum to all seventh - and eighth - grade classes.

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Total's earnings echoed a similarly robust set of results from Royal Dutch Shell which also posted higher Q1 profits on Thursday.

Similarly, the higher the distillation strength of the spirit (which must be collected below 94.8 % ABV) the lighter the character of the resulting spirit.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

Another thought is that while Bradford West in an highly unusual seat in many ways, and the result here is not likely to be reproduced in many other seats, one seat that does have a similarly high level of Muslim voters is Birmingham Hodge Hill, the seat of Liam Byrne who may be resigning to stand as Birmingham mayor if he wins the Labour nomination.

«Results demonstrate that blood pressure among post-menopausal women is 10 % higher immediately after menopause than in similarly - aged, pre-menopausal women.

An APC - mimetic scaffold that was engineered to activate a specific type of CAR - T cell was able to generate higher numbers of the modified T cells over longer periods of culture than analogously designed expansion beads, and the resulting cells were similarly effective in killing the lymphoma cells in the mice.

McDaniel, Roediger and McDermott eventually extended the study to nearby Columbia High School, where quizzing generated similarly impressive results.

The results show that the level of participants» obedience towards instructions is similarly high to that of the original Milgram studies.

The Front Squat tends to have a more upright body posture than a regular Back Squat, similarly, the High Bar Back Squat is also characterized by a more upright body posture, which results in similar outcomes on jump and sprint performances as the Front Squat.

The features of the capri pants that were supposed to achieve such wonderous results can be found similarly in other PUG pants, like their cigarette pants and high - waisted pants, so when PUG released their Laura Byrnes California High Waisted Cropped Trousers in Parrot Print I was both delighted by the print and super curious about the high - waisted pants, so when PUG released their Laura Byrnes California High Waisted Cropped Trousers in Parrot Print I was both delighted by the print and super curious about the High Waisted Cropped Trousers in Parrot Print I was both delighted by the print and super curious about the fit.

Phantom Thread's high - end fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who custom - makes dresses for royalty and hoi polloi in London circa 1950s, is as much a model of obsessive - compulsive mania as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007); this master - dressmaker works in softer and more pliant materials than the wildcat oilman, but is similarly uncompromising about his process and results.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Similarly, teachers eligible for increases in base pay as a result of being rated highly effective twice also showed strong improvement relative to high performing teachers not eligible for the pay increases.

The results, as you may have seen here or read abouthere or here showed that 3rd grade students that participated in DPP had an average of 6 % higher TCAPscores than similarly matched students that did not participate in DPP.

If results from the new K - 12 assessment systems are to be used for comparable high - stakes decisions regarding individuals, such as the awarding of high school diplomas, similarly high thresholds for psychometric quality must be met (p. 17).

In the United States, new teachers only make an average of about $ 36,000, and the average salary for all teachers is just over $ 58,000 — which, in today's dollars, is lower than the average salary during the 1989 - 1990 school year.63 Teachers make 60 percent of what similarly educated professionals earn, much lower than the proportion in other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.64 Partly as a result of low teacher pay, young people are avoiding the teaching profession, excellent teachers are staying away from high - need schools, the teaching profession is not as diverse as it needs to be, and far too many great educators leave the profession altogether.65

Other provinces in China are expected to start reporting PISA results beginning with the next 2015 test and have similarly high scores.

This is probably the result of the short wheelbase and relatively high payload capacity of 660 kg, resulting in stiff springing, but similarly short models like the Ford Fiestavan and Vauxhall Corsavan ride better.

Similarly, protection of the neck was rated as poor for the 10 year dummy, as a result of high tensile forces during the test.

Instead they've followed the same tack of offering higher - priced, none - core inventory as JC Penney attempted, and with similarly disastrous results.

Similarly, adding a 10 % listed property allocation to the equity portion of a 60 % S&P / NZX 50 and 40 % S&P / NZX Composite Investment Grade Bond Index portfolio resulted in a further reduction in volatility and higher risk - adjusted return over the trailing five - year period.

[It also found that] every $ 10,000 in student loan debt results in a 5 percent reduction in the chances that a student will become a teacher, work at a nonprofit, or take a similarly low - paying, high - karma job.

Similarly, bringing in quantities of lower - quality promotional products to hit «special purchase» price points in an effort to drive short - term sales is often a mistake, for it substitutes a lower value item for the in - line product the customer would likely have chosen from your regular assortment, it calls un-needed attention to the comparatively higher regular prices you have already established and it usually results in customer dissatisfaction when the inferior quality item fails to perform as expected.

Similarly, the largest recent overwash event on upper Texas coast barrier islands resulted from the high tides and very strong winds of TS Frances which landfalled 180 miles to the south.

This is not to argue that buildings should be designed as cubes or spheres so as to limit energy use, but rather to set targets that reward more energy efficient designs, and ensure less efficient designs compensate by meeting higher specs to achieve a similarly low energy result.

Similarly Greenland's snowfall accumulation is at all time highs and recent GRACE results show that after several years of accelerated ice loss due to glacier thinning, the net loss from Greenland in 2013 - 2014 was insignificant.

Similarly, the radiative insulation around the earth reduces the amount of separately supplied thermal energy (from the sun) to the colder ambient of space, resulting in higher temperatures on the earth for the same amount of supplied energy.

Similarly, a recent MarketinSherpa study found that marketers ranked «cool microsites» the highest in terms of delivering great results such as stronger conversion rates - higher than other online marketing tools such as online games and quizzes, video clips, audio clips, and e-cards.

Similarly, consequences of not insuring your car would render high rates to you in event that a large casualty results from an accident.

Similarly, cheaper cars that require low maintenance are good candidates for discounts, while costly vehicles would result in higher premium rates.

Nevertheless, the MECSH trial showed some significant results and some trends that require replication in larger samples of mothers drawn from a similarly widely defined at - risk group, including older, multiparous mothers, and mothers with higher levels of education than have been reported in other trials.1 14 Mothers of infants and toddlers in the intervention group provided a home environment that was statistically significantly more supportive of their child's development through more verbal and emotional responsivity; however, the effect size was small.

Indeed, a longitudinal Swedish study reports that «high achievers» used television as a complement to school learning, whereas «low achievers» used television as a substitute for it.16 Similarly, a study of 326 young children found that parental education is negatively related to hours watched overall.13 Other studies have found effect modification of the effects of television viewing on educational outcomes by the SES of the parents.14, 21 As a result, television viewing in a general population may serve to exacerbate disparities in cognitive outcomes between high - SES and low - SES households.

Similarly, increasing positive emotions and engagement resulted in higher remission rates for depressed people than treatment as usual or even treatment as usual plus medication (Seligman, Rashid, & Parks, 2006).

Similarly, our recent analysis of the short - and long - term effects of North Carolina's ABC / CARE programs show lasting boosts in both IQ and socio - emotional skills that result in greater educational achievement, higher adult wages, and significantly better health outcomes that reduce health care costs.

Similarly, high population levels of material deprivation, low parental educational attainment, and family violence are likely to result in high levels of parenting and child and adolescent mental health problems.