Sentences with phrase «single point in time»

Films like J. Edgar and The Aviator (for which he got a Leading Role nomination) require him to play a single character through many stages of his life, never allowing the actor to fully inhabit characters at a single point in time.

You always hear about the «overnight success» of a lot of businesses, but what most people don't see is the years of behind the scenes blood, sweat, and tears that go into pushing a business to that single point in time.

First, it should be noted that the consciousness shift is a «process,» — similar to the process of growing up — and there may not be any single point in time when it is suddenly complete.

I think most, if not all, places on the planet were covered with water at some point, however, there wasn't a single point in time when all places were covered with water at the same time.

(13.7 billion years ago) 2s) the universe began at a single point in time and space called the Big Bang.

Most prior research on inflammation and delirium has collected information at a single point in time.

He also notes that the study's results, because they are drawn from brains studied at a single point in time, can't illuminate disease progression.

While earlier research established a link between parental conflict at a single point in time and children's adjustment later in life, Raver and her colleagues saw a need to explore how children may be adversely affected by prolonged exposure to this aggression.

Previous research showed having a purpose in life generally improves overall sleep when measured at a single point in time.

However, there is no single point in time that counted the most for the child's development.

The study took only a snapshot of participants» brains at a single point in time, so it can't prove any association between increased tau and mental deterioration.

The discovery is important since most genomic studies have focused on a single point in time, after a tumor has been surgically removed, making it difficult to study the natural history of chromosome evolution during tumor growth.

But most studies have assessed adolescent depression at a single point in time — not cumulatively, said the researchers.

However, LiDAR is expensive, requires highly specialized equipment and flyovers, and is most frequently used to capture data from a single point in time.

Previous studies analyzed either stored pollen collected from hives or pollen samples collected from bees at a single point in time.

Dr. May said most studies have looked at depression at a single point in time, such as within 30 days of a heart event or at the time of heart disease diagnosis.

But it is a still snapshot, a single point in time when nothing is moving.

«The researchers measured levels of inflammation at a single point in time and we don't know whether this gives a reliable indication of inflammation more generally.

A fasting plasma glucose test measures blood glucose at a single point in time.

It was very large, unique and comprehensive but it was observational (i.e., not interventional), simply observing things as they were at a single point in time.

Earlier studies that found a link between mental ability and pot smoking have generally looked at a single point in time, raising the possibility that low IQ increases the likelihood of marijuana use, rather than vice versa, Meier says.

Finally, we investigated individuals» involvement in and experiences with online dating and Internet personals ads at a single point in time during a particular historical era.

As I stated earlier, PISA produces data collected at a single point in time.

The data were collected at a single point in time and can not speak to what optimism may have been before or after that point.

When an individual retires under a DB plan, she is entitled to a stream of payments that has a lump - sum value that we calculate using standard actuarial methods (which take into account expected mortality patterns and adjust the sum of payments to reflect the fact that they are received over many years rather than at a single point in time).

Studies indicate that games enhance the brainpower and one's ability to switch between different tasks; it also enables people to incorporate multiple ideas for a problem solution, at a single point in time.

It would make matters more difficult because the most important flaw of the No Child Left Behind accountability system is its reliance on the level of student achievement at a single point in time as a measure of school performance.

At any single point in time, all of these factors are closely associated with single parenthood, and therefore it is tempting to use them to «explain» growth in parenting outside of marriage.

Given the strong influence of out - of - school factors on student achievement, any quality measure based on the level of student performance at a single point in time will be heavily influenced by characteristics of a school's student body.

Many studies, including the AFT one, are inherently suspect, inasmuch as they look only at student achievement levels at a single point in time, thereby telling us little or nothing about how much pupils are learning.

Many studies, including the AFT one, are inherently suspect, inasmuch as they look only at student achievement levels at a single point in time, thereby telling us little or nothing about how much pupils are

Instead of «thick slice» assessment (data taken from a single point in time, and / or data with very large blocks of time between measurements), formative assessments are conducted at meaningful «thin slice» points measured throughout the academic year.

«These assessments are administered at a single point in time and provide after - the - fact data that do not inform instruction,» the authors wrote, concluding that the resulting education system is one that places more emphasis on accountability goals than it does on the improvement of student learning.

The illustration provides a snapshot of student achievement using standards - based grading, and captures each students» status, or the academic performance of each student, at a single point in time.

Additionally, all 17 plans have shifted student success measurements away from a single point in time to year - to - year growth in order to assess student progress over time.

When evaluating TDFs, plan sponsors and consultants would do well to look beyond a single point in time.

This means that if you have several credit cards with a collective limit of $ 10,000, you should make a point to never have more than $ 3,000 in charges at a single point in time.

More likely, you will have to make multiple visits just to obtain the desired metrics for a single point in time.

Unlike the typical one -, three -, five - and ten - year annualized returns, they are not anchored to a single point in time, frequently aligned to an artificial boundary of a calendar year.

Because this method relies on a single point in time (i.e., the last day of the contract), a large decline in the index prior to that point may decrease the interest.

I usually collect all of these measurements monthly for my own site and have therefore seen some large changes to these metrics, so I suggest you monitor these metrics for a period and understand what is the typical top and bottom of your range as this will give a better indication than a single point in time.

Short - term data sets are like snapshots of the environment at a single point in time.

UC Davis doctoral student Taylor Chapple notes,» [T] his estimate only represents a single point in time; further research will tell us if this number represents a healthy, viable population, or one critically in danger of collapse, or something in - between.»

And if we want the most reliable heads - up on future catastrophes, they say, we should look at patterns across space as well as time, «as a spatial pattern contains much more information than does a single point in a time series, in principle allowing shorter lead times.»