Sentences with phrase «size reduction from»

First of all, the screen is a good bit denser on the Galaxy Alpha, and that's because of the 0.3 - inch screen size reduction from the G3 Beat.

«There is still no ancestor - descendant sequence from Flores that supports body size reduction from a larger bodied H. erectus ancestor,» says Peter Brown at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the original hobbit excavations at Liang Bua.

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Another reduction, though the relatively small size of Berkshire's holdings makes the sales discernible only in the 13F filings, is that Berkshire cut its investment in Moody's (MCO) from about 32 million shares at the end of 2009 to 28.4 million a year later.

Using the savings from those benefits to reinvest in American business — of all sizes — through reduction in taxes (and, since we're making the argument, reducing some of the regulatory burden to boot) would help business owners to grow their operations, increase sales and, yes, hire workers.

Most of this reduction is due to less debt issuance from eliminating Social Security deficits; some comes from an increase in the size of the economy because of that lower debt.

This allows for a reduction in the serving size along with a decrease in the negative side effects known to come from excessive protein intake, such as bloating, poor digestion, gas, etc..

It also improves the barrier for sensitive (moisture / oxygen) drugs by using the space gained from the reduction in blister size for increasing the seal width.

It's just common sense that skin won't shrink quickly enough to compensate for the reduction in size from engorgement to a closed factory.

Conservatives accept their opposition to Lords reform could cost them another of the coalition's constitutional changes - the reduction in the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 MPs and equalisation of constituency sizes.

It means David Cameron's prospects of winning an overall majority in 2015 have suffered a severe blow, as the reduction of the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 MPs would have handed the Tories an advantage of around 20 seats.

Some of the changes were agreed upon by all parties, such as the reduction in size of the parliament from 386 to 199 and the accompanying redrawing of districts.

It would cut more than $ 2 billion in grants for teacher training and class - size reduction and would reduce after - school grants from $ 1.2 billion to $ 1 billion.

In order to mask the full size of the budget gaps that his multi-year tax cuts would create, the Governor is proposing large service reductions, growing in value from close to $ 2 billion in 2006 - 07 to over $ 3 billion the following year.

A press release from the governor's corrections agency, titled «Right Sizing New York's Prison System», cites as the reasons the «dramatic reduction in the number of drug offenders».

That additional aid will help support everything from bilingual education and school libraries to reductions in class size.

The report listed «educational resource deficiencies» that were familiar to the platoon of school leaders — ranging from increased class size and libraries being repurposed for classrooms to staff cuts and the reduction of pre-K programs from full - day to half - day.

Bulging class sizes, stagnant salaries, fewer teachers and limited supplies of everything from books to copy paper: That is what the reduction in per - pupil state funding looks like in thousands of classrooms around the country since the Great Recession — despite a much vaunted economic recovery.

According to figures from the World Bank, the Chinese economy's carbon intensity — the amount of CO2 emissions relative to the size of economic output — has decreased by almost 70 per cent over the past three decades (see «Peak planet: Carbon dioxide intensity «-RRB-, and a further 20 per cent reduction from current levels is promised by 2020.

Kamel Fezzaa, a team member and beamline scientist with Argonne's X-Ray Science Division, concurs, adding, «Full - field imaging techniques will greatly benefit from the order of magnitude reduction in horizontal source size.

Results from bowel cancer - prone mice given the smaller dose showed a 50 per cent reduction in tumour size while the high dose showed a 25 per cent reduction.

Evidence from fossil hippopotamuses also shows such dramatic reductions in brain size in mammals are possible.

Injections of antibody molecules that block CD47 from interacting with SIRPA are already being tried in the clinic based on observations of some reduction in the sizes of tumors in mouse models.

Dated to 3.43 billion years ago in sandstone from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia, the microstructures were found with micrometer - sized pyrite crystals (fool's gold, an iron - sulfur mineral), as would be expected as the metabolic by - products of sulfur - based life that employ «sulphate - reduction and sulphur - disproportionation pathways.»

This could be as populations separate geographically from each other, or if one population experiences a severe reduction in size, or any number of scenarios that change the history of the population.

First, most climate simulations, including ours above and those of IPCC [1], do not include slow feedbacks such as reduction of ice sheet size with global warming or release of greenhouse gases from thawing tundra.

Skin: Cryotherapy websites report significant benefits for skin, from a reduction in blemishes and pore size to an increase in collagen and elasticity.

The greater gains in strength - to - size that result from an increase in specific tension are not reflected in improvements in muscle power, because the reduction in contractile velocity counteracts the effects of the increased muscle fiber force (Erskine et al. 2011).

Our canines are an adaptation to the enlarged cranium and the reduction of our jaw size (molars from dead humans that get dug up in archaeological diggings can get mistaken with molars of some other omnivores, funny isn't it).

I have recently had my eyes on a gorgeous trench coat from Mango which was on sale but all sizes were still available so I decided to give it a few days in case there was a further price reduction.

The gains in Tennessee may have come from extra resources, not anything specific to class size reduction.

He found no detectable benefit from mandated class size reduction — either for students in general or for any student subgroup, racial, ethnic, or level of disadvantage.

A study from the Center for American Progress also notes, «The average cost - effectiveness ratio of switching curriculum was almost 40 times that of class - size reduction.»

An effect of this size would be so small as to be essentially negligible from the standpoint of public policy; a one - point gain is too little to justify the expense of class - size reduction.

By going back to the tried - and - true rhetoric of class size reduction, the union would like to distract attention from any alternative school improvement policies.

However, a large body of research literature on class - size reduction contradicts the findings from Project STAR.

However, from a historical perspective, class - size reduction is a remedy in search of a problem.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

Also supporting my hypothesis is the evidence from class - size reduction experiments in Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Proposition 300 Would direct earnings from public lands that are above the 2000 - 01 level to be deposited in the state classroom - site fund, to be used for such things as class - size reduction, teacher raises, and school facility bond...

Early results from a class size reduction program introduced in California also seems to support the President's plan.

As a further point of comparison I provide results from a study [xvii] of Project STAR that examined the impact on middle school test scores of exposure to class size reduction in the early grades.

What would Americans in the 1960s reasonably have expected from their public schools if they had been told that the future promised a tripling in real spending for education; a major reduction in class size; and increased job security, higher pay, and sizable new fringe benefits for teachers?

A story in the Feb. 5, 2003, issue of Education Week inadvertently omitted the word «not» from a sentence describing the views of Bill Montford, the superintendent of the Leon County, Fla., public schools, regarding a class - size - reduction plan put forward by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Second, the RAND authors try to validate their own problematic methodology by claiming that their estimates of the effects of class size reduction are essentially the same as those obtained from the STAR study.

An article published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2000 by Caroline Huxby on The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation reported that reductions in class size had no effect on student achievemSize on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation reported that reductions in class size had no effect on student achievemsize had no effect on student achievement.

But what we're talking about in the U.S. is marginal reductions to class size, going from 30 to 25 students per class, and the benefits versus the costs of such reductions.

Also in 1998, Stanford's Caroline Hoxby found that «reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement.»

In his budget proposal for 2017 — 19 biennium, Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal underscored the importance of investing in teachers, noting, «Student success from the state's increased investment in full - day kindergarten, K — 3 class size reduction, and other... basic education components depends on making significant changes in Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.»

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