Sentences with phrase «small number of experiments»

Note that for a small number of experiments, the frequency of rolling a six, even if the die is indeed fair, need not be 1/6.

Not exact matches

Regarding charter schools — Charter schools are supposed to act as laboratories, where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of experiments to find better ways to educate them.

Some police forces have experimented with the use of GPS tracking on a voluntary basis with «persistent and priority offenders» but the numbers are very small and the tracking is part of a holistic package that includes housing and intensive personal support.

It would permit a limited experiment, dispensing medical marijuana at a few hospitals for a smaller number of illnesses.

The smaller the number of variables, the thinking went, the greater the accuracy of the experiment.

When the results of an experiment were reported in a journal, each of the small number of authors could truthfully claim to have participated in the writing of the paper itself.

But if even a small number of mutant mitochondria are retained after the transfer — a common occurrence — they can outcompete healthy mitochondria in a child's cells and potentially cause the disease the therapy was designed to avoid, experiments suggest.

The current experiments use such a small number of photons that it would take a standard laptop a fraction of a second to make the same calculation.

The number of unethical physicians implicated in the above experiments is very small, compared to the total number of physicians.

«Since our nanogaps can operate at low power, we can pack a large number of such structures into small areas, and this could allow us to run multiple experiments on the same chip,» says Oh.

Generally, microarray experiments can be completed within one week of receipt of a small number of samples.

«The meta - analytic study requires a certain number of studies (at least 17 - 20 experiments) to detect smaller effects and to avoid false - positive results (if the findings are driven by the effect of single experiments),» Zinchenko said.

Smaller pots are fine for experimenting with recipes, but when you are cooking soups, because they freeze so well, it is a shame not to make a large enough batch for a number of meals.

This «cross-over» type experiment is also good if you have a small number of subjects (which many weight loss studies do).

Presumably they used this small number of cells in order to ensure that some mice would not develop tumors during the 39 day experiment.

The small number of randomized experiments in education may reflect not researchers» distaste for them but a simple calculation of how difficult they are to mount in the complex organizational context of schools.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

Various Phase 1 experiments could be run through it, with small numbers of teachers at first, so that many experiments could be run concurrently.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

In the past, states have experimented with traditional school voucher programs, which are typically limited to small numbers of low - income students.

However, those cloning methods could be used only in experiments with a small number of primitive living creatures, such as sea urchins and salamanders.

More clues are gathered by a number of varied mini-games in which you partake in experiments and re-enactments usually taking on the form of a small puzzle.

Bamboo works remained utilitarian in nature until the mid-20th century when a small number of artists left the traditional path and experimented with sculptural forms.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

Mike Mercer: Our motivation had a number of factors — financial (and with the rental of the home we own, we have great cash flow), quality of life experiment (could our lives be just as meaningful and happy living in a small space?

The rate at which experiments can select such «events» is determined by a number of factors, such as electronic latency and therefore a small number end up being collected.

Similarly, regionalisation techniques have been used with only a small number of the GCM experiments that have been conducted.

For example, GCM experiments have used one, or only a small number, of the concentration scenarios that are plausible (for example, most transient AOGCM experiments that have been used for climate scenarios adopted by impacts assessments have been forced with a scenario of a 1 % per annum growth in greenhouse gas concentration).

This is an experiment and it involves a relatively small number of families each year (approx. 100).

During the late 1990s and early 2000s while most firms looked toward India for off - shoring, a number of firms, most notably Orrick, experimented with moving back office services to smaller cities in the U.S. with relatively low costs of living but with highly educated work forces.

We've experimented directly with a smaller number of partners to understand some of the implementation challenges they face, and we're committed to building a product that works for publishers of various shapes and sizes.

For years, Google has been experimenting with small - scale shopping deliveries in a number of U.S. cities via Google Express.

The feature, which appears based on a 2017 experiment involving a «driving mode,» has begun appearing inside the iOS app for a small number of users.