Sentences with phrase «standard of measurement»

«AREA will be working with local boards to look at the existing rules and agree on the implementation and enforcement of a provincial standard of measurement for residential properties, including condominiums, for the benefit of all consumers.»

As more natural modalities of interaction emerge, that the notion of a «click» - the defacto standard of measurement in the media and marketing worlds - is quickly going the way of the dodo.

«AREA will be working with local boards to look at the existing rules and agree on the implementation and enforcement of a provincial standard of measurement for residential properties, including condominiums, for the benefit of all consumers.»

The flagging of SAT scores protected the test's usefulness as a common standard of measurement by informing readers, such as college - admissions officers, when the test had been taken under unusual conditions, such as receiving time and a half to finish the standard three - hour exam.

Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, considered the gold standard of measurement by charter school supporters across the country, found that students in the company's schools grew less academically than students in the neighboring traditional public schools.

To meet the nation's growing need for information about what students know and can do, the NAEP assessment instruments must meet the highest standards of measurement reliability and validity.

Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance metrics to justify their outlays.

Granted the purpose of establishing a community of inquiry that is in principle universal, through the adoption of reliable standards of measurement, it might seem that the scope of freedom in science would end, and that scientific inquiry beyond that basic decision would become a matter of technical routine.

Credible standards of measurement are critical to world trade, says Barry Inglis, an electrical engineer and assistant chief of standards with the National Measurement Laboratory which is part of the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics.

It's the last standard of measurement that is still based on a physical object — but it will soon be derived from a mathematical constant

But the term is misleading by inferring that there is a real, known standard of measurement.

«But let's make one more thing clear: Under no circumstances should this report or Superintendent Bennett's unfortunate choices be used to turn back the clock to a time when schools did not have to be accountable for results, and there were no standards for letting parents and others know exactly how a school was performing, let alone a uniform standard of measurement.

One of the complications when it comes to understanding the research data on animal shelters is that often standards of measurement differ from study to study, state to state, or nation to nation.

Revolution - era scientists as they developed a universal standard of measurement: the metric system.

Rare examples of his extant work, included at Hauser & Wirth, captured the artist's persistent interest in experiential, highly personal standards of measurement, such as a coiled neon light measuring the perimeter of his studio (Perimetro - Misura studio stanza, 1967) and a length of aluminum bent to the specific dimensions of its current space (Standard, 1967).

I am yet to come across a residential agent that can write / negotiate a 30 - 50 page lease, use BOMA standard of measurement, properly calculate monthly rent, understand the complexities of commercial financing, have a realistic perspective of build / retrofit costs, understand the correct approach to determine correct value of income properties, and grasp the importance of environmental contamination and its impact.

Although various theories may be in some respects incommensurate, the various theorists will all in practice share these presuppositions, so they can and should provide a common standard of measurement.

Although the article actually cites this research — noting that it is «considered the gold standard of measurement by charter school supporters across the country» — it only does so to show that one particular charter chain in Detroit is low performing.

AREA says that currently in Alberta, there is no province wide regulation or standard of measurement.

He recognised that some absolute is necessary as a standard of measurement for all probabilities.

Topher, it would've been easy to answer that one, if you said that you were using the bible as the standard of measurement.

The law was good as a standard of measurement.

But if it can not be measured, how can it serve as a standard of measurement for others?)

According to this standard of measurement, He can not prove to any of us that He is the origin of all things.

Basically all you did was argue with the standard of measurement and state your opinion that studies of infant mortality should be broken down into categories.

Rather, the CSIRO is assisting Indonesia to gain international recognition for its standards of measurement.

The Greek scholar Eratosthenes later came remarkably close to computing the size of the globe using the stadium, a standard of measurement equal to the length of an ancient Olympic footrace, which by modern calculations was between 607 and 738 feet.

Most popular diets have a standard of measurement be it the Zone, Atkins or Weightwatchers.

The New York Times article also noted that making educational decisions based on a single test violates the standards of the measurement profession itself and has been criticized by a National Academy of Science blue ribbon panel.

This new data presents one standard of measurement of academic gain for students at age 15.

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By any standard of measurement, the 1998 Prizm LSi is an excellent automobile - and a car I'll gladly recommend.

By any standard of measurement, this is an excellent subcompact car.

But I can tell you that, apart from the controversial styling, every other aspect of the new Taurus scores high by every standard of measurement I use to evaluate new vehicles.

But you can use the resulting present value figure that you get by discounting your cash flows back at the long - term Treasury rate as a common yardstick just to have a standard of measurement across all businesses.»

Are you suggesting that the standard of measurement could not allow for noise to be mis - read as a trend?

AREA says that currently in Alberta, there is no province wide regulation or standard of measurement.