Sentences with phrase «standard use between»

The Court noted «we can not find unreasonable the Patent Office's decision to prefer a degree of inconsistency in the standard used between courts and the agency, rather than among agency proceedings.»

Not exact matches

The companies deal with the tension between encouraging growth and staying socially responsible by using standard management techniques.

And in place of the standard fitting system, which relies on cup and bust size, the company uses 10 distinct measurements, including nape to waist, bust point to bust point and the length between the armpits.

This conflict between fuel efficiency, road use and tax revenue will only grow as Ottawa commits to tough new fuel standards.

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Last, someone has to make sense of the difference between accounting standards used in Europe and those used in the United States and understand how those standards cloud companies» abilities to reward executives and accurately assess their own performance relative to rivals».

The major difference between the HELOC and the standard home equity loan is that with the former type of mortgage, you call the shots and determine how much of the loan to use at one time.

Estimates of prospective long - term returns for the S&P 500 reflect our standard valuation methodology, focusing on the relationship between current market prices and earnings, dividends and other fundamentals, adjusted for variability over the economic cycle (see for example Investment, Speculation, Valuation, and Tinker Bell, The Likely Range of Market Returns in the Coming Decade and Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings).

The theory is that, using relationships between risk and return such as alpha and beta, and defining risk as the standard deviation of return, an «efficient frontier» for investing can be identified and exploited for maximum gain at a given amount of risk.

We asked him to fix it using biblical standards for reconciliation between brothers in Christ (ha ha haaaa.

Accordingly, human choice must decide not only «what is true but what criteria shall be used to determine the truth, and what standards shall be used in choosing between competing criteria, and what judgments shall be employed in deciding on the standards ad infinitum» (Van Cleve Morris, Philosophy and the American School).

Supernovae: For distances between galaxies, scientists measure the brightness of supernovae based on the mathematical formulae used to determine brightness as measured by distance, called «The Standard Candle».

Unlike standard x-ray systems which use a single x-ray energy spectrum to scan products, DEXA technology uses two energy spectrums to discriminate between high and low energy x-rays.

NASCAR now requires teams to use standard issued pit guns that it hands out prior to a race, a cost - saving measure that is also designed to shrink the competitive divide between bigger and smaller teams.

Although no direct contact between the two clubs has been made, Insigne's agent has been stirring the pot in the last few weeks, using the standard comments that could lead to a possible transfer, but also saying that Napoli don't want to sell, indicating a big money offer is needed.

All materials used are thoroughly sterilized between each use, when not disposable, and everything meets food grade standards.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

Using a repeated measures analysis of covariance for those infants with more than one postnatal weight measurement available, the difference between the two groups was similar, ∼ 1.2 standard deviations (P =.005).

In other words, the standard used to convict Silver could include normal interactions between constituents and pols.

«The proposals for the future of snaring represent the best possible balance between retaining an essential tool in predator management, which benefits many species of wildlife, whilst ensuring that the use of snare is conducted to the highest possible standards.»

«However, if private providers are to be used to meet the two - week target, it is essential that structures are put in place to ensure a continuity of care between these and NHS services so that women affected by breast cancer can receive the highest standard of care wherever they live.

President - elect of the United States is the title used for an incoming president of the United States during the period between the general election on Election Day in November and noon Eastern Standard Time on Inauguration Day, January 20, during which the president - elect is not in office yet.

Using a scale known as «purchasing power standards» it compares the level of spending between countries.

«Also encouraging was the agreement reached last night between the developer and labor to use the most skilled and professional workers under prevailing wage standards, which will ensure the quality, durability and safety of the project's construction.

Between the high and low - level inputs, this amp can be used with additional amps and processors, whether they're aftermarket or factory standard.

That code can be used to create a standard, bit - based key for encrypting data sent between Alice and Bob, now or in the future.

Calls and text messages tend to be sent using a communications standard called GSM, but this requires expensive hardware and software to carry traffic between cell towers.

As part of a close collaboration between Empa, SR Technics and FOCA experts have spent years developing a standard test setup and method that can be used to measure fine particulate emissions from aircraft engines.

Here's where the difference between DRAM and SRAM, the technology used in standard caches, comes in.

«Using deep learning, we set out to bridge the gap in image quality between inexpensive mobile phone - based microscopes and gold - standard bench - top microscopes that use high - end lenses,» Ozcan said.

«The stringent application of medical device standards to our laboratory research means that these sensors will be qualified at the highest level for human use and translatable between sports science and medicine.

Critical factors to achieve a higher level of information sharing include: a) the development and adoption of global data interchange standards that are harmonized between health care and clinical trials; b) the use of technology that is more acceptable to users; c) clarification of and adherence to regulatory requirements for health care and clinical trials; d) implementation of new technologies that are being employed by other industries to facilitate data interchange, specifically the use of the eXtensible Markup Language or XML.

Using nationally representative data from the United States and urban China and scores from the Standard International Socio - Economic Index, Song was able to analyze the relationship between individuals» depression symptoms and the status of the jobs of the people around them.

Manufacturers used PBDEs as the primary flame retardant chemical in furniture between 1975 and 2004 to comply with fire safety standards, with the highest use of these chemicals occurring in North America.

The academics used standard tests and a psychological model to investigate associations between autistic traits, depression, feelings of not belonging and of being a burden, and suicidal behaviour.

The scientists used a standard scale to rate the attachment between mother and infant.

The PCR test they'd been using as a «gold standard,» it turned out, wasn't itself 100 % sensitive, not only highlighting the discrepancy between different PCR - based tests but also casting doubts on their new results.

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.

This places the VIPS device above standard physical examination tools used by emergency personnel that display specificity scores between 40 and 89 percent.

The researchers write that the findings of this study may have implications for clinical practice and public health, including that standards for vancomycin MIC most likely do not need to be lowered; routine differentiation of MIC values between 1mg / L and 2 mg / L appears unnecessary; and the use of alternative antistaphylococcal agents may not be required for S. aureus isolates with elevated but susceptible vancomycin MIC values.

In revisiting the research, we discovered evidence for the use of congruence principles, based on proportions between the standard linear Acolhua measure and their units of shorter length.

For years, scientists have used standard statistical techniques to measure the significance of their results or the degree of correlation between two variables.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

For both the early and standard tests, there was a noticeable increase in relative risk between the lowest and highest thresholds used in the study.

To gain insight into what brain regions may be driving the relationship between social distance and overall neural similarity, we performed ordered logistic regression analyses analogous to those described above independently for each of the 80 ROIs, again using cluster - robust standard errors to account for dyadic dependencies in the data.

Briefly, B. subtilis was used as the indicator strain with 75 μl serum per 6 mm disc and with doxycycline standards between 0.1 — 10 μg / ml.

A suite of use cases will guide the development and deployment of standards and services with emphasis on the issues arising between specific projects.

Pairwise comparisons were performed using standard statistical conditions (FDR < 0.05, > 1.5-fold expression levels) to unveil genes up - regulated or down - regulated between the populations.

Statistical significance was measured using parametric testing, assuming equal variance, in the majority of experiments with standard t tests for 2 paired samples used to assess difference between test and control samples.

June 4, 2015 New tool brings standards to epigenetic studies One of the most widely used tools in epigenetics research — the study of how DNA packaging affects gene expression — is chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), a technique that allows researchers to examine interactions between specific proteins and genomic regions.