Sentences with phrase «subjects tested by»

After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

A: For subjects tested by the state standardized assessment, New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing a student's growth to the growth made by that student's academic peers (students from around the state with similar score histories).

The percentage of kids deemed «proficient» on the National Assessment in U.S. history is among the lowest on all subjects tested by NAEP — and hasn't budged over the decades.

Not exact matches

An A / B test by Swiftpage showed higher unique opens (+3.29 %), more unique clicks (+6.28 %), and higher click - through rates (+18.93 %) for an identical subject line that featured a symbol.

At 1,400 ppm, for instance, the test subjects» performance dropped by 50 percent on average, and in some cases by much more.

Research by Paul Zak found that character driven storytelling led to the production of a hormone called oxytocin in test subjects.

By using surveys or testing various approaches — such as sending different subject lines to two segments of your list — you can further refine what works with your clients.

Outlining classic research from the 1970s and 80s done by a team out of Yale on the subject, Konnikova explains that after months of interviews and a barrage of psychological tests, the researchers «found, unsurprisingly, that blocked writers were unhappy.»

The series of studies led by New York University's Gabriele Oettingen tested the effects of positive thinking on subjects» moods, both in the moment and several months later.

Hamilton himself was a test subject, and grew unnerved by his cholesterol levels.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

Furthermore, our research, testing, pricing, marketing and other operations are subject to extensive regulation by domestic and foreign government regulatory authorities.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

Perth - based Victoria Petroleum NL plans to test its New Caledonia gas play in September by drilling a well, subject to a farmout of equity.

A fact sheet put together by moderate Democrats backing the bill says such institutions will still be subject to stress - tests requirements.

It tells the story of «the guinea pigs»» the people most likely to be research subjects in Phase I trials, which test the safety of a drug under development by giving it to healthy subjects and examining any side effects they experience.

God did make a mistake and tried to cover it up by drowning all the test subjects... if that's the best god can do I'm not impressed..

Second, the symbolization involved is governed by modes of creation and association characteristic of the unconscious and not subject to testing against receptive awareness.

However, spiritual matters, which are not subject to empirical testing (there is no way to physically measure love) should be tested in the crucible of human experience and present statistical evidence by consensual (that is consensus, not consent) validation before being granted the status of a universal principle or dogma.

Unlike peninsular constructs such as multiverse, which by themselves can not have any direct relation to the life - world, the construct of the visible universe possesses a heuristic quality of predicting some new properties of the universe that are subject to empirical testing (p. 289).

Professor Coe had a number of persons of this class among his seventy - seven subjects, and they almost all, when tested by hypnotism, proved to belong to a subclass which he calls «spontaneous,» that is, fertile in self - suggestions, as distinguished from a «passive» subclass, to which most of the subjects of striking transformation belonged.

Scientific experiments can be, and ARE, subject to rigorous testing by numerous independent organizations.

In a famous essay of his he distinguishes between the naïve poet, who is characterized by spontaneity, immediacy and absence of self - consciousness, and the sentimental poet, who subjects his feelings to the scrutiny of the intellect, tests their validity by reference to some external criterion.

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.

We then test those standards before bottling by subjecting our wines to honest, blind tasting comparison with fine wines from the rest of the world.

I am trying to make my own «homemade» test, similar to the methods used by Wilbur Scoville, to use on subjects.

In addition, an independent consumer research study commissioned by Freedom Foods Group noted statistically significant reductions in body weight, body fat and body mass index (BMI), and decreased feelings of anger when test subjects committed to a 28 - day Barley + Nutrition and Lifestyle Reboot Program; a by - product of good nutrition and lifestyle.

When I first tried the Carolina Reaper on video three years ago, I definitely found that it was among the hottest things I've ever put in my mouth, so the burn felt by these test subjects were no doubt real and funnily painful.

Beginning with his 2010 fight against Shane Mosley, he has mandated that he and his opponent be subjected to what he calls «Olympic - style testing» by USADA.

Previously, pre-competition testing involved only the higher - level Pro Tour and Pro Continental teams, which are already subject to the biological passport program mandated by the UCI and thus have to submit riders» whereabouts for testing.

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This was collaborated by a 1998 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association where studies proved that acupuncture was effective at turning breech babies in 75 percent of the test subjects when combined with moxibustion.

However, all cribs are subject to the same safety tests administered by the American Society of Testing Materials.

Every product from Delta diffusion is subjected to rigorous tests carried out by international safety control institutions.

Because mothers are subjected to other interruptions as well — by people performing medical tests, hospital administrative duties, and janitorial tasks — this can leave mothers with very little time to sleep before they are awakened by yet another visitor.

When the test subjects learned that a large number of experts favored a position, opinions shifted by 11.3 %.

Pisa tests from the OECD reveal that for the first time, the UK does not make the top 20 in any subject, in international tests taken by 15 year olds in maths, reading and science.

And the deterioration of integrity in one specific network — the default mode network — correlated with reports of «ego dissolution» by the test subjects.

«After the screening, the qualified people out of 132, 000 will be subjected to another test, aptitude test and to ensure transparency, this test will be conducted by JAMB.»

The proposals, as I understand them, are that each subject should be tested only by one single written examination of no longer than two hours.

It tests readers» commitment to the subject - those who are serious about entering the profession will read on, others will be turned off by reading about the long hours and restrictions on partisan comment.

City Republicans have pointed to a 2013 Department of Investigations probe that found test subjects were able to gain access to voting booths by misrepresenting their identities.

His test subjects include Abraham Lincoln (who reportedly suffered from depression), Winston Churchill (bipolar tendencies), JFK (manic traits, compounded by steroid use), and Hitler (bipolar tendencies, exacerbated by abuse of amphetamines).

So as not to be influenced by patients» discourse and analysis of their eating disorders, the researchers used a «skin conductance test,» which measures the subject's sweating rate when exposed to various images.

Designed to test the brain «sability to process visual information, the machine works by shining asplit laser beam into a subject's eye.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

It can precede the classic motor signs of the disease by several years, and olfactory tests have been shown to do a better job than motor function tests when it comes to distinguishing Parkinson's patients from healthy control subjects.

They did, correctly identifying 92 percent of the facial expressions tested compared with the 81 percent identified by control subjects.

Study 2 looked at test subjects» impressions of the honesty of simple factual statements made by other people.

But while Judge Pham agreed that the technique had been subject to testing and peer review, it flunked on the other two points suggested by the Supreme Court to weigh cases like this one: the test of proven accuracy and general acceptance by scientists.