Not exact matches
«Although extensive choice seems appealing, research shows that it may hinder motivation to buy and decrease
subsequent satisfaction with purchased goods... Using data
from nearly 800,000 employees, we
tested the hypothesis that employee 401 (k) participation rates fall as the number of fund options increase.
Subsequent tests on the relic revealed the parchment was indeed old, but the writing itself had likely been cut and pasted
from an online document.
This fallacy is evident when Barnhart lists his selection criteria — «record, strength of schedule, strength of opponent's schedule, quality wins, quality road wins, and the all - important eye
test» — and omits the factor whose exclusion
from the computer rankings after the 2001 season — margin of victory — turned the
subsequent rankings into «nonsense math.»
A single, small, retrospective case - control study examined the use of newborn transient evoked otoacoustic emission hearing screening
tests as a tool for identifying infants at
subsequent risk of SIDS.343 Infants who subsequently died
from SIDS did not fail their hearing
tests but, compared with controls, showed a decreased signal - to - noise ratio score in the right ear only (at frequencies of 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz).
His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and
subsequent ejection
from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral
test of the coalition's popularity.
A horse in Westmoreland, which was suffering
from neurological symptoms associated with EEE, was euthanized last week and
subsequent testing confirmed the virus.
A horse in the Town of Trenton, which was suffering
from neurological symptoms associated with EEE, was euthanized on September 8th and
subsequent testing confirmed the virus.
When the frightened creatures froze in place and covered the cavity leading to the gills with their tentacles, the voltage in the water nearby dropped by about 80 %, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Subsequent lab
tests on two types of sharks revealed that the tactic works beautifully: When the researchers generated voltages to simulate the presence of a resting cuttlefish, the sharks could detect the electronic equipment
from a distance of 20 centimeters and struck at it 62 % of the time.
The researchers
from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the
test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's
subsequent educational performance.
We
tested for possible effects of the shorter sampling duration in 2009 by randomly truncating the datasets
from the
subsequent years to 32 days.
In the next few blog posts I'll be chronicling my results
from subsequent hair
tests and detox dilemmas like healing reactions when these nasty metals came out of my body.
They must actively be purged for months or years and will only reveal themselves on
subsequent hair
tests as they are removed
from the tissues and flushed out of the body.
Making matters more complicated, lead might show up in the hair after release
from one storage site, decline on a
subsequent test but later rise again as it is released
from yet another site.
A
subsequent Spectracell
test showed that, on a cellular / molecular level, my ability to process carbohydrates had dropped
from normal to extremely low.
Wanting to
test this choice effect on
subsequent satisfaction, Iyengar and Lepper also asked participants about their happiness after choosing
from either a limited or extensive number of chocolates.
All manner of topics are brought up
from the character structure to the looping of the dialogue, and
subsequent obvious bad looping, to the
test screenings and initial reactions.
The first of these
tests include: Two Way tables Venn diagrams Scatter diagrams Standard form Averages
from a table Pie charts Pythagoras Theorem Bearings
Subsequent tests will revisit these topics continually, ensuring repetition of key topics.
In
subsequent installments, we will find that you can teach any lesson —
from skill drill to
test review to vocabulary — during PAT.
In Massachusetts, the expectation that students pass a 10th - grade
test if they are to graduate
from high school spiked student performance the first year the law was introduced, with continuing gains in
subsequent years.
(We excluded results
from the 1995 Third International Math and Science Study and
subsequent tests because they were obtained outside the analytical period of interest.)
In order for us to conclude that school choice achievement results reliably predict
subsequent attainment results the P - Value
from the X2
test needs to be below.05 and the Gamma needs to be positive.
The study distinguishes the persistent effects that teachers have in their own subject — English teachers on students» later English
test performance and math teachers on students» later math
test performance —
from cross-subject effects in which English teachers in one year can affect math performance in
subsequent years and math teachers in one year can affect math performance in a
subsequent year.
After a brief overview of the research pertaining to memory, attention, learning, retention, and
test - taking, Willis devotes
subsequent chapters to strategies to captivate and hold students» attention, techniques that reduce the stresses that block information
from entering the neural processing centers of the brain, and suggestions about how to maximize the positive emotional climate that maximize learning.
It was an ambitious initiative that, in
subsequent years, fell victim to a political backlash against Common Core and led more than two dozen states to back away
from the standards - based
tests.
From the very first phonecall, the
test drives, the purchase process, all the way through to
subsequent purchase of accessories.
While the Yeti has been on sale in Australia since 2011, this
test vehicle is a minor power upgrade (
from 77kW to 81kW) that has been introduced
subsequent to the face - lifted model that arrived last year.
In Edmunds brake
testing, an MDX required 122 feet to stop
from 60 mph, which is a decent stop, but it displayed brake fade on
subsequent stops.
During Edmunds
testing, a Kia Sedona SX - L stopped
from 60 mph in a short 119 feet, though a
subsequent test of another SX - L resulted in a more typical - for - the - class 125 feet.
In the above chart, not only could have we traded the pin bar sell signal
from the key resistance level / event area, but on the
subsequent test of that event area, we could have taken what I call a «blind entry» at the event area.
Almost all of the factors and smart beta strategies exhibit a negative relationship between starting valuation and
subsequent performance whether we use the aggregate measure or P / B to define relative valuation.9 Out of 192
tests shown here, not a single
test has the «wrong» sign: in every case, the cheaper the factor or strategy gets, relative to its historical average, the more likely it is to deliver positive performance.10 For most factors and strategies (two - thirds of the 192
tests) the relationship holds with statistical significance for horizons ranging
from one month to five years and using both valuation measures (44 % of these results are significant at the 1 % level).
The ELISA is a method of analysis, and variations in antigen preparation, antibody sources, and laboratory techniques between diagnostic labs and in - house
testing kits can create variation in results.2 The death of adult heartworms and
subsequent release of large amounts of antigen
from decomposing fragments may produce a strong antibody response.
We therefore elected to use only results
from PA (the initial)
testing in
subsequent analyses.
In addition to the plasma vWf
test, a complete blood count will be used to detect
subsequent anemia that may result
from bleeding.
It makes and breaks grant applications, it pervades continuing professional education, it channels
subsequent research away
from work that truly
tests (rather than seeks to validate) a worthless hypothesis....
State health officials were alerted to the problem after technicians
from the Sacramento County Health Department, doing a spot check in late July, found elevated lead levels...
Subsequent tests by the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control found that multiple parts of the boxes, such as the vinyl lining, contained lead.
Many of them hindcast, but how many of them have been subjected to the
test of being fed data
from, say, 1960, and then producing an accurate representation of
subsequent history.
In Upjohn Co. v. United States, 6 the United States Supreme Court held that a company's attorney — client privilege extends to company counsel's communications with employees in certain prescribed circumstances.7 Rather than providing a simple objective
test, the Upjohn court instead established five factors to guide courts in determining whether the company's privilege should extend to counsel's communications with its employees: (1) whether the communications were made by employees at the direction of superior officers of the company for the purpose of obtaining legal advice; (2) whether the communications contained information necessary for counsel to render legal advice, which was not otherwise available
from «control group» management; (3) whether the matters communicated were within the scope of the employee's corporate duties; (4) whether the employee knew that the communications were for the purpose of the company obtaining legal advice; and (5) whether the communications were ordered to be kept confidential by the employee's superiors, including that the communications were considered confidential at the time and kept confidential
subsequent to the interview.8 When these elements are established, courts generally consider communications between company counsel and an employee to be within the scope of the company's attorney — client privilege.9
The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses,
tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a
subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality
from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22
Prior to MCS administration, psychometric
testing of our English translation of the short - form Italian BFQ - C20 measure of personality dimensions was conducted using the data obtained
from 645 children during pilot
testing of the survey in 2014, with
subsequent revision of 5 of the 25 items assessing these dimensions in the MCS.
The objectives of the present study were (a) to investigate whether clique isolation
from age 11 to 13 years is a social risk factor for
subsequent depressive symptoms in early adolescence; (b) to
test the potential role of loneliness and perceived social acceptance as cognitive and emotional constructs underlying the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms; and (c) to explore possible sex differences in the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms.