Sentences with phrase «such tests produce»

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The changes which fostered, accompanied, and were produced by the industrial revolution — such as urbanism and all that it implied — put to stringent test the practices and institutional patterns of a Protestantism which had been closely identified with rural society and culture.

Testing is required on all high - risk crops and must be performed on intact material, such as the soybeans used to produce soy lecithin.

Robin Williamson, Technical Director of LITRG, said: «Unless support benefits such as free school meals are co-ordinated with mainstream welfare payments, such as tax credits and means - tested benefits, the interaction between the two can produce real disincentives to enter or remain in work.»

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

The «growth score» is a state - produced calculation quantifying students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling factors such as poverty.

To test the idea that food odours affect lifespan, Pletcher's team eliminated flies» ability to smell carbon dioxide, which is produced by some fly foods, such as live yeast.

Such embryos were transferred into female goats, which produced offspring that were then tested for the presence of the newly integrated gene.

In lab tests, they show that one such particle can be produced in plants and it ferries small molecules to cancer cells.

Mass producing such a patch would be fairly cheap and simple, the researchers say, as the DNA molecules that detect food pathogens can be printed onto the test material.

When driving a car, the clutch mechanically carries the torque produced by the engine to the chassis of the vehicle — a coupling that has long been tested and optimized in such macroscopic machines, giving us highly efficient engines.

Nanoident Technologies, based in Linz, aims to produce sensors for applications such as rapid medical testing and fingerprint analysis.

On the basis of recent insights into the characteristics of conscious and unconscious thought, we tested the hypothesis that simple choices (such as between different towels or different sets of oven mitts) indeed produce better results after conscious thought, but that choices in complex matters (such as between different houses or different cars) should be left to unconscious thought.

Such research is not currently eligible for NIH funding, and is still years from producing therapies that regulators would have to green light before they could be tested in humans.

In tests with mice, such vaccines produced very strong immune responses, the researchers report in the Feb. 16 online edition of Nature.

Nerve growth factors produced by the body, such as GDNF, promote the survival of the neurons; however, clinical tests with GDNF have not yielded in any clear improvements.

Yet all the evidence suggests that people — from the patient to the doctor to the insurance provider — are not prepared or not willing to deal with the complexity of information such tests can produce.

But in most such instances the statistics applied in court have been primarily the standard type that scientists use to test hypotheses (producing numbers for gauging «statistical significance»).

Produced by diverse universities and institutions across the country and world, the supplement investigates the quality of vital, broadly sold drugs, such as anti-malarials and antibiotics; new tests and assays to detect counterfeit drugs; and proposed policy changes and laws to reduce the distribution and sale of falsified medications.

The original test required that an artificial agent produce a creative item in such a way that the agent's designer can not explain how it developed the creative item.

That would seem to be a good test of whether the method produces a good estimate of TCR independent of the uncertainty in E. I tried such a thing, and my main objection to the Shindell (2014) paper is that when I test the «simple» Otto method vs. the Shindell method on the same model set in the paper, the Otto et al (2013) method still seems to perform better.

They have now isolated the chaperone and prion proteins and shown that they can produce such shape changes right in the test tube.

Excitingly, because stem cells can produce such large numbers of neurons, we can even test for and identify new drug candidates using patient specific neurons.

Holick says there's reason to believe higher doses, such as the 2,000 IU a day now being tested in one large U.S. trial, are needed to produce benefits.

Clinical testing of such supplemented diets has so far produced encouraging results.

She talked to us about some of the awful practices she's seen early in her career working in the beauty industry (such as animal testing and beauty products created from potentially harmful petrochemicals) and how that motivated her to create a natural beauty brand that's dedicated to producing only the purest beauty and skincare products and promoting clean living.

The evidence from Florida also suggests that the gains produced by such an accountability system are real indicators of improvement in learning, and not simply teaching to the test, cheating, or other manipulations of the testing system.

But let's suppose for a moment that the charges are true, that she achieves her extraordinary test scores by «counseling out» the kids least likely to produce such scores.

Rather than provide the best means for confronting «difficult truths about the inequality of America's political economy,» such a pedagogy produces the swindle of «blaming inequalities on individuals and groups with low test scores.»

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

In fact, the research (see the Teacher's Guide) outlines how project - based learning, the instructional model used in Projects From A Box, is likely to produce higher test ELA test scores than other approaches such as direct instruction when teachers implement the methods well.

The real threat to national security is squeezing the democracy out of our schools with such «reform school» approaches replacing efforts at real school reform, and with standardized testing narrowing the curriculum so that our schools are simply no longer able to produce informed citizens.

The roll out of Common Core standards, aligned tests such as PARCC and Smarter Balance, and new punitive evaluations has produced what I call the Triumvirate of Upheaval.

Supporting materials such as texts, workbooks, computer programs and tests are produced by commercial vendors and nonprofits, and districts, states and sometimes individual teachers purchase them.

The reason is that even if evidence showed the impact of such policies on observable outcomes, such as student test scores, we know that good teachers produce learning gains in areas that go beyond tested academic subjects.

«In some cases, these charter schools have quite large effects, such that attending one for three years produce test - score gains that are equivalent to the size of the U.S. black - white achievement gap,» said Sarah Cohodes, an assistant professor of education and public policy at Columbia University in a publication from Princeton University and the Brookings Institute.

There is no evidence to show an exam such as the one Randi is proposing will in any way help to better prepare teachers; testing doesn't produce or impact positive outcomes, they simply make some people a lot of money.»

Career pathways would provide more financial incentives for teachers who produce positive outcomes in the classroom, such as higher test scores; for those who teach subjects that are in high demand in the marketplace (e.g. chemistry or math); and for those who teach in hard to staff schools.

If fewer than 16 tests are available to apply to a teacher's score, however, which appears quite likely in many cases this year, districts will have to produce an alternative rating method, such as using the scores of other students in the school.

Curiosity aroused in such children would, of course, be contrary and disruptive to obedience and compliance training the children must get, so as to prepare them to produce, on demand, high enough scores on standardized tests to evidence being on track to «college and career ready.»

Take proven systems of assessment that correlate to standards with a track record for producing quality results such as the MCAS test from Massachusetts or the federal NAEP test and plug them in nationwide.

A common assumption of standards and tests - based school reform is that high - stakes testing, such as having to pass an exam for high school graduation, will produce improved learning outcomes.

AF prioritizes student achievement and produces stellar test results, perhaps at the expense of secondary subjects such as science.

As of 2007, VW has not yet offered a gas - electric hybrid powertrain such as that in the Toyota Prius (though a diesel - electric hybrid 5th generation Jetta was produced as a test vehicle).

The Asset Test is met if 50 % or more of the corporation's average assets consist of assets that produce passive or could produce passive income, or are assets (such as cash and bare land) that produce no income.

This should not discourage breeders because other protocols such as laboratory results, radiographs, and other phenotypic test, when combined with pedigree analysis, can still produce significant improvements in just a few generations.

It is acceptable to breed dogs that are carriers for PRA, providing the mate has been DNA tested as normal; and puppies produced from such matings are not at elevated risk to develop the disease.

In addition to producing vaccines, parasiticides, anti-infectives, medicinal feed additives and other pharmaceuticals, our complementary businesses include diagnostic products, genetic tests and biodevices, as well as services such as dairy data management, e-learning and professional consulting.

• Breeders who can not produce a 5 or even 7 generation pedigree when asked • Breeders who do not show their dogs in any discipline • Breeders who say «we had a really nice dog» or «we wanted our kids to experience the micracle of birth» so we bred • Breeders who sell or breed unpapered dogs — PUREBRED dogs are required to be registered • Breeders who do not do any health testing such as on eyes, heart, thyroid, hips etc. before breeding • Breeders who do not want you to visit with them or their dogs • Breeders who do not have a contract • Breeders who have zero health guarantees on puppies / dogs sold from their Kennels • Breeders who do not require all pet / companion pups to be altered • Breeders who say that some colours are «rare» and promote the puppies as such • Breeders who breed a dog before the age of 2 (hips can not even be certified until the age of 2) • Breeders who breed their bitch every heat cycle • Breeders who indiscrimanately breed outside of the GDCA Colour Code — Yes, years ago, it was acceptable to bring in a Blue or Fawn to improve head / bone / substance in a Harlequin line etc. yet this type of breeding was to be done ONLY be highly reputable / quality knowledgeable / experienced Breeders.

Produced in regulated manufacturing facilities in the US in small batches to maintain freshness and quality, they've also been tested as safe from harmful microbiological pathogens such as EColi, Salmonella, Yeast, Staphlococcus Aureus and Coliforms.

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