Sentences with phrase «systematic measurement of»

They, like me, were learning the depth of the opposition to systematic measurement of performance.

Schools have not yet learned to use systematic measurement of progress toward essential outcomes.

Systematic measurement of progress is a departure from standard practice in American schools.

In a January, 2013 Wall Street Journal article, Bill Gates argued for the power of systematic measurement of progress:

To promote a physically active lifestyle, a high priority should be attached to the systematic measurement of cardiorespiratory fitness and the provision of theoretically sound and evidence - based physical activity counseling.

Does systematic measurement of the level of investor optimism provide a clue to the future direction of the stock market?

The instrument conducted systematic measurements of these gases for seven months, which allowed the team to understand how these gases are supplied to the exosphere, and how they are ultimately lost.

Systematic measurements of permafrost (thermal state and active layer) began in earnest around 1950 and were coordinated under the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost.

The human factor remains uncertain — detailed and systematic measurements of change in the Arctic began only in the Space Age — but the researchers are confident that the overall decline of September sea ice in the Arctic Circle is at least 50 % human responsibility, and possibly 70 %.

Are there any systematic measurements of deep ice temperatures in Greenland or Antarctica that give any indication of the actual change in energy content of all that ice, outside what is needed to crack the latent heat of freezing?

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This highly flawed concept, widely taught in MBA and financial engineering programs, perceives volatility as an exogenous measurement of risk, ignoring its role as both a source of excess returns, and a direct influencer on risk itself... Systematic strategies are based on market volatility as a key decision metric for leverage... The majority of active management strategies rely on some form of volatility for excess returns and to make leverage decisions.

Science is the systematic acquisition and application of knowledge in the structure and behaviour of the physical universe gained via empirical evidence through observation, measurement and experimentation.

For X is not a member of the dominant societies in our cosmic epoch upon which the systematic procedure of measurement depends.

Even so, in their conclusions, the authors of the paper are highly cautious, and say: «Despite the large significance of the measurement reported here and the stability of the analysis, the potentially great impact of the result motivates the continuation of our studies in order to investigate possible still unknown systematic effects that could explain the observed anomaly.

[T] hese diversities and identities are correlated according to a systematic law expressible in terms of the systematic measurements derived from the geometric nexus.

The measurements both of the ancient universe and the present day will get more accurate, which could expose a systematic effect that is tricking us into seeing a conflict where there isn't one.

Executive Summary The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was created to make the best possible estimate of global temperature change using as complete a record of measurements as possible and by applying novel methods for the estimation and elimination of systematic biases.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools arMeasurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools armeasurement tools are selected.

Laughlin says it's frustrating that the most interesting planets — small ones like Earth — are so challenging to detect: «You have to get tons and tons and tons of velocity measurements over many years, and then you really, really have to take extreme care — as this Tuomi et al. paper does — to get rid of all the systematic noise.»

«So our measurements are better, but we understand that there are systematics, and once you account for them, the measurement of the black hole's properties are, in fact, less precise than we used to think they were.»

The various techniques used (e.g., Charlier's method) are capable of high accuracy, provided that the measurements themselves are free of systematic errors.

... I strongly suspect a systematic bias for undermeasurement of black skulls [during the initial seed - based measurements]» [1].

You have to get tons and tons and tons of velocity measurements over many years, and then you really, really have to take extreme care — as this Tuomi et al. paper does — to get rid of all the systematic noise.»

Using the simulations we also quantify the systematic biases of our shapelet flexion and shear measurement pipeline for deep Hubble data sets such as Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs, Space Telescope A901 / 902 Galaxy Evolution Survey or the Cosmic Evolution Survey.

It was found using radial - velocity measurements obtained as part of the the NASA - UC Eta - Earth Survey by the California Planet Search (CPS) group, a systematic search for low - mass planets between three and 30 Earth - masses orbiting the nearest 230 G -, K -.

A 2009 systematic review of randomised controlled studies that compared low - carbohydrate diets to low - fat / low - calorie diets found that measurements of weight, HDL cholesterol, triglyceride levels and systolic blood pressure were significantly better in groups that followed low - carbohydrate diets.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

Use systematic measurement to determine the readiness levels of your students in relation to essential outcomes

In Kindergarten and First Grade, teachers have learned to keep track of the development of essential skills using a systematic measurement system (Essential Skills Inventory) and then teach responsively to try to help every child achieve proficiency in the skills which matter most.

A systematic review and summarization of the recommendations and research surrounding Curriculum - Based Measurement of oral reading fluency (CBM - R) decision rules.

The detailed lab tests and measurements in our in - depth Display Technology Shoot - Out article series quantitatively document the series of systematic display performance improvements, with each new generation breaking existing display performance records and then earning our up - to - that - date Best Smartphone Display Award.

When using beta to determine the degree of systematic risk, a security with a high R - squared value, in relation to its benchmark, would increase the accuracy of the beta measurement.

Taking the use of the age - old measurement unit the cubit (the length of a forearm) in ancient art forms as a point of departure, this show features artists who have developed their own systematic approaches to artmaking.

Kidner meticulously translated the column into a 2 dimensional form as a painting by using a systematic method of measurements and colour coding as seen for example in Column in front of its own image 1971.

Such results can be a real systematic effect, e.g., cooling by planted vegetation or the movement of a thermometer away from the urban center, or a random effect of unforced regional variability and measurement errors.

Accounting for Both Random Errors and Systematic Errors in Uncertainty Propagation Analysis of Computer Models Involving Experimental Measurements with Monte Carlo Methods.

For the estimation of the total ocean heat content (OHC) a lesser precision would probably be almost as good, because errors of individual measurements always cancel to a large extent as long as the floats do not have common systematic errors.

In the case of systematic biases (e.g., a technique that consistently overestimates or underestimates temperature), additional measurements will not cancel the effect.

The measurements from most ships will have some kind of systematic bias, but this will not be exactly the same for all ships, so some component of that will be reduced by averaging the measurements from many ships together.

Because we didn't have a systematic global set of thermometer measurements before the 1880s, scientists look at other things they can measure — sediment deposits, or tree ring growth in certain ancient, slow - growing trees — which tend to vary along with temperature.

As an example sampling the Southern oceans must happen in essentially same areas and using methods with errors that don't move in either direction systematically, but as long as there are no such systematic trends the results are not particularly sensitive to errors of individual measurements.

The contrast is all the more marked when we switch to the solid line of systematic global thermometer measurements, and for the first time we start to see a little bit of that wiggly data (still smoothed out considerably by the artist, I should add).

It's an elementary of error analysis that noise and systematic error vary differently with number of measurements.

The dO18 measurement errors do not behave as constants — note the different magnitude of systematic error between the two determinations of McCrae, for example.

Taking a difference between two measurements made under the same conditions removes many sources of systematic error that would have been an issue with the single measurement.

The point that systematic error propagates as sqrt -LSB-(sum - over-scatter) ^ 2 / (N - 1)-RSB--- where N is the number of measurements — follows from the fact that a degree of freedom is lost through the use of the mean measurement in calculating the systematic scatter.

Dobson measurements suffer from a temperature dependence of the ozone absorption coefficients used in the retrievals which might account for a seasonal variation in the error of ± 0.9 % in the middle latitudes and ± 1.7 % in the Arctic, and for systematic errors of up to 4 % [Bernhard et al., 2005].

[2] The Oxford English Dictionary says that scientific method is: «a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.»

I think you actually need to go out on a ship with various models of buckets, along with the most accurate temperature measurement system available, sail across the oceans for a year, take systematic measurements with the different methods, and THEN draw conclusions.

Because of the nature of these measurement problems and biases, almost all of these errors tend to be in the same direction — biasing temperatures higher — creating a systematic error that does not cancel out.