Sentences with phrase «taking account of variation»

Between - teacher variation has usually proven to be greater than between - method variation after taking account of variation in initial student characteristics.

They ran a climate model to take account of variations in sunlight and the rise and fall of CO2, then took snapshots from this model and fed them into a model for ice - sheet behavior and fed the result back into their climate model.

If the court is to take account of any variation — other than in writing — there must be «the clearest possible evidence»: normally agreements could only be varied formally.

Not exact matches

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

A large part of the problemvwhen discussing issues like this is that we utilize aristotalian language constructs that are dualistic and a major sign of this would be the use of the word «is,» when to be linguistically scientifically correct everything should be stated as «it appears so to me,» or some variation of this as it takes into account the many errors possible in how people perceive everything.

H. Richard Niebuhr's famous metaphor for the minister as «pastoral director, «5 and more recent variations of it, 6 continue to be useful in taking account of the two elements that distinguish the ministry from other professions, namely, the sense of a personal calling to be a prophetic resource to persons and to structures in society plus accountability to an organization that the minister both leads and serves.

Whatever the variations, it seems true that when a clear idea of the ministry prevailed there was also a clear idea of what constituted a call to the ministry and for the most part such a clear idea took into account the necessity of all four calls and ordered their relations.

Thus, the motion of the pendulum is taken as the standard, as a more suitable «approximation» to the uniform time flow of absolute time, and some physical explanation is then sought to account for the seasonal variation of the solar day relative to this standard.18 Were standards other than the pendulum chosen as operating «more uniformly,» then the pendulum would be abandoned in favor of a «more uniform approximation» to absolute time.

Plus, juice recipes usually say one carrot or one apple without taking into account how big the piece of produce is or the significant variation in how effective different machines are at extracting the juice, thus altering the ratios and potentially making the juice a lot worse than the concoction of the original recipe developer.

An answer that takes into account all the myriad variables — adjust for weight of ball, quality of service, heaviness of shirt, generosity of officiating, variation in rules, weather in Stoke — which exist, in a theoretical sense, since the great unknowable equations of the universe click along, even if they're out of sight.

Variations, taking into account the needs of the individual patient, resources, and limitations unique to the institution or type of practice, may be appropriate.

Variations, taking into account the needs of the individual patient, resources, and limitations unique to institution or type of practice, may be appropriate.

David Cameron is now talking of English votes for English only matters; implicitly this will also take account of the complex variations between Westminster and Cardiff Bay.

To determine what level of a toxin is safe, researchers take a dose that has no observed toxicological effect in an animal and divide it by 10 once (to account for the differences between species) and then again (to account for variations among humans» ability to handle toxins); for pesticides, the dose is then divided by 10 a third time (to allow for the extraordinary sensitivity of babies and children).

So researchers may have to duplicate their studies in different populations to take account of important geographical variations.

There are several reasons for the variation, including whether courts take into account the measurement error inherent in IQ scores — the fact that an individual, tested repeatedly, would not achieve the same score every time, but rather a distribution of scores clustered around their «true» IQ.

The results of the study also stress the need for long - term monitoring of the ecosystem using permanent sample plots so as to be able to determine interannual variation and take it into account in calculations.

In fact, scientists have long recognized the importance of solar variability as one of the factors governing climate (see the very scholarly review of the subject by Bard and Frank, available here at EPSL or here as pdf) An understanding of solar variability needs to be (and is) taken into account in attribution of climate change of the past century, and in attempts to estimate climate sensitivity from recent climate variations.

It consists of creating an original progressive system that will enable the annotation of nucleotide variations and the prediction of their pathogenicity based on the most robust algorithms and taking into account multiple levels of analysis.

Such interactions will cause variation within and between clinical studies, and not taking them into account will hamper the interpretation of clinical data.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

«The beauty of a meta - analysis is that you can look at all of the existing studies and calculate the strength of the relationship between one variable and another, taking into account variations in sample size, region of a country, quality of the study, and other factors,» Hill says.

Only after these background factors are fully accounted for is the second step taken — a look at the characteristics of the schools that make the biggest difference in determining the variation in student achievement.

An important limitation of this measure is that it does not take into account the wide variation in the geographic size of districts (e.g., a small district could be classified as sparse even if it has many schools per square mile and a large district could be classified as dense even if it has very few schools per square miles).

The research outlined that in some cases, teenagers might be travelling to schools in neighbouring local authorities to take A-levels, which could account for some of the variation.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

We need to scale up this research to take into account variation by subject, type of test, testing algorithms, and student characteristics.

And while there was only a small variation in student performance that could be attributed solely to the level of resources, there was an 18 % variation in results when both resources and the socio - economic background of students were taken into account.

But as well as including many additional pupils in the system as a result of the baby bulge, the government's claims also do not take into account large regional variations.

It is a definition that does not take into account institutional variation in the nature and challenge level of entry - level courses or in the range of potential student interests.

• Interest rate flexibility: The money growth rule was intended to allow interest rates, which affect the cost of credit, to be flexible to enable borrowers and lenders to take account of expected inflation as well as the variations in real interest rates.

Again, the reason that the (Investment — Foreign Savings) term adds little variation to profits over the business cycle is that variations in gross domestic investment as a share of GDP are tightly and inversely correlated with variations in the current account deficit (a chart is presented in Taking Distortion at Face Value).

I'd love to see a simulation that takes into account the variation inherent in different investment types and looks at the probability of meeting your goals under different scenarios.

In certain instances on the site, we may refer to the Net Rewards Rate as an annualized variation on the above calculation that takes into account the annual fee of a card.

Thus the breed - wide estimate of ΔF and Ne fails to take account of the between sub-population genetic variation, which is easily tapped by migration between sub-populations.

Of course we need to take breed into account, but there are wide variations in size within a breed, and if you have a mix or a cross bred dog you may be hoping for a clue.

Based on physical modelling taking into account measured and astrophysically plausible variations in solar spectral luminosity, and on consistent physical models of the response of he climate system to solar forcing, you can't explain away the 20th / 21st net warming trend with solar effects.

Better statistical models thus might take into account the correlation of interannual variations, or have explicit account of natural drivers (the sun and volcanoes), but will quickly run into difficulties in defining these additional aspects from the single real world data set we have (which includes human impacts).

They also fail to mention that although the incoming solar radiation only varies by a couple of Watts per square metre over a solar cycle the apparent smallness of the variation is a result of the small area subdivision and not any indication of a small total energy variation when one takes into account the number of square metres on the Earth's surface.

Each installer will design your system differently, taking into account the variations of your roof.

Wigley and Jones already discussed that to fodge with the ocean climate data sets in order to interpret the change so that it still takes into account some variations of the PDO, but not enough to keep CO2 as the main forcing.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

At a 10 % penetration level (wind power production of gross demand) this is estimated as 1 · 5 % — 4 % of installed wind capacity, taking into account that load variations are more predictable than wind power variations.

Amplitude modulation (which is a variation in the emitted noise level) is a fundamental characteristic of wind turbine noise and is a characteristic which is taken into account in the objective criteria specifically developed for wind farms.

ANY human historical record, in fact, fails to take sufficient account of eon - long variations that are well within the range of the «norm» observed in paleo - cimatological data.

«This is an interesting analysis but we believe it underplays the importance of the Amazon hydrological cycle in part by not taking annual variation into account,» said Thomas Lovejoy of the H. John Heinz Center for Science.

Cloud variation (for EG) over time will probably be found to have a very important impact on the climate that is not properly taken account of at the moment.

Researchers in the Southern California Bight reported that above all other environmental factors, the changes in fish abundance has correlated best with the PDO regime shifts.7 Such evidence prompted Monterrey Bay Aquariums chief scientist to warn that «These large - scale, naturally occurring variations must be taken into account when considering human - induced climate change and the management of ocean living resources.»

Because Schwartz's model is simpler it is easier to account for and quantify the uncertainty in it (in fact much of the uncertainty in complex GCMs is hidden eg see Stainford et al referenced in the post), so if you take the view that you are interested not just in the mean but the variation in the estimate Schwartz's model, despite being simpler, gives you better information.

Perhaps natural variation of temperatures has not been taken into account correctly.