Sentences with phrase «test alternative choices»

Because the GISS analysis combines available sea surface temperature records with meteorological station measurements, we test alternative choices for the ocean data, showing that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions where observations are limited.

The new analysis combines sea - surface temperature records with meteorological station measurements and tests alternative choices for ocean records, urban warming and tropical and Arctic oscillations.

Not exact matches

CHOICE investigates popular alternative allergy and intolerance tests, such as Imupro, Hemocode, Bicom, hair analysis, applied kinesiology, Vega and more.

Should he fail that fitness test though, Mourinho would have to consider alternatives and youngster Scott McTominay would seemingly be the obvious natural choice to come in, but it's a big game and it's questionable as to whether he'd be ready for it with his lack of experience.

[46] James Green - Armytage tested four ranked - choice methods, and found the alternative vote to be the second - most - resistant to tactical voting, though it was beaten by a class of AV - Condorcet hybrids, and did not resist strategic withdrawal by candidates well.

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

In the 1990s, performance - based assessments became a valid alternative to traditional multiple - choice tests.

But even without my mommy - hat on, this movement is clearly valuable as an effective tool for change and an alternative choice to a testing process that was not built for children with special needs.

«As we continue to see increased enrollment growth and better test scores by choice students, families from all over Wisconsin are embracing the idea of education alternatives.

On the multiple choice formats of such tests: «[A] multiple - choice item remains a recognition task, in which the problem is to find the best of a small number of predetermined alternatives and the cri - teria for comparing the alternatives are well defined.

Nevertheless, the authors are to be congratulated on bringing the partial least squares method to the attention of a wide audience of climate scientists, for the thoroughness of their methods section and for making pre-processed data and computer code readily available, hence enabling straightforward replication of their results and testing of alternative methodological choices.

More recent documentation (Hansen et al. 2010) compares alternative analyses and addresses questions about perception and reality of global warming; various choices for the ocean data are tested; it is also shown that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions, where observations are limited.

After you've narrowed your equipment choices, it's time to test the alternatives.