Sentences with phrase «tested measures go»

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

You're going to have to test, measure and optimize before you can sit back and relax.

This means that in truly doing bid testing, you should dedicate resources to measuring your keywords on an on - going basis and tracking your keyword data on a constant basis.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

A lot of people feel that test scores alone are not a full measure of what kids are learning or how successful they're going to be.

The Cap - Score Sperm Function Test goes one important step further by being the first test to measure sperm - functTest goes one important step further by being the first test to measure sperm - functtest to measure sperm - function.

For now, we intend to apply the ANEW dictionary to political texts and speeches to extract over time measures of affective rhetoric, and in particular we will start with party manifestos — a very conservative test indeed — which are available in the UK going back to 1900 for the three main parties.

Email is a behind - the - scenes medium, so political marketers may not be aware of how much effort goes into testing and measuring email marketing techniques in the commercial world.

He also supported mayoral control of schools and went along with the governor's measures tying teacher evaluations to tests.

Their implementation came at the same time a new teacher evaluation system went into effect across New York state, using some of the test results from the new curriculum as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness and ultimately job security.

And they will go into the water main and measure the outside of the water main and test to see where there's potential weaknesses so we can do preventive maintenance.»

For one Central New York family, keeping their children from taking the test sends a message to Albany about a complicated issue they say, goes deeper than using tests to measure teachers performance.

«Teacher evaluation law, which is a legislative issue, by the way, and the testing, you are going to have to have testing to measure progress of students period.»

«If we're saying that the only thing that's a valid measure of student achievement is a test score, versus all the other work they do, it's going to be a sad day for the students of New York state,» Mulgrew said.

These papers add to a growing body of information suggesting that widely used «objective» admissions measures, such as GRE test scores and GPA, are exactly the wrong way to go about picking future contributors to scientific progress.

They set out to see if people with bipolar disorder had more impulsive and inaccurate responses on a quick task than others without the condition, as measured on standard timed tests called a «Go / No - Go» test.

In contrast, newer kits, like the Harvard researchers» creation and Yo Home Sperm Test, a device that went on sale last week, can not only count sperm and measure its concentration, but can also assess its motility.

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

«We're now going to measure vitamin D levels in serum» from those archived samples, Christiani says, to further test the nutrient's cancer - fighting effect.

There aren't yet any instruments that can measure what a large, complicated neural net is doing in detail, especially while it is part of a living brain, so scientists have to find indirect ways of testing their ideas about what's going on in there.

Before and after this training, the participants went through a battery of cognitive tests, designed to measure skills such as memory and attention.

But it's going to be much easier to test more of them and really learn which ones are going to work, which ones are going to help patients, once we have better biomarkers — better ways of measuring the progression in this disease.

We're also testing a new kind of visual field test where we're actually measuring the signals that go from the eye to the brain in glaucoma patients.

Evan Brand: So Justin and I are gonna measure your nutritional markers when we run organic acids testing on you.

You can — there are a number of autoimmune tests that can be run if a person has — if a person doesn't have a severe immune compromi — compromization, you can run tests that measure different autoimmune responses to different tissues, and you can actually find in many of these patients, 4, 5, 6 different autoimmune reactions going on in multiple tissues.

Advanced Lipoprotein Analysis (VAP by Atherotec): this test goes beyond the routine cholesterol panel (HDL, calculated LDL, triglycerides, and total cholesterol), by providing measurements of HDL, LDL, and VLDL (very low - density lipoprotein), and also measuring other important lipoprotein subclasses, including Lp (a), HDL subtypes, and IDL (intermediate - density lipoprotein).

They also may conduct some alternative tests like measuring the contraction of your iris or monitoring whether your blood pressure changes as you go from lying down to standing up (3).

Evan Brand: Yeah, that was something I was gonna talk with you about, too, which maybe this is a tangent, maybe not, is when I looked at her organic acids test specifically with the — with all the pain meds in the system, all of the detox measures there on the organics that they were all flagged really high --

Out of interest, the cause of the IUGR may have been due to a bad placenta and not protein (did you go for the Nuchal Translucency test in the 1st trimester, which would have measured the PAPP - A in your blood — an indicator of how good the placenta is working).

They measured glucose and insulin levels after test meals, and then went one step further to test the levels of GLP - 1 and GIP.

In fact, you can test the effect of gravitational pull yourself if you measure your height before you go to bed and then again right after you wake up.

Hi Rachael, last time I went to the gym, I had the test that measures how much fat and muscles I have.

Some go as far as measuring the ketones in their urine daily, with an at - home test strip.

I'd go for a size 1, which is 37 ″ (shoulder to hem) so maybe try measuring a dress of a similar length that you already own to test the length.

April 11, 2018 • The measure would remove a potential barrier to getting hearing aids by allowing Medicare beneficiaries to go to an audiologist for a hearing test to diagnose a hearing problem without a referral.

And of course that's going to be something that's going to be hard to test with ordinary assessment measures.

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test - scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

And I think that raises a really interesting dilemma for kids, because all of the important things that play and spontaneous activity accomplish are precisely the things that by definition are going to be hard to measure in a standardized test.

For a number of reasons — limited reliability, the potential for abuse, the recent evidence that teachers have effects on student earnings and college going which are largely not captured by test - based measures — it would not make sense to attach 100 percent of the weight to test - based measures (or any of the available measures, including classroom observations, for that matter).

Most of these schools also regularly collect portfolios of student work in an attempt to go beyond standardized test results and provide richer measures of achievement.

And then for our research, we have to both have a good measure of value added and ensure that when we're using that measure, we are doing a good job of also accounting for other things that might be going on during a child's schooling that might also affect 8th - grade tests and high school outcomes.

[8] Critics said that Secretary Duncan was going beyond what the law allows by substituting the Obama administration's favored education reforms (including national curriculum - content standards and tests) for NCLB's accountability measures.

But in a subsequent meeting, the staff actually took portions of the MCAS and came to these conclusions: Although the test is hard, it really does measure the kinds of skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the 21st century; because the MCAS is a curriculum - referenced test whose items are released every year, it is possible to align the curriculum and study for the test; and finally, our students have a long way to go, but most can reach proficiency if the whole school teaches effectively over time.

The best incentive plans are those that go beyond rewarding select teachers whose students score higher on standardized tests, says Darling - Hammond; they use multiple measures to evaluate teacher performance and create career ladders capable of supporting and rewarding all teachers.

But the thinking goes like this: If you look at schools that «work,» as measured by test scores and graduation rates, they all have involved (overinvolved?)

While it's certainly true that test scores can tell us something important about a teacher, what is troubling for the test - score types is that it looks like (1) non-cognitive scores are better predictors of later life success (completing high school, taking the SAT, and going to college) and (2) that it is not the same set of teachers that is good at raising both cognitive and non-cognitive measures.

In some ways, the push for tracking chronic absenteeism benefitted from timing, given the increased emphasis on education data and the ESSA's commitment to going beyond test scores to measure school success.

The CORE is a consortium of nine California school districts that implemented a pilot to create a comprehensive accountability system by assessing school performance through a variety of measures that go beyond academic achievement tests.

I'm going to focus on the final two posts, in which Greene argues that student achievement tests are poor proxies for school quality and that they're not correlated with other measures of quality.

«If students are failing the test, we're going to intervene, and the test measures [their understanding of] evolution.»