Sentences with phrase «testing against future»

That is, I think that you want to exempt your model from testing against future data (by declining to call your model values «predictions» etc), while at the same time claiming that the model values for the future are exceedingly important because that's what the future will be like if CO2 increases continue.

To be a legitimate scientific «hypothesis,» an explanatory principle must be consistent with prior and present observations and must remain subject to continued testing against future observations.

Forecasts can only be tested against future temperatures over time scales sufficiently long to be largely outside the range of shorter term variability.

Forecasts can only be tested against future temperatures over time scales sufficiently long to be outside the range of shorter term variability.

Not exact matches

The SM - 6 has successfully engaged cruise and ballistic missiles and may be tested against surface ships in the future.

«This latest test of world financial systems presents a window in which to address fundamental issues that, if tackled properly, will improve economic management, regulation and the fight against inflation, and help us prevent similar crises in the future,» he said.

We should guard against raising expectations of miracle cures for thousands of patients in the near future however as the current trial will require extensive tests for efficacy and safety.

In preliminary tests, it was found to protect animals against various strains of the virus - and may also protect against future pandemic strains.

In follow - up research, the Relyea lab is testing whether Daphnia with evolved tolerance to road salt protect the food web against future road salt contamination.

MHRP's expansion of research activities into Mozambique provides scientists the opportunity to test future vaccine candidates against the predominant HIV subtype (C) circulating in this part of the world.

The first thread integrates the geological record of past environmental changes to quantify our understanding of the past and provide data sets against which to test the models used to make projections of future global change.

«Now you have a way to test efficacy of future vaccines or future therapeutics, whether those therapeutics are drugs that exist already that could be used in a different way for a different purpose, or new classes of drugs such as antibody - based therapeutics that would be more specifically against Zika,» Diamond said.

Future studies will also need to test the yoga program against other types of interventions, rather than the participants» existing treatment.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

The test is intended to provide a starting point against which to measure future progress through primary schools.

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And because of the Badger Exam's fleeting existence, students» performance on future tests can not be measured against this year's results.

The drawback of objective measures, such as test scores, is that they may be biased against students who are not good test takers, as well as against low - income and / or minority students, who tend to have lower scores that do not reflect actual knowledge or predict future success (Steele 1997; Rothstein 2004; Hoffman and Lowitzki 2005; Madaus and Clarke 2001).

While future performance does not necessarily predict future returns, a historically back tested trading strategy can give you confidence to hold onto positions that initially move against you.

Also, veterinarians don't currently know how long immunity lasts, and some are concerned that the vaccine will make future testing ambiguous since the vaccine triggers antibody production against the virus.

Downes explains that even if your pet is young and healthy, routine blood testing is necessary to establish a baseline against which your veterinarian can compare future test results.

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tested against the observed behavior of the ice and the usual assumptions about the future of the climate in the Greenland region over the coming decades, comprise the pieces of the puzzle needed to come up with an estimate of how fast things are really proceeding in Greenland.

The novel suggestion was that the science of keeping the planet to 2 degrees created a new «baseline» reference point against which all future fossil fuel projects could be tested.

Regrettably we never see the test of the skill of the Hansen model against the latter (it clearly has greater skill than either Hansen or the prediction based on the latest observation) because in the past this model hasn't been a good predictor of the future.

[127] Professor Piché in her text Fairness in Class Action Settlements, supra at pp. 179 - 80 summarizes the various factors for the settlement approval test into seven factors; i.e.: (1) judicial risk analysis: likelihood of recovery, or likelihood of success on the merits weighed against amount and form of settlement relief; (2) future expense, complexity and likely duration of litigation; (3) class reaction: number and nature of objections; (4) recommendations and experience of counsel and opinion of interested persons; (5) adequacy of representation: good faith and absence of collusion; (6) discovery evidence sufficient for «effective representation» and (7) adequacy of notice of proposed settlement to absent class members.

IACCM members are increasingly testing their skills and future readiness by undertaking the on - line IACCM skills assessment, which also provides a benchmark against peers and guidance on how to address skill gaps.

«Each court tested this condition against precedent assessing the relationship of the probation condition to the offense for which the defendant was convicted, the legality of the conduct regulated by the prohibition, and the relationship between the condition and future criminality.

When this kind of thing gets tested against the United Nations human rights system (specifically the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights» prohibition of arbitrary detention) then it is justified by reference to preventing harm to potential future victims.

If you're wondering just how the handset holds up against drops just wait for a couple of days as drop test videos are bound to show up on YouTube in the near future.

At the end of the day, it appears that the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge wins another battle against its fiercest rival, but the proverbial war is far from being over and more tests are bound to be performed in the foreseeable future.

Here at Gizmodo we love to test products against each other so you can look forward to some comparisons in the near future.

They normalize testing their daily choices against their desired future.

A promising direction for future prevention studies would be to test a combination of the elementary grade interventions used here with middle school curricula that seek to promote norms against health - risk behaviors such as drug use and to enhance life skills to resist health - compromising social influences.3, 6,7,31

To illustrate the necessity of the STAIR component, future research could directly test STAIR modified prolonged exposure against the STAIR and prolonged exposure components separately.