Sentences with phrase «testing standards in»

Increased student achievement on national testing standards in reading and math by 65 % and 100 %, respectively.

Under his tenure, the state raised testing standards in summer 2010, after learning that more students had failed tests than was previously calculated.

Volkswagen announces a corporate overhaul, while in the U.S., government regulators tighten testing standards in the wake of the emission scandal.

We are lacking in teaching social studies as this is not a tested standard in fifth grade, though we do teach it.

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Ward said: «GM has chosen to exploit the weak application of minimum crash test standards in Latin America to provide a version of the car that the company would be unable to sell either in Europe or North America.

The ISOFIX system was first introduced on the European market in 1997 and became more widely available when it became part of the European ECE R / 44 test standard in 2004.

Not exact matches

The road map to 5G is still in the early stages of development, but with network operators, equipment suppliers and standards bodies beginning to run tests, its unique capabilities are becoming more apparent.

«We can perform hundreds of tests, from standard to sophisticated, from a pinprick and tiny sample of blood, and we have performed more than 70 tests from a single tiny sample,» a representative for the company told Tech Insider in April.

Looking ahead, Mastercard plans to continue to test the card technology, which won't add any thickness to a standard credit card, in South Africa and will expand trials to Europe and Asia - Pacific within the next few months.

In development: a version of the test that can be administered over the Internet using a standard webcam.

The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

One standard test of this asks the patient to look at a picture and find as many examples of, say, a circle or an X or other simple symbol as possible in two minutes.

We have a 32 - node cluster running in our lab, and we do industry - standard benchmark tests off of that cluster, and we give potential customers the published results of those tests.

Another big case examines the patentability of diagnostic testing, and a third case in the pipeline could rethink the standard the Court set in 1983 to test the obviousness of what is patentable — a case that could call into question the validity of hundreds of thousands of existing patents.

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

«We do expect that some of the local suppliers we have used will not meet more stringent testing standards we have put in place,» Arnold said.

To come to their findings the research team asked 78 kids aged nine to eleven to list as many uses as they could think of for common household items like a tin can or newspaper (a standard test of creativity in psychological research).

Then, half of the participants were given a handful of standard cognitive tests to keep them busy for ten minutes, while the other half were instructed to relax in a darkened room and do nothing.

IT staffers instructed workers to adopt stronger passwords in keeping with the organization's security standards, then repeated the test.

Regulators have given Mercedes - Benz a license to test the new E-Class standard - production cars in autonomous mode, announced the company's parent company Daimler (ddaif) AG at CES, an annual consumer electronics industry trade show in Las Vegas.

One of the biggest challenges in the digital health space is proving that groundbreaking new technologies actually live up to the accuracy standards of tested, tried, and true «old school» methods.

The EPA found that one in every eight planes failed the agency's standards for water safety and 15 % of of tested aircraft water systems contained potentially harmful bacteria, Business Insider reports.

In 2016's test, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, and Standard Chartered came up lacking, with RBS forced to submit plans to the PRA — the BoE's regulatory arm — detailing how it would raise capital and boost resilience to financial shocks.

The Standard Edition Manduca has been tested against the rigorous European standards and have been found in compliance with all safety regulations.

Normally, solar panels are designed to last several decades on rooftops, but according to these sources, in early 2016, the Whitney panels failed internal tests that determined whether they met industry - standard longevity.

In the context of an angel group with membership application standards consistent with those of the industry and approved by an industry group, things like a personal referral from an existing accredited investor member, automated background and identity checks, and the use of an expanded investor suitability questionnaire, might be deemed to satisfy the «reasonable steps to verify» test under Rule 506 (c).

A spokesperson for the LTA explained that the Model S in question was tested under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) R101 standards.

A new genetic test that analyzes the free DNA floating in a pregnant woman's blood was proven to be more effective at predicting chromosomal disorders compared with standard screening tests, due to its much smaller incidence of false - positive results.

All of their pet foods and treats are sourced, manufactured, and packaged in the USA, and the company maintains strict quality control standards that include voluntary on - site USDA testing.

In 2017, the Company plans to decrease the distance between completion stages on its standard completions from 200 - 225» to 170», as well as test even tighter completion spacing.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing procesIn a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing procesin the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing procesin an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing process.

Along with standard active safety features, crash tests indicate that Model X will receive a 5 - star safety rating in all categories, the first SUV ever to do so.

Change the ITC standard for obtaining an injunction to better align it with the traditional four - factor test in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, to enhance consistency in the standards applied at the ITC and district courts.

Heidenry said Daniels submitted to and passed a polygraph test in Las Vegas as part of the magazine's reporting, which he said was «standard in celebrity news.»

However, without conceding the point as to whether digital assets are securities (enough ink has already been spilled on the Howey test), white papers are evolving into documents resembling private placement memoranda typical in a standard Rule 506 private offering of securities.

According to a transcript of a Florida Cabinet Meeting, «MR. [VP of Georgia - Pacific Palatka Ted] KENNEDY: However, as part of the administrative order, the DEP, EPA and Georgia - Pacific agreed that post installation of the technologies and subsequent optimization and testing period of a year each, we would test as to whether we could meet water quality standards in Rice Creek.

Ultimately, however, it is related to the search for new jobs and higher living standards in a changed and more testing world environment.

This part of the «for use in» standard was tested in the Canadian International Trade Tribunal case Jam Industries Ltd. v. President of the Canada Border Services Agency.

In addition, advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, which now are standard elements of testing process, require access to massive amounts of data to be effective.

Intresting, I believe in all states have regulations for what can and has been used as a dangerous weapon, altough not designed to be, the automobile We have age limits, proficiency standards (tests), regulation for safe use (speed limits, seat belts, air bags, etc.) and licences that can be revoked.

To get there through the marketplace, we need agreed «upon academic standards and tests that every school participates in.

But I join Mr. Forstmann in believing that the «accountability» mechanism that should be attached to those standards and test results is a parent «driven marketplace rather than state «imposed rewards and sanctions.

They did not, however, see a need to absolutize anything in the Bible as a final standard of judgement, even what Sölle calls the gospel's «nonderivable promise and the demand for peace, freedom, and justice for all people».5 The test of our present judgements is not their conformation to any Christian absolute but rather whether they have developed responsibly through Christian history.

In 1 John we are told to test the Spirits and we can only do this if we know what the standards are.

For most adults in America, it looks like cohabitation is now a standard compatibility test for marriage.

Philosophy is great when dealing with abstract, human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.

For instance, in a discussion of apartheid, David Field remarks: «From a Christian point of view, it is important to examine the case for apartheid in some detail... because among its strongest supporters it numbers Christians who claim to have tested their attitudes and opinions by the standards of Scripture» (Free to Do Right [InterVarsity, 1976], p. 19).

Although the compelling - ness test (which only accommodationists believe in anyway) gives us a standard for determining which state interests are so vital that a claim of religious requirement can not overcome them, we have no test for determining which religious interests are so vital that no state interest — not even a compelling one — can overcome them.

By drawing on these two sources of data, the researchers were able to produce an analysis that is better than that of the two other major quantitative researchers in the field, George Barna and George Gallup; it is the standard against which other research on teens should be tested.