Sentences with phrase «tracking research data»

The platform is also proving to be useful for tracking research data.

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The data, which was compiled by the NPD Group, a research firm that tracks the U.S. gaming industry, suggests that Nintendo sold more units of the Switch's most popular games than units of the hardware itself.

Holger Mueller, who tracks the HR sector as principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research, contends that Zenefits» revenue model is the most revolutionary thing about the company, comparing its approach to Google, which also gives away its digital services for free (then monetizes its accumulated user data by selling it to advertisers).

For the first time in history, a majority of members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires, according to an analysis of data conducted by the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group that tracks money's influence in U.S. politics.

There are bracelets that let people track their fitness, apps for visiting doctors virtually, and medical research that would be impossible without computers slicing and dicing of massive amounts of data.

«A month ago, this report and the other data on the economy would have created a strong rationale for raising rates at the September meeting,» said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS, a research and consulting firm that tracks the economy.

One of the big concerns about comparing Puerto Rico to other blackout events — as Rhodium did in the first chart — is that not every country tracks power data as well as others, and some countries are still electrifying (there are still 1.1 billion people around the world who don't have electricity), explained Peter Marsters, a research analyst at Rhodium.

SEO Powersuite gathers data from 19 different keyword research tools (327 search engines) and can track your rankings along with up to 10 competitors.

The latest study from the Pew Research Center found that government restrictions and social hostilities regarding religion in 2015 (the latest year with data available) were actually down a bit from record highs in 2012, although up significantly from 2007 when Pew began keeping track.

To Barton's point, retail sales data from IRI, a Chicago - based market research firm, show sales of most shelf - stable dry packaged sides and canned soups were down or relatively flat during a 52 - week tracking period ended Dec. 31, 2017.

In the search for ways to prevent catastrophic injuries, nothing has buoyed the industry's scientists more than the mammoth, open - ended research project in California that has gathered revealing data from the autopsies performed on every horse that has died at the state's five thoroughbred tracks over the last four years (nearly 900 so far).

Examples of focal areas include: developing and implementing a rigorous evaluation of home visiting; selecting, adapting, and developing culturally appropriate data collection tools and measures; tracking and measuring benchmarks; developing and modifying existing data systems; continuous quality improvement; data protection and privacy; and ethical dissemination and translation of evaluation findings derived from research with AIAN to external audiences.

They'll also track MetroCard usage, GPS data, survey research and poll riders» satisfaction.

The research drew on data collected from the Edmonton Transitions Study, which has been tracking the transition of more than 900 Canadians from high school to work, and from adolescence into adulthood.

Research based on these data, and its use in tracking vegetation, cloud height, and reflectivity, among other factors, has only begun to come out.

Using Federal Bureau of Investigation homicide reports, Congressional Research Service data on mass shootings and online archives of news accounts about multiple murders, Duwe has tracked U.S. rates of mass public shootings from 1915 to 2017.

Bray says the falling cost of genome sequencing, plus portable monitors (such as Fitbit) to track in real time people's behavior and environment, mean that scientists already have the ability to collect the kinds of data they need to do the fundamental research behind precision weight loss.

The research team used data from the «European Union for Bird Ringing» (EURING)- the European institution in charge of banding and tracking birds - in order to examine the data recorded on 42,707 Eurasian siskins between 1907 and 2011.

According to recent research by market research organisation, Ovum, 68 % of us in the EU would like to opt out of having our personal data tracked.

The scientists assembled at the two meetings heard data that is incontrovertible and a take - home lesson that could hardly be clearer: There are not now, nor will there ever be, enough tenure - track jobs at research universities for all who want them.

The number holding non-tenure track positions (e.g., soft - money research faculty) has, meanwhile, increased 38.3 %, from 21,500 to 29,740.2 These data are sobering for young scientists who went into graduate school expecting to move into tenure - track positions when they emerged from their postdoctorates (or even sooner).

The fisheries biologist and Muthiah Muruganandam, a Fulbright scholar from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, will use existing data to track changes in the characteristics and water quality of surface waters in northeastern South Dakota.

... Research UK would take over administrative duties, such as tracking grant data, providing business support, and reporting to Parliament... [and] should be run by «a highly distinguished scientist, capable of delivering a managerially efficient organisation and of interacting effectively with Government.»

Just in case you were wondering why «The Sunday Telegraph» has devoted two whole pages over the last couple of weeks to Monckton's amateur re-interpretation of the data, rather than inviting somebody with a track record in climate research to write about the issue, I think I might be able to shed some light on the issue.

We obtained permission from an original study investigator (B Leelarthaepin, coauthor) and approval from the Office of Human Research Protection to recover, analyze, and interpret de-identified SDHS data stored on a 9 track magnetic tape.

This interface enables the analysis of PiMS data in light of other datasets, such as protein sequence and structural information, and enables a future vision of tools which track the provenance of published biomedical results to the datasets and samples involved in the research project.

The sequence data used in this analysis were generated by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and contributed to the MalariaGEN P. falciparum Community Project by several independent research groups, including the Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration.

Further research topics are statistical / computational methods to study complex experimental data (e.g. cellular genealogies) and image analysis procedures (e.g. model - based segmentation algorithms in the context of automatic single cell tracking).

To attack this information gap, the research team analyzed 30 years of tropical cyclone track data obtained from the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

High contrast images facilitate robust automatic tracking and behavioural analysis of hundreds of individual cells within heterogeneous cell populations is now possible without the need for intrusive dyes or labels, bringing unique morphological, temporal, and dynamic phenotypic data to your research.

To facilitate that generated data is useful to the receiving project and the research community in the long term, the Data Centre will set up a tracking database, focusing on the data management plan for SciLifeLab supported projects and including information about publications and where and how data made accessible by the projects can be fodata is useful to the receiving project and the research community in the long term, the Data Centre will set up a tracking database, focusing on the data management plan for SciLifeLab supported projects and including information about publications and where and how data made accessible by the projects can be foData Centre will set up a tracking database, focusing on the data management plan for SciLifeLab supported projects and including information about publications and where and how data made accessible by the projects can be fodata management plan for SciLifeLab supported projects and including information about publications and where and how data made accessible by the projects can be fodata made accessible by the projects can be found.

The Data Centre will also work with tracking the scientific impact of the generated data, including publications and data made accessible by the projects, to help the research community, clinicians or industry to browse and search the outData Centre will also work with tracking the scientific impact of the generated data, including publications and data made accessible by the projects, to help the research community, clinicians or industry to browse and search the outdata, including publications and data made accessible by the projects, to help the research community, clinicians or industry to browse and search the outdata made accessible by the projects, to help the research community, clinicians or industry to browse and search the output.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).

Unfortunately, because the U.S. Department of Education does not regularly track borrowers by race, data limitations have hampered efforts to connect research on racial gaps with detailed new studies of debt and default patterns.

«The final product is going to be [that] at any point in time from K — 12, we know what is the arc of success that a kid is having and whether the kid is on track,» says Chung Pham, senior strategic projects analyst in assessment, research, and evaluation in the Denver Public Schools through his fellowship at the Strategic Data Project.

This means being deeply engaged by data and evidence, from both our own research and research elsewhere, without losing track of the task: building affordable, usable, effective, scalable, efficient solutions for the range of learning challenges.

In the paper, which was published last week by the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research, researcher Chrys Dougherty contends that educators can draw on longitudinal data on students to determine how far off the college - and - career track their students are when they enter...

In a study released in July 2015, nearly 20 years of data from the Fast Track Research Project were examined.

Utah school districts block sexual - orientation question on student survey Research ≫ State, CDC seek data to improve suicide tracking; Davis and Cache districts say topic is too sensitive for students» questionnaire.

Based on my research, I suggest that districts consider more systematically tracking information regarding principals and linking this principal data to student information systems so that district or external researchers can examine how principal education and professional experience seem to influence student outcomes and principal retention in their districts.

Using the TalentEd Recruit & Hire suite of solutions — including the Educators Professional Inventory (EPI), a data - based assessment tool, and Hire, an applicant tracking system — Matthew and other district principals have access to years of research and candidate - specific insights that help perform initial candidate assessments, guide hiring choices and inform professional development.

At the end of my action research, I was able to support my students» reading skill development through clear and focused instruction, designing meaningful practice, creating formative and summative assessments that provided specific data that informed reteaching, and prioritizing time for my students to reflect and track their own growth.

Education Week «s Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center (2012), which tracks graduation over the whole century, relies on the U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD).

While additional research is needed on the characteristics of effective principals and how to best identify «fit,» experts encourage districts to use data tracking systems to learn more about the characteristics and experiences of successful principals in their own systems.

Recognizing the critical path illuminated by this research, then - CEO Arne Duncan put it into practice through biweekly on - track data reports for every CPS high school, allowing them to create targeted efforts to improve course grades and attendance.

After analyzing the data and writing each case we found that four components stood out as consistently prominent across all the schools: a broad and deep curriculum designed for all students with little tracking or ability grouping (meaning that most students get the same high quality learning experiences in all classes); a teaching staff with advanced content knowledge; a mission - focused administrative structure with a flattened hierarchy that invited collaboration with and among teachers and students; and supports for underrepresented students, such as advisories with personalized college planning, tutoring or summer research programs on college campuses.

WINGS uses a research - based curriculum that requires the daily entry of data to track students» progress on social and emotional skills, behavior, attendance and academic performance.

State and local enforcement officials use SAFETYNET to search for truck / bus driver history, review inspection results, record and track inspection and crash data, research compliance issues, and contact appropriate individuals or companies / organizations to request additional information or take compliance action.

The LERIS system tracks work in progress and stores historical workload and case data for research and analysis.