Sentences with phrase «under the standard conditions of»

In order to determine average city and highway fuel economy estimates, EPA previously used tests carried out under standard conditions of 75 degrees Fahrenheit and only included maximum acceleration rates and driving speeds significantly lower than those attained by actual drivers.

1 USP Unit decomposes starch at an initial rate such that 0.16 µEq of glycosidic linkage is hydrolyzed under standard conditions of the assay.

Barristers are instructed under the Standard Conditions of Contract for the Supply of Legal Services by Barristers to Authorised Persons 2012 (the «new Bar Council Standard Conditions of Contract»).

Not exact matches

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

If a standard course of liberal studies is provided under these conditions, many people will fail to find therein their own pathway to excellence and will lose the recreational preparation that a more varied program would have offered.

If the welfare state needs individual citizens who can sustain a sense of obligation to strangers; if individuals, in order to develop a capacity for empathy and cooperation, need families; if families, in order to function effectively, need supporting communities of various sorts; and if communities are being eroded under present conditions, we may need to break out of the standard liberal and conservative frameworks.

In light of the definition of «a straight line,» however, this would mean that in diverse regions of the space - time continuum under consideration the measuring rod, under prevailing standard conditions or the introduction of correction factors, is not deformed in its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuum.

For Whitehead, a uniform and independent metric structure is presupposed by measurement in the space - time continuum and in particular is necessitated by any attempt, so it seems to Whitehead, to establish standard conditions or to introduce correction factors ensuring the self - congruence of measuring devices under transport.

Suppose that a measuring rod is selected, and that this definition of «the shortest distance,» or «a straight line» is given: «that path along which the measuring rod, under standard conditions or properly corrected, is laid down the least number of times.»

These seeds are grown under conditions mandated by the National Standard for Organic Agriculture, including rigorous soil testing and use of approved fertilizers and pest controls.

Michael says, «During times of extreme climatic conditions livestock may be agisted on alternative pasture; however under the requirements of the Australian Certified Organic Standard livestock must be bought back onto organic land for at least six months before regaining organic status.

IRRI has signed an agreement with the Governing Body of the Treaty, under which IRRI provides rice genetic resources to anyone who accepts the terms and conditions set out in the Treaty's Standard Material Transfer Agreement.

Certified organic animal welfare standards address a wide range of topics, including feed rations, appropriate housing, pasture conditions, sanitation practices for animals, conditions which allow for freedom of movement and reduction of stress, prevention of disease, and administration of approved medications under organic standards.

Traditional crop improvement seeks broadly adapted genotypes to give best average performance under a standard management regime across the entire production region, with some subsequent manipulation of management regionally in response to average local environmental conditions.

Veterinary surgeons need access to a range of medicines, including antibiotics, in order to treat the conditions and species under their care and support the high standards of animal welfare our society expects.

Lee Rozema, another author of the paper, says «we still are very interested in performing experiments under different conditions and with even higher precision, to gather more evidence supporting standard quantum mechanics.»

«People who have an understanding of good manufacturing practices (GMP) and standard operating procedures (SOP), who have the know - how to conduct cellular work and other work under GMP conditions, will be very marketable in this field,» he adds.

But historically it has been a big challenge for such a system to recognize faces under different lighting conditions and from a variety of angles, says Jonathon Phillips, an electronics engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which develops standards for the technology industry.

In their new study, published yesterday in eLife, Hansen's team went beyond the standard approach of counting APs under steady - state conditions.

Hilt and her colleagues used a more sensitive growth - culture technique to detect the low levels of bacteria in normal urine, reasoning that maybe some urinary bacteria don't grow readily under the conditions of the standard test.

Under those conditions, the cells go through a division process that has «all the hallmarks of meiosis,» says Handel, who helped develop a set of standards for documenting that process in a dish.

«Unlike standard methods for manipulating the properties of graphene oxide, our process can be implemented under ambient conditions and is environmentally - benign, making it a promising step towards the practical integration of graphene oxide into future technologies.»

Isolated islets from 3 - wk - old Tg - hIAPP, which do not exhibit IAPP aggregates at that age (Janson et al., 1996), were cultured in the presence of 1 % or 0.1 % islets extracts from old Tg or WT mice for 7 d under standard conditions, including a glucose concentration of 11 mM in the medium to reduce glucotoxicity and spontaneous aggregation of the protein (Zraika et al., 2007).

These were a series of experiments in which the software ran and processed images under various conditions, selecting targets and gradually being given more authority to command responses to its decisions, culminating in being allowed to select targets, point ChemCam at them, and fire the laser in a series of pulses as occurs during standard scientific measurements.

Accounting for standard growth / mortality rates, the team analyzed tree size - related variation responses based on diameter growth and death under drought and normal conditions; and the percentage of drought - related death.

The quality of low temperature electron transport layers developed was important in achieving not only strong outputs for PV cells under standard test conditions (PCE = 14.8 %) but particularly under low intensity indoor illumination (MPD = 19.2 μW / cm2, PCE = 13.3 %).

The low levels of Hex transcript observed in undifferentiated ES cells (Figure S2C) were sufficient to generate a significant Venus positive (V +) sub-population in undifferentiated ES cell cultures grown under standard feeder free conditions.

The JCAP Benchmarking scientists developed and implemented uniform methods and protocols for characterizing the activities of electrocatalysts under standard operating conditions for water - splitting devices.

To identify genes that cluster together under the tested conditions, we excluded probe sets with a standard deviation in expression values of < log2 (0.45) from the vector mean.

These include: a) Global Clusters that consist of a small, tight subset of genes that are co-expressed under the entire spectrum of experimental conditions; b) Time Series of gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clusters.

Unfortunately, however, no single SFR estimator is universally available or even applicable in all circumstances: the numerous galaxies found in deep surveys are often too faint (or too distant) to yield significant detections with most standard SFR measures, and until now there have been no global, multi-band observations of nearby galaxies that span all the conditions under which star - formation is taking place.

Under standard conditions, 90 % of excess protein is turned into urea (a non-toxic waste product) and excreted in the urine.

Certification under the standards involves four elements of production: the origin of the animals, and the health care management, feed ration and living conditions they receive throughout their lives.

Another study examining the effects the different lipids in terms of heart disease risk found that «triglyceride concentration was not independently related with CHD risk after controlling for HDL - C, non — HDL - C, and other standard risk factors, including null findings in women and under nonfasting conditions.21, 22 Hence, for population - wide assessment of vascular risk, triglyceride measurement provides no additional information about vascular risk given knowledge of HDL - C and total cholesterol levels, although there may be separate reasons to measure triglyceride concentration (eg, prevention of pancreatitis).»

The requirement under those conditions, according to the RDA, is something like 25 mg; however, if we just look at the diet and examine how much zinc you get in a standard American diet, there's no way that you can get 25 mg of available zinc.

If, under the best of conditions, schools are still incapable of adding anything but a few fractions of a standard deviation to the academic achievement of students or to their lifetime earning trajectories, might it not make sense to freeze school spending and explore supplementary policy instruments?

According to the report, 84 percent of the state's special test - takers in 2000 were white, while they accounted for just 68 percent of those taking the test under standard conditions.

Genuine collegiality grounded in a set of shared norms and standards of practice is nearly impossible under these conditions.

Yet the panel majority concluded, «This finding is consistent with the argument that students with disabilities need more time to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities than the nondisabled students, and suggests that the scores of these students taken under the condition of extended time are more representative of their true performance than are the scores they would obtain from a standard administration.»

The flagging of SAT scores protected the test's usefulness as a common standard of measurement by informing readers, such as college - admissions officers, when the test had been taken under unusual conditions, such as receiving time and a half to finish the standard three - hour exam.

The chief issue confronting the panel was whether the scores of students taking the test under standard conditions and with accommodations are «comparable» — in other words, whether they have the same weight and meaning and predict freshman GPAs with the same degree of accuracy.

In other words, the standards require test administrators to note when a test has been taken under modified conditions unless there is «credible evidence» that the scores of students who took the test under standard and modified conditions are comparable — that is, that the scores carry the same meaning and weight.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

The study analyzes student outcomes associated with specific aspects of curriculum and instruction and identified policy conditions - especially regarding standards - based reform - under which effective classroom practices were likely to flourish.

Standardized testing is any testing which is given to large numbers of students under standard conditions and with standardized procedures.

ESSA further states that, «Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize an officer or employee of the Federal Government to mandate, direct, or control a State, LEA, or school's specific instructional content, academic standards and assessments, curriculum or program of instruction, as a condition of eligibility to receive funds under this Act.»

The U.S. Department of Education also made adoption of «college - and career - ready standards» meeting the description of the Common Core a condition to receive a state waiver under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

-» (A) IN GENERAL. - To be eligible for assistance under this chapter, a project shall satisfy applicable creditworthiness standards, which, at a minimum, shall include -» (i) a rate covenant, if applicable;» (ii) adequate coverage requirements to ensure repayment;» (iii) an investment grade rating from at least 2 rating agencies on debt senior to the Federal credit instrument; and» (iv) a rating from at least 2 rating agencies on the Federal credit instrument, subject to the condition that, with respect to clause (iii), if the total amount of the senior debt and the Federal credit instrument is less than $ 75,000,000, 1 rating agency opinion for each of the senior debt and Federal credit instrument shall be sufficient.»

Standard on the BMW X4 is full - time all - wheel drive that keeps the crossover in a front / rear torque split of 40/60 percent under normal conditions.

Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall commence a rulemaking proceeding to amend test parameters under Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 213 to better replicate real world conditions.