Sentences with phrase «used by different states»

The discrepancy metric may even harm more children than it helps, as when the formulas used by different states deprive some students of special education following a family's move from one state to another.

Not exact matches

There are two simple ratios using accruals not often reported or put on financial websites but they do explain the state of quality of earnings, they are calculated by using two different approaches Balance sheet approach Calculate Accruals which is difference between beginning and ending NOA (Net operating assets) Here, NOA = Net operating assets = -LCB-(Total assets — cash and equivalents and investments)--(Total...

The use of single issues — different ones in different states — by the Moral Majority had a great deal to do with the defeat of liberal senators.

Although «secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.»

One is that because of the active part played by people in the audience in seeking out gratifying communications to meet their personal and social needs, the dominant uses being made of a religious program may be quite different from the stated aims of the program itself.

The company also invested in equipment that will «revolutionize» maple manufacturing, including its evaporators and reverse osmosis systems designed by CDL Inc. «Both are different from what anyone is using and is cutting edge technology,» he states.

If at any point in time Golubka Kitchen decides to make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email.

If at any point in time Birmingham Fun And Family Magazine decides to make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email.

The task force supports the recommendations of the AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn, which state that hospitalized preterm infants should be placed in the supine position for sleep by 32 weeks» postmenstrual age to allow them to become accustomed to sleeping in that position before hospital discharge.103 Unfortunately, preterm and very low birth weight infants continue to be more likely to be placed prone for sleep after hospital discharge.104, 105 Preterm infants are placed prone initially to improve respiratory mechanics106, 107; although respiratory parameters are no different in the supine or prone positions in preterm infants who are close to discharge, 108 both infants and their caregivers likely become accustomed to using the prone position, which makes it more difficult to change.

The practice has been used before by the city — to fund the 7 train extension towards Hudson Yards, for example — but would have a markedly different impact on the city if controlled by the state.

Through a new web - based portal set to go live July 1, the state Office of General Services will take control of allocating more than 10,000 parking spaces now controlled by individual agencies, which use different standards to award spots based on lengthy waiting lists.

The proposed tax reform — a different version of which is making its way through the Senate — would deeply cut corporate taxes, double the standard deduction used by most Americans, and limit or repeal completely the federal deduction for state and local property, income and sales taxes.

Modern toll roads often use a combination of the three, with various entry and exit tolls supplemented by occasional mainline tolls: for example the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the New York State Thruway implement both systems in different sections.

«The way I like at it is there's this enormous temptation by the state government to try to control the economy — to use state grants, which is essentially our tax money — and different types of rules and regualtions and fancy programs with fancy titles to try to act like politicians create jobs.

Making the call at a news conference in Osogbo, the state Chairman of APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun, said the video clip was fabricated by some unscrupulous individuals to discredit the election, adding that the video clip, which was brandished by the spokesperson of Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr Femi Fani - Kayode, had nothing to do with the last August election in Osun State as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship elecstate Chairman of APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun, said the video clip was fabricated by some unscrupulous individuals to discredit the election, adding that the video clip, which was brandished by the spokesperson of Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr Femi Fani - Kayode, had nothing to do with the last August election in Osun State as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship elecState as the ballot papers shown in the video were different from the actual ballot papers used for Osun governorship election.

The Department of State security (DSS) said on Friday that its operatives uncovered a sinister plot by terrorist elements to stage series of coordinated attacks using explosives on different cities across the country in the last few weeks and arrested the masterminds.

The plan, detailed in an 18 - page report prepared by the minority Democrats» Policy Group, includes proposed tax benefits for employers who offer student loan assistance, expansion of state tuition assistance programs and implementation of different student readiness metrics used to determine whether students must take remedial courses.

«You know, neighborhoods disrupted and different power plants all throughout the state — I think that the smart way of providing energy and expanding energy is by using what you have.»

Another approach which is used in U.S. state and local taxation by virtue of an interstate compact, is to have entities (or consolidated groups of corporations) prepare one tax return for the entire world and then to allocate pro-rata percentages of that global return to different jurisdictions based upon a handful of factors that are relatively hard to manipulate and bear a meaningful relationship to where income is earned such as sales, employment and the location of physical assets.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four regions.

Cuomo also is creating a new voter registration task force made up of members of his administration to oversee the effort, including ways to create «secure» online voting registration systems in different state agencies, similar to the ones already used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

While that puts him at odds with the teachers union, it represents a very different tone from that used by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his State of the City speech last week.

The tools used by the commercial industry to detect our thoughts and brain states are very different, and somewhat limited, compared with those used in the research lab.

By understanding and using the different states achieved when an electron's spin rotates, researchers could potentially increase information storage capacity in computers, for example.

Research by Dr Nicholas Carey from the Goldbogen lab at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, United States and collaborators from IAMC - CNR, Italy uses data from real whale lunges along with lab simulations to examine if whales alter their lunging strategy to catch different dinners.

The group of Majed Chergui at EPFL, along with national and international colleagues, have shed light on this long - standing question by using a combination of cutting - edge experimental methods: steady - state angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), which maps the energetics of the electrons along the different axis in the solid; spectroscopic ellipsometry, which determines the optical properties of the solid with high accuracy; and ultrafast two - dimensional deep - ultraviolet spectroscopy, used for the first time in the study of materials, along with state - of - the - art first - principles theoretical tools.

A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron macromolecular crystallography to investigate the different states of three glaucoma drugs as they interact with the targeted enzyme, human carbonic anhydrase II (hCA II).

«By using different nanofin designs in the future, one could store and retrieve far more images by employing light with many states of polarization,» said CapassBy using different nanofin designs in the future, one could store and retrieve far more images by employing light with many states of polarization,» said Capassby employing light with many states of polarization,» said Capasso.

«Our goal at QBI is to help make precision medicine a reality by using quantitative research tools to understand the underlying biology behind different disease states, and then to use that knowledge to develop novel diagnostics and therapies and put them into the hands of clinicians,» said Krogan.

The Schneider et al. ensemble constrained by their selection of LGM data gives a global - mean cooling range during the LGM of 5.8 + / - 1.4 ºC (Schnieder Von Deimling et al, 2006), while the best fit from the UVic model used in the new paper has 3.5 ºC cooling, well outside this range (weighted average calculated from the online data, a slightly different number is stated in Nathan Urban's interview — not sure why).

Here, we investigated the feasibility of using connectivity for distinguishing different emotional states induced by a novel free - streaming, subject - driven experimental paradigm.

Penn State researchers found that some of the techniques used by people who successfully maintain weight loss are quite different from those techniques used to lose weight.

Rather than using this opportunity to develop a new vision of how the state data system could be more useful across California's vastly different 1,000 + districts, Cody reinforces the testing lens that he despises by limiting his perspective on data use to this frame.

... a systematic, cognitive behavior approach used to teach self - regulation by categorizing all the different ways we feel and states of alertness we experience into four concrete zones.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

The sampling of the districts was purposive, using a «grounded theory» premise that the task of developing explanations for complex phenomena is best advanced by sequential examinations of several different contexts.299 We therefore began by examining two small districts in two states that exhibited the most distinctive differences in state policy culture.

But only a third of teachers teach grades or subjects measured by state standardized tests, so administrators use different measures to rate the rest.

Researchers at Stanford University recently set about solving this problem by creating a national database that uses a formula to put all the different state tests on a common scale.

«The anecdotes plaintiffs have tried to use as evidence have no connection to these laws and could have been given by students in any other state with widely different laws governing teacher employment,» she said.

How the tests get used also varies widely in terms of how much states break out student test scores by subgroups of different kinds of kids, according to Lovell.

This certainly seemed to be the case in the initial phase of the Common Core State Standards, when the idea of «fewer, clearer, and higher» standards that were consistent across states was supported by an unprecedented coalition of business, civil rights, government, and labor groups (see McDonnell and Weatherford's (2013) article «Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption» in the American Journal of Education for a detailed explanation of the varying reasons why so many different groups initially supported the Common Core).

The event brought together members from research alliances throughout our five - state region, staff members from eight different regional education laboratories across the country, and national thought leaders to impart knowledge and insights into the ways research alliances can promote the use of evidence by local and state practitioners and policymakers.

The original affidavit of Professor Audrey Amrein - Beardsley, of Arizona State University, sworn to February 28, 2015, explained that VAM models, such as that being used by Respondent, have a 50 % chance of showing that a teacher caused growth in students one year, and a 50 % chance of showing that the teacher detracted from student growth, so «the probabilitythat this teacher was truly effective or ineffective was no different that the flip of a coin.»

We support states as they select and monitor the use of different measures in their state systems by working closely with state teams, facilitating cross-state collaboration and providing targeted resources.

States can use different measures for different grade spans, using age - appropriate ones where it makes sense, and are limited only by their imagination (and some technical requirements of the law).

I met one teacher who teaches an extreme set of students, and who by others» accounts is one of the best teachers in her district, but she was labeled «highly ineffective;» hence, without evidence I'd beg to argue the VAM in use in this state is probably not much different than others.

NAEP was never investigated because the Department said I didn't have standing, although documents had proven that NAEP did experimental research & used different states to pilot their agenda by embedding their test questions into the Pennsylvania EQA as well as other state tests.

If an advisor tries to skirt around breakpoints by using two different investment companies, the broker - dealer or compliance department will often ask the client to sign an acknowledgement form stating that they could have hit a breakpoint by using the same fund family.