Sentences with phrase «uses numbers on a scale»

As a society, we are still slaving to impossible body standards and we use the numbers on the scale to decide if we deserve to feel good about ourselves.

Comdex uses numbers on a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being the best possible score, and 1 being the lowest score.

Not exact matches

«The currency war is intensifying: the number of participants is rising, fresh policy tools are being used to fight, and the scale of influence on the wider foreign exchange market is increasing,» wrote HSBC strategists, led by David Bloom, in a research note on Tuesday which ranks global currencies» appetites for war.

On a scale of one to 10 — no, you can't use negative numbers — how would you rate their skills of recognizing, praising, and rewarding hard work and achievement?

The third phase is Consolidation phase, which adds in a lot more foods into your diet in order to stop the weight loss and start getting your body used to the new number on the scale.

White House officials acknowledged that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times.

Washington (CNN)- The White House acknowledged Thursday the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times, according to a statement.

A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land - based temperature record are negligible (0.006 ºC per decade) as far as hemispheric - and continental - scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used.

The group, with a number of invited scientists, has now reviewed present knowledge on where these and other markers form the clearest, sharpest, and most stable signal in strata that might be used to define the Anthropocene as a formal unit of the Geological Time Scale.

The accurate asteroseismic determinations now available for large number of stars in the Kepler fields can be used to check and calibrate surface gravities that are currently being obtained spectroscopically for a huge numbers of stars targeted by large - scale spectroscopic surveys, such as the on - going Large Sky Area... ▽ More Asteroseismology allows for deriving precise values of surface gravity of stars.

«People aren't used to seeing weights under 100 pounds, and I think that's triggering for a lot of people,» says dietitian and educator Claudia T. Felty, PhD, RD.. In general, she says, we all need to take a deep breath and a big step back from being so quick to judge others by the numbers on their scales.

Also, those numbers will depend on the time of day when you're using the scale, the quantity of water consumed that day, the clothing being worn, the type of your last meal, etc..

This study comes on the heels of a separate large - scale investigation that found no link between statin use and the number of COPD exacerbations people experienced.

It's not measuring your body fat percentage vs your muscle mass percentage vs how much water you have in your system that day vs bone density - so just be aware that the number on the scale really doesn't show you everything that matters, and it's far better to look at progress pictures, take measurements, or use a scanner that measures those different numbers for you periodically.

I used to get so caught up in the number staring back at me on the scale that I'd forget my main goal: getting stronger.

I have also provided a great task based on Mega Dairies in the UK and how they hope to benefit from economies of scale - this includes a number of great video clips and an excellent worksheet that could be used in a group activity.

We constructed algorithms for plant distribution on a global scale, using field - based data of individual plant occurrences for consequent numbers from the publicly stored multiple - interface portal of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org, accessed December 2010).

One of the best solutions to fight the increasing number of cybercrimes would be to use eLearning in order to raise awareness on a global scale.

Here is a list of the different lessons in this Year 3 SpringBoard Pack: Lesson 1a: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 1b: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 2a: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 2b: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 3a: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 3b: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 4a: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 4b: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 5a: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 5b: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 6a: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 6b: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 7a: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 7b: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 8a: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 8b: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 9a: USING MONEY Lesson 9b: USING MONEY Lesson 10a: READING SCALES Lesson 10b: READING SCALES Do you ever wish there was a simple to use, comprehensive way to boost your Year 3 Numeracy grades?

If, as, and when, the United States should embark on a large - scale program for the use of alcohol in a motor fuel, estimates indicate that thousands of acres would be required to grow the raw material for fermentation, a large number of alcohol distilleries would be required, and many hundreds of men would find new employment.

If you aren't sure exactly how much your dog weighs, refer to the paperwork from your latest vet visit and use that number — you're not going to be able to fit a full - grown Akita on a regular bathroom scale.

The vet will also weigh your cat and assign a body conditioning number from 1 to 9 (or 1 to 5, depending on the scale your vet uses).

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Drawing on people close to her, including a number of other artists as well as family members, Opie has posed her figures against a black drop cloth, using highly theatrical lighting, color, and scale.

The show includes, amongst others, Let us see if a million people can be silent, a full - scale, site - specific wall mural made of regular, diagrammatic waves, each one representing a font used to quote Fidel Castro; a series of fruit sculptures; a room installation made with modernist reclaimed furniture; a series of works on canvas and offset printed paper; and Years, a 6 metre high, fragile construction of rusty steel, a partition of numbers, namely of the years 1959 to 2008 in descending order.

And we have to do it on a large scale, so it involves geoengineering — preferably using a number of techniques in combination.

That is precisely what I have done: Using annual sunspot number as a representative of the long term (on the decadal scale) solar magnetic field impact and small variable component of the Earth's magnetic field, as calculated from data by Jackson and Bloxam.

In this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Science.

Exactly, but using good numbers not a «hotchpotch assembly» for which it is claimed to be global temperature (there is no such thing, there is global energy content, but that is totally different story) So calculate correlation CET - GT from 1880 using 5 year bin averaging http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net//CETGNH.htm P.S. your statement on natural variability on decadal scale is grossly misleading, you got about 130 years of good records so you need to look at multi-decadal picture.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

These surface networks have had so many changes over time that the number of stations that have been moved, had their time of observation changed, had equipment changes, maintenance issues, or have been encroached upon by micro site biases and / or UHI using the raw data for all stations on a national scale or even a global scale gives you a result that is no longer representative of the actual measurements, there is simply too much polluted data.

This follows from the fact that the attractiveness of such cards depends on the number of places where they can be used to pay or withdraw cash, which in turn depends on the number of consumers that have such a card and that in turn depends on the scale and density of the network where such cards can be used.

Every municipality uses a scale to base their fine on, which considers the number of MPH over the posted speed limit you were traveling.

List Randomizer will randomize a list of anything you have (names, phone numbers, etc.) String Generator makes random alphanumeric strings Password Generator makes secure passwords for your Wi - Fi or that extra Gmail account Clock Time Generator will pick random times of the day Calendar Date Generator will pick random days across nearly three and a half millennia Geographic Coordinate Generator will pick a random spot on our planet's surface Bitmaps in black and white Hexadecimal Color Code Generator will pick color codes, for example for use as web colors Pregenerated Files contain large amounts of downloadable random bits Pure White Audio Noise for composition or just to test your audio equipment Jazz Scales to practice improvisation for students of jazz guitar Samuel Beckett's randomly generated short prose DNA Protein Sequence Randomizer (at Bio-Web)

So if you'd like to tweak the scale of on - screen elements, the easiest method would be to use a root app called Texdroider to adjust your device's DPI value — just enter a bigger number to increase the size of elements, or enter a smaller number to shrink everything down a bit.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Study Selection Criteria for studies for the meta - analyses included published data on the association between 5 - HTTLPR genotype (SS, SL, or LL), number of stressful life events (0, 1, 2, ≥ 3) or equivalent, and a categorical measure of depression defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD - 10) or use of a cut point to define depression from standardized rating scales.

A four - point scale was used, ranging from 1 («not bothered») to 4 («very much bothered»); we summed up the scale scores on each item and then divided the total sum by the number of items answered.

To assess physical aggression, we selected items from rating scales that were used in longitudinal studies with older children.1 A number of these longitudinal studies have shown that 3 items were sufficient to assess reliably physical aggression in children.1, 46 Mothers were asked to indicate whether the child never (0), sometimes (1), or often (2) hits, bites, kicks; fights; and bullies others (scores on this 3 - item scale may range from 0 to 6).

A count of the number of «rules» or routines was derived from the following: «always» responses to question on regular meals at sweep 2, a question on regular bedtime at sweep 5 and four questions at sweep 5 on whether the child had to tidy up toys, brush teeth, stay in room, and turn off TV or music in room (using 4 - point scale - always / usually / sometimes / never or almost never).

We performed, as a preliminary analysis, a confirmatory factor analysis on the SCL items by using structural equation modeling (SEM) to reduce the information entailed in the nine items of the scale into a reduced number of factors.