Sentences with phrase «with multiple measures»

In this study, we test whether DRD2 and DRD4 are associated with multiple measures of conduct disorder and with a measure of antisocial behavior.

We have major battles occurring in Massachusetts, California, Nevada, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, Ohio, Hawaii, New York, Rhode Island and Oregon, along with multiple measures pending before the U.S. Congress.

Provide appropriate assessment and instructional strategies — assess student progress ongoingly with multiple measures to inform methods and pacing of instruction.

Assessment and Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning calls for replacing the one - shot tests used to impose sanctions under NCLB with multiple measures that better support high - quality teaching and increased student achievement.

In addition, a system that utilizes a growth model assessment approach with multiple measures of achievement is recommended.

Pittsburgh teachers acted in good faith to partner with the district on an evaluation system that included VAM with multiple measures of student learning.

What's really sad is that we're spending billions of dollars and countless hours of principals» time collecting data with these multiple measures, simply to rank 90 % of all teachers somewhere between a 2 and a 3 on a 4 point scale, while offering those same teachers little or no actionable information as to how they might improve their practice.

Parents are familiar with multiple measures when they read their child's report card, and certainly do not want their child's school performance reduced to a single number.

And now with multiple measures, understanding which schools have low performance is not as straightforward as when we were only measuring test scores, as uninformative as they may have been.

CCSA's criteria are straightforward, clear, and holistic; leveraging both public test score data along with a multiple measure review aligned to California's 8 state priorities.

Not exact matches

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels.

There will always be conceptual issues with any single valuation measure, so the best we can do is evaluate valuations from the standpoint of multiple historically reliable approaches.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, increase in stock price during the past year and expanding profit margins.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Our methodology for making projections focuses on staying aligned with historical trends, which, per above, we measure in multiple ways.

With multiple inspection capabilities, the quality assurance system inspects packaged meat, poultry and dairy products for contaminants, while simultaneously measuring mass, inspecting seals and counting components

In that case, shake or whisk your flour blend to lighten it, gently scoop a large spoonful of the blend into a straight sided 1 - cup measuring cup (do not use a clear one with multiple measurements on the sides, those are for liquids).

I was very technical with this recipe, in that I measured everything multiple times to get it the right consistency, so beware of it NOT working.

In multiple studies, lactation is associated with reduced maternal risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.12, 22 Several studies have found differences in diabetes prevalence among postmenopausal women.22, 23 However, the only study to measure incident disease found that the association between breastfeeding and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus disappeared after 15 years after a woman's last birth.12 Thus, we limited the effect of lactation on type 2 diabetes mellitus accordingly.

I measured small for all three of my pregnancies and had to have multiple growth scans with all of them my children were all born 6 1/2 lbs and more and healthy.

Measures of maternal satisfaction were reported in one study of 15 women, but there were insufficient data to draw any conclusions; no other secondary outcomes were reported for women with a multiple pregnancy in either study.

The study authors provided data from multiples for infant morbidity (jaundice, infant feeding difficulty, weight loss, dehydration, illness not related to jaundice / feeding, ER visit, and hospitalisation) at two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge, and measures ofmaternal satisfaction (amount of information on feeding your baby, clarity of information on feeding your baby, amount of help with feeding your baby, and total satisfaction with care), assessed in hospital, two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge.

Measures ofmaternal satisfaction were reported in one study of 15 women, but there were insufficient data to draw any conclusions; no other secondary outcomes were reported for women with multiple births in either study.

At the same time, the measure requires public schools, government agencies and public colleges to have multiple - occupancy bathrooms, along with locker rooms, be designated to be used only by people of their «biological sex» — or what was stated on their birth certificate.

The measure, multiple versions of which have been proposed and introduced in the Legislature over the last several years, has been met with stiff resistance by social conservatives and the Catholic Church as well as advocates for the disabled.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

We will develop multiplexed assays that will allow us to measure multiple proteins at a time in human samples, thus increasing the speed with which we can test candidate biomarkers.

The tower is part of the AmeriFlux network, a consortium of scientists using a network to work with the eddy covariance technique, measuring fluxes of CO2 and CH4 at multiple sites across the Americas.

«Multiple measures of sleep apnea severity directly correlated with poorer performance on several cognitive tests,» said co-first author Anna Kratz, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

The research, commissioned by the Department of Health, is the first to present estimates for the number of babies with brain injuries based on a definition that includes multiple conditions in one measure.

Additionally, M. Sykora et al. recently reported decreases in the autonomous system's measure of baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) as an independent predictor for post-stroke infections (4), and both the BRS and serum AChE activity correlated with multiple inflammatory biomarkers.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

The vibrations should measure about a 10 - millionth of a nanometer — about the same amount the bar would vibrate with thermal energy — but Weber hoped to spot the waves by seeing multiple cylinders sing in concert.

Led by researchers at NYU Langone's Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, the new study reports that participants with MS who used tDCS while playing the cognitive training computer games designed to improve information processing abilities showed significantly greater gains in cognitive measures than those who played the computer games alone.

What's more, IQ correlated positively with a measure of «presidential greatness» based on multiple rankings and ratings of presidents» leadership ability — and the relationship went in a straight line.

In addition, results from a recently developed biomarker assay that was designed to measure levels of SMN protein in the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), showed time - and dose - dependent increases in SMN protein levels in SMA children treated with ISIS - SMNRx from both single - and multiple - dose studies.

Unlike the satellite temperature record, where only a few satellites are measuring temperatures at any given point of time, there is a large amount of redundancy in surface temperature observations, with multiple

Spectroscopy of the star coupled with asteroseismic modeling of the multiple pulsation modes yield precise measurements of stellar properties, notably Teff = 5793 + / - 74 K, M = 1.079 + / - 0.051 Msun, R = 1.243 + / - 0.019 Rsun, and density 0.7903 + / - 0.0054 (cgs), all measured with fractional uncertainties of only a few percent.

Functional connectivity is typically measured using one of three approaches: (1) regression analysis using a seed region of interest (Greicius et al., 2003; Fox et al., 2005), (2) full or partial correlation analysis of multiple regions of interest (Ryali et al., 2012), or (3) independent component analysis (ICA) of the entire imaging dataset to identify spatial maps with common temporal profiles (Beckmann and Smith, 2004; Cole et al., 2010).

We used asteroseismology to measure a large obliquity for Kepler - 56, a red giant... ▽ More Stars hosting hot Jupiters are often observed to have high obliquities, whereas stars with multiple co-planar planets have been seen to have low obliquities.

Although the differing effects of hypoxia reported here are in conflict with previously published data, where no contrasting effect was seen (18 — 20), our data was produced using 13 primary breast cancer samples, as well as established cell lines, and the opposing effects in hormone receptor — positive and negative tumors, measured using multiple in vitro and in vivo CSC assays, were consistent in all cases.

In an exclusive interview with SelectScience, the founder of Montana Molecular, Anne Marie Quinn, shares how her team measures, in real time, multiple GPCR signaling pathways inside a living cell using the CLARIOstar microplate reader.

With this combination of natural food protocols, Cellect and the antibody treatment I have seen a dramatic reduction in my cancer marker (a blood test result which measures a protein like cell which is an indicator of multiple myeloma activity).

The second paper, «Superior endurance performance with ingestion of multiple transportable carbohydrates» [2], did not measure liver glycogen replenishment; instead, it gave its cyclists sugary drinks every 15 minutes throughout an intense 2 - hr cycling test, and compared performance.

I have a child with special needs who wakes multiple times in the night, and therefore so do I. I've been trying to lose weight and limiting myself to 1400 calories per day (meticulously measured and recorded in a food diary) which should mean I lose about a pound a week, but I'm losing half that if at all some weeks.