Sentences with phrase «year assessment cycles»

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Recent Activity RCP Assesses Mississippi Program's Novel Public Health and Community Engagement Partnership In March 2017, RCP conducted an assessment of the Mississippi IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) program, a five - year cycle - competitive $ 20 million NIH - funded program designed to enhance biomedical research capacity throughout the state.

The cycle of dry spells that Pakistan has suffered for the past few years, terminated by a massive torrent, aligns almost precisely with trends predicted in the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The IPCC's first «Special Report on Cities and Climate Change» won't be ready until some time in the 2023 - 2028 window, the five - year period known as the seventh assessment report cycle in IPCC parlance.

Results from the latest cycle of the PIRLS assessment (that's the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) show the literacy achievement of Year 4 students in Australia has improved.

They extended already long sales cycles for state and district data and assessment platforms by at least two years while buyers tried to figure out the implications of CCSS and the assessment consortia on the architecture and functionality of their statewide IIS platforms.

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

This Boston meeting was the kick - off event for the 2015 - 16 Mathematics PT Development Cycle, a year - long series of meetings where teachers and experts create performance tasks, one of the components of the Smarter assessments.

«Would we have spotted occasional human error, if you take it in the context of the annual cycle of assessment that's year on year for the whole cohort?

The fellows have committed to the year - long fellowship to write a one - to - three - year strategic plan for family engagement based on landscape assessment, short - cycle pilots, and deepened perspective on race and equity.

A: Registration for each assessment cycle typically begins in April each year and ends in January of the following year.

Yet another route is to test different subjects in a rotating cycle (e.g. math is centrally tested and scored once every 3 or 4 years), with moderated teacher scoring of assessments occurring during the intervening years (as in Israel).

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Transit Connect outperformed 38 other Minivans, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Flex performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 124 Full - size SUVs for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Explorer performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 124 Full - size SUVs for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the C - MAX Energi performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 57 Wagons for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Edge performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 104 Mid-size SUVs for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Outlander Sport performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 100 Compact Crossovers for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Rogue performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 201 Crossovers for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CX - 5 outperformed 201 other Crossovers, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Pathfinder outperformed 124 Full - size SUVs, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CX - 3 outperformed 100 other Compact Crossovers, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Focus Electric outperformed 287 Compact cars, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the CR - V outperformed 104 Mid-size SUVs, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Outlander performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 201 Crossovers for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Patriot performed among the top five vehicles in the hyper - competitive Crossover class for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Impala outperformed 66 other Full - size cars, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Pilot performed among the top five vehicles in a competitive class comprised of 124 Full - size SUVs for model year 2016.

Stonebridge Small Cap Growth (SBSGX) has lost 2.9 % annually over the full market cycle but wins points for consistency: by Morningstar's assessment, it has trailed at least 99 % of its peers for the trailing 3, 5, 10 and 15 year periods.

A life cycle assessment was carried out for the prototype, and according to the designers, the Carbon Positive House results in a total design savings of -659 kgCO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent)-- a relative saving of 116 percent per year, per occupant — compared to conventional benchmarks.

In essence Tung & Zhou are dining at the denialist's last - chance saloon by invoking a 60 - year natural cycle (their cycle of choice being AMO) resulting in a reduced anthropogenic influence on climate, although they make sure to not directly challenge climate sensitivity by asserting that their findings will impact on assessment of net anthropogenic forcing and leave climate sensitivity estimates unchallenged.

She calculated a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) obtained from a PA Consulting assessment of project costs for «a combination of plants that have been developed across the U.S.,» a turbine life cycle of twenty years, and a variety of developers» expenses, including a $ 2,000 - per - kilowatt capital cost, O&M expenses, a 38 percent capacity factor and estimated returns.

To avoid locking in low levels of ambition, and to stay in sync with IPCC assessment reports and political decision - making cycles, ECO thinks that all parties should bring 5 - year contribution periods.

BH: I personally think that the IPCC assessment cycle should be aligned with the [Paris Agreement's] five - year global stocktake.

Similarly, an assessment of lithium - ion batteries released by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute last year found GHG emissions from battery production were largely due to the manufacturing process, while mining and refining had a relatively small impact on the life cycle.

But, he said, the study «clearly could have important implications for better quantifying and characterizing our assessment of climate variations over decadal to tens to hundreds of thousands of years cycles.»

Over the past twenty years, he contributed to the theoretical foundations and practical applications of life cycle assessment (LCA) and industrial ecology.

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.