Each section of the roof will contain different levels of soil that will aid the Bureau of Environmental Services in determining which is best to reduce stormwater runoff during a three-year performance study.
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The last Pisa study appeared to show England's performance had worsened, the study said, while Timms suggested the opposite.
By contrast, the more complex National Assessment of Educational Progress test is designed to study average performance.
The slightly better long-term performance in the recent study was still extremely dismal, and included the big 32.2% gain in 2009.
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Analysts are employed by banks, fund managers and stock broking firms to study the performance and trading prospects of a particular firm or company sector.
C. bought a database of subprime loans from a company called Loan Performance in order to study the problem more closely, something that, apparently, no other government regulator had thought to do.
An academic study linking Olympic performance to gross domestic product per head reckons that the UK should be in the 42 to 47 medal range.
Virgin America is the highest-quality major airline in the United States, according to the 2013 Airline Quality Rating report, an annual study of airline performance.
The study measured company performance as of August 2012.
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In the OECD's annual study of educational performance, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), girls score better in reading in all countries even at primary level, and much better by the time they are 15.
But it's not clear if the performance lapses seen in the study would be meaningful in real-world operating rooms, says surgeon Emily Boyle, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Royal College of Surgeons, in Dublin, Ireland.
We think it's worth mentioning only as a case study in how flaky performance numbers can be.
Nationally recognized research firm Dalbar recently produced the results of a study on the overall performance effects of individual investor behavior.
The Airline Quality Rating report is the premier statistical study of major airline performance in the United States, and has been conducted annually since 1991.
In March Dalbar, a financial services market research firm based in Boston, released a study of equity fund performance over the 20 years through last December.
An Audit Scotland study on the financial performance of the NHS found all 23 boards met their budget targets for the fourth year running in 2011-12.
Early nerve damage caused by repetitive strain injuries can trigger "sick worker" syndrome--characterized by malaise, fatigue and depression, and often mistaken for poor performance, according to a new study published this month in the Journal of Neuroimmunology.
An October 2012 Fast Company article reported on a July 2012 Credit Suisse study that tracked the performance of businesses worldwide since 2005 and found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperform companies with all-male boards by 26 percent.
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But last year researchers at the University of Georgia found no benefit from the supplement in 30 healthy volunteers tested on seven different performance measures. (The study was funded by Coca-Cola, which apparently was thinking of launching its own quercetin supplement.) Lead researcher Kirk Cureton has tested 60 more patients since then, with the same null result.
The study should evaluate requirements, performance benefits, design trade-offs, operational impacts, and refined cost estimates.
The study said on-time performance generally decreases as air travel increases.
However, those who study the development of high performance have demonstrated repeatedly that practice and executing effective effort play a huge role in the skills we develop.
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The study ranked states on their performance in four areas: the extent of child homelessness, the risk for it, child well-being and the state's policy and planning efforts.
Second, the study was based on the performance of indexes when in reality, the vast majority of mutual funds under-perform those indexes because of fees and trading costs.
Using science test results from the major international PISA study, which compares the performance of different education systems, it shows that there are wide differences in the levels of resilience.
Noakes, a sports medicine researcher at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, draws on what little study there has been in performance-enhancing drugs, including some just-revealed data compiled by the former East Germany.
Moreover, just as, for example, a consumer-products company may be interested in understanding all aspects of their customers (products, stores, or service offerings), sports organizations seek greater insight in understanding all aspects of their fans, whether they study fan engagement, team performance, or venue management.
The CXO study provides more evidence that past performance is not an indication of future results.
"Batteries are particularly challenging because, unlike electronics, it's difficult to scale down their dimensions without significantly reducing performance, " said senior author of the study John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
However, John Brewer, director of the Lilleshall Human Performance Centre, warned people against using this latest study to justify taking them.
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