In the case of the maths scores of fourth-graders, there was a consistently negative relationship between computer use and test scores.
We can have a more sophisticated use of metrics and if we must use an eye test, use the coaches who have trained their eyes for decades and made their living analyzing teams.
Governments thus face a choice between banning the use of test results and destroying the industry, or allowing their use and creating an underclass of people who are either uninsurable or cannot afford to insure themselves.
Reebok-CCM will continue to work with the University of Ottawa and use its peer-reviewed and published test protocol to measure rotational impact forces for hockey helmets.
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"Some companies have purchased thousands of keywords, and they use them to test multiple products against multiple words, " says Sheryl Sandberg , director of the wildly successful Adwords program.
And the ICC's board, made up of the 10 chairman from the Test-playing nations, approved 13 recommendations relating to the use of the technology in Test matches and the 2011 World Cup at its annual meeting in Singapore on Thursday.
The arrangement is consensual, and companies often use internships to test potential recruits.
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We state hypotheses and use econometric data analysis to test them.
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The researchers will monitor the growth of this vegetation around newly formed thermokarst features and use experimental field plots to test how conditions mimicking such features affect which species will thrive.
All the better if that friend happens to be an electrician -- have them install 15A, 250V service to the living room so you can make use of that other power cord and test out the 3, 000-Watt amplifier spec.
The company likes to get things out quickly for employees to test and users to use.
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Meanwhile, umpires will have earpieces in all international matches so they can listen to the stump microphones and the use of artificial lights during Test matches will be discontinued.
AstraZeneca, Amgen and others are racing furiously to test Erbitux-like drugs that are more convenient to use and have fewer side effects.
The department recently launched a pilot program, for example, to use X-ray machines to test passengers and their luggage for explosives.
This lets developers test and debug applications that use CE-HTML video streams.
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Concern over teachers cheating on behalf of students has grown as states increasingly use students' test scores to grade teachers and close schools.
Embryonic stem cells have also caught the eye of drug companies, which aim to use them to test potential drugs for effectiveness and toxicity.
We can use our time on the moon to develop and test new approaches and technologies and systems that will allow us to function in other, more challenging, environments.
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Participants will be able to use the software development kit to build, test, and submit software to Amazon for distribution on the device.
Researchers can only use dead cells or pieces of a cell and can only test for one response at a time, such as enzyme activity or the binding of a compound to a receptor.
The professionals use statistical packages and programs such as FactSet, to back-test ratios.
Lenovo can use the Chinese market as a test bed before ramping volume and entering other markets, a strategy both aggressive and prudent.
The ones that we recommend, particularly the Homax Lead Check and the Lead Check Household Lead Test Kit, use a sort of a cigarette-sized swab.
It will take about three months for Nasa engineers to test the platform and get it ready for use at its operational altitude of 705km.
In the study, Rankin and her colleagues made use of The Awareness of Social Inference Test, or TASIT, which uses videotaped subtle-as-a-sledgehammer scenarios of people lying or being sarcastic.
"We have all seen the benefits of using DRS to assist umpires in Test cricket and we are now keen to use DRS in the World Cup, " said ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat.
He warned that other European countries would block attempts to get a cattle vaccine and the Diva test to identify vaccinated animals approved for use.
Drawing input from 3, 000 classroom teachers, the project highlighted several measures that schools should use to assess teacher performance, including test data, student surveys and assessments by trained evaluators.
Because I travel a lot and stay in a lot of hotels with club floors and use airline lounges religiously, I have had the opportunity to test drive just about every leading coffee technology out there, especially those using prepackaged coffee, the current craze.
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Its mission was redefined several times, and it was finally seen as a way to test the use of computers in military combat information systems.
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