... average of 80% of its students achieving proficiency on the PSSA. It therefore has an
ASA of 80. The school with the lowest level of student achievement across all tests has
an average of 13% of ... school performance
This section describes the analyses RAND conducted with the aim of identifying the
school’s contribution to student achievement, thereby measurin...
... of
a4v over the entire sequence defines the aggregation
profile of the polypeptide. The hot-spot threshold
(HST) was defined as the average of the a3v of the 20
natural amino acids weighted by their ... central
residue of the window. The ‘smoothed’ expected values
for every position of the polypeptide chain provide the
final profile, which is directly used for th...
... representative of the universe
results using the experience of the survey respondents,
there is the question of whether to report results on a plan,
participant, or asset basis. The answer to ... as compared with the universe. In the case of
this Study, the share of large plans in the sample is higher
than the share of large plans in the 401(k) universe....
... in
course on the typology of the morphol-
ogy of the native South American lan-
guages from the point of view of the for-
mal language theory. With this object,
we give two contrasting examples of de-
scriptions ... Cpos gg q Q
With the aim of showing the simplicity of the
phonologic rules we transcribe the two-level rules
we have implemeted with the transduc...
... product of its inputs.
The experiments measure the effect of varying the selectivity of the scans on the inputs to the join
as follows.
(1) Varying the selectivity of the outer collection (v1). The ... varied here is the selectivities of the scans of the collections being joined, not
the join selectivity itself, which is ratio of the number of tuple...
... compared to the quantiles
of the standard normal distribution.
The quality of the approximation depends on
the values of the parameters N
Y
,, the number of
rated entities with the same rating ... statistical hypothesis
test. The null hypothesis that H
0
: p
rs
≤ 0.1%
must be tested against the alternative hypothesis
H
1
: p
rs
> 0.1%.
Assuming that the...
... is then transferred by diffusion towards the core of the tank.
The water of the vertical layer becomes lighter than its surrounding and then ascends towards the top of
the tank creating the ... ascends to the top of the tank. It is originated
from the fact that, after gaining heat from the solar radiation, the tank wall heats a thin vertical layer of
water...
... configurations of solar stills to
optimize the design by examining the effect of climatic, operational and design parameters on its
performance. One of the most important of the operational ... of
1.5, 2, 4 and 5.5 cm. Indoor tests were used by simulating the solar input by proper electric heaters
located at the bottom of the still for heating the water contain...
... a set of 18 countries vis-à-vis the US. The foreign exchange rate
is defined as units of US dollars per domestic currency. The stock indices are total market returns from Datastream, the
bond ... lending at the domestic interest rate, and converting the proceed back to
dollars. The stock and bond returns are excess returns over the same country’s one-month interest rate...