Sentence examples for a stringent measure from inspiring English sources

Teachers Julie Cavanagh and Adam Stevens listen to New York's mayor pour boiling oil on their union, to his talk of imposing more tests and using the scores to draw a stringent measure of each teacher, and they wonder what world he inhabits.

This paper argues that the structural validity of the simulation model right behavior for the right reasons is a stringent measure to build confidence in a simulation model regardless of how well the model passes behavior validity tests.

It follows consequently that the nonsynonymous-to-synonymous rates ratio (ω = dN/ dS) can be considered as a stringent measure of selection [ 75, 76].

We have adopted a stringent measure of listing out only those enzymes which have no similarity or negligible similarity (above the e-value threshold of 0.005) to the host proteins.

In order to obtain a stringent measure of positive selection we employ two different algorithms, single likelihood ancestor counting (SLAC) and fixed effects likelihood (FEL) to estimate dN/dS, and only report sites, for which both methods give the same prediction with a probability better than threshold, p < 0.1 (cf. [ 33].

The first is a very stringent measure as all nucleotides/amino-acids in a column must be correctly placed for that column to be deemed correct.

Thus, the SE of SEARCH was approximately two-thirds that for FACIT, showing how a larger number of participants can offset a less stringent measure of global cognitive function.

The achievement of an absolute score equivalent to a patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) may be a more stringent measure to indicate treatment success.

That is well above the rate of inflation but in line with the rate of long-term personal income growth, a less stringent measure that Mr. Spitzer and his aides argue is a better barometer of spending discipline.

In a response to the report, United States regulatory agencies noted that they applied a more stringent measure of capital.

The re-energized push for an overhaul will still meet stiff resistance from Republican House leaders, who have stalled the bill and support a less stringent measure.