Applied Extrusion Technologies Inc., a maker of plastics used for soda-bottle labels and snack-food packaging, said yesterday that it had hired J. P. Morgan Securities Inc. to assess inquiries from "a number of parties" to buy the company.
New approaches for teaching and assessing scientific inquiry and practices are essential for guiding students to make the informed decisions required of an increasingly complex and global society.
Alcohol consumption patterns were assessed through inquiries into the usual intake for each type of beverage separately, i.e. beer, wine, or liquor.
Here, we describe our environment Inq-ITS (inquiry intelligent tutoring system), that uses educational data mining to assess science inquiry skills, as described as 21st century skills.
Vital status of patients who were lost to follow-up was assessed by inquiry of the municipal administration registries.
Consequently, socio-economic status was assessed through inquiry regarding living standards (e.g., type of roof of house, access to water and electricity, number of meals per day), selected assets (e.g., car, motorcycle, bicycle), and other wealth status (e.g., employment) [ 33].
Besides searching for system failures and assessing blame, the inquiry will compile recommendations for the new Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level agency proposed on Thursday night by President Bush that would combine 22 federal agencies to prevent attacks against the United States.
This essay maps interdisciplinary lines of inquiry to assess current research on affect and emotion in relation to digital and social media, in the context of the fractured news media landscape and increasingly visible emotionality in political life.
This inquiry is assessing whether progress has been made in the last two years, taking evidence from two charities - Enable and the National Autistic Society Scotland - as well as the Scottish Secondary Teacher's Association.
Our second line of inquiry involved assessing the GC content in diverse lineages as a measure of nucleotide diversity.
Mr. Rumsfeld, facing criticism over his leadership and calls from some Democrats to resign, last month appointed a four-member panel, led by James R. Schlesinger, a former defense secretary, to assess whether the inquiries are sufficient.
