Entrance to high schools and universities came to depend on passing highly competitive examinations, which many Japanese young people still call "examination hell".
The book frames Carlos's life, from his prerevolutionary bourgeois childhood through the first dozen years of the Castro era, as an exercise in "self-criticism" — the socialist equivalent of what Roman Catholics call "examination of conscience".
A hard-blowing jazz quintet lounges around the stage, building up atmosphere for a duologue called 'The Examination,' in which a Government official from the Suicide Department interviews a young man who is seeking permission to kill himself legally.
In patent parlance the fast-track is called "accelerated examination" and it meant that although Zhang and his institute applied for patents after Doudna and Charpentier, he was awarded them first.
The digital version of this set is cheaper, but then you won't get the stickers, the temporary tattoos, the DIY ornament, or the thick liner notes that include an essay by Mr. Stevens called "An Examination of the Christmas Tree Fetish".
Only children with parents' signed consent were called for examination (534 subjects).
Scholars have called for examination of how specific after-school program features, rather than overall program quality, may be uniquely associated with child developmental outcomes (Durlak and Weissberg 2007; Farber 2007; Granger et al. 2007).
Our a priori analysis plan called for examination of the association between statin use and mortality separately by race and sex, as well as by diabetic status and age (<65 or ≥65 years) at cohort entry.
As a general framework for the intervention, we used the model developed by Bowman and colleagues [ 19, 20], which is called Self-Examination Therapy (SET), and we combined it with cognitive behavioral components and problem-solving procedures.
In our discussions with ministers of education, university professors, classroom teachers, students and parents, we found universal disdain for the amount and intensity of testing in what they call their "examination culture".
