Figures released in August showed that the number of seven-year-olds who were competent in reading, writing and maths had fallen and all the government targets for 11-year-olds were missed.
Ekman reproduces them with modern actors, but to my eyes these appear no less hammy, and I find it difficult to distinguish between a supposed expression of disgust and one of surprise, even though, as a regular poker player, I judge myself to be quite competent at reading faces.
More than half of students, according to PISA 2009 (Programme for International Student Assessment of the OECD), are only partially competent in reading, mathematics, or science and are lagging far behind their peers in neighbouring countries.
Inclusion criteria for the present study are; children have to be aged between 9-11 years old and should not have initiated smoking yet, participating adults have to be the mother or a female guardian, and both adult and child need to be competent in reading and speaking Dutch.
"If I ever become competent to read anything off the Internet..
She is, Mr. Manson said, "highly qualified, an engineer, extremely competent, and reads every single paper cited" by federal biologists in their reviews.
Their children play more sports than mine, they are academically more competent, they read books all the time, they are constantly on playdates, they are popular, witty, funny.
This analysis produced 16,669 sequences, 13,169 of these containing transcript abundance data: 125,456 reads from competent and 99,632 reads from light-induced plasmodia, respectively [Additional File 2].
You need somebody there who is really competent who can read the situation, read the animals.
Planners probably haven't really figured on fighting a big conventional war, with tanks against tanks and whatnot, against a peer or near-peer — read: competent — opponent for maybe 25 years.
