A Labour administration would replace the competing ranks of free schools, academies and local authority schools with networks of collaboration at local and regional level, and create a middle layer of oversight between schools and central government.
In this study, we directly tested competing rank-income/wealth and absolute-income/wealth hypotheses.
Although this work has directly tested competing rank and absolute income explanations, it remains possible that rank differences affected how people interpreted or reported their well-being and psychosomatic symptoms rather than directly affecting these characteristics.
Each of the 12 stops, played in arenas throughout the country, will be one-night shootout tournaments between four of the players competing for ranking points.
Table 1 shows the incremental cost of a screening strategy from the other competing strategies, ranked in the ascending order of effectiveness.
"We're proud of how well our competing teams ranked among the hundreds of teams from across the country.
At the Tournament of Nations they face a tough challenge with three of the four competing nations ranked above them, but they'll demonstrate the determination which has made them one of Australia's most popular teams.
But thanks to his national TV ad buy, wherein the oilman announces that "this is one emergency that we can't drill our way out of," embracing Pickens is a temptation that Democrats can't resist - especially when "offshore drilling" and "my friends" are competing to rank as the most common phrases emerging from the mouth of John Sidney McCain III.
Gneiting and Raftery [ 33] proposed ranking competing forecast procedures (i.e. competing models) on the basis of their mean scores, e.g. LS ¯ = (∑ i = 1 N n i ) − 1 ∑ i, j L S ij, and not by graphical methods such as boxplots.
But the men's team reached the Big East semifinals in 2017, and Ernst was said to have rebuilt the women's team to help it compete against ranked opponents.
