Faced with the challenge of raising all students to academic proficiency by 2014, however, some states simply lowered their standards, while many others came up with statistical devices to exclude whole groups of children from the law's umbrella.
The turtle case arose from a 1989 act of Congress that prohibited shrimp imports from countries that do not require their shrimp fleets to use metal grills and other devices to exclude turtles and other large animals that would otherwise be trapped in shrimp nets, where they invariably drown.
Nicholas School of the Environment faculty are helping to develop environmentally-friendly energy sources in Kenya; improve nuclear waste disposal in the United States; investigate new devices to exclude dolphins, porpoises and sea turtles from fishing nets; and measure the effects of increased carbon dioxide emissions on trees and soils.
The Pipeline Embolization Device (ev3 Endovascular Inc, Plymouth, Minnesota) is a new endovascular device designed to exclude suitable intracranial aneurysms.
The self-powering capability allows electronic device packages to exclude bulky energy storage components and makes possible forgoing the inclusion of bulky battery components.
For example, an app couldn't require device makers to exclude other legitimate sources of programming, such as Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Conservation organizations worldwide have worked with the shrimp trawling industry to develop turtle exclusion devices (TEDs) to exclude even the largest turtles.
Since the recording intervals may occasionally shift even with a fixed interval setting in the GPS device, we decided to exclude only those points with no time stamp and data from one participant who had the majority of the data in 1-second interval.
In cases of clinical failure of the device, investigations include interrogating the device and radiological imaging to exclude disconnections, lead breaks and other causes of hardware failure.
FISHING DISPUTE: Commercial crab fishermen have found support in the Legislature for their effort to repeal a state regulation that requires them to fit devices on crab pots to exclude turtles.
