Forgive a slightly nerdy diversion, but as the Guardian's analysis of last year's results revealed, shocking differences in the progress that different schools make in chalking up As tells us nothing at all about what is happening to overall standards, because schools start out from such different places.
In March Hans Tietmeyer of the Bundesbank warned against admitting countries which only narrowly met the Maastricht convergence criteria:Should the margin for budgetary manoeuvre be exhausted in a member country, adaptation to differences in the progress of productivity would bear almost exclusively on the costs of labour.
Of note, the area X FoxP2 levels observed here in 75d non-singing birds were similar to those that we previously reported in non-singing adults (i.e. slightly higher than the surrounding striatum [21]), making it unlikely that the discrepancy is due to slight differences in the progress of song development between colonies.
Monitoring of host-pathogen interaction in vivo and post mortem findings confirmed inter-individual differences in the progress of disease and will allow subgrouping for comparative investigations.
They hammer away with their antitrust laws and prosecutions, generating much smoke and heat but making surprisingly little difference in the actual progress of business.
Taking into consideration the difference in the pubertal progress in boys and girls, the division allows for other age categories: childhood and early adolescent.
The difference in the two initiatives' progress makes many teachers wince, even those who are pioneering computer use.
The statistical analysis of these parameters (Figure 5 A, B and Figure 6) between the two groups was not able to show significant differences in the regeneration progress on a functional level.
The difference in how the conditions progress in the two groups becomes clear.
There is no difference in precision progress between the two groups (Md = 1.1, IQR = 0.6, for FME; Md = 1.1, IQR = 1.9, for NFE).
