Although we were not able to deduce additional recommendations from this analysis we classify the subgroups that showed the highest differences as interesting targets for more systematic analysis in future proficiency panels.
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Mr. Giordano had used a computer for more than a decade but found that his hunt-and-peck typing had hampered his proficiency.
For more than five decades, business leaders, politicians, colleges and universities sold Americans the idea that academic test-score proficiency is the key to developing our workforce.
Both of these documents, like other reports and expert recommendations, called for more scholarships for would-be scientists, higher teacher salaries and other efforts to halt a national erosion of technical proficiency.
Lightman himself is a fruit basket of stereotype — cocky, infallible, petulant, divorced, burdened by his proficiencies — who has spent decades reading faces and pronouncing certainties: "If your suspect is surprised for more than one second, he is faking it".
For former police officers who left the service for more than 4 years but less than 8 years should complete an Equivalency of Training and must demonstrate a high proficiency in high liabilities.
Adequate performance of the VFA on DBS was however not achieved in this setting, indicating that using this type of specimen for molecular assays requires more technical proficiency as compared to liquid plasma.
Besides the translation task as the main criterion for vocabulary knowledge, we also included a more general proficiency test of English to examine its relationship with LexTALE.
For newer forms, proficiency seemed to interact more with social connotation.
