Sentence examples for hour standard from inspiring English sources

(Incidentally, the credit hour was preceded by a form of competency-based evaluation in the late 19th century, in which university admission involved oral and written exams. However, this system tragically proved too difficult to standardize and measure, so the simpler credit hour standard was born).

Only recently CHUFT remained only one of 18 trusts that was meeting the emergency department four hour standard and this was largely due to technological innovation.

And he noted that they had come to light at a time when corporations are increasingly rejecting the billable hour standard and becoming vigilant about controlling skyrocketing legal expenses.

They are paid 42 cents an hour, standard prison wages, for 10-hour workdays that involve sometimes tedious tasks like monitoring the frogs' water temperature or harvesting the hundreds of crickets grown for frog food — something that even an oppressed graduate student might avoid at real wages.

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If we assume costs for precautionary measures of around €458,000 (see Table 3) and standard deviation of 63.3 min (see section 3.2), we compute a VTTV related to the cargo component of €2.22 per hour standard deviation.

To determine what impact, if any, of the recently implemented duty hour standards have had on otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residency programs from the perspective of program directors.

Economic and family needs will be met through a modernized worker visa program that provides for strict compliance with U.S. labor standards including wage and hour standards.

Building on that early work, the nation's first female Cabinet secretary, Frances Perkins, championed wage and hour standards with the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938.

A year-long study is in effect that aims to compare their current work hour standards (first-year residents are limited to working a maximum of 16 hours sans break) with a more flexible set of hours.

Positive changes were also reported after the implementation of the 2011 ACGME duty hour standards.