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In a report last year on radiation standards, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said: "The standards administered by E.P.A. and N.R.C. to protect the public from low-level radiation exposure do not have a conclusive scientific basis, despite decades of research".
Conversely, Phelps (2006) argued that high-stake tests provide more reliable information on students' performance and achievement as high-stake tests are associated with standards, administered in tight security and are assessed following set standards, and thus are less likely to be affected by teachers' biasness, and other related factors.
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It disciplines unethical accountants, helps set standards, administers the exam for certified public accountants and offers the continuing education programs required of all practicing accountants.
A scientific standard, administered by some body outside industry itself, was the essential ingredient.
You have to swallow, every day, that you are a secondary being whose worth is measured by an arbitrary, impossible standard administered by men.
Although there is a uniform standard, administered by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, it is rarely enforced and has been repeatedly undermined by allegations about certified producers, such as those against Sinar Mas.
The SDQ-S is a standard outcome measure administered in CAMHS.
While the move is good news, it is only a temporary, year-long hiatus as officials review the high-stakes Florida Standards Assessment, a new standardized test tied to Florida's Common Core-based standards and administered for the first time this spring.
Low carbon fuel standards is administered by the California Air Resources Board and attempts to make wider choice of cleaner fuels to Californians.
The standard is administered by the European telecommunications standards institute (ETSI).
Sorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, is the standard medicine administered for advanced HCC.
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