Sentence examples for used increases in from inspiring English sources

And the results could cast doubts on the city's improvements over the past several years; both the mayor and the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, have used increases in state test scores as evidence that schools have improved.

When higher content (5%) of MMT Na+ or either content (2.5% or 5%) of chitosan-organomodified MMT (OMMT Ch) was used, increases in crystallinity and glass transition temperature were observed.

We could also have used increases in accumulator noise, sensory noise, or initial noise to generate a similar psychometric curve.

35 However, for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in the absence of liver biopsy we used increases in the liver enzyme levels alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase in the presence of steatosis to define non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

When low cellulase (2 filter-paper units [FPU] · g-1) and β-glucosidase (100 nkat · g-1) doses were used, increases in glucose yields up to 39%and41%1% (with respect to the initial eucalypt wood sample) were attained in the samples pretreated with 10 U · g-1 and 50 U · g-1 of laccase, in combination with 1% and 3% mediator, respectively (Table  1).

This increase in accuracy was greater when 60 000 SNPs were used (increase in accuracy of ~0.08 and ~0.06 for the RANDOM and VAR scenarios, respectively) than when 606 384 SNPs were used (increase in accuracy of ~0.02 for both scenarios).

It uses increases in the primary and secondary headline measures of pupil achievement after a free school is announced or opened as the metrics for comparison.

Mr. Pataki proposed strengthening the state law that prohibits school districts from using increases in state aid to make up for a decline in the districts' spending from their own tax revenues.

Clinically objective criteria were established using increases in resistance values compared to those obtained with saline controls.

"Refrigerator lust is one of the things driving huge energy-use increases in the developing world," wrote the blogger "Greenpa" on his "Little Blog in the Big Woods" two years ago.

They fear that rates will climb yet higher before then -- and many state residents have not yet realized how much some rates have already gone up because natural gas use increases in the winter.