Sentences with phrase «advantage on any of the measures»

The KIPP children showed no advantage on any of the measures of character strengths.

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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Specifically, the tax measures proposed in Budget 2018 - 19 to limit the tax deferral advantages on passive investment income earned inside private corporations address most of the concerns communicated by the GVBOT and other groups as part of government's consultation in fall 2017.

On top of its market share advantage, KLAC dominates its competitors, which include Nova Measuring Instruments (NVMI), Applied Materials (AMAT), and ASML Holdings (ASML), in terms of ROIC and NOPAT margin, per Figure 2.

The universal credit will be of major, long - term, significant and beneficial advantage to low - paid and poor people in our country, and it is a measure that those on the Treasury Bench should support in the years ahead.

Advantages such as easiness to adapt it to the specific needs of a company or an organization, and the possibilities that offers the fact that it is used on a technological support, which enables to measure time of the answer of each question or to see how one person pass from a neutral mood to a specific mood, for example.

It is certain that from the day that D. Hernando Cortés, the Marquis del Valle, entered this land, in the seven years, more or less, that he conquered and governed it, the natives suffered many deaths, and many terrible dealings, robberies and oppressions were inflicted on them, taking advantage of their persons and their lands, without order, weight nor measure;... the people diminished in great number, as much due to excessive taxes and mistreatment, as to illness and smallpox, such that now a very great and notable fraction of the people are gone...

The study of such phenomena in optics offers the advantage of taking place on very short timescales, thus making it possible to measure a representative sample of events and to reliably characterize its statistical properties.

And to negate some of the advantage this approach automatically gives to electric cars (whose greenhouse emissions include those generated by electric utilities), the award also incorporates other measures in its criteria, including a cap on greenhouse gas emissions of no more than 200 grams per mile.

One advantage of the wagering measure is that it does not force subjects to focus their consciousness on what they are conscious of, in the process perturbing the very phenomenon that scientists wish to measure.

These measures also have the advantage of minimizing the deleterious effects of random factors affecting parasite rates on the respective association signals.

The researchers — who examined data on more than 8,000 children up to age 14 — did find that breast - feeding was linked to a reduced risk of obesity and hyperactivity and measures of higher intelligence, but that breast advantage evaporated once they looked at families where one child was breast - fed and one wasn't (my exact situation — my older son got the breast while the younger one had to settle for formula because I had low supply).

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

Nevertheless, all of the learning content maintains neutrality and follows the same structure: starting with the measuring principles themselves and moving on to interpretations, advantages and limitations, then applications and industries where the measuring principle is applied - each course covers all the relevant areas.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit institutional variation that does not exist within countries; draw on much larger variation than usually available within any country; reveal whether any result is country - specific or more general; test whether effects are systematically heterogeneous in different settings; circumvent selection issues that plague within - country identification by using system - level aggregated measures; and uncover general - equilibrium effects that often elude studies in a single country.

This program uses four types of quizzes (reading practice, vocabulary practice, literacy skills, textbook quizzes) to assess students» daily progress, measuring the quality, quantity, and level of difficulty they are reading using the Advantage TASA Open Standard, a readability formula that provides reading levels based on the entire contents of books.

These measures take advantage of two facts that make it possible to isolate teachers» impacts on their students: students typically change teachers every year, and teachers interact with students directly.

Each of the examples takes advantage of this flexibility by measuring a dynamic range of performance rather than relying on a simple cutoff score or yes / no format.

Student performance on state assessments IS important, but so are measures of student growth, gains in closing achievement gaps, and challenging opportunities like dual credit, technical certifications and Advanced Placement — programs that give students an early advantage in college and in their careers.

To help inform this work and take advantage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, Education Strategy Group (ESG) convened an Accountability Workgroup of state and national experts with a clear charge: provide guidance on the measures states should adopt to make college and career readiness the main driver of accountability systems.

However, we need to guard against this being derailed by its implementation.The advantages that come with Progress 8 are at risk from those wishing to place undue emphasis on a school's attainment measure (Attainment 8) or from the introduction of new GCSE grades that place greater value on the highest grades available.

Another major advantage is that these paper pellets are virtually dust free, far exceeding other types of litter on that measure.

Liquid biofuels might offer advantages in terms of emissions — though clearly not on measures of water intensity — but they have a very tall mountain to climb to become capable of delivering energy on the scale required for the world's growing air, sea and land transportation needs, including not just developing Asia but now also Africa.

As domestic oil production increases and the United States becomes increasingly reliant on natural gas for electricity and industrial uses, it is essential to take advantage of proven measures to reduce methane emissions.

The measure was challenged on the basis of Article 7 (2) of Reg No 1612/68 (now Reg No 492/2011), which requires equal treatment in regard to social advantages, which also includes financial grants for children of workers who are students (Bernini).

In particular, the AG seems to suggest a shift from a reading founded on the proof of a mere control exerted by the State over the resources engaged by the national measure concerned (transfer of State resources) and over the public undertaking (imputability) to an understanding requiring an actual commitment of public resources (transfer of State resources) and a causal link between alleged advantage and State budget (imputability).

Take advantage of discounts that you can earn on your home insurance through safety and security measures.

Some of the advantages of hiring a ticket defense attorney are that a ticketlawyer can argue motions to exclude evidence based on the laws and administrative rules governing speed measuring devices.

Because Logitech partnered with Apple for the accessory, it's also the only third - party keyboard that's currently able to take advantage of the Smart Connector on the iPad Pro, meaning it doesn't need to connect to the iPad over Bluetooth or use its own power source.We went hands - on with Logitech's Create Keyboard case to see how it measures up to Apple's own hard - to - find Smart Keyboard and the few other iPad Pro third - party keyboards on the market.DesignLogitech designed the Create to transform the iPad Pro into a laptop clone, producing a keyboard that is close in design and feel to a traditional laptop

Obesity researchers who included measures of binge eating in studies on obesity treatment concluded that BWL was effective and that there was no need for specialty therapies.12, 13 Limitations of these studies included small sample sizes, lack of longer - term follow - up, and self - report measures of binge eating rather than the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) semi-structured interview.14 Potential advantages of BWL are that it results in clinically significant short - term weight loss and can be implemented by a wider range of health professionals than a specialty psychological therapy.

See Ely et al. (1999) for an exhaustive discussion on the advantage of using a relative measure on education.

First, the use of a semi-structured interview to assess PEs and the advantage of detailed repeated measures data on both PEs and depressive symptoms.

There are several options that renters can take advantage of if they do not have adequate home security measures in place on their rental property.