Sentences with phrase «against a benchmark from»

After that came the debut of the Unity Certification program in Malaysia, where 37 participants took part in the Unity Certified Developer Exam, meant to validate user's knowledge of foundational game design and programming skills against a benchmark from the top game engine in the world.

Not exact matches

«The first thing we did from Day 1 was to make sure that we benchmarked ourselves against the global market,» says Glenn Chamandy, the CEO of Gildan.

From December 16, 2011, the effective date of the Merger, through the third quarter of 2013, we did not engage compensation consultants or establish formal benchmark processes against any set of peer group companies when setting compensation levels for executive officers.

Even more troubling, we have been told that Benchmark has been conferring with Lowercase Capital with respect to adverse action against Uber, indicating that they are seeking to remove Arianna Huffington from the Board and, in clear violation of their fiduciary duties, wrongfully leaked highly confidential details from the investigation by former Attorney General Eric Holder.

The felony counts came amid three years of non-stop charges against JPMorgan Chase for unthinkable frauds: from rigging electric markets to ripping off veterans to charging credit card customers for fictitious credit monitoring and manipulating the Libor interest rate benchmark.

The significant data collection and research element of that project has already begun this summer, and will involve benchmarking Greater Vancouver against 20 similar regions from around the world, using relevant economic and liveability metrics.

Benchmark Capital is under pressure from some to decrease their ownership stake in the embattled company, particularly after it revealed an unusual lawsuit last week against Uber's former CEO Travis Kalanick.

The extraordinary lawsuit from Benchmark Capital against Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, its most valuable portfolio company, boils down to a series of ugly claims that Benchmark said shows Kalanick's «gross mismanagement.»

After Benchmark filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Uber's former CEO on Thursday, Puliatti now says there is «no way» that he will accept an investment from one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms.

Single - cell RNA - Seq analysis also helped researchers benchmark the engineered 3D liver tissues generated from stem cells against naturally occurring human fetal and adult liver cells.

As they revealed in Nature Genetics, the team benchmarked CERES against genome - scale CRISPR - Cas9 data from 342 cancer cell lines (the largest CRISPR knockout dataset generated in cancer lines to date) curated by the Broad - Novartis Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE).

I'll be recapping my progress for the year, benchmarked against last year's goals — as well as sharing my resolutions for 2018 soon, but in the meantime, I'd love to hear from you guys — how did 2017 treat you?

From the other side of the political spectrum, Harvard's Caroline Hoxby, a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K — 12 Education, has also proposed benchmarking against NAEP, with the added wrinkle that states with tougher standards would receive extensions of the deadlines in NCLB.

With a rigorous evidence base on ITE, program providers can learn from and be benchmarked against effective practice.

The Common Core is the opposite, it goes much deeper and allows us to benchmark against other high - performing states and learn from them,» said Maher.

Benchmarking of principals and their teams» self - assessment data against competencies for effective school leadership identified from studies of more than 300 high - performing principals;

They are far from perfect correlations (mainly because of statistical noise), but they provide a benchmark against which we can compare or validate the scores across individual observers.

«Boerne ISD has received enormous value from the ability to compare our data against benchmark districts.

Benchmark the Ford Fusion against comparable products from Toyota and Honda — Ford does, so we might as well, too — and it doesn't quite match: The Fusion is slotted between the Toyota Corolla and the Camry, and between the Honda Civic and Accord, occupying the market territory once held by the Nissan Altima before the Altima was redesigned in 2002 as a much bigger, nicer, pricier car.

Historically, the Mercedes - Benz S - Class is the benchmark against which all full - sized luxury production sedans are judged on all criteria from the quality of leather trim to the suite of next generation technology on offer.

Ride and handling for new cee'd was benchmarked against class - leading competitor vehicles from near - premium brands.

While Jaguar bosses had other reasons to launch the automaker's first SUV so late after (almost) all other rival premium brands, the final product nevertheless benefitted from being benchmarked against the best models the segment has to offer.

The latter positions the turbo V6 super sedan, which set a new production sedan record at the Nurburgring and is claimed to hit 100km / h in a benchmark 3.9 seconds, squarely against the BMW M3 (from $ 139,615) and Mercedes - AMG C 63 (from $ 155,615).

Ciana Locke presents Market Index Funds posted at Best Index Mutual Funds, saying, «The dominant issue in choosing among passively managed index mutual funds and ETF funds benchmarked against the S & P 500 is that securities industry management and trading fees are all over the map from reasonably low to shockingly high.»

Firstly, it is only permissible to trade in currencies that are benchmarked against INR, and traders can not trade in foreign currencies from India.

From a general standpoint, your portfolio's performance should be judged against the appropriate benchmark or benchmarks.

Although the ATWRR can differ from the TWRR when large external cash flows are made during a volatile month, it is still a decent choice for investors who are looking for an approximate method of calculating a rate of return that can arguably be benchmarked against index returns.

You should be benchmarked against the same pool of assets as you invest in, so a guy who only buys S&P 500 should be benchmarked against the S&P 500 or the equal weight version, and someone who can draw from the Russell 5000 should be benchmarked against that index.

According to new research from Standard & Poor's, in the past 5 years, more than 71 % of large - cap fund managers couldn't beat the S&P 500 index they're benchmarking against.

Even with the drag of shorting and longer - term government bonds, we had a solid month against benchmarks with the extra boost from some foreign markets.

With the benchmark you'll be able to test your system's mettle with 6 minutes of gameplay from several scenes and scenarios, and share your results online, to see how your system fares against those of other gamers.

This comment, SMR, was mainly about the method — which if you look at the graphs which benchmark the method against synthetic proxy * data (which is different from the pseudoproxy data generated in MW) you see that the MW methods consistently overestimate MWP warmth when they are run against a dataset where the answer is known (this is the whole point of synthetic proxies).

That missing radioactivity, originating as fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests during the 1950s and 1960s, routinely provides researchers with a benchmark against which they can gauge how much new ice has accumulated on a glacier or ice field.

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Benchmark your pay and that of your team against salaries from a range of industries across a number of regions across Ireland

Plans receive capitated (per ‐ beneficiary) payments from the federal government that are adjusted according to enrollees» risk and based on their bids against a statutorily defined benchmark.

We look at lists from CoreLogic and constantly benchmark it against our own data.

The massive volume should not be a surprise since it comes while the yield from ten - year Treasury bonds — the benchmark against which most REITs price their bonds — has ranged from 1.66 percent to 3.04 percent during the past 30 months.