Sentences with phrase «against these benchmarks for»

In the past eight years, more than 60 research groups have sent the results of their algorithms against the benchmark for Learned - Miller to post on the Labeled Faces site.

When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.

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This one issue — benchmarking against peer groups — has been responsible for CEO pay increases more than any other.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

The valuation report will calculate a suggested asking price for your business by benchmarking it against businesses in the same industry.

While Avnet declined to discuss the number of pre-orders Indigenous Media has seen for Sickhouse on Vimeo, he said he is optimistic when it comes to the movie's online revenue potential despite the fact that there isn't much of a benchmark level for the movie to compete against.

The good: B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

On the one hand, B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

Also of interest to metrics - driven managers, a new «How You Compare» section ranks your company page against others in your industry, giving a benchmark for visibility and reach.

The Halifax Index, produced annually for Nova Scotia's capital, benchmarks the city against five peer cities on a number of important measurements: population growth, education levels, the confidence of the business sector, and more.

For example, if Jasper is the worst vice president in the company, then all of the directors will benchmark themselves against Jasper and demand promotions as soon as they reach his low level of competency.»

«Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor ‐ denominated derivative swap would, if appellants» allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,» the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors» claims of market - rigging.

His statement followed one of the most chaotic sessions for the country's financial markets since the global financial crisis, with stocks on its benchmark Ibovespa falling more than 8 % and the real plunging 7.5 % against the U.S. dollar, the most since 1999, despite the intervention of the central bank of Brazil.

Follow - up on Benchmark's suit against Uber, and then why it is time for tech to draw the line with President Trump.

Benchmark has filed a lawsuit against Uber's former CEO, Travis Kalanick, for several instances of fraudulent behavior.

The sweet spot will be more than one or two (which makes it too easy for the CEO to benchmark against others) and fewer than 10 (since the competitors» performance will have to be aggregated into one number for comparison).

The pound has surged to a five - month high against the dollar and global stocks gained for a fourth day on Wednesday, with the U.K. benchmark index erasing its monthly decline.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

This is why what happened last week was so shocking: the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital filed suit against former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for fraud, break of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty.

So in addition to getting a sense for how these concepts and promotion platforms rank against what we've done historically, we've also added a number of competitive benchmarks into our testing.

An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall market segment» performance.

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.

For example, the benchmark against which a stock's volatility is compared can change based on preference or purpose of comparison.

The firm's proprietary Organizational Health Index, for example, allows companies to benchmark their own performance against a massive database of McKinsey's 600 clients worldwide — on a confidential basis, of course.

«We seek absolute returns, not relative ones, and resist being benchmarked against market indices for that reason» Seth Klarman

Thus make a plan that keeps your spouse advised of investment decisions — for example, I prepare and review with her a monthly report on changes to investment value (against a melded S&P 500 benchmark), also quarterly net worth statements, and semi-annual asset allocation summaries.

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.

In case you missed it, Benchmark — a major investor in Uber with a representative on its board — filed a lawsuit against Kalanick for fraud and breach of contract.

If Benchmark had no problem with the voting agreement for 14 months, as Kalanick alleges, then that could help Kalanick's argument against the need for an injunction.

The leading performance benchmark for this strategy is the CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Index (PUT), an index that measures the performance of a hypothetical portfolio that sells one - month S&P 500 ® Index (SPX) put options against collateralized cash reserves -LSB-...]

In Q1 2018, the Value & Opportunity portfolio lost -1,38 % (including dividends, no taxes) against -3,90 % for the Benchmark (Eurostoxx50 (Perf.Ind)(25 %), Eurostoxx small 200 (25 %), DAX (30 %), MDAX (20 %)-RRB-.

Government bonds are measured by the Bloomberg Barclays Government - Related Index, a universe of Treasury bonds used as a benchmark against the market for long - term maturity fixed - income securities.

Self - impose a moratorium on polls about religion for a sufficient period that the savings could be used to conduct a high quality poll with a high response rate in order to have a benchmark against which to compare other results.

Guterl identifies the unavoidable problem: «The utopian abstraction of the racially mixed, public family was, for Baker and for many others, the benchmark against which the material reality was measured.»

He also works with regional vigneron and winemaker associations, conducting tastings to benchmark their wines for quality and style against successful market competitors.

As Woolworths has been the traditional price leader, its prices provide the benchmark for independent grocery pricing, although Metcash checks against Coles» prices as well.

«They have set themselves as this higher - than - high, pious team who set the benchmark for what is right and what is wrong in cricket, when everyone who has played against them knows it's an absolute joke.»

With a 2 - 0 away victory over Espanyol, Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid equaled the record set by Pep Guardiola's Barcelona on the doorstep of their great rivals and will look to set a new benchmark of their own with potentially awkward but still very winnable games against Villarreal and Las Palmas up next for Los Blancos.

The SmartTeams program is designed to give them a benchmark against which to measure their child's commitment to a safer sports experience, to support those programs that measure up and demand change for those that don't,» said de Lench.

It also set out eight «benchmarks for Britain», against which the people of Britain could judge «the economic success or failure of the next government».

The large number of patient records allows for the development of reliable benchmarks for centers to reference in comparing their local results against risk - adjusted national standards.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

Our search for these key benchmarks against which brown dwarf and exoplanet atmosphere models are tested has yielded the largest number of discoveries to date.

We are constantly measuring ourselves up — against often unfair benchmarks — and then we get down on ourselves for not overcoming the obstacle we identify as holding us back.

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?

For over a year we've made a conscious effort not to target ourselves against industry averages and benchmarks.

Schools can opt to engage in them for benchmarking against other schools, but this does not result in publically available «leagues tables» such as those associated with the MySchool website information required of Australian schools.

NAPLAN has been used as a benchmark for student performance against national averages since 2008, but just how effective is the test?

Once done, benchmark every Learning Management System available in the market against the features you need for your school or business.

In other words, the rallying cry for the establishment of a common core of content standards in 2008 explicitly acknowledged that for America to be benchmarked against top - performing countries we should teach algebra in the eighth grade.