Sentences with phrase «aggregate measures of»

We have shown that, despite their limitations, aggregate measures of non-cognitive skills based on student self - reports provide useful information about students» development, as both levels and year - to - year changes in students» self - ratings are associated with changes in related academic and behavioral outcomes.

Our use of proficiency rates, an aggregate measure of school performance, distinguishes our work from other recent studies that examine the performance gains made by individual students.

Standard regression analyses indicate that the aggregate measure of district conditions explains 19 % of the variation in LSE and 56 % of the variation in LCE.

Table 2.2.3 reports correlations between LSE, LCE, an aggregated measure of efficacy and leader behavior (in the Combined column), school conditions, and classroom conditions.

Results of a standard regression analysis show that our aggregate measure of district leadership (using the adjusted R) explains 8 % of the variation in LSE, half of which is accounted for by Managing the instructional program; it also explains 40 % of the variation in LCE, of which significant contributions are made by Redesigning the organization (9 %) and Managing the instructional program (4 %).

Standard regression equations were used to estimate the «effects» of LSE, LCE, and an aggregate measure of efficacy on leader behavior as well as school and classroom conditions.

Each city score is an aggregate measure of low - income student results at the grade - subject level, weighted by number of students tested.

The OECD defines GDP as «an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and minus any subsidies, on products not included in the value of their outputs).»

Comparing the costs of mitigation with avoided damages would require the reconciliation of welfare impacts on people living in different places and at different points in time into a global aggregate measure of well - being.

* Extremely high geopotential heights (a vertically aggregated measure of atmospheric temperature) over the northeastern Pacific Ocean are historically linked to very low precipitation in California.

In fact, we predict that while most regions will face a reduction of up to 0.1 standard deviations in our aggregate measure of child health by 2030, this impact could be up to three times as large in the most affected areas.

PDI is an aggregate measure of Atlantic hurricane activity, combining frequency, intensity, and duration of hurricanes in a single index.

To better understand why some fathers are apt to disengage, the remainder of this brief uses an aggregated measure of accessibility, engagement, and responsibility, to analyze the predictors of low father involvement.

We conducted a quantitative meta - analysis of studies published between 1998 and 2008 on academic achievement, behavioral functioning, and EF with the aim of providing aggregated measures of effect size for these outcome domains.

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To simplify - actually oversimplifying some - investors in the stock market in the aggregate try to measure the near term outlook for the profitability of the companies in which they trade.

This shows up in the national accounts as a divergence between GDP, which is a measure of production, and Gross Domestic Income, which tracks aggregate income.

The S&P 500 ® Index is an unmanaged, capitalization - weighted index designed to measure the performance of the broad US economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.

In aggregate, the GDP measures the economic growth and health of the country.

The Index is designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.

b) Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) measures the aggregate cash on cash returns of all stocks in the sector / industry.

The «gap» is a dollar figure that seeks to measure a province's aggregate net fiscal contribution or benefit vis - à - vis the rest of the federation.

Represents the corporate and government - related sectors of Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index (which provides a broad - based measure of the global investment - grade, fixed - rate debt markets) and is considered representative of global investment - grade debt.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index measures the performance of Investment Grade securities and is selected by a Market Value process.

Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a broad - based, market - value - weighted benchmark that measures the performance of the U.S.dollar - denominated, investment - grade, fixed - rate, taxable bond market.

Note the recent slowing of the aggregate real wage measure at the end of Figure 3, largely a function of faster inflation growth (the energy effect noted above) and some slowing of job and (blue - collar) wage growth.

«Owning a home at market price in Canada still took an abnormally large bite out of household income, but RBC's aggregate affordability measure was unchanged in the fourth quarter after a string of six quarterly increases,» said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC.

Publicly available data allow the calculation of aggregate measures like the percentage of arriving rockets intercepted.

He measures daily aggregate unscheduled firm - specific news sentiment as an average of scores calculated by the RavenPack news analysis tool for articles with headlines specifying S&P 500 stocks published for the first time that day on the Dow Jones news wire and in the Wall Street Journal.

In the July 2010 version of their paper entitled «The Impact of Investor Sentiment on the German Stock Market», Philipp Finter, Alexandra Niessen - Ruenzi and Stefan Ruenzi test the predictive power of a composite sentiment measure combining consumer confidence, net equity mutual funds flow, put - call ratio, aggregate trading volume, initial public offering (IPO) returns, number of IPOs and aggregate equity - to - debt ratio of new issues.

(Peter Surda): you can not design a synthetic commodity whose supply mirrors macroeconomic aggregates, because these aggregate variables are exogenous to the network (whereas the hashing parameter of networks like Bitcoin only depends on time and the number of blocks in the blockchain, which from a perspective of the network are endogenous), so they can not be unambigiously measured.

Based on initial tests, he constructs aggregate metrics for overvaluation (averaging seven of the overvaluation indicators) and uncertainty (averaging six of the uncertainty measures) for subsequent tests.

The Bloomberg Barclays Rate Hedged U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, Negative Five Duration measures the performance of Investment Grade securities and is selected by a Market Value process.

As disclosed in the proxy statement filed in advance of its 2006 shareholder meeting, in 2005 the Devon board paid CEO J. Larry Nichols a $ 1.1 million salary, a $ 2.2 million bonus (based on a non-formulaic assessment of performance), and stock and options with an aggregate grant - date value of more than $ 7 million (none of which was tied to performance measures).

To date, we do not see a systemic threat from leveraged lending, since broad measures of credit outstanding do not suggest that nonfinancial borrowers, in the aggregate, are taking on excessive debt and the improved capital and liquidity positions at lending institutions should ensure resilience against potential losses due to their exposures.

The Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index measures the performance of global investment grade debt.

The current valuation of the S&P 500 is lofty by almost any measure, both for the aggregate market as well as the median stock: (1) The P / E ratio; (2) the current P / E expansion cycle; (3) EV / Sales; (4) EV / EBITDA; (5) Free Cash Flow yield; (6) Price / Book as well as the ROE and P / B relationship; and compared with the levels of (6) inflation; (7) nominal 10 - year Treasury yields; and (8) real interest rates.

While you may have decided it's a great idea to create dedicated, persona - based pages to aggregate all of your persona - targeted content and offers, you should also take measures to make the rest of your website persona - friendly.

The annual figure represents a clear acceleration from a figure of 3.9 per cent over the year to November 1996, and follows a period when this measure of aggregate wages growth had been fairly steady at around 4 per cent.

Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.

The primary measure of the household sector's debt - servicing burden is the ratio of aggregate interest payments to disposable income.

The Altimeter displays a real - time representation of developing balance and imbalance areas by measuring volume - at - price, a statistical method for aggregating trading data.

Core Taxable Bonds are measured by the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index, composed of securities from the Bloomberg Barclays Government / Credit Bond Index, Mortgage - Backed Securities Index, Asset - Backed Securities Index, and Commercial Mortgage - Backed Securities Index.

This, conceptually, is a measure of the trend in the general price level which reflects the broad balance between aggregate demand and supply in the economy.

«I followed Rangers at the time and when they reached the semi-finals, they played Eintracht Frankfurt and lost 12 - 4 on aggregate, so every Rangers fan was saying, «This Eintracht team will wipe Real Madrid away in the final,» — of course, it was the other way about and that gave me a measure of how good Real Madrid really were — they were unbelievable.

Unlike Lord Ashcroft's marginal polls (which are actually a series of individual constituency polls in seats that are marginals, which we can aggregate together to get an extremely large sample across a group of marginal seats) ComRes's poll is a more traditional marginals poll — a single poll of a group of marginal seats, meaning it gives us a measure of those seats as a whole, but has far too few people to tell us anything about the individual seats within that group.

The results from all these tests were scored to produce a measure of hyperactivity known as a global hyperactivity aggregate (GHA).

Using three samples aggregating more than 1000 working adults, researchers developed and tested a measure of substantive and symbolic corporate social responsibility.

The researchers identified more than 175 different proteins that aggregated in response to heat shock, representing around a sixth of the proteins measured and about ten times as many as were known before.

Fasting glycemia was measured periodically in Tg - hIAPP mice treated with synthetic IAPP aggregates or PBS as well as in WT mice injected with the same preparation of synthetic aggregates (Fig. 7 A).

To investigate whether inoculation of pure, synthetic IAPP aggregates can accelerate clinical alterations typical of T2D, we measured fasting blood glucose concentrations and the integrity of islet morphology.