Sentences with phrase «areas of performance for»

With VERA as its vehicle, CASL develops and applies models, methods, data, and understanding while addressing areas of performance for nuclear power plants.

Not exact matches

Known for its long stretches of white sandy beach, Negril is one of the island's hot spots, as is the area's not - so - creatively - named Seven Mile Beach; by day, revelers sip on rum punch and frolic in the warm waters, and my night they drink more rum punch and dance to live reggae bands and steel drum performances.

Mike Schroll, the VP of business development for PC Pitstop, a creator of security and performance software, is a former hacker and made his living professionally hacking into and identifying vulnerable areas in the cyber infrastructure of large organizations.

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

Mark's primary areas of expertise include: assisting clients with substantial private businesses manage the growth from a financial and strategic perspective advising high net worth clients on succession and estate planning issues helping clients achieve the optimal value for their business upon disposal on an after tax basis analysis of business performance assisting clients with debt raising issues structuring client's affairs for maximum tax benefits.

As a result, there is more scope for divergent performance among different names, which plays directly into our ability to look for the right stocks in a range of areas.

The benchmarking analysis shows that Greater Vancouver's performance in this area is poor — it gets «C» grades for the average commute time to and from work and for the proportion of the workforce that non-car commutes.

The HFRI EM: Latin America Index leads all areas of hedge fund performance for 2016, according to HFR, with a gain of +15.3 percent through April.

It is worth revisiting this site, however, for what we can learn about the status of «communication» and «art» in the study of preaching and how performance studies promises conceptual replenishment in these areas.

It uses internal and external shoppers to measure performance of staff and focus on all areas for improvement.

On show in the Inspection area of the stand, Ishida's new IX series X-ray range raises the bar in performance and usability, offering customers easy maintenance, stress - free operation, and a robust fail safe system that prevents a contaminated product reaching the consumer to minimise the potential for costly recalls.

The chocolate giant hopes to track the progress of the Cocoa For Good scheme using key performance indicators (KPI) across the four areas.

Klefenz says the acquisition will enable Bosch to offer a broader product portfolio in the area of inspection technology, from basic inspection solutions to fully automated high - performance systems for all commonly used applications on the market.

There is a lot of competition at Arsenal in that central area, especially now that Wilshere and Santi Cazorla are fit again, but Ramsey is doing himself a big favour with his performances for the Welsh team.

Our manager has been feeling the brunt of our anger for years, but he is too strong minded for it to work the changes we wanted, I wonder if certain players felt half the heat that our manager felt, if it might bring change in attitudes performances and other areas.

I loathe to blame Wenger usually but his inability to replace Cazorla, sale of a target man and brute force DM, and his inability to improve the areas our game is clearly lacking in has to take much of the blame for our performances like this.

Plus, quickly I have to say, it was the best refereeing performance I have ever seen, we was suppose to be man of the match but our players took all the whole chance they had to steal or win not just the game but MOMT at all areas of the Pitch...... Well done Players, AW and is technical Asst and most of em all, we the FANS it was a well deserve game for us all over the WORLD... COYG ***

Personally, I would keep Ospina and rotate him and Cech everytime one or the other conceded a goal, inbetween games, that would give more incentives to improve performances and maybe that kind of rotation could also work for other areas in the team.

The skill set for the type of speed you will need for each sport maybe similar, but they each have target areas that Sports Speed Academy has isolated to improve your on field or on court performance.

After his performance against Hull City yesterday the pundits on Match of the Day were full of praise for him but they also questioned Wenger as to why he gets so little game time, especially in that central area.

«For us, FE is the ultimate competitive environment for driving forward the development of high performance vehicles in areas such as environmental friendliness, efficiency and sustainability.&raqFor us, FE is the ultimate competitive environment for driving forward the development of high performance vehicles in areas such as environmental friendliness, efficiency and sustainability.&raqfor driving forward the development of high performance vehicles in areas such as environmental friendliness, efficiency and sustainability.»

An area of real strength for the Oxford women is the throws, with new university Discus record holder Christina Nick looking to follow making the Shot final at the Indoor event with a repeat performance in both her favoured events over the Bank Holiday Weekend.

They have performed annually for 25 years at Bay Area KidFest, along with performances through the years at Concord Fall Fest, Police Olympics and at local schools in an effort to promote the benefits of martial arts training for all ages.

He also revealed that from a young age he has been keen to self - analyse his performances and would know which areas of his game his youth coaches were going to pull him up for even before discussing it with him.

It was back in August, after the draw away to Arsenal, that I wrote for Anfield Index on the importance of Emre Can to Liverpool after demonstrating he was capable of a positionally disciplined performance in a key area of the pitch.

Experts give its performance on both bare floors and carpet top marks, so it would be a great pick for homeowners with a mix of hardwood floors and area rugs.

In fact, research in the area of youth sports and supplements, such as amino acids and creatine, is limited; the American Academy of Pediatrics advises no ergogenic (muscle - building, performance - enhancing) supplements for youth athletes due to their unknown side effects.

The Recaro Performance BOOSTER High Back Booster Car Seat has racing - inspired side impact protection, memory foam for comfort, 11 - position headrest, and a coolmesh air ventilation system to keep your child comforted in whatever weather.It also has side body impact protection, designed to protect the 5 most vulnerable areas of a child: head, neck, face, torso and pelvis.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Communities and councils can bid for funding to help transform the environmental performance of a street or local area.

However the prime minister's performance and innovation unit has previously rejected this proposal saying that «numerical access criteria could well undermine the government's policy rather than strengthen it», and pointing out that «it would be possible for the Post Office to close down two - thirds of its rural outlets whilst still ensuring that 99 per cent of people in rural areas lived within three miles of a post office».

That includes its high - tech ReFuel food area in the lobby, space for musical performances, interactive giant LED display panels hanging from the ceiling and special soft seating in the XYZ Bar lounge — so named because Aloft is the «sequel» to Marriott's «W» brand of hotels, Fox explained.

It is true that the Conservatives have underperformed in Northern urban areas for some years, relative to their overall performance, but this is a very good example of lazy journalism.

Transparency and comparison of performance against local plans, strategies for support and intervention for struggling areas, and mechanisms for patients to achieve change both in their own care and in local services more widely would all need to be part of a progressive reform agenda.

Watching David Cameron's assured performance yesterday in the first Prime Minister's Questions of this parliamentary term, many Conservatives will have been greatly encouraged to hear him speak up in support of the «pupil premium» - a measure designed to boost educational opportunities for children living in deprived areas.

As the NYC Council's public flogging of the Bloomberg administration for its poor response to the Christmas weekend blizzard continues, the mayor's office has released the results of its preliminary review of its performance that found problems in six key areas:

That extra 34 - thousand square feet of park space will include a great lawn, play equipment for children of all ages and a performance area.

Although the segregation, and related performance gaps, are not unique to Erie County, a recent report by the Civil Rights Project put the area in the top 3 percent of the country for its failure to integrate students.

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale and a long - term critic of his party's campaign methods, said its performance could have been better and attributed Ukip's high share of the vote in many areas outside London to its more passionate approach.

But a Queens Library spokeswoman said Tuesday that the rest of the library's proposed amenities will still be included in the finished project, like an amphitheater performance space, a garden and a rooftop terrace as well as separate areas for kids, teens and adults.

The recruitment of visual areas for auditory tasks is sometimes thought to underlie the better performance in processing inputs from other senses observed in congenitally blind people.

As a result, researchers agree that a standardized set of metrics will allow for comparisons of OPO performance and donation rates in different regions, and they will help to identify areas where proven best practices can be implemented in order to improve donation rates.

The new WITec Suite software, for WITec imaging systems, was developed to acquire and process large data volumes of large - area, high - resolution measurements, and 3 - D imaging while providing speed, performance, and usability.

Although the placement of high school students is limited to the Detroit metropolitan area, opportunities in high - performance computing do exist for undergraduate (summers) and graduate (year - round) students at WSU.

«For all three types of studies, the algorithms showed significantly better performance in tracking the nostril area than other state - of - the - art methods,» said Cho.

Marzari notes that even for battery materials, an area in which computational materials science is having its best success stories, standard calculations still have an average error of half a volt, which makes a lot of difference in terms of performance.

For expert insight, I spoke with Lance Williams, an investigative reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle and co-author (with Mark Fainaru - Wada) of Game of Shadows, a revelatory book about how BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, supplied baseball players and other athletes with performance - enhancing drugs.

In anticipation of programs from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that tie reimbursement to performance in key areas, the authors state that hospitals should have more incentive to improve infection control and antibiotic prescribing measures to prevent CDI.

«Our study emphasises the importance of scaling for animal adhesion, and scaling is also essential for improving the performance of adhesives over much larger areas.

«That's where the genetic test can come in [handy] for looking for early indicators of talent in performance areas.