Sentences with phrase «as benchmark studies»

Prepared proposal requests such as benchmark studies, solution development and cost projections.

Not exact matches

Johnson says the study, conducted by Leger, will be repeated in future years, with 2014 serving as a benchmark.

Osteryoung suggests that you look for resources in your industry, such as the annual statement studies on small and mid-sized business financial benchmarks from Risk Management Associates, to help you determine whether your profit margin is on target.

We wanted to find out, so as part of our 2016 Sales Benchmarking Report, we took a close look at the Quick Ratios of the high - growth SaaS companies in our study.

The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

Despite a perception among some investors that impact investing necessitates a concessionary return, the Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30, 2014.

In fact, the Content Marketing Institute's (CMI) 2015 study, B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends — North America, noted that 32 percent of marketers were using print magazines as one of their content marketing tactics versus 27 percent using digital magazines.

As an example, a recent benchmarking study on the software industry concluded that it took on average of five years for an emerging software company to reach $ 10 million in revenue.

As the world prepares for GDPR enforcement, a new Privacy Maturity Benchmark study finds that 65 percent of respondents say their organizations experience sales delays because of data privacy issues.

This is remarkable in light of the study's primary conclusion: Truly active funds (defined as funds with Active Share of 80 or greater) do outperform their benchmarks on average even after fees and expenses.

«Our goal was to establish benchmark medians and ranges of sales force salaries as a service to U.S. wine and spirit import companies,» said Steve Raye, Managing Partner at industry consulting company Brand Action Team which conducted the study.

For this study, the team used the average daily intake of the breastfeeding baby, around 150 millilitres of milk per kilo of weight, as a benchmark.

The study explores different perspectives on paternity leave, including a survey of more than 1,000 fathers from nearly 300 different organizations (primarily well - educated professionals); a benchmarking study of paternity leave policies at leading organizations; and a review of global paternity leave policies and practices, as well as U.S. states that have enacted laws to provide paid parental leave.

Players participating in the study will provide saliva and urine samples to act as a base - line benchmark.

Thousands of young Buffalo Public Schools students fell further behind in key literacy benchmarks as they progressed through the district's early grades, according to a study from 2006 to 2011 ordered by a former superintendent.

This new planet is among the least endowed with such metals that we know of, and because it is so bright it should serve as a benchmark for comparative studies of how and under what conditions planets form.»

This HDG genome represented the most complete de novo genome assembly to date, and with other omics data resources available from this individual, the work can be used as a benchmark for developing new sequencing and assembly techniques, and for functional studies involving RNA or protein analysis.

«As more of our colleagues use this modeling testbed, there will be greater benchmark consistency in studies across different regions, across different time periods and different seasons,» said Fast.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that lie between stars and planets.

His research led to the discovery of a liquid crystalline thiophene polymer which has served for over a decade as a benchmark semiconductor, employed in fundamental studies of the properties of organic field effect transistors, demonstrating the feasibility of solution processed organic polymers, and provided the impetus for advances in the field.

Studies are finding that a fasting blood glucose below 83 mg / dL is actually a better benchmark, as risk of heart disease begins to increase at anything above that.

In late 2008 the STF were appointed by the Learning Outside the Council Interim Council (an independent charity set up by the UK government in 2008) to act as the Awarding Body for the Study & Sports Tours Sector of the LOtC Quality Badge and our standards adopted as the benchmark for all companies operating in that sector.

As a benchmark, in our study data, students» high - school SAT scores had a correlation of 0.27 with their college grades.

As the study explains, the CBSA is «the most appropriate benchmark for the broader community as it approximates the geographical area from which a school could reasonably be expected to draw students from in the absence of legal or political boundaries.&raquAs the study explains, the CBSA is «the most appropriate benchmark for the broader community as it approximates the geographical area from which a school could reasonably be expected to draw students from in the absence of legal or political boundaries.&raquas it approximates the geographical area from which a school could reasonably be expected to draw students from in the absence of legal or political boundaries.»

The More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers Initiative (MATSITI) report, published today, is described as an «unprecedented benchmark study».

First, there is little evidence that teachers meeting to study student data, such as benchmark test scores, actually affects instruction or student learning.

We treat Instrumental Variables Analysis (IV) estimates of the impact of private schooling on student outcomes, some of which are being presented for the first time in this study, as the causal «benchmark» estimate.

A study of 2.8 million students found that students who read 30 + minutes per day with high comprehension (85 % or higher) were nearly twice as likely to achieve the college and career readiness benchmarks for their grade as typical students.

Because value - added measures were so reliable at predicting teachers» performance, the researchers urged school districts to use it as a «benchmark» for studying the effect of other measures.

Because value - added measures were so reliable at predicting teachers» future performance, the researchers urged school districts to use it as a «benchmark» for studying the effect of other measures.

«I think in many ways (Common Core is) a very good idea,» said UW - Madison associate education professor Catherine Compton - Lilly, who has studied the language arts half of the standards (the other half is math) and described the Core as a set of benchmarks.

For example, Ms. Goldstein's English as a second language class was studying affixes in preparation for a benchmark assessment.

This is done through studies of concurrent validity, which are also sometimes known as «benchmark checks.»

For example, if Literature is set apart by a subheading as an important component of the overall Reading curriculum rather than included only as one of several dozen benchmarks under the general heading of Reading, then the explicit study of literature is likely to claim more instructional time than it would otherwise.

· Recreating famous examples from an area of study, something that is also known as «benchmarking».

Overall results of the study indicate that the RLT model is effective in training general educators to implement such interventions as the Benchmark Strategy Instruction Process, but they also show that «traditional in - service without any follow - up was not effective staff development, since none of the control group teachers consistently implemented the [intervention].»

As a result, Tennessee will hold high schools accountable for students meeting the ACT college readiness benchmark and participating in early postsecondary opportunities, such as dual enrollment and earning an industry certification in an approved program of studAs a result, Tennessee will hold high schools accountable for students meeting the ACT college readiness benchmark and participating in early postsecondary opportunities, such as dual enrollment and earning an industry certification in an approved program of studas dual enrollment and earning an industry certification in an approved program of study.

Serving as the industry benchmark for new - vehicle appeal, the APEAL Study has been completely redesigned for 2013.

This study serves as an industry benchmark for new - vehicle quality after ninety days of ownership, and the results are based on actual owner reports about how satisfied they were with the quality of their new cars during the first three months of ownership.

The Initial Quality Study, now in its 27th year, serves as the industry benchmark for new - vehicle quality measured at 90 days of ownership.

As a benchmark, the year of the study (2012), the FTSE All - Share index returned 12.32 % once dividends were included (total return).

The Study Group also observed that internal benchmarks such as the base rate and MCLR have not delivered effective transmission of monetary policy.

This is remarkable in light of the study's primary conclusion: Truly active funds (defined as funds with Active Share of 80 or greater) do outperform their benchmarks on average even after fees and expenses.

However, this study is based on a specific homeowner profile in California that we're offering as a benchmark.

Cremers and Petajisto, in a 2009 Review of Financial Studies paper, introducing a new measure of active portfolio management, referred to as Active Share (i.e., the share of portfolio holdings that differ from the benchmark index holdings), found that between 1968 and 2001 U.S. funds that deviated significantly from the benchmark portfolio outperformed their benchmarks both before and after expenses.

The study analyzes workplace retirement plan coverage, retirement account ownership, and household retirement savings as a percentage of income, and estimates the share of working families that meet financial industry recommended benchmarks for retirement savings.

Note that if we use the Vanguard fund (a large cap fund) for the benchmark (as did the study) against which the GMO fund (a value fund) is judged, it looks as if the fund outperformed.

According to a MarketWatch article which cited study from S&P early this week, 70 % of large - cap stock funds that use the S&P 500 index as the benchmark failed to beat the index, which was down some 38 % last year.

Further good news: Windmill Animal Hospital was chosen as one of the practices to be used in the AAHA 2014 Benchmark Study looking at practice productivity and management, one of about 100 total practices chosen NATIONALLY.

This is one of the many findings from a recent economic impact study examining the museum's operations and visitor spending for FY2014, using FY2008 as a benchmark.