Sentences with phrase «as this metric takes»

However, you can utilize the spot rate to determine market value of a purchase, as this metric takes into account fluctuating interest rates.

Not exact matches

It took me a few years to truly understand how to manage startup metrics as CEO of Brainscape, despite having nearly 10 previous years of experience in economics, finance and statistics.

Frey's team did not train their system to predict diseases, but instead to take measurements of contents within a cell (metrics such as the concentration of a specific protein) and draw conclusions about the cellular system as a whole.

As Kenneth Freeman, dean of Boston University's School of Management, explains, «Rankings include starting salary among the metrics and many MBAs from higher ranked schools go into the higher paying finance and technology fields, with fewer taking lower paying roles in non-profits for example.

Louis Gray, Google's advocacy team lead, recommends defining the right metrics and goals at the outset of your campaign, as well as creating visually engaging dashboards, in order to get stakeholders to take action.

We take time to explain the cost of acquiring a customer and our gross margins, so people do not just see these as metrics we need to manage, but ways of understanding if we are doing the best job finding and serving our customers well.

It is introducing a new viewing metric called «CFlight,» which will take into account impressions across live audiences, as well as people viewing on - demand on digital platforms.

Still, you can't really use that as a metric because you have to take debt into the equation.

If that stat has your sales force running for the door, then make sure to quickly follow it up with this juicy metric: 75 % of IT execs have taken a meeting as a direct result of a cold call.

Investors took profits as other metrics from the company came in below estimates.

New metrics are often used to justify these stock prices, but fundamentals as a whole tend to take a backseat to rosy forecasts and blind speculation.

Limits to cutting costs to the bone Still, Sprint's strategy will only take it so far, as cutting prices and offering promotions to attract new customers cut into its financial metrics.

I always take a look at the current payout ratio and cash payout ratio as previously mentioned in the «dividend metrics» section.

I totally agree with you and with Buffett; nonetheless there's one question, that came to my mind regarding market valuations: Assuming bonds and interest rates go even lower as they are today, at which level (pe ratio or Shiller pe ratio — or whatever metric you'd like to take) would I call the market of today a bubble?

Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical» society, a basic member of a hierarchy of societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»

It seems really nice, as all the recipes and posts on your blog... Can't wait to be in October to have it...:) And I'm SOOOO happy there is metric weights (as an European, it takes me quite some time to convert spoons and cups in grams...).

As business as a force for good becomes increasingly a priority rather than an afterthought, values like kindness and authenticity have taken center stage in a brand's key metricAs business as a force for good becomes increasingly a priority rather than an afterthought, values like kindness and authenticity have taken center stage in a brand's key metricas a force for good becomes increasingly a priority rather than an afterthought, values like kindness and authenticity have taken center stage in a brand's key metrics.

Payet's metrics show that he does not create chances as frequently as Özil, but he is a much more dangerous prospect when dribbling an opponent with an incredible 2.51 successful take - ons per - 90 minutes.

Let's take a look at converting weight from the metric system, which most hospital staff use, and the Imperial System which we recognize as pounds and ounces.

But that metric lost its efficiency as the opt - out movement grew in 2016, with parents keeping their children from taking the tests altogether.

By reformulating the problem as a matrix function approximation, making use of a special transformation and taking advantage of the underlying symmetry with respect to a non-Euclidean metric, Yang and his colleagues were able to apply the Lanczos algorithm and a Kernal Polynomial Method (KPM) to approximate the absorption spectrum of several molecules.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

EPEAT - certified computers deliver energy savings as well, according to the report: 42.2 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity over their life spans, which means 3.31 million metric tons fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their uncertified computing counterparts — the equivalent of taking 2.6 million cars off the road.

Their provisional (and constantly updated) ranking of nearly 35,000 researchers relies on queries made through Google Scholar to normalize the popular metric known as the h - index (a scientist with an h - index of 20 has published at least 20 papers with at least 20 citations each, so the measure takes into account quantity and popularity of research).

The scale is measuring weight, bone density, exercise, and other metrics; it just withholds micro-increments because, as Ariely believes, they don't take into account the natural, daily fluctuations of the human body.

Before getting to the nitty - gritty of content development, take time to define the parameters that will act as the foundation of your program — defining learner personas, goals, and success metrics.

The issue that I'm finding — and I'm not by any means alone — is that growth mindsets, grit, and resilience are being championed not as paradigms that will take all people to whatever's next on their journey, but as pedagogical methods for classes, schools, and districts populated with students who don't achieve at the metrics we're using.

He said: «As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should.&raquAs long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should.&raquas the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should.&raquas seriously as they should.&raquas they should.»

Now Kuder is working with Boston educators on designing a metric to help drive instruction that uses data in addition to results from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, known as the MCAS, which has tests taken in March, with results not available until six months later in September.

This type of strategy is not seen as harmful by the district because it helps them «launder» their school grades — the magnet students artificially boost the school metrics and the district can take credit for the «improving» school grades.

As a result, college readiness continues to be defined primarily in terms of high school courses taken and grades received, along with scores on national tests, as its primary metricAs a result, college readiness continues to be defined primarily in terms of high school courses taken and grades received, along with scores on national tests, as its primary metricas its primary metrics.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

«As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should,» said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of BuckinghaAs long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should,» said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckinghaas the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should,» said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckinghaas seriously as they should,» said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckinghaas they should,» said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham.

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city's schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools.

The academic prestige score takes into account metrics such as average amount of financial need received, average class sizes, admissions standards, and the percentage of faculty holding terminal degrees in their field.

Charter school proliferation can take part of the blame for schools being «underutilized,» as they draw students from other schools, but the Board's metric for calculating utilization is also suspect.

Released in September 2013 and updated in September 2014, this brief describes the steps that states can take to reduce chronic absence including: building public awareness, tracking and publicly reporting chronic absence rates for schools and districts, using attendance as a metric in school improvement efforts, sharing best practices with educators and parents, and enabling interagency efforts among schools, public agencies and community groups.

There are plenty of metrics to keep track of, such as how long it takes you to read a specific page of text or the average amount of time it takes to read a book.

Hopefully it will be warmly embraced by young and old, rich and poor, male and female, black, white, brown, yellow, or of whatever orientation — religious, political or any other differentiating metric you like — and will be a mega hit, enabling me to infuriate my critics as well as the angry throng of clowns that continues to congregate on my front lawn once I've had a few pops to take the edge off (and don't tell me we haven't all been there).

On the back is 16MP RGB camera coupled with dedicated motion Fish - eye lens tracking and IR Beamer depth camera.Camera can not only take picture but measure distance of objects and can change metrics as well.

An income replacement goal that takes employee demographics into consideration (such as salary) might be an appropriate metric for plan sponsors to consider.

If that's not an option due to an insufficiently long track record, risk - reward metrics, such as the Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, or a risk - adjusted alpha measurement should be looked at to view return as it relates to the amount of risk taken on to achieve it.

I totally agree with you and with Buffett; nonetheless there's one question, that came to my mind regarding market valuations: Assuming bonds and interest rates go even lower as they are today, at which level (pe ratio or Shiller pe ratio — or whatever metric you'd like to take) would I call the market of today a bubble?

Mr Wallace updated that they have some internal metrics they work within as to whether to take more fees as units.

Using the quality of «agreeableness» as their metric for assessing the personality types of the study participants, the researchers asked the participants (ranging widely in age) to take personality tests and then identify their favorite types of dogs from a given list.

Since Google takes a lot of factors into account, a metric that tries to calculate it must incorporate a lot of factors, as well.

App or game promotion is highly subjective, so it takes a bit of time to master and you need someone who has a solid understanding of how the app store works, how to programme and optimize ad campaigns effectively by analyzing all the right metrics, as well as having the creativity to maximize opportunities.

I take it the units are in metres of thickness — only asking as the US is less metric than here in France.

Where can an avid but amateur hobbyist such as me go to get my mind around what due care has been taken for other metrics, either global or regional?