Sentences with phrase «at gain scores»

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As a general rule, a personal credit score below 680 will make qualifying for a loan at the bank problematic and a score below 650 will likely rule out an SBA loan, so if your personal score is below the 650 threshold, you'll likely need to look at alternative financing options, but it is possible to gain a loan approval.

I don't go for the short term gains of getting as many easy links as possible but like to look at a long term project where you invest to get one very hard to score link or you encourage lots of natural linking by offering creative and valuable content.

Inevitably, there was someone at your Super Bowl party who took the game too seriously, looking up common scores and ways to gain an edge on the competition — but look who's on top now?

Before Saturday's game against Manchester United, we looked at Palace's appalling start in the context of their goals scored (before: nil; after: zero), their points gained (before: none; after: nada), and their hope for the future (you get the idea).

He played consistently for 6 MONTHS, continued his form in pre-season, has one bad game because of rustiness every player suffers after months without PL, and all of a sudden he's crap??? Coquelin is class and is only getting better, he had a bad day at the office which is normal yet his stats were above average, so what does he have to do to gain support, score a hat trick, be Maradona??! Honestly some of you guys complain too much.

I did not predict a 1 nil score at West Bromwich specifically but for Arsenal to maybe return to tight 1 nil unspectacular wins, as in the past, gaining 3 points instead of playing the opposition of the park and gaining 1 or none.

Instead he was sent out on a never - ending series of loan moves to gain experience but when he finally starting scoring again (at MK Dons this season), he was immediately sold to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Travis: I looked at four factors when determining my Masters pick this year: driving distance, par 4 scoring, par 5 scoring, and strokes gained tee - to - green.

ramsey once played so well that he outperformed rakitic toure vidal modric ozil once played so well that he was better than the combination of iniesta and xavi and was one of the most feared playmakers in the game and was also at the heart of germany football sanchez played so well he was likened to suarez and is a chilean legend wilshere played so well that he was praised by the entire barcelona team cech is dubbed the best keeper in the world by most that even lewandowski was honoured to score against him for once the kosmertz patnership was considered one of the best in english football coquelin is outperforming the best in europe and has gained plaudits from former legends such as henry silva and pires monreal and silva are also statistically the best fullbacks in the league even chamberlain has played so well he is considered the future of england chambers also played so well he was capped by england and nominated for the golden boy award even the giroud ive not mentioned is considered the most lethal strikers a goal after very few touches and fewest minutes on the pitch

At the time, this felt like a big shift for Oregon State as they gained possession and were once again within one score.

There was the game at Maine Road in 1970 at Maine Road when Jimmy Greaves made his debut for us and scored twice, Ronnie Boyce scored from the half way line and we won the game 5 - 1, to gain our revenge on a 4 - 0 home defeat to them just three months earlier.

The penultimate round of the Serie A season features the Derby della Madonnina between Inter and Milan at the San Siro (scheduled for the weekend of May 5 - 6), when Milan will be hoping to gain revenge for January's 1 - 0 defeat in which Argentina striker Diego Milito scored Inter's goal.

By the final whistle, with Martial having scored a late winner to gloss over the struggles after the restart, many commentators suggested the result summed up Everton's season: plenty of promise going forward with nothing to protect their gains at the back.

They sold Romelu Lukaku, a striker who had been criticised for his failure to add much to Everton's game beyond goal - scoring but was nevertheless very good at scoring those goals, then with the money gained bought a collection...

They sold Romelu Lukaku, a striker who had been criticised for his failure to add much to Everton's game beyond goal - scoring but was nevertheless very good at scoring those goals, then with the money gained bought a collection of playmakers but failed to replace the man who could finish the chances they created.

After an even first half at Benito Villamarin Stadium, Barcelona gained control of the match when Rakitic opened the scoring after a breakaway early in the second half.

Still, the home side managed to smash two past Navas and the Los Colchoneros gain a big advantage in the first leg match and Real Madrid will face a tough task scoring at least 2 and not conceding any in the second leg match.

Gareth Bale scored two sensational free - kicks as Tottenham gained the advantage over Lyon with a thrilling last - gasp win in the Europa League at White Hart Lane.

Only once this season have Leicester gained anything away from home after they have gone behind (2 - 2 at Liverpool after being 2 - 0 down) so if Everton score first it will probably be game over.

Significant Evidence - Based Research Findings of Infant Massage: • Supports parent - infant interaction • Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants1 • Lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Increases muscle tone • Improves sleep and awake patterns • Shortens lengths of stay in hospitals • Improves cognitive and motor development at eight months of age • Infant massage is an inexpensive tool • Can be used as part of the developmental care plan of preterm infants • Recent research shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental scores and earlier discharge2

With respect to the adequacy of weight gain in these infants, using > 2z score units (standard deviations) below a mean of 0 to define inadequate weight gain, 8 % and 6 % of infants in the fluoxetine and the no medication groups, respectively, fell into this classification at the time of the first postnatal measurement.

Most of the time, using the internet for politics is a game of incremental gains, with victories scored one voter / supporter at a time.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

Using data from NASA missions observing Earth, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have created new maps of the bed topography beneath a score of glaciers in southeast Greenland, thereby gaining a much better understanding of why some are undergoing rapid retreat and others are relatively stable.

The researchers found that CAP participants maintained the gains they showed at the end of treatment through the 12 - month period, with higher remission rates (AUDIT score < 8: 54.3 % versus 31.9 %) and a greater proportion reporting no alcohol consumption in the past 14 days (45.1 % versus 26.4 %), compared with individuals who received EUC alone.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

In October 2005, after a few months on the job, I was invited to a congressional hearing on RT that offered a rare chance for the TSA to score a clear public - relations win and maybe gain a few fans, at least among frequent flyers.

And we set up the — at Holland you probably know from my work, the Dutch gained 20 points on Raven's in one generation and they actually dug out the 18 - year - old of today recruits, their own fathers» IQ scores, and over that generation there's still been a 20 - point gain, which is huge.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes scored a rare two - for - one gain by discovering an enzyme that controls the levels of a protein implicated in both Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

This split is based on alternating pushing and pulling movements, which allows you to work different muscles at different rates, train more often and score some insane gains in no time.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

It's interesting to experience the stages, gaining and losing valuable seconds towards your final score at the end of a multi-stage round.

The goal is to gain possession of the ball and make two laps, before skating up a ramp and throwing the ball at a target to score.

The largest gains for the test — the Kentucky Instructional Results System, or KIRIS — came in reading and mathematics, with fewer students scoring at the «novice,» or lowest, level and more students scoring at the «proficient» and «distinguished» levels.

According to the models comparing high - scoring F schools with low - scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.

While about two - thirds of SIG schools did register modest gains in reading and math, scores at one - third actually declined over the period.

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

These scores represent the second straight year of outsized gains for the six urban Catholic schools, all of which were at risk of closing before they were turned over to the Partnership Schools network.

By creating this framework where we were using test score gains to validate practice - based measures, we were at least creating a common base for discussion.

By looking at the individual test scores of each student in Florida, Winters is able to identify gains in performance at the 3rd grade level that were not influenced by the «anti-social promotion» policy.

The cut score for the top performers nationwide stood at 259 in 1992 and steadily rose to 276 in 2011, a gain of 17 points.

At the 4th grade level in math and reading, D.C. students gained 6 scale score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average gain in the other districts was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.

Although these gains are impressive, a USA Today investigative team has expressed concerns that, at least in some schools, those test - score results might have been improperly inflated.

At the 4th - grade level, D.C. students in math and reading gained 6 scale score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average gain in the other 10 cities for which comparable data are available was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.

And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.

Several studies, including our own, clearly demonstrate that teacher evaluation systems that are based on a number of components, such as classroom observation scores and test - score gains, are already much more effective at predicting future teacher performance than paper credentials and years of experience.

Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test - score gains at least once in both sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in charter schools.

We are still left with the question of whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains.