Sentences with phrase «available measures of»

As outlined above, the range of available measures of behavioural problems was much greater at 46 months; all showed very similar patterns of increasing reports of problems in line with increasing deprivation.

First, assuming readily available measures of teacher effectiveness actually measure true teacher effectiveness, an assumption to which we return below, the differences between seniority and effectiveness - based layoffs are larger and more persistent than we anticipated.

When using value added, allow educational leaders to make judgments in interpreting the value - added results in light of other available measures of teacher quality and the principals» own assessments.

Results indicate that on average globally, SES achievement gaps have increased for all three available measures of family SES: parents» education, parents» occupation, and the number of books in the home.

But interpreting growth measures based on the one - step value - added approach in this way requires assuming that the available measures of student and school SES, and the specific methods used to adjust for differences in SES, are both adequate.

The available measures of capacity utilisation indicate some increase in the past year, although utilisation remains, at this stage, below the peak recorded in the mid 1990s (Graph 20).

Additional limitations of the analysis highlighted in the paper and simply repeated by the reviewer are that the number of country observations is limited to 28 OECD countries and that the available measure of teacher performance pay is imperfect.

(While these ratings are the best readily - available measure of a bond's safety, be aware that these ratings proved to be unreliably optimistic for a small number of high - profile companies during the 2008 financial crisis.)

Furthermore, the available measure of postnatal depression was taken after the exposure of response to crying at 4 weeks and therefore may be a consequence of the response to crying.

Not exact matches

Outlook shows the projected demand for employees in the field in 2022, as measured by Employment and Social Development Canada: ➚ = more than 1 job available per job seeker — lots of opportunity ➙ = about 1 job available per job seeker — balanced opportunity ➘ = less than 1 job available per job seeker — low opportunity

Or as National Geographic measures it: Americans» 3,729 available calories are «the equivalent of one and a half large pepperoni pizzas.»

He notes that while the tools available for identifying raw talent made gains with performance - measuring software and online recruitment tools, the results of these searches has hardly improved.

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* Note: When we provide expectations for adjusted EPS, organic sales and free cash flow on a forward - looking basis, a reconciliation of the differences between the non-GAAP expectations and the corresponding GAAP measures generally is not available without unreasonable effort.

The updates are aimed at helping advertisers measure the effectiveness of their campaign in real - time, Facebook says in a blog post announcing the changes and offers more flexibility and customization of the available data.

Pros: Adobe Marketing Cloud delivers perhaps the most robust offering of digital marketing tools available today, allowing businesses to engage with customers on a personalized basis throughout the customer journey, measure those experiences and better understand their customers.

We've scored all 50 states on more than 60 measures of competitiveness, using publicly available data.

Cree believes that these non-GAAP measures, when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, enhance investors» and management's overall understanding of the Company's current financial performance and the Company's prospects for the future, including cash flows available to pursue opportunities to enhance shareholder value.

Two - factor (or multifactor) authentication is one of the most straightforward and secure forms of safety measures currently available.

We scored all 50 states — using publicly available data — on 40 different measures of competitiveness.

To arrive at America's Top States for Business, we scored all 50 states — using publicly available data — on 40 different measures of competitiveness., and then separated those metrics into the ten broad categories.

Other than projected free cash flow for the year ending December 31, 2018, for which a reconciliation is provided, we have not provided quantitative reconciliations of these forward - looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable forward - looking GAAP financial measures because the excluded items are not available on a prospective basis without unreasonable efforts.

Three Statistics Canada analysts have recently used newly available data to measure Canadian replacement rates over the period from the early 1980s to the middle of the current decade.

In terms of potential US tax measures, we judged in January that there was enough information available to make some initial assumptions.

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

There is no mention of the true source of inflation, higher prices, and the measures available to combat that actual cause.

Focused on what is normally termed the «pre-commercial» phase, before a new product is broadly available on the market, the «Commercialization Research and Preparedness Assistance (CRPA) Program would provide support to companies for innovation in commercialization and market preparedness measures to achieve higher levels of business success.

The measure of any credit card's value can only be obtained by comparing it to other available options.

However the most recent available data — from 2008 — showed that only 416 of those federal workers earned the minimum wage, leading some to say the NDP is exaggerating the measure's potential impact.

Accounting book value is meant to measure the potential assets available to investors in the event of liquidation, and that's simply not a very useful measurement for most equity investors.

So mutual fund cash is not a measure of potential money available to «flow» into stocks.

The 2016 BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and OTC Derivatives Markets Activity was undertaken in two parts: the turnover portion measured activity in FX and OTC single - currency interest rate derivatives markets in the month of April, while the outstandings portion — not yet available — measured the amount of OTC derivatives outstanding as at the end of June.

Archived versions of the Company's conference calls are available in the Investor Information section of tjx.com after they are no longer available by telephone as are reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures and other financial information.

In particular, for implementing Color Management to provide multiple Color Gamuts, and then using the Color Management to provide the Highest Absolute Color Accuracy for Standard (sRGB / Rec.709) consumer content of any Tablet display that we have ever measured (in one of its four available screen modes, which many reviewers seem to overlook).

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

Using monthly values of sentiment measures as available and monthly index / portfolio returns during January 1990 through December 2015, he finds that: Keep Reading

The most reliable measures of individual stock valuation we've found are based on formal discounted cash flow considerations, but among publicly - available measures we've evaluated, price / revenue ratios are better correlated with actual subsequent returns than price / earnings ratios (though normalized profit margins and other factors are obviously necessary to make cross-sectional comparisons).

No details were immediately available on the measures, which are expected to include across - the - board tax hikes, including raising the rate of consumer tax by one percentage point to 24 percent and increasing taxes on fuel, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and hotel stays.

Credit utilization is simply a measure of how much of your available credit you're using.

Despite my admitted stumble in the half - cycle since 2009, it's perplexing that the equity market is at the second greatest valuation extreme in the history of the United States, on what are objectively the most durably reliable valuation measures available, but it has somehow become an affront to suggest that this will not end well.

Of these, only the CBA measure is available Australia - wide for the March quarter 2004, and it shows falls in prices for all capital cities (Table 7).

Availability rates — which measure the amount of retail space that is vacant or will become available — rose in all but one of Manhattan's main retail submarkets between the first quarters of 2015 and 2016, according to Cushman.

The return of the structured products available on Fidelity.com is measured based on two points: point A (initial or starting index level, which is typically the closing value of the index on the pricing date) and point B (final index level, which is typically the closing value of the index on a date specified in the offering document).

This is considered an effective measure of the liquidity available to banks.

Debt utilization is a measure of how much you money you owe to creditors as compared to how much credit is available to you.

The Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index (Wilshire 5000) measures the performance of all U.S. equity securities with readily available price data.

What we can do is look at some of the objective measures which are available to us.

The inverse of this ratio, the bank leverage measure mentioned earlier, was regarded as the best available indicator of bank riskiness: the higher the leverage, the riskier the bank.

Net earnings and net earnings available to common shareholders included a $ 265.3 million one - time income tax net benefit, a $ 53.2 million gain primarily related to non-cash mark - to - market adjustments on interest rate swaps and a $ 37.6 million loss on extinguishment of debt, each of which are discussed later in this release and were treated as adjustments for non-GAAP measures.

When considering earnings, you want to measure the available economic surplus that flows to the holder of the common equity.