Sentences with phrase «by their peers at»

In 1988, Cutino was honored by his peers at the ACF with the National Chef of the Year award for his outstanding culinary achievements and contribution to the profession and his community.

Also, a child who is clumsy and is teased by peers at school will benefit from different interventions when compared to an athletic child who is popular with peers.

The letter from the party activists urging the withdrawal of the whip from Rennard is written by members of the Rock the Boat: Lib Dems Against Sexual Harassment group, which said it was deeply troubling that Clegg will would not withdraw the party whip act in the absence of an appropriate statement of regret by the peer at the centre of the controversy.

In the meantime, Lee Yong Joon is making a contribution by peering at hyper - thin slices of rock, searching for signs of a new fault in central Korea.

«We found that more ADHD symptoms at age 4 predicted more rejection by peers at age 6, and reciprocally, that greater peer rejection at age 4 predicted more symptoms of ADHD at age 6.

Male trainees were more often targeted by their peers at the research site.

Each child in the study was also evaluated by his peers at school.

The awful thing about an early mishap in the bedroom, involving Mia's mother (don't ask), is that Frank was urged in that direction by his peers at a local book club, including one older gentleman who should know better.

She's been nominated a dozen times for the prestigious CAS award for her outstanding mixing work and is also multi-nominated by her peers at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the British Academy as well, signifying the very high regard with she is held among her peers.

In many countries, the law also provided for work councils made up of workers elected by their peers at the firm level to adjust the national agreement to local conditions.

Winners also will be honored by their peers at the February 2009 Western Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas.

Being nominated by your peers at staffing agencies really matters and we could not be more proud of our own Robert Babbitt for making the list.

March 9, 2003: Gayle Howard was again honored by her peers at the 2002 TORI Awards presentation winning: Best Graduate Resume, Best Re-entry to the Workforce Resume and Best International Resume.

Feeling rejected by peers at school, school failure and inflexible discipline practices from teaching staff can lead to worsening of serious behavioural difficulties.

Further, I was recognised by peers at the Association of Regina REALTORS ® as REALTOR ® of the Year for 2000, and by the Association of Saskatchewan REALTORS ® as REALTOR ® of the Year for 2011.

The REALTOR ® of the Year Award is the greatest honor bestowed upon a REALTOR ® by their peers at the local level.

Not exact matches

A peer - reviewed study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, published recently in The International Journal of Drug Policy, pegged the retail value of marijuana consumption in B.C. alone at between $ 443 million and $ 564 million.

At this writing, peer - to - peer car sharing is still banned in the state; Getaround's competitor, RelayRides (now called Turo), was fined $ 200,000 in 2013 by the New York Department of Financial Services for noncompliance with insurance regulations.

Frank Yiannas, vice president of food safety at Walmart, was so pleased by the pork and mango trials that he rallied peers to join the cause.

Nobody wants to be the first idiot to buy knives as gifts and get laughed at by peers, so I decided to get samples made with each CEO's name — and spouse's name — on the product, along with the CEO's logo.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

I would tend to give more credence to the competency of their views than those of housing bears who post analyses and charts at the click of a mouse, all the while unconstrained by due - diligence standards or even such things as the peer - review process that serves academia so well.

This «peer benchmarking» was done by pegging a CEO's pay to 50th, 75th or 90th percentile at rival companies.

Many CEO peer groups are run by certified coaches who are great at answering questions but who also have limited experience running and scaling companies on their own.

By looking at how each legislator voted on every roll call vote compared to the member's peers, DW - NOMINATE is able to show how liberal or conservative a Congressman or Senator is.

As a result, they grow up to do more care - taking than their peers raised by stay - at - home moms, and (slightly) more housework.

Fueled by deep - pocketed mainland venture capitalists and success at home, the 40 - year - old and his peers are exporting a formula honed in China of pursuing rapid expansion over profitability.

A 2016 study by the RAND Corporation found that employees who slept less than six hours per day were 2.7 percent less productive — either while at work or due to absenteeism — than peers who slumbered for seven to nine hours per day.

Compared to peer companies certified by Great Place to Work, older team members at the winning companies were more likely to say promotions are handled fairly and managers involve people in decisions that affect their jobs.

MIT's Ashley Sager, 32, and Purdue's Stacey Mueller, 47, were celebrated by their classmates for their high GPAs and willingness to coach their peers (at seemingly any hour).

«I can be pretty competitive at work or in class, but being surrounded by such a high - performing group of peers really helped me to see the value in listening and understanding other opinions....

University of Delaware professor Charles Elson and his graduate student, Craig Ferrere, have documented an annual, compounded structural 17 % increase in CEO pay over decades as a result of the way CEOs are paid at or above median and the marketing of peer group data by consultants.

A study by Byron Capital Markets in February found that mid-sized tech firms in Canada are valued at a discount between 23 % and 34 % compared to their U.S. peers, which makes them easy targets.

That approach saw CWB turn down the opportunity to invest in asset - backed commercial paper offered by the likes of Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch, thus sparing it from the 2007 meltdown that caused huge writedowns at its larger peers.

One thing technology has been doing for some time is helping to determine salary by looking at a person's position and responsibilities and then comparing it to their peers», not just inside the company but across the industry.

Without proof to the contrary, most employees assume they're underpaid relative to their peers, says Travor Brown, who teaches labour relations and HR at Memorial University in St. John's, Nfld., and that tends to breed disengagement and mediocre work: «By giving clear pay information, that disconnect disappears.»

The peer - reviewed paper — titled «Safely Interruptible Agents [PDF]» and published on the website of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)-- was written by Laurent Orseau, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, Stuart Armstrong at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, and several others.

Deutsche's core European telecom business trades at a discount compared with its peers — it fell by 13 percent in 2016 — even though it's the leading wired and wireless operator in Germany.

In general, HP aims to set a total long - term incentive compensation target amount for its senior executives to be at or near the 75th percentile of the long - term incentives paid by its peer group companies.

At the end of each year, the Committee determines compensation by assessing performance against these financial targets, as well as in light of HP's performance relative to its peers on other financial and non-financial factors and unusual or extraordinary events.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

Participation at the MPW International Summit, by invitation only, is a unique opportunity to spend an intimate day with your peers — the most powerful women leaders from Asia and beyond.

Similarly Callon has an outstanding growth record, but the company trades at a discount to many peers and its transition from offshore to onshore has yet to be fully appreciated by the market.

Marketers using automation software generate 2X the number of leads than those using blast email software and are perceived by their peers to be 2X as effective at communicating — Autopilot.

Our model evaluates the compensation of the top five executives by benchmarking that compensation against the compensation of the top five officers at peer companies.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

How much of a distraction would it be for a business owner for someone to call him up several times a day and offer to buy his business or sell a similar one at a price that was driven in by the price quote of a public «peer»?

We've seen a jump in applicants to our college by 17 % each year for the last two, and within those increases, there's been a rise in the number of women who are interested in studying STEM every year,» she says, adding: «I've heard anecdotally that's also happening at many of our peer women's colleges.»

By: Mia Breytenbach 20th October 2017 While South Africa had increased its investment in mining research and development (R&D) since 2014, the country's investment was still below that of its peers, delegates heard during a panel discussion on «Technological Innovation and Advancements in the Mining Industry» at the Joburg Indaba... →

Despite PEP's 11 % ROIC, slightly above the 10 % average of the peer group, the firm's stock trades at a discount to peers as shown by its position below the trend line in Figure 3.