Sentences with phrase «component of added value»

This is because the conversion privilege is seen as a component of added value.

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Every value - adding activity by the prime or by a sub will be required to be annotated as events on the blockchain — such events could be the fabrication, testing, or delivery of a component.»

Business profits are included in the value - added component of GDP when GDP is calculated, so because of the subsequent losses, the second factory does not add to GDP except over very short periods, after which it is reversed.

While border adjustment would be a new feature for the US tax system, most other countries already have it in the form of a value added tax (VAT), a consumption tax that has a border adjustability component.

Eighty per cent of Canadian exports to these countries are raw or semi-processed goods (e.g. beef, coal, lumber) while 80 % of imports are high value - added goods (e.g. autos, machinery, computer and electrical components).

Lewis states that there is a radical difference between mental states and physical states and that the essence of dualism consists in this distinction.15 Dualism explains why we spontaneously value sentient and conscious beings more than inanimate objects, namely, because there is an added higher component in the former that does not exist in the latter:

Swinburne University is again collecting data for the organic industry's value adding / marketing component of the Australian Organic Market Report 2014 and it needs your input.

Its game modes are uninteresting, its visuals have no added value whatsoever and its sound component is disastrous, not to mention the lack of an online component.

While the story mode certainly adds to the value of the overall package, the real meat of the experience is For Honor's online multiplayer component.

Among the fruits of those efforts was an update to the component weighting in the teacher - evaluation system, which now caps value - added at 35 percent and weights classroom observations at 40 percent.

These slides and hand out are designed to support the delivery of the Component One topic of added value.

Yet our study found no glaring defects in the value - added component beyond the sizeable gap between idealized systems that are perfectly reliable and valid vs. real systems for judging human performance in complex settings that invariably have appreciable margins of error.

Interestingly, all of these legal actions target the value - added component of teacher evaluation rather than classroom observations.

This component makes up 50 and 75 percent of the overall evaluation scores in the districts we studied, and much less is known about observation - based measures of teacher performance than about value - added measures based on test scores.

John Deasy, the district's recently appointed deputy superintendent and considered a likely candidate to replace Cortines, called The Times approach «careful» and said he hopes to include value - added as a component of teacher evaluations.

This approach is different from using value - added measures of standardized tests as a significant component in an evaluation and separates the San Jose system from one favored by reform groups like StudentsFirst.

At that time, the big question was whether NEA might consider allowing «value added» or test - score data to make up one component of such reviews.

All this suggests is that before racing ahead to implement value - added components of teacher evaluation systems, states have an obligation to assure all involved that these psychometric issues have been explicitly addressed and the tests used are properly validated for use in value - added measurements of «teacher effectiveness.»

We can think of value - added estimates as measuring three components: (1) true teaching effectiveness that persists across years; (2) true effectiveness that varies from year to year; and (3) measurement error.

Some states have chosen to include school value - added (or the school's median student growth percentile, which is similar to value - added) as a component in the evaluation of principals.

These flaws included but were not limited to that only 17 % of the teachers included in this study (i.e., teachers of reading and mathematics in grades 4 through 8) were actually evaluated under the value - added component of the IMPACT system.

Almost always it is the case when a counterpoint is needed for an article such as this, that a teacher says they see «value» in the system, but almost if not every time it is because of the increased professional observations of teacher practice, not the value - added component or the value - added data derived.

Measures of student learning, including value - added scores, are just one of several components of an educator's overall effectiveness score.

b) High marks on the other components of the evaluation — her principal's appraisal and her lesson plan — were outweighed by the «value - added measure» based solely on student test scores.

Another teacher association also filed suit April 20, 2016, asking for a declaratory judgment to block implementation of T - TESS because the student growth component includes so - called «value added measures» that are not based on «observable, job - related behavior.»

Researchers found that the observational components of these systems certainly «add» more «value» than their VAM counterparts.

Apparently, HISD was holding onto the EVAAS, despite the research surrounding the EVAAS in general and in Houston, in that they have received (and are still set to receive) over $ 4 million in federal grant funds that has required them to have value - added estimates as a component of their evaluation and accountability system (s).

Since the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last January, in which the federal government handed back to states the authority to decide whether to evaluate teachers with or without students» test scores, states have been dropping the value - added measure (VAM) or growth components (e.g., the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) package) of their teacher evaluation systems, as formerly required by President Obama's Race to the Top initiative.

The long and short of it, though, is that the observational components of states» contemporary teacher systems certainly «add» more «value» than their value - added counterparts (see also here), especially when considering these systems» (in) formative purposes.

But proponents of value - added measures point to their relative strength compared to other predictors of effectiveness, particularly when used as one component in an evaluation system combining multiple measures.

In short, in this study researchers found that the observational components of states» contemporary teacher systems certainly «add» more «value» than their value - added counterparts, especially for (in) formative purposes.

* The inclusion of a school value - added component in teachers» evaluation scores negatively impacts good teachers in bad schools and positively impacts bad teachers in good schools.

The bill is to be introduced by political members of the Republican side of the House who, more specifically, want officials and / or others to review how the state comes up with their school report card grades, with emphasis on the state's specific value - added (i.e., Education Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS)-RRB- compovalue - added (i.e., Education Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS)-RRB- compoadded (i.e., Education Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS)-RRB- compoValue - Added Assessment System (EVAAS)-RRB- compoAdded Assessment System (EVAAS)-RRB- component.

In today's consumer marketplace, branding is an essential component to introducing new technologies, and bringing the EcoBoost and Skyactiv brands more high - level racing prestige has the potential to add a lot of value to their respective nameplates.

12 - month / 12, 000 - mile Limited Comprehensive Warranty: Coverage begins from date of Toyota Certified Used Vehicle purchase, provides our highest level of coverage available, covers any repair or replacement of components which fail under normal use due to a defect in materials or workmanship, and it's transferable at no cost, for added resale value.

Dave says that just like in multi-family investing, a key component of a profitable investment is purchasing a property with value - add opportunity.

Or should I just split and add the new money directly to an existing potato to bring the value of each component back to the original ratio without selling anything, i.e. add less new money to the well - performed components and more to the under - performed components?

Today (8/23/10), adding up the components, an investor now has a value of $ 10.25 (1 TTT share at $ 7.21, rights worth $.17 and.498 KHDHF shares — assuming you pay no more than the 15 % Canadian withholding tax on the June 30 KID share distribution — worth $ 2.87) for a loss of about 25 %.

That discount is what you can determine through analysis of the strength of a business, through its component parts, its segments and then value of the enterprise — coming up with a sense of what it's worth and then backing up liabilities, adding in financial assets and then coming up with a per share value and comparing that to what you're paying.

For example, a by - product of soy beans is Vitamin E. Manufacturers of high - quality pet foods only use by - product components that add nutritional value and palatablity.

The APPA's Pets Add Life (PAL) campaign and Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) are featured components of the program's key message that pets not only bring joy to our lives, but real value and scientifically proven benefits as well.

The decision not to include any sort of multiplayer component certainly doesn't help in adding to the game's replay value, either.

Thus, the simplest thing to do is to: a) construct a time series of annual global temperature averages, add a random component to each year (value drawn from a gaussian with the given standard deviation and mean zero).

It is indeed true that at current atmospheric levels, CO2 would drop to 50 % of its current value over about 100 years (or perhaps less) if no more were added, so that recycling among the various components of the system were the only process ongoing.

Within the confines of our work with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional models for downscaling arctic simulations from global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity models.

@Dave: While I agree that some of the individual components of Clio can be found through other (sometimes free) services, we believe the real value - add comes from the integration that comes from putting all the services under one roof.

If these value - added emails are not being consistently captured centrally by all users, you are missing a valuable component of information.

Dividends can be used in several ways, including purchasing additional life insurance coverage, adding to the cash value component of a permanent life insurance policy, or receiving directly in cash.

Insurers offer a zero depreciation add - on cover with the comprehensive policy that factors in the decrease in value of this component and covers the entire cost of a new logo.

One of the added benefits of whole life insurance is the cash value component of these plans.