Sentences with phrase «current measuring systems»

The ACA sets out general standards and suggests that the current measuring systems will remain, albeit reviewed and possibly modified.

Not exact matches

Measures such as these would simplify the tax system rather than make it more complicated as the current proposals do.

System - wide sales growth and comparable sales are measured on a constant currency basis, which means that results exclude the effect of foreign currency translation and are calculated by translating prior year results at current year monthly average exchange rates.

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?

As managers and academic researchers have tried to remedy the inadequacies of current performance measurement systems, some have focused on making financial measures more relevant.

As we've written about before, more and more advocates are calling for measures to decriminalize marijuana and reform the criminal justice system, as advocates say that not only are the current laws unfair, but they are also expensive and ineffective at stopping crime.

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Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

The directive was also a counter measure to the current astronomic prices of goods and seeming exploitation within the market system.

On the campaign trail Mr. Koppell talks about campaign finance reform, a measure which Senator Klein continues to tirelessly advocate for in the State Senate, and yet, he can not follow the rules of our current system.

ALBANY — On the last night of the legislative session, lawmakers in Albany passed a flurry of bills, including a measure that would lower New York City's speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour, and alter the state's current teacher evaluations system.

Shortly after the bill was passed, state Sen. Kemp Hannon, a Republican from Long Island and the measure's sponsor, said the legislation was meant to tell the governor that the current system of financing hospitals is broken and needs to be addressed.

Mr Leigh added there were clear problems with the current system, stating: «There are no centrally agreed benchmarks against which to measure performance.

Voters readily accept that under the current system politics can be bought by large donations, and support measures to curb this.

Our studies involve the use of a whole - cell patch clamp, an electrophysiological approach to measure the transmembrane current of a single cell, to identify the effects of herbs on the cardiovascular system.

Every day a computer attached to a collection of patches would send out a current to measure each patch's charge, a system that Laflamme and his colleagues detail in the Journal of Materials Chemistry.

Because the system monitors the current flowing to each light, it can measure how much electricity is saved by switching them down or off, says Bolick.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

Earth System Threshold Measure Boundary Current Level Preindustrial Climate Change CO2 Concentration 350 ppm 387 ppm 280 ppm Biodiversity Loss Extinction Rate 10 pm > 100 pm * 0.1 - one pm Nitrogen Cycle N2 Tonnage 35 mmt ** 121 mmt 0 Phosphorous Cycle Level in Ocean 11 mmt 8.5 - 9.5 mmt — 1 mmt Ozone Layer O3 Concentration 276 DU # 283 DU 290 DU Ocean Acidification Aragonite ^ ^ Levels 2.75 2.90 3.44 Freshwater Usage Consumption 4,000 km3 ^ 2,600 km3 415 km3 Land Use Change Cropland Conversion 15 km3 11.7 km3 Low Aerosols Soot Concentration TBD TBD TBD Chemical Pollution TBD TBD TBD TBD * pm = per million ** mmt = millions of metric tons #DU = dobson unit ^ km3 = cubic kilometers ^ ^ Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate.

«Under the current system, we educate scientists and engineers only to send them back home where they often work for our competitors,» said its chief sponsor, Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX), during debate on the measure.

Next, the silicon tracker charts the particle's path based on the electric current it leaves in its wake, while the time - of - flight system measures its velocity.

Current visual field testing systems use just one test size to measure vision at different locations of the visual field.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

In a field study, Diane Adams, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and her colleagues measured the currents near the seafloor along the East Pacific Rise, a submarine ridge south - southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that sports many hydrothermal vent systems.

«When electrical currents are created in such a system of flows, they can cause a magnetic field which in turn increases the electrical current and so forth — and finally the magnetic field becomes so strong that we can measure it on the surface of Earth,» says Alessandro Toschi.

Although the cage running wheel system and the ambulatory photobeam break system used in the current study are measures of spontaneous activity, the dramatic increases observed in both studies reflect a consistent behavior of increased activity that suggests an increase in the capacity to perform exercise.

The capabilities of Test Cell 1 include a fuel / air combustion skid for energy input; cooling systems for heat removal; 130 kW eddy - current dynamometer for precision power measurements; and instrumentation, system protection, and power control channels.For measuring the thermal output of fuel - fired thermal energy systems, such as a gas - fired liquid - metal evaporator for Stirling engines, Test Cell 1 offers a gas - gap calorimeter, which simulates the engine by allowing the liquid metal to condense at operating temperatures.

«I think the benefits of spending time outdoors can be felt more than they can be measured by our current instruments,» says holistic psychiatrist and one of mbg's trusted sleep and anxiety experts Ellen Vora, M.D. «There's something about the smell of fresh air, trees, and dirt; the impact the colors and views of nature have on our eyes; the ways our nervous system recalibrates when it hears the subtle sounds of birds and a breeze passing through leaves.

Whole - body resistance and reactance were measured with the patient lying supine on a nonconductive surface with the use of a phase - sensitive, single - frequency impedance plethysmograph [400 - μA, 50 - kHz alternating current (BIA - 101; RJL / Akern Systems)-RSB-.

Yet, until all schools develop the capacity to develop such alternatives to state tests, Murnane maintained that we must not discard the imperfect measures we have now; they are needed to keep the light shining on the inequities that pervade our current education system.

Challenges presented by the current reforms to the education system come at a time of overall reform of local authority support and changes to the health service, resulting in a set of challenges that will require careful guidance and measured progress to overcome.

A True TestWhat is a true measure of our students success?In this world of standardized testing ~ does our current system of evaluation in education...

Our measure of the current level of choice in the public school system has no statistically significant relationship with charter support within school districts.

In good measure, the failures of the current system have festered as long as they have because many of the advocates of test - based accountability simply didn't want to face the evidence.

The vote to send the measure, S 1150, to the Senate floor came after unsuccessful attempts to remove the Pell Grant provision and to replace the current system of federally subsidized student loans with a direct - loan proposal.

With better measures of academic growth and a little extra money, states could attract providers to underserved populations, rather than discouraging them as a result of the requirements of current accountability systems.

Current state tests were missing several important opportunities — they often did not measure the full range of what students should know, focusing on easier skills and ignoring hard - to - measure standards, and most states did not include writing in their assessment systems (to name just a few of the issues with the current market of Current state tests were missing several important opportunities — they often did not measure the full range of what students should know, focusing on easier skills and ignoring hard - to - measure standards, and most states did not include writing in their assessment systems (to name just a few of the issues with the current market of current market of tests).

Thus, simply arguing «growth measures good, current law bad» may in the end not be very helpful to the deliberations on Capitol Hill and could well undermine the efforts of those who favor only those growth systems that can meet tough standards for rigor, reliability, and inclusion of all students.

By removing time constraints from how we measure credit, competency - based approaches may allow students to move through material more efficiently — and in turn, more cost - effectively — than does the current system.

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

And that will be easier to recognize than under the current system, which is haphazard evaluation, or under a system which gives an inordinate amount of emphasis to the standardized tests, which is clearly an inaccurate measure.

English Language Learners and complexity theory: Why current accountability systems do not measure up.

Value - added measures have caught the interest of policymakers because, unlike many of the uses of test scores in current accountability systems, it purports to «level the playing field» so that value - added measures of teachers» effectiveness do not depend on characteristics of the students.

One of the implicit assumptions of the current accountability system is that, when it comes to the measured outcomes, it is not possible for all schools to excel.

In order to create and maintain a culture of high expectations, the board must be conversant in the measures of the current and evolving state accountability system.

This followed concerns that current accountability measures encourage schools to «play the system» to boost their league - table standing.

Current accountability systems rely predominantly on the «percent of children reaching proficiency,» which educational measurement experts call a «status» measure.

But Julie McCulloch, primary specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, said a new baseline assessment in reception was «good for children and schools» because «schools will be given credit for a pupil's progress through their whole time at primary school from the age of four to 11, instead of the current system which measures progress only from the age of seven.»

CORE's system also shrinks the number of students measured for subgroup performance from 100, which is California's current law, to 20.

The problem with most current systems is they measure growth by using standardized test scores in a few academic subjects, usually math and reading, which are not a very accurate or comprehensive way to check on overall student progress.