Sentences with phrase «defined as outcomes»

Not exact matches

I define prospecting as taking key players from latent to active need for business outcomes achieved through an offering.

The B.C. Centre for Social Enterprise defines it broadly as «revenue - generating businesses with a twist,» that twist being that the social enterprise has two parallel goals — to earn revenue, but just as important, to achieve positive social, cultural or environmental outcomes.

Competition, as Kilduff defines it, is any situation in which the goals or outcomes of the actors involved are opposed to one another, so a gain for one player inherently comes at a loss for the other.

Your belief in the outcomes you describe can be felt — selling has been defined as «a transfer of emotion».

Just as the American worker needs to take steps to secure their retirement, the industry needs to take steps to help ensure that retirement future by bringing together passionate professionals, dedicated to improving defined contribution outcomes.

It's possible the safety driver involved could be held legally responsible, as their role is to ensure safe operation of the vehicle, but in many ways the outcome of this incident will define the path forward for AV regulation.

A hard catalyst, such as an announced merger, tends to have a defined outcome, which creates a more predictable return.

But power may be defined more broadly as the capacity to influence the outcome of any process of actualization, thereby permitting both persuasive and coercive power.

Nevertheless, besides the issue of natural justice, I think that desire is defined as something that is considered to have a so - called positive outcome, so I would think that on a personal level self - immolation has no personal desire (unless «fame» and / or desire to die are there) and it is surely painful to the person self - immolating (unlike e.g. self - explosion), and the thing being probably considered by individual persons as social sacrifice.

Hence causation is defined as «nothing else than one outcome of the principle that every actual entity has to house its actual world» (PR 80/124).

Granted, the outcome may not be a sharply defined «civil religion» — one that could be universally recognized as such — but at the least it can be anticipated that some kind of «political religion» will be more likely to emerge in societies where legal structures take on meaning - bestowal qualities.6 Obviously such political religion can emerge in «totalitarian» as well as «democratic» societies, but in either setting it will be the law and not mere coercion that facilitates social development.

A mathematician or logistician will tell you that when the range of possible outcomes is defined and limited for all time (you can not score more than 114 pt or less than zero) then there can be no such thing as continuous improvement.

The Oxford Dictionary defines x-factor as «a variable in a given situation that could have the most significant impact on the outcome».

She also believes they are capable of what is termed «counterfactual thinking», which is defined as the ability to imagine different past or future outcomes from those that have actually occurred.

We considered a range of prespecified maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes, including fetal death, neonatal death (defined as death during the first 28 days after birth), perinatal death (a composite of fetal and neonatal deaths), and infant death (defined as death during the first year of life).

We assessed the quality of trial evidence for the following outcomes using the GRADE methodology: preterm birth < 37 weeks, overall fetal loss and neonatal death, spontaneous vaginal birth (as defined by trialists), caesarean birth, instrumental vaginal birth, intact perineum and regional analgesia.

We know that stability [defined as no departure of a parent / partner or entry of a new parent / partner into the family home] tends to foster better outcomes for children.

Three outcomes measured information - sharing behaviours, defined as the percentage of mothers who shared information with at least 1 caregiver for each of 3 topics: crying, walking away if frustrated, and the danger of shaking.

As defined by epidemiologists, risk refers to the probability that an outcome will occur given the presence of a particular factor or set of factors.

Comparison 1 Midwife - led versus other models of care for childbearing women and their infants (all), Outcome 24 Neonatal convulsions (as defined by trial authors).

But whether it can be officially defined as a strike or not, the outcome would be the same: lawyers are refusing to take on new criminal cases after July 1st.

According to him, the largest share of responsibility for nurturing, sustaining and continuously deepening Nigeria's electoral process rests on the Commission, as a result of which it must take the lead in demonstrating to the general public and all staff, that the integrity of the electoral processes is the defining moment for credible electoral outcomes.

However, in a current comparative study there was a problem in the interim analysis: The events defined as study outcomes, pyelonephritis and preterm birth, occurred considerably less often than expected.

«The next step in understanding sleep apnea in the future will be to dissect different subtypes of sleep apnea, likely defined by distinct pathophysiological mechanisms which may underlie different outcomes and predisposition to comorbidities,» Cavadas says, «As human life expectancy increases, delaying the onset of age - related diseases becomes critical to our society.»

Good perinatal outcome was defined as a single live - born infant delivered at 37 weeks or later weighing 5.5 lbs.

The study's primary outcomes measure was the rate of exacerbation, defined as the number of exacerbation events per participant year.

These outcomes were perinatal mortality and a composite of neonatal morbidity (defined as neonatal intensive care admission, sepsis, meconium aspiration, necrotizing enterocolitis, respiratory distress syndrome or intraventricular hemorrhage).

DeCamp says previous studies have linked poor child and adult health outcomes to poverty and ACEs — broadly defined as abuse, exposure to violence and family dysfunction — which can contribute to lifelong negative effects on health and health care disparities.

«Yet mothers exposed to extreme levels of pesticides, defined here as the top 5 percent of the pesticide exposure distribution, experienced between 5 and 9 percent increases in the probability of adverse outcomes with an approximately 13 - gram decrease in birth weight.»

The primary outcome was smoking abstinence rates at week 12, defined as prolonged abstinence (no smoking from two weeks after the target quit date) and seven - day point - prevalence abstinence (no smoking past seven days).

The efficacy of statin treatment was analysed on the composite outcome of Major Cardiovascular Events (MACE), defined as all cause mortality, non-fatal myocardial infarction and non-fatal stroke.

The researchers defined adverse outcomes as the death of the fetus or a live infant with severe abnormal clinical or brain imaging findings.

The traditional approach, in which researchers studied the clinical outcomes of an intervention without assessing whether the intervention altered a well - defined target, established current, well - accepted treatments such as exposure therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.

FOCUS FOR BASIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH Dr. De Vivo noted that there is a need to define outcome measures such as muscle strength and function; pulmonary function; quality of life; and surrogate biomarkers including blood cell SMN transcripts and protein.

The primary outcome is in - hospital mortality, and secondary outcomes include the complications of BSI such as septic shock, acute kidney injury (AKI), acute lung injury (ALI) / acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), ischemic liver injury, and a collapsed dependent variable of «poor clinical outcome» that is defined as the presence of any of the above complications.

The outcomes of this research sends a very useful message, which is that even a moderate amount of exercise, which is defined as brisk walking for 150 minutes each week, can provide a tremendous health benefit, especially to individuals predisposed to high blood pressure because of their family history.

In general, MED is defined as the smallest dose that will create THE desired outcome.

In other words, the goal of the study was to look at how significant chemotherapy's role was in successful treatment outcomes (defined by oncologists as five - year survival).

Dr. Camargo noted that one of the problems in this area is that many studies in which moderate drinking is associated with a variety of negative outcomes, actually define moderate drinking as three or more drinks.

Statistical significance was defined as P <.01, which is a conservative threshold chosen to take into account multiple secondary outcomes.

Mission We work to achieve the following outcomes: Healthy eating for all Healthy eating can be defined as consuming foods and drinks in a way that supports an individual's nutritional needs, appetite, personal tastes, culture and lifestyle.

The story is most easily defined as melodrama, given its constant conflicts and ultimately tragic outcome, but that would simplify it too much.

School Wastage Study - National Absenteeism in Armenia «The term, school wastage, can be broadly defined as lack of demonstrated school success or realized educational gain (or value), measured as output of student achievement, outcome of social and economic returns, from provided educational services, finance, and other schooling related consumption of resources.

The scope of the project soon expanded its focus to «game - based learning,» defined as teaching and learning through games with defined objectives and outcomes.

Defined as perseverance and passion for long - term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4 percent of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among two samples of adults; grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates; retention among two classes at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and ranking in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

«We define effective teaching as that which leads to improved student achievement using outcomes that matter to their future success,» the authors say.

Mayes and de Freitas report of 2004 in a critical framework seems to skim over Blooms Taxonomy only giving a terse reference, by stating that «practitioners are often encouraged to use verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy to define desired outcomes» this «often carried out as a post-hoc justification for teaching already taken»... concluding that this being «quiet inadequate» for fundamental pedagogic issues.

Wikipedia defines extrinsic motivation as the performance of an activity in order to attain a desired outcome; it comes from influences outside of the individual.

Research of instructional coaching, defined as individuals specifically tasked to support educator incorporation of research - based practices (Knight, 2007), has also shown to positively impact educator work and limited evidence of improved student outcomes (Elish - Piper & L'Allier, 2011; Sailors & Shanklin, 2010).

While some have tried to define these court decisions as successes, in reality, the outcomes have been extremely disappointing for advocates of increased judicial intervention.