Sentences with phrase «effective measures include»

Other effective measures include keeping pets inside at dawn and dusk, when mosquitoes are most active, and installing bug tight window and door screens, even on stables, and replacing outdoor lights with yellow «bug» lights.

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In addition to the results provided in accordance with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles («GAAP») in this press release, the Company provides measures adjusted for Special Items, which include Adjusted Operating Profit, Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Common Share, Adjusted Effective Tax Rate and Adjusted EBITDA, which we define as net income including noncontrolling interests adjusted for income tax, interest income, depreciation, amortization and other items, including store impairment charges.

Comparable Earnings Measures, including comparable earnings from continuing operations, comparable earnings per share from continuing operations (as well as forecasts), comparable earnings before income tax and comparable effective income tax rate.

Western offers a nationwide network of expertise that building owners, engineers, architects and property managers can count on to develop cost - effective, corrective measures that can add years of useful life to a variety of structures including: industrial, commercial, healthcare, historic, educational and government buildings, parking structures and sports stadiums.

I would rather be assured that things are going well and to be offered what comfort measures are possible, including effective pain management.

(1) to urge Member States to take effective measures to implement the recommendations included in resolution WHA39.28; (2) to continue to review regional and global trends in breastfeeding patterns, including the relationship between breastfeeding and child - spacing; (3) to support Member States, on request, in adopting measures to improve infant and young child nutrition, inter alia by collecting and disseminating information on relevant national action of interest to all Member States; and to mobilize technical and financial resources to this end.

The BMA has listened to members and has already negotiated measures to provide immediate relief to practices, including the removal of QOF, providing occupational health for GPs, more effective backfill for maternity and paternity cover, a single performers list and free emergency oxygen supplies.

Sri Lanka to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and establish an effective torture prevention programme including extensive training within the military, police and intelligence services and measures to enable independent national and international monitors to make regular unannounced inspections of any place of detention including unofficial detention facilities.

Evidence shows that the most effective policies to reduce alcohol harms, including harms to others, are: - Raising the price of the cheapest alcohol, through taxation and minimum unit pricing - Regulating the density of outlets that can serve alcohol and restricting the permitted hours of sale - drink driving laws, including a lower legal blood alcohol limit and random roadside breath tests - Screening and brief advice for people who are at risk of drinking to a level that is harmful to themselves and others However, the most effective approach is a comprehensive, multi-sectorial set of measures that work together to reduce levels of harmful drinking.

The Institute makes the call in response to a Treasury consultation on how to increase the supply of capital to growing, innovative firms.1 The CIOT's response focuses on steps the Government could take to make current tax reliefs more efficient and effective, to provide the best support in line with their policy objectives.2 The CIOT advocates greater post-legislative review and evaluation of tax measures, including tax reliefs.

The capital project should include energy efficient measures or technologies determined to be the most cost - effective, as defined by the Guidelines.

The Lib Dems argue that an alternative package of measures including the withdrawal of travel rights, more surveillance, unannounced home visits, and the use of intercept evidence to enable more prosecutions to go ahead would be more effective and have less impact on civil liberties.

The measures proposed include training alongside elite SAS units and the provision of bigger, more effective guns.

Other legislative documents that can be blocked from release include analyses of proposed bills that could provide indications of how much a given measure might cost, or how effective a new law would be.

Without estimating costs or including them in decisions about using measures, there is limited incentive to develop cost - effective measurement strategies.

Most of us would like to think we are doing the best to stay healthy as individuals, but some of the most effective preventative measures are initiated at a national level by government — based on the best available evidence and research — and need to be taken up by all sectors of society including teachers, employers, designers, and businesses.

Such measures include the establishment and effective management of protected areas and networks of wildlife corridors; restoration of degraded ecosystems; control of invasive alien species and reintroduction of wild animals.

In 2011, 193 countries committed themselves to the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Targets, including a goal of «effectively and equitably» managing 10 percent of their coastal and marine areas within MPAs and «other effective area - based conservation measures» by 2020.

-- The Secretary shall require each cooperating State and cooperating State agency to implement effective control measures and to effectively oversee the operation and administration of the climate change adjustment assistance program under this part, including by means of monitoring the operation of control measures to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the data being collected and reported.

By combining SPLAT II with another instrument, scientists can simultaneously measure various properties about each particle, including vacuum aerodynamic diameter, mobility diameter, dynamic shape factor, and effective density.

8.7 take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, eradicate forced labour, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms including recruitment and use of child soldiers

Ensuring staff are clear on security procedures, locking the gates during the day, ensuring visitors (including parents) are not permitted to walk around a school unaccompanied are all simple, effective and cheap measures that make a difference.

Objectives covered: place value, including large numbers and decimals calculate mentally, using effective strategies use formal methods to solve multistep problems recognise the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages and the equivalent quantities use simple formula to solve problems calculate with measures find missing angles

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

We created this MEGA bundle to provide you, our customers, with a cost effective Measurement MEGA Bundle which includes all of our individual Measuring Packs available from our store.

Effective SEL programs are monitored and evaluated regularly using systematic procedures and multiple indicators, including measuring school climate and having SEL on report cards.

Our foundation is working with a number of districts, including Hillsborough (Florida), Memphis, and Pittsburgh, to advance comprehensive teacher reforms, and we are engaged with nearly 3,000 teachers in six school districts on a project called «Measures of Effective Teaching.»

According to the Executive Order, its recommendations were to include measures of student achievement (representing at least 50 % of the evaluation); demonstrated practices of effective teachers and leaders; and weights for the various components.

This effort also included partnering with Professor Tom Kane, who spearheaded the Measures of Effective Teaching study.

In addition, some research, including an ongoing study of measures of effective teaching supported by the Gates Foundation, gives credence to the use of student achievement measures when combined with other measures, such as teacher observations and student feedback, as part of an effective teacher evaluation system.

Polikoff of the University of Southern California and Andrew Porter of the University of Pennsylvania looked at the value - added scores of 327 fourth - and eighth - grade mathematics and English language arts teachers across all six school districts included in the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study (New York City, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, Memphis, and Hillsborough County, Florida).

Measuring these school - wide standards — such as effective communication, problem solving, or habits of work — must include establishing clear criteria (rubrics), designing authentic assessments (performance tasks), and a calibrated system of tracking student performance.

Democracy Prep utilizes a sophisticated feedback loop of frequent data collection and analysis including a network - wide dashboard tool, interim assessments, and comparative academic measures to drive effective instruction and decision - making.

They also show that, regardless of the exact mix of measures included, effective multimetric systems have five key lessons in common:

With regard to defining «ineffective or inexperienced» teachers, our members recommended that the state use multiple measures to determine a definition of «effective,» including student growth.

Within my division, opportunities for professional development has directly steered our organization into improvements that include effective communication strategies, standards - based grading, and increased collaborative measures for students with disabilities.

Obtaining screening information on a variety of measures that include academics and social skills behavior can help schools develop and provide more comprehensive and effective interventions.

The foundation has also drawn to a close its multi-year Measures of Effective Teaching project that among other things encouraged linking teacher evaluations to student performance, including test scores.

TAP principally plugs four Elements of Success: Multiple Career Paths (for educators as career, mentor and master teachers); Ongoing Applied Professional Growth (through weekly cluster meetings, follow - up support in the classroom, and coaching); Instructionally Focused Accountability (through multiple classroom observations and evaluations utilizing a research based instrument and rubric that identified effective teaching practices); and, Performance - Based Compensation (based on multiple; measures of performance, including student achievement gains and teachers» instructional practices).

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

This is counter to the claims continuously made by VAM proponents, including folks like Thomas Kane — economics professor from Harvard University who directed the $ 45 million worth of Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

«We believe there's a real opportunity for the expansion of school choice throughout Wisconsin that includes effective accountability measures,» Fraley said.

A school - based teacher preparation program in which a prospective teacher, for not less than one academic year, teaches alongside an effective teacher, as determined by the state or local educational agency, who is the teacher of record for the classroom, receives concurrent instruction during the year, through courses that may be taught by local educational agency personnel or by faculty of the teacher preparation program; and in the teaching of the content area in which the teacher will become certified or licensed; and acquires effective teaching skills, as demonstrated through completion of a residency program, or other measure determined by the state, which may include a teacher performance assessment.»

«Teachers should never be evaluated on the basis of a single consideration, such as test scores, much less a single score from a single test, but rather on the basis of multiple measures that include both learning outcomes and effective practices, with approximately 50 percent associated with each.»

Through the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, the three sites and CMOs committed to giving teachers the feedback and support they need by incorporating multiple measures of teacher effectiveness — including classroom observations, student achievement measures, and student surveys — in their evaluation systems.

We achieved this sign - on rate even though all participating LEAs will have to implement a bold set of policy and practice changes, including using student growth as one of multiple measures in evaluating and compensating teachers and leaders; denying tenure to teachers who are deemed ineffective as gauged partly by student growth; relinquishing control over their persistently lowest - achieving schools; increasing the number of students who are taught by effective teachers; and, in many cases, opening their doors to more charter schools.

This includes installing air pollution monitors to show when toxic air is worst and what measures could be the most effective to tackle the problem.

These include establishing evidence - based measures, refining the approach to teacher recommendations, and identifying effective placement protocols.

Ideally, future work would rely on a detailed student database — such as student transcript data — to address centrally important yet understudied issues in math placement, including the identification of reliable and accurate measures of student outcomes, the establishment of protocols associated with growth in student outcomes, and the consequences of effective support systems for improving student learning.

Her research interests include how to measure and grow effective school leadership, understanding teacher mobility from an organizational perspective, the antecedents and effects of school climate and safety for both students and school staff, and the effect of student course taking in high school on students» short and long term outcomes.