Sentences with phrase «effectiveness ratings at»

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The most successful ones work on more than a dozen initiatives at any one time — including creating better quality content, improving conversion rates and overall content effectiveness, creating more visual content, reimagining or repurposing content, measuring ROI and becoming better storytellers.

We know video has to be part of startup's marketing strategies these days with tons of research supporting the medium's effectiveness at increasing conversion rates and likelihood of making a purchase.

When judging the effectiveness of our Facebook ads, we look at two metrics: click - through rate and, more important, cost per download, or the price we pay for each person who actually installs the app.

She wanted to get at least a minute of film on each teacher to be rated, play the tapes without sound for outside observers, and then have those observers rate the effectiveness of the teachers by their expressions and physical cues.

Much of the effectiveness of Canadian monetary policy depends on the Bank of Canada's credibility: managing expectations for the future is at least as important as setting short - term interest rates.

To cite just one example: Executives at Trinity Health, which operates 93 hospitals, have their pay tied to the system's overall effectiveness in keeping patients out of the hospital, lowering smoking and obesity rates, and other population health metrics.

The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.

Even though their effectiveness rating is higher than those we've seen in North America and Australia, UK marketers rated themselves less effective at content marketing versus last year (48 % vs. this year's 42 %).

This is the only genuine barometer of the effectiveness of the Reserve Bank's market operations, since these operations are aimed at maintaining stability in the cash rate — not in achieving a particular level of ES funds.

One way to look at the effectiveness over shorter investment horizons is through Base Rates: how often the strategy is outperforming the average stock in the universe on a rolling investment horizon.

As we did in our annual, more global study, we spent a good deal of time in this research looking at the differences between the marketers who rate themselves highly in terms of overall content marketing effectiveness (the «most effective») versus those who rate themselves as least effective to understand the gaps and identify best practices for paid content promotion.

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

Though rates of premature birth remain steady in the U.S., at one in 8 live births, the demand for donor human milk is rising because of its effectiveness.

One of these countries is the UK, which has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, 2 with rates conspicuously below those of Scandinavian countries; only 22 % of UK infants receive any breast milk at age 6 months3 compared with 72 % in Sweden.4 Although a number of interventions have been introduced and targets set5 — 8 to increase rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration in the UK, evidence for their effectiveness is limited.

Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.

These results represent an important addition to the literature already describing the effectiveness of peer counseling programs at increasing breastfeeding rates.13, 15,16,27 Although operating a peer counseling program can be challenging, 22 it is manageable in a hospital setting.

For cessation of any breastfeeding at up to six months, there is no evidence of a difference in the effectiveness of the intervention according to the background breastfeeding rate (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 0.56, df = 2 (P = 0.76), I ² = 0 %; Analysis 5.1).

Disapprove Teacher Education Program Rule — Vote Passed (59 - 40, 1 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Education Department on Oct. 31, 2016, relating to teacher preparation programs that require states to annually evaluate the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education and to publicly report this information, including the job placement and retention rates of graduates.

At the end of the course, students were asked to rate the discussion group instructors on 12 different traits, covering characteristics related to their effectiveness and interpersonal skills.

Companies prefer to hedge their bets on vaccines that show at least a 70 percent effectiveness rate, Fauci noted at the briefing.

Such comprehensive improvements would cost an estimated $ 96 billion, according to the model, but could reduce HIV incidence in the U.S. by 54 percent and the mortality rate by 64 percent, at a cost - effectiveness ratio of $ 45,300 per quality - adjusted life year, or QALY, a standard economic measure of the value of a medical intervention.

Among adults motivated to quit smoking, 12 weeks of treatment with a nicotine patch, the drug varenicline, or combination nicotine replacement therapy produced no significant differences in confirmed rates of smoking abstinence at 26 or 52 weeks, raising questions about the current relative effectiveness of intense smoking cessation pharmacotherapies, according to a study in the January 26 issue of JAMA.

I invested in a Polar Loop that linked up with my heart rate monitor so I could follow my general daily activity, as well as get a more in - depth look at the effectiveness of my workouts.

Monitoring your heart rate at all times during a HIIT workout is crucial for maximum effectiveness.

As a pediatrician, Dr. Liz Mumper has seen the prevalence of autism in children increase at an exponential rate, yet her enthusiasm for her work has only increased as she's witnessed the effectiveness of integrating naturopathic medicine.

The ubiquity of «satisfactory» ratings stands in contrast to a rapidly growing body of research that examines differences in teachers» effectiveness at raising student achievement.

At times, I'm a facilitator — I create activities, judge effectiveness, and rate student success.

The article notes the 2013 report «Sustained Progress: New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New York City.

Dr. Deborah Ball, chair of the Michigan Council for Educator Effectiveness, speaks at a joint Education Committee hearing on September 11, 2013 regarding the recommendations on the Three Ratings system.

To gain a better understanding of high school effectiveness, I would also want to look at other indicators peculiar to that level, such as graduation rates, SAT scores, higher education attendance and completion rates, and others.

The New York City school system announced Wednesday that it will release ratings for nearly 12,000 teachers based on student test scores, potentially giving the public an unprecedented window into the effectiveness of instructors at the nation's largest school district.

«Districts and unions also need to work together to provide parents with more and better information about teacher effectiveness — if not individual ratings, then at least school - level statistics, as teachers are the most powerful school - based factor in student academic success or failure,» he said.

It also will be recommended that local boards only grant tenure to teachers who achieve at least an «effective teacher» rating on the new multiple - measure teacher effectiveness evaluation, of which a significant portion will be based on student achievement data.

From me, over at This Week in Education, on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of anti-bullying interventions: The cynical take on this — that the anti-bullying programs are somehow causing the higher rates of bullying — is not obviously wrong.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

Using the QRT, the CSRQ Center applied separate rubrics for each of the five categories of effectiveness and quality to arrive at its ratings, which are expressed by a set of symbols.

Teacher likes how the things are run at this school (positively associated with effectiveness ratings).

Teachers in Tennessee are assigned one of five effectiveness ratings based on their job performance: Significantly Above Expectation, Above Expectation, At Expectation, Below Expectation, and Significantly Below Expectation.

This phenomenon would be expected to act synergistically to enhance teacher quality over time, as lower rates of attrition particularly would tend to increase the experience level and overall effectiveness of the teaching force, especially in large urban districts, and save funds on teacher training at the same time.

• a new district facility plan for the Hickman County School District • district facility plan amendments for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation sRates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation srates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation system

In 2011, McGraw - Hill Higher Education released an effectiveness study, «Evaluating the Adaptive Learning Tool's Impact on Pass and Retention Rates and Instructional Efficiencies at Seven U.S. Universities,» that outlines the benefits of adaptive learning tools for both instructors and students.

Here, I am using ROE as a proxy for expected growth rate since the growth projections are generally unreliable, while the return on equity is a measure of how well the company uses its assets and capital and gives us a better understanding of the management effectiveness at growing the company from its current base.

Depending upon the water supply, flow and pressure may fluctuate at varying times, causing dilution rates and effectiveness to vary.

Our partners reach these million plus passionate, active vacation travelers each spring and fall via premium direct mail — which is at record level effectiveness, now greater than 5 % response rate — and every week with hundreds of thousands of digital impressions synergized by our team digital experts.

PV technology is improving at an exponential rate in terms of cost effectiveness for the energy produced.

Family Stabilization California Evidence - Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare Rates the effectiveness of programs to preserve, support, and stabilize families in crisis or at risk of child removal.

The explanations for these disparities identified by the author include that lower rates of socio - economic status experienced by Indigenous Australians contribute to poorer health outcomes; that the direct, bilateral arrangements between the federal government and Indigenous organizations in Northern America has led to greater effectiveness of programs; and that in Northern America there exists «a higher level of Indigenous governance, ownership and empowerment, at individual, community, regional and national levels».

The mean relapse rate is 50 % at one year and over 70 % at four years.1 A recent prospective twelve year follow - up study showed that individuals with bipolar disorder were symptomatic for 47 % of the time.2 This poor outcome in naturalistic settings suggests an efficacy effectiveness gap for mood stabilisers that has resulted in a re-assessment of the role of adjunctive psychological therapies in bipolar disorder.3 Recent randomised controlled trials show that the combination of pharmacotherapy and about 20 — 25 sessions of an evidence - based manualised therapy such as individual cognitive behaviour therapy4 or family focused therapy5 may reduce relapse rates in comparison to a control intervention (mainly treatment as usual) in currently euthymic people with bipolar disorder.

EFT has research published in professional journals proving its effectiveness, with a 75 % success rate to bring couples from distressed to resolution, and at 6 months and 24 months follow up after therapy, results not only hold, but continue to improve!