Sentences with phrase «focus as we monitor»

We've observed a slowdown, but not a downturn, in real retail sales and real personal income, so those remain areas of focus as we monitor the sequence of economic data.

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European stocks closed in the red on Monday as investors focused on earnings and monitored political woes in the U.K.

Last year Internet crimes netted the perpetrators $ 445 billion, with tax fraud as a primary focus, according to IBM Security, which monitors cyber crimes.

As it continues to work through and monitor its weaker markets, particularly trans - Atlantic travel, Munoz said the focus remains on running a lucrative, efficient business.

Originally launched with a focus on film, Indiegogo pivoted to include funding for literally anything and is becoming known for financing personal and cause - related campaigns such as that for the bullied bus monitor, which raised over $ 700,000.

In this regard, our surveillance has been closely monitoring for any signs of liquidity strains associated with the recent increases in spreads for high - yield corporate bonds, as well as for idiosyncratic events affecting particular funds in this segment, such as the events surrounding the abrupt closing of Third Avenue Management's Focused Credit Fund last December.

Reputational tools available to companies include collecting data, including from stakeholder focus groups and broad surveys, as well as monitoring, dissecting and analyzing the data.

European stocks closed higher on Wednesday as investors kept their focus on earnings and monitored an upcoming Federal Reserve meeting.

In my view, our role as business leaders in uncertain times such as these is to remain positive, focus on what we do well, closely monitor global trends, investigate new opportunities for growth, diversify our economy, and learn from the experts — which is exactly where The Vancouver Board of Trade comes in.

This strategy is often referred to as the bull bear strategy and focuses on monitoring, rising, declining and the flat trend line of the traded asset.

Today focus will return locally as construction work and wage price index will be monitored before further talks from ECB president Draghi and US Fed Chair Yellen.

US futures were also below their highs from yesterday, as the crucial levels that we have been monitoring for almost two weeks remain in focus.

The 600 accounts monitored by the project known as Hamilton 68 put out an average of 20,000 tweets a day, Schafer said, and they often focus on hot topics that divide Americans.

We monitor the development of raw materials including substitute alternatives, as well as focus on other essential ingredients - all in order to optimize recipes for specific markets.

Toine Timmermans, Project Coordinator for EU - FUSIONS: «Measuring the level of food waste in a structured way is critical for developing effective strategies that focus on reducing food waste and monitoring progress at the business, national and EU level, as well as contributing to the achievement of SDG Target 12.3.

Ecovia Intelligence (formerly known as Organic Monitor) is a specialist research, consulting & training company that focuses on global ethical product industries.»

Non-contact baby monitors have usually focused on letting a parent or caregiver see or hear the baby, but newer models are taking the monitoring up a notch by promising to track a baby's heart and breathing rates as well.

Levana's sole focus is on developing the most parent - friendly baby monitors and as such, their product range involves every kind of baby monitor imaginable (audio / video, movement monitors and complete baby monitoring systems) that modern parents seek for.

I focused on monitoring the baby well during labor and helping moms feel as comfortable as possible.

As the state focuses on fiscal and budgetary matters in Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo school district, former monitor Monica George - Fields said the teaching and learning initiatives laid out last school year also need to be a priority.

Quick Bronx news roundup today as we're focused on producing the Mt. Hope Monitor, which will hit streets in Community Board 5 tomorrow.

Monitoring and assessment have so far focused mainly on the symptoms of land degradation and desertification, such as loss of top soil and decreased food production.

They argue that fetal monitoring trials have focused on uncommon outcomes, such as cerebral palsy, which is rarely linked to hypoxia during labour, and say «we should be focusing on other forms of evidence relating to the more common outcome with serious long term implications — namely, neonatal encephalopathy.»

The reports, published as a focus section in the September - October 2015 issue of Seismological Research Letters (SRL), also provide an update on how well the Initiative's instruments are operating, including a look at how seafloor pressure monitors can detect tsunamis in the region.

This drove Preston S. Wilson, a coffee aficionado and acoustician who normally focuses on studying underwater acoustics in his role as an associate professor in The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, to explore the potential of using the «cracking» sounds emitted by coffee beans during the roasting process — as the basis for an automated acoustical roast monitoring technique.

For starters, the PCC Community Wellness Center has turned the traditional well - baby visit — with its primary focus on the newborn — into a well - family visit that monitors the new mother's health as well.

In their new study, the researchers focused on three types of waders — oystercatcher, red knot and dunlin — and monitored bird flocks on southern Öland with the help of an ornithodolite: a binocular instrument equipped with a laser rangefinder as well as height and side - angle sensors.

The meetings focused on food, physical activity education and behavioral skills such as self - monitoring and environmental control, using praise and rewards to reinforce positive eating and physical activity.

We focus on providing patients information about the latest diabetes technology (such as insulin brands, pumps, continuous glucose monitors) to allow them to decide if it right for them.

By the time it was incorporated, the focus has expanded to include elementary and secondary education, professional development training for researchers, and outreach to the public and the media about science education, the use of animals in biomedical research, and other topics such as the harmonization of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees and Institutional Biosafety Committees, as well as monitoring legislation.

His research interests are focused on the molecular genetics of the inherited myopathies and neuromuscular junction disorders and the study of animal models of these disorders as a means to understand their pathophysiology as well as to develop means to monitor disease progression and therapeutic interventions.

Autofocus is useful when monitoring adherent monolayer cell populations, as the well plate surfaces are uneven and the same focus can not be used for all positions.

Through a high - quality, 50X glass lens, Fertile Focus allows you to monitor the rise and fall of your estrogen as you approach ovulation, peak fertility.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer called «Wind,» which was billed as Miyazaki's final film and the story of which is partly based on fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi's life, «visually as beautiful as anything he's ever done,» though he noted that «the collision between poetic fancifulness and grim reality, between peace and war, never falls into focus.»

A Sticky Week for College Admissions as Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up (The Christian Science Monitor) Ivy League Schools Brace for Scrutiny of Race in Admissions (The Boston Globe via The Associated Press) Affirmative Action in Higher Education (WOSU) Centering on «Diversity» Ignores the Real Focus of Affirmative Action (The Boston Globe) For Now, Federal Focus On Affirmative Action Centers On Harvard (WBUR) Sometimes, Perceptions of Affirmative Action Don't Mesh With Reality (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Natasha Warikoo weighs in on the Department of Justice's plans to investigate affirmative action in college admissions.

Included are seven tried and tested monitoring proformas Learning Walk Proforma - perfect for general learning walks as well as those with a specific focus Observation Template - a comprehensive template which has space for general comments, differentiation, SMSC, pupil voice feedback and work sampling.

A Heightened Level of Screening RTI has been explained as a program that focuses on improving the monitoring of learning outcomes in the classroom so help can be given in a timely fashion.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Narrator: The information gathered through the LoU - focused interview can be used to monitor the progress of an implementation as well as to identify and address problems teachers might have in connecting a specific innovation or standards - based reform with their classroom practices.

If school districts wish to monitor the progress of the very lowest - income and most vulnerable students, focusing on Identified Students works well, as these data are available for all schools regardless of whether they have adopted community eligibility.

We plan to introduce a tiered monitoring system that will focus efforts on the lowest performing schools and districts, with an emphasis on both compliance and outcomes and with the turnaround practices as a unifying framework.

Focused on engaging all students as leaders, this workshop teaches educators how to establish group expectations, self - monitoring, and clear avenues to ensure student investment and ownership in climate - building activities.

Improving the educational outcomes of students receiving special education services, as for any other student group, requires a sustained focus on teaching and learning, aligned actions across the district, and continuous monitoring of the degree of implementation of such actions to assess the impact on student learning.

Schools where ALL children successfully learn share certain key characteristics that have come to be known as the Correlates of Effective Schools: a Clear & Focused Mission, a Safe & Orderly Environment, High Expectations for Success, Opportunity to Learn / Time on Task, Positive Home - School Relations, Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress, and Strong Instructional Leadership.

Chaudhary, a former high school teacher and McKinsey & Company analyst, says that ClassDojo focuses specifically on monitoring social and emotional learning, rather than on grades, because these are the skills that students will carry with them as they get older.

A major shift from NCLB accountability is emerging on issues of testing and assessment — with a focus on a more sophisticated blend of summative and formative assessments as key foundations for improving teaching and learning, as well as on the capacity of state and school systems to track and monitor progress, by student, from year to year.

During the start of this 21st century, specific initiatives have focused on investing in preschool programs, engaging parents as partners in education, building positive and caring relationships, monitoring the progress of the students early on, and developing effective intervention plans addressing their needs.

In addition, Ford offers options such as a Driver Assistance Pack that adds safety collision avoidance, blind spot monitoring and lane keep assist to make the Focus ST that bit safer.

In addition to the usual lineup of airbag systems, three - point safety belts, tire pressure monitoring, and electronic stability control, the Focus ST also offers integrated blind spot monitors in the side - view mirrors, a rearview camera, and something called the Personal Safety System, which use sensors to determine the occupants» size and weight, as well as the severity of the collision, activating certain safety systems as needed.

The one - size fits all options list means that the Focus Electric isn't available with any advanced driver aid features, such as blind spot monitoring or automatic parking.