Sentences with phrase «from other benchmarks»

The results again mirror single - threaded scores from other benchmarks.

Not exact matches

Others see much more dramatic change coming from the launching of the Shanghai benchmark.

The company launched in 2008 and has raised approximately $ 160 million from Google Capital, Tiger Global, Benchmark, Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, DAG Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, and others.

«SoftBank and Dragoneer have received indications from Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, and other early investors of their intent to sell shares in the tender offer,» a spokesman for SoftBank wrote.

It stems from the fact that PAF allocates much of its portfolio to South Korea — a country our MSCI benchmark doesn't classify as developed, but which is classified as such by some other indexes and the IMF.

The flight from the U.S. intensified after the Reserve Bank of Australia increased its benchmark interest rate earlier this month, creating an impression among some investors that other big producers of commodities, such as Norway and Canada, would follow suit.

The Benchmark team reached out to other investors, and got supporters from Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital and Lowercase Capital to sign on, before calling Kalanick to give him the news.

West Texas Intermediate comes from the American Midwest and the Gulf Coast and is lighter and «sweeter» (contains less sulfur) than virtually every other major benchmark.

Fearing a counterattack, Benchmark is suing to remove Kalanick from that perch and is also trying to forbid him from filling the open board seats that he was awarded — by, among others, Benchmark — last year.

Other funds diverge from the market, by nature of their investment mandates; for example, EUSC follows a Currency Hedged Dividends strategy and obtains a low Fit score compared with our neutral benchmark.

Other funds diverge from the market, by nature of their investment mandates; for example, IPOS follows a Time Since Launch strategy and obtains a low Fit score compared with our neutral benchmark.

Other funds diverge from the market, by nature of their investment mandates; for example, KBWD follows a Dividends strategy and obtains a low Fit score compared with our neutral benchmark.

Comparisons to benchmarks have limitations because benchmarks have volatility and other material characteristics that may differ from the performance of a client's portfolio.

The shipping company benefited from the gain in the Baltic Dry Index, which is a key benchmark for day rates for the vessels that DryShips and other players in the industry own.

Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions; historical trends of the advertising market; historical trends of each medium in relation to other media; reported revenues from major ad publishers; estimates from other research firms; data from benchmark sources; consumer media consumption trends; consumer device usage trends; and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, media publishers and other industry leaders.

This report presents the agri benchmark network's perspectives on recent global beef and sheep developments, analysing how competitive Australian beef and sheepmeat producers are and the main areas where our productivity differs from other countries».

Or, you can click days of the week to find out what hours saw the most donations (handy for other online communicators looking for benchmarks), see which professions dominate the donor base, how many new donors were recruited by friends and family, or check out how many people gave money from a given state or state - like entity (DC!).

The authors gathered numbers from 15 organizations and used them to derive the Return On Investment of many different practices and provide benchmarks for other organizations to use when measuring their own campaigns» effectiveness.

A New York teaching certificate and a Regents Diploma from a New York - accredited school were once considered benchmarks, held in high regard in other areas of the country.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

Mentally ill individuals discharged from psychiatric hospitals and wards appear to have a greater risk for suicide than other mentally ill individuals, although there are no accepted benchmarks for postdischarge suicide rates, according to the article.

Wide price swings from state to state When comparing installed PV prices across a number of large state markets, LBNL found substantial heterogeneity in pricing, leading analysts to conclude that «low - price leaders» in top solar states can serve as a benchmark for other states with maturing markets.

This HDG genome represented the most complete de novo genome assembly to date, and with other omics data resources available from this individual, the work can be used as a benchmark for developing new sequencing and assembly techniques, and for functional studies involving RNA or protein analysis.

Other attempts to extract temperature info from a matrix of tree ring chronologies using a statistical fitting procedure have to pass statistical tests benchmarked with reference to the characteristics of the specific data set being studied.

Seen by many as an allegory for WWII — with the demonic overlord as Hitler — and interpreted by others, with its «slant - eyed» and yellow - skinned Orcs, as a virulently racist tract, The Lord of the Rings is indisputably a benchmark in modern fiction, gaining its popularity from the paperback release in the 1960s.

This special report highlights common misconceptions about the approach and shows how formative assessment differs from other kinds of assessments, such as summative or benchmark tests.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

Now everyone's data is shared and projected on screen after the benchmark assessments, and teachers come together to draw strengths from each other as they reflect on the data.

From the other side of the political spectrum, Harvard's Caroline Hoxby, a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K — 12 Education, has also proposed benchmarking against NAEP, with the added wrinkle that states with tougher standards would receive extensions of the deadlines in NCLB.

The Common Core is the opposite, it goes much deeper and allows us to benchmark against other high - performing states and learn from them,» said Maher.

If you're working with a regional or national partner, how does your students» feedback compare to feedback from other students in a comparable group — like state or national benchmarks, or other schools with similar characteristics such as rural or high - poverty schools?

The new law significantly reduces the legal authority of the education secretary, who is now legally barred from influencing state decisions about academic benchmarks, such as the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations and other policies.

«Miss Shelly's skills and hard work has allowed us to exit kids from receiving Title I services, because they have met or exceeded certain benchmarks, test scores, and other criteria, indicative of their academic growth and success.»

«The High School Benchmarks report, and other reports from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, are critical comparison points for NCAN and our members,» said Bill DeBaun, Director of Data and Evaluation, National College Access Network (NCAN).

Every year, however, millions of high school students — disproportionately from low - income and minority backgrounds — are denied access to such opportunities, whether it is because their schools lack the resources to offer such courses, because their teachers haven't recommended them for advanced coursework, because their test scores fall below a certain benchmark, or for some other reason (Mathews, 1998; Oakes et al., 2000; Schmidt et al., 2015; Solorzano & Ornealas, 2004; Tyson, 2013).

We need to move away from the idea that all students must learn the same thing at the same time, and that only students who reach pre-determined benchmarks in the traditional curriculum should have access to the arts, sciences and other exploratory fields.

Targeted academic initiatives are relatively easy to assess: if you are putting in a new reading program, you can assess its success by looking at test scores (from state tests, district benchmarks, or other internal assessments) and comparing results before and after the program was put in place.

Other states are using ELP progress benchmarks from their current ELP assessments to set provisional school targets that they plan to revise in future years (after collecting data from the new tests).

With the exception of the Multisensory Learning Academy in the Reynolds School District, state test data from the four other Portland - area charter schools with benchmark data available for spring showed mixed performance.

The CEC has received # 5 million of government funding to develop and lead 20 careers hubs comprising of 20 to 40 schools and colleges across the country, which will benefit from links with universities, other education and training providers, and of course, employers, to help schools and colleges meet the benchmarks.

While Jaguar bosses had other reasons to launch the automaker's first SUV so late after (almost) all other rival premium brands, the final product nevertheless benefitted from being benchmarked against the best models the segment has to offer.

That the current generation carries on the 5 Series tradition brilliantly is supported by this quote from Motor Trend's March ’05 issue: «Here's a thoroughbred, the product of decades of setting the benchmark all other automakers» sport sedans aspire to.

Fundamental statistics on the more mature ebook markets in the US and UK serve as benchmarks, to help evaluation data from all other market developments.

The ZTE Optik performance is just below adequate, however, and this tablet ranked worse than most others from 2011 in the TPCR benchmark tests.

Our benchmark - busting rigs have won accolades from CNET, PC Gamer, Wired, and other publications.

In other words, if the performance bar were raised from a «relative» to an «absolute» level (as Alpholio ™ does in its analyses), the distribution of funds would be much more skewed to the left, i.e. below the benchmark.

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You are assured that lenders have undergone the necessary testing, background checks and other validity benchmarks to ensure that you're safeguarded from unsavory lending practices

What sets this index apart from other all - world benchmarks is that it includes small - cap stocks as well as large and mid-cap stocks.

The traditional benchmark for comparison, as others have mentioned, is the rate of return (including dividends) from the Standard and Poors 500 Index.