Sentences with phrase «gained as an outcome»

Currently seeking a leadership position in which to fully utilize the experience and expertise gained as an outcome driven manager, director and consultant.

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«As these, and other AI applications gain more experience in the field, their ability to learn and act will continually lead to improvements in precision, efficiency and outcomes,» say the authors.

«As a result, the brokers produce worse outcomes for their institutional investor clients — and therefore, for individual pension beneficiaries, mutual fund investors and insurance policy holders — and ill - gotten gains for the brokers,» Macey and Swensen concluded.

While they are anxiously seeking the potential outcome, they may perceive you as only looking out for your own monetary gain - selling for the sake of selling.

LONDON, May 2 - The dollar consolidated gains on Friday after hitting a 3 - 1 / 2 month high in the previous session as investors waited for the outcome of a U.S. «Despite the moves we have seen in the dollar in recent days, financial conditions haven't really tightened noticeably but that may change if the rally continues,» said Manuel Oliveri, an FX strategist at Credit...

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.

The latest polls suggest that an independent Scotland — until recently dismissed as a highly unlikely outcome — could become a possibility as the independence campaign gains momentum.

As a result, the brokers produce worse outcomes for their institutional investor clients — and therefore, for individual pension beneficiaries, mutual fund investors and insurance policy holders — and ill - gotten gains for the brokers.

As the process proceeds, however, and the range of choice becomes more and more restricted, he gains in his powers of predicting the final outcome.

To gain the university's freedom from the churchmen he forewent clarity in his public utterance in order to conceal as long as possible from his traditional constituency the full outcome of what he was doing.

Overall the weekend will have been a positive one for them as they have stretched their lead to 10 and none of their rivals gained a positive net outcome on their lead unless City wins and their gap gets closed to 8.

Fathers» involvement in parenting is associated with positive cognitive, developmental, and socio - behavioural child outcomes such as improved weight gain in preterm infants, improved breastfeeding rates, higher receptive language skills, and higher academic achievement [33].

The worsening dynamic between Republicans and Cuomo could benefit Senate Democrats, who are seeking to gain a working majority in the Senate as early as the spring, pending the outcome of two special elections.

During his eight years as Deputy Superintendent and then Superintendent in San Francisco, Carranza drove progress in academic outcomes, outpacing gains in the state and narrowing the achievement gap.

Researchers said further studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and outcomes, follow patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how patient outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the technology is refined over time.

This approach is exemplified in the perioperative surgical home, which is gaining momentum as a model to improve outcome and reduce costs.»

He said that lifestyle modifications such as healthy eating, physical activity and behavioral modifications during pregnancy have had limited benefits on improving adverse perinatal outcomes, with the exception of reducing excessive gestational weight gain, on the average of two to five pounds in obese women.

As we gain more specific knowledge about what these changes in perception are, we will be able to improve outcomes for our patients,» Reilly concludes.

«The resulting social isolation may also promote unhealthy behaviors, such as excessive food intake and decreased participation in sports and physical activities, which can lead to further weight gain and thus a cycle of poor physical and social outcomes.»

Summarizing the key message of the review study, Prof. Bejder stated, «The recovery of the iconic humpback whales of Australia delivers both hope and optimism, as well as an opportunity to celebrate success at two levels: (1) the successful implementation of contentious international management actions to protect marine species; and (2) the wise and significant investment in conservation science, illustrating how society can respond to strong conservation interventions to achieve outcomes that are not simply for immediate, human material gains.

«We're hoping to impress upon the scientific community the notion that for those of us who might be interested in predicting an outcome of interest, possibly with rather complex or high dimensional data, we might gain by reconsidering the question as one of how to search for highly predictive variables (or variable sets) and using statistics that measure predictivity to help us identify those variables to then predict well,» Lo said.

In one smaller prospective study looking for sex differences as primary outcome, sleep deprivation led to increased food and fat intake; however, males were more susceptible to weight gain based on greater daily caloric intake, especially during night (106).

Epidemiologic studies5, 47 have suggested that higher consumption of added sugar is associated with increased consumption of total calories and unhealthy dietary patterns, which in turn might increase the risk of unhealthy outcomes, such as weight gain, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and CVD.

Deja Vu is the latest film to employ tampering with the past in order to secure a different outcome in the present, but by the time you realize that it is highly illogical as a film, you've already gained enough enjoyment out of the film from a thriller standpoint to forgive the shaky foundations in science fiction.

They can determine how one factor or decision led to the outcome, as well as gain a better understanding of the context and how it relates to their work practices.

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.

Studies of early - childhood and school - age interventions often find long - term impacts on such outcomes as educational attainment, earnings, and criminal activity despite nonexistence or «fade - out» of test - score gains.

These strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test - score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent academics.

When compared with such crude indicators, the combination of student achievement gains on state tests, student surveys, and classroom observations identified teachers with better outcomes on every measure we tested: state tests and supplemental tests as well as more subjective measures, such as student - reported effort and enjoyment in class.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

And while it's premature to reach any conclusions about Race to the Top's impact on student outcomes, ambitious Race to the Top adopters, such as Tennessee and the District of Columbia, are posting encouraging student gains.

Is it any wonder that, even as national assessment data have shown decent gains in math achievement in recent years (at least in the early grades), reading outcomes remain dismal?

As for digital education companies: If digital tools enable teachers to earn more for reaching more students and their peers, teachers will gain a stake in acquiring those tools and using them to achieve strong outcomes.

This argument begs the question about how large correlations should be to be considered as indicators of adult outcomes, and it also discounts recent research showing that test scores improvements related to effective teachers were correlated with gains in adult labor - market outcomes.

The summit offers the opportunity to learn from leading higher education institutions in the UK and abroad, as well as gain practical insights into improving student experience and learning outcomes.

But substantial gains in student outcomes will only come as they reengineer schedules, teacher roles, grading, classrooms, and courses.

The report also identifies better data sharing between jurisdictions as beneficial, suggesting existing privacy protections be overhauled and a universal student tracking system be introduced to gain better insight into why some schools consistently foster greater outcomes.

The impacts of school choice programs on test score gains and longer term outcomes are not really as out of sync as they may first appear.

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

Yet «these gains became ambiguous as time went on» and «did not lead to many improved outcomes in adulthood... with, for example, no statistically significant differences in high school graduation rates, employment, or criminal activity.»

Ultimately, the most important outcome from contour drawing is not what appears on the paper, but what happens inside the head: it is all about deeper appreciation you gain when you concentrate on shape and details of something as you draw its shape on paper.

There are therefore several things to think about as we further explore the AEI study: long term outcomes do indeed matter a lot, especially for poor kids; if large test - score gains don't eventually translate into improved long term outcomes, it is a legitimate cause for concern; and we must stay open to the possibility that some programs could help kids immensely over the long haul, even if they don't immediately improve student achievement.

In seeking funding for initial or ongoing costs, schools might consider calculating and sharing the savings in other costs — such as preventing costly, unwanted staff turnover — and productivity gains when teacher - leader roles lead to better staff retention and stronger outcomes for more students.

In a nutshell, she points out that the MET study asked whether actual observation of teaching, student surveys, or VAM test score measures did a better job of predicting future student test score growth, which «privileges» test scores by using it both as a variable being tested and as the outcome reflecting gains.

The reason is that even if evidence showed the impact of such policies on observable outcomes, such as student test scores, we know that good teachers produce learning gains in areas that go beyond tested academic subjects.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

By integrating STEM activities in lessons, teachers experienced successful outcomes, such as increased student engagement in learning, improved benchmarks and STAAR results, self - accountability, gaining trust, and becoming confident and competent.

From Chetty et al.'s research, we have estimates of the relationship between cognitive outcomes in kindergarten, measured as percentile test score gains, and dollar gains in adult earnings.

Are we switching to an inquiry based science program because we are looking for students to gain «learning how to learn skills» as well as science knowledge outcomes?

The outcome measure of interest was student learning gains, as measured by standardized tests.