Sentences with phrase «improvement over the base»

Bentley says it will hit 60 mph in just 4.6 seconds, which represents a 0.3 second improvement over the base 500 - hp V8 model.

Those numbers are a significant improvement over the base supercharged V - 6 gas engine's 17 mpg city and 23 mpg highway figures.

It's a big improvement over the base Hellcat's terminal understeer at entry followed by wild oversteer when you try to get back on the power.

The SRT8 version of the current - generation Chrysler 300 was unveiled at the 2011 New York International Auto Show and came up with a series of improvements over the base version.

The price is comfortable for «Vette heads who don't mind spending a little more for some improvements over the base Stingray, but aren't looking to spend upward of $ 80,000 on the Z06.

However with half step consoles like the ones we are seeing now it may be a requirement, it probably wasn't the best idea to go native but with marketing restrictions the choice is limited people brought a 4k machine so give them 4k the down side is performance especially when people want to see a visual improvement over the base game as well like draw distances foliage etc..

Although the added side missions, where side characters get their own playable little stories, a whole new prologue and other side content of the eX + version, definitely are big improvement over the base version.

While there are a few small differences, the One X version holds its own and is a big improvement over the base Xbox One version (which already looked gorgeous in the first place).

The 10.5 - inch and second - generation 12.9 - inch iPad Pro have a number of improvements over the base 2018 iPad's screen:

Not exact matches

Over the past three years, HomeStars — a Toronto - based company that publishes online reviews of home improvement professionals — has grown from 22 to 53 employees.

The New York - based company in February announced its best user growth in eight years, adding 2.2 million net new U.S. subscribers for 2015 — a 30 % improvement over 2014 — for a total of 29.5 million.

However, when considered as an alternative to classic equity financing, token sales yield a > 100X increase in the available base of buyers and a > 1000X improvement in the time to liquidity over traditional methods for startup finance.

Over the course of the second and third quarters of 2009, our probability of a future liquidity event, including an initial public offering of our common stock, increased based on the improvements in market conditions, including the IPO market and the credit markets.

We also think the existence of this new rule means regulators are looking for improvement over existing research practices, which are based primarily on technical research and sell - side research.

According to Goolam Ballim, group economist at Johannesburg - based Standard Bank, improvements in public finances over the past decade mean less revenues now go into debt servicing and capital repayment, opening the way for more national investment in infrastructure.

Storing, sharing and delivering documents in the Cloud is just an incremental improvement over what you did yesterday; to really revolutionize your business — and realize the true promise of the Cloud — you need to turn your document - based tools and workflows into truly connected systems.

On the basis of an examination of the relevant figures, one estimate shows that in the first year of reforms, «nearly 6 to 7 million people went below the «poverty line» in contrast to an annual improvement of nearly 10 to 15 million moving above the poverty line over the last decade.»

Although the current growth charts (released in November 2000 and based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics) are a vast improvement over earlier charts, they're not the last word on how your child is doing.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

The single molecule array (Simoa) technology developed by Quanterix, and the fully automated HD - 1 analyzer, offers unprecedented improvement in sensitivity proteins over current technologies for the detection of blood - based biomarkers — as much as 1000 times more sensitive than conventional immunoassays.

This discovery paves the way to a better thermal management in electronic devices, since the proposed description represents a significative improvement over the models with which device engineers currently work, based on Fourier's law.

The study found no association between hospital - based participation in the NSQIP and improvements in postoperative outcomes over time, suggesting that a surgical outcomes reporting system does not provide a clear mechanism for quality improvement.

Nanodiamond - based sensors represent a potential improvement over conventional sensors.

«These new tests are easy to use, are capable of detecting a broad range of pathogens and represent a significant improvement over culture - based diagnostic approaches.

A new generation wireless, vision - based traffic light system that provides a major improvement over existing systems because it does not require embedded - loop sensors.

This comparison gives a broad picture of the improved performance achieved in the current study (i.e. the variance across many other studies and the 1 - 2 orders of magnitude improvement over EEG based approaches).

Dr. Eng and her team established a semi-quantitative diagnostic score as an evidence - based improvement over the existing National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) 2010 diagnostic criteria, resulting in more accurate diagnoses and, theoretically, better outcomes.

This is an improvement of nearly a factor of three over ground - based observations of Titan, though still too poor to understand the surface in detail.

«AO observations from 8 - 10m class telescopes are a dramatic improvement in spatial resolution over previous ground - based observations.

Ripe, frozen strawberries and bananas form the base of this frosty favorite, making it a vast improvement over the cream - based classic.

I wonder... is the algae - based stuff an improvement over the land - based plant oils you reference in your article?

Based on the simple fact that refined carbs are off limits on this eating plan, and that lots of veggies are encouraged, it's automatically a vast improvement over the way most people in the United States eat.

PR NEWSWIRE - Aug 12 - Snap Interactive reports higher revenues (up 9 % to $ 3.5 million over comparable 2013 period, and by 5 % on a sequential basis), reduced net loss (~ $ 260 thousand, an improvement of ~ $ 1.2 million YOY, and $ 0.7 million sequentially), and positive adjusted EBITDA (~ $ 62K, an improvement of ~ $ 1.2 million YOY, and $ 0.8 M sequentially) for the quarter ended June 30, 2014.

Loosely based on the South Korean comic series of the same name, 2011's Priest is an improvement over «Legion»... but not by much.

While we would not feel comfortable claiming, based on the analysis here, that student - based budgeting has been the cause of greater equity in Houston's school funding system, our findings do show that despite an initial increase in the coefficient of variation, Houston schools have over the longer term made modest improvements in equity since the strategy was put into place.

The conclusion is that improvements on the state - based tests reflect «score inflation», with NAEP providing the more accurate indication of trends over time.

That meant a school might be designated «needing improvement» because it had failed to raise scores over the past several years — but still could have a higher absolute score than a school that had met the federal standard because it had made steady gains from a lower base.

These agreements have been a basis for increasing student enrolments in education and in increasing attendance rates, where both the Indigenous community and the school take actions to achieve improvements and monitor their joint impact over time.

New teacher evaluation systems represent a significant improvement over the bad old days of every teacher getting a satisfactory rating based on a cursory observation by their principal.

This third edition includes over 100 research - based classroom strategies, and features a new chapter that synthesizes the research on high - performing school districts, and discusses ways school districts can support instructional improvement.

As a long - time member of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central office - school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large urban districts over a ten - year time period.

Eliminating the requirement to identify schools for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring based on missing AYP over a number of years and instead requiring --

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

In our research on New Orleans, we found very large improvements in student outcomes when charter schools were taken over based on low performance and replaced with others.

< [1] However, based on my calculations with state NAEP data, only Arizona and the District of Columbia were able to sustain such a rate of improvement over a period of four or more years after 2005 (between 2009 and 2013 in Arizona and between 2007 and 2013 in the District).

The ECT will acknowledge that School Voucher programs are not 100 % perfect — however we continue to believe (as demonstrated in other States today) that putting Parents in charge with School Vouchers and market based competition between neighboring Schools will be a big improvement over what Colorado has today.

District leaders need to establish clear expectations across multiple dimensions of improvement activity as the bases for increasing coherence, coordination, and synergy in the effectiveness of district improvement efforts over time.

«Despite all of the time and attention that has been devoted to school improvement over the past year and a half, we haven't won over the hearts and minds of the American people,» said Patrick R. Riccards, the chief executive officer of Exemplar Strategic Communications, a Virginia - based communications firm and the author of the education blog Eduflack.

An HCMS approach brings together all of the elements of PICCS that have emerged over the first five years in order to achieve the original goal of PICCS: establishing performance - based compensation systems that could drive continuous school improvement at participating schools.

Howie is the creator of Project ACHIEVE, a comprehensive evidence - based school improvement program (through the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and he has implemented components of Project ACHIEVE in every state in the country (and abroad) over the past 30 years.