Sentences with phrase «improving measures of performance»

Colostrum has even been shown to improve athletic performance by reducing gut permeability caused by heavy exercise, improving measures of performance, and supporting lean mass maintenance.

Therefore, to sum up - if the goal is improving ANY measure of performance during weight loss, this is best achieved via a 10 - 15 % of reduction in calories across the board with no additional cardiovascular or non-specific activity.

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He notes that while the tools available for identifying raw talent made gains with performance - measuring software and online recruitment tools, the results of these searches has hardly improved.

«We found that increasing the size of lunch tables... significantly improved performance by over 10 percent, as measured by peer reviews,» writes Humanyze CEO Ben Waber on re: Work.

Implications from deeper understanding of your customers typically involve changes in how you measure sales effectiveness, performance reviews, incentives, product mix, channels and sometimes «addition by subtraction,» or the process of improving performance by not selling to certain types of customers.

About MKS Instruments MKS Instruments, Inc. is a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure, monitor, deliver, analyze, power, and control critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity.

About MKS Instruments MKS Instruments, Inc. is a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure, control, power, monitor, and analyze critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity.

The port is taking a number of measures to improve its performance, including: expanding hours of operation at the truck gates; shifting more vessel services to Portsmouth Marine Terminal; having activated its truck reservation system at NIT on March 1; and delivering eight new diesel - electric shuttle trucks to Virginia International Gateway (VIG) on February 28.

These important measurement tools enable farming operations and companies of all sizes to more effectively improve sustainability performance and to «manage what they measure.

These important measurement tools enable farming operations and companies of all sizes to more effectively improve sustainability performance and to «manage what they measure,»» said Allison Jordan, executive director of CSWA.

Arsenal Almunia 7 — Had little to do, but what he did do he did well Sagna 7 — Lost the ball a couple of times but reliable as ever Gallas 9 — Excellent game, this season will be an important one for the Frenchman and this was a great way to start it Clichy 7 — Didn't put a foot wrong Fabregas 9 — Wonderful performance capped with a brace (Ramsey) 7 — The Welsh Cesc is coming along nicely Vermaelen 9 — An assured debut that left me forgetting about the absence of Kolo Denilson 8 — Top notch display Song Billong 8 — Solid and measured Arshavin 8 — Kept going from the 1st to the final minute Van Persie 8 — No goals, but two assists and a hand in an other (Eduardo) 7 — Lethal finisher showed what he is all about in his cameo Bendtner 8 — Really impressed me and is continuing to improve every game (Eboue) 7 — Helped close out the game.

It's a measure of how much Arsenal have improved though to say that the Marseille win wasn't one of the better performances of the season.

In most families, there was no significant impact of the home visits on the children's mental development or school outcomes, but in families where mothers scored especially low on measures of intelligence and mental health, children's academic performance did improve.

With its amazingly weak performance in attracting EU funds, along with backdrop of Britain's outflow (a net donor) from the EU, Romania could be put in a precarious negotiating position, if Brussels does not help it through various exceptional measures to improve absorption rate.

As adherence to recommended clinical practice guidelines increasingly is used to measure performance, guidelines play a major role in policy efforts to improve the quality and cost - effectiveness of care.

Fostering high - performance CPR by medical professionals by measuring the quality of CPR during resuscitations and continuously improving it.

In anticipation of programs from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that tie reimbursement to performance in key areas, the authors state that hospitals should have more incentive to improve infection control and antibiotic prescribing measures to prevent CDI.

TAVR also appeared to improve the aortic valve areas more than surgery, meaning that the quality of the valve's performance was better as measured by echocardiography during follow - up points through two years.

The researchers then examined whether playing the more difficult games improved performance on additional measures of working memory as well as enhanced other skills, including math, reading, writing and following instructions in a classroom.

«Programs that provide treatment for lung cancer also must measure their performance actively and carefully in order to improve the quality of care and improve patients» chances of survival.»

(E) establishes performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

From the results of a first observing run, we show that the use of matched filtering improves our adaptive optics system performance, with increases in on - sky H - band Strehl measured up to about a factor of 1.1 with respect to a conventional centre of gravity approach.

Citicoline treatment improves measures of impulsivity and task performance in chronic marijuana smokers: a pilot BOLD fMRI study.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released Ames Laboratory's Performance Evaluation Report Card for FY 2017, and the results show the Laboratory improved on its FY 2016 performance and now exceeds expectations in a majority of the key performance areaPerformance Evaluation Report Card for FY 2017, and the results show the Laboratory improved on its FY 2016 performance and now exceeds expectations in a majority of the key performance areaperformance and now exceeds expectations in a majority of the key performance areaperformance areas measured.

And that means you probably want to improve your performance, regardless of how it's measured.

Generally speaking, if a form of training can not be easily linked to improved performance in some measure critical to your sport, or does not directly improve the overall health of the athlete, DO NOT DO IT.

In Taekwondo karate athletes, athletes lost similar body weight and body fat on both ketogenic (high fat foods) and non-ketogenic diets, but the ketogenic diet improved measures of athletic performance (finished 2,000 m sprint in less time and felt less fatigue in the Wingate test) and reduced measures of inflammation relative to the non-ketogenic diet

In Taekwondo karate athletes, athletes lost similar body weight and body fat on both ketogenic (high fat foods) and non-ketogenic diets, but the ketogenic diet improved measures of athletic performance (finished 2,000 m sprint in less time and felt less fatigue in the Wingate test) and reduced measures of inflammation relative to the non-ketogenic diet [40, 41].

[6] One study in healthy adult volunteers found that a high - potency Ashwagandha extract taken for 14 days significantly improved reaction time in 5 of the 6 psychomotor performance tests measuring everything from attention span and brain to response speed to central integration, visuo - motor coordination and alertness, without being sedating or over-stimulating.

The MIT authors conclude that previous findings of strong MCAS performance in middle school are consistent with later measures of academic success, specifically those that are indicators of improved college readiness.

If minority students today deliberately underachieve in order to avoid social sanctions, that by itself could explain why the academic performance of 17 - year - old African Americans, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), has deteriorated since the late 1980s, even while that of nine - year - olds has been improving.

Although the tests described above were created to measure the performance of schools, CMU shared with the schools ways in which they could use the data generated to improve teaching and learning.

Better information can help inform and improve instruction, family engagement, connections across schools and community organizations, school improvement, and yes, enable more accurate, multiple measures of school performance.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

For example, support for the improvement of student testing, for the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systems.

The success of these CLOs will be measured in three core areas; transforming the business performance of learners, creating learning experiences that engage learners and promote content consumption, and improving the operational efficiency of the department by cutting production and fulfillment costs.

Once the state has decided on its policy position, however, a judicial presence should be maintained to ensure that the chosen policy is fully funded, is implemented in a coherent manner, and results in substantially improved student performance, as measured by validated assessments of academic achievement and of students» ability to function as capable citizens and workers.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

The expression, which apparently originated from a story by a farmer to his son in the early 1900s, teaches that the activity of weighing or measuring does not produce results or improve performance — it simply...

Traditional approaches, on the other hand, were more effective for improving performance on standardized exams, considered by the researchers as a measure of short - term retention.

The next round must get to measuring teacher effectiveness based on student achievement, promoting professional development that is based on research and effective practice and improves performance, providing incentives for teachers who are effective, and requiring removal of teachers who, even with solid professional development, can't or don't improve.

It's your job to measure the metrics and interpret the results so you can find ways to improve the performance of your eLearning.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

The expression, which apparently originated from a story by a farmer to his son in the early 1900s, teaches that the activity of weighing or measuring does not produce results or improve performance — it simply measures outcomes.

For instance, building on work by McClellan and Staiger (1999) in rating hospital performance, we have proposed a simple technique for pooling information over time, which improves on a simple arithmetic mean by taking into account the amount of «signal» and «noise» in a given measure of performance.

It must be understood that every school in Australia is a «government funded school» therefore accountability must be the same for all schools and any measures of improved performance must be developed in consultation with the profession.

Measures of «improved performance» must be more than improved NAPLAN, PISA and TIMSS results.

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools program.

It also allows states to take advantage of a range of innovative approaches to improve assessment and reduce the burden of tests, such as utilizing computer - adaptive assessment, implementing smaller interim assessments in place of large summative tests, and diverse measures such as performance - based assessments.