Sentences with phrase «individuals at all levels of the system»

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Double taxation of dividends: Most tax systems that have both corporate and individual income taxes levy tax on corporate profits twice, once at the corporate level and again at the individual level when shareholders receive profits in the form of dividends or capital gains.

Thus «x» is any propositional function with individuals for its arguments, «(x) x» means «there exists some individual in the universal domain that has the property».4 At the lowest level in the theory of types there are individuals — a, b, c, d,... n, but the precise identification of the individuals is left open since the system of logic was only to be used as a foundation for pure mathematics.

There is one system which must be replaced, but there are also various different levels of change and varying times at which changes need to be implemented, not to mention the very many different places in which the changes will take place and the individuals in each of those places who will be working together to achieve that goal.

These provide material for inter-group selection at a level, the interaction system, higher than that provided for by mass selection of individual mutations.

This system helps customers maximize the efficiency of component machines within their packaging lines (OEE): by operating at individual machine level and collecting a continuous stream of data via a connected measuring device, ESM gathers and analyses data to generate a number of key indicators.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

David Weprin: Well, clearly when you're dealing with an opponent that is not part of the system, who has unlimited funds, as the recent election we just went through with the mayor of the city of New York, I would remove the individual cap on contributions for donors and go to a much higher cap similar to the one that's at the state level for the governor of the state of New York.

Secondly, party proportionality is only one criterion, and there are at least three that need to be considered when judging a voting system — the level of local representation, the basis of the system and how open it is to individual accountability and independents, and national outcomes.

If you have a single jurisdiction that can control the entire corporate tax system, one of the easiest and most common ways to integrate corporate and individual level income taxes is to impose taxes on corporate profits at the corporate level, but then to give recipients of dividends who are subject to domestic income taxes a credit equal to the percentage of income paid by the dividend paying corporation, treating the corporate income tax as a withholding tax that becomes final when dividends are distributed to foreign taxpayers who don't pay domestic income taxes.

At a national level reform measures could / should include an elected second chamber, a directly elected post of Prime Minister, and open primaries for all members of Parliament, giving the people the power to apply their own checks and balances to the system as well as allowing individuals to chose their Parliamentary representatives free of party machines.

At a City Council hearing on Monday, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the Committee on Justice Systems, asked the city's five district attorneys to decline to prosecute individuals who are arrested for low - level marijuana possession for misdemeanors.

Emotiv solved this brain — computer interface problem with the help of a multidisciplinary team that included neuroscientists, who understood the brain at a systems level (rather than individual cells), and computer engineers with a knack for machine learning and pattern recognition.

This system of agriculture is often practised at the level of an individual or family, but sometimes may involve an entire village.

«If you are looking at different parts of a complex system, a system - level approach can be really beneficial in helping to put individual pieces together,» says study co-author Daniel Larremore, an applied mathematician at the Santa Fe institute.

«Recent lab experiments studying behavior of a group of individuals show that economic systems may deviate significantly from rational efficient equilibrium at both individual and aggregate levels.

Because, I mean, just at the individual level, the private practice level, it costs you probably around $ 100,000 to set up one of these systems, not to mention 20 hours of training, one of the speakers said.

Modern aquatic ecosystems are infiltrated with diverse mixtures of pollutants that can act together as a multiple stressor to alter biotic systems at all levels of biological organization, including individuals, populations and communities.

The database will allow users to view and download computed GTEx results and provide a controlled access system for de-identified individual - level genotype, expression, and clinical data through NCBI's database of Genotypes and Phenotypes, at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gap.

Only about half the nation's students are getting the minimum level of «appropriate physical activity» to maintain effectively functioning cardio - respiratory systems, defined as exercising large muscle groups for periods of 20 minutes or longer, three times a week, at a level that requires 60 percent of an individual's cardio - respiratory capacity.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

The circular causality is fueled by the contradiction between the individual and social levels, which means that the failure to obtain peace, represented by the triggering of the physical or emotional conflicts, is, in reality, the general resultant of the failure of the personal relationships within the social system at a given time.1

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

Firstly, the experience shows the importance of «system - ness» — education reform takes place in an integrated, coherent, and sustainable manner at the system, school, classroom, and individual levels.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

For the present analysis, I aggregate to the district level the data on racial imbalance at individual schools from the SRI and link it to the ECCI data on the choice systems of large districts.

ASCD and the International School Health Network are now inviting individuals and organizations to sign on to the Global School Health Statement to support the integration of education and health at the systems level.

Finally, we foreshadow the current research focused on moving beyond improvement in individual schools to improvement of entire systems at the district, regional, state, and national levels.

It is intended to serve as a basis for further action at all levels of the Texas education system from the state education agency to individual school campuses and their communities.

We tailored our individual approaches and programs to meet the needs of the partnership at the right level of the system.

This collision of expectations and reality creates a revolving door in higher education that can stifle individual talent and exacerbate inequality at the highest levels of the American education system.

The final rules define the performance of teachers» students, for T - TESS and locally - developed and adopted teacher appraisal systems, as «how the individual teacher's students progress academically in response to the teacher's pedagogical practice as measured at the individual teacher level by one or more of the following student growth measures:

Finally, the proposed rules require that local districts using locally - developed appraisal systems instead of T - TESS must include the performance of a teacher's students, defined as student growth at the individual teacher level.

The finally adopted rules require that, under both the state - recommended system and locally - developed and adopted appraisal systems, beginning with the 2017 - 2018 school year, each teacher appraisal shall include the performance of teachers» students, which the rules define as «how the individual teacher's students progress academically in response to the teacher's pedagogical practice as measured at the individual teacher level by one or more of the following student growth measures:

Our funders include school systems and governments at the local, state, and federal level, as well as a mix of individuals and public and private organizations.

Each of these proposed rule revisions reflects conditions imposed by Texas's NCLB waiver — that student growth be measured at the individual teacher level, that student performance on state assessments must be included as a measure of student growth, that the student growth component must be weighted 20 percent in a teacher's evaluation, and that TEA ensure that local school districts using locally - developed appraisal systems use student growth at the individual teacher level.

The intent was to organize and frame the field's learning about rapid school improvement efforts and how improvement decisions made at any one level could have a lasting impact across all levels of a system comprising the state education agency (SEA), the local education agency (LEA), and the individual school.

The interactive dashboard allows the state - level administrator to assign roles and responsibilities to individuals within the system to ease administration of assessments with stakeholders at the state, district, and school levels.

CBM's provide a quick, standardized, reliable and valid way to «take the temperature» of current academic health as well as monitor growth over time at a system - wide, site, classroom, and individual level.

At the same time, Achieve3000's proprietary adaptive content system continually monitors each student's reading performance and automatically increases the level of text complexity when it detects that an individual is ready for more challenge, steadily moving students up level by level.

In addition to the overarching indicator categories of academic preparedness, academic tenacity, and college knowledge, the tri-level system identifies indicators and related supports at the (1) individual student level, (2) setting level, and (3) system level.

22 Importantly, these studies looked at individual student test scores, whereas two other studies that are often cited for their criticisms of the Chilean voucher system were based only on school - level or community - level averages.23

For implementation of the procedures at the individual student level to be effective, the school - wide PBS system must be in place and functioning efficiently.

Interpreting evidence is not a solo act, and indeed meaning comes from how a variety of individuals at different levels of the education system understand and make sense of data.

Auto allows the system to judge for itself what level of torque should be sent to the wheels, whilst Lock brings all four - wheels into play at all times, with varying torque levels controlled by the automatic application of individual brakes.

There are ten luxurious villas, a beachfront infinity - edge swimming pool with its built - in jacuzzi, excellent cuisine served at the upper level restaurant, a large camera room with individual work - stations, a beachfront dive center with hyper - filtration filling system and special after - dive massage menus - all supported by the services of Kasawari / Solitude's friendly and hospitable staff.

A comprehensive risk assessment would determine flood hazard for individual structures by modeling watershed and floodplain characteristics at fine spatial scales; it would describe the varying levels of protection offered by all elements of a flood protection system and mitigation measures; and it would account explicitly for uncertainties, including those related to current and future flood hazard, structure value and vulnerability, and the current and future performance of flood protection measures.

EIA's model does not represent the electricity system at the level of individual states.

The system includes hundreds of pre-loaded reports, with the ability to create your own, so you can get precisely the information you need, when you need it, to make timely business decisions at an individual, practice and firm level.

Marc Gottridge, Lovells» U.S. managing partner, told the Times Online that these traps include the complexity of the federal system, with its «multiplicity of courts, prosecutors and regulators at state and federal levels» and the tradition of targeting corporations as well as individuals in criminal cases.

Social change happens first at an individual level and then moves outwards through relationships of family, community, the land, the planet, as part of a nested system like ripples in a pond.