Sentences with phrase «into means testing»

«The two main categories of people who are poor - one group is pensioners who are now being protected better in a way they never were before, because their pensions are linked to earnings and pension credits are also protected so fewer of them are dragged into means testing.

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«Tapping them as resources means that your company can come with up better ideas — and have more insight into how to exploit those ideas, test their viability, and put them into production.»

That means they can «fail fast,» testing products with the rapidity of a tech company, and tap e-commerce and digital advertising instead of breaking into bricks and mortar and shelling out millions for TV ads.

A different approach would strengthen individual savings accounts by requiring workers to contribute out of pre-tax income, combined with a redistributive means - tested safety net for those who fall into poverty in old age.

In that space, we know that the new rules mean you need to be much more qualified to have that mortgage today than before the rules went into place, so there is a cushion in there where you can tolerate a higher rate of interest and so on because you have been tested against it.

Using phallometric test sensitivities to calculate the proportion of true pedophiles among various groups of sex offenders against children, and taking into consideration previously reported mean numbers of victims per offender group, the ratio of heterosexual to homosexual pedophiles was calculated to be approximately 11:1.

It means the god I followed for years out of great fear was cruel, out to get me, tried to trick me into sinning, O, no they call it testing, he is gone, never existed.

So science brings them into existence with theories, some testable and others we have no means of testing.

Having it integrated into their study aid, means they can chill out to their favorite music prior to a test, or have music playing as they revise.

Meaning it's sitting between the baby and the seat (so not an outer shell, more like a shell the baby goes into, inside of the seat)-- every carseat manufacturer warns against using products like this, because they are things going into the carseat between the baby and seat / straps, and it wasn't crash tested with.

Professor Luthar, among others, maintains that the pressure children are under to succeed — «and that means trophies and test scores and getting into the right college» — can also be counterproductive.

My ds is doing well, we too have an u / s scheduled in a few weeks to check his hips, and about a week after he was born he had a kidney u / s and a test to check for backflow from his bladder into his kidneys, the u / s went well but this other test they had to use a dye and that meant they had to put a catheder in him, but the messed it up twice so the had to to the test 3 times, i was so angry and i had to leave the room b / c i couldn't listen to him screaming anymore.

This alone translates into value, because it means that the device has been tested by many and yet, still maintains its value.

A citizen can not claim means - tested benefits without proving habitual residence, they can not marry a non-EEA national without verifying the partnership's legitimacy in the eyes of the state, and they can not bring this spouse into the UK without earning over a minimum income threshold.

The programme combines six means - tested benefits into a single payment and is designed to help more people back into work.

The Conservative manifesto also proposed converting the triple lock on pensions into a double lock and means testing the Winter fuel allowance.

Shadow pensions secretary Philip Hammond warned this was the «financial equivalent of kicking it into the long grass», and said it was the introduction of means - testing by Labour that had reduced people's savings and led to today's problems in the first place.

A spokesman for Commissioner Elia says the «tool kit» has been misunderstood, and it will NOT be a means to coerce parents into having their children take the tests.

A spokesman for Elia says the tool kit has been misunderstood, and it will not be a means to coerce parents into having their children take the tests.

Members call on the Government to explore the possibility of means - testing pensioners and to reinvest any savings into insulation and other measures to help the poor to bring down the cost of heating their homes» — The Times (#)

Universal credit is intended to consolidate six means - tested working - age benefits into a single system with the aim of encouraging claimants to start work or earn more.

The common feature of means - tested assistance programs is that they are graduated based on a person's income and, in contrast to programs like Social Security or Medicare, they are a free benefit and not paid into by the recipient,» says the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee.

Labour haven't definitely ruled out means - testing being brought into the NHS from social care.

The test requires removing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients by means of a spinal tap, putting samples into a bath of normally shaped prion proteins, and agitating the solution to encourage any abnormal prion «seeds» in the tissue to latch onto the regular proteins.

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.

If a means could be devised for testing those inborn talents, people could be directed into jobs they were good at and enjoyed, thereby allowing the nation as a whole to reach its full potential.

Most European countries are only testing people who have travelled to affected countries or come into contact with a person known to have swine flu, which means community - acquired infections are virtually guaranteed to go unnoticed.

Even if glcosepane's low tissue burden in rats means that cleaving it will not have dramatic rejuvenating effects in these animals (which is a reasonable prediction, but might be happily disproven in the event), its high prevalence in aging and diabetic human collagen, and its implication in the complications of diabetes, will make the mere demonstration of a candidate's ability to cleave glucosepane crosslinks in vivo a sufficient proof - of - concept to spur further work to move it down the therapeutic pipeline into human testing.

If you aren't into the math, it means that there is a decent chance that a woman who doesn't have GD will receive a false positive and also a chance that a woman may test negative and actually have GD.

Either way, the findings don't mean that blood tests to measure CRP levels should be excluded when taking into account a person's risk of heart disease or need for treatment, Dr. Ridker says.

It means transparency about everything that goes into our supplements and third - party testing to prove it.

This was the 8th most popular post, and for good reason, as we dove into the world of EBV, how to test for it, even how to cure it, and what it might mean for you and your thyroid health.

I also understand that this book is meant for the general population so it might've been too much for him to go into how APO E genotypes affect cholesterol levels and other risk factors especially in the setting of high saturated fat consumption OR new tests like the measurement of blood Lathosterol and Campesterol and how they relate to elevated LDLs... but for folks that have been into this for a while like myself, a section on this stuff would've been nice.

I appreciate that you dig into the research and then translate it into everyday language I actually have had the IgG test done and the ND explained that when lots of foods are flagged it means there's something wrong with the gut, namely leaky gut, NOT that the person is permanently intolerant to all of those foods.

About 5 or 6 years back, my thyroid antibodies were tested and were extremely high (in the 1500 range), then were tested again 6 months later and were even higher... yet it was dismissed then («we don't treat until it turns into hypothyroidism»), and every doctor I have seen since has either dismissed that test or has refused to do it because «thyroid antibodies don't really mean anything.»

In this newsletter it is inspiring to hear how the YDC translates into graduate studies at Columbia, how a family has experienced meaning in their two months of Ashram living, and how a baker tested her incredible Italian bread recipe on residents as part of an Artist & Professional Renewal Retreat.

You're body is used to all these endogenous artificial testosterone, you know, your testosterone to estrogen ratio is getting messed up and so you do have to use what's called post cycle therapy when you're on pro-hormones and we won't get into the post cycle therapy as much on this podcast «cause I know we're kinda pushing for time but the problem is that if you don't cycle pro hormones, it can be tough on your liver, it can be tough on your own endogenous production so it's something that you do wan na make sure that you do, that you understand how to cycle properly and I have to be careful of course, giving out recommendations like that on this show just because so many people who are listening to this are competing in event like triathlons and marathons and thing of that nature where they're gonna be drug tested and stuff like this would be a big no - no anyways, you know, or they're going after more natural means and let's face it, prohormones can be kinda damaging to your body and the reason for that is because a lot of these side effects: acne and hair loss, breast tissue enlargement, or you know, what we affectionately call bitch tits in dudes, prostate swelling, you know, a lot of these hormonal imbalances that get created from dumping exogenous sources of hormones into your body and creating like a hormone milieu that can be a real real issue from a health standpoint.

Reading yourself into three or four symptoms does not mean that you can jump to conclusions, and it always helps to test — suspend judgement, until you know the whole story.

This doesn't mean you are «getting slower»: once the test ends and you begin introducing carbohydrates into your diet, your body will begin to use both fuels again, and your speed will reflect that.

It has connected souls that were meant to be together and has looked into the fact that the app is structured in the way that their compatibility can be tested and ensures their lasting peace and satisfaction.

By really getting to know our members by means of our insightful, in - depth personality test, we're able to appreciate exactly what it is our members are looking for in a match, and how they expect love to fit into their busy lives.

Dorothy the accountant and her son Ray (the impishly adorable Jonathan Lipnicki) figure into Jerry's rocky search for the meaning of love and loyalty, while Tidwell serves as the test case for Jerry's new theories.

Her test classifies her as unclassifiable — a «divergent,» whose personality means she could fit into multiple classes.

Australian Parents Council Executive Director, Ian Dalton, told Education Matters parents were pleased with the move to online NAPLAN testing as it will provide the capacity for students to be tested according to their level of ability and faster availability of results means that remedial programs can be put into place more quickly.

When the 2012 technology scan showed that most districts had the requisite technology platform, few realized that the minimum specs had been dumbed - down or that this meant the new tests would sacrifice most of the hoped - for features — turning them into little more than traditional paper - and - pencil tests taken on a computer.

This means that in many of California's public high schools, students can graduate, but they won't be able to get into a UC or CSU college even if they have a good GPA and good test scores.

Inevitably, cramming that much coverage into a short test leads states to rely mostly on multiple - choice questions — the fastest and cheapest means of large - scale assessment.

The format of the test, in other words, misleads us into doing the equivalent of practicing for a physical, instead of teaching for meaning and transfer.

She said: «In practice this could mean taking a proportion of pupils from lower income households, so that selective education is not reserved for those with the means to move into a catchment area or pay for tuition to pass the test.

It is long overdue, but its current means may end up, save at the embarrassing margins, hurting the schools more than helping them, turning them into test - prep places and driving away the imaginative teachers that each of us as a parent wants in contact with our children.