Sentences with phrase «key measurement of»

Scoring is the way we judge how well players execute their strategy — it's a specific way of measuring their performance... it goes further than just first, second, third — on - track scoring is the key measurement of success in Trailblazers.

The peak strength - to - weight ratio recorded at any time before the roof is crushed 5 inches is the key measurement of roof strength.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

A spirit of giving back should be interwoven in all companies, not just an afterthought (like CSR), but a key measurement of the company's success.

One key measurement of Twitter's popularity, Twitter.com's traffic, indicates a disturbing trend: ComScore shows that growth of U.S. visitors to the site has leveled off more than a year after its massive spike upward in 2009.

«Customer loyalty is one of the key measurements of product excellence and customer satisfaction,» said John Mendel, executive vice president of -LSB-...]

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So, before embarking on any major endeavor or project, take the time to align understanding between key players, particularly when it comes to specific objectives and measurements of success.

GIC reported a 20 - year annualized real return - its key measurement gauge - of 3.7 percent above global inflation for the year ended March, down from 4 percent a year ago.

The combination of spending control and economic growth is going to restore some of those key financial measurements back to where they were pre-recession, and at that point give them a very strong footing to compete.

In the 1980s, a chemicals company became committed to a total quality management program and began to make extensive measurements of employee participation, statistical process control, and key quality indicators.

To ensure that surface water quality is maintained, measurement and reporting of water quality parameters in key water bodies is carried out on a weekly basis.

We've selected our key accounts utilizing our defined selection criteria and determined our measurements of success.

While this number is still small compared to those of traditional payment processors, it's a marked increase in one of the key measurements for bitcoin adoption — consumer spending.

This highly flawed concept, widely taught in MBA and financial engineering programs, perceives volatility as an exogenous measurement of risk, ignoring its role as both a source of excess returns, and a direct influencer on risk itself... Systematic strategies are based on market volatility as a key decision metric for leverage... The majority of active management strategies rely on some form of volatility for excess returns and to make leverage decisions.

In its seventh edition, this state of the market report presents investors» perspectives on key issues important to the impact investing industry, as well as analysis of their investment activity, asset allocations by geography, sector, and investment instrument, impact measurement practice, and performance.

Yet he falls short of demonstrating that consciousness is the key to resolving the quantum measurement problem.

Just as Russell asked how could relations among phenomena not reflect relations among noumena, we can ask the following question: if a key feature of mass is continuity, then does this not imply some underlying substrate that must persist without change from measurement to measurement?

Ingenious persons devote time and trouble, which they might well have spent on cross-word puzzles, to the attempt to discover the «key to prophecy», just as others try to predict coming events from the measurements of the Great Pyramid.

Measurement of food loss is a key component of any reduction intervention.

Key is such a weird prospect — he's underweight, slim and lanky, one of those guys that's built more like a NBA small forward than an NFL edge rusher, doesn't have any exceptional physical measurements aside from his height, and his athletic testing was very underwhelming.

It is an affordable and very good scale that offers tracking of all key body measurements.

The key to these measurements is carbon - 14, a radioactive (yet harmless) isotope of carbon that is formed in the upper atmosphere.

Binghamton researchers encrypted patient data using a person's unique electrocardiograph (ECG)-- a measurement of the electrical activity of the heart measured by a biosensor attached to the skin — as the key to lock and unlock the files.

«Quantitative, rigorous measurements are key to making important decisions about social welfare allocation and the distribution of humanitarian aid,» said lead author Joshua Blumenstock, assistant professor in the UW Information School, who is also an adjunct professor in computer science and engineering.

Pourhashem noted the key measurements needed are the rate of soil emission of nitric oxide (NO), which is a smog precursor, after biochar is applied to fields.

A key new measurement of Mars» atmosphere by NASA's Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origins of other meteorites.

The researchers compared measurements of the three key factors to American Diabetes Association guidelines that were in effect at the time — blood pressure under 130/80 mmHg, LDL (or bad) cholesterol less than 100 mg / dL and blood HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin) under 7 percent.

The team has built its first machine and has carried out 200 shots during commissioning and applied up to 1 kilowatt of heating, but McGuire declined to detail any measurements of plasma temperature, density, or confinement time — the key parameters for a fusion plasma — but said the plasma appeared very stable.

The particles flow along the entire cantilever in about 100 milliseconds, so a key advance that allowed the researchers to take rapid measurements at each point along the channel was the incorporation of a control system known as a phase - locked loop (PLL).

Gravity Probe B fell well short of the precision developers had hoped to achieve in making the key measurement.

The key to making this delicate measurement doable by amateurs is the availability of modern digital cameras combined with relatively small telescopes.

Measurements of the electrical activity of nerve cells in two key areas of the brain showed a surprising result: nerve cells in the prefrontal cortex signaled the distraction while it was being presented, but immediately restored the remembered information (the number of dots) once the distraction was switched off.

This allows measurements of how much a person's voice deviates from that of the overall population, which is the key to verifying a person's identity.

Scientists agree that tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is key to obtaining a precise measurement: As a gas, tritium decays at such a rate that scientists can relatively easily observe its electron byproducts.

These measurements were key to discovering the elusive properties of the dust.

Long - anticipated measurement of 400 parts per million confirms relentless increase of key greenhouse gas

A team, including Professor Clare Mills from the Institute of Inflammation and Repair at The University of Manchester, has published an open access paper in the journal Analyst outlining a strategy to address the key measurement challenges in allergen analysis.

Physicists at the University of Washington have conducted the most precise and controlled measurements yet of the interaction between the atoms and molecules that comprise air and the type of carbon surface used in battery electrodes and air filters — key information for improving those technologies.

Dr Samantha Gibbs, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, who was Dr O'Dea's PhD supervisor and co-author of the study, says: «A key objective was to record calcification in fossil coccolithophores in a way that enabled direct comparison with measurements from living specimens.

The measurement of a key parameter at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant in China presages an exciting future for neutrino physics.

The Encelade team — lead by Valéry Lainey of the Paris Observatory — provided two key measurements in the research: the rigidity of the tidal bulge, or the Love number — named for Augustus E.H. Love, a famed British mathematician who studied elasticity — and the dissipation factor, which controls the speed at which moons move away.

Thus, CMS presents the best measurement at the LHC of the weak - mixing angle, a key parameter of the Standard Model that establishes a firmly predicted relation between the masses of the W and Z bosons.

When the noses of our distant ancestors evolved into sophisticated molecular detectors, he suggests, they started to process key traits to come up with a simple measurement — an internal yardstick.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility is a multi-laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientific user facility, and a key contributor to national and international climate research efforts.

«Magnetic fields are one of the keys to understand the sub-surface of the planet, in combination with other pieces of information such as gravity and seismic measurements,» said Dr Rune Floberghagen, Esa's Swarm mission manager.

KIPAC faculty member Risa Wechsler, a founding member of DES, said, «For the first time, the precision of key cosmological parameters coming out of a galaxy survey is comparable to the ones derived from measurements of the cosmic microwave background.

Key features of this innovative technology are that it (1) learns more and more about the stability of the patient's glaucoma with every measurement of eye pressure or visual field, (2) can be personalized to identify the optimal frequency of testing for each individual patient, and (3) would suggest an eye pressure level specific for that particular patient that the care provider would use in the process of recommending treatment.

Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

New research published this week in the Journal of Climate reveals that one key measurement — large - scale upper - ocean temperature changes caused by natural cycles of the ocean — is a good indicator of regional coastal sea level changes on these decadal timescales.

«Accurate measurement of the antineutrino energy was one of the keys for this result.