Sentences with phrase «known as benchmarks»

Founded in 1933 by a team of veterinary leaders, AAHA is an acclaimed veterinary organization that helps veterinary professionals provide animal care and client services using a list of stringent guidelines, known as benchmarks of excellence.

That's why the indexes are known as benchmarks.

School board vice president Nick Melvoin requested the change at Tuesday's board meeting because he said the added requirements, known as benchmarks, were being applied unfairly to some schools that were showing improvements while others that had lower test scores had none.

School board vice president Nick Melvoin requested the change at Tuesday's board meeting because he said the added requirements, known as benchmarks, were being applied unfairly to some schools that were showing...

Expected passive income, when broken down by each source (asset allocation), within each age group is highly desirable to know as a benchmark.

One of the Fed's most - used tools that it relies on to influence the economy is the federal funds rate — also known as the benchmark interest rate.

Index Fund: A type of investment fund that is designed to trade the components of some underlying index, known as the benchmark.

One of the Fed's most - used tools that it relies on to influence the economy is the federal funds rate — also known as the benchmark interest rate.

Not exact matches

Clearly, you know, looking at the 10 - year treasury as a benchmark, we're coming off that 244 level at year - end.

As you know, Travis resigned in June at the request of a large group of shareholders which included Benchmark.

Benchmark claimed it would never have allowed the three extra seats if it had known about Kalanick's «gross mismanagement and other misconduct at Uber», citing scandals such as Uber's «Greyball» software to deceive authorities, and an executive apparently accessing a rape victim's medical files in India.

The Shanghai oil futures contract is similarly designed to wrest some control over pricing from the main benchmarks in New York and London — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent — and to promote the use of the yuan, also known as the renminbi.

Along with devaluing the currency by 1.86 %, the most since 1994, the PBoC announced that it would modify the way it set the reference rate, known as «central parity», that determines the RMB's trading band, and it would so so «for the purpose of enhancing the market - orientation and benchmark status of central parity».

Quick answer: no, as the European Central Bank, which has an inate fear of inflation, felt compelled on Thursday by the economic crisis in Europe to cut its benchmark interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, bringing the refinancing rate to a record low of 0.75 % and the overnight deposit rate to zero.

The NASDAQ - 100 Index, often known simply as the NASDAQ, is one of the best known benchmarks in the world.

Benchmark is known as one of Silicon Valley's most founder - friendly venture capital firms, meaning that it doesn't carve out special deals for itself at the expense of entrepreneurs and employees.

This modern trend is known as «benchmark - hugging» and it is quite extraordinary how many funds are guilty of this.

Ask yourself how these nontraditional options will bring you closer to your business goals Because Zeppos knows that her business can not rely on barter as a principal source of revenue, she sets a benchmark amount that can be sold that year with barter.

Most variable rate consumer loans are tied to one of two benchmark rates, the London Interbank Offered Rate, known as LIBOR, or the Prime Rate.

Ellis's conclusion is that «active» investment management (as opposed to «passive» management that simply replicates the results of benchmarks) is «no longer a game worth playing.»

Borrowers will no longer be able to rely on existing pre-approvals obtained by using the HEM benchmark as they can then find themselves in a position where they have won an auction but then the bank does not give them enough money to settle which would mean losing their deposit.

As I am sure you know, Taylor rules are a simple formula which give a benchmark for the real short - term interest rate, conditional on the latest information about output relative to estimated potential output and inflation relative to the target rate (and conditional on an assumption of a so - called «neutral» real interest rate).

Dear Ms. Hillson, Thank you for your response and for letting me (and the rest of the readership) know we can now use the images as a resource and benchmark for success!

«They have set themselves as this higher - than - high, pious team who set the benchmark for what is right and what is wrong in cricket, when everyone who has played against them knows it's an absolute joke.»

i like podolski and do nt think wenger has ever really got the best out of him but even at his best he is no longer a top flight player... we need to sell him and bring in someone who can really add to the level of our attack... and carvalho is now a benchmark for gauging wenger «s ambition... the lack of proper defensive cover is one reason our attacks have become much less threatening as players do nt want to overstretch knowing what «s not behind them... i am pretty confident we will beat besiktas (a team that would be hanging around the bottom of the epl if not lower) but the fact that we are in this position again speaks volumes for the way the club is run and managed

So, as the ethics committee report explains, Nestlé weakened these policies in 2010 prior to being admitted to the index, knowing these would be the benchmark.

The highest elevation in the county is a U.S. Geological Survey benchmark known as «Bailey» at approximately 299 m (980 feet) above sea level in Mountain Lakes Park near the Connecticut state line.

In Scotland's case, this has always operated using England as a benchmark with adjustment for Scotland's higher needs, entrenched since 1978 in the funding model known as the Barnett Formula which aims to provide a high degree of stability in funding.

The state may have lost up to $ 136 million in the scandal involving banks rigging a global interest rate benchmark known as Libor to conceal their troubles, Cuomo's budget office estimates.

This new planet is among the least endowed with such metals that we know of, and because it is so bright it should serve as a benchmark for comparative studies of how and under what conditions planets form.»

Those of us for whom Star Trek serves as a benchmark for technological progress can only bemoan the fact that hopes for faster - than - light travel to other galaxies seem to be receding at warp speed, given that we no longer even have faster - than - sound travel to France.

In addition to acting as a benchmark for your strength gains, knowing your one - rep max with multiple lifts is a key to workouts that require a specific set of exercises and reps at a certain percentage of your personal max.

«As a new company, the Awards provided a great way to get to know other people in the industry and to benchmark our concept and progress against others.»

Best summarized as a chronicle of a coupe of «kids» making a no - budget movie, the trio do a good job of covering the film's inception, production and final release, and offer some good background material using the film as a benchmark in their respective film careers.

We know that the New York State Education Department used SAT scores of 560 in Reading, 540 in Writing and 530 in mathematics, as the college readiness benchmarks to help set the «passing» cut scores on the 3 - 8 New York State exams.

«If you were giving a test in the fall and knew you were going to be evaluated as an educator, and you knew your growth was how you were going to be evaluated, you would try to basically have a low benchmark there, then in the spring you would want the absolute highest benchmark,» Behning says.

The data, part of the benchmark test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, show that New York City fourth graders have made progress in closing the gap between their scores and the state and national results in reading, despite the higher percentages of poor and minority students in the city.

Known as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), they are intended to be internationally benchmarked and to combine scientific content and practice.

This is done through studies of concurrent validity, which are also sometimes known as «benchmark checks.»

Benchmarks such as this do not reflect our best knowledge of what children should know and be able to do to become skilled readers.

Benchmarks or objectives are defined as the more specific statements about what students should know and be able to do that usually vary across grade levels and clusters.

Students will have a chance to show what they know, which will give you a chance, as a teacher, to benchmark their understanding.

· Recreating famous examples from an area of study, something that is also known as «benchmarking».

For the last four years, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has championed the set of learning benchmarks known as the Common Core State Standards — but a simmering mess of litigation in the state's court system shows that Jindal has moved as far away from his previous position as he can.

It also sanctioned schools if they did not meet performance benchmarks known as «Adequate Yearly Progress.»

The current incarnation (seventh - generation as the British automaker would like us to know) came 14 years ago and set new benchmarks for luxury and refinement in the ultra luxury class.

Formerly known as the 2 - door derivatives of the M3 sedan, the M4 remains the benchmark for rivals like the Mercedes - Benz C63, Cadillac ATS - V and Lexus RC F.

For our review we used the Kindle 3G as a benchmark and in most areas of Vancouver it gave us a full 5 bars no matter where we were.

We are going to compare the screen in an direct sunlight setting in normal mode and with Pixel QI, we will use the IPAD as a benchmark for its comparison (mainly cause everyone knows how the ipad performs) Most other reviews have been negative so far, because they do not know how pixel qi is supposed to function, or use a camera with FLASH.

It's hard to know exactly how impressive until I have time to curl up with a book or three and read for lengthy periods but my guess is that it's going to be at least 95 % as good as the current Kindle app, the benchmark for ebook reading apps in my opinion.