Sentences with phrase «lower average quality»

Occam's Razor suggests the lower average quality of Padres» starters is the real significant performance factor.

Not exact matches

While the average attention spans are at all - time low, the expectations of the quality of content are higher than ever.

They noted that emerging markets (EM) have the attractive qualities of high average returns and low correlation with developed markets (DM).

After simply using the tool, following recommendations, and really honing in on what it said I increased the quality score of the account to 7.38 and lowered the average CPC to $ 1.79 within only 7 days!

MINT is a low - cost, actively - managed fund that seeks higher current income than the average money market mutual fund by holding a hodgepodge of high - quality and ultra-short term USD - denominated debt issued by domestic or foreign issuers.

The site encourages shoppers to comparison shop, placing equivalent brands in tabs next to the Scout + Ro items, which are priced just low enough that they seem of similar quality, but clearly the better deal, an average of about 35 percent cheaper.

Because high quality firms on average outperform low quality firms, this quality deficit drags down the returns to traditional value strategies.

«Buying a company below its historic average or intrinsic value (as that is how low quality businesses will often be valued when they are close to the nadir of their capital cycle) is a good starting point for any investment and has a track record of producing excess long - term returns» Marathon Asset Management

Yields available on high - quality securities continue to remain low but are somewhat offset by increases in average investment balances.

Predictions are for a lower than average crop in Italy, with some serious quality concerns.

Save if the present Gunners save themselves from going out of this season Ucl to Barcelona, the Boss and the Arsenal Board MUST re focus their focus on revamping the Arsenal squad with some additions of top quality players from where ever they can find them to replace the dead woods, the injury proners, the past it, the can't make it, the too average, the not Ucl quality, the 1 or 2 matches performance players, the low class ones, the uninteligent ones, the lazy ones but swallowing up vast wages of Arsenal money, the cave - in big games players and the boastful but lackluster players in big games who are presently at Arsenal now.

We do pay a lot in wages for average quality yet a lot of that is running low on contract, maybe the club isn't offering so many contracts as they wish to get rid of some of them, we all know Arsenal as a club are not great at getting the right transfers done and that also includes selling.

total failure... Can you believe Wenger spent 32 millions on 2 average players (Chambers and Welbeck) and is penny pinching when is sbout real class players?What is in his mind?Pay a fortune in salary for mediocre players live Walcott, Ramsey and Wilshere and have hesitations about increasing Sanchez wages... keeping on books failures like Sanogo... The truth is - I say it for years and years - until the «British core» disapears, we are not going to be succesful.The low quality of British players is dragging the team back.Last time Arsenal was a powerhouse NONE of the first 11 was British.Wanna see how the British quality looks like in a football team - look no further than national sides of England, Scotland, N Ireland, Wales, even Ireland (not British but same style)- all mediocre teams «able» to be defeated by any team coming to mind.And you are asking about Chambers?He is in the same mold like Wilshere,Walcott,Ox,Ramsey,Gibs,Jenkinson - mediocre overpriced and overpaid players.The world is full with hungry, ambitious and skilled players living in poverty and dreaming of moving to the top at any cost or sacrifice (did you see the poor house - if you can call that house, looking more like an old tent - in which Alexis Sanchez grew up?Or Suarez?)

The Catalan giants are seemingly making a point of lowering the average age of their squad with quality young players being targeted.

Critics argue that the quality of life of overweight people is lower than that of those with average weight.

Here, to illustrate the connection between fatherhood and child well - being, I compare adolescent boys and girls who fall into one of four categories: those living in an intact, married family with a high - quality relationship with their father (top third), or an average - quality relationship with their father (middle third), or a low - quality relationship with him (bottom third), or living in a single - mother family.

Parents who work in low - wage jobs can face real difficulties affording quality child care — in 2013, the average cost of full - time care for an infant at a child care center was about $ 10,000 per year — higher than the average cost of in - state tuition at a public 4 - year college - and much higher in some locations.

What's more, full - mooners took 5 minutes longer on average to get to sleep than those in the other groups, and they also rated sleep quality as 15 per cent lower (Current Biology, doi.org/m95).

Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.

They found that diet quality scores during school hours averaged nine points lower among children aged 14 - 17 compared to children aged 6 - 8.

In contrast, among those workers with average or low levels of emotional intelligence, even high levels of motivation did not positively affect the quality of service provided or their sense of satisfaction with their work.

Moreover, the 2.3 billion people likely to be added to the human population by 2050 will undermine those systems much more seriously than did the previous 2.3 billion, as each additional person will, on average, have to be supported by scarcer, lower - quality resources imposing ever greater environmental costs.

It's important to understand, for instance, that women who undergo CPM don't have a higher quality of life, on average, than those who choose less invasive treatment options — and they may even have lower levels of physical well - being, according to a study by Dr. Hwang, because the surgery itself has side effects that can cause long - lasting problems.

The Diet Doctor comes to the conclusion that according to all high - quality studies people on average lose more weight on low carbohydrates.

With the exception of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, the lowest ranked Italian school, coming in 44th and 24th place in BoF's BA and MA rankings respectively, the careers departments of the Italian schools scored above average, with students praising their access to quality recruiters and effective careers services.

With a proven dating site design that works (similar to FriendFinder's other successful niche dating services), an on average over all lower membership price and above all a large number of members who have quality profiles and who participate in the success of this dating service.

The movie portrayed her personality and as a legend of a woman posed as a man to enter the monastery and become Pope.German actress Johanna Wokalek was pretty good for that role and the other performances were decent as well.The portrayal of the time, crowds and the cities was below average, but very effective, since it was a low - budget movie, the image and lighting quality was not always good.The weak point of the movie was in the rhythm, which at times was uneven, and went from fast to very slow, but still it was never boring because of the strong plot.

Maine earns lower - than - average scores in three of the four graded policy categories in Quality Counts.

Small turnover increases can quickly offset small productivity gains to ultimately lower average teacher quality.

For youth in the highest risk group (top 20 %), the gain in school quality indicators is «roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.»

For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

In addition, in schools with larger concentrations of low performers, the quality of educational resources is lower, and the incidence of teacher shortage is higher, on average across OECD countries, even after accounting for students» and schools» socio - economic status.

Smaller classes appear to be beneficial only in countries where average teacher quality is low.

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

The results of this analysis confirm that the relationship between higher teacher turnover and lower average valueadded in a given grade is stronger as principal quality rises.

For example, if low - income students really do attend inferior schools as compared with high - income students, the average gap in school quality would be eliminated in this first step.

1) While Americans asked to evaluate the quality of teachers» work think, on average, that about half of the teachers in their local schools deserve a grade of A or B, they think that more than one - fifth deserve a D or F; even teachers give these low marks to more than 1 in 10 of their peers, on average.

Those living in parts of the country with lower - quality schools apparently have little idea that schools in other states are, on average, a lot better.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

Moreover, the quality of district schools can vary significantly, and the schools to which students from low - income families are generally assigned tend to underperform significantly on average.

Moreover, the fact that relative achievement continues to decline after students» initial entry into middle schools suggests that average educational quality in Florida is lower in stand - alone middle schools than in schools serving grades K — 8.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

In fact, research has indicated that a low income child who has a high quality teacher five years in a row will have learning gains, on average, high enough to completely eliminate the achievement gap with their more affluent peers.

Education Next also found skepticism about teacher quality: While Americans think, on average, that about half of the teachers in their local schools deserve a grade of A or B, they think that more than one - fifth deserve a D or F; even teachers give these low marks to more than 1 in 10 of their peers, on average.

Across the board, the Quality Assurance Review averages on the seven standards were lower than the Standard Assessment Report averages.

As these and many other disadvantages accumulate, children from lower social classes inevitably have lower average achievement than middle - class children, even with the highest - quality instruction (Rothstein, 2008).

Compounding this problem, children from low - income families, on average, begin kindergarten approximately a year behind their peers in preliteracy and language skills.106 This fluency gap widens as students continue in school and has a significant impact on economic success later in life.107 As a result, gains from high - quality preschool programs — including improved health, better social - emotional skills, and better cognitive outcomes — are particularly beneficial for children from low - income families.108

Michigan's average teacher salary has dropped for the fifth year in a row, and many districts say they have trouble retaining high quality teachers because of low pay.

School quality in the charter sector was initially highly variable and on average lower than traditional public schools.