Sentences with phrase «marginal gains»

There's no reason to reinvent the wheel or add cumbersome layers of security for what would be a very marginal gain in my opinion.

Evidence based medicine is, increasingly, a science of marginal gains — since the low hanging fruit (interventions that promise big improvements) for many conditions were picked long ago.

In this week's economic review, mortgage rates increased and consumer sentiment remained strong while consumer prices and sales saw only marginal gains this spring.

That's still $ 50,000 spend to equal a $ 250 marginal gain over the standard 2 % card.

It's all about looking for incremental, marginal gains which, taken together, make a big difference.

It's the «human algorithm» that provides marginal gains.

I think the book tries to build up marginal gains by starting with the basic harvesting strategy then introducing variable withdrawal strategies that improve overall income on average.

It means marginal gains in image quality from a processing point of view.

The workforce must be given the tools to work as efficiently as possible to see the benefits of marginal gains.

Since the current crop of LCVs still have question marks over their environmental cleanliness in the UK - related to their production methods and their dependence on unclean energy - there is little incentive to consumers to pay so much extra for marginal gains.

Stephen Tierney (@LeadingLearner)-- Growth Mindset in the Staff Room When teachers are working within a whole school Growth Mindset culture, which is multi-faceted, they are far more likely to be successful in making marginal gains in teaching practice.

Episode take - aways: Strategies that lead to willing parent engagement and participation Employing marginal gains theory to enhance pedagogical approaches Allowing young people to fail in order to progress Please pay the knowledge forward and share with your community!

While bitcoin ended February with marginal gains, and the likes of litecoin and lesser - known DigixDao shined, names like ICON (ICX), NEM (XEM) and cardano (ADA) took a beating as the market turned south, CoinDesk data shows.

One that has always stayed in my mind was on the subject of the aggregation of small marginal gains.

Domestic industrial capitalism ran into the limits of overcapacity and saturated markets; additional capital investments reaped marginal gains in profits.

Both have failed to increase their representation of Hispanics and African Americans and have made only marginal gains when it comes to women.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 - Wall Street fell on Thursday as losses in industrials and interest - rate sensitive sectors offset marginal gains in tech stocks.

Some fields showing marginal gains (for men and women)-- such as journalism and pre-law — haven't been great job producers of late.

Stocks logged marginal gains on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^ DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^ GSPC) indexes each finishing higher by less than 0.1 %.

World stock markets eked out only marginal gains Friday as an immediate agreement among U.S. leaders to resolve a critical budget deadlock appeared unlikely.

We've spent a lot of time debating the merits and likelihood of a trade deal with the US in recent months, but the leaked briefing confirms that this deal would offer comparably tiny marginal gains of just 0.2 % in the long term.

In comparison, Liberal Democrat victories on taxation and the pupil premium seemed marginal gains, and many key pledges were not successfully implemented.

In some previous elections the swing in close marginals (particularly marginals gained at the previous election and where the new incumbent is standing again) has been a lot less than in most other types of seats.

A teacher one standard deviation above the mean effectiveness annually generates marginal gains of over $ 400,000 in future student earnings, assuming a class size of 20, and proportionately higher gains with larger class sizes.

The pilot evidence does not claim to be conclusive, but only suggestive as to the reasons for what are in the end relatively marginal gains in academic attainment.

The extra 30bhp gets the DB9 GT to 62mph in 4.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 183mph, which are actually only very marginal gains over a standard DB9.

For example, if your net worth is $ 2 million and your home only represents $ 200,000 of it, this discussion is hardly worth the effort, as the net marginal gain from this strategy will minimally affect your net worth.

As the energy sector pollutes more than any other industry, even marginal gains can have a significant impact.

Folks thinking like Josh Browdler represent the paradigm shift that is needed in Legal, to challenge and shake the very roots of the advice / delivery mechanism; not just reengineering existing processes for marginal gains.

When teachers are working within a whole school Growth Mindset culture, which is multi-faceted, they are far more likely to be successful in making marginal gains in teaching practice.

Still, the current return / risk profile features highly «unpleasant skew» - in any given week, the single most likely outcome is actually a small advance, yet the average return in the current classification is quite negative, because those small marginal gains have typically been wiped out by steep, abrupt market plunges that erase weeks or months of gains in one fell swoop (see Impermanence and Full - Cycle Thinking for a chart).

This is a drama of marginal gains which finely drip feeds details to be succulently absorbed throughout as it gently glides towards a stirring climax.

But when education leaders use these technologies merely as replacements for textbooks, gradebooks, and worksheets, they risk complicating teachers» jobs with only marginal gains for students.

Brailsford believed in a concept that he referred to as the «aggregation of marginal gains.»

The majority decision written by Justice Marshall Rothstein, found that only marginal gains in efficiency are not sufficient grounds under the Competition Act to block an anti-competitive merger.

I think the tilts are just a marginal gain that you might choose to ignore or work around as we can't simply replicate those suggested funds here in the UK easily.

It is an insipid man who compares football to war but that does not mean that lessons of marginal gains or planning for that matter, can not be taken from it.

In a game of marginal gains, catching up just won't do...

Call it marginal gains or a competitive advantage, but it can be swiftly eroded.

In a television documentary he argued TUEs were a legitimate way of achieving «marginal gains» if their use did not break anti-doping rules.

The other thing is that the manager or somebody has to measure how these marginal gains are progressing in every aspect of the club / playing staff, Slav has shown no indication that he is capable of that, every player is getting progressively worse i.e. marginally or maximally gaining on a downward trend rather than an upwards curve.

Our Science of Football series speaks to individuals tasked with looking for the marginal gains across football, from psychologists to analysts, futurologists to scouts.

To this end, the use of power meters is fundamental to the step - by - step approach used by the World Class Performance Programme at British Cycling to achieve the marginal gains required to optimise the performance of riders.

Democrats might be able to make some marginal gains, but Utah Republicans are in no danger of losing significant clout.