Sentences with phrase «meaningful comparisons»

Senior leadership can make meaningful comparisons between departments or even schools within a network, and clearly understand the success of their policies and make changes accordingly.

Their international scope allows for meaningful comparisons between sectors and industries worldwide.

Financial stocks and limited partnerships are excluded because high levels of acceptable liabilities make it difficult to make meaningful comparisons of popular ratios.

Therefore, tests are used which challenge the vehicle structure and occupant restraint systems but which offer some resolution in results to allow for meaningful comparison between vehicles in this category.

That is because now every student is compared to similar students in a way that makes for a more meaningful comparison, an improvement for the first time ever.

In this study, the number of people from ethnic minorities was too small to allow meaningful comparison.

Just as the unit price listed on grocery shelves enables shoppers make meaningful comparisons across brands, active cost helps fund investors spot good values across an investment category.

In the 1973 - 83 data, there were too few instances of punitive damages to draw meaningful comparisons.

When this study began, the school system enrolled mostly black children, with so few whites that their presence in the sample was expanded to permit meaningful comparisons between black and white.

And unlike the state, it has used the same test, allowing for meaningful comparisons over time.

This, too, is a more meaningful comparison than a simple average of all funds.

They also allow us to make meaningful comparisons between conventional withdrawal strategies, which include income from capital gains as well as dividends, and a dividends - only approach.

We dispute this claim as it's impossible to make accurate and meaningful comparisons between the two sectors.

So these are the only columns on the Buy Term Results sheet that have meaningful comparison with insurance products.

It's really the only way we have of making meaningful comparisons at a national or state level — not just how are we progressing, but how do kids in state A vs state B compare, or racial comparisons.

So the only meaningful comparison would be between Saturn's list price and whatever a prospective buyer can negotiate on a given day for a comparably equipped Camry - a figure that varies by dealership and other factors.

This is not a very meaningful comparison.

Greater transparency on metrics such as emissions along the supply chain, internal use of carbon prices, and investments in low - carbon technology research and development is necessary in order to make meaningful comparisons among different fossil fuel companies» 2 °C scenario plans, and to assess each company's progress toward its stated commitments.

There is currently not enough information on the latter group fort meaningful comparison to be made of the differences between these two help - seeking groups.

The Company believes that discussion of these additional non-GAAP measures provides investors with meaningful comparisons of current results to prior periods» results by excluding items that the Company does not believe reflect its fundamental business performance.

Demographic adjustments are never perfect, but they allow for much more meaningful comparisons across states and over time.

However, it is the percentage ranges that enable meaningful comparison between several currency pairs because comparing EUR / USD pips with USD / JPY pips is akin to comparing apples to oranges.

As more AI tools embrace transparency around their technology, it will become easier for AI vendors and buyers alike to fully understand the real value of AI technology and make meaningful comparison across tools.

The need for standardised protocols and reporting of data is crucial for meaningful comparisons and collaboration within the field of ocean acidification.

Even the Food and Drug Administration admits to this problem on its website stating, «To make meaningful comparisons of nutrient levels between a canned (or fresh) and dry product, they should be expressed on the same moisture basis.»

Just as we have done in education and policing, we need better data — to allow meaningful comparisons to be made between different prisons so the best performing institutions and best performing leaders can be recognised and rewarded.

Anomalies more accurately describe climate variability over larger areas than absolute temperatures do, and they give a frame of reference that allows more meaningful comparisons between locations and more accurate calculations of temperature trends.

«Meaningful comparisons» section is irrelevant.

A comparison to indices may not be a meaningful comparison.

To get a meaningful comparison, you would have to compare perhaps the top 10 of each across all the morality metrics.

The only true and meaningful comparison is with what WE were a decade ago.

Finally, with all due respect to you and any young people whose knowledge and therefore perspective is not based on clear facts, there is no way that they have the personal life and Arsenal supporting experience and Arsenal historical knowledge to make a true and meaningful comparison between the Wenger great days pre 2007 and the miserable last decade.

Ruth Dixon showed how the definition of central government administration costs in PESA changed so much over the 2000s that no meaningful comparison can be made over that period (see Figure 1).

I don't think you could draw any meaningful comparison between money spent on one vs. the other not to mention all of the unknowns involved.

For a meaningful comparison, you have to find out how much total money a citizen spends on health care every year.

Do you mean «total spending per capita» as the meaningful comparison?

For more meaningful comparisons, improved cancer registration is needed.»

To allow for more meaningful comparisons, the Empire Center recalculated the OSC data on taxes, debt and spending as per - capita values — i.e., relative to population.

In addition, because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large - scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

«Researchers will be able to make meaningful comparisons between large - scale and small - scale fisheries, nearshore and offshore fisheries, operations in industrialized countries compared to ones in developing countries, seafood aimed at export markets versus seafood primarily consumed locally, and a host of other possibilities,» said co-author Martin Smith, a professor of environmental economics at Duke University.