Sentences with phrase «meaningful signals of»
Teacher value - added scores, computed with care, should be taken seriously because these scores serve as meaningful signals of long - term benefit to students.
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«With our forecast projecting output growth to slow below potential in 2020, the inversion of the yield curve would be a meaningful signal regarding the specter of a looming recession.»
«The Whole Foods in - store inventory isn't currently online, so this would be a meaningful infrastructure enhancement, that likely signals Amazon has bigger plans,» said Jason Goldberg, senior vice president of retail and commerce at digital marketing company SapientRazorfish.
«We hope this signals a change in the pattern of automatic corporate legal challenges that will evolve into meaningful engagement with shareholders about truly sustainable long - term value and success.»
Elections in America serve two functions — a «formal» function of filling the personnel for the constitutional offices, which takes place in every election, and an «informal» function of signaling what the people want, which takes place in a meaningful way only in certain elections, where national public sentiment has congealed on a common message or theme.
Hopefully he will benefit by being able to: (1) Get to know himself better; (2) Become more keenly aware of how he needs to change; (3) Recognize danger signals to his sobriety before he takes the first drink; (4) Live more comfortably with himself and others; (5) Have the door opened for a more personal and meaningful relationship with God.
«Unlike the administration's useless gestures around the Johnson Amendment, these regulations signal meaningful enforcement of existing protections for religious liberty,» said John Inazu, a law professor at Washington University and a First Amendment expert.
Therefor, if crying can be regarded as a meaningful «target behaviour» for intervention with depressed mothers, research needs to address how to identify it (cry), what aspect of its character is meaningful (to the mother and clinician), who should be the target of the intervention (mother and / or infant) and whether the crying infant or the mother's processing of the signal matters (i.e., mother vs. infant).
«But our findings suggest that at its evolutionary origins, handshaking might have also served to convey odor signals, and such signaling may still be a meaningful, albeit subliminal, component of this custom.»
They found that a handshake alone was sufficient for the transfer of several odors known to serve as meaningful chemical signals in mammals.
After three years of limb paralysis, it was by no means clear that Nagle's motor cortex could still signal his intentions in a meaningful way.
The effect of stellar contamination is up to 15 times larger than the signal expected from molecules in the atmosphere of a rocky planet (light green band), which means that we can't currently draw any meaningful conclusions about planetary atmospheres from measurements like this.
With News Feed ranking, Facebook's algorithms look at available signals and make a set of predictions that help us to estimate how meaningful we think
In other words, K - 19 is a clumsily - scripted sham constructed of so many misfires and mixed signals that the creaking and groaning of the sub's over-pressurized hull is eventually drowned out by the deep sighs and meaningful rustling of its increasingly incredulous audience.
Additionally, the power of strong signals of academic performance — enabled by meaningful grades and test scores — has greater importance for students trapped in low - performing schools.
Billowy petals of pale yellow and blue signal Louis's mood; heavy black pencil scratches suggest fear or anxiety; and the fine - lined faces brim with meaningful expression.
Of course there are exceptions, but the general consensus is that signals that occur on longer term time frames are more meaningful.
[NB: I'll obviously highlight the size of each holding — it may not be meaningful in terms of likely 2015 performance, but it's a clear signal of the ultimate risk / reward equation I see on offer for each stock].
Time spent on any given post was added as a «signal of interest,» as users don't always like, comment, or share things they find interesting or meaningful.
The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education — education understood to include everything that happens to us from the moment we enter this world of meaningful symbols, signs, and signals.
By exhibiting two abstract and one figurative painter, 68projects asserts the importance and still - meaningful possibilities of oil painting while signaling its primary intent of showcasing emerging painters to new audiences in Europe.
To compare amplitudes of two signals is much more meaningful than to compare trends.
As long as you cling to the premise that closely fitting a sharply low - passed version of HADCRUT3 (which fails many ex-ante validation tests as a geophysical signal) reveals something highly meaningful about the real world, you'll remain unreachable.
That meaningful decomposition of geophysical signals requires an orthogonal set of basis functions has been ignored in the course of seeking extravagant claims.
The strength of the regulations to be released Monday, and whether they withstand the likely legal and political challenges ahead, will send a critical signal not only to Americans but to the rest of the world about whether the U.S. government can take meaningful action on emissions.
Susann Scherbarth, climate campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «G7 countries have signalled their agreement on the importance of tackling climate change eventually, but haven't announced any meaningful action.
If the signal is too small or too short relative to the noise to produce meaningful information, then no amount of processing or tools and techniques will provide anything useful.
The company behind Signal also doesn't keep meaningful amounts of user data.
Thus far there remains limited clarity as to the nature and direction of the new government and indeed whether new leadership in fact signals a meaningful change of course.
By insisting on meaningful consultation with First Nations as a condition of the Energy East Pipeline proceeding, Quebec Premier Couillard and Ontario Premier Wynne are not, as Newman accuses them, «playing a dangerous game» — they are signalling their governments» intention to fulfil their constitutional obligations to Aboriginal peoples.