Sentences with phrase «measure against a number»

(In the chart at right the number 100 is assigned to the highest volume for this term and all others are measured against this number.)

Neutering is particularly effective as a preventive measure against a number of common behavioral problems.

The gap is measured against the number of jobs created, so in places where a lot of jobs have been created, like San Francisco and Denver, the gap can be huge, because housing permits just aren't keeping up.

Not exact matches

Other countries have also started taking measures against the rising numbers of migrants reaching Europe.

This repeated counting is not an issue, since the objective of the analysis is to measure the number of mini flash crashes in the test window against the number of mini flash crashes in each window of similar duration during the control period.

While everyone knows that the number of female investing partners is very limited, we aimed to establish a well - defined baseline against which to measure future progress.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called the DREAM Act a nonstarter in his house, and with good reason — politically speaking — considering the fact that a number of his new members actively campaigned against the measure during the 2014 elections and were successful at the ballot box as a result of their opposition.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a number of measures - including action to be taken against the executives of failed banks - following a meeting of the leaders of Britain, Germany and Italy in Paris this afternoon.

In the end, lawmakers insisted they couldn't vote against a spending plan for schools, even if it did include a number of measures that they opposed.

Peers from the across the political spectrum (but notably many Liberal Democrats) voted for a number of measures which guarded against the plans, including giving judges, not Ministers, the say over the use of the secret trials.

The IDC noted that there are a number of right - leaning members of the larger Democratic caucus who would likely vote against the DREAM Act and other liberal measures if they came to the State Senate floor — and challenged their fellow partisans to «call the role.»

Each proposal is measured against several metrics, including the number of jobs to be created and how the project aligns with the regional council's five - year strategic plan, he said.

A number of upstate lawmakers, along with gun rights advocacy groups, were pulling for DeFrancisco, who voted against a strict gun control measure known as the SAFE Act, which is largely unpopular upstate.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

The move according to the command is part of measures to augment the number of personnel on patrols and also intensify the fight against crime in the region following recent robbery incidents in the Greater...

If that number is significant, it could negate the climate benefit of natural gas — measured against coal — unless the leaks are plugged.

Vaccines are used to offer protection against a number of diseases and so ensuring their effectiveness is important, and a study published in the journal Vaccine has reported that flu vaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afternoon.

York laboratories reported that antibodies against soybean proteins were measured in 10 percent of 4,500 individuals in 1996 and that number grew to 15 percent over six - months.

It does appear that your thyroid levels are good, but this has to be measured against symptomatic response, so it's important that somebody evaluate more than just numbers.

Intensity can be measured against your maximal effort (your one - rep max, or 1RM), but many beginning to intermediate lifters simply use this rule: Lift as much as you can lift for the target number of reps, ensuring that your muscles are fatigued by the last rep.. If you can do more reps than your target range, increase the weight.

Psychologist Jeffrey Hancock (Cornell Uni) and communications professor Nicole Ellison (Michigan State Uni) bring people into a lab, where they measure height and weight and then check the numbers against those in their online profiles.

To do that, we believe we must measure success against your life goals, not just against an arbitrary number.

When you measure this number against the 2,525 complaints, you get less than 0.4 % of singles using dating sites actually complain to the Better Business Bureau.

With the exception of certain word - of - mouth hits (think: Get Out), a studio movie's success is measured against its opening weekend numbers, which is why after a movie is released, the gears driving the studio's marketing push grind to a halt.

Since the introduction of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, some Enforcing Authorities have taken prosecutions against responsible persons with regard to failings of fire safety measures in schools but it would appear that lessons are being learned with, for instance, the number of fire risk assessments increasing all the time.

Ok mystery solved: I have two piston sets, both are identical in look, dimensions and part numbers / marks... only that they are not:) I took the ones I installed and carefully checked measures and visual inspection against the other set.

To measure performance, we run a number of tests that show how the HTC Droid Incredible 2 measures against other popular smartphones.

Where there is a true opportunity for lost revenue is with long - tail bestsellers, a not very common phenomenon when measured against the vast numbers of books published each year.

Will the performance numbers be measured against an appropriate index?

A number of forex brokers hiked margin requirements for financial instruments prior to the Italian referendum — a common risk management strategy, which has been utilized successfully in the Brexit hassle as a precautionary measure against the expected market volatility.

That gives you the number of cents per point — which you can then use as a yardstick to measure the value of that reward against others.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

A number of Asian countries, for instance, have taken measures against loot boxes, with China requiring the odds for all loot boxes to be disclosed to purchasers.

For this reason, a number of protective measures have been implemented to protect players against these sorts of potential risks».

The multiple impressions of the artist's own hand in the upper right corner of Number 1 (1948) emphasize the immediacy of the artist's personal presence and, by contrast, emphasize the vastness of the canvas as measured against them.

Hadcrut now have numbers out for February, giving an anomaly of 0.523 C, measured against the 1961 - 90 baseline, slightly down on January's 0.556 C.

Every single word he speaks about CAGW will be measured and turned into large numbers of votes for or against him.

Young Mayden understands that it is less likely to achieve its number one benchmark against which it measures its success — retention — if the firm does not completely understand the client at the outset of the relationship.

Anna Wetter's contribution takes as an example the decision - making process that has led to the adoption of Directive 2009 / 52 / EC on minimum standards on sanctions and measures against the employers of illegal migrants in order to assess a number of legal questions that characterise the development of EU criminal law.

Conducted by its FTI Technology segment, this installment of the Advice from Counsel study highlights a number of growing challenges within Fortune 1000 organizations, and offers insights for legal teams to measure their own program's effectiveness against the best practices of in - house peers.

There are currently a number of countries against which Canada has imposed such measures.

While the government takes its time in implementing measures to end the discrimination against First Nations children, the number of children experiencing adverse impacts of such discrimination is increasing.

If your staff doesn't docket time, you can measure its performance by tracking the number of letters sent per day against all the letters sent by clerks.

While there are many qualitative factors consumers should consider, a complaint index number is one uniform standard that multiple companies can be measured against.

Its Gold Investor Index measuring the number of buyers as set against sellers edged a bit higher to 54.6 during October whereas its silver buying fell from 52.3 to 51.6.

To do that, we believe we must measure success against your life goals, not just against an arbitrary number.

The hiring influencer measures the number of key words and phrases they are looking for against every resume, then assigns a score.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

This is the first report against the HPF and it reports against 64 of the 70 measures (a small number of measures require further development).

Keeping Kids First developed a number of articles on the group's website detailing arguments against Measure 6.