Sentences with phrase «measure called rating»

Even though their exercise performance was higher on the water treadmill, patients felt they weren't working as hard as on the land treadmill, based on a measure called rating of perceived exertion.

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Another measure being studied is to remove a mechanism that currently increases interest rates as time elapses — the so - called step - up margin interest rate.

The FOMC minutes show that members were split, with some calling for caution on further rate hikes while others expressed concern that delaying tightening measures might fuel financial instability.

Furthermore, tests using a new test called liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC - MS)-- scientists believe it is a more accurate way to measure gluten in fermented beers — showed that even though all the tested beers «had been rated by their makers to have gluten levels below 20 mg / kg, according to ELISA», the new test «found detectable gluten fragments in every sample using LC - MS, and most had much higher levels of gluten than ELISA detected.»

Fitch — which placed the UK's AAA rating on «negative outlook» in March - frowned on the government's decision not to pursue what it called «additional consolidating measures» to ensure it met its debt pledge.

The veteran Harlem Democrat, who is facing mulitple primary challengers for the second year in a row, took his «Republican colleagues» to task for refusing to heed Obama's call for the so - called Buffett Rule to help pay for extending the measure that reduced the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent.

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

Within hours, Mr. Paterson counterattacked, saying through a spokesman that he would call the Legislature into extraordinary session on Sunday evening to consider several measures, including an overhaul of the state university system that would allow individual campuses to set their own tuition rates and a requirement that the Legislature certify that budgets are in long - term balance.

Throughout the last Parliament the NCC called on the Government to implement a range of pro-tourism measures, including a reduced rate of VAT on tourism.

They also cover: Proportion of calls closed with telephone advice or managed without transport to A&E; Re-contact rate following discharge of care - to ensure that ambulance trusts provide safe and effective care the first time; Call abandonment rate - to ensure ambulance trusts can take 999 calls and that people don't abandon their 999 call before a control room operator has answered; Time to answer calls - measuring how quickly all 999 calls are answered; Time until treatment by an ambulance - dispatched health professional; Category A: eight minutes response time — measuring whether those patients most in need of an emergency ambulance get one quicCall abandonment rate - to ensure ambulance trusts can take 999 calls and that people don't abandon their 999 call before a control room operator has answered; Time to answer calls - measuring how quickly all 999 calls are answered; Time until treatment by an ambulance - dispatched health professional; Category A: eight minutes response time — measuring whether those patients most in need of an emergency ambulance get one quiccall before a control room operator has answered; Time to answer calls - measuring how quickly all 999 calls are answered; Time until treatment by an ambulance - dispatched health professional; Category A: eight minutes response time — measuring whether those patients most in need of an emergency ambulance get one quickly.

I am very disappointment that a much - discussed property tax relief measure called a circuit breaker was not included in the budget framework nor was a cut in the small business income tax rate.

«While the headline crime rates are very low and murder rates are down, the 311 calls to police are drastically up... and that is a true measure of our quality of life,» Malpasse said.

The committee's analysis of the Chancellor's budget called for «unfair» RPI measures used to calculate interest rates on student loans, rail fares and air passenger duty (APD) to be ditched.

He believes in the new 50p tax rate not as a necessary evil but as a desirable measure, entirely consistent with what he calls «fair taxation».

In an effort to reduce the error rate with those methods, the researchers proposed a new measure called the influence score, or I - score, to better measure a variable's ability to predict.

Measuring their actual distances led to the discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate (SN: 8/6/16, p. 10), which physicists explain by invoking a mysterious substance called dark energy.

That's why my future undergarments will include the BioHarness, a special chest strap from an Annapolis, Maryland, company called Zephyr that measures vital signs like heart rate and skin temperature, as well as body motions, and relays any worrisome readings via a Bluetooth transmitter to whoever might be standing by with a cellphone or computer to help.

For that, the researchers rely on something called the kurtosis of a distribution, which measures the size of its tails, or the rate at which the concentration of data decreases far from the mean.

This species showed a significant decline in calling activity over four years, but in the fifth year the calling rate recovered to the original level (a dynamic which is common in many species, but often difficult to measure).

«However, because of the notorious imperfection of the ancient fossil record, no - one has been able to accurately measure rates of evolution during this critical interval, often called evolution's Big Bang.

Another measure used to rate hurricane activity, called Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE, takes into account the winds of a storm throughout its lifetime.

A newer technique for measuring bone loss is called «Urinary Excretion of Pyridinium,» which measures a substance in the urine that can indicate rapid bone turnover rate.

President Obama is speeding this process with his foresighted call for including these measures in a college - rating system.

Perhaps there are some «wrong» answers (such as relying exclusively on proficiency rates in reading and math to judge school quality, or measuring school spending and other inputs and calling it accountability) but mostly there are a whole bunch of right and partially - right answers, depending on policymakers» goals and states» idiosyncrasies.

«College and Career Ready» indicators: Many states already include AP, IB, ACT, and SAT achievement in their high school rating systems, and we heartily endorse all of these of these measures, especially those tied to achievement on AP / IB tests, which are precisely the sort of high - quality assessments that critics of dumbed - down standardized tests have long called for.

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers, and the measures that the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»

In February 2012, the New York Times took the unusual step of publishing performance ratings for nearly 18,000 New York City teachers based on their students» test - score gains, commonly called value - added (VA) measures.

In the wake of high - profile evaluations of teachers using their students» test scores, such as one conducted by the Los Angeles Times, a study released last month suggests some such methods, called «value added» measures, are too imprecise to rate teachers» effectiveness.

Yet, while ESSA requires states to consider multiple measures, current draft regulations then call on us to crunch them into a single, summative rating to identify struggling schools.

The regulations call for more detailed information to be gathered on how new teachers are performing, aim to provide better tracking of retention rates, offers more flexibility to states in how they measure the performance of preparation programs and require states to report annual ratings on their programs.

ESSA's regulations also call for the measuring progress of English learners on English proficiency in grades 3 - 12 and graduation rates for high schools only.

Churn rate (sometimes called attrition rate), in its broadest sense, is a measure of the number of individuals or items moving into or out of a collective over a specific period of time....

The Department of Education calls the measure a «leading indicator,» a reasonable label given the documented relationship between absence rates measured at the teacher level and student achievement.

Also recall that one of the key reports that triggered the current call for VAMs, as the «more objective» measures needed to measure and therefore improve teacher effectiveness, was based on data that suggested that «too many teachers» were being rated as satisfactory or above.

However, Steinberg's bill was an extremely technical piece of legislation, which proposed a complex new accountability system that adds graduation rates and other measures to the API to establish a new index to be called the Education Quality Index.

As Congress begins preparing for debate over the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, state schools chief Tom Torlakson has joined the chorus of voices calling for the replacement of Adequate Yearly Progress with a new growth system - one that not only measures student academic progress but also health and wellness, and school dropout rates.

There are some reasons why this so - called dropout rate is a bad measure:

I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to destroy public education.

This measure is called the «distance from 3» and is what is used in the new California school rating system.

And, in a nod to concerns that the NCLB law placed too much emphasis on a single test score in rating schools, the measure calls for states to consider other factors in gauging school performance, such as school climate and teacher engagement.

Despite calls for creating an overall rating, the California State Board of Education on Thursday approved a new evaluation system for schools that will display outcomes on a number of measures moving away from a system that relies on standardized test scores.

Grip that unique leather - wrapped steering wheel and keep your eyes safely on the road while never missing a call or a text courtesy of Bluetooth and a 6 speaker sound system with a touchscreen interface.Our Jeep Grand Cherokee earns great ratings for advanced safety measures and comes standard with four - wheel anti-lock disc brakes, stability and traction control, a multitude of airbags, hill start assist and a whole lot more.

A bond's sensitivity to interest rates is measured by what's called «duration.»

This measure of price sensitivity towards interest rates is called a bond's duration.

,» looked not only at relative wages as measured by exchange rates but also took into account so - called absolute measures, by looking at the actual purchasing power of differing wage levels.

Beginning in July 2013, TPC calculates effective tax rates using a broad measure of income called Expanded Cash Income (ECI).

I decided to create a new measure called constant return on equity [CROE], where I adjusted for capital employed, and calculated the internal rate of return of the free cash flows.

The best measures we have of forward - looking long - term return projections for the equity markets, what I call «leading investment indicators» (PE10, dividend yields, Q, market cap - to - GDP, interest rates), are very negative.

Called a Shiraseru Am — literally translated to mean «notifier» — the device uses an array of sensors to measure your furkid's motion, heart rate and temperature, amongst others, to judge your furkid's mood and intent.

... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disruption.