Sentences with phrase «measure overall changes»

Not exact matches

A good starting place would be some transparency about the changes that have occurred to the tax system over the past decade and how the measures he is proposing will address both the overall fairness and efficiency of our fiscal system.

In addition to being good for your paycheck, the ability to change jobs is also a measure of the overall US economy.

For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.

An array of measures is selected from the overall credit supply (or what is the same thing, debt securities) to represent «money,» which then is correlated with changes in goods and service prices, but not with prices for capital assets — bonds, stocks and real estate.

It is difficult to measure the overall food miles of products brought to us by UNFI, as the details of the miles traveled by various foods can change from delivery to delivery, and is dependent an a complex host of factors.

And there are a number of other unknowns For example: • We do not know what impact the changes would have in individual families.: • There is no firm evidence that the overall impact would be detrimental to children or mothers.; • We do not know whether current measures for protecting children and adults from harm are sufficiently effective in families where both parents already have PR.

However, success can be measured by cultural change too - changes in society that affect the overall climate in which we all live and work.

An overall measure of such changes is difficult, in part because several of these actions are not clearly delineated, and leave sole discretion to DOB to make such spending determinations and adjustments, as well as the final presentation of budget projections.

Entropy measures the number of ways you can rearrange a system's components without changing its overall appearance.

Since each programmer had different goals, measuring the overall effectiveness of the app was difficult, Evans says, but subjectively, he and his colleagues felt the simple act of observing their behavior through the app led them to change in ways that helped them meet their work goals.

To find out how climate change will affect the overall survival of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes), a team of researchers placed mosquito larvae taken from ponds in western Greenland into chambers with temperatures ranging from 4 °C to 19 °C, simulating temperatures measured in the ponds during mosquito development, and then timed how long it took for the adults to emerge.

To quantify the overall effect of contrast - dependent changes to output nonlinearities, we constructed a measure of how these adaptive shifts change the amount of information a unit's firing rate carries about the ongoing stimulus (Figure 5F).

You might have signed up for hormone free birth control, but you end up getting a tool that allows you to measure your overall health and fertility, as well as your progress if you are making specific changes in your diet and lifestyle to improve your fertility.

The moment arm lengths of the pectoralis major change considerably depending on (1) where in the overall joint range of motion they are measured, and (2) which part of the muscle is measured (upper, middle, or lower).

[5] By interacting changes in overall state funding with a measure of how much individual institutions generally depend on such funds, the authors are leveraging the fact that even within a given state and year, some institutions are hit much harder by such shocks than others.

Budget shocks are measured by changes in overall state funding for higher education, interacted with a measure of how much each institution generally depends upon such funding for its own budget.

Challenges presented by the current reforms to the education system come at a time of overall reform of local authority support and changes to the health service, resulting in a set of challenges that will require careful guidance and measured progress to overcome.

2) The dissimilarity index measures the extent to which schools and the overall student population are racially dissimilar, by calculating the percentage of blacks that would need to change schools if all schools were to have the same percentage of black students.

A dissimilarity index at the district level, however, measures the dissimilarity of districts and the overall student population in the area, and provides information on changes over time in racial differences in the distribution of students among districts.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

According to long - term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the most credible national measure of changes in achievement over the past four decades, progress varies by age group for students overall.

The Department for Education will change the methodology for its Progress 8 accountability measure in 2018, after a consultation revealed school leaders are angry over the «disproportionate» impact of outliers on their overall scores.

Overall, teachers within the ST and SF groupings tended to score higher on all four of the RTC constructs, indicating that they have a higher resistance to change, as measured by these factors.

The report measures the degree to which children and parents use media together, overall and by platform, and looks at how this joint media engagement changes as children get older.

Overall, the Canadian dividend stock market hasn't changed much since last year based on these valuation measures.

For example, the ASX All Ordinaries Index measures the change in the overall value of 500 largest companies by market capitalisation listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

To ensure our activities are having an impact towards our overall 2020 mission goals we track the following key measures: # researchers funded, breakthrough achievements of funded research, policies changed and / or significant progress made on healthy public policies, # Canadians reached to learn about and establish healthy lifestyle choices and, # survivors and care partners reached to receive needed information and supports.

While these types of measures in the political arena are important to animal protection overall, Animal Rescue Corps seeks to affect lasting change using a direct - action approach.

Also, has there been any change in the THC within the Arctic Mediterranean as compared to the overall AMOC, as measured by the RAPID program?

The «warming» of the troposphere as measured by sensible heat is only one very small part of the energy in the overall climate system, and the part with the very lowest thermal inertia and very sensitive to very small changes in ocean to atmosphere sensible and latent heat flux such as we see in the ENSO cycle.

• The measured «average global temperature» isn't necessarily representative of the overall thermal energy in the system, because temperatures can change in regions not part of the measurement system.

The amount of CO2 measured at ML for example waxes and wanes over the course of one year primarily due to the changes of the seasons lets assume this CO2 is a natural occurence but the overall total (PPM) rise is due to an addition of CO2 to the system.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

This post reviews the Cancun outcome through an ethical lens in light of the overall responsibility of those nations that are exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions in regard to their duties: (a) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels necessary to prevent harm to others, (b) to reduce greenhouse gas emission to levels consistent with what is each nation's fair share of total global emissions, and (c) to provide financing for adaptation measures and other necessary responses to climate change harms for those who are most vulnerable and least responsible for climate change.

Fortunately the Theory of Constraints (and more recently Eric Reis's book «The Lean Startup») gives us a great way to tell if you're working on the right thing: Make a small change, measure whether the change results in any improvement (to the overall system, not just the specific function), and react accordingly.

The overall market cap of the market — one measure by which traders assess the ecosystem — dropped sharply once the change went into effect, which appears to have taken place just before 5 a.m. UTC.

The particular areas and change indicators have been chosen for their potential to respond to policy action within the shorter term and to indicate intermediate measures of progress while also having the potential in the longer term to contribute to improvements in overall Indigenous disadvantage (as reflected through the «headline indicators»).

Two main outcome measures were analyzed: change in overall rates of children's diagnoses from baseline to 3 months and change in CBCL - scores from baseline to 3 months.

Efficacy (as a continuous outcome), measured by the overall mean change scores on depressive symptom scales (self - rated or assessor - rated), for example, Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS - R) 32 and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) 33 from baseline to endpoint.

Overall, the validation results showed support for this three - dimensional RBC scale as a measure of change beliefs in intimate relationships.

Statistically significant changes in pre-treatment scores on measures of PTSD symptoms, depression, overall health, and work and social functioning were observed.

Finally, quality improvement measures might examine changes that happen at the overall program level after receiving consultation services.

A major problem for the evaluation was the lack of a comparison group, or baseline data, to measure what would have happened in the absence of income management... the overall evidence about the effectiveness of income management in isolation from other NTER measures was difficult to assess... The evaluation findings would have greater strength if these views were supplemented by empirical indicators that showed evidence of the changes reported by the various stakeholders.

In our analyses of change trajectories measured via weekly assessments, and with an initial Bonferroni correction applied, youths in modular treatment showed significantly faster improvement than youths in usual care, on overall and parent - reported BPC total and TPA Problems measures, and modular treatment also outperformed standard treatment, on overall and youth - reported BPC total and TPA measures as well as on the parent - reported BPC total score.