«You have to
measure the results from social media to justify it.
THE BULLETPROOF MISSION: Our mission is to help people perform better, think faster, and live better using a proven blend of ancient knowledge and brand new technologies, tempered by research, science, and
measured results from our customers, top athletes, and medical professionals.
Validation against
measured results from completed buildings continues the development of the PHPP.
Not exact matches
Since value depends on
results, not inputs, value in health care is
measured by the outcomes achieved, not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus
from volume to value is a central challenge.
In the opinion of the Company's management, it is important to
measure the profitability of each segment excluding the
results of investing activities, which are managed separately
from the insurance business.
Research conducted at the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Northport, N.Y., concluded that a short sleep session can improve cognitive functioning and alertness,
resulting in a 30 percent decline in attention failures
from the baseline
measure.
Job reallocation — «a broad
measure of labor market churning
resulting from the underlying business dynamism of firm expansions, contractions, births, and closures» — has also been declining for decades.
FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP
measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points
from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales
results.
Mark - to - market impacts
from commodity and currency derivative contracts The company excludes unrealized gains and losses (mark - to - market impacts)
from outstanding commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives
from its non-GAAP earnings
measures until such time that the related exposures impact its operating
results.
The non-GAAP
results should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and may be different
from non-GAAP
measures used by other companies.
From the moment you hire your first employee, your success is no longer
measured primarily by your individual ability to achieve extraordinary
results, but rather by your ability to create an environment in which others can achieve extraordinary
results.
David Gould, creative services director at online marketing firm Vertical
Measures, puts it well: «For users, this reinforces the idea that the
result is reputable: this link isn't just the
result of robotic SEO manipulation, but rather it's
from a human being who we can learn more about.»
This framework encourages founders to create an organization that builds products quickly,
measures the outcome of the product in question and learns
from the
results.
Cree excludes this item
from its non-GAAP
measures because it is a non-cash expense that Cree does not believe to be reflective of ongoing operating
results.
Cree excludes stock - based compensation expenses
from its non-GAAP
measures because they are non-cash expenses that Cree does not believe are reflective of ongoing operating
results.
Google and Microsoft announced new
measures today focused on blocking child pornography
from appearing in search
results.
For many U.S. airlines, this has
resulted in price battlegrounds
from Chicago to Dallas and lower unit revenue, which
measures ticket sales against flight capacity.
The company has provided these non-GAAP financial
measures in addition to GAAP financial
results because it believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial
measures provide investors with a better understanding of the company's historical
results from its core business operations.
In addition, we believe excluding these costs
from the non-GAAP
measures facilitates comparisons to our historical operating
results and comparisons to peer company operating
results.
These non-GAAP
measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as a substitute for, MKS» reported
results, and may be different
from non-GAAP
measures used by other companies.
The
measure, of course, is somewhat indirect in that it guarantees certain practices, not necessarily what
results from their use.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial
results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity
measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable
results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data
from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified
from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
In addition, the components of the costs that we exclude in our calculation of the
measures described above may differ
from the components that our peer companies exclude when they report their
results of operations.
Commentary: «While we benefited
from a relatively undemanding comparison, our
results this quarter were simply superb on each and every key performance
measure.
If you wish, Edith Roman can handle your entire e-campaign for you -
from providing lists and creating the e-mail, to transmission, tracking,
measuring, and analyzing the
results.
Here, for example, are the
results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for
measures ranging
from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.
The Nigerian Senate's Committee on Banking and Other Financial Institutions will examine bitcoin's suitability for investment and recommend
measures to protect citizens
from suffering financial losses as a
result of trading the digital asset.
These
results come
from a survey of 1,848 Canadians conducted December 12 to 14, 2016, by Abacus Data at the request of Clean Energy Canada,
measuring Canadians» views of climate and clean energy policy issues, including the new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.
Adjusted income (loss)
from operations is a
measure of profitability used by Cigna's management because it presents the underlying
results of operations of Cigna's businesses and permits analysis of trends in underlying revenue, expenses and shareholders» net income.
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.
The 1999 Budget included new funding to address «health and safety» issues
resulting from the
measures taken in the 1995 Program Review Exercise.
Higher revenues and lower expenses
resulting from the improvement in nominal GDP, coupled with the saving
measures implemented in the Budget are just sufficient to offset the impact of the new policy initiatives.
As a
result, it has discounted the impact of the restraint
measures, pending details
from the Government.
The
result is a fictitious statistic pretending to
measure how much the GDP — real output — would go up if they all rented
from a landlord class.
(2) The Company calculates non-GAAP underlying pretax and after - tax income, underlying effective tax rate, underlying EBITDA and underlying free cash flow
results by excluding special and other non-core items
from the nearest U.S. GAAP performance
measure, which is net income
from continuing operations attributable to MCBC for both underlying after - tax income and underlying EBITDA and net cash provided by operating activities for underlying free cash flow.
To
measure our success in these areas, we track meaningful metrics such as employee engagement and satisfaction (i.e., employee volunteering, employee giving and
results of the Organizational Health Index survey), total employees receiving performance reviews, average hours of training, turnover rates and rate of return
from leave.
The greenhouse gas
result was a disappointment for sponsors
from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of investors with $ 100 billion in assets, which had helped rally institutional investor support for the
measure.
Publix sets its stock price on advice
from auditors who
measure the
results and compare it to the performance of other chains in the industry.
The
results (below) were in line with what we've seen in other reports
from mediaQuant — a firm that attempts to
measure media coverage — namely that Trump is significantly ahead of his competition when it comes to earned media.
As a
result of this crash, the Reagan White House asked for a team to be assembled to study the problem and put in place
measures to stop severe crashes
from happening again.
The Best Employers in Canada study
measures the level of employee engagement at participating organizations and is based on
results from a national survey conducted by Aon Hewitt, in association with the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing at the Queen's University School of Business.
These new expenditure
measures have
resulted in the projected underlying cash surplus being revised down modestly
from 2005/06 onwards.
Reinforces certain international best practices in anti ‑ dumping and countervail investigations, and allows for, in exceptional circumstances, bilateral safeguard
measures (e.g. temporary tariff increases) to protect domestic industry
from injury following a surge in imports as a
result of the Agreement.
We have developed, that is, a world in which individual accumulation,
measured in monetary terms, became disengaged
from other social goods and as a
result has become an all - consuming passion.
The belief and hope of matter
resulted in its radical transformation into a new and higher dimension — living matter — in which it is assured a
measure of survival
from the physical entropy that threatens its level of existence.
Time, says Plotinus, is the
measure of degradation which
resulted from the fall of the sensible world
from the One.16 The farther one went into the future, the greater the degradation.
In fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has to be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the
measure of the degradation
resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was present
from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growth.
When efforts have been made to
measure economic welfare in distinction
from gross product, the
results have generally showed greater divergence than economists generally like to suppose.
The
resulting immunity is far
from total, but it provides a
measure of protection.
It is the
result of nothing but an invincible blindness
from which we suffer, an insensibility to the inner significance of alien lives, and a conceit that would project our own incapacity into the vast cosmos, and
measure the wants of the Absolute by our own puny needs.