Sentences with phrase «measure their performances after»

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

Reddit users discovered last week that shortly after the battery on an old iPhone was replaced, benchmark tests — which measure a computer's processor speed — saw a dramatic and noticeable increase in performance.

One study found that after participants completed ten minutes of short, periodic sprints, «performance on the Stroop Test — a long - established measure of mental control, or what psychologists call «executive function» — seemed to be enhanced immediately... and 45 minutes afterwards.»

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

According to BCA Research, corporate credit performance began to deteriorate after measures of corporate balance sheet health and monetary conditions began to turn in a bearish direction in the latter half of 2014.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

The Corporate Performance Goals will be measured at the end of each performance period after our financial reports have beenPerformance Goals will be measured at the end of each performance period after our financial reports have beenperformance period after our financial reports have been published.

(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.

«We believe that adjusted EBITDA is an important measure of our operating performance because it allows management, investors and analysts to evaluate and assess our core operating results after removing the impact of changes in our capital structure, income - tax status and method of vehicle financing, and other items of a nonoperational nature that affect comparability,» Zipcar said in its most recent filing.

After more than 10 years of measuring and rating the effectiveness of the boards of directors of widely held Canadian publicly traded companies, the Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness (CCBE) published a report in 2013 about the performance of family - controlled corporations (family firms).

Net Profit — Measures a company's profitability after expenses; commonly called the Bottom Line, as it expresses the overall financial performance of the company.

However, after a while this «love» becomes conditional on your performance and / or you measuring up to the cult's unpublished standards.

as an addendum to my previous comment I'm not a wnger Hater I fully appreciate his magnificent acheivments over the years BUt it has to change as the results are really the only yard stick by which we as fans can measure things and they are just NOT there last nights performance has sickend me and while the players are very much at fault the buck ultimately must stop with wenger and after him the board.

i wld really wish that we measure our hype and not loose focus after what i wld call exceptional performance by our lads against MANURE.We can only hope that lessons have been learnt and mistakes of the past will be duly corrected as we progress forward.

That's right after a decade of sighs I sometimes think it must be nice to be lobotomised but then the brain kicks in and a measured assessment of results and performance lead to one simple conclusion if the club is to return to the top bracket of european football where true fans want us to be... Wenger out,,

This is just the start, after you choose a measure of performance, returns, etc..

For example, ATS Streaks can be used to measure whether NFL teams build momentum or, conversely, if momentum is actually a myth and teams become undervalued after a recent streak of poor performance ATS.

After a measured first half performance in the sunshine which saw the home side lose two players to injury, the Magpies were further depleted when skipper Jonjo Shelvey was shown a straight red card for stamping on Dele three minutes into the second period.

After obtaining baseline measures of false belief task performance in some 3 - year - olds, Heidemarie Lohman and Michael Tomasello divided the children in two groups.

Sales performance (this is actually measured as the people transacting after visiting the category rather than from that category)

Associations Between Duration of Breastfeeding and Measures of Cognitive Ability, Teacher Ratings of School Performance, Standardized Tests of Achievement, and High School Success After Adjustment for Covariates

These tests were designed to measure a «bit rate» of information akin to typing on a keyboard and to compare performance after using the traditional calibration method vs. using the new method.

By far the most impor - tant criticism is that tests do not measure what they purport to measure, and do not predict a person's performance after they are appointed.

There, Ocean Power's sinuous, 450 - foot - long cherry - red steel snake, called Pelamis after a sea snake, pumps 11,000 AC volts into a grid at the European Marine Energy Centre, an innovative test bed that can offer the sort of apples - to - apples performance measures of sea generators that investors and electric utilities crave.

Readmissions after surgery may not be an appropriate measure for pay - for - performance programs but rather better suited as measure for hospitals to track internally,» the authors write.

These patterns remained largely intact, particularly for Latino teachers, even after considering factors such as student performance, teacher working conditions, and other measures of teacher efficacy.

For patients in rehabilitation after a stroke, walking on an underwater treadmill produces better measures of exercise performance compared to conventional treadmill walking, reports a study in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists.

The study included three measures of lifetime earnings: gross lifetime earnings by majors; net lifetime earnings after accounting for demographic and high school performance related factors; and net present value at age 20 after applying a 4 percent discount rate.

After training, the older adults showed improvements in their multitasking skill, measured by how little their performance dropped when the driving task was added on top of the symbol task.

In the recent study led by Marlene Behrmann at Carnegie Mellon, Park and colleagues measured college students» performance in making numerical judgments on two dot array images presented very briefly one after another.

These studies not only measured objective parameters of sporting performance, but also asked athletes about their sensations after consuming the energy drink and measured the frequency of the side effects in comparison with the placebo drink.

He uses actigraphy and various imaging technologies to measure changes in brain function that reflect consciousness, sleep, performance, mood states, and reward after drug administration or drug - related cues in adults and adolescents.

The effects of consumption of milk after endurance exercise on post-exercise muscle protein fractional synthetic rate (FSR), signaling molecules of skeletal muscle protein turnover, leucine kinetics, and performance measures, suggests unique benefits of milk compared with a carbohydrate only beverage.

After an average sleep loss of approximately 55 minutes for 6 nights, a neurobehavioral test showed that performance of ADHD children worsened from the subclinical to the clinical range of inattention on 4 of 6 measures, which included reaction time and omission errors.

After six weeks of supplementation combined with physical training, there was a significant increase in the physical performance in sprinters, measured by peak power, total work, body composition, and elevated growth hormone levels.

Fifty years after it first appeared, Mike Nichols» film (re-released in a restored 4K digital print) makes such beguiling viewing largely because of Hoffman's performance as Benjamin, which combines humour, boredom and panic in equal measure.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

School performance in the autumn is already going to be measured by the number of children who attain the new certificate although it was introduced after they took the exams.

And to measure the impact of training on your business goals, establish a set of key performance indicators (KPIs), then study them before and after training implementation.

First, student performance on the available measures, usually state tests, improves after accountability reforms are introduced.

But the association between performance on state tests and spending as a percentage of the foundation budget - the plaintiffs» preferred measure of spending - vanishes after applying even the most rudimentary demographic controls (see Figure 1).

In recent years, the consensus among policymakers and researchers has been that after the first few years on the job, teacher performance, at least as measured by student test - score growth, can not be improved.

After decades of relying on often - perfunctory classroom observations to assess teacher performance, districts from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles now evaluate many of their teachers based in part on VA measures and, in some cases, use these measures as a basis for differences in compensation.

College / Career Indicator Reports and Data The College / Career Indicator uses multiple measures to provide a performance level based on the number of students who are likely prepared for success after high school.

Yet that seems to be only part of the story: Dr. Jerrim said he was surprised to discover a considerable gap in access to selective colleges and universities even after accounting for differences in academic performance as measured by grades or standardized tests.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

In 1999, the state legislature amended the law, named after the late Republican state senator John Stull, to require that «the governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: the progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Our goal is to build content in ways that measure learner performance and competence after course completion — ensuring maximum retention and application of learning.

What remained unclear after the first study, is whether the school funding model and resulting disparity as measured by the «Funding Disparity Rank» has a direct impact on student performance and outcome?

It also brings to an end a difficult week for the Department for Education, which has already faced criticism from the National Audit Office for its accounts, and comes just weeks after the government announced it would no longer be using new reception baseline tests as an performance measure for schools after concerns were raised about comparability.