Sentences with phrase «measured approach even»

But my sense is he's taking a wise, measured approach even setting political considerations aside.

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He has told officials in the Pentagon building that at an uncertain time, he intends, as defense secretary, to provide an even - keeled, measured approach to national security issues.

What measures are you prepared to take to ensure an even - handed approach by the CRA?

The selective willingness to act on trend - following measures even when our market return / risk estimates are negative (but only in the absence of hostile syndromes of market conditions) is one of the two adaptations we've introduced to our investment approach in the recent market cycle.

The way in which Virginia approached the question of religious liberty was very different from the path chosen by Massachusetts and other states, but the Virginia way has become the standard by which American liberals today measure the relations of church and state» and even of religion and society.

Today you often use the terms left or extreme - left to describe social and progressive measures and right or even extreme - right the more conservative and nationalistic approaches.

One was Andy Burnham unveiling a measure on housing reminiscent of the Ed Miliband approach which saw Labour lose to a poor Tory government that will continue making Britain even more divided and unequal than it is at present.

According to Dr. Cameron Carter, Editor of Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, the study is an important example of how more sophisticated approaches to analyzing brain imaging data examining transitions between mental states over time can measure altered brain dynamics that can identify subtle risk states or even track the transition from subclinical to clinical psychopathology.

Since we are only looking for an increase in progranulin, a one - tailed analysis could have been considered appropriate, and would further increase power, but we opted for the more conservative approach, since we are essentially 100 % powered for all the primary outcome measures (Figs. 3 and 4) even with the two - tailed analysis.

Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher evaluation, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.

For this reason, even modest evaluations should include multiple measures (a variety of sources of information) and multiple methods (both a quantitative and qualitative approach).

DB: However one interprets the evaluations of demonstration projects like the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian, the unavoidable conclusion is that the measured impacts of three national programs that seek to implement their approach — Head Start, Early Head Start, and Even Start — have been tragically «disappointing,» the word used by most objective observers.

Because so much of the library program's impact has been in the intangible and difficult to measure areas of learning — even in the cognitive domain — we may find it difficult to find support for these strategies, and sustain a rich discovery learning approach over time.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

But even with those restrictions, intended to keep formatting similar, the final documents differ depending on student needs and a district's approach to describing goals, measures and means of achieving them.

More importantly, observations are inherently biased because they are based on subjective determinations by school leaders and others who are prone to think that their approach to teaching is superior to anyone else's (even if teachers being evaluated have demonstrated that they improve student achievement as measured by test score growth).

Even as worries about Ebola have prompted school closings and other K - 12 precautions in recent weeks, medical experts are advising school officials to take a measured approach in response to the handful of U.S. cases of the virus.

No matter how you mix it, it's better to go with Value - Added, student surveys, or both: As Dropout Nation noted last year, the accuracy of classroom observations is so low that even in a multiple measures approach to evaluation in which value - added data and student surveys account for the overwhelming majority of the data culled from the model (72.9 percent, and 17.2 percent of the evaluation in one case), the classroom observations are of such low quality that they bring down the accuracy of the overall performance review.

That outcome would not even take our most reliable valuation measures below historical norms that they've approached or breached by the end of every market cycle in history.

Other cheapo but effective security measures include using loud dog sounds when a stranger approaches your house, putting up a «beware of dog» sign even if you don't have a pet, and installing fake cameras (not ideal but better than nothing).

The selective willingness to act on trend - following measures even when our market return / risk estimates are negative (but only in the absence of hostile syndromes of market conditions) is one of the two adaptations we've introduced to our investment approach in the recent market cycle.

Even if there are concerns or problems associated with new approaches, the bar to measure them by is whether the outcome is preferable to the current situation, not whether they represent flawless solutions to all the many issues associated with free - roaming or abandoned cats in our communities.

(Orbital forcing doesn't have much of a global annual average forcing, and it's even concievable that the sensitivity to orbital forcing as measured in terms of global averages and the long - term response (temporal scale of ice sheet response) might be approaching infinity or even be negative (if more sunlight is directed onto an ice sheet, the global average albedo might increase, but the ice sheet would be more likely to decay, with a global average albedo feedback that causes warming).

So, then, where is the scientific approach used to determine that these are the only, or even the most important, measure of «impact on science??

Especially since, AFAIK, even the most extreme measures studied by the IPCC don't really offer more than a tiny benefit over well thought out «low - regrets» approaches.

States can opt to implement emissions standards approaches or state measures approaches, or even a combination of both (the mix falling under a «state measures» definition).

If one wanted to measure the «health» of climate science, a good approach would be to compare the zealous pursuit of even the tiniest errors in analyses that show the world to be warming slowly or naturally with the absolute and total apathy at correcting or even uncovering massive errors in anslyses showing substantial man - made warming (example).

Even though the AG suggested this approach under the ERTA doctrine and the possible use of Article 216 (1) TFEU as a bridge from «internal to external» competencies (para. 104 of the Opinion), the Court apparently wanted to distinguish between situations where the measures implementing the association agreement aim to create a relationship equal to those between EU Member States and those where this is not the case.

Furthermore, even the legal tests applied for the assessment of PFD agreements were contiguous insofar as the Commission did not adopt a «quick look» approach in order to characterise the agreements in Lundbeck as restrictive «by object»; rather, it did so following an individual and detailed examination of the measures in question having regard to their content, purpose and context.

So our approach to wearables — watches, Glass, even our smart contact lens project which is designed to help people with diabetes measure their glucose — is to build things that you use when you need and forget about when you don't.

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - Cryptocurrency miners have become such a problem that Google is taking a radical measure to protect customers from stealthy miners disguised as legitimate browser extensions — banning any miner that even approaches its Chrome web store.

In all likelihood, this filing could be as much a measure of protection for even the most remote possibility of production of Half - Life 3 as it could be a sign that the game is soon approaching.

Though the Oyster community seem broadly supportive of these measures, some worried that «even legitimate criticism will be called FUD» and banned by the moderators and that an approach of «we're going to start censoring things as we see fit» was a «slippery slope to super toxicity».

Here, it should be noted that even if a measure has «good» psychometric properties, if it is only being used by a single investigatory team, it is considered «approaching well - established.»