Sentences with phrase «measured approach over»

Not exact matches

There are reasonable arguments for adopting the measures used in Quality and Price over those used in the Magic Formula, but it's not an unambiguously more logical approach than the Magic Formula.

On a more fundamental level, the negotiations remain at an impasse over a collection of U.S. proposals dubbed «poison pills» by U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue, including the proposed sunset clause, an extreme approach to rule of origins for the auto and textile / apparel sectors, and measures that would undermine investment protection, government procurement, and trade in seasonal produce.

An important disclaimer here is that there have been many scorecard approaches for measuring customer value over the past two decades.

This second annual progress report assesses advances by governments and companies over the past 12 months relative to a three - step approach for reducing food loss and waste: target, measure, and act.

The Saratoga County Conservative Party's executive board unanimously agreed today not to support an endorsement of Sen. Roy McDonald, saying the Republican lawmaker has, over the past year, «supported numerous measures that do not represent a conservative approach to governance.»

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.

While most reports reference only one of these metrics — most measure the effects over 100 years — a standardized approach including both should become the norm to avoid skewing results.

Unlike an MRI scan, this approach can tell you what happens when the joint moves and it can also measure how the knee is changing over time.»

The sensor system therefore collects molecules in the air over a known period of time and then quantitatively measures the amounts collected — an approach which significantly reduces the system's detection threshold.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

This approach is very similar to that employed in studies that measure teacher quality using databases tracking the performance of individual students over time.

The improvement approach would first identify a set of K - 12 districts that have realized the greatest gains in measured student achievement over a multi-year period.

The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit institutional variation that does not exist within countries; draw on much larger variation than usually available within any country; reveal whether any result is country - specific or more general; test whether effects are systematically heterogeneous in different settings; circumvent selection issues that plague within - country identification by using system - level aggregated measures; and uncover general - equilibrium effects that often elude studies in a single country.

While this approach has some benefits in keeping kids on task, Oppenheimer seems to support it primarily because it moves the teacher back to center stage and eliminates the inherent messiness of allowing students some measure of control over their own learning.

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.

The proper approach, as Rothstein notes, is not to ask whether all these measures correlate with each other or over time or across classrooms, but whether they lead to various types of better student outcomes in a high - stakes, real life context.

To measure change over time, I made estimates for 1990 using the same approach and found a completion rate of 72 percent for that year.

Research has shown that over two years, this evidence - based approach to individualized instruction can take children who are starting out significantly behind their more advantaged peers and develop their language, literacy, numeracy and social - emotional skills where they are measuring above the mean, which is effectively closing the achievement gap.

This approach values the development of skills over the accumulation of points and seeks to measure mastery of those skills.

However, with continued concerns over the unintended (and sometimes detrimental) consequences of expanding standardized testing, policies have reemphasized the importance of more traditional, widely applicable approaches to measuring teacher quality — specifically, the quality of teachers» instruction, assessed through classroom observation.

There are obvious benefits to this approach: There are well over a hundred thousand Android apps available for download, while the number of apps designed to run on the PlayBook's QNX software can probably be measured in the dozens at this point.

The wildly different nature of value's characteristics over time makes generalized measures and approaches probably riskier than they appear;

On the measures we find most tightly correlated with actual subsequent market returns across history, the S&P 500 is now between 150 % and 170 % above valuation norms that have been approached or breached over the completion of every market cycle in history, including the most recent one.

If you take a measured approach, you should be able to regularly invest in carefully chosen stocks, index funds or some other boring investment, and, over time, amass a reasonable amount of wealth as you receive returns on your investment.

The performance of any long - term investment approach should be measured over periods that are representative of the long - term return on stocks.

Again, the best way to measure the performance of a long - term investment approach is to select a period over which stocks delivered something close to their long - term rate of return.

There are reasonable arguments for adopting the measures used in Quality and Price over those used in the Magic Formula, but it's not an unambiguously more logical approach than the Magic Formula.

And I believe I mentioned this in comments (or on the message boards): I don't intend measuring TGISVP portfolio results any longer — though I'll still employ the same quantitative approach — I think I've already proved the value of the project over the first three years of results!]

Allen prefers to take a measured approach in rolling out new stores, if for no other reason than to make sure that the company is building something sustainable over the long term.

His prints range in scale from intimate etchings and drypoints to linocuts on rice paper and canvas measuring over eight feet high and are reproduced on a variety of materials, a tactile approach which is echoed in the design and production of this volume.

From this post I get the impression the climate scientists measuring the average conditions of weather at discreet time intervals and following the change in the average over time is a very limited approach seeking to identify causes and effects, when we have known for a long time the major inputs in the climate such as insolation, orbital characteristics, evaporation, condensation and etc..

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.

A Bayesian approach would mean that instead of silly «burden of proof» arguments over Type I vs. Type II errors, we could be talking about measuring the size of the effect.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

This can be challenging for international corporations that have branches spread all over the world, but success is possible with a measured approach.

In fact, just the opposite is true: A company's legal function must rely on a data - oriented approach to evaluating performance and measuring cost savings over time.

Instead of trying to rush out big promises about the future, Google's relentless machine is taking a surprisingly measured approach to building the Assistant, betting that AI will slowly overtake everything over time instead of falling into place all at once.

Proxy measure trials were more likely to be positive if they were intensive, carried out over 6 months or more, took a strengths based approach and included social support.