Sentences with phrase «measures like improved»

The program was designed to increase the efficiency of low - income peoples» homes through basic measures like improved insulation, weatherstripping and caulking.

«Simple measures like improved feeding and antibiotics could go a long way».

Not exact matches

«We've been looking at things like beacons: how can we utilize a beacon to measure in store visits or to kind of improve the communication messages we send our customers,» says Kraus.

Improve operational measures like cycle time and defect rates; the financial results will follow.»

«And I'd like to thank our employees for their tenacity in arguing the case for greater transparency — because what you don't measure, you can't improve.»

I can't stress enough how critical it is to measure the results of your content marketing activities so you can continually learn what your audience likes and use that information to continually improve.

«Mayor Boris Johnson must improve air quality by prioritising funding for measures that will get Londoners driving less and walking, cycling and using public transport more - and scrap traffic generating schemes like new road crossings over the river Thames.»

Another piece of his agenda that Cuomo has already announced is his «Democracy Project,» which includes several measures to make online political advertisements more transparent; secure elections from cyberattacks, and improve New Yorkers» access to the ballot box through measures like early voting.

Meanwhile, countries like Kenya and Ethiopia where the United States and aid groups have worked with governments to improve irrigation and other measures aimed at boosting food security are faring far better in the crisis.

There is also reason to doubt the assumption that people actually make the right choices: many studies have found that consumers fail to take measures to conserve energy, like improving insulation, even when they could save money by doing so.

The researchers found that when taking the supplement, dilation of subjects» arteries improved by 42 percent, making their blood vessels, at least by that measure, look like those of someone 15 to 20 years younger.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

Devices like these measure the quality and quantity of sleep to provide users with a score out of 100, and gives expert advice to improve overall sleep.

Just like with tracking your bodyfat percentage or your weight, «that which gets measured gets improved,» and that carries over to your total steps.

Sustained change is based on freedom and pleasure, plus I like to leverage the Hawthorne Effect when it comes to exercise — the idea that you improve your behavior when it is measured, because you know you are being watched.

For one, front - loading calories could help bolster satiety, lessen cravings for junk food as the day progresses, improve metabolic measures like insulin sensitivity, and take advantage of the fact that humans tend to have a higher metabolism earlier in the day.

In the fact that after experiencing the lawsuit due to the affiliate program problem (some of the affiliate partners illegally set up an STD dating site and share the database with positivesingles.com with domain like gayherpesdating.com) in 2014, PositiveSingles.com has taken a lot of strict measures to protect its members privacy, such as improving their affiliate program policy, banning the unqualified affiliate partners and updating their domain from HTTP to HTTPS, etc..

The back story of those six gleaming panels goes like this: In 2008, as part of a University - wide pledge sponsored by the Harvard Office for Sustainability, 45 percent of the HGSE community took a vow to improve the environment — both on - and off - campus — through simple, everyday measures, such as shutting off lights, hanging wet laundry, recycling, and even forgoing paper napkins.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

While discipline measures like suspensions are intended to enforce school rules and improve student behavior, the negative outcomes of such policies should give us pause.

Relatively new terms like «presentism» are being measured with a better understanding of the consequences of stress and disengagement, and reports suggest a three - to - 10 fold return on investment for companies who invest in measures to improve wellness.

Like all businesses, schools can implement some simple energy save measures to improve conditions and saving money, without compromising the comfort of staff and students.

«This is why we put in place new measures to improve the SEND training available to school staff, including tools developed through our work with organisations like nasen, to boost the profile of early years professionals working with children who have additional learning needs — building on a commitment set out in our Early Years Workforce Strategy.»

We can empower our students to track their own progress by offering them «I can» rubrics (like this one) that provide meaningful measures to help them monitor their progress during an activity or project — and we can circulate and confer as they use the rubric to guide their work and ultimately improve their performance.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison believe new video games like Crystals of Kaydor and Tenacity can measure student learning in real time while literally rewiring kids» brains to help them pay better attention and improve their behavior.

At the very least, the concept is an interesting approach to measuring the quality of schools — and could provide the kind of information families need to know what schools look like as well as how well they do in improving student achievement.

Most of the panelists also lauded the measure for scrapping NCLB's annual student performance targets in reading and math, and eliminating the 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline, instead instituting a laser - like focus on improving each state's bottom 5 percent of schools.

That meta - analysis revealed that students improved on every measure of positive behavior, like classroom discipline, liking school, and attendance — and went down on rates for every anti-social index, from bullying and fights to suspensions and substance abuse.

But as states rethink what success looks like, they can use more holistic measures of school quality to improve school and student performance.

On that measure, DCPS has improved — in fact, as DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson likes to point out, it's the fastest - improving urban school district in the country.

Adding a measure like this to any reading rate assessment would take very little time, but would greatly improve fluency instruction.

Professor Farran's case is that we do not know as much as we would like about what really constitutes quality in pre-K programs, how to measure that quality, and how to improve quality.

Regardless of specific tenure policies, debates like this reinforce the importance of ensuring that all educators are evaluated fairly using multiple measures, provided with high - quality professional development that helps them improve their practice, and given substantive leadership roles that allow them to share their strengths with their colleagues.

At least when it comes to school - choice programs (think charter schools, vouchers to attend private schools, magnet programs, etc.), researchers found that improving test scores doesn't guarantee students will have better chances of achieving long - term measures of success like high school graduation, entrance to college or higher incomes.

Moreover, measures like Alternator Management System help improve fuel efficiency while the First - in Segment Wheel Air Curtains have been added to ensure minimised air turbulence around the wheel area resulting lower Cd (Coefficient of Drag), low NVH, increased fuel efficiency and stability of the car at high speed.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Then, when people didn't like that idea they could have countered with a dramatically scaled back half - measure of a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian safety redesign of Clinton Ave.. It'd have been so mundane and low - key compared to the highly disruptive plan on Vanderbilt that maybe, just maybe, all the NIMBYs would have gone for it.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

The aims should be things like promote communication, reduce antagonism, improve understanding and knowledge of climate science (not measured by agreement with the consensus, but by knowledge of evidence, mechanisms, and arguments), and so on.

There is also reason to doubt the assumption that people actually make the right choices: many studies have found that consumers fail to take measures to conserve energy, like improving insulation, even when they could save money by doing so.

But if you don't measure stats like page views and conversion rates, you won't be able to improve your landing page's performance because you won't know how it is performing in the first place!

Make your home more appealing to them by paying off more of your mortgage (to show that you are serious about being a good proprietor), opting for a higher deductible, improving security at your place, and installing anti-fire measures like smoke detectors and sprinkler systems.

Mast also said he supports providing «behavior detection training» to anyone seeking a federal firearms license, making more resources available to schools to improve security measures, holding the «FBI and state agencies accountable for their failures to identify a threat like Nikolas Cruz» and «conducting further research into the nexus of gun violence, violence in mass media and mental illness.»

In support of this measure we need to look more globally at some of the solutions being provided through broader workforce initiatives in the latest budget to ensure the health sector can capitalize on things like school based traineeships, improved training opportunities for unemployed and building the Indigenous workforce capacity to respond to this growing health need.

The board says it would have liked to see more concrete commitments regarding tax measures relating to housing, in particular to improve the Home Buyers» Plan (HBP).