Sentences with phrase «measuring results against»

Designed and implemented office policies by establishing standards and procedures; measuring results against standards; making necessary adjustments.

Designs and implements office policies by establishing standards and procedures; measuring results against standards; making necessary adjustments.

Current authentication technologies, e.g., digital signatures, assess the file encoding at a bit - level, measuring the result against a threshold.

Not exact matches

The following measures are used by the Company's management to evaluate financial performance against historical results and establish targets on a consolidated basis.

Internally, the Company's management uses these measures to evaluate performance against historical results, to establish financial targets on a consolidated basis and for other reasons, which are discussed below.

The process is fairly simple: Extract the cell's DNA, measure its carbon - 14 levels with a tool called a mass spectrometer, and check the result against tables of carbon - 14 decay in the period since 1963.

Meanwhile, investors will also be assessing developments between Russia and the U.S.. On Friday, the Kremlin told Washington it needs to cut 755 of its staff members in Russia and further measures could be taken as a result of new sanctions against Moscow.

I would add,»... and if the idea is well - executed, if we have clear ways to measure it, and if we can compare its results accurately against those we've achieved elsewhere.»

People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business.

We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA are useful measures for investors to review, because they provide a consistent measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations for future performance.

The best you can do is to measure the actual result against one of these two handy rankings of the electoral districts (here and here).

The Alaska measure led by about 52 - 48 percent with all precincts reporting preliminary results early on Wednesday, and groups for and against the initiative said it had passed.

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.

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

The resulting stalemate illustrated the ambivalence with which our contemporary legal culture regards the proposition that there exists some objective standard of right and wrong against which human legal standards can be measured.

The European Commission says it will increase its $ 60m Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget by a further $ 30m to ease market difficulties expected as a result of Russian measures against some European agricultural products.

Along with sharing the components I use, I personally try to list the components that go into my ratings, and I share weekly / yearly results at Football Study Hall so you can see how they're measuring up against the actual schedule.

I'm sure where formula and breastfed infants are measured against parental involvement / concern, the results will be equal.

In 2007, in an effort to establish whether certain lifestyle factors offered any preventive measure against various types of cancer, the American Institute for Cancer Research released a report of a meta - study it had conducted (over five years, compiling results from several smaller studies).

This could result in Catholic ministers and MPs voting against the three specific measures but being whipped to accept the bill as a whole if a majority in the Commons votes for the reforms.

Quorums are an interesting case, where you can cause a measure to pass by voting against it, with the result that abstaining from voting can be more effective at defeating the measure than a «no» vote.

«Against any measure, this year's school and college leavers will demonstrate that they have achieved the best results of any generation.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called the DREAM Act a nonstarter in his house, and with good reason — politically speaking — considering the fact that a number of his new members actively campaigned against the measure during the 2014 elections and were successful at the ballot box as a result of their opposition.

It sounds as though you have spent some time developing your ideas about what you want from a career and, as a result, have developed a strong set of criteria against which you can measure possible careers.

Peter Smith, head of the government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Council (SEAC) thinks the single positive result offers «limited reassurance», because most people alive in the UK today ate potentially infected meat products before the first measures against BSE were introduced in 1988.

These comparisons should be done before and after deployment to establish a proper baseline against which to measure the results.

«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»

Their results have shown that measures to protect the Baltic Sea have been somewhat effective, however, general climate change has, to some degree, buffered against these measures.

The ACCC also conducted a sweep of dating sites, looking for «misleading offers, unclear pricing policies or consumer contracts with unfair terms», along with what measures dating sites had in place to protect consumers against scammers — the results of which are due in a month or two.

Supporters of the common core standards have also been concerned that the base of support could erode when the first results are released from the new assessments designed to measure student performance against them.

(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one class against the three different measures from another class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042 on value - added, student survey, and classroom observation, respectively).

Teachers» unions are strongly against these plans for a variety of reasons, including that they say it's nearly impossible to accurately measure an individual teacher's contribution to a student's success, since a child's achievement is cumulative over a period of years and the result of the efforts of many people.

The team has developed an innovative method of comparing results for charter students against their «virtual twins» in district schools, and translating hard - to - understand standard deviation measures into a more easily digestible «additional days of learning.»

As a result, the achievement gap is now further measured when students are judged against the 39 categories needed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) as specified in No Child Left Behind.

Participants who take the survey receive reports that describe the level of their personalized learning implementation measured against a set of nationally - normed these standards, as well as compared to results from schools across the country.

But school accountability simply means measuring the progress of all students against rigorous standards and assigning consequences to the results.

And because of the Badger Exam's fleeting existence, students» performance on future tests can not be measured against this year's results.

Teachers received scores based on students» actual test results measured against the predictions.

This idea came to be known as school accountability, and it was built around three principles: Creating rigorous academic standards, measuring student progress against those standards, and attaching some consequence to the results.

These are excess total returns measured against an equal - weighted benchmark, which means, for example, the +58 percent result for the Best Performing 10 % (Large) means that those stocks beat the market by 58 percent in any given year.

Results must be measured against appropriate benchmarks in a clear, concise and understandable way.

Vaccination is a simple and inexpensive preventative measure that will guard against the many infectious diseases that could prove costly for your wallet or worse, result in the premature death of your pet.

If the labwork is normal, it gives us a baseline to measure future results against and allows us to monitor trends over time.

- 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

I worry that in comparing similar elements of video games and films, we lose sight of what works in their respective media are trying to accomplish, and the result is that we measure video games against the yardstick of film or use the language of film to discuss video games.

It's just that the expense of formal V&V measured against the results of other kinds of Q / A is deemed not worth it, not to mention that there are those who argue that V&V doesn't bring nearly as much value to the table as V&V proponents claim.

The second argument against mandatory helmet legislation relates to the view that government may see mandatory helmet legislation as «the answer» to cycling safety, with the result that other measures recommended in this Review (improved infrastructure, legislative review, education and enforcement activities) are de-emphasized or not acted upon.

It focuses on UNISDR's work with partners to deliver results and measures achievement against the strategic objectives for these two years, including 1) disaster risk reduction accepted and applied for climate change adaptation; 2) measurable increases in investment in disaster risk reduction; 3) disaster - resilient cities, schools and hospitals; and 4) strengthened international system for disaster risk reduction.

Any time Anthony is able to compare raw measured temperature data against the «adjusted» published results, he conclusively shows the published results are utter crap.

Particularly given that one complaint offered by «skeptics» is that «realist» climates scientists refuse to debate the science (with the resulting conclusion drawn by «skeptics» that the refusal to debate is some kind of protective measure against having to acknowledge error).