Sentences with phrase «more standard measures»

Not exact matches

Hardware companies will account for this new standard by adopting more secure safety measures.

The longer you benchmark or measure your progress to an irrelevant or outdated standard, the more time you waste and the more ground you give up to the competition.

The y - axis measures the 12 - month return, while the x-axis measures monthly standard deviation, or, more generally, risk.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

«As measured by standard deviation, the iShares Gold Trust, an ETF that owns physical gold, has been more volatile than the Standard & Poor's 500 indexstandard deviation, the iShares Gold Trust, an ETF that owns physical gold, has been more volatile than the Standard & Poor's 500 indexStandard & Poor's 500 index.»

APRA will remove its cap on investor loan growth and replace it with a series of more permanent measures to keep lending standards strong.

White announced in a late March speech that «in order to more fully inform the commission's decision on this matter,» she had directed SEC staff to compile a list of all those options, including, she said, «a uniform fiduciary standard for broker - dealers and investment advisors when dealing with retail customers, and other measures that may be more targeted and achievable in the shorter term.»

Crude oil prices have been more volatile this year than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008/09 and before that 1991, according to standard measures of price variability.

Also newsworthy was that members of the committee opined on asset valuations more directly than usual: «Some participants viewed equity prices as quite high relative to standard valuation measures.

Powell has said he wants to keep the U.S. economy from overheating, encapsulating the concern for traders: that the Fed's rate increases might halt the upward trajectory of U.S. stocks that have surged more than 70 % over the past five years, as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

To answer your question more directly; if there is no standard for beauty and no measure of strength then we are equally accurate to say all the men are ugly and all the women are weak.

You can't measure which is more true or better solely by seeking how much members of each group live up to the standards of only one of those groups.

None of us can be more perfect than Jesus; therefore, Jesus is the standard by which our perfection is measured.

As hopes set on actual rulers are falsified, so longing grows more intense for a ruler who will measure up to God's standards.

One can take this as a cultural bias, or take it as a tribute.3 In any case the fact is that the woman who fails to measure up in some way to the higher standards expected of her is more likely to excite the contempt of those around her, to forfeit the respect of her children, and (what is most important to our theme) to be dogged by a deep inner sense of personal failure.

«The visiting importers toured a number of Victorian farms, viewing the high standard of food safety measures for which Australia is renowned, tasting produce and learning more about farm operations,» Mr Lloyd said.

2) I'm also... switching my coconut flour brand to one you recommend (nuts.com, as I used one you advise not to use), using what I now read is a better scooping method of dipping vs pouring into the measuring cup to get more flour, and buying a mini-muffin tin vs standard - size tin I used yesterday.

In 2015, The Consumer Goods Forum, which represents more than 400 of the world's largest retailers and manufacturers from 70 countries, adopted a resolution for its members to reduce food waste from their operations by 50 percent by 2025, with baselines and progress to be measured using the FLW Standard.

If you're trying to make better shopping choices for the environment by choosing «greener» or ethically made products, you're going to be bombarded by dozens of labels purporting to measure up to a certain standard, and probably charging more money for the goods.

One of the more commonly used risk measures is standard deviation.

Click here for more information and graphics that show you how to measure your toilet to determine if your toilet is the standard round or elongated.

A standard crib measures 30 x 54 inches, and a standard crib mattress measures 27 1/4 x 52 inches (more or less).

Using a repeated measures analysis of covariance for those infants with more than one postnatal weight measurement available, the difference between the two groups was similar, ∼ 1.2 standard deviations (P =.005).

Using the capitalists standard to measure your performance is not only defeatist, it always makes you more dangerous than the capitalists.

Partly as a result of the UK's relatively high population density, the top 15 UK airports account for more than one million of the 2.5 million people affected by aviation noise across the Europe Union (41 per cent of the total), based on the European standard measure of 55LDen.

· This 200,00 children is in addition to the 400,000 more children that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has previously projected will be living in relative poverty by 2015 as a result of coalition policies, and the 800,000 more children it estimates will living in relative poverty by 2020 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm121.pdf) · The government has not disclosed the likely impact of its sub-inflation uprating on absolute poverty rates which measure whether children are experiencing a real, as opposed to relative, fall in the standard of living.

Using a standard measure of kindergarten readiness, the Le Moyne researchers compared Syracuse City School District children who received the books for three or more years to children who did not.

By measuring one of nature's most fundamental constants more precisely than before, scientists have tested proposed tweaks to the standard model, the theory governing fundamental particles.

According to the standard measure of economic development, the US wins hands down: its GDP is more than $ 45,000 per person, compared to Costa Rica's $ 10,000.

They set out to see if people with bipolar disorder had more impulsive and inaccurate responses on a quick task than others without the condition, as measured on standard timed tests called a «Go / No - Go» test.

Sometimes it measured 7,000 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter, which is more than 400 times the maximum level that federal standards consider healthy.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

In particular, they hope to measure to within a few percentage points how quickly the Higgs decays into different combinations of more - familiar particles and compare that with standard model predictions.

Specifically, they measured a dephasing time of T2 * = 2.4 milliseconds — a result that is 10-fold better than the standard qubit, allowing many more operations to be performed within the time span during which the delicate quantum information is safely preserved.

Astronomers have used this standard property to measure the expansion of the universe and found the more distant supernovae were less bright than expected.

Features Balance training tool Lightweight, portable air - filled disc Measures 13.5» in diameter and 2.5» in height May be inflated for less difficult exercises and deflated for more difficult exercises using a standard ball pump with an inflation needle Comes with an exercise chart

You probably know what I'm talking about — that sense that you don't like something in the present moment, like your belly or butt or thighs, or the feeling that you should be doing more in your career, or that you deserve to be paid more than you are, or you somehow don't measure up to an impossible standard.

For this reason, be sure to check out their EFA Icon (essential fatty acid) which uses a unique Krill oil which has been measured as having 47 times more antioxidant value than standard fish oil.

The problem with these standard tests is they fail to measure whether T4 is being properly converted to T3 or if more is being converted to rT3 in the bloodstream causing «tissue hypothyroidism».

The military still uses the BMI as one of their standards for measuring body fat which becomes a problem for people who are heavier relative to their height because of their muscle mass (as you've probably heard that muscle weighs more than fat).

I have been working on my overall fitness more seriously than ever before for about six months, with some success (I can plank for 2 - 3 minutes if you want to measure it by that standard lol and weigh between 59 - 62 kilos depending on the scale and day).

Yet, body weight and fat loss were significantly more reduced with the high - calcium diet compared to the standard diet, and further reductions were measured with the high - dairy diet compared to both high - calcium and low - calcium diets.

Currently, the gold standard method for estimating muscle fascicle lengths for individual muscles is to measure them in cadavers with callipers and this approach is still used to validate more modern methods involving scans (Kellis et al. 2009; Noorkoiv et al. 2010; Ando et al. 2014).

Singles over 50 sign up expecting to find a more mature dating crowd and can feel frustrated by the youth and flippancy of members who don't measure up to the standards of respectable senior dating sites.

From your stated standards to more subtle measures, this system carefully designates matches and mismatches.

Bonus material returns in standard - definition, albeit enhanced for 16x9 displays where applicable; HiDef previews for Hachi: A Dog's Tale, Facing the Giants, Extraordinary Measures, and The Water Horse append each platter along with a PiP track called «Blu - Pop» that promises «trivia, interviews and more secrets from the film!»

Indeed, all the predetermined measures for success this pilot were met and exceeded: the students learned more than two times faster than in the standard program, and the student satisfaction score increased considerably.

Strong American Schoolswill not endorse specific presidential candidates, but will instead focuson three components the group believes form the building blocks ofbetter schooling: a call for stronger, more consistent curriculum standards; lengthening the school day and year; and improving teacherquality through merit pay and other measures.

It is helpful to remember that the definitions of the PARCC and MCAS performance categories are not directly comparable: the PARCC exam explicitly seeks to identify students who are prepared for college, whereas the MCAS performance levels are more narrowly targeted to measure proficiency relative to state curriculum standards.