Sentences with phrase «more useful measure»

Housing affordability, which takes income into account, is arguably a more useful measure.

Record highs by number, but not by percentage - arguably the more useful measure for historical comparison.

A five - point ethics reform deal contains more useful measures to combat corruption, including reducing the size of financial contributions to political candidates needed to trigger disclosure and adding further restrictions to the political action committees that flourished after the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Not exact matches

However, a simple price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio, whether based on a snapshot in time or a smoothed measure of earnings, can be more useful, providing some indication of the possible distribution of future returns, our analysis shows.

Religion no longer serves a useful purpose, other than to perhaps give some measure of comfort to the dying that there's somehow more after «lights - out».

But beyond this important policy implication is a second implication in Jackson's study that is more relevant for our purposes: There is a more creative and potentially more useful way to measure noncognitive skills than what most researchers are currently focused on.

Maybe it's less useful to consider them as akin to academic skills that can be taught and measured and incentivized in predictable ways and more useful to think of them as being like psychological conditions — the product of a complex matrix of personal and environmental factors.

Zipkin typically measures more than 40 elements per sample and could find up to 15 of them useful for the fingerprinting, which creates that site's geochemical signature.

The analysis also lends more support to the idea that such detection systems could be useful in measuring seismic activity from space, as would be the case for infrasonic detection missions like those envisioned for the atmosphere of Venus.

Beyond the more typical uses for weight loss aids, electronic activity monitors may also be useful for patients when they are released from the hospital as a measure of recovery and quality of life.

Because fructosamine and glycated albumin are measures of short - term (2 - 4 week) glucose control and change more rapidly than HbA1c, they could also be useful for monitoring changes in diabetes treatments.

While more research is needed, these findings suggest that taking steps to create a healthy gut microbiome may be a useful preventive measure for AD.

Still, this study highlights the importance of balance: Weighing yourself once a day may be encouraging as a useful tool to measure progress, but any more than that and the weight - loss journey may simply become an obsessive numbers game.

Whilst BMI can be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.

Note: Whilst BMI can be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.

Although the site does publish some useful dating safety tips, it also takes more proactive measures to protect your safety, such as by giving you the option to «ignore» members or report them to the site team.

In fact, by several measures, online dating has proved even more useful — both to individuals and society — than the traditional avenues it has replaced.

He states «while these [questions about measurement and how spending reactions to court decision is measured...] are important methodological issues, it is more useful to focus on the substance of their findings.»

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

I hope this article was useful in understanding the ROI definition and more significantly, what ROI methodology will enable you to measure the ROI of online training.

More than 20 surveys purport to measure engagement in K - 12 schools, but that doesn't mean they're widely used or useful.

No group differences were found on social capital measures one year later, suggesting that the structured adaptive approach did not make teachers more likely to form ties that would be useful outside of the intervention.

Furthermore, measuring performance using the full range of achievement provides additional and useful information for parents, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers for the purposes of decisionmaking and accountability, including more accurate information about the differences among schools.

We would have liked a more useful writing measure, and, in our future work, we will ensure that we get reliable information on this important aspect of literacy acquisition.

New observational protocols are likely to be more useful than value - added measures because they provide teachers with information on specific teaching practices.

Value - added measures of improvement are more precise measures for groups of teachers than they are for individual teachers, thus they may provide useful information on improvement associated with practices, programs or schools.

Value - added measures for selecting and improving programs, for informing human resource decisions, and for incentives are likely to be more useful when they are combined with other measures.

Not only is it more objective and easier to measure, he said, but the link between good CPD and unmanageable teacher workload could also make CPD a useful litmus test for how hard staff are having to work more broadly.

Given the 14 - year gap between ESSA and NCLB, the ways in which the old law measured and improved school quality were no longer useful in improving student outcomes.1 States began requesting exemptions from the law's more punitive measures in 2011.2

Assessment based on student performance on real learning tasks is more useful for measuring achievement and provides more information for teaching than multiple - choice achievement tests.

Some useful engineering has gone into the front suspension as well, and now more sophisticated front dampers add a much - needed measure of compliance to the way the RAV4 rides along the highway.

Measuring 40 MB, the update promises to make the XOOM even more convenient to use by incorporating several useful enhancements.

While this was useful and fun, it's more of a baseline by which to measure other tools.

It is useful to have a measure that is independent of investor behavior, so a more constrained definition of total return is often used, one in which it is assumed that all distributions were reinvested.

However, a dish can still be useful as it allows you to more easily measure servings of food and gives you a general idea of how much your hamster is eating.

The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

FFT's are useful to more precisely measure certain types of cyclical signal characteristics of signals you know are already there, less useful for finding them.

The «global warming trend» since 1970 has, if anything, slightly increased since 1997 — * if * you are happy to agree that «global warming trend» measured over a period of 27 years or more is a useful measure of global warming.

(As propaganda depends on quantity and repetition... The truth just needs to be heard by a thinking mind...) So truthful questions and truthful evidence and truthful doubts and truthful counter points are attacked, vilified (usually «attack the messenger»), deleted, and drowned out in a flood of non-sequitur and appeal to authority arguments... (Another useful tool, btw, is just to measure the number of Logical Fallacies vs correct logical syllogisms... the more LF the more it's propaganda... the more correct logical syllogisms, data included btw, the less propaganda and the more honest science... but I haven't named that thought tool yet... Perhaps the LF Ratio?

I don't understand why an emissions trading scheme would be better than a logically applied carbob tax or why it would be more flexible and more useful than a carbon tax regime combined with other targeted measures.

I think the comparison of GISS with the measured trend after Pinatubo would provide more useful information if the effects of ENSO on short term temperature were first removed from the data.

I've never defined small houses in terms of square footage, it seems like efficient use of space would be a more useful way to measure this stuff.

It turns out that easily measured things like the ability to run fast are not the useful statistics to use when assessing whether to recruit a player and how much to pay, but: «As bad as they may have been, the statistics used to evaluate baseball players were probably far more accurate than anything used to measure the value of people who didn't play baseball for a living.»

On the one hand, considering both the tensions that currently affect the Schengen system as a whole and the tensed relationship between the EU and UK, the possibility of resorting to limited forms of cooperation with the UK and Ireland could represent a useful additional tool for negotiating new and more effective measures building upon the Schengen acquis, especially with regard to the management of the external borders.

Given the primacy of student loans in higher education, measures that focus less on employment and salary figures and more on actual ability to pay bills provide the type of nuanced information that students would find useful.

Law society libraries could decide to discontinue purchasing print reports and statutes in favour of CanLII, but that is no more than a potentially useful cost saving collection development measure.

National coordination is in service of the common goal of making a larger amount of useful data more readily available to empirical researchers in order to enhance the capacity of justice systems to empirically measure program performance and evaluate user outcomes.

Other features like docking stations, instantly removable batteries, spill proof keyboards and variety of security measures are more than useful.

Other features, including docking stations, instantly removable batteries, spill proof keyboards and variety of security measures, are more than useful.

Google Fit is expanding, offering more activities, but also wanting to make your Android Wear device more useful, with things like pushup or squat challenges - with the watch able to not only advise on form, but measure your performance too.