Sentences with phrase «new quality measures»

Assists team and internal staff with implementation of new quality measures, policies, and procedures

Not exact matches

Mettler Toledo, a supplier of quality weighing and measuring solutions has released a new on demand webinar

The INQR aims to bring new science to traits of quality, standardize the measure of each trait and to identify new traits of physical, sensory and nutritional quality.

February 2013: New Method to Measure Protein Quality Provides Important Information on How Foods Contribute to a Sustainable Diet

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

We'll stick with the Power Ratings and observe that New England is the stronger team based on their performance, strength of schedule and overall quality measures.

How Children Succeed introduced readers to an exciting new body of research showing that the traditional way we measure children's abilities — through standardized tests of their cognitive skills — was missing a crucial dimension: the importance of so - called non-cognitive skills or character strengths, qualities like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism.

In recognizing the provision of non — breast milk fluids to breastfed infants as a quality - of - care issue, in 2010, The Joint Commission, a major organization that accredits and certifies U.S. hospitals, added exclusive breast milk feeding during the newborn's entire hospitalization as a new quality of care measure.

«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.»

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objeQuality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objequality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objequality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

These are just a few of the restrictions outlined in a new water quality control measure touted by state Assemblymen Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst), during a conference put on by Long Island Clean Water Partnership advocacy groups in Islandia Thursday.

After facing sharp criticism over the state's response to water contamination in the village of Hoosick Falls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year signed the $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which is aimed at upgrading drinking and clean water infrastructure across the state and instituting new quality control measures.

Cuomo pushed a package of water quality measures last year, culminating in a budget appropriation of $ 2.5 billion for water infrastructure, new testing requirements for smaller water systems like the one serving Hoosick Falls and state authority to set new limits for toxic chemicals like the one found in the Rensselaer County village.

The spending measure, which requires legislative approval, also includes $ 1.1 billion in new school spending; $ 2.5 billion for water quality and water and sewer upgrades; expanded child care tax credits; and new powers for Cuomo, a Democrat, to adjust state spending in the face of federal spending cuts.

Despite this work force deficit, Welsh science overall now outperforms many other similarly small countries such as Norway, Ireland, and New Zealand, according to commonly used measures of efficiency and science quality.

She headed a new review of research in order to examine several measures of the quality of early childhood education specifically for dual - language learners.

As the researchers collect data in this way on many more people, they hope to come up with new and much more objective ways to measure not just sleep but also sleep quality.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

A new generation of researchers who think about how best to measure variables such as patient preferences and quality - of - life issues is coming of age now, McDonald adds.

The measure of our success will be in the quality and number of new medicines we can offer patients.At Regeneron, we are passionate about everything we do.

The measure of our success will be in the quality and number of new medicines we can offer patients.

Work by Yeh's group and international collaborators later revealed that graphene made using the new technique is of higher quality than graphene made using conventional methods: It is stronger because it contains fewer defects that could weaken its mechanical strength, and it has the highest electrical mobility yet measured for synthetic graphene.

«It was a challenge to extract this genetic material in significant quantities and sufficient quality from the mummified tissue samples, and to measure and quantify it with the newest, very precise methods,» reports Stephanie Kreis, who isolated the microRNAs at the University of Luxembourg.

EPA, together with the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services, today announced a nationwide competition to develop new, highly portable sensors that can measure air quality while monitoring a person's physiological response to air pollution.

The yardstick did such a good job of measuring the quality of odors that the scientists could use it to predict just how pleasant (or unpleasant) people would rate a new molecule.

Investigators will examine the impact of the mSMT on new learning and memory abilities and measures of daily life functioning and overall quality of life, assessing both groups immediately post-treatment and at one and two years post-intervention.

He continued: «By using our new nanoagent to label microcracks and detecting them with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we hope to measure both bone quantity and quality and identify those at greatest risk of fracture and institute appropriate therapy.

Kansai President Shigeki Iwane was cited by the Kyodo news agency as telling Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa, «The decision we made is the result of giving priority to securing the safety and quality [of the reactors] after considering measures to meet new safety standards.»

A new study disputes the effectiveness of mortality as a measure of the quality of care provided by hospitals to stroke patients - and therefore hospital rankings - because use of do - not - resuscitate (DNR) orders differs widely between hospitals.

Halo either deserves a» 10» or a» 0»:» 10» if you base the score on sales; the game's capacity in attracting new gamers to this form of electronic entertainment; on the measure of how much of a camoufalging influence «hype» can have on the actual quality of a product; and on the potential for single game to save a video game console.

Applying the old metrics of quality to judge the personal computer didn't make any sense, nor would have applying the new measures to the old products.

Acknowledging that some of the measures it uses to judge the quality of K12 schools are «inadequate or inappropriate,» the report calls for states to develop new and better instruments.

Their peers» average test scores are about 0.15 standard deviations higher, and the new schools have higher - quality teachers, measured in terms of the fraction of teachers with less than three years» experience, the fraction that are new to the school that year, the percentage of teachers with an advanced degree, and the share of teachers who attended a «highly competitive» college as defined by the Barron's rankings.

Such lengths include the release of new guidelines to create better textbooks, including the use of high - quality colour photographs and measures that support pupils learning rather than simply teaching them how to pass tests.

But as we turn to new measures of school quality including production of college and career ready students there is new space for advocates to research and promote the benefits of school counselors.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

Hill's primary work focuses on developing new measures of mathematics teaching quality, and using these measures to inform current policies and instructional improvement efforts.

Thus, perhaps the greatest concern is not even the new Snapshots» favoring qualitative measures over student achievement, but Tweed's capacity to gather meaningful, high - quality data even on the things it prizes.

The draft School Quality Snapshot says clearly and unambiguously that the days of measuring a school by academic performance in New York City are over.

With little fanfare, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) last month released a draft of its new «School Quality Snapshot» — Chancellor Carmen Fariña's bid to evaluate each of Gotham's more than 1,800 schools based on «multiple measures.&raqNew York City Department of Education (DOE) last month released a draft of its new «School Quality Snapshot» — Chancellor Carmen Fariña's bid to evaluate each of Gotham's more than 1,800 schools based on «multiple measures.&raqnew «School Quality Snapshot» — Chancellor Carmen Fariña's bid to evaluate each of Gotham's more than 1,800 schools based on «multiple measures.»

Using the full population of all first - year undergraduates enrolled at Northwestern between fall 2001 and fall 2008 (over 15,000 students in all), we empirically generate two new measures of teaching quality — one an indicator of inspiration (the rate of «conversion» of non-majors to majors) and the other an indicator of deep learning (the degree to which a professor adds lasting value to students» learning that is reflected in success in future classes).

Among a number of other measures, Gibb outlined the introduction of a new National Teaching Service (NTS) which will aim to recruit high quality teachers and place them in challenging schools.

Assessing the Common Core Standards: Opportunities for Improving Measures of Instruction Educational Researcher, May 2011 Responding to comments on their «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors suggest additional perspective that should be considered when addressing quality and change, stating additional conceptualizations of mathematics and English language arts content as well as how to define and measure alignment among content standards, materials, assessments, and instruction should be explored.

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There are now several new gate - keeping measures to test teacher quality introduced by universities in the last two to three years.

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The two new quality indicators are based on how charters performed on state accountability measures, including whether the state increased the percentage of charters receiving top ratings and decreased the percentage of charters receiving bottom ratings.

New York's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan builds on this long - standing work and includes the College, Career, and Civic Readiness Index as part of the School Quality and Student Success (SQSS) measure for high schools.

In Michigan, for instance, the new chief state school officer recently replaced the test - focused accountability system with a new grading system that relies on a broader set of measures of school quality, including family involvement, the quality of professional development, attendance, and dropout rates, among others.

Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.