Sentences with phrase «not achieve improvements»

Treating patients with high - dose radiotherapy after chemotherapy and surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma does not achieve improvements in local relapse and overall survival, according to data from a prospective randomized phase II trial presented at ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.

If Arsene Wenger and his team still hasn't achieved any improvement by then by all means vent your frustrations.

Not exact matches

While 50 percent of companies with more than 50 employees have wellness programs, they are not achieving the desired employee health improvements, the New York Times recently reported.

While Flannery may achieve modest improvement in GE's numbers, he has not demonstrated he can restore its soul.

«If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability,» the Fed's announcement stated.

The FOMC's annoucement after their meeting on Wednesday affirmed the Fed's QE3 policy, offering no changes, while stating, «If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.»

For example, a reduction in the number of binges, hospitalizations, days lost from work, arrests for drunkenness per year represent significant improvement, even though the ideal goal of permanent abstinence is not achieved.

we've been patient with these guys and others for a very long time now and there seems to be no improvement on the pitch of play... fans have always listed players they believe are not good to take the club to the next height but Mr potato head will continue to have faith till those guys retire from football without achieving anything for themselves.

Rome wasn't built in a day and I believe that he realises the task ahead and is prioritising what is necessary to achieve improvement.

Everton will pick up the player's # 250,000 a week wage, which will surely break the club's wage threshold, but being under new ownership, the glass ceiling implemented at the club can be broken, especially if there is a chance the club could become that much better, pushing themselves into the top six of seven clubs in the Premier League table, looking to maintain their improvement and aim to break into the top four, which would be best not to be achieved too quickly as it will be a tough position to maintain continually, looking at United's last four seasons should demonstrate that severely.

In the Houston study, when there was some minimal improvement in test scores, it was only among the highest - achieving students, not the low achievers.

-- we can not achieve the level of improvement we would like for our kids without major changes to the whole federal school meal program.

A new study shows that students who achieve the highest gains on standardized tests do not show improvements in their cognitive skills.

Neil Bentley, director of public services at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), added: «Driving greater efficiency should be intrinsic to the business of government, not for the sake of grabbing headlines but to achieve a culture of continuous improvement in service delivery.»

We believe that these proposals will not help schools to achieve the Government's ambition to «create an honest and open culture around sex and relationships», as set out in the new Framework for Sexual Health Improvement.

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As a result of the decision, he said, «the infrastructure improvements that are being planned to achieve such a goal will now be subject to local regulatory control so that not only are the sustainable energy goals achieved, but the natural beauty and character of our neighborhoods are preserved and protected,» he said.

Our Bronx community will not accept budget shortfalls as a reason to tolerate any further delays in achieving the improvements to our environment that we deserve and were promised.

Identification of a specific learning disability is based on determination of the following Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA): The child does not achieve commensurate with his / her age and ability levels in one or more of the seven areas (oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skill, reading comprehension, mathematical calculations or mathematical reasoning) when provided with learning experiences appropriate for the child's age and ability levels.

-- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue such regulations as may be necessary to establish annual energy efficiency participation incentives to encourage participants in programs administered by the Secretary, including recipients under programs for which HUD assistance is provided, to achieve substantial improvements in energy efficiency.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy (referred to in this section as the «Secretary»), in cooperation with the Administrator and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall develop a strategic plan to achieve the national goals for improvement in energy productivity established under subsection (a).

«Training the «good» limb after stroke may ultimately lower the level of improvement that the «bad» limb can achieve,» said Thomas Carmichael, a neuroscientist at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA who was not involved in the study.

Try it for three months to see if there is improvement, and if there is and you wish to continue, take a complete vitamin B complex, with enough thiamine to achieve this dose, so that you don't knock your other B vitamins out of balance.

When it comes to achieving any improvement in health, the golden rule is that any supplement which works superbly is still not automatically necessary.

The majority of studies show that resistance exercise training must be carried out at high intensity to achieve substantial improvements in muscle strength, but, for sarcopenic people, high - intensity resistance training may not be realistic or practical.

Also note, whether it has been months or even years since your c - section, it isn't too late to achieve improvements.

A resolution isn't supposed to be a short - term aim for the first few weeks of January — it's intended as a way to achieve personal development, self - improvement and ultimately happiness.

Our lack of information about employer - initiated moves may lead to an underestimate of the improvements in pay and working conditions achieved by teachers who move voluntarily, but the size of this underestimate is probably not very large.

But it isn't entirely clear yet whether XQ truly represents a more promising way of approaching high school redesign and education philanthropy or is simply a return to an old, somewhat discredited model in which funders let a thousand flowers bloom but never achieved large - scale improvement.

To those reluctant to get involved, I can not stress enough how powerful collaboration can be, offering the best platform upon which to achieve improvement and raise standards, both in your own school as well as in schools receiving support.

Changing culture As with health and safety in general, continuous improvement in preventing slips, trips and falls can not be achieved by one ‑ off interventions such as a single memo requesting that spilt drinks are mopped up quickly.

Another problem is that the money goes directly to individual schools, so reforms are schoolwide, not districtwide, making lasting change more difficult to achieve, said Keith Owen, Colorado's associate education commissioner for accountability and improvement.

There had been significant improvements to secondary schools in London yet this had not been achieved across the whole country and he highlighted the difficulties of improving results in some secondaries in the Midlands and North of England.

On the unrelenting pressure to improve schools without corresponding improvement in teachers» skills: «In its least desirable face, educational reform can become a kind of conspiracy of ignorance: policymakers mandating results they do not themselves know how to achieve, and educators pretending they do know what to do but revealing through their actions that they don't.»

The fact that such large improvements in student learning could be achieved with these common metrics going in the «wrong direction» reinforces a common finding in education research: teacher credentials and turnover are not always good barometers of effectiveness.

These three major reforms did not achieve their promise because they tried to bring about improvement through external means — adding programs on top of school districts» regular education services, applying market mechanisms to sift out bad schools, and exerting pressure to raise test scores.

Mannall wrote that she was «not satisfied that the trust can achieve rapid and sustained improvement at this academy» due to a «deteriorating financial position» which has left the trust «with limited capability to support the academies within the MAT».

Henry said his evaluation of North Carolina's school turnaround efforts (known as TALAS, or Turning Around North Carolina's Lowest - Achieving Schools) finds that most of the 118 low - performing schools that have been targeted saw quick improvements in student proficiency on state exams — 2,156 students were proficient who wouldn't have been otherwise, said Henry.

The states chosen have demonstrated not only an interest in leveraging improvement science to achieve equity but also the political will and capacity for implementing substantive change across systems.

The study, which analysed the results of different methods of teaching maths in three American high schools, found that an approach that involved students not being divided into ability groups, but being given a shared responsibility for each other's learning, led to a significant improvement in the achievements of high and low achieving students.

In Northamptonshire, where most schools are academies, almost 25 per cent of pupils attend an inadequate school or one which requires improvement, compared to 15 per cent nationally, and Russell has raised concerns that higher - ability pupils are not being supported to achieve as well as they should.

It could become great news for students, too, if negotiations can achieve a win not only for teacher pay, but also for improvements to district practice that can drive teacher retention by improving school climate and culture.

Using data from California schools that received SIG funds, this study found significant improvements in the test scores of schools on the «lowest - achieving» margin but not among schools on the «lack of progress» margin.

This allows school leaders to see progress towards achieving not only individual staff objectives, but also wider school improvement at any point during the academic year.

On the other hand, in order to achieve scores of «significant» improvement or decline, a charter network really had to move as a whole, not just be buoyed by one group.

Statewide systems of school improvement and support were focused largely on compliance and sanctions based on bald, end - of - year data that provided little evidence of how results were achieved and moreover, were not useful for making decisions at the school and system levels.

Smarter Suspension Despite the power increase, Mercedes engineers were able to achieve a roughly five percent improvement in efficiency (although U.S. EPA figures aren't yet available).

Those guys are like the Delta Force of engineers - called in when other engineers can't get their shit together and start pissing in each other's ears about «performance improvements» they haven't a CLUE about how to achieve.

Although Audi has not released fuel economy information, expect a big improvement over the outgoing 2013 A3 TDI hatch, which achieved up to 30/42 mpg (city / highway) with the dual - clutch transmission and front - wheel drive.

«By optimizing both the design and the materials used in the rotor, we are able to achieve weight savings and performance improvements that were not attainable before,» said Eugenio Madero, CEO, SANLUIS Rassini North America.