Sentences with phrase «not multiple measuring»

In fact, the CPS promotion policy sets up multiple barriers, not multiple measures.

Not exact matches

Shares of companies such as American Outdoor Brands and Sturm Ruger rose Thursday after the White House said President Donald Trump was open to multiple gun control measures but does not want to «ban an entire class of firearms.»

But in the process, what we've committed to is that we will not do a deal where there's less than a two and a half times multiple of impact,» suggesting a meaningful social impact that can be measured.

It doesn't matter whether one looks at basic measures such as median valuation multiples over the past (bull market) decade, or whether one uses a more complex discounted cash flow model.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Because of the surprising nature of the rollout, the administration wasn't able to notify senior officials in multiple federal agencies, State Department officials who needed to notify other countries of the drastic measures, or lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

But those measures don't show how the same quantum of credit can pop up in multiple places.

In that case, shake or whisk your flour blend to lighten it, gently scoop a large spoonful of the blend into a straight sided 1 - cup measuring cup (do not use a clear one with multiple measurements on the sides, those are for liquids).

I was very technical with this recipe, in that I measured everything multiple times to get it the right consistency, so beware of it NOT working.

The study authors provided data from multiples for infant morbidity (jaundice, infant feeding difficulty, weight loss, dehydration, illness not related to jaundice / feeding, ER visit, and hospitalisation) at two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge, and measures ofmaternal satisfaction (amount of information on feeding your baby, clarity of information on feeding your baby, amount of help with feeding your baby, and total satisfaction with care), assessed in hospital, two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge.

If you choose multiple measures of success, it's possible that the tests will reveal that you are successful on one front but not in another.

Sponsor Dan Squadron (D - 26), who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLCs be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLCs be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

Sponsor Dan Squadron, a Democrat who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLC's be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLC's be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

Well - written multiple choice questions can test knowledge effectively and are easy to grade, but they take time to write and make cheating easier if you don't take preventive measures.

«Using multiple tools for measuring reading ease, we found that IPCC reports are designed for grownups, but they are not harder to read than other science documents, including those written for the public by professional writers,» said co-author Chris Field, who served as the co-chair of the second IPCC Working Group.

The assaults that this most fundamental theory of reality makes on our intuition are legion: particles that exist as probabilistic wave functions in «superpositions» of multiple states or places, or at least seem to as long you don't look at them; «entangled» particles that influence each other over vast distances of space when you measure one of them.

«Measuring squid evolution in the lab might be doable to some extent,» Mooney said, «but it isn't really possible to raise multiple generations or even young to adult --[they] don't do all that well in captivity.»

«The three - day multiple pass dietary recall that asks people to remember what they ate is the gold standard for measuring food intake, but we can't accurately measure someone's diet or food intake,» said Spruijt - Metz, a research professor of psychology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

While the study did not measure whether multiple drugs were used simultaneously, research has shown that users of benzodiazepines and prescription opioids commonly combine the drugs to enhance or come down from the effects of other drugs.

«This nested design uses a bioecological framework to measure risk and protective factors at multiple levels of analysis — «from neighborhoods to neurons and beyond,»» Jacobson said.

You can — there are a number of autoimmune tests that can be run if a person has — if a person doesn't have a severe immune compromi — compromization, you can run tests that measure different autoimmune responses to different tissues, and you can actually find in many of these patients, 4, 5, 6 different autoimmune reactions going on in multiple tissues.

In addition, a 24 - Hour Urine test captures metabolites that are not measurable in saliva and can not be reliably measured by a single, or even multiple, blood draws, e.g., 16α - OH estrone, an estrogen metabolite shown to impact bone loss in men, and a number of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid metabolites (discussed in Part II of this review) that provide greater insight into long - term adrenal health, short term stress response, the cortisol / cortisone balance, and other measures of adrenal health and function than assessment of cortisol alone.

Consistent epidemiological evidence, particularly for depression, suggests an association between measures of diet quality and mental health, across multiple populations and age groups; these do not appear to be explained by other demographic, lifestyle factors or reverse causality.

The second paper, «Superior endurance performance with ingestion of multiple transportable carbohydrates» [2], did not measure liver glycogen replenishment; instead, it gave its cyclists sugary drinks every 15 minutes throughout an intense 2 - hr cycling test, and compared performance.

Obviously that's pretty absurd so either I am chronically overtrained (not a huge change in volume though, just a lil more consistent) or my data points weren't accurate (unlikely as I used digital scales, multiple measures etc).

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It is essentially rather refined and reflects not just one scammer trying to make some money, but instead an organized and formal system with multiple participants operating on a large measure.

This vacuum stems not only from the difficulty of the endeavor but also from a persistent national clash between an obsession to train students solely for high scores on multiple - choice tests and an angry disenchantment with measuring progress of public schools, educators, or education schools.

The use of multiple measures not only spreads the risk but also provides opportunities to detect manipulation or gaming.

These all are skills that can not be measured on a multiple choice test, but are critical to success in life.

U.S. Students Know What, But Not Why Science Insider, June 19, 2012 «The computer simulations offer NAEP a much better way to measure skills used by real scientists than do multiple - choice questions, says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

There can be oral assessments, portfolio assessments, multiple - choice assessments — a variety of them — but we must make sure we are not reliant on a single test to measure whether a student is proficient about this issue or any other issue.

[21] Collecting and processing multiple measures of college preparation, including high school transcript information, can be a heavy lift for institutions, especially those that are not already engaged in close partnerships with local K - 12 schools.

Not as often discussed is our ability to use students» in - game actions as evidence for the assessment of skills and knowledge, including those not easily measured by traditional multiple - choice tesNot as often discussed is our ability to use students» in - game actions as evidence for the assessment of skills and knowledge, including those not easily measured by traditional multiple - choice tesnot easily measured by traditional multiple - choice tests.

These observations can help educators make valuable inferences regarding students» mastery over skills, while offering new ways to assess factors not easily measured on multiple - choice tests, such as problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, persistence, and creativity.

Although the philosophy behind Balanced Assessment certainly is not new to education, the call for a system that uses multiple and varied measures of student performance has grown louder in recent years.

Our goal is to develop multiple measures of effective teaching that teachers design and endorse, that unions agree are fair, that don't cost very much, and that help all teachers improve.

They show that 1) Different academic indicators measure very different aspects of school performance, suggesting that states should be allowed and encouraged to make full use of multiple measures to identify schools in the way they see fit instead of reporting a summative rating; 2) The ESSA regulations effectively restrict the weighting of the non-academic «School Quality and Student Success» indicators to zero, which is not in the spirit of the expanded measurement; and 3) The majority of schools will be identified for targeted support under the current regulations, suggesting the need for a clarification in federal policy.

The program's teacher performance assessments are based on multiple measures of performance, not just students» test results.

The federal law permits multiple measures as long as those added to the state assessment program don't reduce or change the schools identified for improvement.

And now with multiple measures, understanding which schools have low performance is not as straightforward as when we were only measuring test scores, as uninformative as they may have been.

This practice not only runs counter to the spirit of multiple measures, it is bound to create inaccurate ratings and should not be part of the final regulations adopted by the U.S. Department of Education later this year.

Parents are familiar with multiple measures when they read their child's report card, and certainly do not want their child's school performance reduced to a single number.