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However, the law requires districts to include certain practices, such as relying on multiple objective measures in placement decisions, using student performance data to ensure equity and efficacy, and ensuring the consistency of placement policies between elementary and high school districts.

10th International Symposium on Objective Measures in Auditory Implants (OMAI), Oct 9 - 12, 2018, Tel Aviv, Israel http://objectivemeasures.org/

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Stack's purpose in all this was to focus attention on common objectives, and to suggest in some small way that performance could be measured.

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

This repeated counting is not an issue, since the objective of the analysis is to measure the number of mini flash crashes in the test window against the number of mini flash crashes in each window of similar duration during the control period.

In science, such an utter failure on one's predictive track record is a fair and objective measure of the falsification of one's hypotheses.

That some of the forces governing capital flows and asset values are driven not by market - determined expected return but by policy measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.

Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.

The benefits of measuring your content's impact: Remember why you started creating content in the first place — to achieve business goals, rather than content objectives.

Our defensiveness here is driven by objective measures that have validation in a century of market cycles.

While the prospectus objective identifies a fund's investment goals based on the wording in the fund prospectus, the Morningstar Category identifies funds based on their actual investment styles as measured by their underlying portfolio holdings (portfolio and other statistics over the past three years).

The headline measure is of most value in charting the direction of change, but even with this objective it is important to understand whether employment or labour force participation decisions are the drivers.

UNG's investment objective is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its shares» net asset value to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the natural gas price delivered at the Henry Hub, La., as measured by the daily changes in the benchmark futures contract minus expenses.

Moreover, the measures are focused on long - term objectives, such as building infrastructure, that in most cases won't have a real near - term economic impact.

However, the risk of being thrown off the scent can be reduced by having an objective way of measuring the ebbs and flows in the confidence that drives, among other things, the performance of the gold market.

In my view, the necessary objective is to accept market risk when the likely return / risk profile is attractive, based on observable measures of valuation and market action, and to avoid, hedge, or diversify away those risks that don't carry attractive return / risk profiles on average.

MNI Indicators MNI produces a number of economic indicators, providing objective measures of business and economic climate in the U.S. and Asia - Pacific.

The measures of valuation and market action that define each «Market Climate» are factors that can be tested in decades of historical data, are objective, observable, and have strongly affected the average profile of return and risk in the markets over time.

Secondly, as Wesley Kort summarizes, our present conceptual system «is a system based on the ruthless exclusion of the personal, a systematic skepticism which renders the «I» an eye measuring mathematically the relations to one another of phenomena in the objective world.

Since in Newtonian physics time and space were considered absolute objective schemas of reference, it was possible to measure speed in terms of so many miles per hour or feet per second.

These objectives are often very important, but few who measure practical theology in terms of pastoral skills recognize how much knowledge is required to do any of these things in ways that will yield more than short - term success.

Your analogy fails because in weightlifting, etc. there are objective measure as what is «proper» whereas in «theology» improper belief can not be distinguished from proper belief.

But although there can be no question that in the last analysis fact is more important than explanation, actually they can not be separated, for some measure of explanation and interpretation — adequate or inadequate, accurate or inaccurate — is part and parcel of any knowledge of objective reality it is given us to have.

Defenders of the truth of the Bible, who erroneously assumed that the truth of a narrative is precisely in the measure Of its literal accuracy, were constrained to interpret so as to substantiate the objective reliability of the account.

It is true that there is, according to Aristotle, one privileged motion — the rotation of the sphere of the fixed stars — which measures accurately the objective flow of time; in its insistence on the close correlation of time with the universal celestial clock, Aristotle's theory of time remained relational.

This is not a subjective test attempting to measure the «true» value of the law to benefited individuals; rather, it's a more objective test (at least in theory) which simply attempts to measure the number and scope of allowed exemptions from the law.

Improvement on four objective measures was significantly related to subjects» belief in the power of prayer for others.

Subjects» views of the locus of God's action showed significance in three objective measures.

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian co-regulatory system in limiting children's exposure to unhealthy television food advertising by measuring compliance with mandatory and voluntary regulations.

While the media are busy throwing tantrums and doing their best to spin it in the most negative way, I prefer an objective and measured analysis.

While Totti's pursuit of Silvio Piola's scoring record will ultimately fall flat, Totti already has more appearances than any attacking outfield player in the history of the league and is, by any objective measure (bias alert, but not really), the best Italian to ever play the game.

By any objective measure, there was a lot of school lunch reform «power» in that room, and the conversation was intelligent, insightful, and informed.

The K - D test, originally developed in the 1980's by optometrists Al King and Steve Devick at the Illinois College of Optometry, provides objective measures of many aspects of brain function, including subcortical (subconscious) pathways that extend beyond eye movements.

The first and only FDA - approved concussion - specific tool designed for individuals ages 5 - 11, ImPACT Pediatric provides health care professionals with objective measures of neurocognitive functioning for evaluation and management of concussion in younger children.

These objective measures are very useful in recognizing that you should stay away or get out.

Whether your multiples are in an Early Intervention program or receiving therapy through the school district, their development is measured by how well they meet goals and objectives.

Objective: To measure the temperatures of foods in sack lunches of preschool - aged children before consumption at child care centers.

«In the Romanian context, SNE advocates for a comprehensive and objective impact assessment of the proposed restrictions, taking into account the impact that these measures would have on breastfeeding rates, and the nutritional status of infants and young children.

Objective: We evaluated whether a 12 - wk dietary behavior modification (D) treatment to decrease energy intake, physical exercise behavior modification (E) treatment to implement moderate aerobic exercise, or combined dietary and physical exercise behavior modification (DE) treatment compared with control (usual care)(C) reduces body weight in lactating women measured at the end of treatment and at a 1 - y follow - up 9 mo after treatment termination.

Recognising these challenges, the authorities prepared and discussed with the mission, a package of measures which would reduce the risk of expenditure overruns, in particular on the wage bill, and keep the 2016 budget outturn consistent with the programme objectives, with an overall cash deficit now projected at 4.8 percent of GDP.

Commentators and news outlets seem to shy away from more objective measures, like looking at the percentage of budget spent, in favour of sensational findings.

Unless the new agreement delivers these objectives in substantial measure, we will find it difficult to justify the final result to the 52 % who voted leave.

The Institute makes the call in response to a Treasury consultation on how to increase the supply of capital to growing, innovative firms.1 The CIOT's response focuses on steps the Government could take to make current tax reliefs more efficient and effective, to provide the best support in line with their policy objectives.2 The CIOT advocates greater post-legislative review and evaluation of tax measures, including tax reliefs.

It's supposed to operate in a broad - based fashion measured by objective and even - handed criteria.

President Mulgrew said: «By objective measures like the racial achievement gap or the college readiness rate, and by public disenchantment with the governance of the schools, it is clear that mayoral control in its current form has not worked.

But the objective problem is not the coalition agreement, as many Tories are quite happy to rebel against measures that went into the agreement on the nod because they were in both parties» manifestos.

«I agree with the sentiment and the opinion that we should have an objective evaluation strategy for layoffs, but also in general, that seniority alone is not the best measure.»

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

«We are putting in place what we believe are the right measures that go towards meeting that objective.»