Sentences with phrase «of numerical targets»

With the world's two major emitters sending their top leaders to Copenhagen with gifts of numerical targets, and with the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begins.

Consider the context of numerical targets — percentages, for example, X % of students will achieve Y %; it is impossible for teachers to guarantee this.

Why had officials and advisers assumed the existence of numerical targets for chucking people out of Britain was something the home secretary would be sufficiently comfortable about not to have to ensure the details were brought to her attention and formally approved?

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We need a hospital inspections regime that doesn't just look at numerical targets but examines the quality of care and makes an open, public and explicit judgement.

His work has also provided the theoretical underpinnings for LIGO; he and his colleagues have established target sources of gravitational waves and carried out numerical simulations of the kind that allowed the September 2015 signal to be identified as a pair of merging black holes.

But the produce - or - else testing culture that she fostered — tying portions of some evaluations to growth in scores and securing commitments from principals to hit numerical targets — created a climate of fear, in the view of many school employees.

The «value added» — what instructors contribute to student growth on tests — is a more meaningful indicator of progress than the absolute numerical targets in the federal No Child Left Behind law, advocates say.

The former numerical target of achieving 10 % yield on cost in 10 years has been dropped.

I have a specific numerical target: By the time of its 10 - year anniversary in 2018, I want the DGP to be sending me 10 % of its original cost every year in dividends.

As players that often feel outside of gaming's target demographic, we are attempting to create a deep gameplay experience that doesn't rely heavily on typical gaming fare such as numerical rewards and combat.

«Abstract The process of parameter estimation targeting a chosen set of observations is an essential aspect of numerical modeling.

The US CLIVAR / OCB Southern Ocean Working Group was formed to identify critical observational targets and develop data / model metrics based on the currently available observational data, both physical and tracer, and the assimilative modeling (re) analyses, and evaluate and develop our understanding of the importance of mesoscale eddies in the heat and carbon uptake and of the response of the Southern Ocean to a changing climate, using high - resolution numerical studies and theory.

They've created medium and long term plans and set national numerical targets, such as producing 100 to 150 Gigawatts of wind energy by 2020.

By adjusting the values of those parameters found to be influential through numerical experiments and simulations, short - term and long - term policy recommendations that can keep the system within optimum levels or sustainable development targets (e.g., Millennium Development Goals or the Post-2015 Development Agenda) can be designed and tested.

On your CV, stress the numerical results of your actions: if you raised money for charity, for example, say whether you met your target and express the figures in whichever types of numbers are most impressive (for example, # s or percentages).