Sentences with phrase «on any of the measures of»

The KIPP children showed no advantage on any of the measures of character strengths.

Not exact matches

In five different scenarios, they measured their subjects on a set of cognitive tasks, and controlled for the formality or casualness of their clothing, instructing subjects to bring «clothing you would wear to a job interview» to change into.

The advisory group, in a report submitted to Congress and the U.S. trade representative in late June, suggested the USTR borrow exact language pertaining to the agricultural sector and suggested using the Asiawide trade deal as the basis for text on environmental and labor regulation, with «additional strengthening of measures beyond what was in TPP,» according to a copy of the June 30 letter obtained by CNBC.

The country also receives a «B» on scientific articles, measured as the number of peer - reviewed scientific articles produced in natural sciences and engineering per million population.

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.

So, it makes sense that you measure each area of the business on its profit.

Even if Canada doesn't start dropping payloads of cash itself — something Cooper says he does not foresee in the next three years, at least — the ripple effect of a central bank explicitly targeting higher inflation and adopting formerly verboten measures to get it would be felt on these shores in the form of increased global volatility.

«Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost - with - all - hands stupidity.

In plain English, measuring the return of a fund without any trading action over time, versus the return of a fund based on investor flows into and out of a fund over time.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Cost of living is based on the 2013 ACCRA Cost of Living Index, which measures regional differences in the cost of consumer goods and services.

WASHINGTON, April 30 - Two Democratic lawmakers asked Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Monday for documents related to proposed changes to vehicle fuel emission standards and California's authority to set its own measures, and accused him of misleading Congress of the agency's plans.

As a measure of their continued stature, the Rockefeller name can add a premium of 50 percent or more on works of art and collectibles.

Canada earns its only «A» on the new indicator, entrepreneurial ambition — a measure of the share of the working - age population reporting early - stage entrepreneurial activity, such as attempts to establish or own a new business.

This revision was made to align with how management measures performance internally and focuses on trends of a more stable base of stores.

Biotech is a «crazy» industry, in that there's no easy way to measure a company's worth, because actually helping patients is at least 10 years away, explains Brian Bloom, president of Bloom, Burton & Co., a Toronto - based investment bank focused on the health - care sector.

It is easy to measure the contribution of brake pad manufacturing to gross domestic product; it is harder to determine the value created by a team of Stantec Inc. architects and engineers on assignment in the Caribbean.

The company's share price rose 6 percent in early trading on Friday after at least 14 Wall Street brokerages raised their price targets on the stock - a measure of the confidence around the stock among sector analysts.

Additionally, the second group of tariffs would only be implemented «after further evaluating the impact of the U.S. measures on China.»

Zuckerberg says that «by making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down.»

Depending on the scope and purpose of the research, happiness is often measured using objective indicators (data on crime, income, civic engagement and health) and subjective methods, such as asking people how frequently they experience positive and negative emotions.

This photo provided by Rep. John Yarmuth, D - Ky., shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep. John Lewis, D - Ga., center, and Rep. Joe Courtney, D - Conn., left, participate in sit - down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Since value depends on results, not inputs, value in health care is measured by the outcomes achieved, not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus from volume to value is a central challenge.

While proponents often suggest simply concentrating on your breathing as a good way to do it, research conducted at the University of Wisconsin - Madison has found that actually counting your breaths is a good way to measure mindfulness.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

Instead of exposing engineers to chemical hazards, Clearpath's Kingfisher robot measures tailings on its own.

QUESTION FROM READER: I've been noticing some anomalous behavior in the NYSE Advance - Decline data and other indicators based on NYSE data that does not match up with other measures of breadth.

The measure hit the year's high of 118.54 million shares traded on Feb. 6 and ended Thursday's session at 28.81 million.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

The measure will now go to the House of Representatives to be voted on at a to - be-determined date.

Aside from the lack of public support from Netflix, Nielsen's new service could also suffer from the fact that it does not yet measure how many people watch Netflix programming on mobile devices, which likely represents a large chunk of viewership.

Recently we were asked a simple question: could we measure the «health» of conversation on Twitter?

Our country generally ranks highly on measures of gender balance.

Google is aware that slow sites make for a poor user experience, and because they can measure site speed with their crawls and poor user experience by the number of people that immediately return to their results pages after clicking on a link, site speed is an important ranking factor.

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

American and Delta are in the process of rolling out these fares on flights to Europe, and executives have said they measure its success by the rate of passengers who pay higher fares to avoid it.

On the other hand, first - time advertisers are at risk for spending a lot of precious capital for exposure they are unprepared to measure and leverage.

On Dec. 7, the Bank of Canada endorsed negative interest rates as a viable emergency stimulus measure, a significant shift that demonstrates the extent to which monetary policy has evolved since the Great Recession.

Simple measures such as building on e-commerce supported platforms and protecting your hardware and software with regular updates and sufficient anti-virus and firewall protection are basic principles that can be easily implemented to close the loopholes that hackers use as points of entry.

Survivors of the Florida school shooting lashed out at lawmakers, gun advocates, and even President Donald Trump on Saturday at a fiery rally demanding immediate gun - control measures in the wake of Wednesday's massacre.

A parade of business executives broke ties with Trump on Wednesday, a day after he blamed white nationalists and counter-protesters in equal measure for the weekend clashes that left one woman dead.

The company's move to back off its public support for the measure follows company CEO Mark Zuckerberg's second day of testimony on Capitol Hill.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

He added that «it's a bit early to say» if the measures will be enough to attract people from the City of London, «but Paris has obvious strengths on (the) continental Europe market, clearly,» he said.

While Japan has made progress on economic participation and opportunity for women — one of the report's four gender equality measures — it's seen a reversal in women's political empowerment.

«The final decision on the implementation of the debt measures will be taken, if needed, at the end of the program, conditional on full - implementation of the program,» Centeno told reporters in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

Authors Mark Rovere and Brett J. Skinner found that although Canada is one of the biggest spenders on national health care within the 27 - member Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it nevertheless ranked below average on most of the indicators measuring availability of medical resources and services.

They do not include statutory measures such as the two provisions Trump said he would consider, or others like the inability of insurers to place lifetime limits on plans.

MSCI on Wednesday gave Snap one of its lowest grades of corporate governance, a «B,» labeling it a «laggard» on such measures.