Cognitiv + provides them with benefits such as being able to focus
on high added value solutions, time and cost efficiency.
Not exact matches
Traditional car dealers upsell various
add -
on options that drive
higher margins for the dealership, while not always delivering equivalent
value to the consumer.
The combination of 12 % import taxes and 17 %
value -
added taxes
on foreign manufactures continue to frustrate exporters, so do your
high - volume, low - tech production in China.
Add these three
values together and start working
on those with the
highest total.
To get to those
higher levels of taxation, they have relied to a greater extent
on value added taxes, recognizing that there are limits to how
high personal and corporate income taxes can go.
He wrote that the
value of Yahoo is likely to decline further «without significant change to the culture» and
added that «we can not imagine that any prudent individual assigns a
high probability that Yahoo is
on a path to substantially increase» its profits.
It offers a comprehensive range of proprietary solutions and cutting edge services with a
high added value in technology based
on a unique culture of reliability, flexibility and adaptability to the needs of its customers.
Instagram co-founder, Mike Krieger, addresses the issue in a post
on the Instagram API Developer Google Group, stating that Instagram block searches
on several
high volume hashtags that
add little
value.
Declining revenues kept the share price low early this year, but that is in part due to GT's strategy of focusing more
on its
high value added (HVA) tires, which have
higher margins.
Eurozone officials are unanimous that it means a commitment to financial war against labor — to austerity and yet further economic shrinkage; to faster privatization selloffs (but not to Russians if they offer
higher prices, as Gazprom did) and hence
higher prices for hitherto public utilities; to no rejection of past insider privatization deals to
higher value -
added taxes
on consumers; and to lower pensions for labor.
I didn't read this as questioning her motives or character at all, but rather the mindset that places such a
high value on suffering that it may result in actually
adding to that suffering needlessly.
Our focus is
on helping customers to deliver
high value added products in technically demanding applications.
«Empire Kosher brand poultry and deli meat products are
on - trend to meet the demands of our loyal consumers who have enjoyed Empire Kosher products for decades, as well as our growing number of millennial consumers,» stated Jeffrey N. Brown, Chief Executive Officer of Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. «Consumers can now enjoy new products meeting the
high standards for kosher and quality that Empire Kosher delivers in its natural or certified organic products, and we are extending that vision to deli meat products,
value -
added poultry, and soups and broths to be introduced this year at Kosherfest, the world's largest B2B trade show for the kosher industry,» he continued.
To boost the nutritional
value, use brown rice,
adding an extra 1/4 cup water and cooking the rice for 22 minutes
on high pressure with a 10 - minute natural release.
They work
on much smaller margins and the price the consumer pays is in line with the
added premiums provided to the farmer (often for quality in addition to organic certification), their own costs involved with organic certification, and the
value added by actually roasting
high quality beans that taste better.
He says, «Congratulations are due to the five: am team for the hard work, dedication and significant risks they took
on in building this business from zero, developing
high -
value -
added products for our Australian organic farmers.
Together, the Australian manufacturing ecosystem has the potential to unlock a new wave of growth; one that builds
on Australia's
high -
value adding activities in R&D, design and after - sales services.
The sector will focus
on pre-production (design, R&D) and post-production (after - sales services)
value -
adding, sustainable manufacturing and low volume,
high margin customised manufacturing.
Cold, warm, soggy, over-mayoed, under - mayoed, with leftover Easter eggs, eggs that have been sitting in the fridge for six months, fresh eggs, overboiled eggs (but NEVER underdone eggs), mustard, celery or celery seed, mayo, cheese or no cheese, tunafish
added, crispy iceberg lettuce with no nutritional
value whatsoever, bacon crumbles or sliced green olives, scallions, chives... Egg salad is just a
high - protein base for hundreds of combinations, and it wears well
on day - old Wonderbread, or Portugese rolls or French loves with the middles hollowed out to make room for all of the veggies you
add.
To
add some additional intrigue, Rosenthal reported that the Giants were concerned about the luxury tax implications of acquiring Stanton — he's owed $ 295 million
on a deal where the average annual
value is $ 25 million — so there would be a
high - priced player heading to Miami or in a second deal.
A business that had no employees,
high sales but no profits due to making no margin, would have no «
added value», so any VAT that it would incur
on its purchases would be offset by the VAT it collects
on its sales, leaving no additional tax for the Exchequer.
He
added: «The important thing is that Peter supports a tax
on high -
value properties.
On Value Added Tax, Akande said the minister also informed the Council that the
highest amount of N89 billion was generated in the month of October.
This season is better than first one because it offers more excitement, plot twists, and it all comes with
added value to all going
on, everything has
higher stakes and more people are reliant
on their outcome.
Looking at today's Gala and Special Presentation
add -
ons, measurably, when it comes to films with star - wattage and acquisitions titles, the industry sides with
high value world premiere slot in downtown Toronto.
8.2 achieve
higher levels of productivity of economies through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus
on high value added and labour - intensive sectors
And a Mathematica study is due out soon studying the impact
on student achievement when
high value -
added teachers were offered bonuses to move and randomly assigned among a set of schools that had volunteered to hire them.
UPDATE — The LA Times coverage of the report contains a similar misinterpretation: «But the study found that teachers whose students said they «taught to the test» were,
on average, lower performers
on value -
added measures than their peers, not
higher.»
He is currently directing studies that will explore new methods for evaluating gains in scores
on high - stakes tests and evaluate the use of
value -
added models in educational accountability systems.
Commentary
on «Great Teaching: Measuring its effects
on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether
high -
value -
added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts
on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, -LSB-...]
And then for our research, we have to both have a good measure of
value added and ensure that when we're using that measure, we are doing a good job of also accounting for other things that might be going
on during a child's schooling that might also affect 8th - grade tests and
high school outcomes.
For example, Ohio adjusts
value -
added calculations for
high mobility, and Arizona calculates the percentage of students enrolled for a full academic year and weighs measures of test score levels and growth differently based
on student mobility and length of enrollment.
Our basic
value -
added model measures the effectiveness of a principal by examining the extent to which math achievement in a school is
higher or lower than would be expected based
on the characteristics of students in that school, including their achievement in the prior year.
It grades K - 8 schools based
on a combination of static test scores,
value -
added test scores, and the results of a school climate survey, and their
high school grades also factor in rates of
high school completion and college matriculation.
For example,
high - poverty schools (those with at least 80 percent FRL students) make up just 4 percent of schools in the top one - quarter of all schools based
on the SGP approach and 10 percent of top - quarter schools based
on the one - step
value -
added approach.
Using the SGP and one - step
value -
added approaches, low - SES schools are ranked lower,
on average, than
high - SES schools.
The authors also investigate whether
high -
value -
added teachers have benefited by being assigned students who would have made greater gains
on standardized tests for unobserved reasons (such as family factors that can not be gleaned even from tax returns).
Recent research has shown that
high - quality early - childhood education has large impacts
on outcomes such as college completion and adult earnings, but no study has identified the long - term impacts of teacher quality as measured by
value added.
The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether
high -
value -
added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts
on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, avoiding teenage pregnancy, and the quality of the neighborhood in which they reside as adults.
Even though
value -
added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts
on test scores, it could still be the case that
high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.
The study says: ``... schools were more likely to be renewed if they had a
higher [SPS](a state - determined school accountability measure based
on test score levels),
higher school
value -
added, or a
higher NACSA rating (emphasis
added).»
It's further true that to judge a school simply
on the basis of how many of its pupils clear a fixed «proficiency» bar, or because its «performance index» (in Ohio terms) gets above a certain level, not only fails to signal whether that school is
adding value to its students but also neglects whatever is or isn't being learned by (or taught to) the
high achievers who had already cleared that bar when they arrived in school.
Only very recently have policymakers begun to focus
on identifying and retaining teachers with
high value -
added.
She consistently achieves the
highest value -
added ratings, and her students show
high growth
on NWEA MAP year after year.
BOTA agrees with other experts who have urged the need for caution and for further research prior to any large - scale,
high - stakes reliance
on [
value -
added approaches].»
MET finding: Teachers with
high value -
added on state tests tend to promote conceptual understanding as well.
The bottom line here, then, is that those in charge of making consequential decisions about teachers, as based even if in part
on teachers»
value -
added estimates, need to be cautious when making particularly
high - stakes decisions about teachers as based
on said estimates.
It is based
on a comparison of two different
value -
added scores for teachers: one derived from the regular state assessment (which varies by participating district) and the other from an alternative assessment that is specifically designed to measure students» depth of
higher - order conceptual understanding in each subject.
What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly
on value -
added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select
high - quality talents.
Also,
value -
added was found to be a reliable predictor of students» future performance
on different tests that measure
higher - level concepts, particularly in math.