Sentences with phrase «on standard measures»

This study found the risk was even higher — nearly one in two — among those who were born with a low birth weight or prematurely, based on standard measures.

Even though they scored in a normal range on all standard measures of intelligence, somehow they couldn't navigate the branching decision trees of everyday life.

By definition, gifted is considered to be two standard deviations or above on a standard measure of intelligence.

Between 1979 and 2013, all three measures of income examined in this report — market income, before - tax income, and after - tax income — became less equally distributed, based on a standard measure of inequality known as the Gini index.

Not exact matches

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.

Technically, we calculated z - scores for each state on each measure, which rescales each variable based on its average and standard deviation.

Trump would also instruct the US trade representative to notify Mexico and Canada of the administration's intention to propose amendments to the deal, which, as CNN reported, «could include measures on currency manipulation, lumber, country - of - origin labeling and environmental and safety standards.»

Consumers have high standards for their experience on mobile, and ineffective desktop formats such as banners, interstitials and auto - play pre-roll ads aren't measuring up.

As for last week's market activity, Jones said that on Thursday we saw a five standard deviation (that's a volatility measure) kind of movement in one day.

«The LDL measured on a standard cholesterol test is not what's causing most of the heart disease,» he says.

But the activity taking place in social media is hard to measure, and there are still no clear standards on how to evaluate it before visitors show up on your doorstep, so to speak.

«The United States has opted for measures that put political considerations ahead of international standards,» Kim told industry officials on Tuesday.

«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

A word on the lapels: one aspect of Knot Standard that impressed me in relation to other made to measure programs, is that I was able to choose how wide I wanted them to be.

The new research paper follows on a report last year co-authored by Prof. Wolfson and two other researchers, who concluded many of Canada's wealthiest people are funnelling a large portion of their income through CCPCs that are not reflected in standard measures of individual earnings.

Environmental Defence cheered measures on climate, including new energy efficiency standards for buildings.

Rohit Dadwal, Managing Director Asia Pacific at the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), says his organization has worked with mobile players and app stores on standards and guidelines that help brands measure the success of their ads, a key source of revenue.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

APRA will remove its cap on investor loan growth and replace it with a series of more permanent measures to keep lending standards strong.

White announced in a late March speech that «in order to more fully inform the commission's decision on this matter,» she had directed SEC staff to compile a list of all those options, including, she said, «a uniform fiduciary standard for broker - dealers and investment advisors when dealing with retail customers, and other measures that may be more targeted and achievable in the shorter term.»

He would also have the US Trade Representative notify Mexico and Canada that the US intends to propose some amendments to the treaty, which could include measures on currency manipulation, lumber, country of origin labeling and environmental and safety standards.

Lazard's Financials ROE (return on equity) is a standard measure of operating efficiency.

Another standard measure of the economy's ability to grow without putting upward pressure on prices is the «output gap,» which is the difference between current GDP and the non-inflationary level of output.

After the third longest bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key trend - following components within our measures of market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.

They measure changes in analyst earnings forecast dispersion (standard deviation divided by mean) based on data from I / B / E / S as the difference between current dispersion and dispersion two months ago.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

Absent growth, the only other option for restoring some measure of financial integrity and standard of living for its citizens is to enact fiscal and structural reforms and restructure the existing burdensome debt, with the long - term goal of putting the island on a sustainable growth trajectory.

Also newsworthy was that members of the committee opined on asset valuations more directly than usual: «Some participants viewed equity prices as quite high relative to standard valuation measures.

Return on Investments (ROI)-- Measures a business's gains and / or losses generated by spending activities; a standard profitability ratio.

By almost every standard for measuring such things the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America stands on the conservative side of mainline Protestantism.

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

But it may be that the maximal case on the closed dimensions would suffice to furnish the standard for the open ones, that, e.g., perfection of knowledge and goodness is in some sense the «measure» of degrees of happiness, even though the latter can not be absolutely but only relatively perfect (R but not A).

On this ground, too, we should think twice before taking the years around 1960 as a standard against which the current vitality or impotence of the churches is to be measured.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

The focus of standard measures is on market activity.

However, after a while this «love» becomes conditional on your performance and / or you measuring up to the cult's unpublished standards.

A major deficiency in recognizing the spiritual component in the field of addictions has been the lack of clearly defined criteria, based on hard data, that measure up to social, psychological, and medical standards.

On the basis of this initial idolatry it develops a morality in which economic worth becomes the standard by which to measure all other values and the economic virtues take precedence over courage, temperance, wisdom and justice, over charity, humility and fidelity.

This all too typical quantitative measure of church success is like the standard of success in the Victorian family where wealth was considered evidence of God's blessing on good people.

On the other hand, there are many countries, especially in Africa, whose condition, even as measured by narrowly economic standards, is declining.

Supernovae: For distances between galaxies, scientists measure the brightness of supernovae based on the mathematical formulae used to determine brightness as measured by distance, called «The Standard Candle».

As hopes set on actual rulers are falsified, so longing grows more intense for a ruler who will measure up to God's standards.

Treasury, the home of Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Beringer, delivered its standard cracker of a result on Wednesday, easily beating earnings forecasts with 25 per cent increase in earnings before interest tax and self - generating and regenerating assets (its preferred profit measure) to $ 283.3 million, well ahead of analyst forecasts of EBITS of $ 265 million.

Measure liquid by placing a standard liquid - ingredient measuring cup on your counter.

Since we were already measuring our production food waste on a daily basis and documenting our methodology, we found translating the data into the FLW Standard a simple process.

UNEP welcomes the new FLW Standard and calls on countries and companies to use it to start measuring and reporting food loss and waste, in parallel to taking action to deliver on SDG Target 12.3: Halve food waste by 2030.»

The FLW Standard is the first - ever set of global definitions and reporting requirements for companies, countries and others to consistently and credibly measure, report on and manage food loss and waste.

Our members need to effectively quantify, measure and report on their food loss and waste, and the FLW Standard will help them do this with consistency and transparency.»

Along with Jourova's comments, in which she requested food makers stop the practice and to increase quality standards, the Visegrad Group called on further and detailed examination of the problem, asking for «concrete» and «strong» measures.