Sentences with phrase «other areas of performance»

Not exact matches

Be sure your performance is decidedly better than your competitors in one of the three areas, and strong enough to be competitive in the other two.

«In Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertainty.

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

In addition, if our pricing and other facets of our offerings are not sufficiently competitive, or if there is an adverse reaction to our product decisions, we may lose market share in certain areas, which could adversely affect our financial performance and business prospects.

Miami area small business owners are more confident about their business performance than their counterparts in other markets, according to the spring 2017 Bank of America Small Business Owner Report.

Our manager has been feeling the brunt of our anger for years, but he is too strong minded for it to work the changes we wanted, I wonder if certain players felt half the heat that our manager felt, if it might bring change in attitudes performances and other areas.

Personally, I would keep Ospina and rotate him and Cech everytime one or the other conceded a goal, inbetween games, that would give more incentives to improve performances and maybe that kind of rotation could also work for other areas in the team.

He's right in that same area, and it's not because of performance (he's fallen on the draft board), it's because other kids have stepped up.

Most non-specialty camps offer a range of sports and performance arts classes into the mix, allowing your child to shine in some areas while challenging him at others.

SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

The recruitment of visual areas for auditory tasks is sometimes thought to underlie the better performance in processing inputs from other senses observed in congenitally blind people.

«For all three types of studies, the algorithms showed significantly better performance in tracking the nostril area than other state - of - the - art methods,» said Cho.

For expert insight, I spoke with Lance Williams, an investigative reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle and co-author (with Mark Fainaru - Wada) of Game of Shadows, a revelatory book about how BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, supplied baseball players and other athletes with performance - enhancing drugs.

MeDICi (Middleware for Data Intensive Computing) and other tools developed by Gorton and his team form the foundation for building distributed, high - performance, data - intensive computing applications in a range of application areas including bioinformatics, cyber security, and atmospheric sciences.

They get to an AUROC (area under receiving operating characteristic) performance of 0.83 to 0.85, which this explainer web site rates as good (B), and is better than any other previous sepsis predictor.

Among other things, it allows you to isolate one side of the lats at a time and correct any strength imbalances in this muscle area, which will undoubtedly lead to an improved performance at all your major lifts.

The researchers are now doing a followup experiment to try to understand the causal mechanisms behind their findings and to see whether or not smartphone dependency affects other areas of life, like academic performance, and whether factors like self - esteem predict a person's smartphone obsession.

It's important to understand that compression may have benefits to exercise performance and recovery, particularly during and after high intensity interval training, but it may also have negative impacts on overall exercise performance in others areas such as the inhibiting of sweat evaporation.

In what probably is the performance of his lifetime — and a pure joy to behold — James Earl Jones plays it just right in «Cry, the Beloved Country,» opening today at the Clay and other Bay Area theaters.

(Travis Wilkerson, 2017) projected video with live filmmaker narration; Crossroads Festival at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Gone, Gone Beyond (People Like Us, 2017) 10 - projector video installation; Grey Area, San Francisco, CA I'll Be Around (Jeremy Rourke, 2017) multi-video & 16 mm with live music performance; Artists» Television Access, San Francisco, CA Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 12 (Rick Prelinger, 2017) silent video with live filmmaker and audience narration; Castro Theatre, San Francisco, CA The Maribor Uprisings (Milton Guillén & Maple Razsa, 2017) branching video with guided audience participation; Maine International FilmFestival, Waterville, ME Mosswood (Kerry Laitala & Voicehandler, 2017) dual - 16 mm projector performance with live music; Mosswood Chapel, Oakland, CA Night Country (John Davis & Joshua Churchill, 2017) triple - 16 mm projector performance with live music; Mosswood Chapel, Oakland, CA Temporal Cities (Lizzy Brooks & Radka Pulliam, 2017) projected video with 35 mm slides; Other Cinema at Artists» Television Access, SanFrancisco, CA What Is Nothing [After What is Nothing](Kristen Reeves, 2017) nonuple - 16 mm projector performance; San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA

TS: Like I said before, all of the research indicates that when kids are exposed to music early in life, it positively impacts their comprehension and performance in every other area of their studies: math, the sciences, and so forth.

A performance - focused training approach will result in a greater impact on other areas, all of which have a positive impact on the bottom line of the business.

This in turn can improve a student's performance in other areas such as playing a musical instrument, writing neatly, attention to detail, patience, and the ability to concentrate for longer periods of time.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Play spaces will typically involve combinations of: • Large areas of hard surfaces (for a range of ball games, rebound walls, etc.); • Smaller hard surfaced areas for hop - scotch, elastics and other small group games; • Large grassed area for running, ball games, athletics and other activities; • Play equipment for different aged students, catering for potentially large groups of students at any one time and providing a range of types of activities; • Small spaces with seating for individuals and small groups; • Smaller grassed areas for a variety of activities requiring intimate spaces; • Sand play areas, dirt, water and planting for creative activities; • Areas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spareas of hard surfaces (for a range of ball games, rebound walls, etc.); • Smaller hard surfaced areas for hop - scotch, elastics and other small group games; • Large grassed area for running, ball games, athletics and other activities; • Play equipment for different aged students, catering for potentially large groups of students at any one time and providing a range of types of activities; • Small spaces with seating for individuals and small groups; • Smaller grassed areas for a variety of activities requiring intimate spaces; • Sand play areas, dirt, water and planting for creative activities; • Areas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spareas for hop - scotch, elastics and other small group games; • Large grassed area for running, ball games, athletics and other activities; • Play equipment for different aged students, catering for potentially large groups of students at any one time and providing a range of types of activities; • Small spaces with seating for individuals and small groups; • Smaller grassed areas for a variety of activities requiring intimate spaces; • Sand play areas, dirt, water and planting for creative activities; • Areas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spareas for a variety of activities requiring intimate spaces; • Sand play areas, dirt, water and planting for creative activities; • Areas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spareas, dirt, water and planting for creative activities; • Areas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spAreas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spAreas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spaces.

The 11 graded areas include performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP performance for low - income and minority students, return on investment, postsecondary and workforce readiness, «truth in advertising,» the teacher workforce, return on investment, and parental options, among others.

Given the market demand for information about other aspects of education that schools provide, schools that could demonstrate high performance in those areas would have a competitive advantage.

If superintendents are not 100 percent satisfied with the performance of new K - 12 school leaders in certain key competency areas, the program graduate will be provided with side - by - side coaching and other professional development work at no cost to the district or the graduate.

What to know: The New Mexico ESSA plan includes a Teacher Ecosystem, a map that describes a series of initiatives to attract, develop, and retain teachers in the areas of recruitment, preparation, compensation, training, and teacher leadership.41 Among many other initiatives, New Mexico will implement a Pay for Performance Pilot program as a recruitment and retention strategy.

Teacher leadership is a focal area for some other microcredentials, such as stacks developed by the Center for Collaborative Education on Performance Assessment Literacy or by the Center for Teaching Quality on Teacher - Powered Schools and Leading Virtual Communities of Practice.

How does the overall academic performance of this charter school compare to other schools in the area?

Other reports in this series explore the six districts» efforts in areas including the creation of clear standards for principal performance, improvement of principal training programs, and establishment of data systems to assist in hiring and management of principal talent.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

Seventy - three percent of voters said making it easier to fire underperforming teachers would improve the quality of public schools; 71 percent said putting more money into public schools in economically disadvantaged areas; 64 percent said tying teachers» salaries to performance evaluations; and 52 percent said extending the tax increase that provides additional funding to public schools and other programs.

A school - based teacher preparation program in which a prospective teacher, for not less than one academic year, teaches alongside an effective teacher, as determined by the state or local educational agency, who is the teacher of record for the classroom, receives concurrent instruction during the year, through courses that may be taught by local educational agency personnel or by faculty of the teacher preparation program; and in the teaching of the content area in which the teacher will become certified or licensed; and acquires effective teaching skills, as demonstrated through completion of a residency program, or other measure determined by the state, which may include a teacher performance assessment.»

The components include a Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) Survey (25 selected - response items per subject area), a CTBS Battery (selected response items and more in - depth objective - level information), Performance Assessments (tasks with both short and extended constructed activities), and a custom component to complement any of the others.

The instructional effectiveness component offers educator ratings and reliable and valid measures of student progress for both state - and non-state-tested content areas and contains an Evaluation Score Compiler that compiles ratings, student performance and other information into one overall evaluation score.

A report commissioned by the Connecticut State Department of Education entitled Evaluating the Academic Performance of Choice Programs in Connecticut compared student achievement in public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and among those students bussed from urban areas to the suburbs and did not find evidence that students in charter schools had greater achievement than other students, even with their more select student body.

The traditional system, whereby teachers are paid based solely on their years of experience and level of education, has caused many critics to claim that it does not promote good teaching, or is not as fair as other systems that pay based on performance, ability in certain skills, or willingness to teach in areas of high need.

Other area schools with lower performance scores but that have charters through the state instead of Orleans Parish have received 10 - renewals, board members said, which could make Lusher look somehow deficient in comparison.

Distinguished — earned through evidence of leadership, including a letter of recommendation from the principal and two other teachers; a nomination from the district with student performance information and analysis of student growth; and meeting criteria set by the commissioner and being in the top 25 percent of all teachers in the state who teach in a similar certification area in student growth average over three years.

With the exception of the Multisensory Learning Academy in the Reynolds School District, state test data from the four other Portland - area charter schools with benchmark data available for spring showed mixed performance.

Despite a class - leading performance in the aquaplaning disciplines, a poor showing in all other areas saw the LM001 finish last of the winter tyres.

While it is unlikely that anyone in the market for a car boasting the sort of performance caliber of the 911 Turbo S places a great deal of emphasis on overall efficiency, the inclusion of new fuel - saving technology, including a new stop / start system that cuts the engine at 4 mph as you roll to a standstill, as well as the coasting function brought to other 911 models, has clearly improved its credentials in this area.

A technological masterpiece conceived for Group B racing, the 959 was ahead of its time in practically every area, offering spectacular all - wheel drive performance and computer systems that wouldn't arrive in other high - end cars until a decade later.

Parents of teens are more worried by their teens driving than any other area of parental stress, including sex, drugs, and academic performance.

Peanut Butter Vehicle: 1993 Ford Bronco Owner: Tony Rojo Location: Riverside, California Chassis: Stock Engine: 5.8 L 351W V - 8, K&N cold - air intake, Bassani shorty headers, exhaust exiting below the quarter panel in front of the rear tire Drivetrain: E4OD automatic with Punisher valve body, BW1356 T - case, TTB Dana 44 front, 8.8 - inch rear with Yukon Gear Dura Grip Posi locker, 4.56 gears Suspension: Southwest Performance cut and turned beam long travel front with fabricated radius arms, uniball pivots, 12 - inch stroke Bilstein 9100 coilovers with ACVs, Bilstein 2 - inch hydraulic bumpstops, Deaver F53 leaf springs, Southwest Performance 2 - link, 12 - inch stroke Bilstein 9100 smooth body shocks with a Southwest Performance raised rear shock mount, Bilstein 2 - inch hydraulic bumpstops, Southwest Performance extended shackles Steering: Stock, upgrading to ambulance steering Brakes: Stock Tires / wheels: 35x12.50 R15 BF Goodrich All Terrains on 15x7 Alcoa 5 - spoke wheels Interior: 8 - inch Lowrance Baja 840 GPS, Motorola Maratrac race radio, Kenwood Race Radio, Fully TIG - welded cage with 1.75 - inch DOM tubing by Johnny Lightning, twin RCE radios Other Parts: Custom front and rear prerunner bumpers, smoked headlights with Baja HID conversion to true bi xenon projector HIDs, four Hella Rallye 4000 HIDs, Autofab front fiberglass Favorite Off - Road Area: Baja!

Base models underwhelm in terms of performance but in most other areas the XC90 impresses with its capabilities.

Other changes include slightly darker wheel center caps, double clear coat on the front and rear fascias and the addition of rear cooling ducts to improve cooling performance around the rear floor area.