Sentences with phrase «other assessments did»

The consequence is that this inflated data has moved most elementary schools in the direction of «Green» even when the data from other assessments didn't support that.

Not exact matches

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.

If this process sounds too tedious, you can also make a point of assessing your to - do list a couple of times a week to see how much bandwidth you have and, based on that assessment, decide whether you can take on helping others at that time.

He was among lawmakers critical of Comey's decision not to prosecute Clinton in the email server investigation, saying other government officials would have been prosecuted if they handled classified information like Clinton did, but federal officials disagree with that assessment.

Of those that do, most (54 %) offer financial incentives to encourage workers to complete the assessment, such as reduced premiums or cost - sharing; eligibility for other wellness benefits; or cash, contributions to an HSA, or merchandise.

But the main purpose of these statements, and of all the other communication we do, is simply to try to make the Bank's assessment of the outlook and its actions as understandable as possible to the many people who need to make long - term decisions, including households and businesses.

On the other hand, their estimates probably do not distort their reporting as much as do the under - appraisals that appear in local tax assessment records.

State law requires that assessors do regular assessments for properties in Dakota County to account for changing market conditions and other factors.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

So, Ryan, if indeed we get strong readings in the PCE and other indexes, does it change your assessment of what the Fed is going to do or do you think the Fed would reassess?

Or if the other investors do share our assessment, they aren't prepared to wait for the stock price to reflect it.

The other thing about the Bible is that it is an honest assessment of mans deepest needs and does not skirt the issues that destroy mankind.

Sadly, the term evangelistic is used more often in other ways, but in that usage it meant bringing truly good news of God's salvific work in the world against the background of realistic assessment of what our current activities were doing to the Earth.

Not only do my own private experiences of the bible's truth claims give me good reason to believe it's assessment, but the success and consistency of biblical anthropology in other quarters (not least literature and philosophy) means that I have absolutely no reason to be ashamed.

While I disagree with your assessment that by choosing to save some God was necessarily choosing others for damnation, I do recognize that there is a tension there that is often seen as a matter of semantics (shown by your use of quotation marks around the word «choosing»).

In response to this overall assessment of the FWT's methodological motives and behavior, I first want to address Griffin's contention that FWTs display the tendency to utilize a double standard when discussing evil — that they don't allow their «Own positions to be judged with the same rigor, and in terms of the same criteria, as the other positions.»

Waibel reinforced the importance of companies doing what they say they will do, ensuring they maintain integrity with the producers and others in the supply chain, and ensuring they are overseen through external assessments and public reporting.

I agree with the other reviewers» assessment about the texture being weird, and they just didn't have the nutty, oat - y richness of flavor that one might expect.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

«What the Healthy Diet Score does is provide individuals with an assessment that is relevant only to them, taking into consideration other people of the same age and gender, to let them know how their diet quality is measuring up,» said Professor Noakes.

He was one of many and if you think the aggressiveness of others didn't contribute just as equally to the acheivement of Dr. Kings goals, I think history disagrees with that assessment.

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

Of course, every child hits milestones at his own pace, but you might want to speak with your pediatrician about having an assessment of your child done if you begin to notice that other skills and abilities are also developing more slowly than usual.

While Nestlé claims its formula is better than other formulas, these claims do not stand up to scrutiny, as independent assessment conducted in the UK by First Steps Nutrition Trust demonstrates.

Obviously, there is a lot of value in athletics for other reasons, but there does need to be some vigilance around prioritizing free time and an ongoing, cost - benefit assessment of added activities.

It is important to clarify that although that the DSM has been casually referred to as «the bible» of diagnosis and assessment, PSI and other allied organizations are full of trained perinatal mental health professionals, supporters, and survivors who do understand the elements for which we advocated through the DSM revision: the broader time of onset, the importance of diagnostic and statistical criteria through specifiers for anxiety, mixed anxiety / depressive disorder, obsessive disorder, hypomania, and traumatic stress disorders.

The application is not a substitute for a home study assessment approval, and does not screen for any laws specific to a state of residence other than Indiana.

Your caregiver should be able to do these simple assessments (as well as other tasks) while your baby is resting on your belly.

A couple of Occupational Therapists completed and published a research study that compared two groups of babies, one group spent 30 minutes minimum of tummy time per day and the other group did not, the tummy time group scored higher on developmental assessments, so perhaps 30 minutes in a good goal per day; most helpful if broken up into mini sessions throughout the day.

The argument for doing this is that any assessment of audience reaction should take the audience as it is — in this case, accepting that UKIP supporters were much more likely to watch or listen to the debate than supporters of other parties.

But fellow Democrats have raised concerns about whether the plan will unfairly burden communities where property owners don't often challenge their assessments — leaving them to pay fair market value while others get the benefit of the prolonged phase - in.

The governor also offered a new assessment of his decision to disband the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which he convened in the summer of 2013 after lawmakers left the Capitol without doing anything to respond to the arrests of two other senators, Malcolm Smith and John Sampson.

Silver's other legal work, for a separate firm that handled property tax assessment appeals, was unknown to the public until a year ago: Prosecutors successfully argued that Silver received legal fees from real estate developers — including Glenwood Management, the state's most generous political donor — that had extensive business before the Legislature, and did his best to conceal the arrangement from ethics watchdogs.

If we go by the official assessment of the work to be done (status of the various acquis chapters), Macedonia is in worse shape than any other candidate save perhaps Turkey, more or less in the situation the Czech Republic or Bulgaria were in the 1990s!

«We use tests to make sure kids are on track and I don't think parents can perfectly distinguish between what is an assessment given solely for [Annual Professional Performance Review] purposes and what is any other kind of test given,» Lowry said.

Like many others, we did not choose our graduate supervisors; rather, our supervisors chose us — perhaps on the basis of their initial assessment of our ability to work independently under them.

In other words, they disregarded actual distance and made their risk assessment based on political borders that have nothing to do with seismology.

Life evaluation, really life satisfaction, is an overall assessment of how one is doing and is likely more influenced by higher goals and comparisons to others.

Dr Burgess said: «One of our reasons for writing up this individual's case was that we had never seen anything like this before in our assessment clinics, and we do not know what to make of it, but felt an honest reporting of the facts as we assessed them was warranted, that perhaps there will be other cases, or people who know more than we do about what might have caused the patient's amnesia.

The other bill would «require that the data from any study that EPA draws upon to inform its regulations, risk assessments, and guidance documents be «reproducible» and released publicly as long as the law doesn't forbid it.»

This HIA, done in conjunction with other environmental assessments under NEPA, made several proposals relating to factors ranging from monitoring pollution to managing caribou herds for subsistence populations,, many of which were later accepted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

«In 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearned that minimizing evidence - based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies,» said Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO in Chicago, Illinois.

And finally, what about Mark's questions (# 3) and other factors not discussed here — do all these effects re Arctic ice lead scientists to believe there is a greater and / or earlier chance (assuming we continue increasing our GHG emissions — business as usual) of melting hydrates and permafrost releasing vast stores of methane into the atmosphere than scientists believed before the study, or is the assessment of this about the same, or scientists are not sure if this study indicates a greater / lesser / same chance of this?

Our assessment did not show substantial differences across elevations (we considered low, moderate, and high elevations for known pine locations), but other studies have (Hicke et al. 2006; Raffa et al. 2013; Bentz et al. 2016).

Over what time period might this savannization process release carbon «equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions», and how does that affect the assessment offered by Gore, Hansen and others that we have perhaps ten years in which to substantially reduce CO2 emissions to avoid irreversible catastrophic warming?

The white paper authors did not seek out real - world cost data, business case financials, or market assessments from potential commercial crew providers, such as United Launch Alliance, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, Blue Origin, or others, nor did they contact the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.

Arria adds that many clinicians insist on doing a full assessment on students who are not abusing other drugs and alcohol, including getting a history of symptoms and reports from teachers, to know if they have ADHD.

However, don't be afraid because passing the YTTC is not just assessment based but entails other criteria like asana, Home - work, class participation, attitude, community work etc..

The best thing you can do is to see your hygienist and / or dentist for a caries risk assessment and other tips for oral care.

That said, I would strongly recommend that you begin working right away with an alternative MD or other health practitioner who understands the dangers of soy, does laboratory assessment and recommends a Nourishing Traditions type diet.