Sentences with phrase «other measure of growth»

Any other measure of growth as determined by the state (not necessarily based on state assessments), or another «valid and reliable indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» for all non-high schools.

Not exact matches

«Employees are much more likely to work hard if they understand how their individual efforts affect overall revenue growth, profits, and other measures of success.

Gross Domestic Product growth, which is, generally, the measure of goods and services produced in the economy, has hovered around 2 percent, not the 4 percent the Fed and other monetary experts believe is necessary for an economic expansion.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The trend worries economists because new businesses play a vital role in creating jobs, improving productivity and spurring economic growth; some researchers believe the decline in entrepreneurship, and in other measures of economic dynamism such as labor mobility, could be part of the reason the U.S. has experienced such a slow bounceback from the past two recessions.

Depending on a variety of metrics that measure a company's growth and development — for example, how it is acquiring and retaining customers, its revenue streams, and the amount of money it spends each month — the seed round may be followed by others.

Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.

Figure 2 compares Skechers to a number of other shoe / apparel companies in the «Athleisure» segment across measures of profitability, growth, and valuation.

That's partially because growth in real domestic investment is almost always associated with an expanding trade deficit (a regularity of the savings - investment identity - see Eating Our Seed Corn for more on this), and also because import growth drives other aspects of measured productivity growth, as explained above.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

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...

The main insight is that our previous model may have put too much weight on developments in the US economy and not enough on other economies, both in terms of demand growth and in terms of measures of competitiveness.

Year - over year growth in real GDP, real gross domestic income, durable goods orders, real retail sales, industrial production and other measures are all down to levels typically observed at the beginning of recessions.

Based on other measures of economic activity there have almost certainly been 12 - month periods over the past 10 years when China's economy shrank in real terms, but during these periods China's government still reported growth of around 7 %.

I measure my success as an adviser with one eye on the growth of the core business and the other on how much equity the founders are able to hold on to through that process.

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.

Using a broader measure of output that includes international trade in goods, [1] it appears that net trade is also weighing more heavily on growth in NSW than in other states, particularly those most exposed to the current resources boom.

Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.

The financial measure used in the Executive Bonus Plan (as defined below) for each of our named executive officers, other than Mr. Fowler, is year - over-year growth in Oracle's non-GAAP pre-tax profits, as defined below.

In fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has to be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growth.

But how does it all arise — the challenge on the one hand, and the mistrust on the other — except out of the fact that neither we nor our adversaries have sufficiently measured the powers of growth with which Christ endowed his Church?

One sees by this measure, as by others, that for the oldline churches it was the higher growth rates of the 1950s that were unusual, not the relatively lower ones that set in after the early «60s.

Rogers observes: «The degree to which I can create relationships which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons is a measure of the growth I have achieved myself.

Jones said the increase in wages was «nowhere near the level of revenue growth» and this «reflects both the extent of [the Premier League's] financial advantage over other leagues and the impact of domestic and European cost control measures».

To monitor physical development, the doctor will weigh and measure your child at regular checkups, then plot the results on a standard growth chart to follow over time and compare with that of other kids the same age and gender.

The American Association of Pediatricians statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk (2005) states, «Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development and all other short and long - term outcomes.»

Among the large number of available studies measuring developmental achievements in relation to diet, no suggestions are ever made of any intellectual or other neurological detriments associated with absence of formula supplements or human milk fortifiers, even when there is slower premature infant growth.

Not only have measures of well - being and happiness ceased to rise with economic growth but, as affluent societies have grown richer, there have been long - term rises in rates of anxiety, depression, and numerous other social problems.

Almost all of the schools whose students under perform are students at a «bad» school by the other two measures, and experience minimal or negative academic growth from year to year.

The accomplishments: promoting more transparency in government, including the audit of his own office; reforming county banking by consolidating the county's banking business and other measures; and serving as a check on the county executive's administration and politicians «screwing up» county growth opportunities.

Paleopathologists can also calculate growth rates by measuring bones of people of different ages, examine teeth for enamel defects (signs of childhood malnutrition), and recognize scars left on bones by anemia, tuberculosis, leprosy, and other diseases.

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

So when you start thinking about localization of economies, when you start thinking about measuring things other than growth, as some countries have begun to do, try to measure satisfaction, [whatever.]

The test measures the activity of genes that control cell growth, and others that indicate a likely response to hormone therapy treatment.

We have measured immune responses including cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, antibodies and other biomarkers of immune response or pathology in a number of disease settings ranging from viral infections (HIV, HCV, HBV, West Nile, Dengue, Zika), parasitic infection (Chagas) and chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, liver fibrosis, kidney disease and neuropathology).

Blood analysis measures total and free testosterone, IGF - 1 (for growth hormone deficiency), cholesterol, blood count, and other crucial levels that will determine if any hormones are too low, or if any other problems exist that could be the cause of the symptoms.

Measures of school performance based on carefully constructed comparisons of student achievement growth, and other important outcomes, such as high - school graduation and college enrollment rates, require student - level data that are not publicly available.

And based on student - growth measures, schools getting these huge sums of money are progressing at about the same rate as other schools in the state.

The international math and science scores so important for growth rates are not related to variations in spending on education or other standard measures of school resources, such as pupil - teacher ratios.

Teaching points that are covered in the topic are listed below: Understand that it is important to be able to grow plants well because they provide food and other items for us To know that all food chains begin with a green plant To understand the function of the parts of a plant To understand that plants need leaves in order to grow well To plan an appropriate investigation To make careful observations and measurements of plants growing To use simple apparatus to measure the height of plants in standard measures To use results to draw conclusions and provide explanations To know that water is transported through the stem to other parts of the plant To know that that plants need light for healthy growth To know that plants need water, but not unlimited water, for healthy growth To know that temperature can affect the growth of plants To ask questions about the growth of plants To plan a fair test To write a clear conclusion

There is a strong desire to expand beyond just academic indicators — including a measure of growth is very important — but including things that are not direct learning outcomes and focus more on environment and other input measures blurs the vision on what we want students to know and be able to do.

For Term 2, 2018, it covers resource allocation, production possibility curves, market and mixed economic systems • demand and supply analysis • price elasticity • market failure • social and private costs and benefits, business organization, costs and revenue •, costs and revenue, competition, inflation and deflation • employment and unemployment • GDP, economic growth and recession • GDP and other measures of living standards etc..

At present, the desired performance standard of a country is measured by what is accomplished only in the economy using as reference the size and progress of the growth of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ignoring the other systems.

Another concern might be that other factors affecting growth, such as efficient market organizations, are also associated with efficient and productive schools - so that again the test measures are really a proxy for other attributes of the country.

Five of these districts, operating under a U.S. Department of Education waiver, began collecting measures of growth mindset, among other socio - emotional skills, for all of the students between 3rd and 11th grade, through surveys.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

Although the other approaches to measuring student growth may have benefits in other contexts, when one considers the key policy objectives of evaluation systems in education, the «leveled playing field» property of the two - step approach is highly desirable.

The value - added measures are designed to provide estimates of the independent effect of the teacher on the growth in a student's learning and to separate this from other influences on achievement such as families, peers, and neighborhoods.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

We find that observation measures of teaching effectiveness are substantively related to student achievement growth and that some observed teaching practices predict achievement more than other practices.