Sentences with phrase «other models performances»

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To find the wealthiest people in the world, Wealth - X looked at its database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high net - worth people and used a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency - exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

Initially, the P85D Model S scored 103 points when Consumer Reports measured the car's acceleration, braking, handling and other key performance characteristics.

It incorporates statistical modeling using over 800 commercial and owner variables — including tradeline and collection information, recent credit inquiries, public filings, new account activity, key financial ratios and other performance indicators.

They operate at scale and have achieved a level of performance few others can claim — a proven business model that is generating heady revenue growth and is yielding profitability today or at any such time of their choosing.

If you still feel unsure what your relationship should be to Facebook, try conducting an audit on other platforms, APIs, privacy policies and data models, and see if this will negatively affect your business's performance.

Q: Why doesn't Glass Lewis use pay - for - performance model in other countries?

We also know that bank models for analyzing credit ratings and other performance factors before approving or denying loans are out of date.

Quantitative investing assumes that future performance of a security relative to other securities may be predicted based on historical economic and financial factors, however, any errors in a model used might not be detected until the fund has sustained a loss or reduced performance related to such errors.

Moreover, the standard of comparison would be not the performance of other students but the best available models of what is true and excellent.

The DuPont models enable customers to calculate the combination of physical properties that will deliver required performance, processibility and other requirements,» said Dr. Barry Morris, senior scientist and developer of the modeling tools.

With a retail price of about $ 350, it's considerably less than their other full - size models and very similar in look and performance to the 5200, the overachiever ubiquitous in professional kitchens.

The model effectively needs to separate the impact a manager has on a team's performance from all the other factors that are beyond his control.

While smaller and lighter, it maintains the same incredible performance and power characteristics of the other models.

Almost bare, lightweight and breaks the barriers in terms of usability and performance, almost nothing beats this model; well one could always make a case for the other umbrella strollers we mentions in this list.

However, compared with other models like the 4moms mamaRoo, the Graco DuetSoothe is still dependable in terms of performance.

Steven Cohen, an alliance member and superintendent of the Shoreham - Wading River School District, said he and the other alliance members agree with the governor that the state's current model doesn't provide an accurate account of teacher performance.

By moving to a «mixed model» of student assessment — including lower - stakes exams, as well as quizzes and other assignments — instructors can decrease well established performance gaps between male and female students in science courses.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

The results also show that if GPA and other measures of performance are excluded from the analysis model, it gives the impression that African - American men achieve lower educational levels than their white counterparts.

Now, Lin Wu and colleagues at the Institute of the A * STAR Institute of High Performance Computing have modeled the optical and plasmonic properties of nanoscale ribbons of a new phase of gold — the 4H hexagonal phase (see image)-- produced and characterized by collaborators at other institutes in Singapore, China and the USA.

You'll sacrifice some speed with this first - gen model, but expect performance boosts as other models using ULV processors roll onto the market.

The chip, which lives in the HTC One V, HTC One S, and the global version and both US versions of the HTC One X, is significant in providing a unified level of photo performance between the three models, whose other features differ quite a bit.

To determine whether cardiovascular fitness was differentially correlated with one domain of cognitive performance more than others, we repeated the adjusted models with the exact same set of individuals who had complete records in all domains (n = 883,740).

Models in Aaron de Mey's disco - ball eye makeup lingered in the lobby while Father John Misty kicked things off for performances from Beck, Cherry Glazer, Curtis Harding, and others.

It's not perfect, especially when it comes to the balancing of the simulation, where some categories and specific models drive far better than others, and it still lacks performance optimization, but it's a unique driving experience, bestowed with unprecedented variety.

Moss» striking performance led many viewers to question where she had been all these years; like many other fledgling Hollywood actresses, she had done time as a model and an actress in second - rate films while waiting for her big break.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 21, 1967, Moss decided that she wanted to be an actress at an early age.

-- Namco Bandai understands that fans want more Tales game in English — Time and money get in the way — Namco Bandai has taken steps to alleviate the issues above, and hopefully we can now look forward to seeing more Tales games worldwide — It's been difficult to fit the game on the 3DS card due to size restrictions — Voice data in particular was challenging to put on the card and feels they solved the problem while keeping the quality high — «Every part of the game, with the exception of the animated cut - scenes, has been redone in 3D» — Yoshizumi believes this makes the game seem more real / immersive than before — Character models rebuilt to improve performance — Rest of the game has been ported over seamlessly — Some changes made to «in - game parameters» to compensate for control differences — No other additions, no new weapons / artes — No communication features (StreetPass, SpotPass)-- Namco Bandai have talked about a sequel, but haven't yet come up with something that would be good enough for a full game — Yoshizumi says he appreciates the comments he receives on Twitter from worldwide fans, and he hopes that more Tales games can make it over in the future — Load times have been improved on significantly — Steadier frame rate (may have been referring to the world map specifically)-- Skits will remain unvoiced

We learn next to nothing about Connie Nielsen's character, for example, other than she's clearly been modelled on Robin Wright's performance in House of Cards and the filmmakers are hoping that will do.

Competence models, done by organizational human resources to identify what factors make someone a standout performer, ignore IQ and school performance — they are irrelevant by the time you are competing with others on the job, where emotional intelligence skills like self - awareness, self - management, empathy, teamwork, and the like identify the best workers.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

Today many other Course Access programs» funding models, including those in Louisiana, Utah, and Texas, have a performance component.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Only by ensuring that the assessment system models genuine performance; in other words, will student achievement and teaching be improved over time?

This most radical of choice based schools — where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance - based, demand - driven model — has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts.

Second, student gains were uneven across Teach to One's schools; one school in particular stood out with student - learning gains significantly higher than those posted in other schools, which begs the question of what is causing the performance gains — the Teach to One model or some other factor.

This plan, announced in September last year, sought to place Australian students amongst the top five highest performing nations in rigorous international performance tests through a combination of additional, targeted funding using a model mirroring the Gonski proposal, new initiatives in teacher training and accountability, personalised student learning plans, greater school autonomy, and a raft of other Commonwealth initiatives.

Principals, as school leaders, need classroom performance information to fulfill their role as manager and determine how individual staff members are performing and who needs help and who might take on a model role for others.

The four domains of the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model contain 60 elements and build on each other to support teacher growth, development, and performance.

A Principal at Meketa Investment Group, his consulting work includes investment policy design, asset allocation modeling, public markets manager due diligence, and fund performance analysis, among others.

She co-authored a range of publications on the topic, including school models and many practical tools for teachers, principals and districts; An Opportunity Culture for All; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top; A Better Blend; Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; and Improving Teaching Through Pay for Contribution for the National Governor's Association; and many others.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

Before we know which states will follow New Hampshire's Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) pilot or develop other models, states, districts, and schools can begin to lay the groundwork needed.

Subsequently, many other models and programs designed to improve student performance were highly touted and marketed.

In this model, each student becomes his or her own control, with the predicted score being based on that student's past performance with other teachers.

The modeling aims to attribute gains to specific teachers by taking into account students» past performance and other factors.

- or the transformation model, which requires among other things, replacing the principal; using test scores to evaluate teacher and administrator performance; and expanding the school day, school week or school year to increase learning time.

That task force, which includes teachers, principals, lawmakers, and other education stakeholders, has met three times this year so far, and its members have considered a variety of pay - for - performance models.

According to the report, «value - added models» refer to a variety of sophisticated statistical techniques that measure student growth and use one or more years of prior student test scores, as well as other background data, to adjust for pre-existing differences among students when calculating contributions to student test performance.

It is important to note that this research only addresses full - time online charter schools and does not assess the performance of other charter public school models, including blended - learning programs (many of which are classroom - based).

It's not always easy to tell whether the new approaches help overall student performance, because schools interested in this type of experimentation are often innovating in other ways as well: changing grading policies, moving to more project - based learning models and rethinking discipline strategies.