The number of people in crisis and emergency, phases three and four on a five -
point scale where five is famine, has fallen to 1.5 million from 3.9 million, experts said on Tuesday.
Not exact matches
Now, he says, Express has finally figured out its business strategy to the
point where it's ready to start rapidly
scaling up.
Anyadiegwu argued that while she's grown the company tremendously on her own — to the
point where she sees $ 50,000 a month in revenue — she needs a shark's help to
scale up and build a larger online platform.
DARPA isn't yet sure how to
scale this sort of thing down to the
point where it's practical and usable.
Execs were most excited at the prospect of improving cross-border trade and travel flow to the United States, which they ranked a 6.0 on a 7 -
point scale,
where 1 means disagree strongly and 7 means the opposite.
In a recent Compas Inc. poll, Canadian CEOs said the crisis in Japan is bad news for new nuclear energy installations in the short term, until safety reviews are completed, and ranked the statement a 5.6 on a 7 -
point scale,
where 1 means strongly disagree and 7 means strongly agree.
«Once we got to the
point where we were
scaling our organization into multiple cities, we brought in a vice president of talent management.
But in most cases, those aren't
scaled up to a
point where they really impact bigger systems and processes.»
Use a 7 -
point scale,
where 1 means not at all likely and 7 means very likely.
On a 7 -
point scale,
where 1 means no harm at all and 7 means a lot of harm, to what extent do you predict inflation will harm:
Execs predicted that the bank will indeed do those things, rating the possibility a 5.0 on a 7 -
point scale,
where 1 means not at all likely and 7 means very likely.
As they go through several cycles of acting, learning, and further designing, the maturity and sophistication of the strategy increases up to a
point where companies start rolling out the strategy on a larger
scale.
The closest Harford gets to bullet
points is coining three «Palchinsky principles» that underpin Adapt's argument: «First, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a
scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along.»
The goal is to
scale to the
point where it never ebbs low enough to kick out a negative number, but I'm not quite there yet.
Their average recommendation is 3.6 on a 5 -
point scale,
where 4.0 = Buy and 3.0 = Hold.
Their average recommendation is 3.4 on a 5 -
point scale,
where 3.0 = Hold and 4.0 = Buy.
The goal is to help the companies
scale and get to a
point where they can raise a Series A round -LSB-...]
The movements are frequently confounded, for it is said that one needs faith to renounce the claim to everything, yea, a stranger thing than this may be heard, when a man laments the loss of his faith, and when one looks at the
scale to see
where he is, one sees, strangely enough, that he has only reached the
point where he should make the infinite movement of resignation.
It got to the
point where I didn't need a recipe, I didn't need a
scale, I probably could have made it blind-folded.
With 9
points picked up they climbed far enough to stay right in the middle of the pack
where one more win could tip the
scales in their favor.
Unwinding that culture is going to take as many solutions as it can get, and I think we're at a
point where we need to talk about shutting down systems that allow this sort of thing to happen on a grand
scale.
Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18
where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off
point on a well validated behaviour
scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.
Pressure on these issues has grown to the
point where there's cross-party agreement that something must be done, making the prospects for small -
scale reform better than they've been in years.
«When you start looking at those kinds of
scales, you are at the
point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.
Joy: But at least in that situation, you know, when we're reaching, we're starting to come to an inflexion
point where distributing renewable energy will be as cheap or cheaper than the grid; because solar and batteries and small -
scale wind will start crossing over.
Among general findings, as is the case every year since the survey began, women reported significantly higher stress levels than men (5.1 vs 4.4 on a 10 -
point scale,
where 1 is «little or no stress» and 10 is «a great deal of stress»).
The quality of life survey —
where a low score indicates less impact from tinnitus — is called TFI, and is measured on a 100 -
point scale.
The study was undertaken at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust,
where doctors in the emergency department recorded their overall clinical judgement for ACS using a five -
point Likert
scale (from «definitely ACS» to «definitely not» ACS).
Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some
point it doesn't
scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows
where the limit is.»
The participants were then asked to rate the emotional content of the face on a 7 -
point scale,
where 1 mean extremely sad and 7 extremely happy.
So, for example, with wind and solar, we still are not at the
point where we can have a large
scale - up of energy storage.
Most white water rapids are on a six
point scale or a classification system
where it's 1 through 6 and 6 being the worst, 5 being really, really bad, 6 being you could die on this one.
If you have ever felt like giving up because the
scale isn't budging or you just don't feel like you're moving fast enough, I am here to reassure you that you ARE making progress, and this is the critical
point where you actually have to «believe to see.»
Take the stretch to a
point where it feels like a «good hurt,» which is a 7 on my 1 - 10
scale, and hold it until it goes down to about a 5.
I think it's good to have an idea of
where your weight's at from a starting
point, but remember weights on
scale, can not look at the quality of the weight.
This Preparation Phase will gradually build you up to the
point where you're able to handle the
scaled - down version of the main program, called Level 1 Training.
Having reached for the first time a
point in human existence
where more humans are overweight than are hungry,
where our children's life expectancy is less than ours, and
where food resources and indigenous knowledge are vanishing faster than we can preserve them, increasing nutritional knowledge on both local and global
scales is of vital importance.
Frodo and Sam's journey had reached a
point where the trials they had survived were balanced by the
scale of what was still facing them, enabling the film to stand on its own.
It settles into some kind of grove by about the half - way
point,
where Mazur discovers that not everyone tangentially involved in large -
scale narcotic import / export is a low - life shit - weasel who deserves to have the book thrown at them.
So everything was starting to move to a
point where essentially a version of self - distribution on a wide
scale was becoming possible in a way that it had never been before.
He also has a grappling hook to aid him in
scaling enemies or vaulting across the city, but it's insanely finicky to use and will happily lock on to grapple
points in the opposite direction from
where he's facing, slinging him completely the wrong way at high speeds.
Course ratings were identical to the average for all Harvard extension courses in Fall 2014, online or not (4.2 on a 5
point scale,
where 5 is the «excellent» rating).
I designed it to address the big issues students have with drawing axes (using sensible
scales, marking off axes, identifying
where the dependent variables should go etc), plotting
points correctly and drawing lines of best fit.
«Look, here's a
point where why I am sliding it higher on the
scale, or here's why I didn't slide it higher, because I didn't see this.»
Children read a variety of
scales, including those
where the measure comes to a
point between divisions.
And what these studies found is yes, there is an influence, it's a significant influence, it's not huge but in a usual task
where we're assigning grades, it might amount to four or five
points on a zero to 100
scale.
Finding and financing safe and inspiring facilities remains a big challenge to
scaling the movement to a
point where there are enough student seats in chartered schools to accommodate all those children on waiting lists,» said Reichgott Junge.
The Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) has experimented with this on a large
scale, employing CBL principles to the
point where students are grouped by ability rather than age.
The old and new GCSE grading
scales do not directly compare but there are three
points where they align:
At the other end of the
scale, is Beaconsfield High School,
where just 0.8 % of the pupils were eligible at any
point between 2009 - 15.