Sentences with phrase «points over peer»

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The point is that investors with just a few stocks tend to know those companies better, and that gives them an edge over their more diversified peers.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

Noahs Ark is a fallacy and could not have happened - science has proven this point numerous times over, so I would hope a smart man like Obama would believe the peer - reviewed studies over a 2000 year old story.

On the Today programme, the Tory peer said he had done «three, four days a week» over the last six years, but «the point comes in life when you have to do what you believe to be right».

The viewer finds themselves weaving in and out of her almost claustrophobic world, wandering through the bleak hallways with Christine as everyone tries to peer over her shoulder and possibly find a clue that'll help her uncover parts of sordid past that brought her to this point.

This sounds a lot like every complaint made over the years about British actors «taking» work from their American peers, but Get Out is so specifically about the African - American experience, does Samuel L. Jackson have a point?

Only in eighth grade reading are our scores disappointing, down two points over the past ten years and lagging far behind our big - city peers.

Only in 8th - grade reading are our scores disappointing, down 2 points over the past ten years and lagging far behind our big - city peers.

Because the Gates - McGinitie is nationally normed, we can show that struggling students in RAISEup Texas schools (solid lines) had ten times as many point gains over the year as their nationally - normed peers from across the country who started at the same level (dotted lines).

Standardized assessments revealed that students who used PBL by Defined STEM outperformed their peers by over +5 points

When discussing health risks associated with student screen time, he stated, «over two hundred peer - reviewed studies point to screen time correlating to increased ADHD, screen addiction, increased aggression, depression, anxiety and even psychosis.»

Although the increase is attributed to improved graduation rates for specific groups of students that have traditionally struggled to earn a diploma — including a 15 percentage point gain for Hispanic students and a 9 percentage point gain for black students over the past decade — gaps still remain when comparing these students to their white and Asian peers.

Over 300 peer reviewers were involved in rating applications, and only one point separated 16th place from the two applicants that tied at 17th place.

Over the last year, critical news articles from national newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have questioned the quality of education the company offers, pointing out overbilling for ineligible students in Colorado and a Pennsylvania school where virtual students performed significantly worse than their public school peers.

Jacobs said many West students made academic progress, but only those over a certain bar — above the 40th percentile, when compared to their academic peers — were given points under the new school grades.

The bar for the bottom 5 % has increased nearly 10 points — over a 50 % increase — and students in Priority Schools are growing four times faster than their statewide peers.

Twenty - one percent of Latino peers read at Proficient and Advanced levels, a two percentage point increase over 2011 and a five percentage point increase over 2002.

This law has opportunities for states to set their own accountability standards and for school districts to incorporate social - emotional learning in professional development and in the classroom; a recent meta - analysis shows an average increase of 13 percentile points in academic performance for students with SEL exposure over their non-SEL peers.

Pointed straight up toward the sky, we crane our neck to peer over the Rebel's bulged hood, hoping to get a glimpse of flat land.

With over 28 years» experience in the publishing industry, we understand the pain points felt by stakeholders at each stage of the publishing process — from researchers preparing their manuscripts to peer reviewers and publishers requiring perfect XML.

More to the point, funds like Vanguard FTSE All - World ex-US Small Cap Index (VFSVX) are distinctly poor performers, trailing 90 % of their peers over the past three - and five - year periods.

The point is that investors with just a few stocks tend to know those companies better, and that gives them an edge over their more diversified peers.

Stonebridge Small Cap Growth (SBSGX) has lost 2.9 % annually over the full market cycle but wins points for consistency: by Morningstar's assessment, it has trailed at least 99 % of its peers for the trailing 3, 5, 10 and 15 year periods.

Like his recent image of the smiling toddler Kikito strategically installed on scaffolding in Tecate, peering over U.S. - Mexican border wall from the California side, the supersized silhouettes of SO CLOSE are sited at a symbolic point of entry — to the city, to the country, and to the art world.

Like his recent image of the smiling toddler Kikito, strategically installed on scaffolding in Tecate to peer over the U.S. - Mexican border wall from the California side, the supersized silhouettes of SO CLOSE are sited at a symbolic point of entry — to the city, to the country, and to the art world.

Last time I checked over 75,000 people read that article and there was even a publication put out by one of the lobby groups entitled «Why You Should Have a Screening Mammogram» (and avoid reading garbage on the internet) that was a point by point refutation of my position without acknowledging my article based on both smearing me and authoritarianisms like «only read peer reviewed article in reputable journals».

Your point about AGW advocates still holding power over things like the IPCC and peer review is true enough though and that is where some highly symbolic gestures need to be made, just as in NI.

Since you attempt to be unbiased pointing out when individuals over step boundaries in media, what are you thoughts of «peer reviewed» communications?

Debates over climate change are just the beginning, yet it is exemplary in that preconceived ideologies and political rhetoric are elevated to the point where they can confront peer - reviewed scientific findings.

The whole point of a peer review system would be to get on with the work of cutting emissions instead of wrangling over every word of a draft treaty.

The point of Bitcoin is that it brings an entire new underlying finance system which is borderless, neutral, peer - to - peer, (relatively) anonymous and instant — it's a new way to transfer value all over the world, where no bank and authority is needed anymore.

One benefit of peer - to - peer (p2p) over client - server is that with p2p, the network doesn't rely on one central point of control which can fail.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Concurrent and predictive relations among aggression, peer rejection, and self - reported depressive symptoms were examined in 521 third -, fourth -, and fifth - grade children at three time points over 1 year.