Sentences with phrase «practice ratings for»

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Doing so will help you 1) better understand the drivers and barriers to achieve the desired customer response, 2) establish best practices for future initiatives, and 3) create campaigns with higher conversion rates.

The federal finance minister publicly warned them to avoid imitating aggressive practices that led to the U.S. mortgage crisis, and thanked BMO's competitors for not lowering their own rates in response.

To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

Employees are encouraged to regularly dissect each other's thinking to determine the root of decision - making, to rate each other's performance using a proprietary iPad app called «Dots,» and to send an audio file to any person mentioned in a meeting — which isn't an outlandish practice internally, since all meetings, with few exceptions, are either digitally recorded for audio or video.

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

The state of New York is considering regulating online lenders after lawmakers found that there was «significant potential for unscrupulous online lenders to exploit consumers through predatory practices such as unusually high interest rates, lack of disclosure of hidden fees, and unclear loan terms.»

For ratings issued on a program, series or category / class of debt, this announcement provides relevant regulatory disclosures in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series or category / class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practicFor ratings issued on a program, series or category / class of debt, this announcement provides relevant regulatory disclosures in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series or category / class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practicfor which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices.

In essence, he has lumped AT&T and Verizon's paid - for zero - rating policies in with T - Mobile's lower - cost program, then waved away altogether any concerns about the practice.

This time, Stoppleman stopped by reddit for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) question - and - answer session where he fielded questions from owners who accuse the social rating site of bad business practices.

Indian regulators took the argument to heart and banned the practice of zero rating, meaning mobile carriers can't charge for a data plan but then exempt some services from counting toward the data limit.

The Federal Communications Commission, in a report to for seven Democratic senators, said it had reviewed the cases, which involved wireless carriers exempting streaming video from counting against customers» monthly data limits, a practice known as zero rating.

A best practice in terms of optimizing for conversion rate is to build out queries that broad match is matching to in exact match.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In practice, the Fed may prefer (if it isn't forced) to shrink its portfolio according to a preset schedule, rather than at whatever rate it takes to compensate for a declining demand for Fed balances.

By Downgrading Daddy, Moody's will have something to point to when the next round of congressional hearings into the practice of pay - for - play ratings agencies takes place (which better be soon).

In China in particular, the company is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day offering discounted rides to passengers and better rates for drivers, according to two people with knowledge of the company's practices.

DALBAR, Inc. is the financial community's leading independent expert for evaluating, auditing and rating business practices, customer performance, product quality and service.

A refinancing may have a lower monthly payment and average interest rate than you pay now, and it can eliminate any cosigners you may have, offering a cleaner financial picture as you apply for practice financing.

As we did in our annual, more global study, we spent a good deal of time in this research looking at the differences between the marketers who rate themselves highly in terms of overall content marketing effectiveness (the «most effective») versus those who rate themselves as least effective to understand the gaps and identify best practices for paid content promotion.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

All such reputable helpers I know — especially the psychiatrists — do give service to people at lower rates, in many instances working part - time in a clinic or hospital for less than they would receive in private practice.

At any rate, in obedience to the firm resolution of the community to uphold the Hadith as a foundation for faith and practice, the learned men did their best to establish principles of criticism and grades of authenticity to serve as a guide in accepting true traditions.

Additional slots for more Ph.D. students would, Emory decided, produce a new wave of better - trained scholars capable of first - rate research in religious practices.

It's not a good business practice for the company or for an industry still creating jobs in a country with a 5.9 percent unemployment rate.

According to the company, the sustainability index includes companies listed on the BMV that incorporate best international practices with regards to social responsibility, environmental management and corporate governance based on an independent evaluation undertaken by the rating firm Empowering Responsible Investment and the Center of Excellence for Corporate Governance of Universidad Anahuac del Sur.

Consistent with Tourism Improvement District best practices surveyed for Visit California, the Temecula T.I.D. assessment calculation is a simple 4 % levy of hotel room rates paid by lodging guests.

This means in practice that the pressure drop of a non-Newtonian fluid in laminar flow is not directly proportional to the flow rate as for Newtonian fluids in laminar flow.

It seems disingenuous for the NCAA to rebuke these I [hearts] L.A. practices while it profited from USC's visibility and high TV ratings.

Fournette, who has already drawn comparisons to Adrian Peterson, showed why he was rated as the No. 1 RB recruit for the 2014 class at an LSU practice, terrorizing the blocking sled.

The Dutchman's strike rate has also taken the pressure of Wayne Rooney and has allowed Rooney to adapt his game to play in a multitude of positions in and around the midfield and attacking midfield areas, and this will be good practice indeed for when Sir Alex decides to drop Wayne Rooney into a deeper midfield role which seems inevitable as his career progresses.

«However, due to the parent not being qualified to diagnose a concussion, I think the prevalence and injury rate would have been higher if they had a certified athletic trainer present for practices and games.»

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

More recently, a study reported in the American Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that the ACL injury rate for female athletes, particularly non-contact ACL injuries, can be significantly reduced if the athlete follows a specific exercise program called the Prevent Injury and Enhance Performance (PEP) program before practices and games.

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth.

She is the Director of the Optimal Birth BC program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which develops syntheses of evidence for clinicians, decision - aids and information packages for childbearing families, and uses local data to evaluate clinical practice and direct change to reduce rates of cesarean section in BC hospitals and health authorities.

Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports — including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball.

Did you know that cesarean section rate for medical practices (OB and Midwife) that advocate natural childbirth is only 3 - 5 %?!

Yet the practice still lags among less affluent and less educated women whose babies, for reasons including low vaccination rates and greater exposure to environmental contaminants such as cigarette smoke, especially need the nutrients and disease protection mother's milk bestows.

As predicted, the training resulted in better parenting practices and fewer contacts with deviant peers which, in turn, were the mechanisms for reducing rates of adolescent delinquency.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

Most women are candidates for midwifery care and homebirth; over 92 % of pregnant women in our practice will have a homebirth, and we maintain a cesarean section birth rate of less than 5 %.

You can, however, position yourself for the best possible outcome by finding a highly effective IVF team (look at www.sart.org for best pregnancy rates in your area) that will work with you to diagnose the problem (look for good two - way communication between the patient and clinic), grow and find the best embryos to transfer (look for a good lab that uses modern tools) and helps you optimize your fertility before you even get started (good physician practice).

Research has shown that these higher rates are related primarily to infant care practices such as a preference for bed sharing or placing infants on their stomach to sleep.

Neal Goldman, Brand Manager for Men's Lacrosse at Brine, talks about ways to reduce the risk of concussion in boy's lacrosse, which, according to a 2011 study1 of U.S. high schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff, has the third highest concussion rate (46.6 per 100,000 athletic exposures (1 AE is one athlete participating in one organized high school athletic practice or competition, regardless of the amount of time played), behind only football (76.8) and boys» ice hockey (61.9).

Government program for monitoring breastfeeding rates and making recommendations for best practices.

Conclusions and Implications for Public Health Practice: Although the annual rate is declining, unintentional injury remains the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States, led by motor vehicle traffic — related deaths.

In 2012, the home birth rate in Oregon was 2.4 %, which was the highest rate of any state; another 1.6 % of women in Oregon delivered at birth centers.11 Before licensure became mandatory in 2015, Oregon was one of two states in which licensure was not required for the practice of midwifery in out - of - hospital settings.12 Although the 2003 revision of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth distinguishes planned home births from unplanned home births, at the national level there is still no way to disaggregate hospital births that were intended to occur at a hospital and those that had not been intended to occur at a hospital.

The initiative is targeted at improving child and family outcomes, including decreasing rates of child maltreatment and improving parenting practices that may decrease risk for maltreatment.

Enhanced rates for accredited programs assist with the costs associated in meeting higher standards such as implementing developmentally appropriate practices, providing lower staff / child ratios, and...

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.