Sentences with phrase «private performances between»

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This year's overall list tracks private company performance by way of revenue growth between fiscal years 2010 and 2013.

Manager selection skills are so important in private equity, given the gulf in performance between the best and worst funds.

From the pandemic of pornography to reality T.V., to the insatiable urge so many feel to make the whole of life a performance on Facebook and Twitter, the distinction upon which civilization has depended — a careful demarcation between the public and the private — is dissolving before our eyes.

The WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center completed the recent field study between January and July 2013 in collaboration with Pulsar Informatics, a private firm that develops behavioral alertness technology.

Given the picture's enduring popularity, there's really no point in rehashing the plot — OK, for the uninitiated (all two of you): Ripley (series star Sigourney Weaver) heads back into space and leads a team of military grunts against the nasty extra-terrestrials — but there's always room to rehash many of the highlights: Weaver's terrific performance in the central role; the contrast between the heroic Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) and the cowardly Private Hudson (Bill Paxton); the escalating villainy of company man Burke (Paul Reiser); scripter Cameron's ability to keep piling on confrontations and director Cameron's ability to milk them for maximum tension; and, of course, those wonderful alien creations.

In other words, if the participating schools are actually roughly the bottom third in terms of performance, then the lack of correlation between their enrollment trends and performance may not tell us anything about the relationship between the enrollment trends and performance of the top two - thirds of private schools that chose not to participate.

Our findings are consistent with those of a recent study by Richard Patterson and Robert Patterson, which found that in - class computer usage reduces academic performance by between 0.14 and 0.37 points on a four - point grade scale among undergraduate students at a private liberal - arts college.

It is clear that in a capitalist mixed economy predominantly state or predominantly private, the rationality in the operation of the economic system of a country can only be achieved in formulating goals (performance standard) and correction of deviations between what was planned and what was achieved if the State act in the governance of the system as a regulator of economic activity and as a mediator between the capitalists and civil society ensuring its participation in government decisions.

The adjusted differences between the performance of public and private sectors in each setting were highly statistically significant.

Peterson also points to research by Harvard University's Martin West and German economist Ludger Woessmann, who examined the impact of school choice on the performance of 15 - year - old students in 29 industrialized countries and «discovered that the greater the competition between the public and private sector, the better all students do in math, science and reading.»

Most differences between performance in public and private schools, according to the report, can be attributed to elements in the family background of the students, such as family income and the parents» educational level.

Private schools may be disproportionately located in communities with low - quality public schools, causing the relationship between private school competition and public school performance to appear weaker than it actuaPrivate schools may be disproportionately located in communities with low - quality public schools, causing the relationship between private school competition and public school performance to appear weaker than it actuaprivate school competition and public school performance to appear weaker than it actually is.

The program may have modestly increased academic performance in public schools, consistent with the theory behind school vouchers that they create competition between public and private schools.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

Even after adjusting for observed demographic differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the schools themselves in causing differences in academic performance between public and private schools.

However, unlike a student's report card, which is private and kept between school and home, a school performance report is public.

This report examines the genesis of the Project L.I.F.T. initiative, the partnership between the district and private and corporate philanthropists, and strategies to achieve improved graduation rates, student performance, and student growth in the Project L.I.F.T. learning community.

Arum used statistical analysis to study the relationships between the size of the private school sector in a given state and the scope of public school resources measured as student / teacher ratio, and the relationship between student / teacher ratio in a given state and student outcomes as measured by performance on standardized tests.

Throughout my career I've moved between — painting my face and body in preparation for live performance — to 2 - dimensionally rendering myself in private with a mirror, a paper, a canvas, or a camera on a tripod.

Evolving through a range of mediums such as performance, video, installation, sound, and literature, her works consider the fluid border between public and private space, and in so doing, challenge established conventions relating to the body, sexuality, power relations, and institutional spaces.

Collaborators since 1995, Elmgreen & Dragset create unusual installations and performance pieces that draw connections between art and architecture, public and private space, and a myriad of social issues.

Following a conversation with Mike Kelley about the physical beauty of many performance artists, McCarthy collaborated with Kelley to make Fresh Acconci (1995), a restaging of a series of historic works by the New York — based artist Vito Acconci, who is known for early performances in which he employed his own body to explore questions of social interaction, the distinctions between public and private behavior, and the objectification of the human body.

(1995), a restaging of a series of historic works by the New York — based artist Vito Acconci, who is known for early performances in which he employed his own body to explore questions of social interaction, the distinctions between public and private behavior, and the objectification of the human body.

Going beyond performance, Rirkrit Tiravanija creates socially - engaged conceptual works that blur the boundaries of art in new ways, bridging the gap between public and private.

Interdisciplinary in nature, Webster's sculptural pieces investigate intersections between object and performance, fashion and computing, the body and its context, public and private, in a critical way.

Imagined in a realm where relationships share equal footing in the virtual and real world — one strung between online stalking, love letters, sexts, and selfies — Perry's sculptures and images incubate the public performance of private relationships.

Laura Bernstein (Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist who constructs scenarios and vignettes through immersive installation, performance, and video in which her fictional characters and creatures engage with their environment, exploring the relationship between human and animal, exemplary and freakish, public ritual and private behavior.

Emerging from a collaborative background in theater and filmmaking, Cetera works in video, sculpture, and performance to produce temporal installations that examine the space between object and body, public and private, virtual and real.

Davis Rhodes blends color - field and hard - edge painting with post-minimalist positions in order to explore the relationships between private studio practice and public performance.

For Tajima, these hybrid performance productions question conventional distinctions between talent and crew, artist and audience, and public and private space.

Continuing the artist's renowned and influential exploration of identity, performance and storytelling, Wearing describes narratives that land strikingly between the public and private, fiction and documentary, the raw improvisation and the carefully staged.

Matthew Hawthorn, Head of Art & Design at York St John University, investigates the relationship between the artist, audience and environment in performance art through works created for public and private audiences.

U.S. and Chinese officials will work together and with the private sector to develop energy efficient building codes and rating systems, benchmark industrial energy efficiency, train building inspectors and energy efficiency auditors for industrial facilities, harmonize test procedures and performance metrics for energy efficient consumer products, exchange best practices in energy efficient labeling systems and convene a new U.S. - China Energy Efficiency Forum to be held annually, rotating between the two countries.

In a recent published reference guide on PPPs, the World Bank describes them as entailing «long - term contract [s] between a private party and a government entity, for providing a public asset or service, in which the private party bears significant risks and management responsibility, and remuneration is linked to performance».

«The touchstone for the doctrine's applicability has been performance of the function of resolving disputes between parties, or of authoritatively adjudicating private rights...

Performance based self - esteem mediated partially between the stressors and burnout and it is the strongest predictor of burnout over time, followed by private life stressors.

For example, in order to bridge the gap between other - and self - regulation, children are encouraged to use private speech to verbalize their objectives and to evaluate their performance.