Sentences with phrase «provide useful measures»

In particular, the exclusion of certain expenses in calculating adjusted EBITDA can provide a useful measure for period - to - period comparisons of our core business.

In particular, the exclusion of the effect of the Fitbit Force recall, which primarily impacted our results for the fourth quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014, discussed in «Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Fitbit Force Product Recall» and certain expenses in calculating adjusted EBITDA can provide a useful measure for period - to - period comparisons of our business.

Gene number per se is not likely to provide a useful measure of biological complexity.

For example, the MSE calculated for the validation period provides a useful measure of the accuracy of the reconstruction; the square root of MSE can be used as an estimate of the reconstruction standard error.

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Pingdom Tools is an excellent resource for measuring your site's speed and the waterfall graphic provides useful information about exactly which aspects of your site are causing slowdowns.

MTS's management believes that the presentation of non-GAAP measures provides useful information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to the Company's results of operations as well as the net amount of cash generated by its business operations.

We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA are useful measures for investors to review, because they provide a consistent measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations for future performance.

We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and performance of our ongoing operations and are useful for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.

The non-GAAP information presented provides investors with additional useful information, but should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for the related GAAP measures.

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

The Company believes that its presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides useful supplementary information to and facilitates additional analysis by investors.

Management uses non-GAAP financial measures internally to evaluate the performance of the business and believes they are useful measures that provide meaningful supplemental information to investors to consider when evaluating the performance of the Company.

We believe that these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors in assessing our operating performance, as it provides them with the same tools that management uses to evaluate our performance and is responsive to questions we receive from both investors and analysts.

While management believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying performance of the company's business operations, investors are reminded to consider these non-GAAP measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

The Company believes that the presentation of non-GAAP measures when shown in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures, provides useful information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to its financial condition and its historical and projected results of operations.

«Consider questions such as why are you using the non-GAAP measures and how does it provide investors useful information,» White said during a recent conference held by the American Institute of CPAs in Washington, D.C.

Because we hold significant assets and liabilities in currencies other than our Russian ruble operating currency, and because foreign exchange fluctuations are outside of our operational control, we believe that it is useful to present adjusted net income and related margin measures excluding these effects, in order to provide greater clarity regarding our operating performance.

While individual survey questions in the Business Outlook Survey (BOS) provide useful insights into specific aspects of business activity, a summary measure of the main survey questions serves as a gauge of overall business sentiment.

However, a simple price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio, whether based on a snapshot in time or a smoothed measure of earnings, can be more useful, providing some indication of the possible distribution of future returns, our analysis shows.

The other thing I wanted to talk about is this measure that combines several variables to provide what I think is a useful insight into consumer demand.

Management believes that presenting the Company's non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors because it (i) provides investors with meaningful supplemental information regarding financial performance by excluding certain items, (ii) permits investors to view performance using the same tools that management uses to budget, make operating and strategic decisions, and evaluate historical performance, and (iii) otherwise provides supplemental information that may be useful to investors in evaluating the Company's results.

Wendy was always available and attentive when I needed support and provided useful suggestions for techniques and comfort measures.»

Using Twitter as a window into a community's collective mental state may provide a useful tool in epidemiology and for measuring the effectiveness of public - health interventions.

«Our analysis of the temporal variation in exposure patterns provides useful information to assess the impact of control measures and behavior changes during epidemics,» they said.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

Measuring the levels of AKT phosphorylation and FoxO transcriptional activity provide two useful readouts of IIS levels.

We have shown that, despite their limitations, aggregate measures of non-cognitive skills based on student self - reports provide useful information about students» development, as both levels and year - to - year changes in students» self - ratings are associated with changes in related academic and behavioral outcomes.

It is also useful to consider how students» rankings within their peer groups differ by treatment status, as this provides a direct measure of how a student may perceive his position in the overall distribution of student ability.

While these instruments don't necessarily provide an accurate measure of children's socio - emotional skills, it is still a useful tool for teachers to reflect on children's diverse capabilities, for parents to better understand how their children behave at school and for children to receive feedback on how they are performing on social and emotional skills.

Second, proportional growth measures provide useful system - wide instructional signals and allow underperforming schools to seek out high - performing model schools working in similar educational contexts.

The corporate world provides useful data about simulations designed to change behavior and obtain results (which is exactly what we hope will be learned in many situations but is something that few, if any, of our standardized achievement tests measure).

The guide provides school officials with a useful summary of the options available, as well as real world examples of where access control measures have proven instrumental in schools.

Original measure development, which occurred at the University of Michigan during the period 2002 - 2010, had several goals: to identify the knowledge useful to teachers» work with students and to explore the possibility that this knowledge is unique to teaching; to provide a set of measurement instruments that could be used in research on teachers» knowledge; and to provide evaluators with an easy - to - use online administration and scoring system.

Furthermore, measuring performance using the full range of achievement provides additional and useful information for parents, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers for the purposes of decisionmaking and accountability, including more accurate information about the differences among schools.

While they are only one measure of teaching, he said, he still finds the information they provide to be useful.

The best survey for States to choose would be the one whose questions and structure provide the most useful information and guidance for how to improve individual schools and has the highest correlation between its measure of school climate and student achievement.

Assessments of academic, vocational or other formal learning must promote, measure and provide useful feedback on conceptual understanding and the ability to use knowledge and create rather than primarily procedural, factual or surface learning.

Basic economic theory provides a useful perspective on multiple measures.

New observational protocols are likely to be more useful than value - added measures because they provide teachers with information on specific teaching practices.

Given the imprecision of value - added measures and their inability to provide information about specific teaching practices, we might logically conclude that they can not be useful tools for school improvement.

If the programs aim to improve teacher effectiveness, value - added measures can provide useful evidence.

Value - added measures of improvement are more precise measures for groups of teachers than they are for individual teachers, thus they may provide useful information on improvement associated with practices, programs or schools.

Value - added measures clearly do not provide useful information for teachers about practices they need to improve.

The initiative provides a useful model for how researchers and administrators can work together to design, test, and refine low - stakes measures of student mindsets, using them to provide struggling schools with additional resources instead of sanctions.

With its learning cycle and outcomes firmly based in research and practice, Meaningful Student Involvement can provide useful frameworks for teachers to engage student voice beyond simplistic and tokenistic measures.

Their Digital Promise ™ initiative provides useful digital badges for core academic knowledge as well as other modern - day competencies that can not be measured by traditional assessments.

Instead, we need real - time measures that provide useful, actionable data to educators, and ways to capture the non-cognitive skills that go beyond academics and are critical for college, career and beyond.

While this study provides one useful data point for policy makers who are considering introducing or expanding educational choice in their states, policy makers should also consider information generated by studies that have already measured the impact of educational choice on segregation.

Instructional rounds (in which groups of teachers observe classes together) and Japanese lesson studies (in which groups of teachers plan a class together and observe its teaching) provide useful formats for school communities to think together about ways to measure student engagement or the rigor of class discussion.

These are self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - making.26 While there are existing assessments that measure aspects of SEL for particular groups of students, none of these assessments» purpose is to hold schools accountable for students» SEL.27 Nonetheless, providing local educators with insights into how well students are developing their SEL can be useful to inform instructional practice.