Sentences with phrase «quality decisions include»

Not exact matches

Among them: enhanced dialogue, better decision - making (including more valuable dissent), improved risk mitigation / crisis management, higher - quality management guidance, more orderly work, positive change to the boardroom culture and the behavior of men.

The decision was «based on a number of factors including doing what's best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search and the broader content experience for our users,» Dixon said.

Additionally, price has the greatest influence on millennials» purchase decisions above all other factors, including quality, brand, store and availability.

These features include not only the bodily functions that one expects to be treated by the natural sciences, but also the qualities of thought and decision that man possesses as a rational and spiritual creature.

The largest audience reflects the entire spectrum of pharma decision makers, including CEOs to marketing and product management teams, to professionals in R&D, production, quality control, engineering services or the purchase officials.

-- The decision to include a quality date on food packaging shall be at the discretion of the food labeler.

Standard systematic review methods were followed including duplicate inclusion decisions, data extraction and quality assessment.

She has developed clinical screening and quality measures including, MAPi, the Movement and Pulse index for assessment of fetal well - being, the Mothers's Autonomy in Decision Making (MADM) scale and the MOR (Mothers on Respect) index.

«We make decisions about how to address conduct by individuals who we come across in the course of our investigations, and we take into account a lot of things, including their level of culpability, including the need for deterrence, including personal circumstances, including the type and quality of testimony that they may provide, and rare circumstances — there's one here — we go into a non-prosecution agreement,» he said.

Participants in the decision process may include agencies with authority or interests in the system, those who experience the safety, economic, cultural, or life - quality impacts resulting from management decisions, and those with specialized knowledge related to potential impacts.

The process should include broader participation by groups and parties whose safety, livelihoods, and quality of life are affected by decisions about the lake and river system, the report says.

London and Schenker argue that while the Internet offers patients valuable data and tools — including hospital quality ratings and professional treatment guidelines — that may help them when facing decisions about where to seek care or whether to undergo a medical procedure, reliable and unbiased information may be hard to identify among the growing number of medical care advertisements online.

Consumer choices in health care will come to resemble consumer choices in other areas, where people will make decisions based on value, which includes both good quality and affordable price.?»

They suggested ways to make strategic decisions about research methods, including frames, samples, measurements, quality controls, and missing data and non-response.

On top of that, he mentioned the quality of her work and her efforts to improve diversity on her sets, including her decision to hire all - woman directors and ladies for her important creative roles for season one of her OWN Network show Queen Sugar, something she plans to continue in season two.

Whilst we accept that this decision will mean that we risk losing high calibre staff, by focusing on other Studios with exciting new projects in development, (including continued work on PlayStation VR), we believe we will be in a stronger position going forward and able to offer the best possible content of the highest quality to our players.

A bundle of all the lessons on lean production - all with active activities where students need to make decisions... including quality assurance Mass customisation Kaizen and JIT Critical Path Analysis All the lesson theory notes and activities which are easily editable.

The list includes some good news for education reformers, including an examination of how one state is already seeing positive results from its decision to put a high - quality curriculum at the heart of its reform efforts; a look at how the hottest show on Broadway is inspiring a generation of students to explore American history; and a deep dive into the world of higher education with an array of new experiments that are making college degrees more accessible, especially for at - risk students.

Rather than relying on test results anyway and making potentially disastrous decisions to close schools or shutter programs on bad information, we should recognize that local actors — including parents — are in a better position to judge school quality.

While self - care is more of a habit or practice for your own well - being than an actual classroom management strategy, the benefits include improved executive function, greater empathy, and increased resilience — all qualities that will empower you to make better decisions when confronted with challenging classroom situations.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

IEP Success supports educators to develop and deliver quality IEPs, addressing many of the instructional challenges currently present in special education including: developing measurable IEP goals and objectives, conducting progress monitoring, and utilizing data to make educational decisions.

The new initiative grew out of The Wallace Foundation's years of work in youth development, including a dozen - year effort to encourage citywide coordination for afterschool that yielded more than 40 publications and found, according to a study by RAND, «that organizations across cities could work together toward increasing access, quality, data - based decision making and sustainability.»

Researchers have identified a number of workplace conditions associated with teachers» decisions to stay or leave, including the quality of instructional leadership, school culture, collegial relationships, time for collaboration and planning, teachers» decision - making power, experiences with professional development, facilities, parental support, and resources.For a comprehensive review, see Simon, N. S., & Johnson, S. M. (2015).

The election of three school board members comes at a particularly important time as the district faces critical budgetary decisions, the need to improve student achievement particularly for chronically underserved students and even greater parent demand for high quality educational options including charter public schools.

We know the fundamental needs of our families include greater access to high - quality early childhood education, sustained resources and support, stable school communities, rigorous curriculum led by strong instructional leaders and having a voice in the decisions that impact their children.

The decision to include a new track dedicated to school improvement in the WEA Summer University curriculum also signals how teachers» unions are changing to ensure all students receive a quality education.

We get high marks for quality controls, including transparency in decision - making, performance - based contracts, monitoring and data collection, and procedures for renewal and revocation.

That decision will be influenced by several factors, including the threat of fires; poor air quality; smoke and fire damage to school facilities; transportation challenges; staffing shortages; power outages; and use of schools as emergency shelters for fire victims.

Despite evidence that the complexity of the nation's education crisis requires an array of solutions — including strong curriculum standards and robust consequential accountability, the overhaul of teacher quality, revamp of curriculum and standards, expanding school choice, improving school data systems and giving parents their rightful decision - making roles in education — far too many reformers are busy touting and flacking their one grand solution and dismiss others that, in their minds, don't further their own.

Topics include: • The importance of quality policies and by - laws • Agendas that work • Building consensus and coalitions for action • Budgeting protocols that focus on student achievement • Building a high functioning team that dedicated to making decisions on behalf of students Presenter: Owens Saylor, KASA March 6, 2018 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT • Bowling Green • $ 179 (or register for all modules for $ 899)

Presenters include Chris Kingsley, Associate Director, Local Policy and Advocacy, Data Quality Campaign; Laura Hansen, Director, Information Management and Decision Support, Metro Nashville Public Schools; and Gene Chasin, Chief Operating Officer, Say Yes to Education.

Decision makers are urged to make «holistic» evaluations that include: (1) the information we present in the five categories of quality, (2) our in - depth profiles, and (3) a consideration of unique variables or characteristics of local settings.

Invest in the development of high - quality principals who work to include teachers in decision - making and foster positive school cultures.

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Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and / or increases in component costs could have on the Company's gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company's need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company's dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company's international operations; the Company's reliance on third - party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company's dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company's products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.

The criteria used in the routing decision include price, speed of execution and quality of service.

Three factors: issue selection (including investment decisions on seniority / subordination, covenant protection, maturity, and bond versus CDS exposures), sector weighting, and quality tilt typically contribute the majority of any excess returns relative to the benchmark.

While the review of the foreclosure process found that the underlying grounds for foreclosure decisions has been accurate, Bank of America implemented a series of improvements — including staffing, customer impact, and quality controls.

This dynamic system measures a dozen key attributes including school district quality, home values, employment rates, income levels and other vital investment criteria, empowering rental home investors to quickly and confidently make an informed purchase decision.

While Make Lemonade strives to work with a diverse group of quality companies in order to help you make informed financial decisions, we recognize that we can not include every financial company or available product on our website.

As pet owners, you also bear the burden of making emotional decisions regarding the quality of life of your animal, this includes accepting that they have reached the end of their life.

However, part way through writing it, I realized that there has been so much quality advertising over the past 12 months that even the decision of what to include, let alone what order it should go in, would be utterly arbitrary (not to mention unfair).

Precise predictions of hurricane tracks and intensity; heavy rain; severe storms; fire weather; air quality and chemistry, and climate change address societal challenges that include disaster mitigation, economic decision making, health concerns, travel and workplace safety, long range planning, and day to day decisions (an umbrella or a heavy coat, for example).

In a landmark decision for the youth of Texas, Judge Gisela Triana, just issued her written decision that all natural resources, including the atmosphere, make up the state's public trust, and that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality does have the power and duty to protect those resources from greenhouse gas emissions.

«TCC claims 2.1 The following are examples of the types of claim which it may be appropriate to bring as TCC claims --(a) building or other construction disputes, including claims for the enforcement of the decisions of adjudicators under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996; (b) engineering disputes; (c) claims by and against engineers, architects, surveyors, accountants and other specialised advisers relating to the services they provide; (d) claims by and against local authorities relating to their statutory duties concerning the development of land or the construction of buildings; (e) claims relating to the design, supply and installation of computers, computer software and related network systems; (f) claims relating to the quality of goods sold or hired, and work done, materials supplied or services rendered; (g) claims between landlord and tenant for breach of a repairing covenant; (h) claims between neighbours, owners and occupiers of land in trespass, nuisance etc; (i) claims relating to the environment (for example, pollution cases); (j) claims arising out of fires; (k) claims involving taking of accounts where these are complicated; and (l) challenges to decisions of arbitrators in construction and engineering disputes including applications for permission to appeal and appeals.»

It does not consider a lot of things, including the quality of the decisions, whether the decisions she wrote were particularly complex (i.e. a 2 paragraph decision dismissing a simple appeal is not the same as a 200 paragraph decision that makes new law) and how often she was in the majority on a decision (if you're a frequent dissenter, then you're more likely to write reasons given that you're being chosen from a smaller pool of potential authors).

This may include certain quality assessment or improvement records, patient safety activity records, or business planning, development, and management records that are used for business decisions more generally rather than to make decisions about individuals.