Sentences with phrase «quality factors at»

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Bedrooms serve as the backdrop for efforts to arrive at quality sleep, and factors such as light, temperature, noise and distractions can have a big impact.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

Using open data from 7,236 cities, researchers looked at factors like affordability, access to jobs, frequency of service, quality, and number of stops.

The study, which surveyed senior individuals at 10 major London - based national and international executive search firms, found that recruiters relied on «more observable factors» like the quality of their references, the progression of their career path and their personality.

There are different ways to perform facial recognition, but generally the accuracy of it depends on factors such as the quality of the image of your face at authentication time, light conditions, time between the enrollment image and verification, and visibility of occluding objects like a scarf or sunglasses.

Intangible sustainability factors are important to look at because they affect costs, as well as quality and productivity.

Looking at style factors within a broader multi-asset portfolio, quality generally receives a high allocation.

It has been highlighted at that following media outlets: • US News: «Indeed, the top three factors shaping image and future investment in a nation are innovation and entrepreneurship, quality of life and global... Read more»

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Eventually I got hold of Christian Schwarz's book «Natural Church Development» which was developed based on his research with thousands of churches across the world looked at the «quality» of churches because his findings seemed to surprisingly indicate that the quality of a church was the number one factor in the nemerical growth of a church.

Based on millions of dollars in research, MSA's program can accurately predict cooked beef outcomes as assessed by consumers, and manage the factors contributing to those quality standards at ranches throughout the nation.

he technique for making Macarons can be tricky as there are so many factors at play here - the quality and amounts of ingredients, the mixing of the batter, the pans, the length of resting time, the oven temperature, and the baking time.

As part of the AWS certification process, auditors look at a number of factors within the groundwater basins where facilities are located, such as water quality, the availability of existing water sources, and the health of water - related areas, such as marshes, in the region.

While price, quality and portion size of course remain primary factors in this equation, new research from Technomic's «2017 Value & Pricing Consumer Trend Report» shows that consumers are placing increasing importance on sustainability and social responsibility at the dining venues they visit.

Factors contributing to this quality include: where and how we harvest, keeping the AFA cold at all times, superior filtration and storage, and ongoing quality - control testing of all of our products.

The PGS approach to quality assurance begins by looking at the primary factors behind most non-compliant actions.

He continues to divide opinion, but it must be said that Olivier Giroud's lack of quality at the crucial moments continues to be a major factor for Arsenal.

Calvin Ridley, Courtland Sutton, and James Washington all had really attractive qualities in their own rights, but nobody really jumped off the screen at me and looked like they had that it factor.

Injuries indeed a factor, but then again that is every season (should take a look at that) but we CONSISTENTLY fail specially this season, because our Manager does not innovate, adapt, change strategies when he needs to... we have a team that could beat the Top 4 other teams with lesser quality do it why shouldn't we??

The review looks at the quality of coaching, training facilities and education amongst other factors.

Some may argue that it is the lack of Champions League football that has led to Liverpool missing out on key targets such as Teixiera, Mkhiratyan, Willian, Costa, Konoplyanka etc. but the signing of both Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan by Manchester United clearly illustrates that Champions League football is not the most important factor in signing high quality players — and these players obviously improve the team, and allow teams to challenge at the top.

The quality of different types of child care at 10 and 18 months: A comparison between types and factors related to quality.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

In addition to supporting children's music development, our in - school curriculum raises the overall quality of a child's education by touching many important factors all at once: school readiness, family engagement, parent - child relationships, and teacher professional development.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

The «best value» approach, made possible by the design - build legislation enacted by Governor Cuomo last year, looks at factors such as design and long - term quality of the project to ensure that the proposal chosen meets the needs of the region, the transportation system and toll payers.

The «deciding factor though is that life is too short (especially at my age) and it's time to spend quality time with my wife, children and grandchildren with two more on the way!»

In announcing his decision, Spota said the «deciding factor... is that life is too short [especially at my age] and it's time to spend quality time with my wife, children and grandchildren, with two more on the way.»

High quality face primers are going to make a big difference, but you want to look at numerous factors.

«We've always known that human capital is important for economic growth and we are also learning that counties that have good amenities and quality of life factors — mountain views, lakes, shores, and clean environment, for example — are doing quite well, but we haven't looked at having both of these together in a county at the same time and what the policy implications might be,» said Goetz.

At last month's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting — an annual gathering of laureates and young scientists — Nobel prize - winner Randy Schekman, founder of open - access journal eLife, insisted that researchers should be judged on the quality of their research, rather than the impact factor of the journal in which they publish or the reputation of their institution.

Applying a process known as due diligence, investors typically look at three factors: the quality and experience of the management team, the soundness of the financing, and the business plan.

«One of the objectives of this project is investigating historical patterns of harmful algal blooms and their linkage to water quality and environmental factors,» explained project leader Jiyoung Lee, associate professor of environmental health sciences at Ohio State.

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) identifies nicotine dependence, obesity, alcohol abuse and depressive disorders as risk factors for low back pain, a common condition causing disability, missed work, high medical costs and diminished life quality.

Measurements made on nanostring devices at room temperature reveal localized modes that vibrate at 1 MHz for tens of minutes, corresponding to a quality factor of 800 million.

Over the last decade, strained nanomechanical oscillators have emerged as an important paradigm owing to their anomalously high quality factors; however, this trend is not as much a design choice as an artifact of large stresses naturally produced at the nanoscale.

The USPSTF also found inadequate evidence on the effectiveness of targeted screening in persons who are at increased risk for celiac disease (e.g., persons with family history or other risk factors), or on the effectiveness of treatment of screen - detected, asymptomatic celiac disease to improve morbidity, mortality, or quality of life compared with no treatment or treatment initiated after clinical diagnosis.

A new doctoral dissertation by Frank Philip Seth at LUT (Lappeenranta University of Technology) proposes that human factors involved in the software development processes will determine the quality of the products developed.

If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will dissipate at a very low rate, and therefore the resonator will be extremely accurate at measuring or sensing objects thus enabling these systems to become very sensitive mass and force sensors, as well as exciting quantum systems.

No crop will survive a severe drought, he says, and other factors such as nutrient availability and soil quality are at play during water shortages, which tend to be more frequent but less severe than droughts.

«The most important factor associated with ageist stereotypes was poor quality of contact with grandparents,» explains Allison Flamion, a PhD student in psychology at the University of Liege, who led the research team.

The researchers also looked at sociodemographic information to examine whether any factors were associated with differences in diet quality among subgroups of children.

Genuinely acknowledging and rewarding these other key impact factors, such as societal engagement, teaching excellence, and input and deliberation at key meetings and conference participation could go a long way toward balancing the demands of academic output to publish alone, thus lessening the pressure to spend endless weekends and vacation time writing for quantity rather than quality.

But when they factored in the long - term medical cost of delaying treatment for hepatitis C, they found the savings, in combination with improvements in the quality of patients» lives, were enough under current standards to justify using them even at early stages of liver fibrosis.

NU - AGE's researchers also looked at socio - economic factors of food choices and health information as well as the most significant barriers to the improvement of the quality of a diet.

«Factors associated with catastrophic malpractice payouts present opportunities for targeted risk management and quality improvement efforts,» said co-author Martin A. Makary, M.D, MPH, a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins.

«People with severe spinal cord injury — especially when it occurs in a higher level in the spine — have problems with blood pressure regulation to the point that it becomes the main factor affecting quality of life for them,» said Glenn Hirsch, MD, professor of cardiology at the University of Louisville.

«That's why we also look at factors that are important to overall quality of life like access to medical care, pain management, employment and aging with a spinal cord injury.

«The guidelines give clinicians step - by - step ways to address SSIs, because there is no single specific fix to the problem and there are many factors in the processes of care,» said principal author Therese M. Duane, MD, MBA FACS, FCCM, vice-chair of quality and safety of the department of surgery and medical director of acute care surgical research, Texas Health Care, at John Peter Smith Health Network, Fort Worth.

Each array was checked for general assay quality (3 ′ -5 ′ ratio of Gapdh < 1.5, noise (RawQ) < 4 and scaling factor at a TGT value of 200 < 4).