Sentences with phrase «rather than output»

At present, its focus in fact, if not in intention, is on input rather than output.

«I think that so long as one's value to a firm is measured in time rather than your output, efficiency and relationships with clients, there will be an inherent tension between wanting to be the best mother possible, and the best employee possible.»

As I've pointed out elsewhere, Millennials tend to be more focused on results than appearances, so micro-managing their time rather than their output is just going to confuse them — and quite possibly make them accomplish less rather than more.

While there was strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about teacher quality that was based on inputs rather than outputs.

These reviews counted the number of library books and degrees held by teachers, among other inputs, rather than outputs like student test scores.

It's a very useful free tool for authors and self - publishers but the one drawback is that it formats and packages files ready for uploading to Kindle Direct Publishing rather than outputting a mobi file.

The point is that of course the actual independent variables (i.e. the ones that are inputs to rather than outputs from the model) will differ from predictions.

Not exact matches

Western Australia's only onshore oil producer has suspended production after being hit by the low oil price and the high cost of trucking its output to Wyndham rather than the much closer port at Broome.

But the cruel irony is that any improvement in demand and output conditions in these three countries will partly leak out and benefit the euro area countries with large trade surpluses because their economies are running on exports rather than domestic demand.

Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are focusing mainly on reducing carbon dioxide output from industry in order to limit global warming, rather than on diet.

Meanwhile, a wide array of scientists and experts have come to the same recommendation — intense work liberally sprinkled with breaks to increase output — through research rather than athletic metaphors.

«If workers spend time discussing the outcome of last night's game rather than devoting this time to job - related activities, then these workers will be less productive in terms of output produced per unit of time,» write Coates and Humphreys.

The chart shows estimates by the International Monetary Fund of output gaps and credit gaps during that period; while such estimates are obviously imprecise, they suggest that in most of those countries, inflation targeting and financial stability may have been complementary, rather than conflicting goals.

That would limit the amount of GHGs per unit of output rather than putting a cap on aggregate emissions.

It's just that demand is too high, so firms decide they can increase profits by raising their prices above other firms» prices rather than continuing to produce enough output to meet demand at existing prices.

Unit labor costs, the price of labor per single unit of output, fell at a 1.4 percent rate in the second quarter, rather than increasing at a 0.5 percent rate as previously reported.

The main function of those foreign workers is to expand foreign sales rather than to cut costs by replacing U.S. jobs, but some of the output produced abroad is in the form of intermediate goods that are imported into the U.S. and show up as part of our «final output.»

Because the amount of bad debt in each period is almost certainly a growing number, it must follow logically that the GDP growth number observers really want, rather than the one they have — that is, GDP growth as a systems output that can serve as a proxy for debt - servicing capacity — is a declining number, and perhaps even a quickly declining number.

We explore the root causes of the oil collapse, including booming U.S. shale production and Saudi Arabia's decision to sell cheap oil rather than slash its output.

June appears to be a month in which output has slowed to reduce the overall pace of growth to something that is more sustainable rather than signaling a slowdown of any sort.

Then it needs to acknowledge that although inflation is persistent, it is very difficult to forecast and signal that it will focus on inflation and inflation expectations data rather than measures of output and employment in forecasting inflation.

Nonetheless, it is clear from the national accounts that demand growth remained faster than average during 2004 but that, to a large extent, this was met by rising imports and declining inventories rather than by commensurate growth in output.

Oil and gas output will rise by 13 percent to 15 percent through the end of 2017, rather than the previously forecasted 20 percent production growth, the company said in a slide presentation.

His creative output increased last year and appears set to rise again with Coutinho's possible exit giving him greater license to operate around the pitch rather than working a designated channel.

This is not to suggest that output is irrelevant but to highlight that solidarity ought to show itself, rather than retreat, in times of crisis.

Equally pertinent is the fact that the 0.5 per cent fall in output in the fourth quarter of 2010 can not be attributed to Government cuts because there weren't any; spending was actually 5 per cent higher than in the same period of 2009, which rather holes Mr Balls's case below the waterline.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

(In the alternative version, the beam consists of photons, the «filter» is a cryptographic foil, and the output is a spectrum rather than an image, but the essential principle is the same.)

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

Acín's group used statistical tests to show that the output from the new device indeed stems from quantum uncertainty rather than from residual deterministic — and hence predictable — effects.

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.

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

Not only is trash not renewable, they say, but incinerators» already slim energy output doesn't account for the extra energy needed to produce virgin rather than recycled goods.

Other popular programs, such as Bill Phillip's «Body For Life,» stress the importance of energy intake versus energy output, but recommend that you count portions rather than calories

That is, rather than treating insulin resistance by increasing glucose disposal through an increase in nonstorage cellular influx (eg, by increasing either the insulin dose or its effect), it could be treated by reducing glucose availability to insulin - resistant tissue (eg, by reducing carbohydrate intake or absorption and basal hepatic glucose output), which would reduce the nonstorage cellular influx.

However, the main measure of whether a subsequent session is physiologically more difficult than a previous one is not your muscle tiredness or your perceived exertion, but rather measures of metabolic output such as where your heart rate stands relative to the aerobic threshold in both workouts.

It is about performing constant and consistent work rather than explosive power output.

This is because perceived exertion is a function of peak muscular contraction, rather than metabolic output.

In contrast, Ask et al. (2) reported that maximal muscle power output during leg extension was significantly increased (by 11 %) when the subjects received 10 minutes of standardized massage, which included effleurage, petrissage, and tapotement before the exercise rather than 10 minutes of passive rest.

Though this is really only their seventh - best of nine albums, that's more of a testament to the quality of their output as a band over the last 25 years, rather than a criticism of this work.

Adopting a kind of wimpy voice with a hint of period authenticity, Gosling feels like he's acts down to suit the movie rather than to elevate to the high quality of his usual output.

Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as identity, voice, creative output, and that age old question of what it really means to sell out.

So we always encourage business managers to take an output approach to what they want, rather than an input based approach.

Connecting accountability to the learning process in real time requires two things: a) Say, See, Do Teaching so you have time to check students» work during each input - output cycle, and b) plenty of time during Guided Practice to check work rather than service helpless handraisers.

These differences also correlate with important long - run economic outcomes as documented in a new work by Chetty and co-authors, where they find suggestive evidence that «quality of schools — as judged by outputs rather than inputs — plays a role in upward mobility.»

Worse, most definitions focus on inputs, not outputs — what will be «covered» rather than a plan for what learners should be able to accomplish with learned content.

Officials in Georgia, for instance, contend that the state wants to turn its teacher - quality focus toward output - based measures of teacher effectiveness, rather than credentials.

Im paraphrasing here but he said he would rather hire a person ~ who has a 200 horsepower engine and gets maximum output ~ than hire a person with 400 - horsepower engine but only uses 100 - horsepower.

Educational progress was to be measured by what students produced (outputs) rather than by what resources were invested in schools (inputs).

The current delivery model that has been in place essentially unaltered for over eighty years is flawed because, in spite of all the good work done on standards and accountability in recent years, the system remains primarily «input» and compliance driven rather than «output» and performance driven.