Sentences with phrase «rating systems i know»

Unfortunately, the corporate governance rating systems I know do not recognize or measure capital allocation aptitude.

If you don't have a scale it may be difficult for you to judge, but you can employ a widely used veterinary nutritionist's rating system known as the «body condition score» to ascertain whether or not your dog is in the danger zone.

Many green building rating systems know that you can't have a green building unless its energy efficient, and they recognize ENERGY STAR as the leading symbol for energy efficiency.

The United State Green Building Council (USGBC) is the embattled national leader with its third - party rating systems known as LEED that gives green guidelines for new construction, existing buildings and other types of construction.

Most people know about United States Green Building Council's green rating systems known as LEED, some professionals outside of Britain know about BREEAM: BRE Environmental Assessment Method if you live in Europe, you might know about the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive if you're an international engineering consultant, there's a fair chance you'll know about the International Federation of Consulting Engineers» «Project Sustainability Management Guidelines».

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«We know that our system right now encourages the wealthiest Canadians to set up a private corporation so they can pay a lower tax rate than middle - class Canadians.

Unfortunately, the answer is no, because there are natural features of the financial system that likely provide support to interest rates near the zero lower bound, or ZLB.

As you know, the New York Fed plays a special role within the Federal Reserve System in the implementation of monetary and exchange rate policies largely by dint of its unique location in the financial capital of the United States, if not the world.

What everyone most wants to know is when the Fed is going to start tapering off its bond - buying program (called Quantitative Easing), which has flooded the banking system with money for the past five years and kept interest rates abnormally low.

It is important to know as you might have a system that is totally dependent upon fundamental company data which pays little to no attention to interest rate announcements of such like but when your stock falls in price you wonder why.

H.R. 1, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, would make sweeping modifications to the Internal Revenue Code, including a much lower corporate tax rate, changes to credits and deductions, and a move to a territorial system for corporations that have overseas earnings.

The concentration of capital has produced an unexpectedly durable system of monopoly capitalism, which is no longer subject to the pressures of price competition that at earlier stages led to ever declining rates of profit.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

Guessing at motives aside, what I fear is the loose use of language, especially by bean counters who will find some system (rationing, rating, capitation) to declare non-beneficial benefits not cost - effective and thus no longer available.

Also, stellar evolution, geologic models, cratering rates, etc. let us know WITH CERTAINTY, that the solar system and the Earth is well over 4 billion years old.

Hexate is a known toxin that can lead to nervous system damage when consumed in large quantities, so no wonder consumption of processed soy has been related to thyroid dysfunction, increased infertility rates, hormonal disruption and even increased rates of breast cancer.

All I know is that eating food that has a high ORAC value (the rating system for antioxidants) feels deeply, instinctively right to me.

But a new star rating system is being assessed by the federal government, while the well - known Tick falls into possible demise.

While Lockheed's athletic program probably rates no better than average when compared to those of similarly affluent and populous corporations, its club system — a complex of hobbyists, do - it - yourselfers and arts - and - crafters — is the pride and joy of Frank Davis and the LERC council.

I don't know of any ratings system that doesn't take goals and assists into account.

Pep G either doesn't rate him or doesn't know how to best use him in the Bayern system — even with Robery and Robben injured he didn't feature in their toughest games last year.

We know from the UK Birthplace study that, with fully trained MWs cooperating within the health system, tight risk - out and 40 % transfer rate, the babies of first - time mothers still die at 3X the rate of similar hospital births (quite aside from hypoxic and physical injury).

The report makes some controversial proposals to a system known as the «Cadillac» of Medicaid programs (because it covers so much), including changing the way reimbursement rates are set, a complete state takeover of the responsibilities now borne by the counties, reform of the medical malpractice system and a push for a higher federal contribution.

The agency is perhaps best known for its role in managing the city's complex water system and proposing the city's water rates, which have long been criticized by some advocates as a backdoor tax on homeowners.

They'd like to change what's known as the per diem system, where lawmakers are paid a set rate for each day they are at the state Capitol.

Imported from Australia, the system rates applicants on numerous criteria, including the applicant's previous income, the number of languages they know, and their skill - set.

«No one ever said a pension system was a legacy or an inheritance,» said Cuomo, who says taxpayers can no longer afford present pension rates.

They found that the rate at which the system failed to match two images of the same iris — known as the false non-match rate — increased by 153 % over the three years.

Somatically the body prepares the organism to deal with threat (known as an emergency reaction): blood pressure and heart rate are increased, sweating is increased, bloodflow to the major muscle groups is increased, and immune and digestive system functions are inhibited.

Even worse i know examples where the people who complained about abuses of the ratings system were ignored completely.

Knowing the relationship between the current (rate) and the voltage (energy input) is essential to designing water splitting systems that are practical.

It is already known that patients with multiple sclerosis have higher rates of depression than the general population and that symptoms of multiple sclerosis arise from an abnormal response of the body's immune system.

Known as potassium channels, the proteins, which control the flow of signals in the nervous system, are implicated in a breathtaking array of functions, such as heart rate maintenance, hormone release, and muscle movement.

The discovery of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system is coming at a faster rate than ever before, but that makes each new planet found no less thrilling.

Coffee is known to raise the heart rate, improve the fat burning process and is one of the most powerful stimulants of the nervous system.

The metabolism, also known as basal metabolic rate, is defined as the energy needed to sustain the body while resting in normal temperature conditions, and the digestive system is not very active.

When the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), known as the rest and digest state, is in control, heart rate and blood pressure is lowered and breathing slows down.

We have only to look at the divorce rate — 41 % for first marriages, 60 % for second and 73 % for third — to know that many couples have systems that don't work.

What we know now about calorie restriction is that, in animals, it reduces metabolic rate and oxidative stress, and it alters neuroendocrine and sympathetic nervous system function.

Did you know that a woman's reproductive system has a much faster rate of aging than any other system in the human body?

The vinegar gently restores the digestive system, increases metabolic rates, reduces impurities in the skin, helps to detoxify the liver, and balances internal systems because of its known alkalizing properties.

Your body burns 60 - 70 % of energy just by functioning — this is known as the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and is the energy expended by the functioning of your vital organs such as your heart, kidneys, liver, intestine, nervous system, skin, muscles, lungs etc..

Whilst it is true that your estrogen levels drop significantly during menopause if your progesterone levels decrease at a faster rate you can still become estrogen dominant, no matter how little estrogen you actually have in your system.

The researchers then wanted to know if alternate nostril breathing could still lower blood pressure while improving performance on a vigilance test that required sustained attention and alertness, qualities that are generally associated with increased sympathetic nervous system activity (including heart rate and blood pressure).

The very very last thing that I add in and sometimes it can be a good 12 - 15 weeks before I add in this component is chronic competitive motion where it's okay, we're actually going out to go on a bike ride or swim or run or something that is metabolic conditioning roadwork because that's the stuff in someone that is overtrained who often times has their parasympathetic nervous system really really beat up you know, if you test their heart rate variability, the number called there high frequency is really really consistently low you know usually because there are triathletes or marathoners that's more often I'm dealing with those people with adrenal fatigue than I am with like a cross fitter who's kind of an opposite sympathetic nervous system fatigue issue but with those parasympathetic nervous fatigue, the last thing we add back in is the swimming and the biking and the running because it's important to realize that when you're trying to recover from adrenal fatigue or overtraining, even if you're doing like an easy swim or an easy bike ride or an easy run, if you're a triathlete or a marathoner or a swimmer or a cyclist, those easy sessions send a message to your body that you're training, that you're running from a lion and you still get that hormonal depletion and it's so easy for you to just turn into a depletion session and so that's the very very last thing that I'll add back in so that's kinda like the crow's eye view of you know, the type of things that I'll implement in a program for overtraining recovery, you know and you know, this is something that people hire me to walk them through.

But you combine a lot of that stuff with you know, basic movement protocols and generally, if you're not into deep state of adrenal fatigue, you can kinda wean yourself back into doing basic workouts within 4 - 8 weeks and when I say basic workouts, what I'll usually start with is I'll take someone from just doing like the yoga, mobility, easy nature walk, stuff like that, and I will take for example, one of those easy nature walks and I'll start having folks stop and do some rock lifts and log lifts, maybe some pushups, some kinda fitness exploring type of work that still doesn't send your body to that stressful structured running from a lion exercise message but allows you to begin to stretch your muscles and joints and heart rate and cardiovascular system a little bit.

CalorieCount.com CalorieCount also offers a rating system to help users know how healthy a food is at a glance.

Known as the «fight or flight» response, the sympathetic nervous system becomes stimulated - resulting in increased heart rate, increased blood flow to the extremities, increased blood pressure and better vision.

For those who don't know what Klout is, it's a system that rates your online influence in a variety of categories.

Anyone with an ounce of programming knowledge would know there are many ways to take pressure off a weaker system, maintain frame - rate and still throws large numbers of objects around a screen.