Sentences with phrase «reduce failure rates»

Your team will receive in - depth training on assessment practices that have the power to reduce failure rates and increase achievement in every classroom.

VTTs are in use by all arms of the UK, US, and Canadian militaries and have been found to accelerate training by as much as 60 percent, improve student test scores, and reduce failure rates, while also offering significant cost savings.

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

Each year a founder lived in the region reduced the failure rate by nearly 2 %, and each additional year of tenure translated into $ 1,362 more in profits in each year of operation.

«We believe we are developing a tool that can help with personalized decision - making to help refine patient selection and thus reduce the failure rate by saving candidates with low potential benefit from futile procedures and complications,» says senior author Hiroshi Ashikaga, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Active learning» boosts grades, reduces failure rates in undergraduate STEM classes, concludes major review

Tacoma's transition program is among several steps the district is taking to reduce the failure rate and help prepare students for a new statewide graduation requirement, said Tacoma deputy superintendent Ethelda Burke.

Such goals as «We will adopt the Junior Great Books program» or «We will create three new labs for our science course» give way to «We will increase the percentage of students who meet the state standard in language arts from 83 percent to 90 percent» or «We will reduce the failure rate in our course by 50 percent.»

But my own experience in business process design tells me that a regular routine to deal with a regular failure or other event is usually cheaper and less trouble in the long run than spending extra on reducing the failure rate

But my own experience in business process design tells me that a regular routine to deal with a regular failure or other event is usually cheaper and less trouble in the long run than spending extra on reducing the failure rate to the point that when it does happen, everybody's running around like chickens with their heads cut off digging into dusty manuals (or the electronic equivalent).

A published survey showed that companies that implemented a quality system for QS 9001 reduced failure rates by 40 percent and customer returns by 54 percent, reducing total cost of nonconformance by 53 percent.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Rising profits, in turn, reduce the business - failure rate and stimulate would - be entrepreneurs to enter the market.

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX, a Silicon Valley - based venture capital fund, market development training school and corporate advisory firm helping companies bring new products to market and reduce the innovation failure rate through capital, talent and know how.

According to the statute's own language, it was designed with the «purpose of reducing the need for future tax increases, maintaining the highest possible bond rating, reducing the need for short term borrowing, providing available resources to meet State obligations whenever casual deficits or failures in revenue occur, and providing the means of addressing budgetary shortfalls.»

It is important to recall that the cash rate was reduced by 75 or 100 basis points at each meeting of the Board in late 2008 and early 2009, for a total of 375 basis points in five months after the Lehman failure in September.

Making students share rooms also helps reduce pregnancy rates, but given that most of today's applicants have never shared a room in their lives failure to provide singles is a sure fire way to reduce your applicant pool.

At any rate it shows a complete failure to understand its meaning when it is objected that my definition reduces the event of revelation to a cause which sets self - understanding in motion, so that it is no longer a fact which interferes and changes reality, like a miracle.

A study of infants in England indicated that supine sleeping is not associated with an increase in significant morbidity outcomes, and the risk of respiratory problems was reduced compared with that of prone sleepers.17 In Asian countries, aspiration is not a problem despite the traditional practice of placing newborns to sleep in the supine position.18 The review by Malloy19 of US vital statistics mortality files for the years 1991 to 1996 showed no significant increase in the proportion of postneonatal mortality rate associated with aspiration, asphyxia, or respiratory failure.

«To fail on one in three, in a commercial system, on something that's been reduced to a binary classification task, you have to ask, would that have been permitted if those failure rates were in a different subgroup?»

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

Early treatment with metoprolol treatment also significantly reduced the rate of hospital readmission for chronic heart failure, and massively reduced the need to implant a cardioverter - defibrillator.

The researchers found that the addition of vitamin D3 to ciclesonide did not significantly reduce the rate of first treatment failure (a composite outcome of decline in lung function and increases in use of beta - agonists, systemic steroids, and health care utilization) compared with placebo; 28 percent and 29 percent of participants in each group, respectively, experienced at least 1 treatment failure during 28 weeks.

In adults with persistent asthma and low vitamin D levels, treatment with vitamin D3 did not reduce the rate of treatment failure or exacerbation of symptoms, according to a study published by JAMA.

ULTRA seeks to reduce facility - related costs by combining a small physical footprint with reduced operational costs enabled by an integrated automation of the manufacturing process, to minimize labor costs and failure rates.

In one study, when patients with heart failure were given CoQ10, it improved their heart function and reduced their mortality rates significantly.

Even if those failure rates are dramatically reduced in the next two years, far too many students will be deprived of a high - school diploma and the opportunities that go along with being a high - school graduate.

Researchers long ago identified the reading methods that would reduce the current deplorable rate of reading failure from 30 percent to somewhere well south of 10 percent, if only schools would take that step.

Reducing Ninth Grade Failure Rates in Urban Schools Urban schools continue to fall short in yielding immediate and continued increases in ninth to tenth grade promotion rates, according to the results of Lynnell Theard Gibson's reseRates in Urban Schools Urban schools continue to fall short in yielding immediate and continued increases in ninth to tenth grade promotion rates, according to the results of Lynnell Theard Gibson's reserates, according to the results of Lynnell Theard Gibson's research.

Redesigning the ninth - grade experience: Reduce failure, improve achievement and increase high school graduation rates.

In the first year of the Literacy Initiative, the failure rate on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) was reduced by half, and the proficiency rate doubled.

While our results are only a descriptive analysis, and should not be interpreted as causal findings, until more is understood about the types of students who drop - out of college and potential reasons why, there will likely be little progress in reducing the college failure rate in the U.S.

See this study, for example, by Christopher Tienken and Charles Achilles, showing how a middle school in New Jersey managed to reduce class size and dramatically lower student failure rates at no extra cost.

To bring the number of failures down to zero, I had to reduce the withdrawal rate to 4.7 %.

By ruling out those categories of borrowers who are not expected to be actively reducing their outstanding loan balances, the effective delinquency rate provides a more accurate picture of the success or failure of graduates who should be paying down their loans if the system is functioning properly.

Signs produced by protein deficiency or an improper protein: calorie ratio may include any or all of the following: reduced growth rates in puppies and kittens, anemia, weight loss, skeletal muscle atrophy, dull unkempt hair coat, anorexia, reproductive problems, persistent unresponsive parasitism or low - grade microbial infection, impaired protection via vaccination, rapid weight loss after injury or during disease, and failure to respond properly to treatment of injury or disease.

«MCB changes the precipitation rates globally and in regions of reduced precipitation — notably the Amazon but also South East Asia — we would expect an increase in crop failures.

Study: Premium Deceit 2016: The Failure of «Tort Reform» to Cut Insurance Prices (November 2016) Finds that «tort reform» does not reduce insurance rates.

The goal of is to reduce the failure - to - appear rates of defendants.

Although the pre-licensing courses have reduced the revolving door concept to a degree, the high failure rate persists.