Sentences with phrase «second highest factor»

According to Hattie's analysis, collective teacher efficacy ranks as the second highest factor influencing student achievement with an effect size of 1.57 (far exceeding the.40 effect size considered to be effective).

Not exact matches

«The primary limiting factor to higher Q4 deliveries is the near term ramp of Model X production, with the biggest constraint being the supply of components related to the second row monopost seats,» Musk and Ahuja wrote in the quarterly shareholder letter.

But if Williams shows the restraint that enabled him to remain a factor against Xavier despite earning his third foul early in the second half — he finished with 13 rebounds and five blocks, both game highs — then Duke's chances will skyrocket in a game that should have been saved for Monday night.

like I've said before, Wenger is simply stating that Sanchez is staying so that he can regain some leverage when it comes time to make a deal and to shift the focus back squarely on Sanchez... this is 101 tactics in PR management... the very fact that he even mentioned RVP's name speaks to the utterance arrogance of a man that believes he answers to no one... before you harshly judge Sanchez think carefully about what the ultimate intentions of both parties involved... Sanchez wants to win trophies and get paid generously for his efforts, whereas the club wants to pull the wool over our eyes once again so that we blame the player for wanting the very things we told him we wanted when we brought him in... how many times do we have to go down this road before we realize the only common factor in each of these scenarios is the club itself... trust me, if we showed any ambition Sanchez's contract demands would be much different... just like in other major sports players will take a «home town» discount if they see those in charge making a truly honest attempt to fight for the highest honours in their respective fields... that being said, if they see a team trying to make disparaging remarks about them in the press and not following through on their promises, they will likely try to make them pay a premium for their services or seek greener pastures... btw if anyone simply looks at the score versus Bayern today and thinks that even for a second that this was a deserved victory, just watch the game and judge for yourself... actually save yourself the anguish and just know that if it weren't for Cech and Martinez this could have been a repeat of our Champions League flopping or worse

They're going into the second leg at the Etihad with a lead, but the risk factor was sky - high, especially after they nearly lost a three - goal lead against City in January in a match that ended 4 - 3 after two late goals by City.

Albert and other experts at CDC and in the field attribute the decline to a variety of factors, including lower rates of sexual activity, greater use of contraception, and a higher incidence of physicians educating and offering teen mothers long - term birth control methods such as IUDs and hormonal implants, which can prevent a second unintended pregnancy.

Other risk factors to increase the risk of third and fourth degree tearing at second birth include; high birth weight, forceps delivery and the presence of shoulder dystocia.

Another key factor in the coming second term, Sherrill said, is that the mayor will have fewer resources at his disposal to influence Council members given that he can not run for re-election and some Council members will be seeking higher office.

That may not seem surprising, but the team did note one shocker: Craters left by high - speed drops started out with relatively steep sides but within seconds they avalanched to form slopes with a more stable configuration — a previously unstudied process that widened the crater and made it shallower (image above, where depth is exaggerated by a factor of three).

Such epigenetic mechanisms are high on the list of suspects when it comes to explaining how environmental factors that affect parents can later influence their children, such as in the Dutch second world war study, but just how these epigenetic changes might be passed on to future generations is a mystery.

In high cirrus clouds, which consist purely of ice crystals, the researchers, however, came across a surprisingly strong reaction to laser irradiation: As described in PNAS, the laser pulses increase the number of ice particles by up to a factor of 100 within only a few seconds.

Using fewer frames per second during digital fluoro is another factor as is using a higher voltage x-ray beam.

Take a hard look at your health: Because heart problems can sneak up on women (64 % of women die suddenly during their first heart attack without any warning signs at all, and 90 % of those women had at least one risk factor that could have been addressed), it's important to get an annual checkup and be aware of CVD risk factors: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, tobacco use or second - hand exposure, obesity, and being overweight.

The study was carried out by Education Datalab and found that schools in the North East had the highest scores in the country for 2015, on the grounds of «contextual value», which assesses pupils progress in addition to factors such as gender, ethnicity, depravation, special educational needs and whether English is a second or first language.

«It's surprising that the court, which used its bully pulpit when it came to criticizing teacher protections, did not spend one second discussing funding inequities, school segregation, high poverty or any other out - of - school or in - school factors that are proven to affect student achievement and our children.

Second, student gains were uneven across Teach to One's schools; one school in particular stood out with student - learning gains significantly higher than those posted in other schools, which begs the question of what is causing the performance gains — the Teach to One model or some other factor.

One study of struggling readers who were also second language learners noted that the key factor in how much progress students made was the number of texts each student read at 98 percent or higher accuracy (Ehri, Dreyer, Flugman, & Gross, 2007).

The main paper on High Needs funding arrangements stated that the second consultation will cover detailed factor weightings, the impact for LAs, transitional protection, the distribution of post-16 high needs funding including proxy indicators and how to recognise that some SEND would not be captured by any proxHigh Needs funding arrangements stated that the second consultation will cover detailed factor weightings, the impact for LAs, transitional protection, the distribution of post-16 high needs funding including proxy indicators and how to recognise that some SEND would not be captured by any proxhigh needs funding including proxy indicators and how to recognise that some SEND would not be captured by any proxies.

At work are two factors: one is a revised estimate for state tax and revenue collections, the second is the estimated cost of the proposals crafted in response to the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County

This higher factor under overrun was chosen, first, because the engine's drag force is lower than its maximum torque and, second, because this configuration serves to stabilise the car, preventing it from swerving or turning under load change in bends, as now brake force is applied more evenly on both wheels when the driver suddenly takes back the gas pedal.

A second factor is the high body rigidity — it forms the basis for the top quality feel and the sporty handling.

With Tata pinning high hopes to compete in the very popular compact sedan segment, the pricing remains a crucial factor in what will be the fate of the car, which competes against India's second bestselling Maruti Swift DZire, Honda Amaze and the newly launched Hyundai Xcent.

Liu said it was also because of seasonal factors, with E Ink's shipments in the second half generally higher than the first half.

As you are considering purchasing insurance, consider a few factors: first, females generally cost less than males to insure; second, shop around for insurance companies that offer discounts for driver's education classes, good grades, and driving logs; third, as you are insuring teenage drivers, your premiums will be lower if the drivers are occasional drivers; fourth, teenagers have a high accident rate, so consider purchasing high liability coverage and lower comprehensive coverage; and fourth, the type of car teenagers drive — whether it is new, sporty, or exotic — will also determine the premiums.

The second factor is whether the stock closes at least 5 % higher on days it trades at least 5 % higher intraday.

The second cost factor is that generally speaking, rewards credit cards charge higher rates than non-rewards cards.

Please note that second mortgage rates are usually higher than first mortgage rates, because the risk factor for defaults is much greater with 2nd mortgages.

The second major protective factor is the company's fortress - like balance, specifically one marked by an enormous net cash position (enough to fund the dividend for 18 years), and one of the highest current ratios (short - term assets / short - term liabilities) in the industry, indicating the company has no problems servicing its debt or liabilities.

On average, across all second factors tested, the strategy led to an average performance of just under 405 % (median was 368 %); substantially higher than the market portfolio return of 30.54 %.

We then took the 300 or so companies with the highest earnings yield and sorted them by the 14 second factors we tested.

Your credit utilization is the second largest factor in determining your credit score, and high credit utilization can negatively impact your credit score.

When we select based on the correlation of a fund's value - add over the market with factor returns, we observe that the mutual funds with high correlations to the market and to the momentum factor are the worst performers in the list with average underperformance of − 0.4 % and − 2.1 % a year, respectively (− 0.4 % and − 1.4 % a year, respectively, for the second measure).

In the second article, we showed that even though factor models are useful in understanding the performance drivers of smart beta strategies, attempting to replicate smart beta strategies with factors delivers worse returns, with far higher turnover and trading costs, and far lower capacity.

No Man's Sky and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (the second and third highest - selling games of the month) were the largest factors in the improved sales figures, while Madden's numbers actually dipped 3 % over last year.

Second, there are confounding factors such as climate change, the effects of past fire exclusion, and increasing development in the wildland - urban interface, which contribute to higher wildfire spending.

I think their numbers are higher because wind turbines these days tend to be built at 100m instead of 80m and the nrel chart shows over 175,000 MW of wind potential at at least 30 % capacity factor at 100m in the second chart at.

Second, the difference in effect sizes in abstracts versus main body of articles was especially pronounced in journals with high impact factors.

The second CMIP5 model in Shindell's analysis, CSIRO - Mk3 -6-0, shows completely unconstrained scaling factors using 1901 — 2010 data, and extremely high scaling factors for both GHG and «other anthropogenic» over both 1861 — 2010 and 1951 — 2010 — so much so that the GHG scaling factor is inconsistent with unity at better than 95 % confidence for the longer period, and at almost 95 % for the shorter period.

It depicts a highly significant feature of the modern grand maximum of solar activity in the second half of the 20th century, being a factor 1.33 — 1.77 higher than during the 18 and 19th centuries.

That second impact may make your injuries more severe, especially when high speed is a factor.

Second we controlled for the fact that the level of an individual's demand for CD's, and the level of an individual's P2P downloading may be correlated simply because they are both affected by the same third factor, such as love of music, so that high (or low) levels of CD demand is likely to be associated with high (low) levels of P2P demand.

Yes, so the security of, it is I say encrypted in transit and at rest and the other thing that's pretty nice about it is you can turn on, and I strongly recommend you do, multi-factor authentication which, is to say that if you log into it, it can require you to use either an Authenticator app which generates a constantly - changing code or it can send you an SMS text message with a specifically generated one - time code, and you can also set it up so that on machines you use all the time, like for example, my desktop at the office I have it set up so that it doesn't ask me for codes all the time because it's got pretty high corporate security, so I don't have to do the second factor and the desktop at the office, but on my laptop because that one travels with me, and who knows, maybe somebody tries to steal it in an airport or something.

The second factor is that the rate of policy abandonment is much higher than you might suspect.

Another factor contributing to high premiums might be large payouts resulting from accidents in nearby cities, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia, which are the first -, second - and sixth - worst cities for collisions respectively, according to the III.

As you are considering purchasing insurance, consider a few factors: first, females generally cost less than males to insure; second, shop around for insurance companies that offer discounts for driver's education classes, good grades, and driving logs; third, as you are insuring teenage drivers, your premiums will be lower if the drivers are occasional drivers; fourth, teenagers have a high accident rate, so consider purchasing high liability coverage and lower comprehensive coverage; and fourth, the type of car teenagers drive — whether it is new, sporty, or exotic — will also determine the premiums.

Your overall health is important, but what might be the second most important factor is selecting a life insurance agent who specializes in high risk.

Chalk it up to the incredibly high creep factor or a second consecutive year of flat sales, but clothing and outdoor equipment chain L.L. Bean's foray into blockchain - connected attire has reportedly been cancelled.

It might not offer a heart rate sensor or the same high - quality display as other Android Wear watches, but its chunky form factor as well as traditional fit and finish will appeal to those that want a watch first and a gadget second.

That's a massive market waiting to be tapped, and the second factor here is that high - end audio companies are already addressing this audience.

The second analysis showed that where sex, age and social desirability accounted for very little of the variance, five of the seven personality factors were closely related to Excitement: those high on Sociability, Interpersonal Sensitivity and Ambition, but low on Prudence and Inquisitiveness where interested in Excitement.