Sentences with phrase «set measuring systems»

Highly experienced in preparing drinks according to specified recipes, using set measuring systems, along with in - depth insight into applicable state liquor laws.

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But Japan has chosen to seize the opportunity and regulate exchanges, setting up a licensing system last year, although experts say such measures are no guarantee against hacking and cybercrime.

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

For example, in a technical setting, one definition of scalability is: «a measure of the ability of a system to maintain its performance under an increasing load.»

They set about constructing an alternative way of measuring economic growth, one that took account of the whole system.

«FSMA represents a comprehensive system of preventive measures so it is essential that FDA be appropriately resourced to effectively implement and enforce all of the food safety mandates set forth in the law.

The workbook addresses ecological, economic and social equity criteria through an integrated set of 15 chapters and 191 criteria, which includes a built - in system with metrics to measure performance.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

With the problems with the Pearson tests, the state's bogus VAM (value added measure), the setting of cut scores, and now the data being undermined by opt out no school district should have to pay the legal fees to try to fire someone under Cuomo's silly evaluation system!

Unlike his proposal, the measure the Assembly passed last year would provide 12 weeks of paid leave through the state's temporary disability insurance system, and the employee contribution would be set at 45 cents a week.

Within hours, Mr. Paterson counterattacked, saying through a spokesman that he would call the Legislature into extraordinary session on Sunday evening to consider several measures, including an overhaul of the state university system that would allow individual campuses to set their own tuition rates and a requirement that the Legislature certify that budgets are in long - term balance.

Cuomo pushed a package of water quality measures last year, culminating in a budget appropriation of $ 2.5 billion for water infrastructure, new testing requirements for smaller water systems like the one serving Hoosick Falls and state authority to set new limits for toxic chemicals like the one found in the Rensselaer County village.

The measures grow out of the FoodWorks New York initiative set out by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn earlier this year and which is, she said, offered the «first comprehensive ground to garbage can look at the city's food system.»

Weight: Measured in pounds, the overall weight of the hydroponic grow system can affect where you set it up and whether it's a convenient option for you.

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«The intent of our work was to develop a new apparatus to measure root growth in a greenhouse production setting using a system / technique similar to the Horhizotron ™ but with a different purpose, design, and construction components,» Judd said.

This past January, at the request of Maryland's Department of Legislative Services, a «red team» of eight computer security experts set out to test these security measures on a Diebold system configured much as it would be on Election Day.

«Large, expensive thermal imaging systems have been used to measure breathing by monitoring temperature changes inside the nostrils under controlled settings,» said Cho.

They refer frequently to their «design system», Echoes (Environmentally Controlled Human Operational Enclosed / External Space), that appears primarily to be a set of vague or obscure guidelines such as this, which appears under the puzzling heading «Lines of sight for healthy living buildings»: «The building spot must be geologically undisturbed... ascertain that there is no disturbance of cosmic and terrestrial influence on the human life form (DNA)... take care of harmonic measures, properties and forms».

When the ACS implemented its model for measuring surgical outcomes in adult surgery in 2004, it quickly became clear that, while that system would be useful in an adult setting, it couldn't be used by pediatric surgeons.

To prevent weariness from affecting the results, de Leeuw set up the screen to project two images simultaneously — one generated by jsPsych, the other by the traditional system — enabling response times to both systems to be measured simultaneously.

Human growth hormone is not to be dosed to people based on their weight — alcohol tolerance and resistance to anesthesia are at times measured that way because a heavier person has a larger volume that can dilute the alcohol / anesthesia before it hits the system in a way to effect changes in the capacity for normal body function — changes that will only last for a set number of hours.

If you're weighing and / or measuring your food, then it's almost impossible to maintain your system in any kind of social setting.

Finally, Blatnik et al. (2014) also calculated system power by using ground reaction forces (measured with a force plate) multiplied by system velocity (measured with motion analysis set to capture sacral movement).

the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or A measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs.

Accountability systems can set targets and ask schools to measure things.

Challenges presented by the current reforms to the education system come at a time of overall reform of local authority support and changes to the health service, resulting in a set of challenges that will require careful guidance and measured progress to overcome.

Finally, James Lissaman will tackle the best ways of incorporating the key elements of a good assessment system and translating these into the classroom, ensuring that you are challenging pupils effectively and setting appropriate targets, tracking and effectively measuring pupil progress post levels, and demonstrating progress for Ofsted, governors, and parents.

Hear how this primary and secondary school have faced the removal of levels challenge and their victories so far, including the incorporation of the key elements of a good assessment system and translating these into the classroom, setting appropriate targets, tracking and effectively measuring pupil progress post levels, and demonstrating progress for Ofsted governors.

At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.

The proposed accountability system relies too heavily on non-academic measures, sets the expectations bar too low, has weak interventions, and, most troubling, trusts districts to hold themselves accountable.

Within this model, text readability — specifically, its quantitative measure for relative difficulty — is set higher than the mark set by prior readability systems and reading comprehension assessments for each grade span.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb said his statement to the House of Commons that: «We (DfE) want new GCSEs to set expectations which match those of the best education systems in the world, with rigorous assessment that provides a reliable measure of students» achievement.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

This points to another important lesson: one can not evaluate the quality of the education system by simply measuring changes in one set of inputs, such as the quality of teachers.

That means an accountability system must have a single set of performance measures that can be similarly applied to all schools.

«The measures I have set out today are the beginning of a series of reforms which will help us cut reoffending, make our communities safer and create a justice system that works for everyone.»

Original measure development, which occurred at the University of Michigan during the period 2002 - 2010, had several goals: to identify the knowledge useful to teachers» work with students and to explore the possibility that this knowledge is unique to teaching; to provide a set of measurement instruments that could be used in research on teachers» knowledge; and to provide evaluators with an easy - to - use online administration and scoring system.

The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit institutional variation that does not exist within countries; draw on much larger variation than usually available within any country; reveal whether any result is country - specific or more general; test whether effects are systematically heterogeneous in different settings; circumvent selection issues that plague within - country identification by using system - level aggregated measures; and uncover general - equilibrium effects that often elude studies in a single country.

In standards - based reform, much of the attention has been on states as the entities responsible for setting academic standards, developing testing systems to measure the standards, and then putting accountability systems in place based on those standards.

Our partners in Baltimore set out measure those perceptions and use them to drive system improvements.

The Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T - TESS) supports teacher instruction and student performance through multiple measures that include teacher observations, self - reflection and goal setting and student growth.

In Michigan, for instance, the new chief state school officer recently replaced the test - focused accountability system with a new grading system that relies on a broader set of measures of school quality, including family involvement, the quality of professional development, attendance, and dropout rates, among others.

With a set of recommendations from its expert resource groups in hand, the goals panel appears to be well on its way toward selecting measures to assess the progress of the nation's education system toward the goals.

complies with nonpublic school accreditation requirements as set forth in Section 22.1 - 19 of the Code of Virginia, and administered by the Virginia Council for Private Education (VCPE) or is a nonpublic school that maintains an assessment system that annually measures scholarship students» progress in reading and math using a national norm - referenced achievement test including, but not limited to, the Stanford Achievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

With a clear focus on homework from OFSTED: «Teachers use well - judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils» needs accurately» we have to guard against schools driving homework to «death» whereby teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring systems.

As full implementation of both the teacher and principal evaluation systems looms for September 2013, it is imperative that boards of education, district leaders, and the DOE ensure that principals and teachers have a viable curriculum based on the Common Core Standards; valid and reliable assessment tools to measure growth in every subject area (tested and nontested); and time to work in professional teams to set growth targets, analyze data, and provide the appropriate instructional interventions for every student.

In this webinar, presenters explored the challenges and opportunities of accountability for alternative education, along with promising practices from states and districts who have developed accountability measures and systems that are inclusive of all students in all types of educational settings.

Since it may take a couple of years for states and districts to follow the department's urging and set up systems that will allow them to measure teacher effectiveness based on growth in student achievement, she said, states should be required to show that they are making good on the language about equitable distribution of teachers that's already in the No Child Left Behind Act.

Feedback for Better Teaching: Nine Principles for Using Measures of Effective Teaching: Brief from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation uses findings from Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project to set principles for designing high - quality evaluation systems http://k12education.gatesfoundation.org/resource/feedback-for-better-teaching-nine-principles-for-using-measures-of-effective-teaching/