Sentences with phrase «small indicators of»

Perhaps the lack of job hunting preparation was a small indicator of future performances.

Not exact matches

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

Business investment is a relatively small share of GDP (about 12 per cent) but it's an important indicator of future expectations, and drives all sorts of other economic activity.

But it is by no means the be-all, end - all indicator, particularly for small business owners, as only 40 percent of the establishment surveys come from businesses with 20 or fewer employees.

The right executives will offer CEOs significant leverage by bringing proactive management with targeted skills but must be filtered for entrepreneurial indicators that provide evidence of a candidate's potential for success in a smaller, heavily leveraged environment.

Overall, small business owners are more optimistic about the economic recovery than the general population, which may be a leading indicator of the future direction of overall consumer sentiment.

Although business investment represents a relatively small share of GDP — about 12 per cent, on average — it is a key economic indicator that we track closely for three main reasons.

In choosing these two or three sectors, you've already focused your search on a small percentage of the market, and you haven't had to think about particular companies or indicators.

While both of these issues are unfortunate, the relatively small amount of write - downs (less than 4 % of total assets) prior to 2012 suggests these were unusual one - time events rather than indicators of management failure.

The September quarter national accounts showed a small fall in dwelling investment in the quarter, suggesting that the downturn foreshadowed by leading indicators of housing construction is now under way.

-LRB-...) a lot of economists like to look at sales of pickup trucks as an indicator of strength in the small business sector.

Rises in other indicator rates on loans to small businesses have, on average, tended to be larger than this as some banks have raised some rates independent of monetary policy moves (including by some banks to recoup the costs of the GST).

Although the blue chip Dow Jones Industrial Average is a more well - known index, the health of small caps is a better indicator of trend for the type of momentum growth stocks that we trade in our nightly swing trading newsletter.

In the last two months the overwhelming weight of the evidence supports this view, as the following indicators have either come in below expectations or suffered an actual downturn: core durable goods orders, the Chicago Fed National Activities Index, new home sales, existing home sales, payroll employment, the NFIB Small Business Index, construction spending, the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index, the Kansas City Fed Index, the Philadelphia Fed Survey, industrial production, the Empire State Manufacturing Index, the NAHB Housing Index, the ADP payrolls, auto sales, real disposable income and the GDP.

The Russell is a leading indicator for the stock market, since speculative money tends to move in and out of small cap stocks first.

By looking at pupil dilation, ear twitching, small head movements and other indicators of cat emotions, the feline - feeling researchers found cats do get really excited around their owners, yet they choose to express it in extremely subtle, essentially imperceptible ways.

So I then explained why I didn't consider those stats in my initial comment (because they're misleading in such a small sample size), used his full numbers as an indicator of how misleading they can be, and then identified the relatively small number of power showings compared to the rest of his performance.

I realise these are only small examples but they are indicators of how the country is run from top to bottom, bribes are paid, elections are rigged and general corruption rules.

Unfortunately our sample size is too small to extract much from the top trends during the Final Four; however, we do have a number of sharp money indicators for Saturday's games.

Our return on investment has increased at every data point with the exception of 11 and 11.5 and, in all fairness, the sample size for those data points are very small and not necessarily the best indicator.

As an outcome of this meeting, WHO led the development of new indicators to assess complementary feeding and convened a consensus meeting in November 2007 to review and update the small set of universal, population based indicators to assess infant and young child feeding.

Unlike the marginal rate of tax, which is a forward looking measure that relies on assumptions about prices, revenues and production profiles, ETR is a retrospective indicator calculated on the basis of observed data for all of these parameters (this is a useful feature, as the taxes that companies liquidate may be a very small fraction of what they would have theoretically had to pay had the marginal rate of taxation applied, as the cases of Starbucks, Amazon and other companies so poignantly demonstrate).

The mayor would no doubt say this has brought major results — he most frequently cites an increase in graduation rates, but critics point to indicators that would say otherwise, including relatively flat test scores and the small percentage of city graduates who are prepared to do college level work.

«In a small percentage of cases, however, these symptoms may be indicators of an increased risk of developing an obsessive - compulsive disorder that requires treatment, during childhood or in adulthood,» says Dr. Carles Soriano - Mas, lead author of the study.

But comparing the sensor data with the economists» survey data, Waber found the opposite: Bankers belonging to a small, tight - knit group of co-workers who spoke frequently with one another — an indicator of what social scientists call social cohesion — were not only happier in their jobs, they also got more work done, shared ideas faster and divvied up tasks more efficiently.

The size of the phytoliths is an indicator of their source plant's history: wild Cucurbita plants (which include squash and gourds), for example, have significantly smaller inclusions than their farmed counterparts have.

In a small group of patients, short stature was associated with eczema only when there also was an indicator of insufficient sleep (zero to three nights of sufficient sleep per week), with 1.3 percent of children with eczema having short stature and getting only as many as three nights of sufficient sleep per week.

We regard acts of genuine generosity as those produced spontaneously and these are widely seen as a reliable indicator of trustworthiness even when they are small gestures.»

These extremely small indicators, he explains, have been traditionally difficult to detect but can signal greater levels of contamination, which can lead to illness and even death.

Technology capable of sampling water systems to find indicators of fecal matter contamination that are thousandths and even millionths of times smaller than those found by conventional methods is being developed by a team of researchers at Texas A&M University.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

Had a Mars - size impact occurred, many small moons should have formed.e Also, the impactor's glancing blow would either be too slight to form our large Moon, or so violent that Earth would end up spinning too fast.f Besides, part of Earth's surface and mantle would have melted, but none of the indicators of that melting have been found.g Small particles splashed from Earth would have completely melted, allowing any water inside them to escape into the vacuum of ssmall moons should have formed.e Also, the impactor's glancing blow would either be too slight to form our large Moon, or so violent that Earth would end up spinning too fast.f Besides, part of Earth's surface and mantle would have melted, but none of the indicators of that melting have been found.g Small particles splashed from Earth would have completely melted, allowing any water inside them to escape into the vacuum of sSmall particles splashed from Earth would have completely melted, allowing any water inside them to escape into the vacuum of space.

Have a look for yourself: a comparison of the predictions below (such as «visible in small telescopes») to the magnitude of each comet shows just how poor an indicator the magnitude alone really is.

Relatively smaller expressions of these proteins in the periphery would be an indicator of cell division in the periphery.

Especially for kids with allergies, eczema or asthma, this small step can often make a big difference (and in some cases, these children may need additional supplementation as well - this article explains how to look for symptoms of low magnesium and why blood tests are not a good indicator...)

The diarrhea is a definite indicator of gut dysbiosis in the colon, and it wouldn't be a surprise if the small intestinal microbiome were also a problem.

Lyprinol only partially improves indicators of small intestinal integrity in a rat model of 5 - fluorouracil - induced mucositis

I know the sample size is relatively small and this is not a rigorous scientific study, but I do think the themes that emerged were pretty easy to spot and that the presence of these indicators in your dating life is very likely to be good indicators of what «good dating» looks like.

At a school in the Ozarks, a tenth - grade biology class used the electron microscope to examine small aquatic insects as indicators of water quality.

These two indicators of cheating — unusually large increases followed by small gains or even declines in test scores the next year and unexpected patterns in students» answers — form the basis of our method for detecting evidence of suspected cheating.

A small number of states have used levers intended to create modest system change.265 For example, Indiana adopted a 5 point educational quality indicator system in 2001, and merged its independent Teacher Professional Standards Board into the Department of Education in 2005.

Loud protests and initiatives, big and small, have created cracks in the standardized testing movement, resulting in the passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which now requires multiple indicators for making determinations of school quality and student progress.

The Kauffman Foundation, which studies and promotes entrepreneurship, sees dramatic upticks on several indicators of entrepreneurial effort and small - business activity in 2013 — 14.

Once a framework had been established, committee tasks were to then: (1) «zoom in» and break down specific targeted sections of the draft LPFs into what we called more detailed «mini progressions» for a smaller grade span, often adding some additional «interim steps» (progress indicators) to the mini progressions; (2) use the more detailed and focused mini progressions to design sample instructional modules (with a series of 4 ‐ 6 detailed lessons) illustrating how a teacher in the general education classroom might move students along this smaller grain ‐ sized learning progression using best practices in instruction; and (3) draw from best practices in instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities to incorporate suggestions to each lesson plan for how to make the academic content more accessible for all students.

We provide effective strategies that help school leaders tell their district's story by defining success, and by prioritizing a small number of evidence - based school quality indicators and benchmarks.

But Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, questioned whether there were other factors that might explain the higher graduation rate in the small schools, like fewer special education students or better attendance records for those entering the small schools, since attendance rates have been shown to be an indicator of on - time graduation.

There are very few districts such as Raleigh that have at any point actively tried to desegregate schools by socioeconomic indicators, and the small size of districts in many states makes it impossible in a practical sense to try.

The very few studies in which researchers have examined this found «small but positive correlations» between SLOs and VAM - based ratings (i.e., not a strong indicator of validity).

As far as drain protection, I have found that even small drains such as the indicator light on a phone charger left plugged in, can drain the battery after a couple of days.

Significant is that the smaller increases could be a leading indicator of renewed growth for the U.S. market in coming years.