Sentences with phrase «standard for measuring»

In a short decade, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has become the standard for measuring the sustainability of a building.

The appropriate standard for measuring progress in addressing Indigenous disadvantage is one of equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

That's where DxOMark comes in — over the course of the last year, the website has become the de facto standard for measuring smartphone cameras.

, author Tim Bratton notes that despite all of the discussion about alternative fee arrangements, the focus of in - house counsel continues to be on billable hours as a standard for measuring «value,» even while all involved seem to concede that time does not actually equate to value.

Therefore the Evidence Acts require proof of «system integrity,» but they purposely don't define «integrity» — e.g., s. 31.2 (1)(a) of the Canada Evidence Act (CEA), and s. 34.1 (5), (5.1) of the (Ontario) Evidence Act (OEA) Therefore a standard for measuring «integrity» is needed.

Although the satellites are considered the gold - standard for measuring and observing sea levels, hurricanes / typhoons, ozone holes, sea ice, atmospheric CO2 distribution, polar ice sheet masses and etc., the same 24/7 technology used to measure temperatures across the entire habitable world is now being ignored (i.e., denied) due to the above inconvenient evidence.

HadCRUT is the IPCC's gold - standard for measuring global temperatures - over last 15 years (180 months) the globe has cooled with a -0.24 C per century trend, not warmed as predicted

During the first four months of 2012, the beachfront resorts recorded extended periods of high occupancy averaging at 84.4 %, while RevPAR, the industry standard for measuring the rooms» revenue in relation to rooms available, has grown by 18.7 %.

Rectal Temperature The gold standard for measuring temperature is the rectal temperature.

This APR, the standard for measuring the true cost of loans is made mandatory by both federal and state law.

The S&P 500 ® Index is widely regarded as the standard for measuring large - cap U.S. stock market performance and includes a representative sample of leading companies in leading industries.

Since its introduction over 25 years ago, FICO ® Scores have become a global standard for measuring credit risk in the banking, mortgage, credit card, auto and retail industries.

The FICO Score is used by 90 percent of leading lenders and is the global standard for measuring credit risk.

Fair Isaac Corporation [top] Developer of the FICO score, the worldwide standard for measuring a consumer's creditworthiness and credit risk.

This metric is the industry standard for measuring returns of equity investments.

FICO Score has become a global standard for measuring credit risk in the banking, mortgage, credit card, auto and retail industries.

The S&P 500 is frequently used as a standard for measuring large cap U.S. stock performance.

The new SAE J1711 standard for measuring the exhaust emissions and fuel economy of hybrid electric vehicles and plug - in hybrids was approved in July 2010.

What evolved was a measurement framework that based its assessment of school quality on students» performance on only a single assessment (an invalid standard for measuring student progress) and mandated a series of wide - ranging sanctions that did not prove to significantly improve student or school performance.

In workplace training, learner retention is the gold standard for measuring the effectiveness of your course material, instructor and delivery method.

The report, released Wednesday, relies on standards used by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the only national - level standardized test, considered the gold standard for measuring actual student achievement.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

The gold standard for measuring obesity is Body Mass Index (BMI), a formula that calculates an individual's weight to their height squared.

The gold standard for measuring adrenal hormones is a blood draw (i.e., sticking a needle in a vein to draw blood) and then run a serum test in a laboratory.

For that reason, itâ $ ™ s often referred to as the gold standard for measuring body composition and commonly used in research settings.

The journal impact factor has long been the main standard for measuring scientific impact, although it is deeply -LSB-...]

For its initial global model, Tromp's team selected earthquake events that registered between 5.8 and 7 on the Richter scale — a standard for measuring earthquake intensity.

«The three - day multiple pass dietary recall that asks people to remember what they ate is the gold standard for measuring food intake, but we can't accurately measure someone's diet or food intake,» said Spruijt - Metz, a research professor of psychology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Citation scores are the gold standard for measuring scientific impact only because the scientific community at large has elevated them to this position.

Currently, skin biopsy is the accepted standard for measuring the loss of small, unmyelinated C fibers in the epidermis, one of the earliest detectable signs of peripheral nerve damage.

Dr. Asta: «Rectal temperatures are the gold standard for measuring temperatures in infants under 3 months and the most accurate way to get excellent temperature results in infants and toddlers.

There is no industry standard for measuring crib mattresses.

Created by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Supported by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

There is no scientific standard for measuring the value of a human life.

Testament what love is to the New: the standard for measuring God's rule in the hearts of God's people.

It is a convenient standard for measuring the maturity of what we are experiencing today, and perhaps also for charting where we should be going from here.

By almost every standard for measuring such things the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America stands on the conservative side of mainline Protestantism.

Like many retailers, J.C. Penney had an upbeat holiday season, with sales at stores open at least a year (an industry standard for measuring financial performance) rising 2.6 % during the final months of 2017.

It's important to understand that the USCI isn't a random concoction of data, but rather the gold standard for measuring current economic growth, as it summarizes the key coincident economic indicators used to determine the official start and end dates of U.S. recessions; namely, the broad measures of output, employment, income and sales.

By establishing a standard for measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and investors a framework for assessing their performance.

Surprisingly to most, there exist well established methodologies and standards for measuring these impacts and for assessing their significance when incorporated into buildings and other construction works.

It was also hoped that discussions about happiness would serve to refine the wider debate about the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2015 - 2030 and the standards for measuring and understanding well - being.

And U.S. agencies should adopt standards for measuring, monitoring and verifying international forest activities that prevent double - counting and account for the potential for forest emissions to shift to other areas as a result of climate policy.

Countries, therefore, need to maintain good standards for measuring everything from length, weight, volume and temperature to force, hardness, electrical resistance, voltage, and the intensity of light.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

The military still uses the BMI as one of their standards for measuring body fat which becomes a problem for people who are heavier relative to their height because of their muscle mass (as you've probably heard that muscle weighs more than fat).

The suit alleged that the district had failed to provide textbooks and keep discipline in classrooms, used credit waivers improperly to improve graduation rates, and «dumbed down» standards for measuring school performance.

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