Sentences with phrase «targeted at improvement»

However, its application is primarily targeted at improvement of their internal systems, such as billing and document production, or in predictive analysis using AI software.

Not exact matches

Ever since the bank introduced that extraordinary forward guidance in December of last year, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has been at pains to explain to investors and reporters that the 6.5 % target is a «threshold» and not a «trigger,» meaning that the bank could decide to keep rates low for longer if it is not satisfied that 6.5 % really indicates a substantial improvement.

Payroll employment growth has not exactly been gangbusters as of late and neither has headline GDP growth — both perceptual Fed targets for improvement at the outset of QE3.

This and the fact Arsene never signs anyone (if at all) until the 12th hour of the window makes us fair game and an easy target to help them sell their rags and up their sponsored click counts by reeling along the desperate fans who are crying out for some signings and improvement.

P.S. Had to laugh at the person above who suggested supplying transfer targets from Championship Manager, might be an improvement on the current approach I suppose.

There was little improvement on Wednesday evening at the Emirates but again Arsene Wenger's side came away with a 2 - 2 draw against Paris Saint - Germain despite only having one effort on target all game.

The group would monitor the extent and complications of opioid addiction; spread awareness of symptoms and aftereffects through seminars and workshops; monitor and assess the state of and improvements in treatment modalities; interface with manufacturers, retailers, and physicians offering products to treat pain; pressure the medical community to reduce availability of addictive analgesics and advocate for nonaddictive substitutes, and maintain an interface between treatment programs and similar programs targeted at youth, health care, aging, and housing.

«With increasing penalization for readmissions rates, hospitals need complete information to effectively target areas for quality improvement,» said study coauthor Andrew Gonzalez, MD, JD, MPH, a research fellow in vascular surgery at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

«Factors associated with catastrophic malpractice payouts present opportunities for targeted risk management and quality improvement efforts,» said co-author Martin A. Makary, M.D, MPH, a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins.

In a similarly designed pilot study of the device conducted at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, researchers found striking improvements in motor function among people receiving the targeted stimulation compared with those in the simulation group.

Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.

«Thanks to improvements in the understanding of AML biology, a multiplicity of so - called targeted therapies and therapies based on differential pathophysiology of leukemic stem cells compared with normal counterparts have emerged,» noted Richard M. Stone, MD, clinical director of the Adult Leukemia Program at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues, writing in a review for the ASCO 2017 Educational Book.

According to the researchers, therapeutic interventions are generally targeted at improving joint function and minimizing pain by making use of therapies that focus on symptoms, but don't assist joint structure improvement or long term improvement of the disease.

Since inception, Morlife has developed a range of affordable fortified functional foods targeted at those consumers aiming to seek health improvement, filling a much required market gap.

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

There have been some small improvements in the way the game handles, with the melee combat now at least enabling you to connect with your target most of the time.

In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

The Student - to - School Nurse Ratio Improvement Act of 2013 will create a pilot demonstration grant program that allows federal assistance for educational agencies at the local level to target schools with the least adequate school nurse to student ratios.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

The report examines progress in the performance of students in high - poverty schools, the development of state standards and assessment systems, accountability systems and school improvement efforts, the targeting of Title I funds, Title I services at the school level, support for family involvement, services for students in private schools, and services provided under the Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected and Delinquent programs.

Student Voice Collaborative members also attended Student - Led School Improvement, a workshop aimed at expanding a model of addressing specific student - identified challenges in schools across the city with targeted, student - led campaigns.

The school improvement grants mark the largest federal investment ever targeted at failing schools.

«It means our students are growing academically every day thanks to continuous improvements in instruction and a targeted use of data at the school and classroom levels.»

With the second full school year of his administration beginning on Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio is already under pressure to show improvement at these schools, which are among 62 low - performing schools targeted by the state for possible takeover.

It further calls for the collaborative to assist districts that fail to meet their targets for improvement in at least one of the priority areas for three out of four years.

At the start of the 21st century, new state and federal accountability policies — with their widely publicized results on standardized tests and penalties for schools that failed to meet improvement targets — led central - office administrators to closely manage schools.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Everyone looked at it as a huge mountain to climb and then how do we put everything in place that we need to do for kids and teachers and the community in the schools that were identified as targets in the School Improvement Grant process.

Following each training session, supports are provided to districts so that, at the end of the training, participants will know how to: • Determine a school's greatest area of need (GAN) • Write a SMART school - improvement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training animprovement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training anImprovement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training animprovement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaching.

An evaluation conducted by Aldaba has criticised the government's approach to supporting and assessing applications to the fund, which was designed to target resources at schools in need of improvement.

, it began to issue state waivers that focused school improvement status on a Targeted Achievement Gap Group (TAGG) which was comprised of (a) students at risk due to economic disadvantage; (b) English Language Learners (ELLs); and — once again (c) Students with Disabilities (SWD).

I am hoping to make some improvements to my past work, such as allowing asset allocations and savings rates to vary over time in my «safe savings rates» analysis, looking more at the role of international diversification in retirement portfolios, accounting for taxes in retirement withdrawal studies, and investigating more about lifecycle or target - date funds for both the accumulation and retirement phases.

Crystal Amber Fund (CRS: LN): Currently at an 8 % discount to NAV, this targets operational (and corporate finance) improvements in generally smaller UK companies.

Devs could be given an 8 Core, 16 Thread 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU clocked at 4 GHz, pair that with a 72CU Navi GPU, clocked at 1.75 GHz with over 16TFlops of raw performance (50 % or higher improvement in IPC Vs Jaguar architecture), pack 32GBs of GDDR6, which would be many times faster and still target 1440p 30 FPS or even 1080p if they wanted to try using the latest Ray Tracing or funky rendering tech in their games.

We saw a Forza Motorsport demo running on the machine at native 4K and Xbox One equivalent settings, and it hit 60 frames per second with a substantial performance overhead - suggesting Scorpio will hit its native 4K target across a range of content, with power to spare to spend on other visual improvements.

From assassination targets getting stuck in the environment (sometimes targets can glitch out, if they're not dead or down, should you continuously throw smoke bombs at them), to control prompts flat out not working (one co-op mission saw me unable to even attack or defend during open conflict), it remains clear that there is room for some much needed improvement from a performance standpoint.

We saw a Forza Motorsport demo running on the machine at native 4K and Xbox One equivalent settings, and it hit 60 frames per second with a substantial performance overhead — suggesting Scorpio will hit its native 4K target across a range of content, with power to spare to spend on other visual improvements.

Perhaps most notably, the village - scale improvements first demonstrated by the MVP catalyzed the government of Malawi to enhance access to nitrogen fertilizer and improved seed varieties in a policy targeted at its poorest farmers.

In a decisive vote, 341 to 263, the European Parliament called for three binding targets for 2030: a 40 % cut in greenhouse gases from 1990 levels; at least 30 % of energy to come from renewable sources; and a 40 % improvement in energy efficiency.

He added: «Areas for improvement include a closer look at the cost of achieving national targets, a more pro-active climate change strategy, greater energy efficiency and further pursuit of competitive gas and electricity markets.»

Given the underperformance in energy intensity improvement since 2010, the effective target rate for 2014 — 30 is now higher, at 2.8 percent a year.

The National Safety Council, a leader in driver improvement training for more than 40 years, developed DDC - Alive at 25 to specifically target drivers in this age group.

Designing targeted strategies and performance - improvement solutions aimed at achieving stated corporate goals for all training sessions

Van Vreede says that while Hakohen's resume, aimed at company vice presidents and directors, was better than most, he targeted three main areas for improvement: the length, the excessive detail and the chronology of Hakohen's job history.

Attended manager meetings at headquarters and developed and implemented process improvements that targeted effective and efficient sales and customer service and support.

Skill Highlights Kitchen operations management New business development Staff development Menu planning and design Inventory management and cost control Process improvement and optimization Professional Experience Executive Chef 7/1/2013 — Present Splashlight — New York, NY Direct day - to - day kitchen operations at multimillion - dollar generating restaurant, including scheduling, coordinating, and developing kitchen staff to achieve high food quality standards and labor cost targets.

This finding of the lack of impact on cognition is not surprising at one level as cognition is not targeted in either CBT or ST.. In fact there is surprisingly little evidence regarding the impact of psychotherapies or pharmacotherapy for depression on cognition, although the persistence of cognitive dysfunction despite improvement in depressive symptoms following treatment suggests that these most current treatments for depression are having little impact in this area (1).

Results indicate that both treatment groups significantly improved at posttreatment, with substantial reductions in diagnosis and depression scores and improvement in behaviors targeted by the CWD - A, whereas the waitlist control group improved very little.

I used wire plate hangers that stretch around the plates, I believe you can find them at a home improvement store like Lowe's or Target.

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