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Our study overcomes the limits of short - term analysis by asking: when schools face accountability pressure, do their efforts to raise test scores generate improvements in higher education attainment, earnings, and other long - term outcomes?

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According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.

Most of the common analyses and tests done by Web companies treat are centered on the notion of «visitors» to their website (transactional, one time relationship with consumers, typically driven by traffic coming from search engines) rather than «users» of their service (longer term relationship, typically involves creating a user account with the Web service).

«The issue isn't particularly economic in terms of markets and it's not really the central banks... it's geopolitical and there's some bad things going on in the world and conventional analysis says things will be fine,» Schwarzman said at the Delivering Alpha conference, produced by CNBC and Institutional Investor.

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To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long - term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data.

There have been clouds and clouds of smoke generated about the impact of Ontario's impending introduction of its Harmonized Sales Tax.  Fortunately there is finally now some substance out there in terms of a detailed analysis conducted by Statistics Canada that was recently released by the Ontario NDP. And what is shows is quite surprising.

Part 1: Combined stock repurchases by U.S. public companies have reached record levels, a Reuters analysis finds, but as the recent history of such iconic businesses as Hewlett - Packard and IBM suggests, showering cash on shareholders may exact a long - term toll.

These views are driven by our long - term strategic macro-economic analysis in conjunction with our current market outlook.

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Trend line: In terms of digital health companies targeting the part of the market that is subject to regulation, our analysis found 8.5 percent of venture investment in the digital health sector by value in the first half of the year went to companies developing products or services that would likely be subject to regulation.

Traders with some exposure to the binary options markets have probably come across the term Technical Analysis when reading the educational materials offered by brokers.

The new China - Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) has some of the «best - ever commitments from China» in terms of opening its markets to imports, according to a new analysis by trade policy experts Laura Dawson and Dan Ciuriak.

PBO analysis suggests if the Finance (private sector) projections turn out as planned, the government will be back to structural surplus by 2015 and will be in a positive long term fiscal gap position (declining net debt relative to GDP in face of aging aging demographics).

We try to accomplish this by keeping our intrinsic value estimates grounded in data, research and analysis, and a long - term understanding of the qualitative business fundamentals to guide our buy, sell, and hold decisions.

From 1990 to 2005, he was Director Fiscal Policy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statements.

The dialogue is read as a founding display of the terms of modern travail; and is simultaneously used by Reno to introduce the goals and language of his own succeeding analyses.

The analysis of an historical event in terms of its plot forms and related symbolic transformations eventually leads back to the final phase of synoptic resolution, illustrated by a hierarchy of contrasting elements, through which the event was initially defined.

The technical error at the heart of my analysis of neo-Darwinism, says Barr, is my misunderstanding of how the term «random» as used by Darwinian biology.

If it is questionable whether mental activity such as the planning and writing of a book can be fully explained by the sciences of physics and chemistry, it may not be so doubtful that life is also resistant to exhaustive explanation in terms of atomic and molecular analysis.

Whereas, the term used by atheists, rationalists, pragmatists etc. infers hope or trust in probability / odds / or analysis of past history.

Even though my book of 1949 was called Pastoral Counseling, and attempted to deal carefully with structured situations symbolized by the term «interview,» its principal thrust was in the direction of dynamic analysis of all the kinds of potential helping contacts, formal and otherwise, that the minister has.

A good example of the type of philosophizing that Rorty rejects can be found in the tortured path of conceptual analysis followed by Peters and Hirst in their quest for necessary and sufficient conditions for the correct use of the term «education.»

(By «technical» I mean using terms and forms of analysis that are developed within the discipline for its own furtherance.)

A priori (by «dichotomic» analysis of the various outlets theoretically offered to our freedom of action) as well as a posteriori (by classification of the various human attitudes in fact observable around us), three alternatives, together forming a logically connected sequence, seem to express and exhaust all the possibilities open to our assessment and choice as we contemplate the future of Mankind: a) pessimism or optimism; b) the optimism of withdrawal or the optimism of evolution; c) evolution in terms of the many or of the unit.

Fourth, as used in most evangelical discussion, the term is a philosophical judgment controlled by categories alien to Scripture; it is a slogan based on «how God ought to have inspired the Word» which has been substituted for careful patient analysis of what the Bible does teach about itself.

Paradigms illustrate ways of attacking a problem — for instance, by analysis in terms of masses and forces.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

In this particular essay, Hartshorne classifies the various conceptions of God in terms of two considerations: God's independence or dependence with respect to the world and the nature of his perfection, the former of which receives further analysis by means of the categories of causality and totality (i.e., the sense in which God does or does not include the world in his own being).

Ross Douthat's analysis of post-conciliar Catholicism in terms of «liberal» and «conservative» parties reminded me of a different analysis given by Richard John Neuhaus in his book Catholic Matters.

Though my personal quest may be satisfied partly by my participating in the other five of our six contexts, there is still a residue of individuality that can not be grasped in terms of an analysis of any of them.

But if this analysis is sound, the reasons for Hartshorne's failure to establish analogies as a class of terms distinct from symbols are by no means merely contingent.

This is the control and punishment effected by one's internal «Parent,» to use the PAC terms of Transactional Analysis.7.

Taking a page out of the First Things playbook, Jackson urges Muslim Americans to «articulate the practical benefits of the rules of Islamic law in terms that gain them recognition by society at large,» something that can be done by drawing on the Islamic tradition of practical reasoning that has family resemblances to the Catholic use of natural law and Protestant analysis of «common grace.»

It is interesting to note in passing that the proposed analysis of the meaning of the term «Christ» provides a possible clue to the meaning of the phrase «in Christ,» found in all three of the passages just quoted and characteristically (though by no means exclusively) Pauline.

Furthermore, even the identification of the putative content of experience proves to be normed by whatever hermeneutical analysis is employed, for one can only imagine, much less recognize as present, what one can come to identify somehow.16 Finally, some hermeneutical analysis is also presupposed by and, therefore, normative of any argument from experience, whether of the individual or the communal type, since it is only experience as interpretable in terms of some description or other to which one can ever appeal either for the mutual corroboration of such descriptions or for their illustration of a theistic interpretation.

This investigation supports the contention that for both Newton and Whitehead some privileged space and time structure is presupposed by any physical analysis that is to be considered scientific and, specifically, shows that in Newton's analysis of gravitation and in Whitehead's analysis of impetus this privileged space and time structure functions as the framework, or background, in terms of which definite physical characteristics are then analyzed.

Avery Dulles In general terms, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), which was issued by John Paul II last March, is an analysis of the «culture of death» and an exhortation to promote the «culture of life.»

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

While Rousseau is generally credited with coining the term «civil religion,» analysis of civil religion in sociology has been influenced more by Emile Durkheim.

In general terms, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), which was issued by John Paul II last March, is an analysis of the «culture of death» and an exhortation to promote the «culture of life.»

In its memory of Jesus the Church has the foundation of its existence in the memory of the deed of Jesus who acted in absolute loyalty to the community in the midst of its disloyalty.19 Royce's analysis, however, needs to be deepened by an understanding of suffering, which Williams understands not so much in terms of undergoing pain as «being acted upon or being conformed to another in a relationship.

A very interesting paper by Bowman L. Clarke, «Whitehead's Cosmology and the Christian Drama,» Journal of Religion 39 (1959), 162 - 69, begins with an analysis of St. Peter's Sermon in Acts 2 and uses it to show a Christian dramatic pattern in four acts to illustrate what Whitehead may have been generalizing in four stages of creativity, to which he applies the term «the particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 532).

In terms of own price elasticity values, a recent meta - analysis estimated an average own price effect for carbonated sugar sweetened drinks (a near equivalent of the category non-concentrated sugar sweetened drinks, which predominantly includes carbonated drinks) of − 0.93, larger than our value of − 0.81.51 Our estimated value is also at the lower end of the range of own price elasticities frequently cited for sugar sweetened drinks of − 0.8 to − 1.0, based on one large review.52 Our own price estimate is comparable to experimental data (a 25 % reduction for a 35 % price rise) in a canteen study.53 However, all these estimates may be influenced by US studies in which higher estimates may reflect higher levels of consumption.

This high level of monitoring is further supported by the Ishida Data Capture System (IDCS) which records and analyses data from every pack that goes across each checkweigher to provide fully customisable real - time production information and displays the line's Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) in terms of availability, performance and quality.

This is the 9th survey conducted by Wine Business Solutions providing 180,000 listings as a database for longer term analysis.

YOGA: SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS Sirs: Regarding the discussion of yoga exercises, the issue raised by Joe David Brown (Yoga Comes West, SI, Jan. 25) and by B. K. Bagchi (19TH HOLE, Feb. 29) is a twofold one: first, whether it is a scientifically proved fact that yoga exercises exert a demonstrable effect upon the heart; second, if such an effect is demonstrable, what its physiological nature is in terms of accepted concepts of cardiovascular physiology.

A review by Goldman (2005) of five studies using multivariate analyses which isolate the independent impact of fathers» involvement in children's learning on educational outcomes, clearly shows that fathers» involvement (both in terms of level and frequency) in their children's schools is a key factor that correlates with better educational outcomes for children.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.