Not exact matches
Your mother may have warned you not to walk and chew gum at the same time, but when Schaefer compared the
performance of both children and young adults on a standard
test of working memory when they were sitting with when they were walking, her
results contradicted mom's advice.
Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B) said the CSeries flight
test program is «making solid progress» and initial
performance results are «in line» with its expectations.
The
result: The A.I. software achieved «
performance on par with all
tested experts.»
After running
performance tests on older models, the company confirmed the speed is likely a
result of user perception — the phones run roughly the same speed.
Important factors that could cause our actual
results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form
results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our
performance of the Cologuard
test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a
result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form
Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.
For Tatara, part of the de-risking process was putting the guide wires through six key
performance tests —
tests they'd have to complete in advance of regulatory filings, anyway — and comparing the
results to those for guide wires already in the marketplace.
When you let the
results define you — your talent, your
test scores, your weight, your job, your
performance, your appearance — you become the victim of a fixed mindset.
The advantage with multivariate
testing is that you can find the optimum combination of website elements in a shorter space of time and achieve significant improvements in the website's
performance; the disadvantage is that it takes a considerable amount of traffic to get accurate
results.
Yet despite extensive and ongoing research and historical
testing, I still have not identified considerations that would have allowed us to substantially increase our exposure to market fluctuations last year, without also
resulting in a large increase in historical losses, and generally a deterioration in overall long - term
performance.
My own thinking is much more geared to five year
performance, preferably with
tests of relative
results in both strong and weak markets.»
As earnings season ramps into full gear, the
performance of some of the biggest names could determine future of the tech boomAs large tech companies report first - quarter earnings in a flood of
results during the next two weeks, they face a major
test: Will they continue to post huge growth, and fuel further overall gains for the market, or settle into a more mild adulthood?
One day a man named Bill Rodgers, a Knoxville car dealer whose passion and part - time occupation he calls «
performance enhancing,» looks at the
results of the Predictive Index personality
test he's administered to Michelle and Pat.
The real
test is yet to come on the Premier League front Take nothing away from Arsenal's solid
performances and the consequent
results they managed during March, however, 3 of their 4 league opponents were teams from the bottom half of the table.
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The
test results help engineers to establish compliance with the
performance requirements as per the FMVSS 213 regulation.
As a
result, those strollers can be considered as providing an extra protection based on their
test performance.
Challenge Success believes that our increasingly competitive world has led to tremendous anxiety about our children's» futures and has
resulted in a high pressure, myopic focus on grades,
test scores and
performance.
In 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that «inorganic arsenic exposure in infants and pregnant women can
result in a child's decreased
performance on certain developmental
tests that measure learning,» and proposed a limit on arsenic in infant rice cereal of 100 parts per billion.
Instead of focusing on the final
performance results of a
test or paper (in other words, the grades), talk about the learning and revision process and improvement over time.
In general, the
results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased
performance on standardized
tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom
performance, and better high school achievement.
Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based
testing to the
results of teacher
performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.
There has been growing support in the state Legislature to reverse the controversial policy that eventually would have led to the
test results being used to measure teacher
performance.
There's been growing support in the state legislature to reverse the controversial policy that would eventually have led to the
test results being used to measure teacher
performance.
The teachers union opposed new
performance reviews that will be linked more closely to standardized
test results.
Early in his term in office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state's former top education officials all championed a policy to use the
test results to rate teacher
performance.
He emphasized the need to shift the focus from the industry to student
performance including good grades and
test results.
The
test results will still be used to measure teachers»
performance ratings, and a spokesman for the teachers union says until that changes, many of the parents involved in the boycott movement will continue to opt their kids out of the
tests.
Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making
test results part of
performance reviews.
And it reverses Cuomo's plan to link teacher evaluations more closely to standardized
testing, instead putting off any connections between
performance reviews and
test results until at least 2020.
The
testing question also figures prominently into the debate over teacher
performance evaluations, as the governor has proposed making state
test results 50 percent — instead of the current 40 percent — of the evaluation system, a move that is strongly opposed by the teachers unions that are closely allied with the Assembly Democrats.
He also accused the governor of «demonizing» teachers and «moving down the wrong path» on standardized
testing, though Cuomo has recently done an about - face on that issue, most notably calling — through his latest reform task force — for a moratorium on linking
test results and teacher
performance evaluations.
The vacancies on the board come after Regents backed a plan to place a moratorium on linking Common Core - based
test results to teacher
performance evaluations as the standards are being studied and potentially revised in New York.
The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the
performance evaluations linked to both standardized
test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.
In a dramatic about - face and as parents revolt against what they see as over-testing of their kids, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reportedly pushing for the role of
test results in establishing teacher
performance evaluations to be reduced — possibly even to zero.
That said, there has been an about 180 - degree about - face on the governor's part when it comes to the controversial Common Core curriculum, the opt - out movement and linking
test results to teacher
performance evaluations.
«The NASUWT remains clear that a fit for purpose accountability system should consider the
performance of schools in the round and not solely on the basis of narrowly focused
test and examination
results.»
Teachers are complaining that they were not adequately prepared to teach to the new standards, and that the
test results should not be used to evaluate their
performance.
The mayor has long criticized using standardized
testing as a metric for school
performance, even as he has cited rising
results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.
The advice represents a major shift from earlier in the year, when Governor Cuomo forcefully pushed new
performance reviews for teachers beginning this school year, that would depend more heavily on standardized
test results.
He wants teacher
performance reviews to rely more on standardized
test results, and he'd like 100 more charter schools in New York.
His force has been
testing them out all year, and he's awaiting
results on
performance.
The study examined
test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student
performance varied across
testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.
Endurance sport has a beneficial impact on physical and mental
performance and this can be seen in blood
test results.
They then
tested the new system's
performance speed and consistency — how much the
results varied compared with the traditional manual tracing method (called «ground truth» in machine learning).
The
results highlight just how crucial it is for older adults, as well clinicians, to be aware of how ageist beliefs about older adults can affect older adults» real memory
test performance.
The study compared
results from electromyography assessments of leg and arm muscles to basic physical
performance tests such as gait speed, balance and hand - grip strength.
Noting the inconsistency between neuropsychological
test results, and patient complaints of memory loss in everyday life, the researchers set out to generate a more realistic picture of memory
performance in these patients.
So far, her
test results have been encouraging; Mazany said her
performance has actually improved over her three annual appointments.
However, stimulation of targets in the lateral hypothalamus in rodents during learning
resulted in improved
performance on
tests of subsequent memory.11
Moreover, late last year, when Los Alamos conducted its first scheduled destructive
test of a plutonium pit since the shutdown of PF - 4 more than three years ago, it did not produce the needed
results, according to NNSA's annual evaluation of Los Alamos»
performance last year.