Sentences with phrase «than the input of»

In the discussion of findings in this study, Printy (2008) speculated that teachers» altered their instructional practice based on their relationships to other teachers, rather than the input of administrators, such as principals or department chairs.

Another nice thing about making a game single player is that you can exactly fine tune your generation algorithms to not only never «screw up» and throw a match, but to be far better from the perspective of the player than the input of a second player could be.

Not exact matches

Although this commitment is more modest than the one advocated in Making it Simple, a report I authored for the Mowat Centre, the goal of reducing input costs for manufacturers was identified as a key priority in the paper, which suggested there was more work to be done on this front:

They applied a methodology designed to capture the income - boosting effects of shifting inputs to industries where prices are rising, and they obtained productivity estimates that are much less alarming than those produced by Statistics Canada.

Complex systems are characterized chiefly by these elements: many interacting components, non-linearities, discontinuities (i.e. the occurrence of something unexpected), and emergent properties, which come about when systems take on a «life of their own» and develop into something that often looks quite different than the original inputs.

In development for more than a year with input from top female Muslim athletes, the Pro Hijab is made of a breathable polyester mesh, in line with Nike's other high performance gear.

My husband would probably tell you I'd rather clean the bathrooms than perform data entry, inputting page after page of data that seemingly never ends.

We score all 50 states on more than 60 measures of competitiveness, developed with input from a broad and diverse array of business and policy experts, official government sources, the CNBC Global CFO Council and the states themselves.

It's a simple platformer that can be played for a few minutes at a time, yet its level creator also utilizes the device's various touch inputs in useful ways, which is more than can be said for a lot of Vita games.

That's because it measures the present cost of shipping inputs rather than finished products.

Russell told CNBC that the depreciation of the Malaysian currency has more than offset the benefits that cheaper oil have on the price of fertilizers, resulting in higher input costs for the tea grower.

Ms. Holmes declined interview requests from the Journal for more than five months, but the general counsel and outside counsel of Theranos provided significant input, which was fairly reflected in the articles.

In determining the compensation of our named executive officers other than our Chief Executive Officer, the compensation committee receives input from our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Resources with respect to appropriate base salary levels and short - term and long - term incentive awards for such officers.

Since Australians pay world prices for energy and materials (albeit with smaller taxes added than Europeans), as users we face this same apparent backward shift in the supply curve in that part of the economy: it costs more now to use the same amount of these inputs as before.

While roles like CEO, head of operations, human resources, etc. are certainly filled with more than their fair share of stress, there is probably no position that has more responsibility for success, often with less input and control, than the sales manager.

There's nothing better than having a broad range of input from a diverse group of experts.

The decline of the Input Prices Index has been sharper for the Automobiles & Auto Parts sector than for Beverages companies, reflecting the former's greater exposure to metal prices.

Upstream price pressures have also been boosted by the rise in oil prices, as well as the depreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in world commodity prices; producer input and output prices have increased more sharply over the past six months than they have since the early 1990s.

The situation is not as clear for some other countries, but as a general rule, we are probably better off in current circumstances than most suppliers because of the weight of commodities, foodstuffs and «inputs into exports» in our mix.

It is crucial that you know that there is a high level of administrative work involved in the industry, such as the processing of investment activities that need more labour input than capital input.

Measuring trade in gross terms, rather than examining the value - add inputs from countries along the supply chain, fails to tell us the whole story of where commodities actually came from and where they went.

While the over-the-docks prices of imported final goods increased by more than 10 per cent over the past year, prices of imported inputs into manufacturing rose by 6 per cent and the prices of domestically sourced raw materials fell (Table 6).

However, total factor productivity, which allows for changes in both labour and capital inputs into the production process, and is therefore a better measure of efficiency, is growing faster in the current recovery than in the corresponding phases of either of the two previous cycles (Box 2).

The 2016 study, whose rankings of issuers relied on input from more than 20,000 credit card customers, takes six factors into account, such as customer interaction and problem resolution.

Society is more than capable of knowing right from wrong and enforcing it with out the input from any supernatural being than you give it credit for.

to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.

Another bit of prima facie evidence that might be considered in favor of Hartshorne's «personalism» is that in Virgilius Ferm's 1945 classic Encyclopedia of Religion, a work to which Brightman contributed forty articles, 14 and in which Brightman had particular editorial input, 15 the article on «God, as personal» was written by none other than Charles Hartshorne.16 This, along with Brightman's review of me Divine Relativity (cited below), suggests that Brightman himself considered Hartshorne a personalist.

There is nothing connecting photons to neurons other than the sensory input of sight and the infrared glow of chemical reactions in all living matter.

Sue, since you have a doctorate in Physics (would love to know who was on your dissertation board) please explain to Richard (the one that keeps cheerleading with no valuable inputs of his own) how Hawking's calculation of monkey's eventually typing out a Shakespear sonnet would take a prohibitive time — longer than the known universe and longer than the universe would last... hint you can google it too

Anyway, I'd like to spend the weekend getting together my thoughts on this, and since a large percentage of you are smarter than I am, I figured I'd get your input.

Therefore, one might predict that people deprived of ordinary sensory input will detect the presence of other people in a room more reliably than they detect the presence of aggregates such as a piece of furniture.

The energy efficiency (food energy output / kg / energy input / kg) is five times higher than soy, twice that of corn and more than 100 times higher than grain - fed beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The ACSI uses data from interviews with roughly 70,000 customers annually as inputs to an econometric model for analyzing customer satisfaction with more than 300 companies in 43 industries and 10 economic sectors, including various services of federal and local government agencies.

The advantage of this is that these packages are stronger than current conventional shrink packs, thus ousting extra cardboard trays for stability and reducing the input of materials.

It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects.

Bottled water represents less than 20 per cent of CCA's Australian earnings, but generates higher margins than carbonated soft drinks because of lower input and production costs and the fact that it owns the Mt Franklin brand outright and does not pay royalties to The Coca - Cola Co..

«[M] y concern is that this kind of marketing threatens the use of technology that's allowed farmers to use crop inputs that are much safer than what they were using 20 years ago,» Mulhern told Food Navigator.

According to this vision, the Sustainable Agriculture Standard in its third draft 2016 version proposes a framework of requirements caring for a higher productivity with optimized farm inputs that will enable smallholders to increase their income, satisfy their essential needs and conserve natural resources on their farms rather than exploiting them as part of their income strategy.

Steve is very patient in this and always gives me helpful inputs because he is definitely more of a spicy / savory person than a dessert person!

It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and nutrients, energy and water cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than on the use of external inputs with adverse effects.

Further promoted advantages and promises by the industry include that RR crops create more yield than conventional crops, decrease farmers input costs by reducing the amount of herbicides sprayed and are safe for humans, animals and the environment.

In the third year, the fertilizer energy accounted for 84.6 percent of the total energy inputs, 8.57 times more than in the non-organic system.

In a European context, the labour input is higher on organic arable and mixed farms, while organic dairy farms use the same amount of labour, or less, than comparable conventional farms.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

We've accumulated a good squad, and have plenty of quality round the edges but we certainly can do better than Coquelin and Giroud despite their good input.

Think of a farmer who plough his or her land and plants crops without fertiliser and all the necessary inputs of production yet expects to harvest more than those who have met the necessary inputs of maximum production... wenger out!

I maintain Ramsey s more of a curse than a blessing... no10 role is nt jes fr him.He shud stick more to keeping d midfield together n his defensive input... Walcott still nt convincing enough... jes need som1 exciting up front for once... not jes speed of even hold up play... itz gotten us this far, need sth diff yet again... And som1 pls tap Ox, the game s started!

Other than the returning Danny Welbeck, the majority of Arsenal's reliable goalscorers have been lacklustre, resulting in a series of unsatisfactory results, but Arsene Wenger makes it cleat that Theo is still one of his Fluffy Favourites, along with Ramsey, the Ox and others, and is remaining positive about Walcott's input within the team, for now and in the future.

Transfers are about more than just «I want that one and that one and that one» — at least, they are for those clubs unfortunate enough not to be Real Madrid — and so having input from three or four talking heads, each in theory knowledgeable about a different aspect of football and football business, is perfectly sensible.

And to be fair to the midfielder, I would be over the moon to have the Ramsey of a few years ago back, but the problem is that we have seen that effective and dynamic input from Ramsey all too rarely, especially in an Arsenal shirt as he does seem to play better for Wales than he does for us.