Sentences with phrase «time assessments as»

Remote clickers: Ideal for doing quick, real - time assessments as you teach.

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When the pressure is on to fill a position, it's easier to use the clichéd «beer test» — as in, «would I have a beer with this guy» — as a decision - making tool than it is to undergo the complicated and time - consuming work of a more nuanced assessment.

People who scored high on the productivity assessment were 10 times less likely to agree with statements such as «I live in a mess — cluttered office, buried desk, disorganized home» and «I often feel distracted.

According to The New York Times, the assessment warned that any American troops serving as advisers would face safety risks given infiltration of the Iraqi army by Sunni extremists and Iran - backed Shiite troops or militia.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is maintaining its trend - setting interest rate as its careful assessment of the timing of future hikes continues amid a backdrop of moderating growth.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

For a country such as China, that impact is three to five times bigger than the IMF calculated in its last exchange rate assessment released last year.

As the site noted in reference to the Green / Dunn petition, the authors wrote: «Absent a definitive commission statement identifying the essential elements, participants must attempt to discern what is lawful and what is problematic through assessments of enforcement orders, which are focused on a single entity at a time and may or may not be instructive.»

For comparison, a definite «discovery» would not be acceptable scientifically below a confidence levelof 5 σ, and so for the time being the CERN scientists are keen to downplay the results and look towards obtaining much more data in 2012 so as to make a more definitive assessment by the end of the year.

At the time, it struck me as an accurate self - assessment.

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

Here is John, who sees his life and work as conveying a message from God for his time, utterly sure of his role, piercing in his assessments of a society and a people.

In my assessment of the ecumenical agenda which I presented in Bangkok in 1996, I already alluded to the need of deepening and increasing «analytical capability»» as one of the primordial necessities of social witness in our time, and how this is so important at a time when ecumenical social thought seems to have reached a «dry spell», where it has become in fact thin and redundant, and therefore a point where it has lost much respect.

pretty accurate assessment... he is more physical than ramsey which might be his advantage... always difficult to assess swiss players as their league is so lopsided and basle are way better than the rest but they have produced some quality players and few times i have seen them he seems a pretty decent player....

Each time someone here gives a personal but honest assessment about a player or situation others jump on so negatively or are now recently referred to as» tri-axis of evil».

Cousins» brutal assessment of one facet of his team's business is revealing, as he told ESPN reporter Adam Schefter in a recent podcast when asked if he doubts he will be with the team this season: «Well, I think you never know in the sense that, in this league, things change so fast and players can get blindsided all the time with decisions.

no wonder wenger has gotten away with his dozen years of failure when fans deliver this kind of ludicrous assessment... get of the wenger juice and get yourself cleaned up... anyway this was a tale of two very different halves so average score is basically like saying the guy who took a bath in ice water and then in scolding water had a good time as on average he was in warm water!!!

Sutton first savagely destroyed Cascarino stating that the flop striker's opinion didn't officially count just like his Tennents» Sixes triumph and then went on to further dish out a brutal assessment on Barton's time at Rangers labeling the latter as the worst signing in the Gers» history.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

Midwives are trained in guarding the normalcy of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, not disturbing it when all is well, knowing when to compassionately observe with loving support, and when and how to use holistic remedies, or medical intervention only when necessary as a last resort; they are also educated in prevention, assessment and treatment of complications, which most times can be managed simply and naturally, but sometimes involves consultation or referral to an obstetrician.

It is important to clarify that although that the DSM has been casually referred to as «the bible» of diagnosis and assessment, PSI and other allied organizations are full of trained perinatal mental health professionals, supporters, and survivors who do understand the elements for which we advocated through the DSM revision: the broader time of onset, the importance of diagnostic and statistical criteria through specifiers for anxiety, mixed anxiety / depressive disorder, obsessive disorder, hypomania, and traumatic stress disorders.

The district has achieved long - term efficiencies through conducting a needs assessment and distributing the equipment carefully over time to fulfill specific inadequacies in school kitchens as they emerge.

I mean, I wish that we as parents had sort of a checklist where we could do an assessment of our kids and their temperaments and understand that and then look at our own bents to see what can we tolerate as a parent and then of course times two, so I was going to say, thanks to Jen and our parents today.

We will explore drawing strategies that can be used as informal assessment and intervention strategies, including several different styles of feeling drawings, body outlines, the Rosebush, the Garden, problem pass - around, Quick Draws, and time lines.

Caution is also needed in the interpretation of this finding as there is inconsistent reporting due to variations in the timing of outcome assessments, and the settings of studies and the population groups included in studies with more face - to - face visits.

Digital trends include real - time mapping and analysis using social media, crowd sourcing and data mining, the use of mobile phones to disseminate information, online campaigns bringing publics and affected populations closer together, digital platforms for cash transfers and new digital tools for assessment work, as well as monitoring and evaluation.

As a side note, I'm hearing from reliable sources that nothing changed in the risk assessment given to Air Mauritius the first time or the second time.

During that time, Taub testified, he expected the grants, which came from the state Department of Health through funding from the Health Care Reform Act, to involve meetings with the department about requirements for the funds, as well as regular assessments of the funding's use.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

If you agree, you can send a message to our local elected officials telling them you will no longer tolerate their decision to act as willing co-conspirators with the DEP as that agency continues to engage in its long - held practice of profligate spending, this time in our community, as it proposes to spend $ 1.8 million on a parcel of land carried on our assessment roll at $ 165,500.

The next time I complete an ESA assessment form I may play them at their own game: State that I have one leg and see out of one eye, I will not bother to mention that I have another leg, or the fact that I see out of my other eye as well.

At the same time, Cuomo said it was unclear for now if the state would be able to qualify for federal disaster money as a cost assessment of the damage was yet to be determined.

LITRG's Chairman, Anthony Thomas, said: «Whilst we acknowledge that collecting the Class 2 NIC at the same time as self - assessment liabilities may reduce administration time, it must be similarly acknowledged that it is incumbent upon HMRC to take into account the needs and challenges faced by those on low incomes.

But in a recent consultation paper, HMRC have proposed moving the due date to the 31 January after the tax year, and collecting Class 2 contributions from the self - employed at the same time as their income tax self - assessment liabilities.

Adjunct professors don't have time to meet with students or serve on committees, so more and more administrative, assessment and student support work, such as advising, gets put onto fewer and fewer people who are hired to teach full - time.

Impact assessments may not make for great sound bites or lurid tabloid headlines, but they do result in better policy, and at a time of severe cuts, there is a pressing need to ensure all public spending is as effective as possible.

Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo (District 85) along with Senator Jeff Klein (District 34) will be hosting a forum in conjunction with various State & City agencies who will educate current homeowners as well as first time homebuyers on matters of tax assessment, energy efficiency programs and foreclosure prevention.

The Homeowners Forum will host presentations from the New York City Department of Finance in reference to calculating and appealing property tax assessments, The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) who will be offering energy efficiency program options, the Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City (NHS) presenting first - time homebuyer's education & counseling as well as foreclosure prevention, and HPD which will be present to respond to questions regarding code enforcement.

At the same time, teachers were being told they would be graded as professionals based on the results of scores from these flawed — and really, still experimental — assessments.

As a result, Keith reported, «CPS is failing to meet state - mandated deadlines for completing preliminary assessments of abuse and neglect complaints nearly two - thirds of the time.»

Take some time to think about how to assess your students, because assessment is the clearest indication of what you value as a teacher.

To gauge Alzheimer's in living patients, neurologists must depend on time - consuming assessments of the brain's degeneration — such as monitoring progressive memory loss — that often delay a conclusive judgment.

These kinds of estimates are of great importance for safety assessments for structures and buildings that need to hold up well for a very long time, or for structures where severe weather could pose a security risk, such as drilling platforms or nuclear power plants.

There was a total of 2,539 teens who self - reported their total sleep time and bedtime via a single assessment Web survey, as well as alcohol or marijuana use, when the teens were in high school.

The researchers point out that the popularity of TNR in the U.S. has been in part due to a goal of maximizing feral cats» quality of life (e.g. extended life span, vaccinations, assessment for infectious disease) and reducing undesirable behaviors such as aggression and vocalization while still eliminating colonies over time.

Clinical assessments were obtained for both groups at each time point, as well as at the baseline before the football season.

«For the first time in Indonesia, we have a rapid assessment modeling tool that can quickly estimate the cost to human health of these haze events, as they are happening,» he said.

People in this last group were nearly four times as likely to have died of cardiovascular disease and nearly three times as likely to have died from any cause as those who said they had not been distressed at any of the assessments.

Using the cancer - risk assessment methods of the Environmental Protection Agency, he calculates that men can safely eat wild salmon as often as eight times a month but farmed salmon only once or twice a month.

This helped the researchers to make a complete real - time record, known as «ecological momentary assessment,» of participants» dietary temptations and lapses.