Not exact matches
Feast is co-founder and CEO
of Cogito Corporation, a Boston - based software startup that
uses artificial intelligence to
measure and improve the
quality of certain key conversations, such as sales and customer - service calls, in real time.
To determine how networking affects the
quality of the cofounders that entrepreneurs find, the researchers
used data from the application process and weekly 360 reviews to generate
measures of entrepreneurs» underlying talent and interpersonal ability.
Introducing Good
Measure, a collaboration
of Central Texas funders focused on
using quality data to transform lives.
The school data
used for the ranking by the FT
measures such several factors that have little, if anything, to do with the actual
quality of the education received by graduates.
Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between macroeconomic performance and the
quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as
measures of central bank independence, the
use of monetary policy rules, freedom to
use competing forms
of money, and exchange rate regimes.
If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the
use of coercive
measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a
quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial
of the point
of Christ's disclosure
of God.
NICE recommends the
use of a version
of the
Quality - Adjusted Life - Year as its principal outcome
measure (EQ - 5D), partly to enable
One
of the most unique characteristics
of German wine is its
use of a classification system that
measures quality based on the grape's natural sugar level at harvest (which is completely different from the sugar level
of the final product.)
1 cup
of oat flour (just blend some oats in a blender and then
measure 1 cup) 1 cup
of ground almond 3 tablespoons
of raw cacao powder or cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon
of baking powder a pinch
of sea salt 1/4 cup
of melted coconut oil 5 tablespoons
of maple syrup or honey 1 tablespoon
of flaxseeds + 2 tablespoons
of water 1/2 teaspoon
of vanilla extract or powder 80gr
of good
quality dark chocolate - I have
used Goodio Pure Nacional About 10 - 12 vegan pretzel (i bought mine in sainsbury's and they were accidentally vegan)
Instead, Amorim applies the technology in laboratory - controlled batch testing as part
of its
quality control
measures for the 4.2 billion corks it produces each year — and at the same time worked to improve the technology so it could be
used in production.
Australians are now able to
measure the
quality of their eating habits
using a simple online assessment tool, the CSIRO Healthy Diet Score.
Instead, Amorim applied the technology in laboratory - controlled batch testing as part
of its
quality control
measures for the 4.2 billion corks it produces each year — and at the same time worked to improve the technology so it could be
used in production.
Established in 2005, The Gluten - Free Certification Organization (GFCO), an industry program
of the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG), is dedicated to providing certification services to producers
of gluten - free products
using quality assessment and control
measures throughout production, in order to provide assurance to consumers
of the safety
of their foods.
The expected goals assisted per 90 (xA90) metric
measures the
quality of chances a player creates,
using historical data to assess how likely a shot - creating pass is to lead to a goal.
Nutritional
quality was calculated
using a nutritional index designed to
measure nutrients important for children and adolescents (MAR) and a nutritional index designed to
measure the calorie content per weight
of food (ED).
For many years, perinatal mortality rates were
used for this purpose, often with little regard for the value and validity
of such data.11 Now, with rates well below 10 per 1000 births, they have lost virtually all
of their utility for
measuring quality of care in the Western world.
SQUID — or Street
Quality Identification Device — is a tiny contraption that sits on the bed of a pickup truck used by the Syracuse Department of Public Works, designed to measure the quality of the streets of Sy
Quality Identification Device — is a tiny contraption that sits on the bed
of a pickup truck
used by the Syracuse Department
of Public Works, designed to
measure the
quality of the streets of Sy
quality of the streets
of Syracuse.
Varun Adibhatla, developer
of SQUID technology, and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, discussing the city's
use of the device to
measure road
quality.
Jasmine Gripper
of the Alliance for
Quality Education, a union - supported group with close ties to the mayor, said that test scores shouldn't be
used as a
measuring stick on de Blasio's success with mayoral control.
Despite this work force deficit, Welsh science overall now outperforms many other similarly small countries such as Norway, Ireland, and New Zealand, according to commonly
used measures of efficiency and science
quality.
«We
used it as an indirect
measure of fat
quality and found that lower numbers were linked to greater heart disease risk.»
«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose
of radiation delivered daily with high precision and
using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve
quality of life
measures by reducing treatment periods in half.
Measuring a surgeon's average number
of cuts was recently endorsed by the American College
of Mohs Surgery (ACMS) as a clinical
quality metric
used to assess its members.
A team led by ESO astronomer Giacomo Beccari has
used these data
of unparallelled
quality to precisely
measure the brightness and colours
of all the stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster.
They include both fixed costs associated with implementing a
quality measurement infrastructure and
measure - specific costs, which can vary substantially across
measures and often depend on local measurement capacity and simultaneous
use of other
measures.
Better understanding the cost
of measures would not only inform decisions about which
measures to
use, but also guide future development
of high - value
measures that maximize benefit while optimizing
use of finite
quality measurement resources.
«Does it make sense to
measure the
quality of air we breathe via many tiny, distant satellite sensors at the elevation
of a skyscraper, or by
using one or several sensors in close proximity to the nose?
Citations are typically
used as a
measure of influence, but they reflect a complicated set
of factors besides
quality and time — for example, visibility, size
of citing community, and integration into social and professional networks (Ward et al., 1992).
Whereas animal studies have suggested that both cutaneous and proprioceptive percepts can be evoked
using this approach, the perceptual
quality of the stimuli can not be
measured in these experiments.
This is a widely -
used instrument that
measures multiple aspects
of sleep
quality such as sleep duration, the amount
of time it takes to fall asleep, the amount
of time actually spent sleeping while in bed, nighttime disturbances, and daytime sleepiness.
Researchers from the Perelman School
of Medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles
of poverty and dramatically improve the
quality of life for those in need — and Gift
of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half
of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria
used to
measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.
Most
of our commonly
used measures also are endorsed by the National
Quality Forum, which is the most rigorous national vetting process for performance
measures.
Using mobile monitoring equipment, the researchers
measured the air
quality, including particulate matter concentration and hydrogen sulfide,
of neighborhoods adjacent to hog CAFOs in North Carolina.
Using the presence and productivity
of former co-authors and potential collaborators as a proxy to
measure the
quality of the peer environment, the authors show that, «all else equal, scientists are more likely to move (than not) in a given year if the peer environment at home is not very good,» Ganguli says.
Scientists at The University
of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have
used UAH's Rocket - city Ozone (O3)
Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United States, research that could be important to air quality prediction and assessment once it is developed f
Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to
measure ozone that was chemically produced by summertime lightning over the United States, research that could be important to air
quality prediction and assessment once it is developed f
quality prediction and assessment once it is developed further.
As adherence to recommended clinical practice guidelines increasingly is
used to
measure performance, guidelines play a major role in policy efforts to improve the
quality and cost - effectiveness
of care.
Cota immediately signed up for the study and learned how to
use a particle counter, which
measures particulates and toxins in the air, to take samples
of ambient air
quality surrounding her home.
Work by Yeh's group and international collaborators later revealed that graphene made
using the new technique is
of higher
quality than graphene made
using conventional methods: It is stronger because it contains fewer defects that could weaken its mechanical strength, and it has the highest electrical mobility yet
measured for synthetic graphene.
But the
use of simple age cut - offs in these
quality measures may contribute to what researchers found was underuse
of screening in healthy, older people and overuse in unhealthy, older people, according to the study
using 2010 data on 399,067 VA enrollees.
Beyond the more typical
uses for weight loss aids, electronic activity monitors may also be useful for patients when they are released from the hospital as a
measure of recovery and
quality of life.
The researchers identified high -
quality hospitals by
using two common
measures of surgical
quality: 30 - day surgical mortality rates and patient reported experience with care.
Upon examining these award programs» selection and evaluation criteria, the
quality of the data
used, and the independence
of the rating programs, Juravich and research assistant and co-author Essie Ablavsky concluded that these ratings and awards can not be seen as objective
measures of corporate performance.
Jagai and her colleagues
used the U.S. EPA's Environmental
Quality Index, a county - level
measure incorporating more than 200
of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.
(«
Quality Adjusted Life Years» is a commonly used measure of disease burden that accounts for both the amount of time lived and the quality of a person's health during those
Quality Adjusted Life Years» is a commonly
used measure of disease burden that accounts for both the amount
of time lived and the
quality of a person's health during those
quality of a person's health during those years.
It could be
used to help decide which patients could benefit from being enrolled into clinical trials, as well as to
measure the
quality of care, he added.
They then
used the standard UK measurement
of Quality - Adjusted Life Years (QALYs)-- a combined measure of quantity and quality of life — to assess how sick measles made peopl
Quality - Adjusted Life Years (QALYs)-- a combined
measure of quantity and
quality of life — to assess how sick measles made peopl
quality of life — to assess how sick measles made people feel.
The yardstick did such a good job
of measuring the
quality of odors that the scientists could
use it to predict just how pleasant (or unpleasant) people would rate a new molecule.
A design value is the three - year average
of pollution concentrations
measured at each monitoring location and is
used to determine whether a county is in attainment with federal air
quality standards.
There are all sorts
of quality control issues with analysing long - term climate records [ie are there biases introduced by changes in the
measuring instruments
used?]
Whereas the «glass - like» thermal conductivity
of the clathrate Ba7.81 Ge40.67 Au5.33 has frequently been associated with a short phonon lifetime, this study
measured for the first time to date a very long phonon lifetime
using a large single crystal sample
of high
quality.