Sentences with phrase «useful benchmarks for»

Cross-country comparisons (for example, comparative analysis with New Zealand) can provide useful benchmarks for accessibility and inclusion.

Stock market indexes can be useful benchmarks for gauging the performance of an investment portfolio over time.

Human rights represent essential conditions for sustainable prosperity in China, providing standards for official conduct and offering useful benchmarks for development.

Shutting down transgene expression by Doxy is a useful benchmarking for preclinical treatment trials for drugs addressing tau pathology.

The scores are frequently seen as a useful benchmark for a movie's future success, as well as a reflection on the way it was marketed, with the company's founder, Ed Mintz, breaking down the reactions thusly: «A's generally are good, B's generally are shaky, and C's are terrible.

Otherwise, the interior is standard A3, which means it's good looking, beautifully built and a useful benchmark for quality for cars several classes up.

also provide a yield table for AAA - rated insured revenue bonds, a useful benchmark for prices of other municipal issues.

«GSSL, GOHC and GOFC derived from in situ observations are a useful benchmark for ocean and climate models and an important diagnostic for changes in the Earth's climate system (Hansen et al., 2005; Levitus et al., 2005).

The correlation between the rainfall threshold and increased fire activity was evident across all satellite data used in the study, which makes the threshold a useful benchmark for predicting and preparing for potential fire episodes.

This guideline does not mean that climate change is harmless below 2 C, or that it suddenly becomes so catastrophic above 2 C that further efforts at limiting warming are pointless, but like a highway speed limit, it serves as a useful benchmark for where you start to worry about things being really bad.

But as the full site is developed into the UK's first earth science park that will use renewable energy from solar, wind, hydro, shallow and deep geothermal sources, it should provide a useful benchmark for understanding how solar can fit in with other technologies for an integrated approach to clean energy.

«We think this «full appreciation test» provides a useful benchmark for deciding whether or not a trial is required in the interest of justice.»

The company's credit rating is a useful benchmark for judging the value and reliability of its dividends.

Not exact matches

While the official goal of the new futures contract is to establish a regional benchmark for more useful pricing of the crude grades prevalent on the Chinese market, analysts see the yuan oil futures as a step toward China seeking wider acceptance of its currency in global trade, including the oil trade, and establishing a petro - yuan that could challenge, in the future, the dominance of the petrodollar.

Of course keyword data is incredibly useful for benchmarking performance of content within search and can be an important signal for content planning topics, social media messaging and subsequent optimization.

I just pulled down my own PDF copy of «Into Focus: Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video and a Guide for Creators,» and it's full of tasty information useful both for organizations already using video and for those just thinking about ordering that snazzy new camera.

Nonetheless, Peter Syverson, vice president for research and information services at the Council of Graduate Schools, says the survey is «as good as we've got» and that it provides useful benchmarks.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

The Oscars are still the ultimate quality benchmark and a useful global marketing tool for Netflix, whose chief content officer Ted Sarandos is an enthusiastic Academy voter who has twice run for the Board of Governors.

Even in professions with clear knowledge - or performance - based benchmarks for certification, as in law or medicine, licensure is useful primarily as a way of establishing minimal competence.

While many people now have access to internet at a much higher speed than this, it can act as a useful benchmark and conservative target for calculating the capacity of a school connection.

Understanding benchmarking and its implication is useful for remedial classes in the schools.

The benchmarking procedure provides a helpful guide for monitoring progress and adjusting intervention plans based on individual student growth, and it sets useful interim goals for predicting student outcomes.

Setting the same assessment at multiple points across the school year provides excellent quantitative evidence of student improvement; very useful for benchmarking.

Each test question is mapped to a curriculum outcome, making them particularly useful for benchmarking, assessing student progress and identifying strengths and weaknesses.

The Standard & Poor's Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) reports are useful for determining the percentage of active funds that beat their benchmarks.

I plan on checking in regularly to your site for updates as it seems like a really useful benchmark.

This means comparison sites, while useful for benchmarking, don't do the trick.

This is because provincial securities regulators will require advisors to report money - weighted rates of return, which are less useful for benchmarking.

This data product will be useful in future studies, including as a benchmark for comparisons with climate - model simulations that attempt to account for both anthropogenic and natural factors in projections of future climate.

Similarly, it can be useful to benchmark climate models against the observed record to establish some sort of reasonable initial state for future predictions.

snarkrates: 1) I've not had occasion to try Weibull, but lognormal has been useful (for analysis of computer performance benchmarks based on performance ratios.)

Regardless of whether the similarity in order of magnitude for these two reports [Stern's and EPRI's] is meaningful or coincidental, and regardless of whether or not it is useful to compare a global to locally projected impacts, the similarity has the unconscious effect of establishing a benchmark for we non-economists.

For 10 years now, the Blickstein Group, in cooperation with Consilio, has been surveying Legal Ops and other law department professionals, focusing solely on the operations function and seeks to provide benchmarks that are useful to the largest law departments.

But I think the benchmarking part of it is very useful and I also think that the innovation is probably happening among outliers and I would say that if I'm a firm looking to invest in technology and to go make technology a differentiation with other firms, I think these numbers would actually be very encouraging to say, «Hey, maybe even now even though we haven't done anything for a few years, we could actually make a jump in technology over some of our competitors.»

: Yeah, I think these surveys are useful for that — there's the consistent numbers, I can give you some benchmarkings.

With registration, this year's report is freely available to download and is filled with hundreds of data points useful for benchmarking purposes.

Pie charts like this can be a useful benchmark, especially for people who have never made a budget before, said Todd Curtis, chief customer officer for You Need a Budget, a budgeting software company.

When users run benchmark apps, which I agree aren't a useful proxy for real life performance, we believe that they want to see the full potential of their device without interference from tampering.

Each Standard includes Benchmarks to ensure the safety and effectiveness of mentoring relationships, as well as Enhancements that may be promising, innovative and useful for programs.

This special edition of Global Perspectives includes useful survey findings for benchmarking your success, identifying overlooked opportunities, and much more.