Sentences with phrase «useful measure»

Record highs by number, but not by percentage - arguably the more useful measure for historical comparison.

As researchers, we have a long way to go to demonstrate that we can provide useful measures of principal effectiveness, but teacher surveys are surely a good place to start.

The most useful measure of marketing automation performance is conversion rate for 70 % of very successful system users.

Daily trade volume, which is calculated in USD, is arguably a more useful measure because it reflects how much a particular cryptocurrency is actually used.

On the reverse of the sheet are other useful measures that allow teachers to gauge a student's confidence and reflective abilities.

One problem is that the rating itself is not a very useful measure by itself.

The widespread reluctance of marital practitioners to conduct standardized assessments may be indicative of the difficulties involved in identifying and selecting useful measures from the burgeoning assessment literature.

The most useful measure of an index fund's performance is its tracking error, or the difference between the returns of the index and the actual return achieved by the fund.

Housing affordability, which takes income into account, is arguably a more useful measure.

To that end, the USB meter isn't as useful a measure as a device that measures wall current like the Kill - a-Watt meter we showcase in our article The How - To Geek Guide to Measuring Your Energy Use.

Global temperature and Earth's energy imbalance provide our most useful measuring sticks for quantifying global climate change and the changes of global climate forcings that would be required to stabilize global climate.

which is not to deny that the total size — text and pictures, not to mention audio and video in the days to come — is a very useful measure in and of itself, especially when you consider the matter of «cloud storage» which you mention.

«Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost - with - all - hands stupidity.

They are sometimes useful measures, and even then, ought to be used and viewed with caveats that are usually missing from the often - heated debates over who's doing what to whom in education.

It is a really useful measure of financial performance — that tells a better story than net income — because it shows what money the company has leftover to expand the business or return to shareholders, after paying dividends, buying back stock or paying off debt.

If the calibration has any predictive value, one would expect it to do better than just the sample average over the validation period and, for this reason, CE is a particularly useful measure.

While sometimes misused by employers, employee criminal background checks are a widely accepted and largely useful measure used by employers to make better employment decisions.

Global temperature and Earth's energy imbalance provide our most useful measuring sticks for quantifying global climate change and the changes of global climate forcings that would be required to stabilize global climate.

The first side of each worksheet is a checklist with two ways for the student to rate confidence for each of the sub-topics and the second side features other useful measures that allow teachers to measure a student's confidence and reflective abilities.

Other useful measures of the overall market include Tobin's q and dividend equivalents (P / D5 and P / D10) of P / E10.

The most useful measure of energy for nutritional purposes is metabolizable energy (ME), which is defined as that portion of the total energy of a diet that is retained within the body.

The stock market is not a useful measure of how successful an administration's economic policies are.

The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.

The most useful measure we've found of that psychological inclination is the uniformity or divergence of market internals across a broad range of individual stocks, industries, sectors, and security types (including debt securities of varying creditworthiness).

To us, that just isn't a useful measure of risk.

It's a useful measure of what the business should be worth to an acquirer, and approximates our base case valuation.

Compound Annual Growth Rate The compound annual growth rate is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.

Mr. Larson is an advocate for campaign finance reform on the federal level, as well as tax reform, limits on congressional gerrymandering, increased Connecticut and U.S. manufacturing and other useful measures.

Natural England's survey, now in its fifth year, is a useful measure of how people engage with the natural environment from their local park to the expanses of moorland.

A five - point ethics reform deal contains more useful measures to combat corruption, including reducing the size of financial contributions to political candidates needed to trigger disclosure and adding further restrictions to the political action committees that flourished after the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Senior study author Katsuhiko Yanagisawa, director general of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Japan, is convinced that enough amyloid penetrates the blood — brain barrier to make its way into the bloodstream to be a useful measure of cognitive function.

Calculating a baseline closer to the pre-industrial era provides a useful measure of global temperature for policymakers and the public to better track how successful the world's efforts are in keeping global warming below agreed - upon thresholds.

Some useful measures may be worthwhile even if expensive; those with limited clinical value should be retired, especially if expensive.

Vagal tone indicates the influence of the vagus nerve, which connects the brain with other key organs and provides a useful measure of the body's ability to regulate physiological stress responses.

«This gives scientists and forest managers a useful measure to monitor for.»

Accumulating scientific evidence suggests that total fat content is not a useful measure of harms or benefits of food, and that fats from nuts, fish and phenolic - rich vegetable oils are healthier than fats from meat and processed foods.

«Fasting blood sugar is easily measured and our findings suggest that it could serve as a useful measure in advising some patients on the type of diet that is most beneficial for their weight loss,» said senior author Sai Krupa Das, Ph.D., scientist in the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston.

If replicated, these brain activity changes could help us identify those vulnerable to gambling addiction and might be a useful measure of the effectiveness of therapy for gambling related problems.»