Sentences with phrase «useful measures of»

Findings revealed that both scales are appropriate and useful measures of fatigue - related symptomatology and disability within a general population of individuals with varying levels of fatigue.

Harding praised Moe's efforts to talk about union incentives and behavior, accepted the notion that test scores are useful measures of learning, and suggested we can all «put our heads in our hands over the state of [teacher] contracts.»

I agree that it's always difficult to get useful measures of the impact social media activity in the advocacy / political world.

The Company believes free cash flow and free cash flow conversion are meaningful to investors as they function as useful measures of performance, and the Company uses these measures as an indication of the strength of the company and its ability to generate cash.

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 of marketing automation performance is conversion rate for 70 % of very successful system users.

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

Murray comes up with a very useful measure of community dysfunction: the percentage of «problematic people,» which he arrives at by combining prime - age males not making a living, single mothers raising children, a guesstimate of prime - age adults who are living alone, and those uninvolved in any community activity.

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.

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.

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.

Gene number per se is not likely to provide a useful measure of biological complexity.

Both interventions were found to offer significant improvements in hirsutism, and improved levels of follicle - stimulating hormone (FSH) levels, sex hormone - binding globulin (SHBG), total testosterone, androstenedione, and free androgen index (FAI)-- a useful measure of the testosterone / SHBG ratio.

Your waist - hip ratio is a simple and useful measure of fat distribution and can help determine overall health risk.

Getting back to my friend's e-mail: Yes, I believe that calories are a useful measure of the energy contained in the foods we consume and a useful measure of the energy our bodies expend.

Whilst BMI can be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.

Note: Whilst BMI can be a useful measure of health for the general population it may not work for all especially individuals with more muscle mass, some athletes, and specifically body builders.

While FRPL offers a much - needed service to schools and provides students with beneficial nutrition, it is not an accurate or useful measure of student poverty or an effective tool for identifying low - income students.

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.

It is a useful measure of management efficiency.

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

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.

In fact, «testing positive» is not a useful measure of a cat's ability to infect other animals or people; it's merely an indication that antibodies are present in the cat's blood — to be expected after they shed oocysts.

«the simple average number of animals brought home is not a useful measure of central tendency because of the skewed frequency distribution of the numbers of prey items brought home...» [2]

But to Righthand's point: the rate of cats testing positive — or seroprevalence — is, in any event, not a useful measure of their ability to infect other animals or people.

Wind speed is a useful measure of storm strength (cat 1 - 5, (E) F scale...), and pressure drop also (~ wind speed * distance scale ~ speed * sqrt (area) if not too elongated)-- although (I think) potential energy ~ area * (change in p ^ 2) and kinetic energy ~ area * speed ^ 2 (assumes same vertical extent, density...)

Wouldn't increased weather activity suppress surface temperatures, making temperature a less useful measure of total change?

There has been much discussion as to why tree ring data stopped being a useful measure of temperature in the 60's and 70's.

The «global warming trend» since 1970 has, if anything, slightly increased since 1997 — * if * you are happy to agree that «global warming trend» measured over a period of 27 years or more is a useful measure of global warming.

Or you imply that GHG concentration at say LGM cant really be determined within any useful measure of accuracy?

For example, the MSE calculated for the validation period provides a useful measure of the accuracy of the reconstruction; the square root of MSE can be used as an estimate of the reconstruction standard error.

If the global average infrared absorptive capacity of the atmosphere is not a useful measure of the greenhouse effect, then what is?

In other words, the Heat Loss Form Factor is a useful measure of the compactness of a building.

While statistics about usage can be helpful, just knowing how often a book is borrowed is not, in itself, a useful measure of its value.

LOC (lines of code) is a useful measure of amount of work done in software development.

Can we update the Summary Hospital Mortality Index (SHMI) to make a useful measure of the quality of hospital care?

The DERS appears to be a useful measure of detecting NSSI in clinical samples of adolescents.

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«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.

Pingdom Tools is an excellent resource for measuring your site's speed and the waterfall graphic provides useful information about exactly which aspects of your site are causing slowdowns.

MTS's management believes that the presentation of non-GAAP measures provides useful information to investors and management regarding financial and business trends relating to the Company's results of operations as well as the net amount of cash generated by its business operations.

We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA are useful measures for investors to review, because they provide a consistent measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations for future performance.

We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and performance of our ongoing operations and are useful for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.

Rather, it's only when information on sexual activity is integrated with other measures — such as the date of a woman's last menstrual period — that such tracking becomes useful, experts said.

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

The Company believes that its presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides useful supplementary information to and facilitates additional analysis by investors.

Management uses non-GAAP financial measures internally to evaluate the performance of the business and believes they are useful measures that provide meaningful supplemental information to investors to consider when evaluating the performance of the Company.

Either way, it's useful for all of us to consider how we want to measure Canadian prosperity before we go any further.

Searchmetrics is useful for businesses doing a lot of search marketing and SEO that want to measure the search engine rankings for selected keywords along with the traffic driven to specific pages of a website.

While management believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying performance of the company's business operations, investors are reminded to consider these non-GAAP measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.