Sentences with phrase «uses small incentives»

Contingency management (CM) is a successful treatment approach for substance dependence that uses small incentives to reinforce abstinence.

You can also consider using small incentives such as handing out special stickers to children whose parents completed the tool prior to their well - visit (found in Family Engagement Tools).

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And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

The smallest companies still make the most use of incentive - only (commission) plans to pay their sales force.

Small businesses that need to keep a closer eye on return on time investment could set some parameters on how the time is used, or alternatively set up some kind of ranking of pain points that need solving within the business, with an incentive system for coming up with solutions.

Thus, the long - term target incentives for the NEOs who head these significant business segments are determined based on a blend of peer positions with similar titles at peer group companies and CEO positions among smaller companies, using the 75th percentile for peer - company positions and the median for CEO positions at smaller companies as competitive reference points.

With the whole group and the small groups, focus on learning skills which couples can use to help themselves and others experience crises as incentives for growth (see below.

The devil is undoubtedly in the detail as Wesselius is critical of the view, often voiced in Brussels, that because the sector is small no player has an incentive to use underhand tactics.

The residents proposed that use of the five tests could be reduced by half and were offered a small financial incentive ($ 400 per resident) if they could achieve that goal.

If one uses student gains or losses as a general measure, then those who teach the neediest children — English - language learners, troubled students, autistic students — will see the smallest gains, and teachers will have an incentive to avoid districts and classes with large numbers of the neediest students.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

It's one thing to provide incentives to urge communities to create regional school districts, but Malloy's plan uses a sledge - hammer and on - going punishment and the consequences will be to destroy many of Connecticut's small rural schools.

Next use the smaller ebook covers on your opt in forms and use the ebook as an incentive for people to join your lists.

When I used to work in real estate and mortgage sales, or as BDM for a small incentive marketing company, everything work - related I did, I had an agenda.

Once customer's have clicked through and purchased your eBook, use your email newsletter to give them incentives for reviewing your eBook; perhaps a small gift voucher for your online store (if you already have other products for sale), a discount voucher for a department store, or even a special freebie download such as a workbook or extra product you may have created.

Right now I'm primarily using GnuCash for accounting, and there is a «Stock» account type in GnuCash that the FAQ states can be used for personal ISOs (Incentive Stock Options), but I'm not sure if this would be appropriate for actually managing shares by a small business.

By splitting the development process into smaller pieces and spreading it across the globe, Guerilla gave little incentive to stop and question the implications of using Native American imagery as well as words like «savages» and «tribal.»

That money could be shifted to incentives for people to use their feet, bicycles, or smaller autos in their daily journies to work; incentives to make homes and workplaces more energy efficient; incentives to shift future land developments into in - fill projects rather than urban sprawl; and incentives to make cities more friendly to pedestrians and less friendly to cars.

The greater the threat of climate regulations that prohibit oil use, the smaller the incentives become for OPEC to wield its cartel power to drop production to prop up long - run oil prices.

Between the ITC and the Duke Energy incentives it would more than halve the average $ 29,400 cost of a 10 - kilowatt system in North Carolina (using May 2018 estimates from solar-estimates.org), reducing it by $ 14,820 to $ 14,580 — the cost of a small compact car.

Besides lobbying for financial incentives and more flexible planning, the AWEA is hoping to encourage small wind use through a certification system ensuring turbine performance, reliability and safety.

Large lenders with mortgages backed by those agencies have a financial incentive to use designated law firms when foreclosing on loans, and some smaller lenders are required to use the designated firms.

The bill aimed to restrict anti-competitive practices and encourage competition, and included provisions which allow retailers to refuse to use credit cards for small purchases and offer incentives for using cash or another type of card.

Simplified Employee Pension (SEP IRA), Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers (SIMPLE IRA) and a 401 (k) Plan, as long as the plan document allows for it, can also be used.