Sentences with phrase «using measures like»

Others criticized recent efforts to reform public education by using measures like student test scores to evaluate teachers.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

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Using things like QR codes and other security measures seems like it could really help secure the company and the employees.

The initiative is intended to teach small businesses how to use Facebook to generate new customers, retain existing ones and build an online community through things like buying display ads targeting specific markets as well as other cost - free measures.

An animated emoji that will use the front - facing camera to measure your face, animate your favourite emojis into life - like characters, and record a short clip for text messaging.

Harris is an outspoken critic of using engagement — as measured by screen time, click - throughs, likes, and other actions — as a metric of success.

Using these badges, organizations can not only tell who's working together, where, and for how long, but also how seemingly banal measures like face - to - face conversations correlate to performance and creativity.

«Economic measures,» like usage - based billing, ironically, should be used to control congestion instead, the regulator said.

Used to measure what percentage of your body is fat, it's a white capsule, like a spaceship escape pod for one.

You measure a country's ability to innovate using myriad factors, including registered trademarks, articles published in scientific journals and the size of its export market in fields like electronics or pharmaceuticals.

Aside from that, the brewing process involves nothing more than using one of those measured cups and selecting the beverage size you would like.

In a time when some big banks and payment processors like MasterCard are getting involved with bitcoin — but cautiously, and typically citing the uses of the blockchain as the appeal — that's a smart, measured reminder.

The US News methodology uses a number of measures — like selectivity, employment rates, and bar passage rate — to rank top law schools, and the weighted average of these scores determines the ranking.

The key is for you to set goals like it's really your business; then use them as a yardstick for to measure everything your startup does.

Mr. Mulcair has used polluter pay as a justification for measures like cap - and - trade and more recently for increased vigilance with respect to reclamation liabilities.

If you use something like Clickmeeting, for example, you can brand the presentation to match your personal brand's aesthetic, track and measure engagement throughout the webinar, and then once you're done, download the video and then upload to your social platforms as a recap — in case you missed it.

And, yes, he still has his accounts hacked just like everyone else if he doesn't use strong password security (or other measures, like two - factor authentication, that help thwart would - be attackers).

In the past, his team has relied on organic measures like referrals (the company amassed 200,000 - plus Facebook fans mostly by word of mouth), but it has tried more targeted efforts recently, including a small campaign using Yahoo's native ads platform.

That's why so much of the floorplan, labor and customer interaction tended to be centered around the cash register and metrics like sales per square foot and average transaction size were used to measure success.

Trying to compare poverty in the 1960s to poverty today using the official measure yields misleading results; it implies that programs like SNAP, the EITC, and rental vouchers — all of which were either small in the 1960s or didn't yet exist — have no effect in reducing poverty, which clearly is not the case.

Poloz later told a Senate committee that the bank did not have a lot of traditional tools left to boost the economy, but could use unconventional measures like forward guidance, asset purchases, quantitative easing and negative interest rates.

Using a combination of tools, like a marketing - automation platform and an Instagram analytics tool, marketers can measure the impact Instagram has on generating new leads and on nurturing existing leads down the marketing funnel.

Zuckerberg mentioned the use of cookies to measure ads and for security purposes but avoided providing detail about the company's pervasive use of plugins on third - party sites (such as the Like button), ad pixels, and programs like offline conversion (businesses uploading to Facebook offline information about customers) to track and target users wherever they are on the interLike button), ad pixels, and programs like offline conversion (businesses uploading to Facebook offline information about customers) to track and target users wherever they are on the interlike offline conversion (businesses uploading to Facebook offline information about customers) to track and target users wherever they are on the internet.

Like with GDP, there are a whole set of problems with using the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy, but it is a reasonable proxy, and perhaps in our case, it is the best measure that can be found.

Using a reputable exchange and security measures like two - factor authentication can increase security.

Despite this technology, though, social - media marketing often feels like a throwback to the golden age of TV: At least so far, marketers can't predict or measure the impact of their campaigns with anything near the precision they're used to elsewhere online.

An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall market segment» performance.

I can't stress enough how critical it is to measure the results of your content marketing activities so you can continually learn what your audience likes and use that information to continually improve.

Your FICO score, which is used by credit reporting agencies like Equifax to measure consumer risk, puts the most weight on a borrower's payment history.

You can even measure how volatile investors expect the market to be using indicators like VIX, which is the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index.

And because it's often used as a measure of cost - of - living, the CPI helps to determine how much money you'll get in benefits from programs like Social Security, food stamps and veterans» assistance programs.

In response to the Parkland shooting, Florida passed a law that incorporates some of those measures — such as expanding mental health services and regulations — but it doesn't ban assault - style weapons like the AR - 15 used in the shooting.

Much like the Length of history component, the types of credit component is likely used as a measure for how representative your existing credit history sample size will be about your future behavior.

Website traffic and «vanity metrics» (friends, followers, «likes») are the most common metrics marketers use to measure the business impact of social media.

You like to SAY, millions of years but there is no WAY, you can say that with saying WHICH, calendar you use to measure THIS.

[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure of CCU outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.»

Whether it's because your friends are all using FaceTune or they're «flexing for the gram,» social media can feel like an exercise in performance anxiety or on the other end, an insidious confirmation that you just don't measure up to your peers.

I was, yes but when I first started the blog I didn't have any measuring equipment so I used what I had and people seemed to like the accessibility of it so I stuck with it x

I have used a «baking blend» in the past that is mixed with a filler so that it can be measured just like sugar.

Add it to the prepared pan in an even layer and use something round, like a shorter drinking glass or a measuring cup, with a flat bottom to press the crust into the pan so it's fairly compact.

Thank you for this amazing recipe one question though, I added my buttermilk substitute (milk + lemon juice) and egg mixture until the consistency was like shown in the picture, but was left with about 1/3 -1 / 4 of the wet ingredients... I measured my ingredients on an electric scale, could it be because I used cake flour instead of all - purpose?

sorry i do nt want to be mad but why did you use measuring units like cup for herbs?

From what I understand, regular Splenda measures cup for cup like sugar, so I would probably suggest using double the amount of Splenda as is listed.

Press mixture into the bottom of your prepared pan and so it covers the bottom and is tightly packed (I like to use the bottom of my measuring cup for this).

What's in it: 2 Tablespoons olive oil 5 cloves of garlic, finely chopped 3 or 4 large shallots, finely chopped (about 1 cup) 2 large carrots, finely chopped (about 1 cup) 1 stalk of celery, finely chopped (about 1/2 cup) 1 red bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped 10 ounces cremini mushrooms, finely chopped (about 2 cups) 1 cup green lentils 1 tablespoon italian herbs (I used half fresh chopped thyme and half dried oregano, but use any that you like, fresh or dried) 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional) 1/2 cup red wine 2 Tablespoons tomato paste 2, 14 oz cans diced tomatoes (low sodium or no salt added, if possible) 14 oz water (you'll fill one of those empty tomato cans to measure) Salt and Pepper to taste

Instead measuring out the oats, chia seeds and pecans separately, I like to just use Love Grown Foods Super Oats with Chia & Nuts — that stuff ROCKS my world.

I also used almond extract since it's clear and wouldn't add a brownish tinge to it like vanilla does, and I added a dash of cinnamon for good measure.

I like using a ladle for this step because it insures that I get an equal amount of stock going into the pan each time, but if you don't have a ladle you can use a 1 cup measuring cup.

If you do not have a cookie scoop like that, you could just use a 1/4 cup measuring cup and then just roll the dough in your hands to make the cookie ball that way.

I like to use a glass measuring cup for this step.