Sentences with phrase «whether measures like»

However, whether measures like these really help remains to be seen; an even cheaper model — at around say $ 300 — could have helped build demand even more.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, policy makers were unsure whether measures like these would work.

Not exact matches

The survey measures things like whether a manager treats the team with respect and outlines goals clearly.

So if we look at a range of market valuation measures, whether it's Shiller CAPE, whether its price - to - book, whether it's price - to - trailing earnings, price - to - peak earnings, when we look at these measures, they look like they're in the, what we would call, the 10th decile, meaning generally, valuations are cheaper 90 % of the time.

If they can't measure your outputs, they may measure your inputs, like whether you're staying late at work.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

Whether your company relies on traditional outbound lead generation tactics like cold calling and networking at trade shows, or inbound lead generation like content marketing, there are many tools available to manage the process more efficiently and measure results along the way — hopefully turning more of your sales leads into sales.

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.

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

Because it measures core body temp just like the rectal thermometer I was using, it's been easy for me to translate the readings to know whether I can take my son to preschool or not.

It's difficult to measure the actual success of a prenatal education program like Baby Plus because you can't really tell whether the system is responsible for a baby's calmness, alertness or smarts.

When everything that seems to matter is measured in numbers that anyone can see don't truly measure worth or success, then manipulating those numbers begins to seem like fair game, whether you're cheating to gain time for lacrosse practice or for your night shift.

Like this woman, most of us, whether defending the au pair or the parents, are also apt in some measure to be defending ourselves.

Kolb said if the governor doesn't like the resulting legislation, Cuomo can always veto the measure, and lawmakers can then decide whether to vote to override.

It's a good bet, though, that the issue would be tied up in court if a law requiring sites like Amazon to collect sales tax were enacted, with a challenge centering on whether federal laws regarding interstate commerce would supersede the state measure.

Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work of measuring the masses and densities of the planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.

Cannibals — whether microbes or Methodists — who eat their own relatives can also experience decreases in a measure of evolutionary success known as inclusive fitness, in which the survival of an individual's genes, whether they're from an offspring or a collateral relative (like a brother or cousin) is the true measure of evolutionary success.

But quantum physics predicts that whether you observe wave like behavior (interference) or particle behavior (no interference) depends only on how it is actually measured at the end of its journey.

For health officials, it could inform decisions on how to stockpile and distribute vaccines and antiviral drugs, and in the case of a virulent outbreak, whether other measures, like closing schools, are necessary.

Online contributors were asked a series of questions about each abstract to measure whether papers had a narrative style, including elements like language that appeals to one's senses and emotions.

The rise in brain glutamate predicted both the duration and the intensity of positive emotion, measured by participant ratings about whether they liked the drug or felt high after consuming it.

By measuring those waves using hundreds of seismic stations installed on the surface, near places such as Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone National Park, researchers can deduce whether there are narrow mantle plumes or whether volcanoes are simply created from magma that's absorbed in the sponge - like shallower mantle.

The medical interviews tested whether the women had cold - like symptoms, the blood test included measuring white blood cell count, viral antigens, and an IgG activity test (to determine whether subjects had recent CMV infection), and the ultrasound examinations looking for symptoms of congenital CMV infection in the fetus.

«In a lot of ways, for a long time our way of measuring whether a state was fragile or was going to collapse didn't really include core environmental factors and natural resource factors, like food and water,» said Femia, who is also the president and co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security.

He and his colleagues surveyed people who watched Will & Grace, measuring whether or not they agreed with statements like «Sex between two men is just plain wrong» and «Lesbians are sick.»

They also may conduct some alternative tests like measuring the contraction of your iris or monitoring whether your blood pressure changes as you go from lying down to standing up (3).

When Dr. Liu and his colleagues measured the relative amounts of phenolics, and whether they were present in bound or free form, in common fruits and vegetables like apples, red grapes, broccoli and spinach, they found that phenolics in the «free» form averaged 76 % of the total number of phenolics in these foods.

That starts through a measure of Kubrickian austerity with a question about whether some people like Eric are truly incorrigible and should just be dropped in a deep, dark hole and forgotten about.

If there's no suspense in whether or not Cash and June will get together, a measure of discomfort in the beating Cash's first wife Vivian (Ginnifer Goodwin) takes for reacting reasonably to her husband's philandering and pill - popping, and some disdain for the coy trainspotting of songs, George Lucas In Love - style, throughout (June cries «burns, burns, burns» at one point and accuses Johnny of being unable to «walk the line» at another), at least there are a couple of moments like that 5 & Dime scene that let the cast out of a certain straitjacket.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

Like other schools in Aldine, Thompson Elementary also regularly administers its own tests to measure whether students are mastering the district's standards as well as the school's benchmarks.

The NBA has increasingly supplemented traditional statistics like points, rebounds, and assists with more comprehensive, informative measures like «plus - minus» (whether your team outscores the opponent while a particular player is in the game).

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

So for example you could use a light sensor to measure the density of a solution just by its transparency then compare that to the weight, and things like that, or whether something fully precipitates or doesn't.

That is, the true test of the predictive power of «noncog» measures is not whether they are correlated with cognitive measures (like achievement scores), but whether they are correlated with later life outcomes.

They can not isolate with confidence the effect of individual criteria, like whether a teacher is certified in the subject or has higher SAT scores because «many of the measures of teachers» qualifications are highly correlated with each other.»

Back in 2009, President Obama told an audience of business leaders that he wanted to see tests «that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem - solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.»

And further clarity on whether states can measure things like students who earn Advanced Placement credit in their systems for holding schools accountable would be helpful, he said.

Used for virtually every teacher, SGOs are mutually agreed - upon goals for teachers in measuring how their students are doing, whether it's through classroom assessments or things like attendance or discipline.

Genethia Hudley Hayes and Jose Huizar, the school board members who proposed the motion, say they question whether a national standardized test like the Stanford 9, on which many low - income black and Latino children do poorly, is the best measure.

But how do you measure whether a young person has «mastered» something like self - awareness?

I worry that there are important aspects of a school like whether all kids are growing, how much, and whether kids are reading at grade level that get lost in the quest to create the perfect overall measure.

But whatever formula individual states end up approving to identify low - achieving schools — whether it's test scores, attendance rates or more subtle measures like surveying for student engagement and parental satisfaction — the same campuses typically end up in the bottom 5 percent, according to Minnich.

Mark, I am very interested in whether teachers can make good use of the data thrown off by a Kindle Paperwhite, like measures that could indicate fluency.

But the debate rages on about whether APR is a fair way to measure the cost of an ultra-short term loan like a payday loan.

Gold is the measuring rod of economics, whether we like it or not.

Whether future YOC is a useful measure for screening dividend growth stocks is debatable, much like YOC in general.

In Horizon 3, you get rewarded for driving like a maniac and with finesse in equal measure, whether you're in an event or tearing through a poor farmer's fields.

There are reasons to worry about whether a carbon tax or cap - and - trade system would produce the emissions reductions we need quickly enough, and it is very plausible that additional measures like fuel taxes and efficiency requirements will be needed in addition.

If there are covariances & correlations like this, the question isn't whether the items are measuring something but only what