Sentences with phrase «why measures like»

It's why measures like the recently passed Prop B in Missouri, that limits the size of puppy mills, among other reforms, are so important.

That's why measures like housing prices, employment and wealth are particularly important, and are given the greatest weighting in our ranking.

In general this is true, and helps to explain why measures like beta and standard deviation of returns do not measure risk, and are not...

Not exact matches

And given Germany's unwillingness to take the most basic measures, like boosting government spending or encouraging domestic wage increases, that would help iron out some of the imbalances in the European economy, the situation in Greece will likely only force Italians to wonder why it is tethering itself to such an uncooperative partner.

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.

And, as we all know from Professor Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, we behave differently when we know we're being watched (and / or measured) and this is why we like to say that «what gets measured is what gets done.»

It'd be phenomenal to keep that up, but in terms of growth, it's more about people taking action and it's like I really want to measure the results, which is like pretty impossible to do, but at the same time that's why I really like things what we're doing with the student loan debt movement, where people are reporting back with how much student loan debt they're paying off.

That's why I don't bother measuring Facebook Likes, retweets, or any of the other vanity metrics.

Here's an explanation of why elected leaders fail — despite broad public support — to pass measures like additional...

Such awareness of the presence of God can not automatically be turned on and off like an electric light, and this is why a measure of quiet and unhurried rest is necessary for the most meaningful praying.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Teresa of Avila on Blogging,» Jessica wrote: ``... As for blogging fatigue, this is why I don't blog, but I think it's something we all face in a society that measures success in website hits, facebook likes and twitter followers.

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

That's why I use a granulated that measures cup for cup like sugar in all the recipes — that way you can calculate how much you need of yours using their conversion charts which can be found online.

Web Link (Po Bronson's Sunday NYT Magazine piece «Why can some kids handle pressure while others fall apart» citing university neuroscience professor's research) Strategies that support student focus like anti-test and project stacking measures help all.

Could this current scarcity of measures for character be why things like IQ take precedence in academia?

Cars like the Chrysler Pacifica are designed with family safety in mind, but when you're travelling with your baby, you want to take extra measures to keep her perfectly safe, which is why choosing the right car seat is important.

It could provide the best measure yet of the competing narratives that seek to explain why Democrats like Latimer have performed well in the «blue wave» that has recently washed over the state.

Why weren't the living wage and the defence spending pledge in the Tory manifesto, like many of the Budget measures announced by Mr Osborne?

Officials briefing journalists about the new policy were asked why human rights concerns had led to punitive measures in Cuba's case but were not playing a role in the administration's policy to other notable human rights offenders, like the Philippines and Saudi Arabia.

If we are unwilling to use relatively cheap mitigation options, like alternative energies, today, he says, «why should we expect future generations to adopt significantly more expensive measures to deal with C02?»

The other aspect is that space - time is incredibly stiff: that's why you need a cataclysmic event like the merger of two black holes to produce a distortion that we can measure.

That's why my future undergarments will include the BioHarness, a special chest strap from an Annapolis, Maryland, company called Zephyr that measures vital signs like heart rate and skin temperature, as well as body motions, and relays any worrisome readings via a Bluetooth transmitter to whoever might be standing by with a cellphone or computer to help.

And that is why many researchers like Chesler have joined forces to develop more mouse - friendly measures of normal and abnormal behavior.

Dr. Ben House: To me it's like why do I want to measure chaos?

Since this is a post about math, you can do the calculations to see what this little data jaunt cost, and why you might not want to measure every day all the time like I did in this example.

Motor potential is easy to measure - hence why I like it.

And for those who have big arms like myself, the closest measurement I can get on the arms is approximately 15.8 inches — my arms measure 16 inches at their biggest point, though, so that gives you some input as to why they feel a bit tight for me when I first put the dress on.

Maybe that's why the film often feels like a sex farce played at half - speed, with the more measured pace evoking a sense of pained autumnal reflection.

For example, several of the 13 dimensions of teaching expertise were measured using student surveys, with questions such as, «An important reason why I do homework is because I like to learn new things,» or, «I do my schoolwork because I'm interested in it.»

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.

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.

«This is why we put in place new measures to improve the SEND training available to school staff, including tools developed through our work with organisations like nasen, to boost the profile of early years professionals working with children who have additional learning needs — building on a commitment set out in our Early Years Workforce Strategy.»

Like the anti-Duncan measure, many of the items had a fatuous air that suggests why teachers unions are losing favor with parents, Democrats and even many teachers.

That's why ALEC backs anti-union measures like the attack on workers» right to collective bargaining.

He also explains why he likes this measure of value over others and what it's saying today.

That's why I like to measure the market using Graham & Dodd's price - to - earnings ratio, named in honour of the co-authors of the value investing bible Security Analysis.

I can't understand why kids are so reluctant to use easy cost saving measures like community college (instruction just as good as four year), testing in lieu of classes for credit, summer classes, good public schools instead of private, online courses (more convenient but NOT easier).

That's why I measure myself versus broad market benchmarks, even though I invest more like a midcap value manager.

The debate, in a nutshell, goes something like this: Why pay higher fees for an actively managed fund that has a shot at posting much bigger returns than the index it's measured against but which also runs the risk of posting smaller returns, when you can buy a low - cost index fund, such as those that track the performance of the S&P 500 index, which pretty much guarantees that your returns will be in line with the index?

Why we like it: Aside from the lack of annual fees and the 5 % cash back bonus on rotating categories, the Discover It card offers plenty of other features for card members, including free access to your FICO score each month and the Freeze It security measure, which allows you to turn your card on or off whenever you like.

I have wondered for a long time why the Shadow Stock Portfolio's compound annual average return is measured against the VTSMX, rather than the NAESX and the DFSCX like you do when reporting monthly and YTD performance?

The law of large numbers may explain why, even at its recent lofty stock price, Apple looks like a bargain by most measures.

This helps explain why I'll occasionally write things like, «Depending on how you measure it, corrections happen every 12 - 18 months, on average.»

That's why we take the measures to provide a facility that is more like a 4 - star pet hotel.

Remember, the list isn't about who is playing multiplayer the most — it measures the amount of people playing games * while signed into XBox Live * — this includes single player portions of each game (That's why games like Skyrim are on the list).

They are still trying to find why the angular rotation aligns with measures like SOI and the multidecadal global warming signal.

So I'd like to throw this back to you Geoff — if things like the NEP are flawed, and if you see our scales for measuring climate change scepticism and its relationship to ideology as not capturing the essence of why people are sceptical about climate change, how should social science seek to understand people's beliefs about the environment and climate change?

Besides I strongly oppose (like R.Pielke and many others) the idea that the «global time average of the surface temperature» has any physical meaning or is a valid metrics to measure the «climate» and I can't see the beginning of a valid reason why it should correlate to any relevant dynamical parameter.

-- You go on to say: «But the real question in all of this is why would one use a «proxy» like trends between windy - calm nights (and there's lots of hair on the wind - calm information which comes from NCEP re-analysis on a gridcell basis only) to analyze UHI when temperatures can be measured directly across a transect.

That is why USCAP has called for a program that combines a emissions caps with complementary policies and measures to speed the deployment of big change technologies in critical areas like power generation, vehicle design, and new fuels.