Sentences with phrase «without measuring the results»

That's because something important is at stake — depositor and shareholder money — and it would be absurd to run a bank without measuring results closely and assessing people and programs on their contribution to the bank's solvency.

Why would you market your business without measuring the results?

Not exact matches

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Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

The fact that the FBI opted for a raid without notice suggests prosecutors believed less - intrusive measures might result in the destruction of evidence.

Facebook marketing without a plan for tracking and measuring results will result in a lot of guess work, and ultimately, underperformance.

Newspapers across the country and beyond broadcasted the statistic without question, affirming the results as a fair measure of the deplorable state of world attitudes toward the Jews.

The reason is that without a belief in Yahweh, acceptance that Jesus Christ is the only «way» to a relationship with the Creator, and measuring results in terms of Biblical truths, there would be little universal help to Christians, Jews, Moslems, atheists, and others at all.

As a result of the Democrat's filibuster over the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program, 60 votes were needed to pass the measure, making it impossible for Republicans to pass the continuing without at least some Democratic support.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

He said new treatments that worked in a different way to current antipsychotics are yielding promising results in relieving symptoms without adverse outcomes, but said outcome measures needed to be standardised to ensure they were meaningful to both clinicians and people with dementia and carers.

When results were measured, «mice exposed to the light without the gelatin had a 53 % average decrease in the collagen content of their skin, compared to the mice that received no ultraviolet light exposure at all.

Results indicated that ADHD adults exhibited higher levels of original creative thinking on the verbal task of the ATTA (using a standardized measure of creativity) as well as higher levels of real - world creative achievement, in comparison to adults without ADHD.

Find what works for you through testing and measuring your results but just know muscle building can be done without the help of dairy and grains.

Hi Paul, I love your blog, about carbohydrates, I have to say about myself after several months of following a low carb diet without fruits and other starches, the result: was weight gain, constipation, low energy, now I do not measure the amounts of carbohydrates and eat large quantities of fruit and starches such as sweet potatoes, bananas, yuca... result?

Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).

Researchers have known about this for some time and have been wrestling with how to measure the effect of pupil clustering by ability — at its most extreme in grammar schools — without falling for phantoms (i.e. results caused by statistical error).

And, in a recent SEND release from the DfE we can see for the first time that this new measure does result in pupils with SEND receiving lower progress scores than their peers, here are the 2015/2016 progress scores for pupils with and without SEN:

Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.

Either way, sitting on your hands and hoping for change to happen without taking personal, proactive measures will only result in what you have always done.

The reason for this is that without stated objectives, there is no measure of whether a particular lesson plan produces the desired learning results.

The researchers focused on 18 - to 22 - year - olds in Georgia, Idaho and Texas — three states which implemented state - mandated financial literacy courses that first measured results for the class of 2007 without making any other significant changes to their schools» coursework.

Crown height reduction can often be curative in the beginning stages of dental disease when accompanied by diet correction and other preventive measures.1 — 3 However, in cases of moderate to severe dental disease, crown height reduction procedures will need to be performed repeatedly.1 - 3 Overgrown incisors or cheek teeth should be trimmed using a dental bur or trimming forceps (FIGURE 6A) designed specifically for crown reduction.1 - 3 Nail trimmers, rongeurs, and other manual cutting tools should never be used to perform crown height reduction.2, 3 Root damage, tooth fractures or splinters, and abnormal regrowth are likely to occur when using improper equipment.2, 3 Crown reduction performed without sedation or anesthesia is difficult and often done blindly, resulting in missed sharp points or spurs and injury to the gums, cheeks, or tongue.1 - 3 Rabbits with moderate to severe dental disease should be anesthetized, allowing crown reduction and reshaping to be performed with a low - speed dental bur while protecting soft tissues with bur guards and dental spatulas.1 — 3 (FIGURE 6B)

The results will be like ordering a new suit without having the tailor measure you in person.

As the would - be wizards rapidly acquire powerful new spells without learning proper safety measures, it's natural their hasty progress results in plenty of deadly accidents... Nine Parchments combines real - time spell - shooting action with RPG elements — level up your character and collect magical loot, filling your wardrobe with a myriad of wizard hats and powerful staves.

As the would - be wizards rapidly acquire powerful new spells without learning proper safety measures, it's natural their hasty progress results in plenty of deadly accidents...

For example they are using the measured CO2 as an external forcing, without considering that CO2 concentration is also the results of several carbon cycles natural mechanisms that might in part respond to solar variation too.

Only things that can actually be measured, showing what they would have been without the audit and what they are as a result of the audit.

The text decides (without brackets) in paragraph 7 that REDD - plus will occur in three phases and acknowledges sub-national strategies and results based demonstration activities as part of those strategies «beginning with the development of national strategies or action plans, policies and measures and capacity building, followed by the implementation of national policies and measures, and national strategies or actions plans and, as appropriate, sub national strategies, that could involve further capacity building, technology transfer and results based demonstration activities, and evolving into results - based actions.»

On what planet is it ok to publish modelling results without even a passing attempt to determine how these correlate with measured results!

This has not resulted in some small change to the temperatures as measured at Amberley, but rather a change in the temperature trend from one of cooling to dramatic warming; this is also what was done to the minimum temperature series for Rutherglen — and also without justification.

The May spills resulted in the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issuing a Corrective Action Order to TransCanada, finding that «the continued operation of the pipeline without corrective measures would be hazardous to life, property and the environment.»

In fact, certain of TEPCO's actions in the aftermath of the explosions have been confused and, some might opine, lacking discipline of purpose to the extent that expedient decisions have been made without proper forethought and judiciousness to avoid knock - on consequences: for example, the injection of seawater may have resulted in salt deposits sufficient to foul cooling flows in the lower regions of the RPV [reactor pressure vessel]; the liberation of hydrogen from seawater is more rampant than from freshwater and radiolysis of oxygen from the cooling water could provide stoichiometric conditions and ignition with hydrogen in the absence of air in the containments; and the latest and most recent announcement to deploy a nitrogen purge to the Unit 1 reactor seems yet another ill - explained and unjustified desperate measure».

It makes little sense to engage tactics like blogs and social networking without a strategy to measure the end result of those efforts.

Unsurprisingly, the CJEU did not waver, stating that «without the primacy of a Security Council resolution at the international level thereby being called into question, the requirement that the European Union institutions should pay due regard to the institutions of the United Nations must not result in there being no review of the lawfulness of such European Union measures, in the light of the fundamental rights which are an integral part of the general principles of European Union law.»

[102] Therefore the proper question to ask with regard to measuring damages in cases of without cause dismissal is not What did the plaintiff lose for the notice period as a result of the termination?

Nonetheless, such control measures bear little result, if any, as main Chinese exchanges continue to operate without disruption and have even made it to the list of top - 10 trading platforms in the world.

The results are fantastic; even without a secondary lens to assist in measuring depth, Google's software is capable of pulling off some stunning shots.

Bragging and boasting without quantifiable measures and results.

A company that compiled and sold criminal record reports has entered into a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission as a result of charges that it operated as a consumer reporting agency without taking consumer protection measures required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

«There are measures in the Children and Families Bill, including the speeding up of care proceedings, reduced judicial scrutiny of care plans and the placing of children with potential adopters without going to court, which are in serious danger of resulting in significant breaches of children and families» human rights.

It «catches measures that are intended to result in inequality and measures which (with or without intent) have an unequal effect on the rights and freedoms of the individuals and groups involved».

All the interaction parameters obtained non-significant results (p >.05), indicating that the contribution of CU severity on the psychological measures considered in this study is statistically equal for children who presented ODD and those without the diagnosis (similarly, the contribution of the presence / absence of ODD on the clinical indicators is not moderated by CU levels).

The inclusion of owners» imputed rent is necessary from a national income accounting approach because without this measure increases in homeownership would result in declines for GDP.