Sentences with phrase «year average scale»

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This year, the sector is on track to raise $ 2 billion in funding, with average deal sizes higher than ever, suggesting companies, at least in more instances, are attracting the capital they need to not just innovate, but scale.

Both studies found that until Americans hit the latter retirement years, when health care expenses tend to scale up, they're spending far less than 85 % of their pre-retirement income, on average.

IMF estimates of annual growth rate of world real GDP (in red, right scale) and year - over-year percent change in commodity prices as measured by the quarterly average CRB / BLS raw industrials price index (in green, left scale).

The following chart shows the same data on an inverted log scale (blue line, left), along with the actual subsequent 12 - year nominal average annual total return of the S&P 500 Index (red line, right).

The red line (right scale) is the average annual nominal total return of the S&P 500 over the subsequent 12 - year period.

This year, in contrast, grades of the top - ranked Kellogg / UST program enjoyed the highest pay — on average, slightly more than $ 392,000, or roughly four times the average at the bottom of the scale.

Scale start - ups — the leading engine of job creation — are staying private longer, on average 11 years in 2014, and, in some cases, are even going straight from venture to private equity ownership to provide liquidity to early investors and employees.

To determine who is winning when it comes to attracting loyal visitors, we define loyalty by four key metrics: visit frequency (the average number of visits per diner within a year,) market penetration (the regional percentage of all casual dining diners who visited the chain within a year), share of wallet (the percentage of the consumer's total visits that a particular chain captures within a year,) and fanaticism threshold (the number of visits within a year required for a customer to be within the top 1 % of customers who visit a particular chain, on a scale of 1 to 50.)

He went out in later years to change the conditions in mine and factory for the laborer, and he succeeded so well that Matthew Arnold said the average Englishman thought of God as Lord Shaftesbury on a larger scale.

The days (or the millennia) of every living form are by statistical reckoning ineluctably numbered; so much so that, using the scale of time furnished by the study of certain isotopes, it is beginning to be possible to calculate in millions of years the average life of a species.

«the electorate are continuing to drift to the right - on average they put themselves at 5.35 [on a left - right scale] compared to 5.20 last year and 5.17 the year before... the Conservatives continue to move slowly back towards the centre ground on 5.89, compared to 6.01 last year and 6.21 the year before.»

While Miliband is focused on energy bills, it might be worth someone pointing out to him that by not adopting the Government's Feed - in Tariff reductions for small and larger - scale solar panels, Labour's plans would mean an extra # 90 a year for the average household's electricity bill.

About a 30 % increase in average expenditure per pupil (over four years, between age seven and 11) is expected to produce an increase in achievement of a level equivalent to 25 - 30 points on the PISA scale.

Annual Contributions paid by each organization are scaled and calculated according to their average annual total revenue in the three years preceding payment.

At the opposite end of the scale, in Switzerland, the average annual remuneration for all researchers is more than $ 82,700, and a young researcher can hope to get slightly less than $ 40,000 a year.

By evaluating the scale insect remains attached to each specimen, Youngsteadt estimated scale population density and compared it to the average August temperature for the year and place where the specimen was collected.

After implementing greater automation and scaling up the process, ORNL will produce an average of 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilograms) in subsequent years.

Cognitive performance and other clinical measures, including the United Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), and Hoehn and Yahr scales, were assessed at the beginning of the study and subsequently every 6 months, with an average follow - up time of 1.8 years and maximum of 8 years.

The pay scale, adds Matthew Howard, Argonne's director of communications and public affairs, is closer to industry than to academe, and scientists stay an average of about 15 years.

Two years later, the team received funding for a larger - scale investigation, evaluating a whole suite of social skills in 54 individuals with schizophrenia, 54 with autism and average intelligence quotients (IQ) and 56 typical adults.

E.C.: When engineers talk about reconstruction and about buildings, they think about the 50 - year time scale because that's the average lifetime of a building.

For example, 2005 is near solar minimum in the 11 year cycle, and radiance now is about 1 - 2 W / m ^ 2 less than a few years ago, which means Pluto and Mars are getting LESS solar radiance on the time scale of the atmosphere and polar cap changes, EVEN IF the radiance averaged over the whole cycle was higher.

With continued NASA funding, DOE's Oak Ridge and Idaho national laboratories can ensure that NASA's needs are met, initially by producing 300 to 400 grams of the material per year and then, through automation and scale - up processes, by producing an average of 1.5 kilograms per year.

By comparison, the average change from 15 to 7 thousand years ago was ~ 0.005 °C per decade, although this was occasionally punctuated by short - lived (and possibly regional - scale) abrupt climatic jolts, such as the Younger Dryas, Dansgaard - Oeschger and Heinrich events.

The average rate of injection of carbon into the climate system during these hyperthermals was slower than the present human - made injection of fossil fuel carbon, yet it was faster than the time scale for removal of carbon from the surface reservoirs via the weathering process [3], [208], which is tens to hundreds of thousands of years.

On the other side, stopping of the autoimmune attack can be done, but is it 100 % possible for everyone and if it is, what is the average time frame scale to do that — months or years?

It is a large - scale global business and three times a year Etheridge attends the online dating conference, iDate, which is usually held in Las Vegas, bringing together an average 500 industry folk for talks, workshops and business masterclasses.

The greatest improvements should be seen among schools that had already received one F grade from the state, since their students would become eligible for vouchers if they received a second F. To test this hypothesis, average FCAT scale - score improvements for schools were broken out by the grade they received the year before.

At the other end of the scale, children with Chinese as their first language perform well, averaging between a B and a C at GCSE in Attainment 8 — despite having also entered secondary school in Year 9.

States can accomplish this by measuring achievement via average scale scores or a performance index, and by giving substantial weight to a measure of academic growth for all students from one year to the next.

The data indicate that members of the treatment group who were attending private schools in the third year of the evaluation gained an average of 7.1 scale score points in reading from the program.

We observe the average score by school, year, and grade on each exam, which we scale to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1 in each year, grade, and subject.

Because the performances of all students would continue to be reported on the current NAPLAN score scale, it would still be possible to calculate year level averages, to show how students perform in relation to their year group, and to identify levels of proficiency that, ideally, all students should reach by particular times in their schooling.

For example, between 2000 and 2005 — the five years spanning the introduction of accountability via NCLB — the average math scale score nationwide at the fourth grade rose by 12 points, roughly a year of learning.

Teachers at the top of the pay scale in large urban schools earned an average of $ 51,955 annually last year, a 5.4 percent increase over the year before, according to a report by the American Federation of Teachers.

The superintendent urged the legislature to provide $ 200 million to increase the salary scale for teachers next year by an average of 15 percent.

Barnardo's have calculated that losses on this scale, over the next five years, could see annual funding for children's centres decline by an average of # 92 million per year.

Figure 1: The Students Like Reading scale and Year 4 student achievement in reading, Australia and the International average.

WUHSD's average score on California's Academic Performance Index (API), which is calculated on a scale of 200 to 1,000 points, with 800 to 1,000 being the desired level of performance, has increased by more than 154 points over the last seven years and is now 777.

With the extra support, she passed a mandatory standardized test and even raised her grade - point - average in her senior year to 3.49 on a 4.0 scale, lifting her four - year GPA over the 2.0 required to graduate.

The state also computes the average scores of all tested students, called mean scale scores, which reflects the progress of all students rather than only those who changed achievement levels from one year to the next.

Table 221.30: Average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scale score and percentage distribution of students, by age, amount of reading for school and for fun, and time spent on homework and watching TV / video: Selected years, 1984 through 2012.

American fourth - graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000 - point scale.

For example, instead of saying that a student performed.05 standard deviations above average, CREDO translates this as the equivalent of 29 additional days of schooling (with the scale set on a 180 day school year).

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.

So, if third graders in a particular building averaged a scale score of 320 in grade 3 math last year and averaged a scale score of 330 in grade 3 math this year, the building may safely be said to have improved year - over-year in grade 3 math performance.

One study out of Stanford University, which helped design the PACT, found that for each additional point an English Language Arts teacher scored on the exam, which is scored on a 44 - point scale, students averaged a gain of one percentile point per year on California standardized tests.

A further breakdown of class sizes revealed that small year 6 classes of one to 15 pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading, and 103 in writing and maths.

In music, students averaged 150 on a scale of 300 eight years ago, and last year the average score was 147 — not a statistically significant difference.

If we note that students increased their scores by an average of 20 words correct per minute per year (see Table 7) and that school scores on the collaborative leadership scale ranged from 1.1 to 1.9 with a mean of 1.7 (out of a high score of 3), then we can surmise that, at least in principle, a school gaining one additional point on the collaborative leadership scale could make up a year's worth of fluency performance.