Sentences with phrase «year test based»

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George Reilly, an advisor and owner at Safe Harbor Financial Advisors based outside of Washington, D.C., developed a series of tests that he runs for his clients a few years prior to their retirement.

«Based on the success of last year's test, we built a 3,000 - square - foot building this year, and it was off the charts.»

Last year's iPad Pro models using Apple's homemade A10X processor (which is based on designs from ARM Holding) outperformed the company's 13 ″ MacBook Pro laptops, which had Intel i7 chips, on some benchmark tests.

In essence, rule - based online trading platforms provide tools and tutorials for people to write algorithms on Web browsers and test their models with years of historic data.

After five long years of innovation, research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

Based on hundreds of case studies, thousands of A / B tests, and years of experience, I've developed the A-list of conversion optimization techniques.

Just this year, over 50 U.S. genetics and gene therapy startups raised at least $ 1 million to support genetics - based treatments, including speeding trails, improving accuracy of tests, and providing better platforms.

Waltham, Massachusetts - based Alere, which makes tests for infections such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and dengue, sued Abbott in August last year in an attempt to force the company to move ahead with the deal.

Edmonton - based Fluid Life started some 35 years ago as a modest lab that tested used oil to diagnose the health of large industrial equipment.

Barclays (bcs) and Royal Bank of Scotland (rbspf) failed the test on this basis, but do not need to raise extra capital now as they increased capital during the course of year.

Performance matters — a lot,» says Lauren Gropper, who along with co-founders Corey Scholibo and Jordan Silverman spent two years testing resins and molds to launch Los Angeles - based Repurpose, which produces 100 percent compostable, disposable tableware.

Good Housekeeping also provides testing - based reviews; though its coverage is several years old now, most of the electric blankets and heated mattress pads rated there are either still sold, or are offered in nearly identical models.

Goldman's base - case scenario calls for a 10 - year yield of 3.25 percent by the end of 2018, though a «stress test» out to 4.5 percent indicates such a move would cause stocks to tumble, economist Daan Struyven wrote in a note Saturday.

«There is no indication based on proliferation statistics that 2016 was the «year of ransomware,» said the team at AV - Test, an independent institute for testing the accuracy and efficiency of antivirus software.

Considering the short - term positive correlation between the oil price and the S&P 500 Index (see chart below) and the well - known bearish fundamentals, it's more likely that the oil market will build a base this year involving a Q1 bottom and one or two successful tests of the bottom.

The Seattle, US - based e-commerce giant started beta testing these speakers in India in February for a global rollout later in the year, two sources have told FactorDaily, adding the in - car speakers were being tested elsewhere in the world, too.

Based on the near - term outlook for real rates, as well as uncertainty over Brexit, rising populism in Europe and Trump's trade and foreign policies, Metals Focus analysts see gold testing $ 1,475 an ounce this year.

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

What you are refering to on a monthly basis is what SSA calls a LMETY (Last Monthly Earnings Test Year), which you are able to use once.

Though this response might be based on simple word association, a formal test established that Koko performed better than many seven year old children when the children were tested with the same instructions concerning metaphoric associations.

Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

«Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

Based on the 5 1/2 years Gluten Free Watchdog has commissioned testing through an independent laboratory we have seen first hand that it is sometimes very difficult to evenly distribute gluten within a food sample.

After a year of testing at Cristian Vallorani's GBC Funghi, mushroom cultivator and MET partner, the water - based ozone treatment was able to replace all chemical products.

They debuted the test with the NFL in 2012, testing on a limited basis at the combine, and for the last two years they've tested each prospect invited to the combine.

Developed by a Boston - based company, SmartSports, the SmartKage has been in a trial stage over the past year «'' which led to its installation at the Concord baseball school, one of just 100 test sites chosen across the country.

Learning To Play 9 - 12 Years (Game Based) As kids progress from learning the basics, they test their age - group appropriate games.

I can't say why this year's team wasn't better based on the eye test, but whenever you have a lot of turnover, you have a change in the team dynamic.

A ShotLink - based system that the tour hopes to test before the end of the year and deploy early in 2015, Shedloski said, would help rules officials track each competitor's pace, though players would not be penalized based on any of the data collected.

Glock, who won the GP2 championship this year, was BMW's test driver and the Munich marque became involved in a tug - of - love for Glock's services with Cologne - based Toyota.

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

The new standard is likely more a function of the fact that, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

Widespread reporting on the problem began five years ago, when tests by Consumer Reports found arsenic in rice and rice - based foods, including infant rice cereal.

They cite research showing the tests are unreliable indicators of what is happening in classrooms, particularly when based on just a year of data.

The outcomes were measured by a global hyperactivity aggregate (GHA), scores based on parent and teacher observations, and for 8 and 9 year olds, a computerized attention test.

Niccoli, a town supervisor in Palatine, said last year she and her husband decided with their daughter she would not take a round of standardized testing in math and English language arts based on the Common Core standards.

Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based testing to the results of teacher performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.

Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.

In June, Cuomo and legislative leaders announce agreement on a two - year moratorium on state rules that teachers would be fired based on «ineffective» ratings due to test scores.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted Entergy, the owner / operator of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan permission to extend the frequency of the containment integrated leak rate test from once every 10 years to once every 15 years on a permanent basis.

«There's a simple test that we're going to apply to anything that he does... any proposal, and it is this: does it repeal the Last In, First Out law that would allow the city to layoff teachers based on merit this year?»

Obama's online staff and the contractors they employed designed, built, tested and steadily improved a series of systems and procedures that formed the basis of a scalable, distributed organization that by November of 2008 spanned the United States and penetrated areas in which Democrats had not competed in years.

Ms. Magee and the 600,000 public school teachers she represents lost out in their battle with Mr. Cuomo over the new test - based evaluations outlined in this year's budget agreement.

Going forward, move toward basing teachers» and principals» ratings, in part, on a 3 - year average of student test scores.

Cruise Automation, a San Francisco - based self - driving software company owned by General Motors Co., aims to begin testing in New York City early next year.

ALBANY — A deal is being negotiated to place a two - year moratorium on the use of student tests based on the Common Core for grade promotion in public schools.

People are alleging that the Benjamite is in bed with Yaanom, and that he is behind a plan for Yaanom to declare their own results in this year's elections, using an Accra - based private radio station which has many affiliate stations all over the country; and that a test run for the strategy was made on April 1, this year on that station.

«The sample test results for Key Stage 2 science are based on five per cent of schools which makes spurious any comparisons with other test results from previous years.