Of course, we should also be cognizant of the fact that clock speeds are a very poor measure of performance.
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Revenues efficiency, a measure of performance of the rig once it is contracted also improved from around 90.5% in 2011 to around 93%.
Another way in which the government has tried this year to address the complaint that exam results are too narrow a measure of performance has caused considerable controversy.
Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance.
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Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people ) is among the more aggressive Wall Street banks in buying back its shares, and the action announced Tuesday should help it boost return on equity, a key measure of performance.
Using a weighted score based on one-year total return, five-year total return, and five-year Sharpe ratios (a risk-adjusted measure of performance), we chose funds that outperformed their peers in core investment specialties such as: global equities, Europe, Japan, U.S., small companies, and more.
On one measure of academic performance, over 90 of the world's top 100 universities are in America.
Another measure of train performance looks at how many trains arrive less than one minute late.
In other words, changes in sales results may not be a sufficient measure of current performance.
This is only a measure of price performance, however, and does not reflect any judgment regarding industry fundamentals.
The survey is in an effort to produce an alternative measure of national performance to Gross Domestic Product.
In essence, the stock price is a very public measure of the performance of the firm and its managers.
The weighted on-base average, a sabermetric measure of offensive performance, of each team's first basemen over that span is .356.
The churn metric is a less relevant and reliable measure of business performance, and does not accurately reflect consumer acceptance of our service.
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Clock speed is only one measure of processor performance, but it's one that PC buyers -- especially consumers -- tend to pay close attention to.
The English Baccalaureate was introduced as a measure of school performance, appearing in league tables, and showing the proportion of pupils achieving GCSEs grade C and above and some AS-levels in specified key subjects.
That is just one finding of an exercise to measure the performance of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries, judged by five sets of criteria that are totted up and averaged out to give each country an overall governance score.
The companies in these industries are either not using the metrics that are most strongly correlated to value or, when the overall correlations of financial metrics to shareholder value are poor, they are not sufficiently using TSR as a direct measure of shareholder performance.
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Improper sampling could also impact the accuracy of common methods used to measure the performance of the predictive coding tool being used.
The lawsuit contends it would be unconstitutional to withhold funding from students who had nothing to do with an impasse between the city and the United Federation of Teachers over how to measure the performance of teachers and principals.
Of course determining the way to best measure the performance of employees based upon accomplishment is more challenging than measuring hours on the job, but well worth the effort.
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Using 30 stocks--which is what the Dow is--is a lousy way to measure the performance of an economy.
Prosecutions are only one way to measure the performance of background checks.
Rightly, marketers like that they can measure the performance of an ad in real time and easily reach an audience for the best price.
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The Pisa tests, which measure the performance of 15-year-olds in maths, reading and science, have become a highly influential way of comparing international education standards.
It was only after last week's emergency that Cheney's doctors finally made public a crucial measure of his coronary performance, the "ejection fraction, " which indicates the heart's pumping power.
So even if we measure performance of just these two subjects, we still have to find a fair and reasonable way to evaluate the data from one year to the next.
In terms of teachers, how we measure performance -- as I said before, I have been a critic of measuring performance just by the administering of a single high-stakes standardized test during the year, and then the teacher is judged.
These are the same subjects that comprise the existing "English Baccalaureate" - a performance measure of schools already introduced by the government.
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