Membership is restricted to the top two percent as measured by performance on standardized intelligence tests.
He also measured the performance of sales teams at the pharmaceutical company, before and after they gave away money.
Dr Cho not only scanned their brains to look at their physical characteristics, but also measured their performance in memory and understanding tests.
The study measured company performance as of August 2012.
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In Los Angeles, the fire department recently disclosed that a 2010 change in how it measured response performance led to a drop in how often it met the standards, to about 60% from 80%.
Researchers from SwayMarkets, which makes smartphone apps that monitor mobile signal quality and data usage, brought a handful of cell phones to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game and measured network performance.
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Looking at the academic progression (as measured by performance on the Collegiate Learning Assessment) of more than 2, 000 students at 24 different colleges, Arum and Roksa found that, for the first two years of college, 45 percent of students saw no significant gains in their CLA performance.
The Audit Office measured the potential performance of the building by looking at the money spent divided by the number of visitors it will attract.
They want to be put in a position to succeed, and they're open to having their performance measured, as long as the measurement system is fair.
Skeptical, Mr. Bosland got some seeds and was astonished to find that the peppers he grew averaged more than one million Scovilles, as measured by high performance liquid chromatography.
Our various calculations indicate, from a historical perspective going back 20 to 30 years, that paid-up participating whole life would have provided 200 to 300 basis points better performance measured from the time of purchase until the insureds' life expectancies.
In well-aligned companies, every business objective is measured quarterly and corresponding performance measurements cascaded down the organization.
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And, of course, in sports where performance is measured by the clock, we can see that, intrinsically, humans are getting faster.
But headteachers' unions are pushing for pupils' improvement to be measured against their previous performance - and not against a national target.
When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates.
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Eighty-five percent said that "student growth over the course of the academic year" should be a factor in how their performance is measured.
When performance is measured against the first day's closing price, our entire universe of new issues has an 81% average gain and an average relative performance of just 86.
While Amazon continues its rock-solid performance as measured by the ASCI Index, Netflix provides a powerful cautionary tale of what happens when companies cross their customers, forgetting customer experience rules.
"Hedge funds are really major players and their performance is measured monthly, and they have the ability to move in and out of stocks in one day, long or short, and they could be moving in or out of positions, " Rueckert said.
There is the basic pay, which for most includes a lump sum plus the money for each patient on their list, while the second part is effectively a bonus for offering a range of extra services such as diabetes care and their overall performance as measured against targets.
Under the framework, reference groups will be required to identify how clinical performance should be measured.
Your ERG must define the value proposition for its existence and how performance will be measured and monitored.
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Stock market performance will be measured by how well it manages relationships there.
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Lankford further ingratiated himself with clients by forming the STAC Council, where banks and traders would all get a say in how performance would be measured.
Microfinance is unique from mainstream finance in that it has a double bottom line mission: both social performance and financial performance metrics are measured.
High performance is traditionally measured against key business imperatives including competitive differentiation, sales, attracting and retaining talent, operational efficiency, return on investment and profitability.
Inside the company, he said, performance is primarily measured in the time it takes someone to start working with the body of the material.
For this reason battery performance is usually measured in watts (a unit of energy calculated by multiplying voltage x amperage) per liter or watts per kilogram.
The two separate reports from both teams pointed out that many hospitals had also failed to collect "adequate information" allowing their performance to be measured against the national standards.
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