Sentence examples for penalized based on from inspiring English sources

Doctors and hospitals here are obsessed with metrics, not least because under the health law, they may be rewarded or penalized based on their performance.

Arguably, this was as much a response to harsh drug laws that penalized based on weight as it was an effort to give the pot more of a kick.

Adams, the head of the pardons office under Bush, said applicants were not penalized based on race.

As to any conflict of interest that could taint his analyses, Urdan told me that there was a Chinese Wall at Wells Fargo to prevent the bank's stock ownership from influencing its analyses, and that he was not compensated or penalized based on his assessments of companies, like Corinthian, in which Wells had an investment.

Penalizing based on absolute values results in the number of estimated coefficients becoming exactly zero.

C. Douglas Beavers, chairman of the International Boxing Federation ratings committee, today described a system that helped or penalized boxers based on payoffs from promoters and managers.

The information criterion includes a penalized function based on number of estimated parameters.

The operations allowed (split/ delete/ add a node; delete/ add or change the semantics of an edge) are penalized differently based on the effort that would be required if manually performed.

Duncan has consistently emphasized improving the quality of teachers by measuring and rewarding — or penalizing — them based on performance.

Penalizing them based on their patients' choices, which may end up being contrary to their written instructions, is wrong (page 432).

More generally, they are apprehensive about Medicare's plans to reward and penalize hospitals based on untested measures of efficiency that include spending per beneficiary.