Sentences with phrase «a global comparison»

The government has urged parents to enthuse children about books after a global comparison shows British schoolchildren are reading less than five years ago.

In addition, effects tend to vary across regions, depending on local climate and other characteristics, making global comparisons very difficult.

Therefore, we really have a treasure with the Boknis Eck data that is also irreplaceable for global comparisons,» says Bange.

Kinne, S., et al., 2003: Monthly averages of aerosol properties: A global comparison among models, satellite, and AERONET ground data.

As well as analyzing American dating costs, we decided to make a global comparison, and so we examined the average cost of a date night in 25 of the world's most interesting cities.

As well as analyzing Canadian dating costs, we decided to make a global comparison, and so we examined the average cost of a date night in 25 cities from around the world.

The cost of a date night around the world As well as analysing Australian dating costs, we decided to make a global comparison, and so we examined the average cost of a date night in 25 of the world's most interesting cities.

After a RVF thread surfaced showing how terrible even Google thinks American women are, I got curious as to what it had to say about other nationalities of For the study — titled Preferred Interpersonal Differences: A Global Comparison — researches interviewed 8,943 people from 42 different countries to

For the study — titled Preferred Interpersonal Differences: A Global Comparison — researches interviewed 8,943 people from 42 different countries to

A percentile of 60 means that the average student in a district is achieving better than 59.9 percent of the students in our global comparison group.

But outperforming students in Los Angeles, which is only at the 20th percentile in math relative to a global comparison group, should provide little comfort to Beverly Hills parents.

As we have already seen, Evanston, Illinois, is at the 48th percentile in math in a global comparison.

A percentile ranking of 60, for example, indicates that the average student in a district performed better than 59.9 percent of students in the global comparison group.

In 17 states, not a single district has average achievement in the upper third relative to the global comparison group.

However, Jay P. Greene and Josh B. McGee, authors of the study, note that this is «false reassurance,» as «America's elite suburban students are increasingly competing with students outside the U.S. for economic opportunities,» making meaningful global comparisons essential.

In 17 states, there is not a single traditional district with average achievement in the upper third relative to our global comparison group.

In addition, BMI «standards» vary greatly from country to country, making global comparisons problematic.

A superior resource whose approach readily lends itself to global comparisons and whose uniform layout makes it a fantastic «quick reference» for classroom use.

«Destination Germany has maintained its excellent position by global comparison not only by recording impressive statistics, but also by projecting an outstanding image,» explains Ernst Burgbacher, parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology and Federal Government Commissioner for SMEs and Tourism.

What I tend to find on the net are global comparisons.

Wang, P., Tian, J., Cheng, X., Liu, C. & Xu, J. Major Pleistocene stages in a carbon perspective: The South China Sea record and its global comparison.

The wood for dummies graphs show a land and global comparison in both the Hadley Centre surface temps and Remote Sensing System data.

What I showed was a global comparison — clouds and SW reflection are related as one would expect.

This is illustrated by China's extremely ambitious New Energy investment programs, and even more tellingly by global comparisons based on post-Copenhagen emission - reduction pledges.

Fred Schebesta is cofounder of the global comparison site finder.com, including Crypto Finder.

On the other hand, VAWI was developed specifically for global comparisons on IPV.

Not exact matches

A comparison of A-B InBev with Molson Coors quickly reveals how global the beer business has become, and how much catching up the U.S. - Canadian outfit has to do.

The BoJ has been the least expansionary of major central banks since the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis, Evans said, adding that its planned balance - sheet increase this year pales by comparison with the $ 1 trillion of assets that the U.S. Federal Reserve is slated to purchase.

The bank said the «vast majority» of its clients remained supportive, but the situation still drew comparisons to the 2008 failure of Lehman and the resulting global financial crisis.

For the sake of comparison, consider this: During the first quarter of Obama's second term in 2013, foreign travel to the U.S. increased 6.4 % and in the first three months of 2009, at the beginning of his first term and the global recession, it was down 14.3 %.

A new analysis done exclusively for Poets & Quants by PayScale, which collects salary data from individuals through online pay comparison tools, shows that the MBA — even from schools that lack global or national caché, delivers hefty seven - figure income over a 20 - year period.

Britain is already below the global average rate of corporation tax of 23.63 % and, for comparison, the US charges a 40 % rate of corporation tax and Germany levies 29.72 %.

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Shopping.com is a global online shopping comparison website featuring millions of products from thousands of stores.

Despite slowing global growth, there are attractive potential opportunities outside the U.S.. For example, Japanese stocks continue to offer relative attractive valuations, especially in comparison to other developed markets.

By comparison, many overseas economies — particularly emerging markets, which are benefiting from the synchronized global economic recovery — are still in the early innings of their own turnarounds.

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MARKET COMPARISONS: wind market share of all new power by region; U.S. wind in global landscape; U.S. wind generation.

This pales in comparison to credit default swaps, which had a notional value that was 100 % of global GDP prior to the 2008 financial crisis.

By comparison, a global hedge fund index, the HFRX, had a 1.1 percent loss during that time.

The Global X research team has posted the Global X Preferred Report for Q1, highlighting yield comparisons, performance, historical distributions,...

Based on a comparison of total expense ratios for U.S. sector - level ETFs with similar holdings and investment objectives (using the MSCI and S&P Global Industry Classification System — GICS) within the universe of 298 ETFs Morningstar has classified as the Sector Stock asset class.

By comparison Canada is a bit player, accounting for only 1.7 per cent of global emissions.

Fred Schebesta is cofounder of global personal finance comparison site finder.com, and OTC broker service HiveEx.com.

In an increasingly competitive investment landscape, the ability to interrogate market data flexibly and consistently can allow apples - to - apples comparisons across global, national or even neighborhood markets, providing investors with the tools to uncover value where few others may be looking.

Comparison of global bias was also performed.

What is more unfortunate is that contemporary bishops, who have been exposed to and educated in the modern world and its global challenges — at least by comparison with their predecessors, who were restricted by the «iron curtain» or oppressive xenophobia — appear less interested in transcending any prejudice and parochialism.

In comparison to the global frame of reference that was emphasized in the last half century, the national level will have priority.

When one begins to apply this procedure to the problems of allocating scarce food resources on a global scale, the size differential — and accordingly, the lack of control of the situation) the unpredictability of the results, and the resulting uncertainty of the final outcome — render inaccurate any comparisons of this with the medical situation.

But in comparison with global corporations and their vast concentrations of capital, the required capital will be on a small scale.