Sentences with phrase «d class characteristics»

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In fact, long - term bonds and preferred shares have characteristics that make them a very useful asset class for retirement portfolios, as I explain in my essay Security of Income vs. Security of Principal.

The discipline of investing in this asset class requires some knowledge of specialization; e.g., rental houses have different economic characteristics and rents than industrial warehouses, storage units, office buildings, or lease - back transactions.

If you've ever had occasion to look into the academic research comparing different types of returns from stocks that have different characteristics, as a class, dividend stocks tend to do better than the average stock over long periods of time.

Each asset class has its own risk and return characteristics.

It offers a proxy for direct investment in institutional grade commercial property with its attractive yield based characteristics for the majority of the institutional and private investor universe which, until now, has not had a mechanism to benefit from the asset class.

His mother had about her all the marks, the conditions, the characteristics of middle - class motherhood.

I'm now going to ignore all the statistics, all the times I've watched him, the sheer class in which he plays and overall his characteristics that indicate he is in every way one of the purest # 10's and chance creators in Europe.

The studies focused on motor behavior, not mood disorders, but the team found that certain classes of psychotropic drugs, such as the antidepressants known as monoamine oxidase inhibitors, had recognizable, characteristic effects on behavior.

Since then, it has released two major coffee cultivars — Colombia (in 1980) and Castillo (2005)-- that have been effective since 1983 in tempering leaf rust while preserving the characteristics so important to world - class coffee: high yield, large grain size, great taste.

In fact, while methane is a atmospheric characteristic of giant gas planets like Jupiter, the only brown dwarf found to even have a trace of methane was Gliese 229 B, which orbits a reddish, M - class dwarf located about 20 light - years away from Earth.

These include: a) Global Clusters that consist of a small, tight subset of genes that are co-expressed under the entire spectrum of experimental conditions; b) Time Series of gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clusters.

Personally, I believe it's the former, although one can definitely be influenced by modelling such a characteristic, which brings me to your conscious choice of making it a habit to teach by example, your lucky students, who, unlike their lovely teacher, will have the sweetest and fondest memories of her lessons in kindness, having both studied and practiced them in her class.

Whether online or off, studies have shown that the happiest marriages and relationships are with people of a similar type, whether that's class, appearance, religion, or any other characteristic.

Of course, since Fire Emblem Warriors isn't turn - based, it's not a direct implementation, but the main characteristics of the various classes have been kept.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

The Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein has declared that «the influence of social class characteristics is probably so powerful that schools can not overcome it, no matter how well trained are their teachers and no matter how well designed are their instructional programs and climates.»

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

Though it is difficult to isolate the effects of redshirting from those of other characteristics, such as family background, two recent studies that take advantage of either variation in state birthday cut - off dates or the random assignment of students to kindergarten classrooms have enabled researchers to measure the impact of being among the oldest students in a class.

However, we do not have the random assignment, so there is a concern that within a classroom, there is correlation across the students in characteristics that existed before the class.

I am too young to have known Coleman personally as a scholar, but I have heard from numerous scholars who did know him that he commenced the EEOS thinking that it would demonstrate, among other things, the importance of school inputs: teacher characteristics, class size, and the like.

I use Finch robots in my ECS class, and I think letting the Dash and Dot robots interact with the Finches, having the students compare their characteristics, would be great.

One of the major goals of multicultural education is to ensure that «all students regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, social class and ethnic, racial or cultural characteristics should have an equal opportunity to learn» (Banks, 2014).

[4] While a myriad of factors influence these two issues such as student characteristics, locale, school performance, salaries, class sizes, evaluation systems, and school accountability systems, recent research has found that principals have a profound effect on teacher retention.

Even within the classes the requirements differ, so for example the Porsche 911 has a rear engine so they have a different range of tyres due to the characteristics of the car.»

All that, combined with benchmark braking and world - class ride and handling characteristics, make the Dodge Charger SRT8 civilized enough for a grocery run but fully capable in more challenging situations • The 2009 Dodge Charger SRT8 is part of a broad lineup of Street and Racing Technology vehicles developed under the credo «Race inspired, street legal» SAFETY AND SECURITY Please refer to the Safety and Security Glossary for descriptions of the following features: • Advanced Multi-stage Air Bag System • All - speed Traction Control System • Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) • Auto - reverse Sun Roof • BeltAlert • Brake Assist • Brake / Park Interlock • Child - protection Rear Door Locks • Constant Force Retractors • Crumple Zones • Electronic Stability Program • Energy - absorbing Steering Column • Enhanced Accident Response System • Height - adjustable Seat Belts • HomeLink Universal Home Security System Transceiver • Inside Emergency Trunk Release • Interior Head - impact Protection • Knee bolsters • LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren) • Low - risk Deployment Air Bag • Power Adjustable Pedals • Remote Keyless Entry • Seat Belt Pretensioners • Sentry Key ® Engine Immobilizer • Side - impact Door Beams • Tire Pressure Monitoring Display COLOR AVAILABILITY • Deep Water Blue Clear Coat • Bright Silver Metallic • Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Coat • TorRed • Hemi Orange (with Super Bee Special Edition Package) MANUFACTURING INFORMATION • 2009 model year production start: July 2008 • Production location: Brampton Assembly Plant in Brampton, Ontario, Canada • 6.1 - liter HEMI V - 8 engine: Saltillo Engine Plant in Saltillo, Mexico • Five - speed automatic transmission: Indiana Transmission 1 in Indianapolis MARKET POSITION Dodge Charger SRT8 is the latest incarnation of a storied Dodge performance nameplate, combining SRT performance attributes with Dodge attitude.

The XF's class - leading torsional rigidity has significant benefits for refinement and provides the perfect platform for a suspension system that is a further development of the XK sports car, and delivers a ride / handling balance and steering characteristics absolutely in line with the XF's sporting looks.

It is, however, a nicely styled automobile with a class - leading interior and, for those who drive cars for more than just going from point A to point B, it has handling characteristics not found in the competitors.

However, the 960 has one characteristic that must rank as best in class or close to it - it can turn a very tight circle.

While covering a Year 3 science class last year, I asked my students to have a go at using it to describe characteristics of living and non living things.

The set means that the groups formed or classes made should have some specific characteristic, common to all the elements in that group, which brings them together and distinguishes them from others.

Morningstar Rating is for the share class indicated only (see ticker); other share classes may have different performance characteristics.

Typically by corporate law, dividends must be paid to preferred shares, to the extent required based on the characteristics of the share class [some preferred shares may not have any required dividends at all], before any dividends can be paid to common shares.

Different asset classes have different characteristics and react differently to changes in the market.

Because managed futures strategies require someone to make the trading decisions, they are in no way passive strategies — indeed, it's a bit misleading to describe them as an asset class, since each individual strategy has its own risk and return characteristics.

You're more likely to see rebalancing increase returns with asset classes that don't move in lockstep but have similar risk and return characteristics.

Because future asset class performance is unpredictable, it makes sense to invest in all of them that have favorable characteristics over the very long term.

Morningstar Rating is for the A share class only; other classes may have different performance characteristics.

As a matter of fact, each asset class has its own characteristics.

In this regard, the diversification argument suffers from some flaws, as the variance - covariance characteristics of asset classes is dynamic over time, so a portfolio may very well be more volatile than would be expected from historical data.

The bond characteristics of preferred stock has, at least for the time being, become the «Mr. Hyde» of the asset class.

Morningstar Rating is for the I share class only; other classes may have different performance characteristics.

An asset classAsset class A group of securities that have similar characteristics.

Combining equities and fixed income investments within a portfolio helps to smooth out its returns because these asset classes have different risk and return characteristics.

For better or worse, the securities you buy to represent each asset class should have roughly the same risk and reward characteristics of the asset class in general.

the size and nature of the Fund's holdings; (iv) the discount from market value of unrestricted securities of the same class at the time of purchase and subsequent thereto; (v) information as to any transactions or offers with respect to the security; (vi) the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition of the security and the existence of any registration rights; (vii) how the yield of the security compares to similar securities of companies of similar or equal creditworthiness; (viii) the level of recent trades of similar or comparable securities; (ix) the liquidity characteristics of the security; (x) current market conditions; and (xi) the market value of any securities into which the security is convertible or exchangeable.

When an advisor optimizes at the asset class level, the result is a mix of asset classes that have shown efficient characteristics over some time frame.

When gathering information to identify the risk and return characteristics of the many asset class indexes that belong in a diversified portfolio, the more quality long - term data you have, the more accurate and probable are your expectations about future outcomes.

Morningstar RatingTM as of 30 April 2018 for the institutional class shares; other classes may have different performance characteristics.

It is the class associated with your ticket when you're booking it and is a letter such as J, D, or Z. Each letter stands for a fare that represents different prices, amenities and other characteristics, such as how many PQM and PQS you'll earn on your flight.

In Garden Warfare, each playable class has up to seven unlockable Variants, complete with different weapons and characteristics.