Sentences with phrase «lightsum as a measurement»

Alpha is perceived as a measurement of a portfolio manager's aptitude.

Some investors see alpha as a measurement of the value added or subtracted by a fund's manager.

The fund management industry has cleverly implanted the idea of a financial index «benchmark», such as the FTSE 100 or S&P 500 as the measurement of their performance.

Overall, the findings tended to confirm our hypothesis: Those who are using paid methods and finding them effective do so with wide experimentation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, a meaningful budget, and more focus on building an audience as a measurement of success than their less effective peers.

What church christians don't understand is that their is no difference between them and the «world» in regards to a legalistic system that labels you «good» or «bad» according to your works (as well as the measurement of our value and usefulness for that matter).

Whitehead then states that this account is defective not as a measurement, but only as a definition of simultaneity.

True, they are not as objective as some measurements.

Hi Fiona, I originally used coffee cups as measurements as this was a way to make the measurements standardised and useable for everyone as some people don't have kitchen scales.

I think your recipes are great but I have been dissappointed / frustrated with your use of «mug» as a measurement.

I've added weights as well as measurements in American cups to help my readers in the UK more familiar with metric, and also because I'm finding that baking, especially when gluten - free, requires more accuracy than cooking.

For this recipe you can use any cup or mug as a measurement, just use the same mug to measure all the ingredients if that makes sense!

The only problem is that they are using last season's records as a measurement for this season.

BMI is only one indicator, and not an entirely sound one, of health in children; and I think that using it as a measurement of good nutrition work in schools is a red herring.

I'm suggesting length as the measurement to study because a heavier than average baby could be considered heavy due to possible overfeeding.

Whenever I hear about schools using BMI as a measurement of their success in providing greater nutrition, I feel very conflicted.

Assuming that these concepts are operationally defined (independence or dependence) it is highly likely that childhood independence, defined here as some measurement of a child's ability to act alone or to make a decision alone, or to solve a problem alone, or to comfort itself, is likely produced in any number of ways, and it may be an accurate description pertinent only to the domain within which it is being measured.

We could say that breastfeeding undermines the notion of economics as a measurement of value.

The authors point out that the literature has a number of methodological limitations, such as measurement and selection bias, and a restricted focus, in which the effects of a limited number of alcohol policies are considered without accounting for other alcohol policies.

This reaction time is used as a measurement of brain function.

Scientists had already tried lowering sensors and cameras to measure bioluminescence, but as the measurements bobbed up and down with the mother ship's motion, they stimulated more bioluminescence.

Cells specialized for low light to still make decent amounts of food in dim conditions, as measurements of photosynthesis (pictured here), showed.

With properly selected collision energies, a small portion of the Ni - 66 nuclei thus formed achieve a certain state with a deformed shape which, as measurements showed, proved to be slightly more stable than all other excited states associated with significant deformation.

This apparent contradiction, known as the measurement problem, has a long history going back to the early days of quantum mechanics.

Besides communication systems the new detector could be used as a measurement device in the emerging superconducting quantum computer.

«Think of this as a measurement of buzz,» said Fabio Rojas, an associate professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

It would also be interesting to repeat the study on younger participants and conduct sensitivity analyses as well as measurements of other health parameters, such as blood pressure.»

Clinical scale evaluation including pain, non-steroid analgesic usage, limping, extent of joint movement and stiffness was used as measurement of the clinical effect.

As our measurements become more and more precise in this field, we are finding that most of our uncertainty comes from our lack of understanding of the stars that the planets orbit.

Noise has traditionally been difficult to study in biology, because most biological techniques, such as measurement of gene activity, average the output of many cells, erasing individual variability.

Though the value of m / e came out the same whatever the material of the electrode, the appearance of the discharge varied greatly; and as the measurements showed, the potential - difference between the cathode and anode depended greatly upon the metal used for the electrode; the pressure being the same in all cases.

Think of Lightsum as a measurement of some physically - real aspect of a varved sediment series.

Live - cell experiments involving translational research concepts, such as testing for ischemia - reperfusion in cells for research on stroke, involve a tight regulation of oxygenation as measurements are made in real time.

It is typically used as a measurement of the energy contained in some defined amount of food.

Instrumentation and know - how is available for generating customized spotted protein microarrays as well as measurement and analysis of commercially available protein microarrays.

ssABE allows the global identification of palmitoylation sites as well as measurement of the active site modification state of PATs, enabling palmitoylation to be studied at a systems level.

These additional studies included assessment of cardiac output, ejection fraction, and fractional shortening as well as measurements of flow velocities and pressure gradients across the aortic valve, pulmonary valve and mitral valve.

Low vagal tone is associated with poor emotional and attentional regulation, inflammation, depression, and is even used as a measurement for a person's sensitivity to stress.

This site was not accurate at all for me, as my measurements led to a BFP of 2 %.

As your measurements change, you will begin to notice these changes translate into a leaner, trimmer, healthier «You.»

Even if the scale weight is moving up, as long as the measurements aren't increasing, you aren't gaining fat.

BMI relies on weight as a measurement in its calculation and as muscle is denser than fat the individual with more muscle mass is going to weight more, and give an anomalous result.

This is remarkable as a measurement of metabolism of which we know relatively little.

I make sure to buy from reputable sellers (on eBay and etsy) and sites elsewhere online, and to check, check, and triple check my measurements on the day I order, as well as the measurements listed on the site.

It fits just as measurements indicate.

I wasn't sure entirely where I fell, as my measurements are 35 -27.5-38 and I generally fit my bust first and take in the waist as needed.

My Bernina came with a snap on table that has a fabric guide that slides to the seam allowance measurement as well as measurements on the table itself.

to use the Klout scores as a measurement of allure and as a prediction of falling in love.

The search engines include popularity of good incoming links as a measurement in page ranking for the web sites containing the links.

While this alone is an intriguing setting from which to examine the dynamics of prison life (sadly, Julia and her friend Marta (Laura Garcia) are the only detailed characters there), her pregnancy has another use as a measurement of how long she is behind bars without receiving a trial.

«Beats Per Minute» is defined as the measurement of tempo within a musical composition.