Sentences with phrase «about the assumptions used»

More information about the assumptions used in developing these projections will be available shortly after the release of the AEO.

I have some serious methodological questions about the assumptions used in such a calculus, but Will explains that looking at amortized costs doesn't even matter:

Not exact matches

«Use incentives to motivate the outsourcer to focus on what is most important to you rather than their own preferences or their assumptions about what you want.»

Using some algebra and a few modest assumptions back in February, I found that out of about 77.4 million iPhones sold, 27.2 million were for the iPhone X and 50.2 million, other versions of the phone.

I mean the basic framework and assumptions we use to talk about the practice and profession of management, our underlying beliefs about what corporate leaders and managers are trying to achieve, and how they go about achieving it.

These inputs reflect management's own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in pricing the asset or liability.

Long - held assumptions about which type of financial product to use may no longer hold true, WalletHub finds.

When making assumptions about a drug's potential market penetration, you have to use your own best judgment.

Yet, such assumptions are exactly how U.S. shale drilling is being talked about in the minds of non-geologists who want to hype stocks and use patriotic terms like «energy independence.»

In their October 2015 paper entitled «Huge Dispersion of the Risk - Free Rate and Market Risk Premium Used by Analysts in 2015», Pablo Fernandez, Alberto Pizarro and Isabel Acín summarize assumptions about the risk - free rate (RF) and the market / equity risk premium (MRP or ERP) used by expert analysts to value companies in six countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and U.Used by Analysts in 2015», Pablo Fernandez, Alberto Pizarro and Isabel Acín summarize assumptions about the risk - free rate (RF) and the market / equity risk premium (MRP or ERP) used by expert analysts to value companies in six countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and U.used by expert analysts to value companies in six countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and U.S.).

You can't use the architecture of the building to make any assumptions about the thinking of the Founding Fathers, only the thinking of the mores in place at * that * time.

This speaks volumes about some of the underlying assumptions regarding men, women, sex, and power that are at work in this whole conversation... especially considering the fact that men have written humorous accounts using the words «penis» and «testicles» for the same market.

And lest you think this post is about finger - pointing, I have no doubt in my mind that if my own assumptions and prejudices go totally unchecked, if I never stop for a moment to consider the other side and wonder if I might be wrong, I too am capable of using the Bible to my own ends, of convincing myself that God is on my side.

Brett:» Please don't try to make misrepresentations an ancient text that describers someone you shouldn't make assumptions about without truly understanding the context it was to be used in.»

Those rest on his uncritical use of sources, his false assumptions about both European and Near Eastern societies, and his enthusiasms for staged drama rather than accurate analysis.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

Some scientists continue the assumption of the rationality and goodness of man; with such confidence in progress one does not need to be concerned about the uses that will be made of one's work, since it is assumed that the end result of all discovery is beneficial.

But this sort of religiousness no longer dominates our significant political arenas today, nor are Enlightenment assumptions about the rationality of public discourese as persuasive as they used to be.

Midgley's criticism of Dyson is multipronged, uncovering his use of physics, his assumptions about biology, economics and his religious and metaphysical assumptions.

«But Jesus used very provocative images in the stories he would tell to incite people to ask hard questions about their own assumptions.»

In response to your inept assumption about me... I'm not out there having abortions; I used common sense after bringing two children in to this world and decided to ensure I never got pregnant again - are you also against tubal ligation?

Where used at all, the cross functions not as an answer to atrocity, but as a question, protest and critique of the assumptions we may have made about profound suffering.

While I wonder if Turner is using too tight a definition of fulfillment, his attempt to point out some unexamined assumptions about the text are well taken.

It may seem to be a challenge to get the conversation past the idea of babywearing being a fad or fashion statement, but I encourage you to use this assumption as an icebreaker, so to speak, about the benefits of not only babywearing but also attachment - based parenting.

She joins Marti for this lively discussion about youth sports, questioning many assumptions, calling out unhelpful parental behavior and challenging us to step up and use proven approaches to help our children reap optimal benefits of organized sports.

Young 1997 (cost analysis, Turnbull 1996) used the «individual patient - based costing» approach, in which an assumption was made about the number of caseloads per midwife.

(I'm making a few assumptions about the age / grade of the school, assuming that the entire menu was planned with the proper components, which menu planning pattern they follow, if using offer vs served... with that specific example... ended up with a page and a half long reply when I tried to explain it more!)

Your assumptions about MANA aren't evidence and I find it laughable that as a «skeptic», you would use that as your «proof».

Young 1997 used the «individual patient - based costing» approach, in which an assumption was made about the number of caseloads per midwife.

These models used basic, stylised assumptions about individual behaviour.

So we should be asking ourselves the fundamental question: if [our basic assumptions about what type of individuals appear suspicious] lead us to be right only 5 % of the time, shouldn't the criteria we are using to apprehend individuals be revised?

Police forces and authorities had generally made reasonable assumptions about the financial challenge ahead, and used these to work out their budgets for the next four years.

The study used models to estimate marine mammal consumption of chinook salmon based on several assumptions about their diet and the size and weight of salmon.

It appears that his theory, or at least one coincidence used to justify it, is using the age of the universe, and thus our assumptions about properties of light, as part of its computation.

University of Oregon and University of Cincinnati researchers have found that everyday shoppers make assumptions about brands that use green colors.

He believes that such approaches to science sometimes require researchers to learn new skills, and to challenge their assumptions about how to best use their knowledge.

It does this by using certain unconscious assumptions about the statistics of the natural world — suppositions that can be revealed by visual illusions.

Vargas - Irwin used an analysis technique he developed, called SSIMS, that can accurately detect patterns of activity in collections of neurons without relying on any assumptions about what the brain is trying to do.

Using a few assumptions about the lensing galaxy, Carilli and his colleagues calculate that the CO gas is actually in a relatively small 13,000 light - year — wide disk surrounding the central black hole of the quasar.

Using conservative assumptions, the researchers estimate that they found 11,000 cases of upcoded infections per year — about $ 200 million in unwarranted payments — in a sampling of about 492,000 Medicare patients who had hospital stays between 2009 and 2010.

Moms also report largely positive experiences when managing their child's media use, which challenges negative assumptions about low - income mothers and screen time management.

The research uses factors such as the area of a city, the number of taxi trips made, and the average traffic speed, to determine what proportion of rides are shareable, given some modest assumptions about the flexibility passengers might have in terms of waiting for a ride.

The researchers acknowledge that using brain scans to study human cognition has its limitations because it relies on certain assumptions about the links between brain regions and their functions.

To illustrate potential mutation - specific effects on absolute cancer risks, we used the hazard ratio estimates to derive approximate absolute risks and 95 % confidence intervals, based on published estimates for the overall risks of breast and ovarian cancer by age 70 years.26 These estimates are for illustration and do not represent absolute risk estimates that would be required in a genetic counseling setting, as they do not account for noncancer outcomes that may influence a woman's life expectancy, the effects of family history, and nonrandom ascertainment of mutation carriers in this sample and depend on assumptions about the prevalence of different mutation classes in the population.

Using a new class of mathematical models that do not make many assumptions about how behavior is organized, we will deconstruct the mouse's normal behavior into motifs, or syllables, and correlate those with brain activity.

On the limited information available to me, they seem quite promising — but it certainly would have been helpful in making judgments on this point if the IPCC had modelled a low - medium population projection (as in the A1 and B1 scenarios) which made more moderate assumptions about growth in output and energy use.

In Figure 1, I use the NCAR radiation model, and don't make any assumption about the apparent sky emittance.

Data from the 1000 genomes project (1KGP) and Complete Genomics (CG) have dramatically increased the numbers of known genetic variants and challenge several assumptions about the reference genome and its uses in both clinical and research settings.

They appear to be related to differences in interpretation of INDCs, assumptions about other countries, level of disaggregation for small countries, choice of global warming potentials to compute carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, treatment of emissions related to land use, and treatment of international aviation and maritime shipping.

She also urges mental - illness patients to use cognitive tools, such as challenging their own assumptions about what they are capable of and not listening to internal stereotypes.