Sentences with phrase «account uncertainty in»

How does one account uncertainty in past adjustments when these are absolute changes of bias, often little more than a guess, and not statistical ranges amenable to precision - style statistics?
However, a comprehensive, consistent analysis of impacts, taking into account uncertainty in both climate models and impacts models, has so far been lacking.
What many previous emergent - constraint studies have done is to take such a band of observations and project it onto the vertical ECS axis using the estimated regression line between ECS and the natural fluctuations, taking into account uncertainties in the estimated regression model.
I refer to that as good modeling, which takes into account uncertainties in our understanding and measurements and randomness in the observed process.
The study also failed to properly take into account uncertainties in temperature reconstructions of the last 2,000 years.

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The shifting accounts of the decision to fire Comey, whom Trump derided as a «showboat» and «grandstander,» added to a mounting sense of uncertainty and chaos in the West Wing, as aides scrambled to get their stories straight and appease an angry president.
With its warnings of depleted bank reserves, weak governance, and political uncertainty, the IMF's account reads more like the analysis of a war - ravaged economic basket - case than the prospects for a developed economy in one of the richest economic zones in the world.
These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.
Beyond the cyclical uncertainties affecting trading volumes, there may also be structural factors at play, particularly an official rethink of the benefits of open capital accounts, and fast - money cross-border capital flows in particular.
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In consultation with a divorce financial planner, who can assist you in gaining financial control from possible economic uncertainty, account for budgetary projections and calculate what realistic financial resources you will have to pay for your retiremenIn consultation with a divorce financial planner, who can assist you in gaining financial control from possible economic uncertainty, account for budgetary projections and calculate what realistic financial resources you will have to pay for your retiremenin gaining financial control from possible economic uncertainty, account for budgetary projections and calculate what realistic financial resources you will have to pay for your retirement.
They have each chosen their own path — some doing away with commissions in IRA accounts, some not — and so this last - minute uncertainty is likely to be challenging.»
These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In their February 2017 paper entitled «Bayesian Model Averaging, Ordinary Least Squares and the Price of Gold», Dirk Baur and Brian Lucey analyze a large set of factors that potentially influence the price of gold via two methods: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS, scatter plot) and Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA, accounting for model uncertainty).
«Taking due account of the uncertainties and limits of its policy tools, the Federal Reserve will provide additional policy accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability.»
Australian entities» issuance of hybrid securities picked up in the second half of 2004 after slowing noticeably during the first half because of issuer uncertainty about how hybrid securities would be classified under new accounting standards.
In our view, any decision on monetary policy normalization will have to take into account some of what is happening outside of America's borders, including the hazy economic outlook for China, the slowdown in other large emerging markets and the uncertainties that continue to plague the eurozonIn our view, any decision on monetary policy normalization will have to take into account some of what is happening outside of America's borders, including the hazy economic outlook for China, the slowdown in other large emerging markets and the uncertainties that continue to plague the eurozonin other large emerging markets and the uncertainties that continue to plague the eurozone.
«Given the size and scope of the IoT and 5G opportunities, we see IDCC's IoT goal as conservative as the company likely accounts for the uncertainty around monetization strategies and the timing / rate of incremental demand for its IoT related services and products,» analyst Darrin Peller wrote in a note.
In the uncertainty of my sickroom we tried to find accounts that, in the face of dying, would disclose the point of my lifIn the uncertainty of my sickroom we tried to find accounts that, in the face of dying, would disclose the point of my lifin the face of dying, would disclose the point of my life.
In Process and Reality, the account is carried much farther, although substantial uncertainties remain.
But although these uncertainties of external structure remain, the account leaves uncomplicated and emphatic this «event» as internally apprehended - that is, as in faith remembered and appropriated and celebrated in that community which knew itself in subsequent centuries to be, as it were, the child of Sinai Horeb.
Home birth is uncommon in the United Kingdom and uncertainty exists about its safety.1 2 Almost all mortality figures available nationally1 provide merely a single global figure for planned and unplanned home births, though the constituent rates differ greatly.3 The only recent figures for planned home birth in England and Wales relating to 19794 and 19935 provide an inaccurately low estimate of risk because it was not possible to account for those mothers who originally booked to have a home delivery but ended up delivering in hospital.
Friends of the Earth's director of policy and campaigns Craig Bennett responds to the public accounts committee's report on flood management in England, which warns of uncertainty about who will pay:
But despite uncertainties, there is little doubt that in the current times when China is also considering further liberalisation of its capital account, IIAs will continue to play an important role in China's economic diplomacy in the years to come.
Taking into account the well - known pro-Labour bias in the electoral system as well as prediction uncertainty, the method suggested then that the Tories would have a 64 % chance of being the largest party in parliament.
Trump recently had a difficult phone call with French President Francois Hollande — the latest in a series of leaked accounts of his calls with foreign leaders that are generating increasing doubts about the new president's style of diplomacy at a time of global uncertainty.
«Uncertainties must be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment.»
In her doctoral thesis, Henni Pulkkinen, Researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), explored how the various sources of uncertainty can be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment by using Bayesian statistical models, which enable extensive combining of informatioIn her doctoral thesis, Henni Pulkkinen, Researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), explored how the various sources of uncertainty can be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment by using Bayesian statistical models, which enable extensive combining of informatioin fisheries stock assessment by using Bayesian statistical models, which enable extensive combining of information.
An environmental modeler presents how the science works, but a decision scientist uses decision theory to take into account both the scientific information in a model and its uncertainty, and to help policymakers weigh that information against other factors, Crawford - Brown says.
Because the big bang happened 13.7 billion years ago, and taking various uncertainties in account, this implies that the first stars in the Milky Way formed when the universe was less than 200 million years old, the team says in a paper accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
However, because each of these measurements must be calibrated to account for natural variation in the environment over time, individual dates have large amounts of error and uncertainty, making them difficult to aggregate or interpret in groups.
«The trends we have established in this study highlight the need for regulatory bodies to look beyond the existing databases and take into account the uncertainty surrounding our current understanding of wildlife trade in their conservation efforts.
This is intended to take account of some of the uncertainties inherent in data on whale populations, and requires only two kinds of data: current estimates and their statistical error; and historical details of catches.
The models take account of uncertainties in the quality of the fossil data and the reconstructed evolutionary tree, and the result was clear.
To limit inherent systematic uncertainties, Ghez's group accounted for overlapping light sources when one star passes in front of another or near the black hole itself, where infalling material emits radiation.
Only a few estimates account for uncertainty in forcings other than from aerosols (e.g., Gregory et al., 2002a; Knutti et al., 2002, 2003); some other studies perform some sensitivity testing to assess the effect of forcing uncertainty not accounted for, for example, in natural forcing (e.g., Forest et al., 2006; see Table 9.1 for an overview).
In addition, the authors do not account for uncertainties in the simple model whose sensitivity is fitteIn addition, the authors do not account for uncertainties in the simple model whose sensitivity is fittein the simple model whose sensitivity is fitted.
The upper 95th percentile is not well constrained, particularly in studies that account conservatively for uncertainty in, for example, 20th - century radiative forcing and ocean heat uptake.
Furthermore, all approaches that use the climate's time evolution attempt to account for uncertainty due to internal climate variability, either by bootstrapping (Andronova and Schlesinger, 2001), by using a noise model in fingerprint studies whose results are used (Frame et al., 2005) or directly (Forest et al., 2002, 2006).
And as Nathan correctly states, and as we have already pointed out in our paper, we do not take into account the uncertainty of clouds on shortwave fluxes (atmospheric albedo was not varied).
By scaling spatio - temporal patterns of response up or down, this technique takes account of gross model errors in climate sensitivity and net aerosol forcing but does not fully account for modelling uncertainty in the patterns of temperature response to uncertain forcings.
For instance, uncertainty about the 1994 - 1998 Rwandan refugees» future in exile is compounded by the recent resolution of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to launch military attacks on refugees based in the DRC.35 No account has been taken concerning the fact that they are survivors of the 1996 - 2000 massive forced repatriation and that they have been more vulnerable to extremely stressful and traumatic events that took place since the invasion of Rwanda on October 01, 1990.36 Although they are indeed susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, high level of fear and anxiety (psychosomatic) and / or malnutrition caused by the persecution and destruction of the war, no one who wants to empathise with them.
This hopeful account of the role of schools in welcoming refugees is complicated, however, in light of educators» own uncertainties about the telos of schooling.
[1] To account for uncertainty about life expectancy, we can add a five - year buffer to the average retirement horizon, resulting in a 25 - year expected withdrawal period.
These risks include currency fluctuations; political uncertainty; different accounting and financial standards; different regulatory environments; and different market and economic factors in various non-U.S. countries.
Every time I called in with a question, I had my own personal Account Rep to answer all my uncertainties.
Obtaining relevant information about this goal is best accomplished using a framework that integrates the investment solution with the risks that produce uncertainty in translating account balances into estimated future income.
Increased confidence in balanced mutual funds is a sign of investors» need for growth while taking into account the uncertainties of the market, says Kevin Headland, senior investment strategist for Manulife, who has done an annual survey on consumer confidence, using 2001 respondents at least 25 years of age or older.
Finally, in a collective spasm of uncertainty at the very moment of hitting the button that would instantly and irrevocably flush our bank accounts into his, we asked Armand outright what was to keep him from bolting with the cash.
Her research provides an ethnographic account of artistic communities in the occupied Palestinian territories, at a time when political uncertainties and neoliberal agendas are shaping cultural intervention and production in the region.
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