Sentences with phrase «aimed at forecasting»

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For the full year, it said it is aiming for 92 - 96 million premium users, representing growth of 33 percent at the mid-point of that forecast.

The forecast dip is likely due to plans for increased spending aimed at securing a stronger position in growth markets like security cameras.

As well as missing revenue forecasts, Alibaba announced a $ 4 billion share repurchase program over two years, which it said was primarily aimed at offsetting the impact of the company's share - based compensation programs and other factors that could dilute the share price.

This article aims to explain why the club's net spend in recent seasons has appeared to be so relatively low, examines the story behind the infamous # 200m war chest and looks at forecast revenue for this season to give an indication of how much money will be available to spend this summer.

NOAA evaluates the accuracy of its seasonal forecasts each year, with the aim of seeing the number of storms fall in the given ranges at least 70 percent of the time, which they do consistently, Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, said.

The EPA has put together a small group of researchers to develop a forecasting system aimed at keeping officials a day ahead of problems.

This five - year forecast isn't like the ones that appear on the evening news, rather, it is a research effort aimed at improving climate models.

To do this, they use research, forecasts, experience and judgments to make investing decisions aimed at outperforming the investment benchmarks.

Value investing, to my mind, attempts to avoid the need for us to be a super forecaster because its fundamental aim is to buy businesses with valuations that impute very dark scenarios for the business and don't require said business to be able to incrementally deploy capital at high return rates for years into the difficult - to - forecast future to justify today's valuation.

If I search for currency forecasts, all I seem to find is week - by - week (or day - by - day, hour - by - hour) forecasts aimed at currency traders who have a lot of technical background that I lack.

To do this, they use research, forecasts, experience and critical judgement to make investing decisions aimed at outperforming the investment benchmarks.

The scientists running the project stressed that it is not a formal forecast, but instead aimed at comparing different ways of analyzing what mix of forces — from winds and currents to any long - term contribution from human - caused global warming — is at work.

For the latest forecasts of this summer's Arctic ice retreat, have a look at Sea Ice Outlook 2009, an effort to collate and compare a variety of studies aiming to project the minimum ice extent each summer.

-- Kerry Emanuel, who has been studying hurricanes and climate change for decades, has a great page on his Web site at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology consolidating the many competing computer model runs aiming to forecast the strength and track of tropical storms.

It follows a DOE announcement in January aimed at backing U.S. solar manufacturing and a funding opportunity announced in December aimed at supporting solar forecasting.

4) Will policies aimed at reducing the use of coal and oil be more or less cost - effective than policies aimed at adaptation to forecast changes as they emerge?

The seasonal outlooks come at a time of some angst — and urgency — regarding the future of research aimed at improving forecasts of individual storms.

It included, and in fact, was specifically aimed at Russian and Chinese crop production forecasts.

Laws aimed at tackling global warming could cost every family in Britain a staggering # 20,000 — double the original forecast.