Sentences with phrase «arbitrary changes in»

Most studies have adopted incremental scenarios of constant changes throughout the year (e.g., Terjung et al., 1984; Rosenzweig et al., 1996), but some have introduced seasonal and spatial variations in the changes (e.g., Whetton et al., 1993; Rosenthal et al., 1995) and others have examined arbitrary changes in interannual, within - month and diurnal variability as well as changes in the mean (e.g., Williams et al., 1988; Mearns et al., 1992; Semenov and Porter, 1995; Mearns et al., 1996).

Did any decision makers consider the good will that you have lost and will consider to lose by your unilateral and arbitrary changes in terms against us?

Unlike the Basic Portfolio service in which the membership of the portfolio is predetermined and only subject to periodic rebalancing over the analysis period, the DPA allows for arbitrary changes in portfolio composition.

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

As discussed earlier, climate sensitivity generally refers to the expected reaction of global temperatures to a arbitrary change in atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Not exact matches

I'm not saying you should change from rational forecasting to throwing a few arbitrary numbers in a hat and picking one, then dividing that number equally among your sales reps. I'm saying you should consider each rep's experience and performance as you create an overall sales number and individual quotas.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho - physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change.

Thanks to dumb and arbitrary rules that are only now being changed because they are dumb and arbitrary, Aubameyang is unfortunately cup tied to Dortmund who, like CSKA Moscow, were bounced from the group stage of the Champion's League and were given a berth in the Europa League knockout stages as a consolation prize.

A progressive capitalism can only be forged with an enabling state that understands the global environment in which today's business leaders operate: where survival depends on profitability, where the world is awash with investment opportunities beyond the UK, and where arbitrary interventions in markets and constant changes in government policy discourage the long term investment Britain needs.

Today Mr Reid told the cabinet he was «mindful of the need for balancing measures to reassure the public when introducing moves that could be perceived as an increase in arbitrary power», and of the need to secure cross-party consensus on any changes.

«This arbitrary announcement - while negotiations are continuing on the individual schemes - demonstrates that the government is not interested in genuine negotiations, but just in pushing through these changes.

The NASUWT remains in dispute with the Government over adverse changes to teachers» pensions, including the arbitrary decision to increase their normal pension age.

In any case, changing one arbitrary standard to another would do nothing about the widespread misinterpretation and misuse of P values, or change the fact that a statistically significant P value can be calculated for an effect that is insignificant in practical termIn any case, changing one arbitrary standard to another would do nothing about the widespread misinterpretation and misuse of P values, or change the fact that a statistically significant P value can be calculated for an effect that is insignificant in practical termin practical terms.

«Level sets conveniently represent the visible and invisible regions as well as obstacles of arbitrary shape, and handle topological changes in the regions automatically,» Zhou said.

In FCC v. Fox Television Stations, the high court ruled, 5 - 4, that an agency can change regulations without the move being considered arbitrary or capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act as long as it provides a «reasoned explanation» for the change.

And the rule changes will come in random and completely arbitrary ways.

As far as other changes, well, that's really about the only one, which is a bit disappointing, made even more so by the fact that Taymor has admitted in interviews that the alteration was rather arbitrary, made merely because she didn't favor any particular male actors.

Arbitrary divisions in younger employees» compensation arising from whether they were hired before or after the benefit change went into effect would also be eliminated.

My students have noted this in every end - of - course evaluation I've given them: the fact that they can change their grade by mastering the material is so much more enabling than bringing in a box of Kleenex for ten arbitrary points.

There is evidence that one of the reasons schools remain unchanged is that the reforms or changes have been superficial in nature and / or arbitrary in their adoption.

Goal setting based on individuals» relative capacities, then measuring success through change quotient vs an arbitrary general standard is a proven method for adults in a business setting.

Corvette Racing's Program Manager Doug Fehan has so far been optimistic with IMSA's changes to how it calculates the performance of the race cars, moving from arbitrary changes based on speed and results to a data - driven model which features data recorders installed in each car.

Sunny's Nights is the story of Sultan's accidental foray into Red Hook, Brooklyn one summer night in 1995 and his almost arbitrary decision to drop in to a dimly lit, barely noticeable establishment that was soon to change his life.

As you know, «page count» in an eBook is arbitrary in a reflowable eBook, and can change based on the reader's preferences (font face, font size, device size, etc.) In July 2015 when Amazon went to a per - page royalty payout, Amazon used an algorithm called KENPC (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) to tabulate the page counin an eBook is arbitrary in a reflowable eBook, and can change based on the reader's preferences (font face, font size, device size, etc.) In July 2015 when Amazon went to a per - page royalty payout, Amazon used an algorithm called KENPC (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) to tabulate the page counin a reflowable eBook, and can change based on the reader's preferences (font face, font size, device size, etc.) In July 2015 when Amazon went to a per - page royalty payout, Amazon used an algorithm called KENPC (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) to tabulate the page counIn July 2015 when Amazon went to a per - page royalty payout, Amazon used an algorithm called KENPC (Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count) to tabulate the page count.

Over time, the membership of securities in the index will change, and frequently so due to an arbitrary decision from a management committee rather than as a result of an explicit formula.

The reason is that there are so many risks: government regulations of short - selling (SEC Rule 204), special government regulations put in place during market panics (e.g. the 2008 SEC ban on short selling financials), forced buy - ins, unlimited losses, debt to the brokerage, interest one is charged for being short which can vary arbitrarily, brokerages could change margin requirements to any arbitrary amount, arbitration clauses, you agree to indemnify the brokerage for anything it did even if it did the wrong thing, some brokerages also do market - making and thus have further incentive to fleece the client, and all the other «screw you» legal language that you agreed to when opening an account.

Investment policy normally doesn't change in response to market moves, and should be long - term to prevent arbitrary or impulsive revisions.

And some dogs are more fragile than others, which means that in a very unstructured environment, arbitrary changes that come about in their life can often times have adverse affects on them resulting in house soiling issues.

In Oregon we helped pass a landmark dangerous dog law and in Monroe County, Florida, we worked with residents and local government to replace an unenforceable $ 500 intact animal fee with a $ 35 fee, removed arbitrary restrictions on animal limits, and made other changes that vastly increase chances for compliance and cultivate goodwill and cooperation between citizens, lawmakers and animal control officialIn Oregon we helped pass a landmark dangerous dog law and in Monroe County, Florida, we worked with residents and local government to replace an unenforceable $ 500 intact animal fee with a $ 35 fee, removed arbitrary restrictions on animal limits, and made other changes that vastly increase chances for compliance and cultivate goodwill and cooperation between citizens, lawmakers and animal control officialin Monroe County, Florida, we worked with residents and local government to replace an unenforceable $ 500 intact animal fee with a $ 35 fee, removed arbitrary restrictions on animal limits, and made other changes that vastly increase chances for compliance and cultivate goodwill and cooperation between citizens, lawmakers and animal control officials.

Recently, in an interview with Michelle Kuo in Artforum, Tillmans addressed not only the implications of the rapid changes in inkjet printing technology, but also the arbitrary parameters of medium and what it might mean that these boundaries are so vigorously defended.

«About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change» is the rare thematic show that demonstrates how such curatorial restraint can balance curatorial ambition to create moments during which each photograph flows into and out of its neighbours, the theme standing as a propitious forum for reintroducing long - lost friends rather than an arbitrary organizing principle for gathering objects that would otherwise have gathered dust.

This lone line on a pristine sheet of paper in Shilpa Gupta's solo exhibition succinctly sums up the plight of people whose lives undergo dramatic changes by the often arbitrary redrawing of national borders.

Our children and grandchildren are certainly a consideration and this blind faith in economists when two experts can not even agree on the value of Rossevelt's arbitrary changing of the value of the US dollar to increase the value of gold during the 1930's.

While the definition of a forcing may appear a little arbitrary, the reason why radiative forcing is used is because it (conveniently) gives quite good predictions of what happens in models to the global mean temperature once the climate system has fully responded to the change.

Incremental scenarios describe techniques where particular climatic (or related) elements are changed incrementally by plausible though arbitrary amounts (e.g., +1, +2, +3, +4 °C change in temperature).

In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs.

I understand the effect can be complicated by changes in cloud formation and such, but that is just further reasons we should be studying the natural phenomenon and not generating computer models to spit out arbitrary results with no basis in observational data.

The quick and dirty way to check for that is to move one of the curves an arbitrary number of peaks laterally in either direction and see if the correlation changes significantly....

Houghton's method of reconstructing Land - Use Based Net Flux of Carbon appears arbitrary and susceptible to bias; i.e. «Rates of land - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.»

panel cautions that trends in such short periods of record with arbitrary start and end points are not necessarily representative of how the atmosphere is changing in response to long - term human - induced changes in atmospheric composition.

It is not right to ignore uncertainty, but expressing this merely in an arbitrary way (and a total range as before) allows the uncertainty to swamp the magnitude of the changes through time.

In the 1950s, an ingenious (although faulty) model involving changes in the Arctic Ocean suggested a disturbing possibility of arbitrary shiftIn the 1950s, an ingenious (although faulty) model involving changes in the Arctic Ocean suggested a disturbing possibility of arbitrary shiftin the Arctic Ocean suggested a disturbing possibility of arbitrary shifts.

This assumes we're interested in temperature change relative to the pre-industrial CO2 concentration of 280 ppm though that's arbitrary of course.

Regarding long term outcomes, I tend to agree with flxible that even short term outcomes don't look good but it seems to me that Wasdell is at least showing that if the international community wants to avoid 2C (because of some arbitrary idea of where dangerous climate change will kick in, agreed on years ago) then it can't do it without removing atmospheric greenhouse gases and so any notion that some emissions reduction agreement can do the trick are delusions.

I believe the IPCC plans all call for a black box solution where we develop a technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean to drive the CO2 levels or to at least slow the rise of CO2 and give us more time to make fundamental changes in the way we live to limit global warming to some arbitrary level.

One can question why, in Fig. 4, the CERES curve was attached to the total energy change curve at the beginning of the record and, indeed, this was arbitrary but based on the sense that the energy balance was reasonably explained at that time.

Given the life changing decisions made by immigration judges, arbitrary quotas should be placed on how many cases they need to rush through in any given day or week.

Rate changes have to be filed through the state in which it's occurring, and there are strict regulatory processes to protect consumers against arbitrary rate hikes.

«The changes may seem arbitrary to anyone coming from a non-Samsung phone, but current Galaxy users will see the continuity in these design decisions.