Sentences with phrase «arbitrary numbers for»

Following on from your comments there, I have used some fairly arbitrary numbers for solar and DLR.

Those parameters included at least a time - delay and an arbitrary number for climate sensitivity.

Not exact matches

I was using an arbitrary number of $ 8000 for net rental income after all expenses (taxes, insurance, management fees, repairs, etc) just to simplify the summary of the return on investment difference.

On these terms, the self could conceivably remain «nothing but» an arbitrary label for those accretions of flesh that bear proper names or social security numbers.

We can not create an arbitrary language for ourselves that would not matter, so that we could after all replace the Word with a drawing and someone's name with a picture or a registration number.

Because of all these opportunities for arbitrary decision, only a small number of those convicted of capital crimes are actually executed.

The number three is by no means arbitrary, for it is the root of an endless plurality.

It takes forever to heat up, forever to cool down and the arbitrary numbering system for «heat» (numbered 1 to 6) doesn't make anything easier.

It seemed like a totally arbitrary number — enough to shut us up, but not enough for a real trial of any kind being that it involved only a tiny fraction of the city's population.

Insurance companies are not in compliance with the law if they have arbitrary rules for a set number of consultations or certain age of the baby.

EFA would not expect local authorities or colleges to set an arbitrary maximum number of hours for the study programmes, but instead to provide the number of hours required by the student to complete the programme.

In this study, the authors have solved the equation describing the effect of solid friction on granular materials for an arbitrary number of dimensions.

«Current approaches to diagnosing ADHD depend on a somewhat arbitrary cutoff point for the number of symptoms.»

«When we're on a long journey, we have a right to celebrate when the odometer rolls over at some round number of miles, even if we're perfectly aware that the round number is somewhat arbitrary,» says Peter Suber, who is the director of Harvard University's Office for Scholarly Communication.

All human societies have many apparently arbitrary practices that persist for centuries or even millennia — writing systems, counting systems, sets of number signs, and calendars, to name just a few examples.

Scale numbers and pants sizes are arbitrary things and should not be a reason for frustration as long as we take good care of ourselves and try to be our best.

Laura easily laps most films for narrative complexity, the sheer number of audacious hairpins it negotiates on the road of logic dizzying for their arbitrary contortions.

The number of courses barely number half that available in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 and the career mode is skeletal, at best, and completely devoid of context at worst; your only real reward for playing through the arbitrary disjointed «career» mode is a static congratulation screen and the high stakes sensation of battling the masters for golfing supremacy is all but missing here.

For all but the lowest - performing 1 percent of schools (which struggle across the board), a single number will inevitably produce arbitrary judgments about which schools are «better» and «worse,» concealing the specific strengths and weaknesses of specific schools and depriving educators of the information that they need to improve.

The dashboard has a color - coded, 25 - square performance grid for each indicator that will create a number of arbitrary cut points between performance levels.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

The engine computer will respond with a series of codes (from one to an arbitrary number of them), each of which will stand for a short diagnostic message.

The culture here is refreshing, no commission and the sales associates get a base payment no matter the vehicle which gives them more time to focus on what you want and is best for you instead of hitting an arbitrary number.

Numbers such as «$ 6 million in 2012» have been hinted at for future pots, but — again — this is an arbitrary number seemingly unattached to other factors: downloads, rankings, retail cost of the book, anything.

I look more toward publishers, who either are requiring books to be repurchased after an arbitrary number of uses or, in some cases (for example, Scribner or Simon and Schuster), aren't making new books available for purchase by libraries at all.

It's not an arbitrary number that you can just choose for more profit.

It would be possible to run the model portfolio performance numbers again using a MWRR, but you would need to assign an arbitrary starting value and an arbitrary amount for each contribution.

All these findings strongly support the Alpholio ™ thesis: the growing number, breadth and variety of ETPs enable more and more accurate assessment and substitution of actively - managed mutual funds and arbitrary investment portfolios for the benefit of investors.

As for the 12 % figure, that is just an arbitrary number that I came up with.

I agree that it does seem kind of arbitrary but $ 70k is the number that the North American Securities Administrators Association recommends for alternative investments.

Features Nine Timeless Rules for Investing in Mutual Funds (and ETFs) Articles that propose some arbitrary number of rules for doing something can be surprisingly seductive.

Articles that propose some arbitrary number of rules for doing something can be surprisingly seductive.

I was using an arbitrary number of $ 8000 for net rental income after all expenses (taxes, insurance, management fees, repairs, etc) just to simplify the summary of the return on investment difference.

As a result, commercial kennels and hobby breeders with more than an arbitrary number of dogs or litters have become targets for anti-breeding groups that lobby for laws to restrict these law - abiding operations.

Because that knowledge is not firm for all nutrients, the numbers are somewhat arbitrary.

Previously you could transfer an arbitrary number of points between two accounts as long as both members had registered their accounts at the same address for 30 days or more.

What they did was pretty much take what made the first game good and ramp it up to 25, an arbitrary number that I just plucked out of the air for no discernible reason other than why the hell not.

After all, how can anyone realistically generate an arbitrary number score for something like the quality of graphics without comparing the game side by side with every other game in existence, and then with all other games on platform, and then with all games in the genre, and then with games released only in recent history (so it's held to the same standard), and so on?

I'd rather play a brilliant game for five hours — particularly as my spare time is becoming increasingly limited and valuable — than go through the boring process of retracing my steps, collecting items through the same levels for another five, just so the developer can meet some arbitrary number of hours or fear being told their game is too short.

LIFE HACK: Instead of yelling at people over arbitrary numbers on reviews or harassing people out of the industry for mildly janky face animations or whatever, just go play a fucking video game you enjoy.

For those upset at the arbitrary number $ 75B used for this exercise, Lomborg's other effort started asking where to spend $ 50B to «save the world&raquFor those upset at the arbitrary number $ 75B used for this exercise, Lomborg's other effort started asking where to spend $ 50B to «save the world&raqufor this exercise, Lomborg's other effort started asking where to spend $ 50B to «save the world».

So, when I gave my analysis, I was trying to demonstrate for you what «designing from first principles» would really be like, contrary to the nonsense we get from Mr. K. Unfortunately, you can't get past offering «your guesstimate» or «your intuition», about some arbitrary number, as if anyone cares.

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....

Rather than define a somewhat arbitrary threshold for a La Niña / El Niño year (i.e. based on the size of the index and number of months exceeding a certain threshold) or limiting the analysis to one ENSO index, I first took the average of the three indices mentioned above (ONI, MEI, and SOI, accounting for the fact that positive SOI indicates La Niña conditions while the opposite is true for ONI and MEI).

While A trajectory is always computable by numerically solving the ODE for an arbitrary time period, this computed trajectory (that Dan Hughes would call «just a series of numbers») has little to do with the real trajectory.

Like everyone else, SOD wants to subtract ULR (calculated for an arbitrary ocean temperature of 300 degK or 290 degK) from DLR (who knows where these numbers came from: most likely land, possibly sunny ocean at 290 degK, possibly cloudy ocean at 300 degK, possibly some average that may even be reasonable for one — but not both — of these two temperatures).

Maintaining those trend lines will depend on how policymakers answer a number of questions, most notably having to do with declining domestic gasoline consumption, changing market dynamics for American refineries, and the removal of arbitrary barriers to exporting certain energy products that were installed during the OPEC embargoes of the 1970s.

Indeed, the pledge of $ 100 billion by 2020 (from developed to developing countries) may be a nice round number for politicians to reference but it is, in fact, an arbitrary figure that is grounded in political, not scientific, analysis.

Willey's commitment to paint 50,000 bees isn't an arbitrary one either; it's the number that's believed to be the minimum needed for a healthy, thriving hive.

To have a chance of solving things, the whole system needs to change, starting with the economic fallacies on which policies are based (for instance, the arbitrary number that represents GNP growth is the ultimate goal of society and must therefore eternally grow bigger and bigger and bigger, faster).