Sentences with phrase «arbitrary points in»

In this post, I examine in detail how Nevada's pension plan for teachers operates and show how it incentivizes teachers to make employment decisions around arbitrary points in their careers.

Parameters in the plan work to «pull» teachers already in the system to remain until arbitrary points in their careers, and «push» teachers out after these points — regardless of their life circumstances, passion or dispassion for teaching and other job conditions.

That is not the case with current systems, where pension - wealth accrual is highly back loaded and concentrated at certain arbitrary points in teachers» careers.

Dr. Bawumia would have to compute complex mean rate variables for the two periods he is comparing rather than try to use two arbitrary points in time to make his point.

you guys and your timelines... arbitrary points in time to try and prove a point.

Never ever buy points thinking that you may, at some arbitrary point in the future, have a use for them — that's a great way to get burned by a devaluation you didn't see coming.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, Dalbar introduced the Profit - Based Pricing Model Calculator, which it says goes beyond «traditional assets under management pricing in which clients are charged an arbitrary basis point fee that is independent of the cost of servicing that client.»

So, I initially set some arbitrary targets like $ 2000 or whatever as a selling point, but then there's the regret I'd have to contend with if it goes to $ 20,000 in 2 years.

In other words, it is highly arbitrary to associate field points along a certain line and say they belong to some mathematical entity.

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

His point is not that we should, or even do, live in everyday reality all the time; rather, it is that everyday reality is a familiar world and yet an arbitrary world, because it is a world constructed of symbols, social experiences, and casual presuppositions.

But Bergson has pointed out the arbitrary nature of the dividing line drawn by commonsense between the zone of «organic» determinisms and that of «spontaneity» in the course of embryogenesis.

The point is not to be arbitrary about definitions, however, but rather to reveal the following theoretical issue: All three kinds of ideologies in Table have been called civil religions, but there are obvious differences among them.

And it's not as if that message is tacked onto the movie in an arbitrary way; it's really placed at the core of the story, and it bleeds through every scene, almost to the point of overkill.

When here and there in draft decrees of the Council stress was laid on this role of conscience as irreplaceable even in practice, anxious voices could be heard in the aula, pointing out in alarm that in earlier days the Church used to lay down clear and unmistakable norms, whereas now even at the Council appeal was being made to the individual conscience, so running the risk of slipping down into an arbitrary, subjective situation ethics.

At many other points in the judicial process, discretion rules, and arbitrary or incorrect decisions are possible.

At some point in your life, you come to realize that your team isn't intrinsically better or worse than any other and that sports tribalism is petty and arbitrary.

The dominated live in a state of constant fear that the master may, at any point, exercise their arbitrary power.

The Levellers» point is that the very parliamentarians who were attacking the king for arbitrary practices, once in power do exactly the same.

We have now reached the point where the Prime Minister has in practice a degree of arbitrary power few, if any, English and no Scottish monarchs have rivalled.

Councilman Jumaane D. Williams also lashed out at Mr. Cuomo in his praise of the RGB, writing in a statement that the vote sent «a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Governor Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate approximately 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants, but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well.»

Illustration of points in an arbitrary high - dimensional space that live close to a one - dimensional, tree - like structure, as might arise from genomes generated by mutation and selection in evolution.

Archive centers may wish to utilize this system to quantify classes of formerly arbitrary spectral classification strings found in classification catalogs corresponding to datasets of pointed spectroscopic observations in their holdings.

An article by two Brazilian scientists in the April issue of the journal Animal Cognition points the way to the future for how dogs can communicate with people about such things as being hungry (Rossi, A. P. and C. Ades, 2008, A dog at the keyboard: using arbitrary signs to communicate requests, Animal Cognition 11: 329 - 338).

There is no point in forcing yourself to adhere to some arbitrary eating style if it does not suit your own preferences.

But even according to Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, a «paleo» diet could be as high as 40 % in carbs, a far cry from many of the low carb diets today (which condemn all carbs to the point of even putting restrictions on fruits and veggies to meet some arbitrary carbohydrate gram limit).»

1a: the period of about 3651/4 solar days required for one revolution of the earth around the sunb: the time required for the apparent sun to return to an arbitrary fixed or moving reference point in the skyc: the time in which a planet completes a revolution about the sun two Mercury years.

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.

Others have since suggested that the use of the five - point scale to grade student work depends too much on assumed «common sense» notions of achievement that — in reality — are based on arbitrary teacher judgments with very little consistency between teachers, classes and schools, offering parents little in the way of useful information (London, 2012).

Supporters of the No Child Left Behind Act may point to the greater accountability and higher standards set forth in the law, but opponents may counter with arguments that the law relies too heavily on testing, is too punitive, and sets standards that are arbitrary.

Case in point the claim in your OP title that «self - publishers» and «authors» are mutually exclusive is patently absurd, as is your arbitrary claim that selling «a thousand copies» suddenly makes a mere writer an «author».

As to the financial merits of selling books at $ 4.99, or whatever other arbitrary price point you'd like to choose, again, I have never said that self - pubbing isn't superior in terms of the author net, presuming a sale is made.

Continuing in 2006, the general point of power scanned in version has been used to 33 friends less than arbitrary professions.

If we impute an arbitrary 2.0 - cent per point value, the new 3,000 - mile refund fee for international tickets would mean a loss of $ 60 in value.

The narrative is also one of Witcher 3's strongest points, managing to force the player into more organic decision making rather than the arbitrary instant gratification that we've been conditioned to engage in.

As stated in a Pentagram blog post, the point of the game is to show just how arbitrary map orientations are:

The piece illustrates the arbitrary nature of truth in a word's relationship to its definition, pointing to the fact that text plays a visual role as itself, completing an image or idea.

The various works in this exhibition point both at systems and their breakdowns: awkward or arbitrary interactions, the intrusion of affect, unlikely spaces.

The apparently arbitrary start of the sequence ensured that the letter A would appear in the centre with the dotted line emerging from its point.

In and of itself, this may be an arbitrary fact, but it highlights an important point: Jason Brooks is a fine artist with an acutely - honed skill, but whose artistic vocabulary has more in common with the new Conceptualists and Postmodern punkIn and of itself, this may be an arbitrary fact, but it highlights an important point: Jason Brooks is a fine artist with an acutely - honed skill, but whose artistic vocabulary has more in common with the new Conceptualists and Postmodern punkin common with the new Conceptualists and Postmodern punks.

About the other question, about arbitrary elements in his art, arbitrary, random and «found» need to be carefully compared and contrasted, but it needs to be pointed out that «found» elements play (found objects, colors, materials, number systems, etc.) were an important way around composition and other forms of expression.

The net «forcing» is unknown (at any point in time), so any postulated CO2 forcing is arbitrary.

There is no reason to stop the process at any arbitrary point of your own choosing in the cycle, and proceed to call it short lived.

The real issue is that the effort to produce «suitable data» left the «experiment compromised, dropping data is not at all «arbitrary» and it is that in an irregularly periodic process that is Natural Climate Oscillation there is NOT any «bad points» unless the COLLECTION METHOD can be shown flawed as a minimum «initial problem».

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.

Firstly, that it was subjective to the point of being arbitrary, and secondly that the report quoted (many times) that climate sensitivity was likely to be in the range of ΔTx2 = 1.5 to 4.5 ° K, and yet the CMIP3 models spanned a range from 2.1 to 5.

Unless you have some evidence that a) arbitrary modifications were made to published data without explanation in the publication and b) any such modifications were not scientifically justified, please stop with this ridiculous and discredited point.

The exact numbers are somewhat arbitrary, but my point was that putting 0 % in is too little and putting a large fraction in would be taking too much emphasis away from emissions reduction.

The dividing line between situations within the scope and those outside the scope of EU law often appears arbitrary, as was pointed by AG Sharpston in the case of Zambrano.

So, surely, there's little point in having this outdated and arbitrary notion as an organising concept in the training of young lawyers?