Sentences with phrase «as a baseline figure»

We chose» 1 %» as the baseline figure as a conservative estimate, since it is the most readily available one for consumers.

Not exact matches

New research by Zero Waste Scotland has revealed that nearly 1.35 million tonnes of food and drink was wasted in Scotland in 2013, a figure that will be used as a baseline for efforts to reduce food waste by a third by 2025.

It is more appropriate, perhaps, to view these figures as a new baseline for future exams, rather than contrasting them with results from last year.»

Using CBO's baseline assumptions for spending growth, and assuming defense and nondefense R&D maintain their recent historical performance as a share of appropriations, the picture might look like the «baseline» scenario in figure 2.

That figure is then used as a baseline to gauge how much mortality has increased among the displaced population.

It's very difficult to suggest an exact figure, but as a general guideline, start with a baseline of 120 grams per day.

As a baseline, we note that 96 percent of all families with school - age children have at least one traditional public school within five miles of home (appendix figure 1).

In fact the 2012 annual values (with the same baseline as in the figure) are 0.49 + / - 0.35 (95 % spread), so the current values of the 2012 - to - date anomaly (0.24 - 0.26) are not actually significantly different.

Even if we take your wildly baseless «ratio of energy from fossil fuel to energy from renewables,» (as it assumes a baseline that excludes so many non-market renewable) of 100, we still reverse the ratio substantially on your mistaken subsidy figures alone.

The IPCC takes the sensible position that establishing a «business - as - usual» (BAU) baseline for making long - term global climate projections is a pretty tricky endeavor because it means figuring out how the population and economy of the entire world is going to develop over the next century or more.

The first step in interpreting that figure is not to take 1985 - 2005 as the new gospel but to figure out how to eliminate it as a baseline so as to make «today» the baseline you asked for, which turned out to be no more complicated than merely subtracting 0.2 from the numbers read out from the graph.

As shown in the figure below, all four temperature series align remarkably well when normalized on the same baseline period.

The baseline for atmospheric methane used in the study is just under two parts per million — a figure accepted by most experts as well within the range of naturally occurring gas levels.

Lower case a-h refer to how the literature was addressed in terms of up / downscaling (a — clearly defined global impact for a specific ΔT against a specific baseline, upscaling not necessary; b — clearly defined regional impact at a specific regional ΔT where no GCM used; c — clearly defined regional impact as a result of specific GCM scenarios but study only used the regional ΔT; d — as c but impacts also the result of regional precipitation changes; e — as b but impacts also the result of regional precipitation change; f — regional temperature change is off - scale for upscaling with available GCM patterns to 2100, in which case upscaling is, where possible, approximated by using Figures 10.5 and 10.8 from Meehl et al., 2007; g — studies which estimate the range of possible outcomes in a given location or region considering a multi-model ensemble linked to a global temperature change.

Let average premium rates be a baseline as you figure out which policy is best for you.

As seen in Table 2 and portrayed in Figure 2, the 3 CII components (ie, negative parenting, child disruptive behaviors, and negative parent - child interaction) were lower at posttreatment and the 12 - month follow - up compared with baseline in the PTG and NR - PTG conditions.

Three variables were tested as possible mediators of the relations between baseline income - to - needs ratios and children's brain volumes (Figure 1).

Specifically, as Figure 2 shows, improvement from baseline operated as a ∩ - shaped curvilinear function in relation to baseline severity, with those at the lowest and highest levels experiencing smaller gains, whereas those in - between experienced larger gains; the slope for placebo declined as severity increased, whereas the slope for drug was slightly positive.