Sentences with phrase «as a function of»

«You learn to write copy simply as a function of what works and what doesn't,» he told a private audience after his keynote, and therefore so can an algorithm.

If this bill, which has already passed the Senate, passes the House and is signed into law, those who are crowdfunding and offering pre-sales of products may have to charge and collect sales tax as a function of their crowdfunding campaigns.

About four years ago I started pricing all of my deals as a function of «post-money valuation.»

So when thinking about quotas, it's often best to start thinking of them as a function of capacity — and then start thinking about things like revenue and closing ratios.

Minimizes risk - adjusted trading costs relative to the arrival price and dynamically adjusts aggression as a function of real - time market conditions

We study signs that suggest it is time to raise or lower market exposure as a function of risk relative to probable reward.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Suppose one wanted to measure urban literacy as a function of a city's size, or of the average income of its residents.

Here is the table that lists the debt - to - GDP ratio as a function of GDP growth:

K - alpha and bremsstrahlung x-ray radiation backlighter sources from short pulse laser driven silver targets as a function of laser pre-pulse energy

As a function of the collaborative nature of the Startup Grind Service, and based on the permissions and settings you choose, the use of such features enables the sharing of Content with people you want to collaborate with.

This model generates the price of gold as a function of the global investment yield required to produce a constant real after - tax return equal to long - term real growth in global GDP per capita.

The chart below presents slope estimates, showing the 6 - month change in the S&P 500 as a function of the 6 - month change in the monetary base, at various leads and lags.

As a function of this dynamic, we are seeing large movements in foreign exchange and global currencies, again creating tangible long - versus - short trading opportunities for relative value strategies.

Assuming that each dollar contributed reduces federal taxable income, and that a reduction in federal taxable income correspondingly decreases state taxable income, we can determine the minimum credit percentage states should offer to incentivize participants as a function of the federal and state marginal tax rates.

Even without any selling, the value of the fund's share price would fall (roughly as a function of the fund's average «duration», a measure of interest rate sensitivity that is a related to a bond's maturity).

Correlating optical damage threshold with intrinsic defect populations in fused silica as a function of heat treatment temperature

Characterizing the problem of the ghetto poor as a function of white racism is one variant of the «society is guilty» argument.

i don't think the purpose of the article was the validity or otherwise of ID, rather whether the individual in question was treated differently as a function of belief.

«He is a man of convicted compassion and courteous candor who — as a function of his own deeply held Christian beliefs — will work tirelessly for people of all faiths and none,» said Chris Seiple, president emeritus at the Institute for Global Engagement.

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

The human being, has been expropriated of his basic rights: as a «human resource», he / she only has the right to exist as a function of profitability and of what is now known as «employability», a concept which has replaced that of the «right to work».

We have the wave function which Schroedinger brought in as a function of x and t. (Notice that he still used the old ideas of time and space coordinates.)

Laszlo sees subjectivity as a function of emergence.

Externally, it has put itself at the mercy of international capitalism, becoming a dependent region with an industry, a labor force and an agriculture developed as a function of the North American and (to a lesser extent) the western European metropolis.

Whereas in the West «truth» exists as a function of organized will and its eventuality in success, for Muslims the social, economic, political and military orders are all expressions of a fundamental religious truth.

While modern Orthodox maintain that Messiah is implicit in Torah itself, scholars suggest that the idea, and the hope, grew as a function of Israel's national powerlessness after the destruction of the First Temple.

Christian Lalive d'Epinay proposed a similar sociological argument explaining the growth of Pentecostalism as a function of the social, political, and economic crisis in Latin America produced by the rapid urbanization of traditional rural peoples.

In such a situation, the bias in favor of understanding unconscious experience as a function of the brain loses whatever metaphysical justification it may once have had.

Visible and tangible entities must finally be understood as functions of these quite different entities — not vice versa.

The nature of American religion is discussed as a function of these divisions.

if F be the fraction of B's in the population, then I can prove that F as a function of number of years (N)

For by definition there can be nothing on the basis of which this «all» could be determined, that is, expressed as a function of something else.

They found also that such qualitative forms as musical tones correlate with quantitative measures and can be expressed as functions of mathematical laws.

To an increasing extent every machine comes into being as a function of every other machine; and, again to an increasing extent, all the machines on earth, taken together, tend to form a single, vast, organized mechanism.

As the ultimate ground of order in nature and human life, moira was, at times, almost regarded as a function of the will of Zeus.

The difference between process historical thinkers and most other empiricists may be analogous to the difference between Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein: while both are empiricists, Bohr sees physical change as a function of unrepeatable quantum events, while Einstein sees change as a function of enduring relativity principles.

Hoekendijk advocated that, instead of thinking of apostolate as a function of the church, we should think of the church as a function of the apostolate.

In other words, contingent facts may be probatively relevant to theism in an indirect way, but not as a function of their factual character.

If there were an absolute authority morality wouldn't vary as a function of culture and upbringing.

This portrays time as a function of spirit and breath — something far different from the digital inflexibility many Westerners have made of it.

Our doing this as a function of our evolutionary status — «Our brains secrete bright ideas and forms of order; armored insects secrete wax from their backs» (p. 182)-- hardly seems cause for rejoicing.

Viewed in this light everything in the world appears and exists as a function of the whole.

3 I have argued elsewhere that personal identity is not to be understood as a function of hybrid prehensions alone, but rather that such prehensions presuppose common defining characteristics.

The most important problem, however, is that of conceptualizing «health» and «wholeness» as functions of the individual organism, when, and by contrast, the Christian tradition has tended to speak of the salvation - health linkage within a larger understanding of the destiny of the whole people of God.

The function proper to the first organ is that of receiving [percevoir] each particular impression, of attaching signs to it, of combining the different impressions, of comparing them with each other, of drawing from them judgments and resolves; just as the function of the other organ is to act upon the nutritive substances whose presence excites it, to dissolve them, and to assimilate their juices to our nature.

The very great advantage to this «system» was that society was organized on a classical and Christian tradition that understood the tension of human existence, in right order, as a function of Plato's metaxy, e.g. the movement of consciousness between immanence and transcendence.

Is it not more rigorously scientific to treat the brain's function as function of production?

He has been reproached by sociologists for believing in the omnipotence of the scholarly analyst of the laboratory without ever having used the laboratory, and for explaining events as the function of «technical» expressions which hide reality from him in the same manner that the accounts of corporations are carefully edited and kept from the public by so - called «experts.»

of varying degrees of organization and unity and why it is that physical laws have a statistical character as a function of such societies.