Sentences with phrase «as a measurement in»

I've added weights as well as measurements in American cups to help my readers in the UK more familiar with metric, and also because I'm finding that baking, especially when gluten - free, requires more accuracy than cooking.

BMI relies on weight as a measurement in its calculation and as muscle is denser than fat the individual with more muscle mass is going to weight more, and give an anomalous result.

The search engines include popularity of good incoming links as a measurement in page ranking for the web sites containing the links.

For more detailed local studies as well as measurements in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, Lyman alpha and frost point hygrometers (see Table 1) and differential absorption and Raman lidars can be useful.

Not exact matches

Cory Haik, who recently joined Mic as chief strategy officer after working in a similar capacity at the Washington Post, says a big part of what she and Mic's director of growth and editorial products, Marcus Moretti, are working on is an attempt to marry traditional measurements of reader activity with newer ways of determining if readers are getting long - term value from what the site is providing.

Hits, as we used to call them in the 1990s (numbers of pages accessed and images viewed) are no longer a good measurement.

Another important measurement of Google's ads business changed this quarter as it started reporting Network properties growth in impressions versus clicks to reflect the way advertisers buy programmatic ads.

Its surging U.S. growth appears to be coming at least partly at the expense of Blue Apron, which held twice the market share of HelloFresh in 2015 and even as recently 2016, according to data from online audience measurement firm SimilarWeb.

In June the site touted data from Internet - measurement company Media Metrix Inc. that pointed to GORP.com as «the most trafficked Web site dedicated to outdoor recreation and adventure travel.»

As discussed in note (c), results of operations for the first quarter of 2018 were impacted by an $ 897 million pre-tax charge related to settlement of a previously disclosed lawsuit with the State of Minnesota and a $ 217 million measurement period adjustment relative to the accounting for the 2017 enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The technique can be applied in service and retail settings as readily as in manufacturing, although measurement of quality will be achieved differently.

Excludes fair value adjustments of marketable equity securities, as we are unable to project future fair value adjustments, and potential measurement period adjustments relating to Tax Reform in 2018.

Mr. Sarlo, whose work specializes in measurement of poverty, said he hopes his report will influence government policy such as the Canada Child Tax Benefit.

Except in a change in control situation, measurement of the market capitalization milestones will be based on both (i) a six calendar month trailing average of Tesla's stock price as well as (ii) a 30 calendar day trailing average of Tesla's stock price, in each case based on trading days only.

As part of our fact - based diagnosis our Motion Measurement System will identify 12 critical elements of mechanics in your swing, including: shoulder turn, shoulder tilt, shoulder bend, hip turn, hip tilt, hip bend and more.

These standards are based upon a framework described in the International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, July 1988, as amended, also referred to as Basel I.

Estimates on the share of foreign ownership in Vancouver's housing market vary significantly and suffer from both problems of definition (such as defining «foreign» and «luxury») and measurement (such as the proxy measures used for vacancy and nationality).

As more natural modalities of interaction emerge, that the notion of a «click» - the defacto standard of measurement in the media and marketing worlds - is quickly going the way of the dodo.

Both American and Chinese elites raised the point that trust as an abstract measurement may not be that important, particularly in light of the fact that respondents are interested in building a stronger relationship.

Forrester has named Marketing Evolution as a Leader in «The Forrester Wave ™: Marketing Measurement And Optimization Solutions, Q2 2018,» and found that «Marketing Evolution is a real fit for firms looking to build a people - based marketing strategy and willing to embrace new measurement techniqMeasurement And Optimization Solutions, Q2 2018,» and found that «Marketing Evolution is a real fit for firms looking to build a people - based marketing strategy and willing to embrace new measurement techniqmeasurement techniques.»

The combined value of the initial measurement and the change in the fair value of this warrant of $ 7.2 million is recorded as other expense in our consolidated statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30 2014.

His technology is described as «different from most social research measurement instruments» in that it is not solely based on self - reported data — with the follow - on claim being made that: «Using observed data from Facebook users» profiles makes GS» measurements genuinely behavioral.»

However, headwinds in pension expense will hamper earnings growth in 2013, as a historically low discount rate at our May 31, 2012, measurement date will increase these costs by approximately $ 150 million.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

Even as IVF has made technological advancements, an outdated measurement system and weak consumer protections obscure the differences between the best doctors in the business and those who run troubled clinics.

It quotes Kuznets, who formulated the tools to measure GDP in the US, as saying that, «the welfare of a nation can... scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income.»

His outfit was responsible for an approach that's now seen as a core aspect of Facebook's culture: shunning intuitive decision - making in favor of quantitative measurement, then relentlessly choosing whatever option drives the most engagement.

In their November 2017 paper entitled «Tail Risk Mitigation with Managed Volatility Strategies», Anna Dreyer and Stefan Hubrich examine usefulness of managing volatility in this way as applied to the S&P 500 Index over a long sample period and across a range of performance measurementIn their November 2017 paper entitled «Tail Risk Mitigation with Managed Volatility Strategies», Anna Dreyer and Stefan Hubrich examine usefulness of managing volatility in this way as applied to the S&P 500 Index over a long sample period and across a range of performance measurementin this way as applied to the S&P 500 Index over a long sample period and across a range of performance measurements.

In order to really understand impact, we need better data as input into investment strategy and as an output for impact measurement.

China's currency is generally known as renminbi, or «People's currency», but the unit of measurement is the yuan (the terms are parallels of «sterling» and «pound» in the UK).

This highly flawed concept, widely taught in MBA and financial engineering programs, perceives volatility as an exogenous measurement of risk, ignoring its role as both a source of excess returns, and a direct influencer on risk itself... Systematic strategies are based on market volatility as a key decision metric for leverage... The majority of active management strategies rely on some form of volatility for excess returns and to make leverage decisions.

In its seventh edition, this state of the market report presents investors» perspectives on key issues important to the impact investing industry, as well as analysis of their investment activity, asset allocations by geography, sector, and investment instrument, impact measurement practice, and performance.

In the September 2015 revision of their paper entitled «Tweet Sentiments and Crowd - Sourced Earnings Estimates as Valuable Sources of Information Around Earnings Releases», Jim Kyung - Soo Liew, Shenghan Guo and Tongli Zhang investigate whether earnings estimates from Estimize and sentiment measurements from iSentium usefully predict stock behavior after earnings announcements.

Since those aren't exactly universal units of measurement, the system gauged the size of each piece of food, in relation to the plate, as well as any condiments.

Therefore, if we use as our axis of measurement the emergence and expansion of «mentality,» we can maintain that there has indeed been a certain «directionality» in evolution.

The Timaeus states: «there were no days and nights, months and years [i.e., there were no time measurements] before the Heaven came into being» (37E); before the Heaven came into being, the contents of the Receptacle were in» discordant and unordered motion» (30A); nonetheless, «the different kinds [i.e., earth, water, air, and fire] came to have different regions, even before the ordered whole consisting of them came to be» (53A).7 Of course, the terms «before,» «motion,» and «came to have» could be construed as metaphors.

Whitehead's account of the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy, as he explicitly states, is dependent upon a definition of straight lines in terms which make no appeal to measurement (unlike the definition, «the shortest distance between two points»): «It is to be noted that this doctrine of presentational immediacy and of the strain - locus entirely depends...

«16 Thus, Lindsell posits that the cock crowed six times for Peter (in order to harmonize the Gospel accounts); he concludes that «about 23,500» people died on a certain single day (in order to account for Numbers 25:9 citing 24,000 as the figure while Paul asserts in 1 Corinthians 10:8 that it was 23,000); and he hypothesizes that the «molten sea» described in 2 Chronicles 4 as being ten cubits in diameter and thirty cubits in circumference (although we know that C = BD, I. e., the circumference of something ten cubits in diameter is actually 31.4159 cubits) can be understood if the vessel is considered to have sides that are four inches thick, and if the measurement for diameter is taken from the outer edges while the measurement of circumference is taken from the inner edge.17

... it seems a subordinate falsification of the facts to say, as Bergson apparently does, that the whole «distortion» effected by the intellect in its attempts to deal with time arises from the dependence of all measurement on the primary measurement of segments of straight lines.

The fairly ubiquitous failure of contemporary Catholic thought to respect the findings of modern science as anything more than interesting and handy measurement and mathematics is charted in this issue by Stephen Barr, John Haldane and David Brown.

Recent results have indeed been able to show that probabilistic predictions in quantum mechanicslogically follow, without any additional postulates, from the description of individual quantum systems, with the aid of the wave function, which can be expressed, as we have seen, in a completely non-probabilistic way and the assumption that the objective properties of the system can be obtained by measurements with certainty.

What church christians don't understand is that their is no difference between them and the «world» in regards to a legalistic system that labels you «good» or «bad» according to your works (as well as the measurement of our value and usefulness for that matter).

First, to say that this pear has mass might be to say that within the framework of physics and systems of physical measurement and associated units, there is some number m greater than zero, which, to some unspecified tolerance, functions as a parameter in a mechanical analysis of the pear's behavior.

Confronting the same constellation of objects as before and knowing that he does so, he nevertheless finds them transformed through and through in many of their details... Operations and measurements are paradigm - determined... Scientists with different paradigms engage in different concrete laboratory manipulations.

Actual measurements found no variations in G with such a 12 hour period, not even in amounts as small as 1/200 the amount predicted by Whitehead's theory.

In particular, he continued his claim that the ideas of congruence and measurement as understood in the orthodox theories of relativity were not only wrong, but meaninglesIn particular, he continued his claim that the ideas of congruence and measurement as understood in the orthodox theories of relativity were not only wrong, but meaninglesin the orthodox theories of relativity were not only wrong, but meaningless.

Whitehead considers this uniformity a requirement for measurement in the space - time continuum; 22 and thus, as a presupposition of any physical analysis that would be considered scientific.

Whiteheadian cosmology embraces the notion of a uniform metric structure for the space - time continuum that is independent of the material objects commonly said to be «in» space - time and also that is independent of the material objects appropriated as standards of spatio - temporal measurement.

Now, if measurement can be significant only if the measuring rod is free of all deforming influences, not simply those attributed to the influence of «differential» forces, then given a space - time continuum of variable metric structure, no set of conditions can be specified to ensure that the measuring rod does not undergo deformation in its length as it is transported from point to point during the process of measurement.

But Einstein's interpretation of his procedure postulates measurement in heterogeneous physical space, and I am very skeptical as to whether any real meaning can be attached to such a concept.