Sentences with phrase «as gauges by»

Essay writing assignments should be expected when at school because they are used as gauges by professors to determine whether their students understood the lesson and whether they can think about the topic thoroughly.

Yet the sector as gauged by the SPDR S&P Bank ETF was off 1.2 percent in early afternoon trading, with all of the banks that reported off at least 2 percent.

The market, as gauged by the federal - funds rate, indicate about even odds for a further three rate increases this year.

If we purchased the top 2 ETFs as gauged by a combination of their 6 month return, 3 month return, and 3 month volatility, and rebalanced monthly, the results are below:

The finding is significant, because Paul's online support — as gauged by blog mentions, friends on social - networking sites such as MySpace and popularity in online polls — has garnered him wide mainstream print and television coverage, despite his relatively poor performance in offline polling.

The tip - off was its high density, as gauged by the way Lutetia's gravity deflected the passing spacecraft.

People's overall sexual responsiveness, as gauged by their brainwaves, also correlated with the number of orgasms they had over the next three days (PLoS One, doi.org/bvb4).

In some grades, fewer than 10 percent were proficient as gauged by current state standards.

Montana ranks first as gauged by that measure, followed by Colorado, Kansas, Texas, and North Carolina.

Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To The Top (RTTT), raising student achievement (as measured by standardized assessments) and attainment (as gauged by outcomes such as graduation and postsecondary success) have become national priority.

In a follow - up study, Coates» colleagues from the department of medicine pharmacologically raised the cortisol levels of another group of volunteers by 69 % over eight days and found that their risk appetite, as gauged by means of a computerized gambling task, declined by 44 %.

When combined into a single portfolio the two strategies have led to even better risk - adjusted returns (as gauged by Sharpe Ratio) even when compared to an equal - weight SPY / TLT portfolio.

If we purchased the top 2 ETFs as gauged by a combination of their 6 month return, 3 month return, and 3 month volatility, and rebalanced monthly, the results are below:

Recent evidence suggests that the Federal Reserve's monetary policy stance, as gauged by changes in its policy stance (i.e., an increased or decreased target for the federal funds rate), provides useful information that can be effectively used to improve the allocation decision.

Low Volatility: This is the ultimate risk measurement as gauged by the standard deviation of returns.

There has been some recent research, such as the Minimum Variance Portfolios tracked at betaarbitrage.com, which shows that lower volatility stocks have performed better that the overall equity market as gauged by the S&P 500.

«Cloud water content as gauged by the Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) reaches a minimum ~ 7 days after the Forbush minimum in cosmic rays...» Svensmark et al, «Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds», GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,

It is an amazing world we live on and we are fortunate to live in relatively very boring times in the aspect of geologic activity and climate as gauged by the events of the past.

If you drop the stations with less anomaly, and keep the ones with more warming as gauged by their anomaly, UHI or not, and use their anomaly, now transposed to the grid stations dropped, you may have problems and a biased warming.

Research conducted since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq point to the strain that wartime deployment places on families, as gauged by a broad range of indicators.

Not exact matches

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

And as measured by the S&P 500, which is seen by many as a better, wider market gauge, the recent stock market run isn't all that historic.

You can gauge the interest in responsible investing simply from the increase in shareholder proposals being filed about ESG issues and the exponential growth in the number of questions being asked by institutional investors, researchers and clients - and as a CEO, I have to make trade offs that may not be in the best short term profit interest of the Bank but are viewed in our best long term interest.

BlackRock's «Yellen Index» (our gauge of 10 key labor market indicators closely followed by the Fed) has picked up, but it's well below the level before the Fed's December rate rise, as the chart above shows.

As a result, the CSI 300 Index and the SSE 50 Index, the two major gauges of mainland - listed larger companies, now trade at the highest levels relative to the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Learn how to gauge the impact of what you're saying by reading bodily cues such as posture, eye contact, and hand movements.

Fund shareholders may look at share ownership by fund managers as a gauge of focus and commitment to protecting their interests.

The rate at which money is used to bid up asset prices can be thought of as a «financial multiplier» and can be gauged by looking at the ratio of overall asset values to money.

It can gauge sentiment, display coverage by location, show trends in media exposure over time and show you who's writing about you the most as well as monitor competitors.

As a result, changes in NAV are not the best gauge of mutual fund performance, which is best measured by annual total return.

Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic research.

A current snapshot of the world gold market and its near term outlook can be gauged by examining four sets of influences on the market, namely the macro / geopolitical environment, investment demand flows, physical demand in the major markets (using India as an example), and finally the technical picture.

We know that sea levels are increasing thanks to the satellite observations, collated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as coastal tide gauge records monitored by Australia's leading science body, the CSIRO.

At any rate it is clear that his mission won a substantial measure of success, so far as success can be gauged by vast audiences, wide notoriety, and an excited following.

In other words, Jesus as the Christ is the gauge by which every disclosure of God's will is measured.

Then when you think things can't get worse — you're grappling with insurance hassles caused by your daughter's car crash just as an article you're writing is behind schedule — you see that the water tank pressure gauge is leaking.

Just like you don't have a work history without your past by which a perspective employee can gauge your potential as an employee with their form... the examples can go on and on.

A load cell that is environmentally sealed by filling the strain gauge cavity with a material that protects the gauges from environmental hazards such as moisture.

The same parameters that are being used by the media or the fans to gauge players should be applied more importantly to the manager and even the club as a whole.Is Arsenal for instance just in the competitions for the hell of it or are they there to compete for the attainment of the trophies and the accompanying goodies?.

If we used the slashing of betting odds in years gone by as a gauge of players joining Arsenal then the likes of Higuain, Benzema, Gotze, Mata etc would be at The Emirates

I realized that some new bloggers who want to take their blogs to the next level may not really have a gauge as to what it takes to make a blog work, to get asked to post sponsored content, to get ads, or to get approached by brands.

Though park officials are portraying the questions as a way to gauge community interest in a variety of issues, others suggest placing the questions on the ballot was a calculated move to avoid any recall efforts by residents.

Cuomo, who often employs his own polling firm to gauge public sentiment, was told that Spitzer — whom he privately opposes as a likely «disaster» for the city and state — was leading Stringer by «the high single digits.»

The depth of trouble in which Hunt finds himself can be gauged by the way the Leveson cache of e-mails is being reported: almost always with a prefix such as «devastating», in the same way Andrew Lansley is normally «gaffe - prone» or «under pressure».

The chairman also in April recorded an automated phone poll gauging opinion after the message accused Kearns of campaigning «as a true Republican by misleading the public.»

Another session at the AAAS Annual Meeting discussed public opinions on science and technology as gauged through surveys by the U.S. National Science Board, the Pew Research Center, and the polling company Gallup.

It was news to me that sparking by an inappropriate pressure gauge, which Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) investigators suggested as the cause of the explosion in April, was not in fact to blame.

Or perhaps the LSA simply detected the patients» recovery as reflected by their writing but not brought about by it — in that case, programs such as LIWC could aid doctors in diagnosing illness and gauging treatment progression.

NARWHALS packing temperature and depth gauges connected to satellite transmitters have revealed that climatology models used for the Baffin bay region — which links the Atlantic and Arctic oceans — underestimate winter ocean temperatures there by as much as 1 °C.

The researchers gauged serotonergic neurotransmission by measuring its response to citalopram, a drug that stalls serotonin molecules in the synaptic gap (as measured by the hormone prolactin's response to citalopram.