Sentences with phrase «at a given level»

Historical stock market data provide investors with a powerful set of tools for constructing portfolios that can maximize expected returns at given levels of risk.

Taken in this context, venture capital investing, while in isolation a risky investment style, can provide enhanced returns at a given level of risk.

The knowledge, skills, and practices students performing at a given level are able to demonstrate at any grade.

Each post will highlight the work of several leaders at a given level and will share lessons learned for other educators to consider in their own development of competency - based education.

I think that all they represent is the temperature of the atmosphere when it is in equilibrium at any given level.

At that thermal equilibrium the surface temperature can be calculated using the S - B Law for any planet at a given level of solar input.

However it does still mean that temperatures rise — and at any given level of CO2 forcing this effect will mean a higher equilibrium temperature.

A typical progression not only describes the stages that students must master, but it also shows what students can perform at any given level.

This resulted in some chains converging well, also according to the F - statistics of ANOVA, while, in other chains, the estimates stayed at a given level until almost the end of chain was reached, when they jumped to a totally new level.

Discussion of these examples helps bring scorers onto the same «page» - sharing a common agreement on what exemplifies work at a given level.

Forward guidance can lower longer - term interest rates by signalling to investors that the policy rate will stay at a given level longer than previously anticipated.

One might conjecture that such periodic functions of aggregates set the boundary conditions for durations of actual occasions at any given level of a hierarchy.

It's important to include behavioral sleepy signs: i.e. how your baby feels and acts at any given level of tiredness.

«By linking fisheries to ecology, we can now make informed statements about ecosystem function at a given level of fish biomass.»

There's no doubt whatsoever that trained endurance athletes burn a higher proportion of fat at a given level of exertion than untrained subjects, and this «carb - sparing» behaviour allows them to go longer / harder before their carb stores are depleted.

Each year WSD relies on participation from supporters at all giving levels.

Taken together, this evidence suggests that a teacher who taught the same curriculum to the same students, and who is rated at a given level based on value - added calculated from one test has a strong likelihood of earning a different level based on value - added calculated from a different test.

There's a mode to hold the battery charge at a given level while driving — like if you're on the highway and want to save your electricity for around - town stuff — but it needs to be selected each time the car starts, so don't forget.

Those PEG ratios were often quite flat for higher P / Es at a given level of the discount rate of 14 % or below.

One possible method for doing so is to use the Shiller PE as a valuation tool, and to move the portfolio into cash at some given level of overvaluation.

The first two are then plotted on a graph to create the «efficient frontier»: a line that denotes the maximum return possible for a given portfolio at a given level of risk.

And with reward tiers, there's a limited number of award tickets at any given level, and once they're gone, they're gone.»

The latter is particularly important because it tells us what the least (and hence most constraining) carbon budget is that we may encounter at a given level of uncertainty about the climate.

Stabilising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere at any given level, already at 393 parts per million and rising at an average 2.3 ppm per year, requires annual emission be reduced more than 80 per cent below current levels eventually.

ii) In the case of the Ideal Gas Law it is the height of an atmosphere of a given mass that determines the number of molecules per unit of volume at the surface and the more molecules per unit of volume the hotter the surface will become at a given level of solar input.

In order to control for curriculum differences between majors, methods courses, and programs, the courses examined in this study were those common to education students at a given level (undergraduate or graduate), regardless of specialization.

2) The thing that confuses us, I think, is that we add insulation to our house to reduce the amount of power needed to keep the temperature at a given level.

Modern Portfolio Theory attempts to construct a portfolio that maximizes the potential for return at each given level of risk.

If, at some given level of prices, I consider an average money balance of $ 1000 adequate for my needs, then, if prices fall to half that original level, $ 500 will serve me just as well as a $ 1000 did before.

This has two main effects: first, it reduces districts» revenue limit authority because revenue limits are tied to enrollment; and second, as the number of pupils decreases, at any given level of property values, a district will appear more property wealthy on a per pupil basis, which results in that district losing state aid under the general aid formula.

Therefore, a rational way to look at investing in a stock is to determine what rate of return the company's earnings power is offering you at a given level of valuation.

It does not seem to matter how many of those years were at any given level.

A trend is significant (at a given level of probability) if it accounts for a sufficient proportion of the variance in the data.

At any given level of technology, there is a trade - off between how many people can be born into a society and the level of per capita physical affluence that can be sustainably supported.

A stronger gravitational field will produce a lower, denser, warmer surface than a weaker gravitational field since the amount of solar energy retained by the atmosphere will be focused into a smaller volume and that amount of energy will be determined by the amount of mass available to absorb it at any given level of solar irradiation.