Sentences with phrase «at predicting a range»

The team found that two factors were much better at predicting range: A factor measuring the amount of length change possible in the vocal cord, or how far it could stretch, and a factor measuring the stiffness of the cord due to the fiber structures within.

Calculating pay in lieu of reasonable notice, as Justice John Laskin once wrote, is «an art not a science» (Minott v O'Shanter Development, [1999] OJ No 5 (OCA), but employment lawyers are reasonably good at predicting a range of outcomes based on precedent.

Not exact matches

Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.

Analysts predicted last year that the tech - savvy watch, which launched in April at a starting price of $ 349, would crush watch sales for companies like Michael Kors that sell timepieces in the price range of $ 300 to $ 500.

This type of binary option pays out if the trader can correctly predict whether the value of the underlying asset will fall within a certain range at expiration or not.

But even given that there's a wide range of normal when it comes to the rate at which kids blossom from tiny newborns to strapping teenagers, it's possible to predict with some degree of certainty where a child will be at a particular age and stage.

In a 2010 report to the USDA [PDF], Mathematica predicted that adopting a full range of improvements to make meals «healthier» would result in 5 percent of elementary school children dropping out of the program, and even more — 12 percent — at the secondary school level.

Meanwhile Harvey predicted Ed Miliband would win 34 % at the lowest range of expectation, after having taken five per cent of the Lib Dem vote.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

These bounds are very useful because with long - range interactions, our mathematical tools and state - of - the - art computers can hardly succeed at predicting the properties of the system.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

«This is worrisome given that the temperature in the study region is predicted to rise by as much as 2 degrees by midcentury under the range of plausible greenhouse gas emissions scenarios,» said Avery Cohn, aassistant professor of environment and resource policy at Tufts, who led the work while he was a visiting researcher at Brown.

In one as - yet unpublished study of 156 addicts ranging in age from 24 to 68 at a methadone clinic, the subjects» reported levels of boredom were the only reliable factor that predicted whether they would stay on course, Todman notes.

«We need to confirm this synergistic activity of vemurafenib and cediranib across a broader range of melanoma models, investigate why the particular combination is effective, and find biomarkers that predict which patients with BRAF - mutant melanoma should receive this combination,» says Friedman, who is a research fellow in Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

The last prediction by government scientists, led by Nicholas Day at the University of Cambridge and finalised in 1989, predicted 1600 cases for 1992, with upper and lower ranges of 950 and 2800.

At the end of the century, multi-directional shifts without range retraction were predicted for both species, but tropical WRs showed major changes in their distribution.

This calculator works by taking your max strength at higher rep ranges and using that to predict what your 1RM would be.

Disney said Monday that although tracking at this level is difficult to accurately predict, it anticipates a four - day domestic weekend in the $ 150 million range.

At the conclusion of the article, there is a ten question formative quiz with questions ranging from vocabulary, main idea, author's point of view, sequencing, inferring, and predicting.

Microsoft isn't saying exactly when the Surface will be available for purchase, or how much it will cost, but experts are predicting the «consumer version» to fall in the $ 500 price range with the «business version» to come in at over $ 1,000.

It covers the following National Curriculum learning objectives: - develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by: listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently - becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales - drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher - making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done - answering and asking questions - predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far - using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read - checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context

The scale at the bottom of each bar represents the range of possible ACT scores and shows the predicted ACT score for each KAP cut score.

Within range of or exceeding predicted performance based on similar student populations statewide, for at least two out of the last three years, based on CCSA's metric, the Similar Students Measure.

As we predicted when the pictures first made their way onto the web, the Spyder will get the 10 - cylinder, 5.2 - litre engine from the range - topping R8 V10 coupe, putting out 518bhp at 8000rpm and 391 lb ft of torque from 6500rpm.

We predicted a week ago that the rest of the new Alfa Romeo Gulia range would be revealed at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, and -LSB-...]

Peak power is predicted to start at 331kW (450hp) but as is the norm with forced induction you can expect the AMG boffins to provide a range of factory - backed power enhancements.

In all electric mode you can cruise at 130km / h, although you won't be going far with a predicted range or 30 km or so.

We predict that they will continue introducing models with the small - block pushrod V - 8 for their customers who are happier at that price range while offering a more expensive Chevrolet with enhanced features.

Then I used that equation to plot out the line that predicts the sales at any price point interpolated or extrapolated across the range and a little higher.

With the beginning of a new week, especially the week after Google became Alphabet and took a new look at their family and range of products and the direction they were taking them, few people probably predicted that the third and final developer preview of the upcoming Android M, now officially dubbed Marshmallow, would be -LSB-...]

I'm on record as predicting the flat - text e-book era has an outside range of five years, at least for fiction — specialized non-fiction and manuals will continue to be valuable for their content alone.

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We are unable at this time to predict the ultimate amount of our liabilities because the settlement of our existing liabilities could cost more than we anticipate and we may incur additional liabilities arising out of contingent claims that have not been quantified, are not yet reflected as liabilities on our balance sheet and have not been included in the estimated range of potential distributions, such as liabilities relating to claims that have not been resolved and claims or lawsuits that could be brought against us in the future.

Let's take a look at the expected real returns for a range of asset classes using the simple and reliable model assuming that starting yields predict future returns.

Just like humans, it's hard to predict how long a cat will live, which is why we provided a range of years a breed can typically live, according to the findings at cattime.com, an authority on the pets.

On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.

In a paper published last year Meehl et al (2011) looked at what a range of different climate models predict might happen in the future.

For instance, T. Palmer, a scientist at the European center for medium - range weather forecast, writes in the journal «Weather» that climate predictions using GCMs could be grossly misleading because the computer simulations may be unable to accurately predict long - term changes in the frequency of weather patterns.

• The union of microscopic (atomic level) Hamiltonian dynamical models with macroscopic (system level) thermodynamical models, succeeds extraordinarily well at predicting a vast range of physical phenomena (including heat conductivity, heat capacity, sound velocities, viscosity, thermal expansion, solubility / insolubility, etc..)

Current temperatures are substantially below the bottom of the range that they predicted as at all likely.

And since the predicted range of warming for the Arctic by the century's end is 5.6 °C at a conservative estimate and 12.4 °C at the most, the permafrost may be seen as yet another dangerous factor in the global warming equation.

For example, actual temperatures were at the high end of the predicted range.

Accurate sea temperature was much more important in anti-submarine warfare where, in order to predict likely detection ranges of submarines from a surface ship, it was critical to have temperatures at all depths to which a submarine could operate.

The SHA model provides a tool to predict hmF2 at any location distributed among the used range of latitudes (70 ° N — 50 ° S) and at any time.

You also know that the rate of change in temperature predicted by Hansen has not occurred (or has been at the bottom of the estimated range).

So they might just sneak in at the low end of the predicted 2016 - 2035 range (0.6 C), but (unless there is massive massaging of the numbers) I do not believe that HadCRUT4 will show an average anomaly for that is anywhere near the upper end (1.0 C).

While evidence is accumulating that many species expand their ranges northwards in response to a warming trend (in the Northern Hemisphere), evidence for predicted contractions at the southern limit of species» ranges is sparse.

Usually the measurements are in the range of error as to being able to predict the impact of the subject at hand.

Using a model that tracked a range of habitat conditions, including water temperature and depth from sea ice, to predict which habitats would be most impacted by climate change, William Cheung, the study's lead author, and his colleagues found that around 50 species of commercial fishes living near or at the poles will go extinct within the next 4 decades.

At 600ppm, global average temperature rise could be in the range of 3 - 4Â °C — which means greater sea level rise than predicted, glaciers melting and constraining water supply throughout large areas of Asia, agriculture being severely stressed in many places, greater storm intensity, reduced biodiversity, the end of coral reefs.