Sentences with phrase «attempts at these calculations»

Climate modellers refer to the various attempts at these calculations as «infrared cooling models», and researchers have been proposing different ones since the 1960s, e.g., Stone & Manabe, 1968 (Open access).

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At our school, grades in advanced courses are multiplied in the calculation of GPA, which attempts to both incentivize and «reward» those who take on challenging coursework.

It will be seen for what it is, an attempt at political calculation at a time when a premium is being placed on political principle and conviction.

Rather than attempt the complex calculations necessary to arrive at an optimal strategy for drawing down and spending their retirement savings, retirees rely on easy - to - follow rules of thumb, such as the 4 % rule advocated by some financial planners.

We attempt to mitigate our investment risk by purchasing stocks where, by our calculation, the potential gain is at least three times the potential loss (an Upside reward - to - Downside risk ratio of 3:1 or greater).

The trouble with Bradshaw's statement is that she is at the very least taking an extremely liberal view of what «a significant amount of... calculations» means in an attempt to run damage control on the botched launch of a game that many fans are disappointed by.

The spot paintings are nothing more than colour, calculations, sheer surface and mass production — Hirst's dissociative attempt at being more like a scientist, in the way that Andy Warhol wanted to be more like a machine.

All the calculations are backed up by published scientific papers and have been peer reviewed by Dr Thomas Stocker, professor of climate and environmental physics at Bern University in Switzerland, in an attempt to prevent the fossil fuel lobby attacking the findings.

For obvious reasons, most firms attempt to measure individual profitability, but many end up including overhead expenses in their calculations, which is really just a numbers game and tends to put lower - level timekeepers at a disadvantage in calculating their profitability contribution.

We used Levin's formula for these calculations: ARF = P1 (RR − 1) / 1 + P1 (RR − 1), 36 where P1 is the prevalence of an ACE score of at least 1 and RR is the OR of attempted suicide for an ACE score of at least 1.36 The ARF is an estimate of the proportion of the health problem (eg, attempted suicide) that would not have occurred if no persons had been exposed to the risk factor being assessed.36