Sentences with phrase «average over a length of time»

It bases everything off a given average over a length of time, and uses that average to determine trends.

Not exact matches

• Hospital length - of - stay following donation declined over time, from an average of 3.7 days in 1998 to 2.5 days in 2010.

New research has found seven out of 10 Australian adults are unable to concentrate on one task for more than half an hour at a time — less than the length of an average school period — while over half confessed to being distracted by other thoughts and losing concentration within just 15 minutes of starting a task.

Twelve percent of the subjects, all of whom were vegans, had stage IV B12 deficiency.29 Even though the average length of time the subjects had followed the raw food diet was only 3.6 years, over half the vegans were developing pernicious anemia; if many of them were eating folate - rich diets, the proportion of vegans developing irreversible nervous system degeneration might have been even higher than the proportion the study suggested were suffering from severe deficiency.

Based on a pole of over 830,000 users that contrasted the length of relationships for those who use Twitter every day vs. «everyone else», the frequent tweeter's relationships last less time on average.

When we remember a top manager might beat the market by 1.5 or 2 % a year over this length of time, the returns required by Jensen to pick up managers outperforming the averages were impossibly high.

The perfect number is primarily driven by the average and maximum number of adoptions achieved over time, and is calculated by determining the target average length of stay, and multiplying that by the monthly daily average number of adoptions.

Interesting that the earths average temperature over much of the past 600 million years has clustered around 22C or 12C, and almost never has stayed at an average between these limits for any length of time.

In a system such as the climate, we can never include enough variables to describe the actual system on all relevant length scales (e.g. the butterfly effect — MICROSCOPIC perturbations grow exponentially in time to drive the system to completely different states over macroscopic time) so the best that we can often do is model it as a complex nonlinear set of ordinary differential equations with stochastic noise terms — a generalized Langevin equation or generalized Master equation, as it were — and average behaviors over what one hopes is a spanning set of butterfly - wing perturbations to assess whether or not the resulting system trajectories fill the available phase space uniformly or perhaps are restricted or constrained in some way.

Time series of total water storage (color in upper panels), fire season length (lines in upper and bottom panels), and total vegetation carbon (color in bottom panels) averaged over the Northern US and Southern US / Mexico regions in the pre-industrial control simulation.

The average length of time a user spent on this malicious site was 4 minutes, and the site had over 30 million visits per month.

Averaged over those years, the expected length of stay in a single - family home is about 11 and a half years for first - time buyers, compared to 15 years for buyers who have owned a home before.