Sentences with phrase «best approximation in»

In fact passive house buildings do have heating demand, and it seems that the PHPP internal heat gains figure is a good approximation in most cases.

Such ideas were good approximations in the past.

Not exact matches

In the case of stock market returns, if you plug in the results of the first calculator you'll find that the approximation isn't exact, but it's still pretty gooIn the case of stock market returns, if you plug in the results of the first calculator you'll find that the approximation isn't exact, but it's still pretty gooin the results of the first calculator you'll find that the approximation isn't exact, but it's still pretty good.

The idea was to work» nonviolently and within the constraints of Lutheran two - kingdoms warnings against illusions of earthly new Jerusalems» toward a politics that might provide a better approximation of the kingdom of God proleptically revealed in the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.

The eternal peace of humanity with God, received by faith on account of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows about and experiences.

Science has given us a very good approximation of the age of the earth — and that age is in the billions of years.

He further granted that «Although I stress shared knowledge, and try to give an index to a first approximation of its contents, I do not propose in my book any best way of imparting that knowledge.

But commitment to God defined as supreme worthfulness for all men implies a faith which trusts that a finer approximation to God's goodness on the part of men in general will result in a situation that men will call good.

It was clear that when the concerns of Native Americans are included in any approximation to the common good, society would need to advance their claims.

Knowing what the «best approximation» of reality is would first require knowing what is real — in order to judge the accuracy of approximations.

The first step in establishing an alkaline diet is to assess your current pH. A good approximation of tissue pH is easily obtained by testing the pH of your saliva or first - morning urine.

Substitutions for pimentón include hot paprika and New Mexican ground red chile, but for a better approximation of the smokiness of the pimentón, mix in some ground chipotle chile.

Deploying the format used by Nige Tassell in his recent book The Bottom Corner, as well as an approximation of the approach of Michael Calvin in his recent trilogy of volumes, Hughes devotes a chapter each to the majority of the North West» senior clubs, tackling matters through the lens of a single interviewee and interlacing that person's thoughts with his own impressions on the fortunes of a club, both current and historical.

There is good information on the number of persons naturalized in each state going back more or less indefinitely, which when compared to the number of foreign born people in each state can be used to determine the percentage of foreign born adults in each state who are not U.S. citizens, and extrapolated to the county level foreign born statistics to get a good approximation of the number of adult non-citizens in each county in the U.S. Just under half of foreign born persons are naturalized U.S. citizens.

The Central Limit Theorem provides that when N becomes «large» (more than a few dozen voters in the district), the Gaussian distribution becomes a very good approximation for the Binomial.

Only 13 % more conservatives than liberals don't believe in global warming (83 % vs 70 %) if you use US party membership as the best available approximation.

The 4,000 - odd «words» in the dictionary are chosen to offer a good approximation of all the grids in the training data.

«What we tried to do in our current Science study is to come up with a model that's a better approximation of the New Madrid seismic zone.»

Similarly, in my paintings and in physics, the story usually ends way before the solution, and it depends on the physicist's imagination to get a good approximation.

One blogger sampled it and wrote: «Hákarl is in fact a good approximation of the sound your throat makes as it contorts and constricts in a desperate attempt to regurgitate the chunks of fetid fish.»

In this sense, «You are your connectome» would remain a very good approximation.

This estimate is the best available, though it likely represents a conservative approximation because it is based on basal metabolic rates and allometric relationships; furthermore, among other confounds, these whales in Wilhelmina are theoretically eating as much as possible to prepare for winter.

It informs us about the global temperature change «in the pipeline» without further change of climate forcings and it defines how much greenhouse gases must be reduced to restore Earth's energy balance, which, at least to a good approximation, must be the requirement for stabilizing global climate.

I couldn't find a shot of it online and used a close approximation but I do have a better close - up in this photo from an older OOTD set.

One criticism leveled at the project is that administrators will see only the very best of what teachers have to offer, not a realistic approximation of what happens in the classroom every day.

If we keep in mind the fundamental limitations of data — for example, that test scores are at best an approximation of learning and that context and implementation do matter — we are much more likely to discern reliable findings.

It's a bunch of people with the best camera equipment, recording a bloke behaving appallingly in an approximation of a modern - day Group B Fiesta.

At the moment the electric Defender isn't exactly tearing through the Amazon rainforest, but the work it's doing is nevertheless a good approximation of how quite a lot of Defenders are used in real life — at least in terms of speed and duration of use.

While that's a pretty precise approximation, a better range estimate in a real world mix of city and highway driving will likely fall between 75 and 100 miles.

The exact number per year for the last 200 years is unknown, but Heald and his assistants were able to arrive at a pretty good approximation by relying on the number of titles available for each year in WorldCat, a library catalog that contains the complete listings of 72,000 libraries around the world.

When used together, duration and convexity offer a better approximation of the percentage of price change resulting from a particular change in a bond's yield than using duration alone.

In many cases, it is a «good enough» approximation: higher volatility indicates a greater probability of larger realized losses.

This is because book value can serve as a rough approximation of replacement value, which «can be a much better proxy for intrinsic value in many industries, and in many market cycles...»

The rule of 72 (a good approximation when interest rates are between 7 % and 10 %) tells us that a 7.2 % overall return would have doubled the balance three times in 30 years.

Some additional information that report buyers can expect to see includes: ongoing homeownership costs that includes monthly and annual cost estimates for owning that home, as well as closing cost estimates, an historical depiction of crime in the area, as well as an analysis of «value factors,» an approximation of neighbourhood features that add or detract from a home's value.

[1] Huang, H, M.A. Milevsky, and J. Wang (2004), Ruined Moments in Your Life: How Good are the Approximations?

Picking up the equity in undistributed earnings of portfolio companies is a good first approximation of Industries» periodic wealth creation.

The change of pace will be a sticking point for some players as the game rewards thought out plays and strategy over the run and gun techniques that were so successful in turning the tide in previous entries but in my opinion this change is for the better, with matches in the game now playing out in a closer approximation of its real life counterparts.

Quite the contrary, but this was the best approximation to battlefield first aid in multiplayer gaming thus far.

McFadden's Flats is part of an ongoing project in which the artist uses visual excerpts from old comic books, sketches, her own doodle approximations and mark - making, as well as...

In — to a good first approximation we can surely say it can't be transport but that didn't prevent people telling us, oh, it's all transport [laughs].»

Also, James Hansen successfully predicted in 1981 the trend of the past several decades of global warming, including a good approximation of the noise around the trend.

The incidence of 3 sigma + events in any one decade is independent of what might be the best fit to the distribution and the Gaussian approximation doesn't come into any of the calculations above.

John Finn (68)-- A good approximation formula for the CO2 is logarithmic in the concentration, as found here:

The work is an estimate of the global average based on a single - column, time - average model of the atmosphere and surface (with some approximations — e.g. the surface is not truly a perfect blackbody in the LW (long - wave) portion of the spectrum (the wavelengths dominated by terrestrial / atmospheric emission, as opposed to SW radiation, dominated by solar radiation), but it can give you a pretty good idea of things (fig 1 shows a spectrum of radiation to space); there is also some comparison to actual measurements.

In West Antarctica, the gates are not well defined, so the team used approximations of how flow might respond to rising temperatures....

[note1] To a good approximation, the pressure at any given vertical level in the atmosphere is such that it supports the weight of the column of gasses above it.

As we said in our final paragraph, it may not be strictly precise but the approximation is a good one.

To a good approximation, the Earth gets all its energy from the sun in the form of short - wave solar radiation (sun light).

Henry's law doesn't really work well for complex carbonate equilibria and big volumes of liquid water, but even as an approximation, let's assume that if we have 38,000 Gt of dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC, (CO2 + HCO3 + CO3) in the oceans, and the preindustrial CO2 in the atmosphere is about 2,200 gigatons (300 ppm), that's a ratio of about 0.06 (atm / ocean).