Sentences with phrase «by at least a factor»

This effectively reduced the computational cost of the search by at least a factor of ten.

Between 2008 and 2010 the mid-IR luminosity of this system dropped dramatically by at least a factor of 30 suggesting a loss of dust mass of an order of magnitude or more.

The LIGO team estimates that the volume the detectors can probe will still increase by at least a factor of ~ 10 as the observing runs become more sensitive and of longer duration.

They varied by at least a factor of two from the lowest to highest paid districts, last time I looked at the data.

Even if turning off lights would result in a 1 % reduction in GHGs produced by western countries (and I think youâ $ ™ ve over-estimated by at least a factor of two, but it doesnâ $ ™ t matter), itâ $ ™ s not going to do diddly - squat for global warming, which was my original point.

Our analysis shows an increase by at least a factor of six in the chances of setting the new October record maximum temperature for Australia due to global warming.

For you to make your case, you must present the mechanism which amplifies power absorbed by GHG's by at least a factor of 4, yet has no amplification effect on solar power.

«If you were to make the cars emit at the legal limit you could reduce those deaths by at least a factor of two and maybe more.

The IPCC overestimates CO2 net forcing effect by at least a factor of 2.

Predicted CO2 - AGW must be reduced by at least a factor of c. 3.

That's assuming zero energy loss to heat and radiation, which is unlikely to be the case in reality: You'll probably need to up the dose by at least a factor of ten.

I expect regulatory ratcheting has increased the cost by at least a factor of two since 1990 for no improvement in safety.

And in light of BP's reluctance to release underwater footage of the gusher itself — and then when it is released independent analysis shows official estimates of flow rates and underestimated by at least a factor of ten — it's easy to see some sort of fascist collusion going on, when it all may just be confusion.

point (b) Clearly there are enough wind and solar resources world wide to replace coal and oil by at least a factor of X10 (wind) to X1000 (for solar).

Most americans, understand what's so blatantly, disgustingly racist about Donal Trump, by at least a factor of 5 to 1, or 80 %.

Each of these risks factors increased the OR of high aggression by at least a factor of 2.

In Jim Collins» most famous book, Good to Great, he looked at 11 companies whose stocks performed at or below the market for 15 years before a transition, which saw them beat the market for 15 consecutive years by at least a factor of three.

Not exact matches

Plus, all three firms rely, at least in part, on self - reporting by individuals — making human error a factor.

For investors worried that the market is pinning too much on tax - reform prospects — especially as the GOP announced it had to delay by at least one day the release of its plan, which had been scheduled for Wednesday — sectors bets being placed by those with $ 1 million or more in brokerage accounts don't show an overreliance on any single factor.

Often, your choice of a distribution plan will be dictated — or at least strongly influenced — by various factors relating to your product, your customers and the way they'll use it.

As of December 2016, a baseline Atlas 5 rocket launch was selling for about $ 109 million, though satellite operators can make up at least half that cost by getting more favorable insurance rates and other factors, including an on - time launch, ULA has said.

The down payment check was the largest either of us had ever written, by a factor of at least 10.

Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).

Even without these factors, experience teaches that recessions are almost never forecast or even rapidly recognised by the Fed or the professional consensus forecast, but there is at least a 20 per cent or so chance that if the economy is not in recession, it will be so within a year.

Its low rank is influenced by factors like delays in preparing documents with exporters, requiring at least a week for processing the documentation.

There are at least four factors that can be identified: reset shock, poor assessment of the risks by the lending institution, a decline in underwriting standards and, more recently, the decline in house prices (although this is somewhat endogenous).

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

They are fiat paper liabilities issued by a Federal Reserve that is technically insolvent by at least $ 360 billion and likely multiples of that when off - balance - sheet considerations are factored in to the equation.

She was concerned with Snap suffering with its stock through at least 2019, with the company bogged by several factors, such as daily active users on a decline, and losses that could latch down on its fair value even if sales increase.

The Price Support Breach Count — A Very Handy Indicator For the record, I'm not a technical analyst, at least not by this measure: About 65 % of my research is based on fundamental factors, 20 % is based on investor behavior patterns, and 15 % is based on technical indicators like my price support breach counter.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

In making «biology and psychology continuous» (CS 2), Dewey noted that every «situation» implies at least two factors, environment and organism, each a variable of the other, interacting with and being influenced by and developing the other.

It seems to exhaust the theoretical options to say that such an answer must be achieved by reference to either: 1) the categories themselves; 2) the noncategorial aspects of events; 3) both categorial and non categorial aspects of events; 4) some alleged factor (e.g., a God, Platonic Forms, «nothing») other than the categorial aspects of events; or 5) by nothing (i.e., by no alleged factor at all, including «nothing»), so that the ultimate issue is meaningless or at least unanswerable in principle.

We must not hide our eyes from the fact that what we have called secularization is an entirely new phenomenon in human history, that it has been brought about by a number of new factors in human knowledge, the more important of which we have looked at, and that for these reasons a secularized culture has come to stay, at least in some form.

First, because there's money in it: the pink pound is now a substantial economic factor in these things, just as in London, at least, the pink vote has to be courted by politicians seeking election.

Horwitz is surely correct that the bringing of the case, the decision, and the ferocity of discussion both before and after, have been influenced by at least two social factors.

NFU milk chairman Terrig Morgan reiterated that market factors clearly indicate that farm gate prices should go up by at least 2p per litre across the board to all producers.

There will be at least a couple candidates scared off by the fact that he's been there and has sort of an incumbent factor to him.

A lot of factors has contributed to our downfall, and at least 80 % made by Wenger

Of course, the game vs Chelsea in Beijing was a blip occasioned by a combination of factors, not the least of which was the team recovering from food poisoning and having two academy players start at right / left wing back and CB; plus, being the last game of a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the tour.

Fortunately, most dry skin is caused by environmental factors that can be at least partially controlled.

As you know there are a hundred factors at play, but among my friends who pureed I seemed to have had the easiest time introducing solids, and my daughter is by far the least picky eater of the bunch.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

A review of 7,000 studies by the World Cancer Research Fund found a third of cancers are attributable to diet and found at least six cancers for which obesity was a major risk factor.

Yet, as intractable as they are, at least those factors are not, like nepotism, a further obstacle to social mobility, proudly showcased by Westminster's public servants.

One of the most significant features of this parliament has been the rise of a much more independent parliamentary party... The small number of frontbench jobs relative to the size of the 2010 intake... The difference between the Coalition Agreement and the manifesto promises that MPs were elected upon... The empowerment of backbenchers by Speaker Bercow... The IPSA factor... No10's party mismanagement... at least ten factors have created what I've called the supercharged backbencher.

But the results do lend credence to the idea that which way someone sways on Election Day is at least somewhat mediated by biological factors, the researchers say.

The facility itself is decades old, but recent improvements to the electronics of the array are boosting its performance specs across the board by factors of at least 10, and in some cases by more than 1,000, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Rick Perley said at the meeting.