Sentences with phrase «controlled by a number of factors»

Uptake is controlled by a number of factors, including availability, demand, and the plant's energy status.

Not exact matches

Any such statement may be influenced by a variety of factors, many of which are beyond the control of Oracle or Vocado, that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected, described, expressed or implied in this document due to a number of risks and uncertainties.

While its very large e-commerce has been a strong driver of the rise of alternative payment providers in the country, Citi points at a number of other factors that have facilitated the rise of those third - party payment companies, among which an under - developed banking system viewed by the public as quite unreliable (unsurprising given how tightly controlled banking is in China, which has stifled customer - oriented innovation), and «relaxed regulation.»

Designation as an emerging market is determined by a number of factors, such as gross domestic product per capita; local government regulations; perceived investment risk; foreign ownership limits and capital controls; or the general perception by the investment community when determining an «emerging» classification of a market.

A number of factors could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including but not limited to, (1) our ability to open new restaurants and food and beverage locations in current and additional markets, grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with suppliers and obtain adequate supply of products and retain our key employees; (2) factors beyond our control that affect the number and timing of new restaurant openings, including weather conditions and factors under the control of landlords, contractors and regulatory and / or licensing authorities; (3) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (4) the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and / or competitive factors; and (5) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in our filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10 - K filed on March 30, 2016 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10 - Q filed on August 15, 2016.

He described the goal of reducing the overall number of head impacts that high school football players sustain in a season as «logical» and «appealing,» but noted that, «until the risk factors for chronic traumatic encephalopathy [25](CTE) are better defined by carefully designed and controlled research,» and research determines «what the advisable limit to head impact exposure should be,» employing contact limits or establishing «hit counts [4]» will remain «educated guesses, at best.»

Although the number of cases from contaminated meat may be declining — the result, he says, of factors like more rigorous sanitary controls in slaughterhouses and thorough heating of hamburgers by fast - food chains — the bug is spreading farther in foods that are less likely to be cooked (and therefore sterilized), such as fruit and lettuce.

The findings suggest that 27 per cent of the variance in pregnancy outcome was accounted for by hair cortisol concentrations after controlling for other known factors that are linked to IVF success such as age, Body Mass Index (BMI), number of eggs retrieved and the number of eggs fertilised.

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

On a molecular level this process is controlled by a wide range of factors, ensuring that the right number of undifferentiated progenitor cells differentiate into skin cells and make their way to replace the old damaged ones.

The Encelade team — lead by Valéry Lainey of the Paris Observatory — provided two key measurements in the research: the rigidity of the tidal bulge, or the Love number — named for Augustus E.H. Love, a famed British mathematician who studied elasticity — and the dissipation factor, which controls the speed at which moons move away.

Starting with procedures other research teams had previously worked out to convert iPSCs into keratinocytes, Xu's team demonstrated that by carefully controlling the timing of the growth factors the cells received, they could force the iPSCs to generate large numbers of epithelial stem cells.

The number of items that students answered was predictive of the highest level of education students attained by 2010, controlling for a host of factors including measures of their cognitive ability.

Learners can learn and apply techniques or strategies for reducing call time, but their average call time reduction will be affected by any number of factors that are out of the learners» control, like the complexity of the issues callers have, or the effectiveness of the techniques and strategies for call time reduction they're provided with.

A credit rating is a score calculated by a credit reporting agency according to a number of factors, and some of these factors may be beyond your control.

Forecasting what may most likely happen with these factors over time (given the assumed fluctuations in the markets - which you can control every year by using different rates of return on every investment for every year - including negative rates of return, and being able to change your income goal every year) is much more important to model, than a one - dimensional probability number, to an actual investor's life.

You can also manipulate the hand you're given by equipping a smaller number of cards, so that the random factor in pulling those cards you really need is more controlled.

Ocean heat content is ultimately controlled by a number of complicating factors including positive and negative forcings and feedbacks dealing with clouds, water vapor, and also CO2.

The defence in some cases might be based entirely on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or eyewitness identification problems or intoxication issues or other myriad factors unaffected by the particular name of the charge or section number of the Criminal Code or Controlled Drugs and Substances Act under which the charge was laid.

But the extent to which households take advantage of today's buyer's market is influenced by a number of factors, not all of which are in their control.