Sentences with phrase «current levels system»

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I would encourage you to remember that the current low levels of interest rates, while in the first instance a reflection of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, are in a larger sense the result of the recent financial crisis, the worst shock to this nation's financial system since the 1930s.

Nikolay spent years as a currency trader with Credit Suisse so he understands the absurd level of fees charged by the current system.

In its current form, Autopilot is an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) that classifies as a Level 2 automated system by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).

However, even though our market timing system is still in «sell» mode, as it has been since October 12, we are now in a situation where the reward to risk ratio for entering new short positions at current levels is simply not positive.

The group believes the bill should also cover semi-automated systems like Tesla's Autopilot - a lower level of technology than what is included in the current proposed legislation.

The difference from the current system would be that at the local level voting would be based on some personal acquaintance.

There is a second level of concern about the current global commitment to growth that expresses itself in imposing the system of transnational trade on all.

«My objective with this X-ray inspection system was to reassure my current customers and to take market share from the competition by offering an additional level of security,» he explains.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

It's got to be really difficult to separate what the future potential of a lot of the players on the current squad is based on their level of play in offensive, defensive, and special teams systems that, let's face it, were not NFL quality schemes.

Instead, these systems are best viewed as an estimate of a player's current, underlying true talent level.»

To ensure a level playing field, both managers selected their teams from the current Everton squad, with their choices then fed into the Football Manager system with their respective tactics.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.

[278] UK government pensions minister Steve Webb said in May 2014 that Scots would be entitled to the current levels of state pension after independence because they had accumulated rights within the existing system.

He also expressed optimism that when the 2016 edition takes place, it will consolidate on the gains of the current efforts of government at all levels in improved infrastructure, more efficient business support services, improved public transport system and a more secured and business friendly environment, would have materialized.

A minimum step would be to implement a new tier (VI) of the current pension system model which reinstates the employee contribution of 3 percent, lengthens the number of years of service required to reach maximum benefit levels, and makes other changes to limit the cost of the benefits to be provided.

A fourth study looks at EPA tests of two - thirds of the drinking water systems in the United States, and finds the drinking water of six million people has levels of the highly fluorinated chemicals that are above the current EPA limits.

I hope they will aim to raise the initial tax threshold to the current subsistence level (even if over a few years), simplify the benefit system so that benefit claimants receive in effect a weekly wage or monthly salary instead of a number of dribs and drabs (all of which require horrendous forms), amalgamate NI with IT and then look at introducing a flat tax to cover the lot.

A fourth study looked at EPA tests of two - thirds of the drinking water systems in the United States and found the drinking water of 6 million people has levels of highly fluorinated chemicals that are above the current EPA limits.

With the current state of emergency in the region, and as water levels continue to rise throughout the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River system, the Governor is directing State Parks to institute the expanded speed restriction.

Redistribute the Libdem votes at about 40 - 60 R - L, and with the current polling suggesting Tory - Labour level pegging, and it seems that in reality there is everything to play for, and in a PR system much of that everything hinges on the «others» column.

Keeping the ethics monitoring groups at current levels comes at a time when Mr. Cuomo, lawmakers and other state officials are all floating various ideas to strengthen existing ethics laws, including heightened disclosure requirements, increased penalties and an overhauled per - diem system.

In its comments, the EPA pointed out that New York's current permitting system for water treatment plants doesn't include limits on pollutants frequently contained in drilling wastewater, such as radionuclides, which can cause cancer at high levels.

Therefore, active sieving gives a level of dynamic control that we do not possess in current filtration systems.

«The Earth's current system of plate tectonics prevents drastic changes in surface water levels, with wet rocks efficiently dehydrating before they enter the Earth's relatively dry mantle.

Within five years, one in three U.S. surgeries - more than double current levels - is expected to be performed with robotic systems, with surgeons sitting at computer consoles guiding mechanical arms.

Earth System Threshold Measure Boundary Current Level Preindustrial Climate Change CO2 Concentration 350 ppm 387 ppm 280 ppm Biodiversity Loss Extinction Rate 10 pm > 100 pm * 0.1 - one pm Nitrogen Cycle N2 Tonnage 35 mmt ** 121 mmt 0 Phosphorous Cycle Level in Ocean 11 mmt 8.5 - 9.5 mmt — 1 mmt Ozone Layer O3 Concentration 276 DU # 283 DU 290 DU Ocean Acidification Aragonite ^ ^ Levels 2.75 2.90 3.44 Freshwater Usage Consumption 4,000 km3 ^ 2,600 km3 415 km3 Land Use Change Cropland Conversion 15 km3 11.7 km3 Low Aerosols Soot Concentration TBD TBD TBD Chemical Pollution TBD TBD TBD TBD * pm = per million ** mmt = millions of metric tons #DU = dobson unit ^ km3 = cubic kilometers ^ ^ Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate.

To address these questions, his laboratory develops and applies state - of - the - art computational and mass spectrometry — based metabolomics approaches and integrates them with current molecular, systems - level, and population - based methodologies.

To create an ideal charging itinerary, the system must know the vehicle's current battery charge level as well as its next planned departure time.

I believe that the current system, in which research is mostly funded and organized at the national level, along with the uneven nature of research infrastructure, is greatest barrier to global scientific collaboration.

A team of astronomers has found a gas cloud that existed when the universe was 13 % of its current age that appears to be made of the pristine gas produced in the big bang but with just a wisp of heavier elements: 1/3000 of the level in our solar system.

The system's controller monitors the level of sunlight using a pyranometer — a single solar cell producing a tiny current which is proportional to the amount of sunlight striking it.

And the Joint Polar Satellite System within the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration would get $ 920 million, some $ 438 million above its current level and more than double the House panel's mark of $ 430 million.

They found that using the VASH collimator with an existing breast molecular imaging system, they could get six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, which could potentially reduce the radiation dose to the patient by half from the current levels, while maintaining the same or better image quality.

Under the current E.U. system, authorization for GM crops occurs at the European level, after a health and environmental safety assessment by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) in Parma, Italy.

In order to make the process of pain detection more accurate, the Cambridge researchers behind the current study used the SPFES as the basis of an AI system which uses machine learning techniques to estimate pain levels in sheep.

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation praised the bill's recommended FY2016 funding level for commercial crew (which is the same as the President's request under the aspirational scenario; less than the request, but more than current funding in the constrained scenario) and for Advanced Exploration Systems (AES).

Instead, the relationship is imprecise — even more so at the regional level — reflecting current uncertainties in many complex processes at play in the climate system.

Running simulations with an Earth System model, the researchers find that if atmospheric CO2 were still at pre-industrial levels, our current warm «interglacial» period would tip over into a new ice age in around 50,000 years» time.

Current projects are aimed at systems - level understanding of principles in early mammalian development.

Welch et al. «Expression of Ribozymes in Gene Transfer Systems to Modulate Target RNA Levels», Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 9: 486 - 496, 1998.

The imprint of SAM variability on the Southern Ocean system is observed as a coherent sea level response around Antarctica (Aoki, 2002; Hughes et al., 2003) and by its regulation of Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow through the Drake Passage (Meredith et al., 2004).

System configurations, process simulations, material requirements, and energy balances can be assessed with respect to current and future costs at the subsystem, total systems, and integrated (i.e., grid - connected) system lSystem configurations, process simulations, material requirements, and energy balances can be assessed with respect to current and future costs at the subsystem, total systems, and integrated (i.e., grid - connected) system lsystem levels.

Recent methane measurements at Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal and Tae - ahn Peninsula, Republic of Korea (See http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/iadv/index.php) in the context of outlier data points over the last decade at sites such as Storhofdi, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and reports of methane releases from the Arctic seabed, tell us that at current levels of AGW, the Earth's sea - floor methane systems are not stable.

The strictness level with which you choose to follow food combing rules depends on your current health, physical activity, stress level, the efficiency of your digestive system, and most of all, your goals.

The research suggests that a system - level intervention is required to combat student tardiness, to ensure guidelines are current and consequences for tardy behaviour is implemented and effective.

The report notes that current vocational education and higher education investment levels are not sufficient to ensure the system has capacity to meet future tertiary level education and training needs.

But decision makers at all levels — from students and parents to school leaders to system managers and governments — require dependable information about current levels of achievement to guide future action.