Sentences with phrase «current value of the system»

For example, if a stereo system were stolen from an apartment, five years after the stereo was purchased, the policyholder would be reimbursed for the current value of the system.

I've let Nintendo have it pretty good in this article, but it's so you, the consumer, will be aware of what the current value of the system is for the average consumer (not great), how the first year and beyond is likely to pan out (better than the Wii - U... slow at first, perhaps hot afterwards), and what things Nintendo could have done if they were truly «in it to win it».

For example, if a stereo system were stolen from an apartment, five years after the stereo was purchased, the policyholder would be reimbursed for the current value of the system.

Not exact matches

If you do the math, the current value of the U.S. road system is $ 13 trillion, an investment made over the last century.

Although one could imagine all sorts of radical Blue Sky tax reforms — or much less radical ideas like a carbon tax or a value added tax — in the context of the current debate about how to make some alterations to the current tax system, I would suggest the following five elements in the spirit of 1986:

Jersey Australia believes the current payment system is outdated, complex, confusing and doesn't accurately reflect the true component value of milk solids.

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

A critical flaw of the current system is that the «slab» structure of the tax causes distortions in the market as rates are applied to the entire value of the property, rather than the marginal value above each threshold.

«Yet New York's current voting system is an affront to the values of democracy on which this state was built.

According to Palmer, every complicated nervous system needs a way of assessing the value of current versus delayed rewards.

So much for economics, which fully justifies treating postdocs like the valued employees they are and not merely «trainees»; let's get back to the ethics of the current system.

Its report, Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered organisms.

They modelled relationships between environmental factors in the forest and where possums occurred to assign habitat suitability values, expressed as a percentage of the optimal habitat for the species, to both the current reserve system and possible expanded systems.

The researchers found that the current reserve system had a habitat suitability value of just 29.6 percent, whilst expanded systems had higher values, between 33.7 percent and 61.5 percent.

Do I understand correctly that this paper suggests a current CS of about 4 degrees C and earth system sensitivity of about 5 degrees, and seems to rule out CS - values lower than 3 degrees?

According to one speaker at this year's annual meeting of the Institute for Food Technologists, called «Re-examining the Energy Value of Food», the current system provides merely an estimate of the energy content of foods and therefore doesn't tell the whole picture when it comes to the calories your body extracts from food.

For this, a new sense of ethics, values and spirituality must be seeded within current and future generations through a redesigned system of learning, education and enlightenment.

It is true that religious and moral values play important roles in the current system and would continue to do so under a system of expanded choice.

But he argues that since data are mixed as to the value of the current credentialing system, we shouldn't worry about more demanding credentials.

Structures, policies, procedures, and incentives reflect the value systems of the current leaders and the institutional legacy of past leaders.

Value - added measures have caught the interest of policymakers because, unlike many of the uses of test scores in current accountability systems, it purports to «level the playing field» so that value - added measures of teachers» effectiveness do not depend on characteristics of the studValue - added measures have caught the interest of policymakers because, unlike many of the uses of test scores in current accountability systems, it purports to «level the playing field» so that value - added measures of teachers» effectiveness do not depend on characteristics of the studvalue - added measures of teachers» effectiveness do not depend on characteristics of the students.

Osborne himself argued that a «core value of public education... is equality of opportunity,» knowing full well that America's current ZIP Code - assignment education system is highly stratified by income.

Under the current system, everyone is forced to pay for a single official system of education that can not possibly reflect the values of such a diverse nation.

In contrast to the traditional methods of measuring school effectiveness (including the adequate yearly progress system set up under NCLB), value - added models do not look only at current levels of student achievement.

«Sen. Peggy Lehner, R - Kettering, who has been the Senate's point person on crafting charter - school reforms, said -LRB-...) that one issue was not on the list — a behind - the - scenes push by the statewide online school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) to change the accountability system for charter schools from the current value - added model to a California - based system.

Most don't object to being held accountable but they want a process that is valid and reliable not like the current VAM or value added system another part of Voodoo education.

We seek to provide scientifically based information on current, developing, and future CTE accountability and evaluation systems, with the ultimate goal of developing interrelated strategies that can help states, community colleges, and school districts add value to their individual CTE accountability and evaluation systems.

Instead, the state allowed Pittsburgh to employ a fiscal gimmick by pledging future parking meter revenues to the pension system but counting the value of those future revenues as if they were current assets in the system.

Basically, under the current system, the value - added score from each year (of the three most recent years) is worth 11.66 %.

The same system applies for getting a trade - in value for your current vehicle, applying for credit and approval, as well as any type of maintenance including oil changes.

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That would be the knock against many of the current fiat systems; central banks can print money and deflate its value, thereby decreasing its purchasing power.

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Right now Exelis trades at 6x Enterprise Value to EBITDA because of its Mission systems business and exposure to current Middle East operations.

One of the worst ways to use your Hawaiian miles is with Jet Blue, which operates its own award program on a value - based redemption system that pegs the price in TrueBlue points to the current value of the ticket.

Since Virgin America has a cash - based earning system, rather than the usual miles - flown formula, it should come as little surprise that redemptions are also valued according to the current cash value of the desired itinerary at the time of booking.

3D (Hall Effect) magnetic sensors located on the stick: precision levels 256 times greater than current systems (i.e. resolution of 16000 x 16000 values!)

This search is part of Zhu's current solo exhibition Bugs at Paris» La Plage, which opened March 24 and is running to May 8, is exploring, looking at the way everyday consumables can speak of alternative value systems and how textile product's materialise.

The Value of Nothing brings together artistic practices and projects that reflect our current economies and value systems, or that focus on possible alternatValue of Nothing brings together artistic practices and projects that reflect our current economies and value systems, or that focus on possible alternatvalue systems, or that focus on possible alternatives.

A comprehensive risk assessment would determine flood hazard for individual structures by modeling watershed and floodplain characteristics at fine spatial scales; it would describe the varying levels of protection offered by all elements of a flood protection system and mitigation measures; and it would account explicitly for uncertainties, including those related to current and future flood hazard, structure value and vulnerability, and the current and future performance of flood protection measures.

Do I understand correctly that this paper suggests a current CS of about 4 degrees C and earth system sensitivity of about 5 degrees, and seems to rule out CS - values lower than 3 degrees?

It is indeed true that at current atmospheric levels, CO2 would drop to 50 % of its current value over about 100 years (or perhaps less) if no more were added, so that recycling among the various components of the system were the only process ongoing.

I would say that way more than 50 % of the current showdown between the climatariat and other segments of society is a dispute over value systems.

Use the solar calculator or the compare solar quotes tool to see the current market value of Vermont's SREC's system.

This is considerably higher than the IPCC earth system model value of 268GtCO2 (seven years of current emissions).

Knowing that Milanovic understands the current math and physics of climate systems, means to me that we can not have the WG1's output as a core value in our understanding of climate change.

As the current U.S. NCADAC Report is clearly one of those systems, no unique truth value can be assigned to any proposition in it, which makes it impossible to establish a correspondence between its content and any conceivable state of affairs in the real world.

In other words, the present day climate system with its current configuration of ice sheets, biota, contents, etc. has an S value of about 2.5 degrees.

Current law firm compensation systems place highest value on hours billed and define productivity as the number of hours billed.

However, the introduction of fixed costs regime to all types of claims up to # 250,000 could cause a variety of unintended consequences, and it appears odd that the system is being extended without a substantive review of the current fixed cost regime (applying to personal injury claims up to a maximum value of # 25,000) being undertaken.»