Sentences with phrase «decades of data about»

The Tobins Q's average over several decades of data about.72.

Based on decades of data about thousands of happily married couples, eHarmony then predicts which users are likely to be compatible.

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Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

And being perhaps the world's most comprehensive aggregator of economic data for the largest and most advanced economies on the planet — and having tracked such data for the last five decades — one might suggest that the OECD knows a thing or two about improving productivity and making an economy grow.

Using economic data about the host and competitor countries from seven tournaments over four decades, Goldman analysts found a number of trends that adventurous investors should heed.

As the chart below shows, foreign investors have accumulated about $ 6 trillion in Treasurys over the past two decades — roughly 40 % of the market — through trade and intervention, according to BAML data.

Still more broadly, the Internet as it has evolved over the past couple of decades is essentially a data gathering machine, in which we all trade information about ourselves — our likes and dislikes, what we look at on the Web, our countless online utterances — in exchange for free services we need, or merely enjoy.

Before you accept someone's view about market valuation, examine the data — decades of it.

Data about the efficacy of home visiting programs have been accumulating over the past three decades.

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn — the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation, also addressed the forum, saying NSF's agenda over the next decade will come from «10 big ideas» including understanding the changing Artic, leveraging artificial intelligence, harnessing big data, developing quantum enabled technology, studying the microbiome and advancing research about gravitational waves.

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

However, advances in MEG technology over the past decade allowed the team to gather accurate data about the origins of FFRs using MEG.

The idea of checking credit scores against the detailed personal data in the Dunedin study came from a conversation Moffitt had with her seatmate on a plane about a decade ago.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

For those not concerned about the parts per million of CO2 produced by the food they buy, a second paper using the same data calculated the health impacts of altering diets and concluded a switch to WHO guidelines would save almost 7 million years of lives lost prematurely in the United Kingdom over the next three decades.

But while we have decades of data in mice about these nervous system support cells, how relevant those experiments are to human biology (and the success of potential therapies) has been an open question.

The amount of solar heat entering Earth's atmosphere varies by about 0.1 per cent on a timescale of years as the sun's activity changes, but satellite data show no overall increase corresponding to the soaring temperatures of recent decades.

After reanalyzing data collected between 1979 and 2001, the team found that the tropospheres temperature has risen by about two tenths of a degree Celsius (almost one third of a degree Fahrenheit) each decade, bringing it in line with the surface trend.

Flight - test data gleaned during a Red Dragon mission would be available to NASA at a fraction of the cost and about a decade sooner than NASA could do it, Philip McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Development Division in Washington, D.C., told a colloquium last week.

In the past two decades, NASA has made tremendous progress in gathering and analyzing data that help researchers understand more about the mechanics and global impacts of El Niño.

«Especially when we talk about investing in science and innovation, where the fruits of those investments may take years or even decades to materialize, we need to make sure that we have a data infrastructure in place to document and evaluate their outcomes,» said Li.

Over three decades of continuous observation, data about the sun's magnetosphere has been used to test accepted theories about the structure of the sun and to create new ones.

Like Foster and Rahmstorf, Lean and Rind (2008) performed a multiple linear regression on the temperature data, and found that while solar activity can account for about 11 % of the global warming from 1889 to 2006, it can only account for 1.6 % of the warming from 1955 to 2005, and had a slight cooling effect -LRB--0.004 °C per decade) from 1979 to 2005.

For example, the borehole data show warming since about 1500 AD which clearly was not anthropogenic, and in the latest decade, since the very warm 1998, the temperature trend is downward even in the Hadley Center compilations; the most ardent supporters of anthropogenic global warming.

For instance, during the decade it orbited Venus, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier probes.

Using about a decade of data from 1.7 million male U.S. veterans, researchers found that while too - low levels of HDL cholesterol were associated with an increased risk of death from any cause, so were high levels of HDL cholesterol.

It's been 20 years since first launched, which means that there have been two whole decades of brave men and women putting their love Dating isn't about data.

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

Data - driven instruction began its spread across the country about a decade ago, in the footsteps of the No Child Left Behind requirement that schools administer yearly achievement tests.

The U.S. Department of Education last compiled data on extracurricular activities a decade ago, when it reported that more than half the country's high - school sophomores participated in sports, that one - fifth were in a school - sponsored music group, and that cheerleading and drill teams, hobby, academic, and vocational clubs each involved about 10 percent of kids.

While these stories (e.g., Partelow, 2016; Rich, 2015) and a highly - publicized recent report (Sutcher et al., 2016) generally discuss teacher shortages as a national problem, we argue that the popular conception of a «teacher shortage» is not borne out by historical data; in fact, the production of newly - minted potential teachers has increased steadily over the past several decades, and only about half of these recent graduates have been hired as public school teachers in a typical year.

According to the NORC survey data from the current decade, about 37 percent of teachers say they attend church one or more times per week, while 26 percent of other Americans say they do so.

Combining the data for the entire four - decade period, we find that about 71 percent of teachers have supported the free - speech rights of these four types, while only about 58 percent of other Americans have.

Two decades ago, I was a student in Oakland Unified School District, and now I have the honor of analyzing data and writing about Oakland public schools through our CRUNCHED!

In the course of their research over the past decade, the authors have distilled five essential components for quality conversations around data: (1) Students are the shared responsibility of everyone in the school, (2) conversations about data include a healthy level of disagreement, (3) conversations about data engender trust rather than suspicion, (4) data teams focus on a solution - oriented approach, and (5) data teams are broadly aware of what they're expected to accomplish.

Not only does Wright's study bear out three decades of research on overuse of discipline (including those than control for socioeconomic status), it even proves Vanderbilt Professor Daniel J. Reschly's assertion about the role of teacher beliefs (and misinterpretation of data) in the overidentification of Black and other minority children as special ed cases.

The No Child Left Behind Act is a much - maligned decade - old federal education law that called for regular standardized tests, disaggregation of testing data by racial subgroup, and increasing sanctions for states that fail to meet proficiency standards leading up to a requirement of about 100 percent proficiency by 2014.

We are fortunate to have had Denver Public Schools leading the state and nation for over a decade in data transparency and providing information to families about the quality of schools through the School Performance Framework (SPF).

In the past decade, Sherry has bred hundreds of Bernedoodles and stays in close contact with each owner to gather data on illness» and lifespans to learn more about this new dog breed.

«I am not only talking about simple tracking, but also analyzing the internal and historical data of decades of information.

Analysis of satellite data by [Fu et al, 2004] reveals a tropical mid-tropospheric temperature trend that continues into the post-1979 period, at a rate of about.16 degrees C per decade.

The difference between trends 1944 to 2010 versus 1950 to 2010 is much smaller (around 0.01 - 0.02 ºC / decade depending on data set) and even more so relative to the overall trend of about 0.1 ºC / decade.

As previously reported based on in - situ data, the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 during the strong El Niño in 2015 - 16 was about 3 ppm / yr compared with ~ 2 ppm / yr in recent decades.

The warming trend appears in the western pole around the 1910s, about a decade earlier than in the eastern pole in both the ERSST and Kaplan SST datasets, which were reconstructed by different methods, although the limitation of the quality in the historical SST data disallows a precise discussion on this issue.

Analysis of recent data reveals the planet's surface has brightened by about 4 % the past decade.

They find about 0.25 °C less Arctic warming during the past decade than in the GISS analysis, a difference that they attribute to our method of interpolating and extrapolating data, especially into the Arctic Ocean regions where no station data are available.

The work in question takes measurements from one locale, and doesn't publish conclusions, rather Doney's statements are giving his opinion about what he read, «Long - term ocean acidification trends are clearly evident over the past several decades in open - ocean time - series and hydrographic survey data, and the trends are consistent with the growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Dore et al., 2009).»

When asking about whether recent decades have been warmer than some past period such as the Medieval Warm Period, it is helpful to know whether a given set of data are capable of detecting a given difference.

Figure 10.7 in WG1 of AR4 showed a predicted heating of about 0.6 deg C per decade between 400 and 100hPa and -30 deg S to 30deg N. However, none of the data from satellites or radiosondes confirms anything like that rate of heating.