Sentences with phrase «defined as the estimated»

Finally, self - efficacy is defined as the estimated ability to engage in a certain behavior.

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Estimates on the share of foreign ownership in Vancouver's housing market vary significantly and suffer from both problems of definition (such as defining «foreign» and «luxury») and measurement (such as the proxy measures used for vacancy and nationality).

As Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson noted via Twitter, year - to - date craft volume gains would actually be closer to 9 percent if you removed non-Brewers Association - defined craft brand families like Blue Moon and Shock Top, which Watson estimates are down 4 percent and 9 percent year - to - date, respectively.

While the Company considers these historical estimates to be relevant to investors as it may indicate the presence of mineralization, a qualified person for the Company has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimates as current mineral resources as defined by NI 43 - 101 and the Company is not treating these historical estimate as a current mineral resource.

A confounding variable was defined for analysis as one for which there was at least a 5 % difference in the regression coefficient estimates for type of feeding in regression models with and without the potential confounding variable.

Every year, an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm, which is defined as babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed.

It was soon apparent a more realistic estimate was # 13 billion... By 1997 the estimated cost was # 17 billion; by 2003, # 20 billion, and the in - service date (2003, defined as the date of delivery of the first aircraft to the RAF) was 54 months late.

The researchers have reported that one of the super-eruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot - track, defined as the Castleford Crossing eruption, occurred about 8.1 million years ago and estimate the eruption volume to have exceeded 1,900 km3.

By comparison, a 2009 study in the journal Pediatrics, which defined sufficient vitamin D levels as greater than 30 ng / mL, found that an estimated 70 percent of people ages 1 to 21 had deficient or insufficient vitamin D levels.

The investigators found that 32 % of patients experienced at least one clinically meaningful mental health issue (defined in the study as a mental health disorder)-- a prevalence higher than in the general population, in which 18 - 20 % are estimated to have a clinically meaningful mental disorder.

The World Health Organization estimates that between 127 and 300 million people around the world experience chronic migraine, defined as 15 or more headaches per month for at least three months.

A team of economists and labour market specialists developed an innovative analytical technique to estimate the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on productivity across Britain's low - paying sectors, as defined by the Low Pay Commission.

The federal poverty level, still the most commonly used benchmark for determining who is defined as poor or in need of public assistance, was created in the 1960s and is based primarily on estimates of minimal food costs.

«Using the I - score prediction framework allows us to define a novel measure of predictivity based on observed data, which in turn enables assessing variable sets for, preferably high, predictivity,» Lo said, adding that, while intuitively obvious, not enough attention has been paid to the consideration of predictivity as a parameter of interest to estimate.

Recent estimates for the prevalence of obesity (defined as a BMI of ≥ 30) among adults are 36 % in the United States, 111 24 % in Canada, 112 and 26 % in England.113 Obesity was associated with significantly higher all - cause mortality relative to the normal weight BMI category with an overall summary HR of 1.18.

In each case, an estimated 75 percent of the world's major species died off in a short time period, typically defined as 2 million years or less.

Regional averages are defined as: Antarctica, annual for inland ice cores; tropical Indian Ocean, annual for 15 ° S to 15 ° N, 50 ° E to 100 ° E; and North Atlantic Ocean, July to September for 42 ° N to 57 ° N, 35 ° W to 20 ° E. Grey shading indicates the range of observed proxy estimates of regional cooling: Antarctica (Stenni et al., 2001; Masson - Delmotte et al., 2006), tropical Indian Ocean (Rosell - Mele et al., 2004; Barrows and Juggins, 2005), and North Atlantic Ocean (Rosell - Mele et al., 2004; Kucera et al., 2005; de Vernal et al., 2006; Kageyama et al., 2006).

Because the polyT repeat is reported as the key variant to define TOMM40 clades A and B, 12 we used this marker and APOE isoform information to perform analyses based on phylogenetic groups as described by Roses et al. 12 Haplotype phase was estimated using PHASE software.22 The phylogeny, which represents the evolutionary relatedness of the haploytpes, was estimated using neighbor - joining with 10 000 bootstrapping replicates in the CLC DNA workbench (CLC bio, Aarhus, Denmark)(Supplemental Figure 3; http://neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/Pages/cruchaga2011.aspx).

Although it is uncertain how much brain progranulin would need to increase for a therapeutic effect, reaching the lower limit of normal, which is commonly defined as the fifth percentile of the control group (2 SDs below the control group mean), is a reasonable estimate.

It is estimated the around 33 % of adults in the US aged over 65 suffer from insomnia, that can be defined as a condition where you have difficulty falling asleep for more than 3 consecutive nights in one week.

VO2max is estimated based on the runner's resting heart rate, per the relationship defined by Uth et al., as shown below:

Greenway estimates that up to one - third of American adults over age 65 have insomnia, which is defined as having trouble sleeping more than three nights per week.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a «condition of the brain that makes it difficult for children to control their behavior,» affects an estimated 4 to 12 percent of all school - age children — about three times more boys than girls.

The United Nations Environment Programme and the International Labour Organisation estimate that there is considerable employment opportunity in «green jobs», defined as «decent work» that helps to tackle the ecological crises we face.

The $ 290 million adds up to about a third of the $ 1 billion increase Head Start has estimated that it needs to provide full - day, full - year programs for all the children currently enrolled, which Head Start defines as 1,020 hours per year.

First, we examined the literature in order to define comparability outside the bounds of strict score interchangeability and explored methods for estimating comparability that support a balanced assessment system for state accountability such as the NH PACE pilot.

It can be estimated as a backward - looking quantity by observing stock market and government bond performance over a defined period of time, for example from 1970 to the present.

Jay Hill: We try to buy companies at two thirds or less of a conservative estimate of what Benjamin Graham called intrinsic value, with intrinsic value defined as what the business would be worth in an acquisition or by estimating the collateral value of its assets and / or cash flow.

http://americanhatmakers.comThe Cambridge Dictionary defines «projected growth rate» as the estimated pace at which something will be growing in the foreseeable future.

Bogle estimates that annual trading in stocks averaged $ 33 trillion while capital formation — which he defines as directing fresh investment capital to its highest and best uses — averaged just $ 250 billion.

For example, if an escrow account computation year as defined in § 1024.17 (b) will end during a borrower's short - term repayment plan, the written notice complies with § 1024.41 (c)(2)(iii) if it identifies the payment amounts that may change, states that those payment amounts are estimates, and states that the affected payments might change because the borrower's escrow payment might change.

At the time a servicer provides the written notice pursuant to § 1024.41 (c)(2)(iii), if the servicer lacks information necessary to determine the amount of a specific payment due during the program or plan (for example, because the borrower's interest rate will change to an unknown rate based on an index or because an escrow account computation year as defined in § 1024.17 (b) will end and the borrower's escrow payment might change), the servicer complies with the requirement to disclose the specific payment terms and duration of a short - term payment forbearance program or short - term repayment plan if the disclosures are based on the best information reasonably available to the servicer at the time the notice is provided and the written notice identifies which payment amounts may change, states that such payment amounts are estimates, and states the general reason that such payment amounts might change.

Some estimates claim that up to 40 % of domestic cats are medically obese, obesity being defined as having 20 % or more excess body weight.

Core home - range, defined as the area used disproportionately more than other areas (Samuel et al. 1985), was estimated using 50 % KHR.

The heritability estimate of affability (defined as willingness of dog to approach humans) was 0.38 in German shepherds and 0.03 in Labrador retrievers.

They state that «the most recent population estimate [from 2007] was approximately 19,000 whales, with a high probability (88 %) that the population is at «optimum sustainable population» size, as defined by the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe, 1968, by Francis Bacon (estimate on request), The Garage, 1929, by Sir Stanley Spencer (estimate: # 1.5 - 2.5 million), offered from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, and Industrial Scene, 1951, by L.S. Lowry, each define a high point in the artists» careers at moments when their invention established them as innovative geniuses of their generation.

First exhibited as part of the artist's career - defining retrospective at Paris's Grand Palais, the work surpassed its estimate of # 7,000,000 - 10,000,000.

As a rough estimate, I suggest that for a 6.4 ºC warming scenario, of the order of 20 15 cm would have to be added to the 59 cm defining the upper end of the sea level range.

EIA estimates that the total U.S. installed capacity of distributed solar PV (defined as less than 1 MW) in September 2015 is 7,691 MW; AZ's share of total U.S. distributed solar PV is thus ~ 8 % (609 MW / 7, 691 MW), which is still modest relative to AZ's solar resource.

Average vehicle fuel consumption: A ratio estimate defined as total gallons of fuel consumed by all vehicles divided by (1) the total number of vehicles (for average fuel consumption per vehicle) or (2) the total number of households (for average fuel consumption per household).

Average household energy expenditures: A ratio estimate defined as the total household energy expenditures divided by the total number of households.

From Reference [10], «[t] he table below gives estimates of the particle flux at a time of minimum sunspot activity (when the flux is highest, as in 1965, 1977, 1987 [listed under the heading «max» in the table below]-RRB- and also (in italics) for a period of near maximum solar activity (low flux — though there is no well - defined absolute minimum [listed under the heading «min» in the table below]-RRB-... [The fluxes in columns 2 through 5] are quoted for protons and....

Defining regulatory thresholds depends, in part, on the benefits associated with avoided exposure, which traditionally have been estimated through a focus on high - visibility health effects, such as hospitalizations and mortality.

(The «I think» was because I was hoping to extricate myself from CE for a while to finish off a paper explaining why climate sensitivity as currently defined can neither be measured nor estimated with an error bar less than 1 C per doubling, and proposing a different definition that shrinks the error bar by an order of magnitude.

Open Europe estimates that in 2013, as a direct result of the EU's unilateral climate policies, the average energy bill for a medium - sized business was increased by nine percent (# 130,000 / $ 200,000) due to EU regulations or U.K. implementation of EU - defined targets.

The method is designed to estimate human demand for biocapacity, defined as: «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystems goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon wastes.»

Every measuring device used is really only estimating a guess as to what the true temperature of the true substance you are measuring is and it can never be correct because of the errors present in all measuring devices, the errors present in defining the substance being measured, and measuring that, and the the time lapse which means that what you were measuring was changing while you measured it and can not be proven correct then, now or in the future.

The term economically justified (also defined as «non-trivial») requires a break - even point with the added cost of the «more efficient» hardware within the estimated life of the appliance.

Their Summary for Policymakers includes an expanded range of climate sensitivity estimates, compared to the IPCC's 2007 assessment, of 1.5 ° -4.5 °C with a likelihood defined as 66 - 100 % probability.