Sentences with phrase «dependent on assumptions»

If you have a variable universal life, or a universal life or whole life policy that is dependent on assumptions and not guarantees, I would switch to something fully guaranteed before you have to find out if it will survive your company's demise.

However, these conclusions are dependent on some assumptions, most importantly solar insolation (the amount of sunlight that the cells receive) and lifetime expectancy.

Future energy scenarios are dependent on assumptions about the prices and scalability of energy sources, often relying on historic learning curves to predict the future costs of various fuels or generation technologies.

BUT these are dependent on assumptions about things we can only guess at.

Therefore, comparison with other power generation methods is strongly dependent on assumptions about construction timescales and capital financing for nuclear plants.

I think these two papers (Nordhaus and Johnston) complement each other insofar as they represent the extreme positions on SCC... Nordhaus approach in all its excruciating IAM detail is just what Johnston describes as being so dependent on assumptions and approach to be no more than meaningless and whatever you would like the answer to be.

b. Calculations of costs for wind energy are highly dependent on assumptions about facility lifetime.

It seems that the ice age climate constraining a 2xCO2 doubling Climate Sensitivity is dependent on the assumption that the sensitivity is linear in the entire range of CO2 values from ice age levels (much below present) to 2x preindustrial values.

Atmospheric greenhouse effect would seem to be dependent on the assumption that CO2 re-radiates energy, part of which returns to the surface.

These conclusions are dependent on the assumption that natural climate variability and the structure and strength of wind fields and ocean currents will remain about the same.

Not exact matches

All of this is, of course, dependent on two very important assumptions: that the US avoids the «fiscal cliff» and the EURO countries continue to avoid collapse.

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

The question is how far the efficacy of the New Testament's image of the crucified and risen Christ is dependent on preserving the assumption.

In order to do this, the wife must have relinquished her assumption that any improvement in the family is dependent on her husband's achieving sobriety.

In the case of Mrs. R., these include an understanding of the nature of alcoholism (as it eventually became clear that Mr. R. is an alcoholic), the futility of her attempts to coerce him to stop drinking, and the importance of her changing her assumption that any improvement in the family situation is totally dependent on his sobriety.

Classical discussions of the symbolic and analogical character of religious language were dependent on the metaphysical assumptions of Platonism or scholasticism, which can no longer be presupposed; more recent interpretations often hold that religious images are only symbols of man's subjective life.

Desirability of specific outcomes may be quite dependent on ones subjective assumptions and value system chosen.

The Johns Hopkins investigators caution, however, that the short - term treatment's impact is dependent on several assumptions, including that no more than 10 percent of possible patients are excluded from treatment by additional drug resistance and that using the new regimen actually increases the number of MDR - TB patients treated.

In accepting the assumption that each classroom should include a generic «teacher» and as few children as possible, these schools are entirely dependent on their ability to attract talented, high - energy staff, dramatically limiting the likelihood that these admired programs will be able to achieve the hoped - for scale.

Of coarse, everything is dependent on my underlying assumptions.

It's a common assumption that dogs and cats need to eat more in colder weather but this is dependent on your pet's lifestyle.

The resources or costs spent in mitigating a risk is dependent on how we view the odds of a negative event occurring, the strength of our assumptions and / or knowledge, and on how bad the consequences of a negative outcome will be.

Today's climate models are even more clever and complex, dependent on questionable assumptions and massaged data, unable to predict temperatures or climate events, and employed to justify costly energy and economic policies.

The step from empirical likelihood functions to PDFs with the help of a well defined prior is one of those illusionary attempts, and even more so, when the likelihood functions themselves are dependent on doubtful assumptions concerning systematic uncertainties and lack of knowledge.

«These costs are dependent on a range of underlying assumptions and electricity market modellers typically have different views on the levelised costs of different generation technologies,» he added.

The second formalization is dependent on one major assumption; that is the assumption that the idea of equal partition of energy to the free moving pieces of the system, the gases in the box in Earth's gravity, is a correct condition.

I don't know, except that it would probably be highly dependent on your baseline assumptions.

Any «risk - adjusted rate of return» looked at in your modelling world would be dependent on a new, different host of assumptions.

Alex — You make valid points about some of the assumptions, but the point I would emphasize is that kappa was relatively constant between the models and so TCR was primarily dependent on the feedbacks that determined climate sensitivity, which is why it is a fairly good surrogate.

Since my narrative is dependent on several assumptions it would be readily falsifiable on a number of grounds.

(16) is physically meaningless, since we know that the OLR is dependent on the surface temperature, which conflicts with the semi-infinite assumption that τA = ∞..

Or are the results too dependent on debatable expert assumptions for some variables, hence precluding predictions that are more than a «best guess» and an uncertainty range?

On the other hand, changes in, say, surface evaporation or wind speed are too dependent on basic physical assumptions, which vary between different models — the problem being that we currently lack the detailed observations and understanding needed to distinguish which of the different assumptions is correcOn the other hand, changes in, say, surface evaporation or wind speed are too dependent on basic physical assumptions, which vary between different models — the problem being that we currently lack the detailed observations and understanding needed to distinguish which of the different assumptions is correcon basic physical assumptions, which vary between different models — the problem being that we currently lack the detailed observations and understanding needed to distinguish which of the different assumptions is correct.

The second is an implied assumption that climate is static, and therefore climate change is something new and wholly dependent on us.

Like pretty much every paper ever published by the climate alarmism industry, all the scary predictions are merely projections based on modeled scenarios dependent on so many dubious assumptions that their conclusions are objectively worthless.

Such results are strongly dependent on model assumptions regarding climate change scenarios, ice dynamics and other factors.

This assumption reflects the fact that the moving party controls whether to file a motion in the first place, and is consistent with the data suggesting that moving parties have a greater than 50 % success rate in federal court.96 To test this assumption, we coded a dichotomous dependent variable as 1 if the moving party prevailed on the motion and 0 otherwise.

Another commenter pointed out that the cost estimate for amendment and correction is dependent on a base assumption that only 1.5 percent of patients will request inspection of their records.

Differences in findings may to a large extent be dependent on theoretical assumptions made and methods used.

Sure maybe downsizing will occupy the next 20 years but that is dependent on no substantial correction to the market, which long timers all know is a ridiculous assumption.