Sentences with phrase «determined by its relative»

Top 24 skills and top 15 majors, as determined by the relative commonness ratio, and median pay for each.

In most instances the rate for a product is determined by the relative wealth of the country, with countries placed into one of three groups: Most - Favoured - Nation (MFN), General Preferential Tariff (GPT) or Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher tariff.

The quality of a protein source is determined by its relative amounts of these essential amino acids.

Explain to students that scientists now know that the amount of sunlight is determined by the relative position of Earth and the sun.

Such choices are likely to be determined by relative costs.

«Thus the net radiative forcing is determined by the relative amounts of BC and sulphate.

The solar forcing in our reconstruction is determined by the relative values of the modulation potential, which means that change to a different LIS model will introduce only several percents of correction, which is much less than the estimated accuracy of the reconstruction.

The term «melancholia» is derived from the Greek words melas, meaning black, and chole, meaning bile, and is a vestige of the ancient belief that a person's health and temperament are determined by the relative proportions of the four cardinal humors, or body fluids, which are blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile).

Not exact matches

Investors can determine whether a stock is overbought or oversold by charting the ratio of higher closes, also known as the relative strength index, or RSI.

The allocation does not affect her short - term income, so it is determined by the individual's preferences and the relative price of the three levels of activity to the individual.

At the end of each year, the Committee determines compensation by assessing performance against these financial targets, as well as in light of HP's performance relative to its peers on other financial and non-financial factors and unusual or extraordinary events.

After you have calculated each competitor's score, you can determine your company's relative NPS by subtracting your best competitor's score from your own.

While some companies attempt to address the impact of macroeconomic factors by using relative goals in their long - term incentive plans, the CNGC has determined that relative goals are not the right approach for Walmart for the reasons described on page 50 above.

Lipper rankings are based on total return without sales charge relative to all share classes of funds with similar objectives as determined by Lipper.

In determining the long - term incentive component of CEO compensation, the Committee shall consider, among other factors, the Company's performance and relative shareholder return, the value of similar incentive awards to chief executive officers at comparable companies, the awards given to the CEO in past years, and other factors considered relevant by the Committee.

In the long run inflation is determined by monetary conditions; the Internet can affect only relative prices, not the overall rate of inflation.

And since price is determined by demand relative to supply, if the demand for money can't be expressed mathematically then it is pointless trying to come up with an equation that models the purchasing power of money (a.k.a. the general price level).

Rather than relying solely on market exposure to determine a stock's performance relative to its index, smart beta strategies allocate and rebalance portfolio holdings by relying on one or more «factors.»

The investment case for silver is determined partly by silver's market value relative to the market values of gold and the industrial metals, and partly by the same macro-economic fundamentals that are important for gold.

The GTFM is determined mainly by confidence indicators such as credit spreads, the yield curve, the relative strength of the banking sector and inflation expectations, although it also takes into account the US dollar's exchange rate and the general commodity - price trend.

New York City emergency medicine specialist Stephen Wall has endorsed a program in which patients who suffer trauma or cardiac arrest are afforded some resuscitation efforts, but if these fail and the patient is pronounced dead (as determined by a remote authority), CPR will be continued — on the dead patient — until a relative or other surrogate can give consent for organs to be harvested.

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

All share the implicit assumption that the degree of wholeness that individuals are able to maintain is strongly influenced, if not determined, by the relative wholeness of their need - satisfying interpersonal systems.

It is by reference to the causes and the effects of motions that absolute and relative motions can be distinguished and consequently that the notion of absolute space can be determined:»... we may distinguish rest and motion, absolute and relative, one from the other by their properties, causes, and effects» (PNP 8).

Accordingly he is aware of these events as related to his bodily event «now - present here»; but his knowledge is thus mediate and relative — namely, he only knows other events through the medium of his body and as determined by relations to it.

The expression «actual world» is therefore comparable to the expressions «here», «yesterday», or «tomorrow»; such an expression is defined relative to a location, and its meaning changes with the location determined by an actual occasion (cf. PR 65 / 101f.).

More immediately, there are a number of steps that a proactive employer can take, including putting together a comprehensive safety and health program, conducting regular safety and health audits and / or risk assessments, ensuring that employees are properly trained relative to their roles and responsibilities, and taking prompt action to respond to and address incidents (whether an accident or a near miss) by correcting any potential hazards, as well as issuing discipline if it has been determined that an employee or manager violated company safety rules.

There are several other well recognised criteria which are more indicative of the presence (or absence) of market power, particularly the existence of substantial entry barriers, and the relative freedom from constraints imposed on a firm by its competitors and customers, which should be considered in order to determine a firm's market power.

If this is the case, then, my logical conclusion is that the relative hotness between chile peppers is determined by the concentration or density of the capsaicinoids per square millimeter of the pepper bodies.

The Tigers are part of a huge batch of SEC East teams that return a vast majority of last year's contributors, and their fate will be determined by a series of relative tossup games.

The league champions are determined by number of points accrued relative to points accumulated by other teams.

(in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.

«The process is largely political, with no correlation between funding and the relative status of districts as determined by certain commonly used indicators,» the report found.

Elevation is important because the risk of flood damage is determined by a home's location relative to the 100 - year storm height.

He and fellow researcher Martin Scherer were able to determine this by running models with current levels of greenhouse gases as well as ones that reflected preindustrial levels and examining the relative likelihood of the heat wave.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

BIOFAB uses a technique devised by one of Endy's former students, Jason Kelly, in which researchers determine the relative activity of their promoter based on a widely used reference promoter.

That calculation requires measuring the x-rays» intensity and determining their phase, the relative timing — a harder problem traditionally solved by comparing the diffraction pattern from a pure crystal with one from a similar crystal in which heavy metal atoms substitute for some components of the crystal.

But getting out of the Soviet Union required an elaborate plan: Jews like him were allowed to go to Israel in small numbers, determined by a quota, but one had to secure an invitation from Israeli relatives first.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

Since people often find it difficult to determine the relevance of relative risks, Mons and her colleagues also used an alternative method to assess the results of their meta - analysis: They calculated the number of years by which smoking accelerates death from heart disease.

Although actual spending levels for all of these activities and more are determined by appropriations committees, the authorizing language represents the science committee's considered opinion about the relative importance of various research activities within those agencies.

Improvements in eDNA sampling and analysis methods over the past decade «have increased our ability to determine if a species is present or not, and its relative abundance, in aquatic habitats by analyzing a single water sample,» said Baldigo.

Since different elements and compounds absorb light at characteristic wavelengths, astronomers can determine what chemicals make up a planet's atmosphere by measuring the relative amounts of light that come in at particular wavelengths.

Among those that are scored, relative merit score, budgets and NIH institute priorities, which vary by year and by institute, determine which applications are funded.

After analyzing dinosaurs» genetic relationships to reptiles and birds, the researcher determined that dinosaurs not only possessed the three color receptors for red, green and blue that the human eye possesses, but that they, like their closest living relatives, crocodiles and birds, were probably also able to see extremely short - wave and ultraviolet light by means of an additional receptor.

The study, conducted by Louis Grandjean of Imperial College London, and colleagues, compared new tuberculosis cases among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in South Lima and Callao, Peru to determine the relative fitness of MDRTB versus drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

However, using the evolutionary tree, they found that as the seed bank collection grew in the future, if its collection strategy was determined by 3E priority species, something odd happened over time: the collection contained more and more close relatives and overall diversity diminished.

Researchers have discovered that African elephants can tell certain human languages apart and even determine our gender, relative age, and whether we're a threat just by listening to us.

Group behaviors are determined by the importance with which each animal treats the behavior of its neighbors relative to its own motivations.