Sentences with phrase «equivalent periods of»

«The comparisons were based on unequal treatments, without equivalent exposures for equivalent periods of time,» says John Britton, a toxicologist at the University of Nottingham, UK.

The SFS and IASP programs fund students for up to 2 years of undergraduate or graduate training in cybersecurity in return for an equivalent period of government service, either to DOD (for IASP awardees) or to other federal agencies (for SFS awardees).

According to the research company's latest figures for the eight weeks of 2012 to the end of February, the value of sales in the Irish market hit has declined by 17.2 % to $ 14.7 million while the volume has dropped 15.9 % to 1.4 m in comparison to the equivalent period of 2011.

This entitled him to take an equivalent period of compensatory rest wherever possible.

In a recent decision that will concern all employers, the Employment Appeal Tribunal («EAT») clarified the meaning of «equivalent period of compensatory rest» under Regulation 24 of the Working Time Regulations 1998 in Crawford v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd. and held that an employer must provide workers with a 20 minute period of continuous rest for every 6 hours worked.

For amounts in excess of statutory minimums, if the employer agrees to pay the employee reasonable notice and continue benefit contributions for an equivalent period of time, then the employee has no losses or damages, and therefore may be required to accept salary continuance.

The study by Colom et al demonstrates that group psycho - education is equally acceptable to, but more effective than a non-directive group intervention provided for an equivalent period of time by the same therapists.

Not exact matches

Total produced 2.703 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe / d) in the first quarter, driven by ramp - ups and new acquisitions, up more than 5 percent compared to the same period in 2017, and above analysts» estimates of 2.663 million boe / d.

An IRS spokesperson declined to comment on the investigation's new scope, which is limited — in the agency's words — to users with «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 15 period.»

Cenovus reported total production of 555,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, up from 283,000 boe / d in the same period last year, as oilsands production rose to 361,000 bpd from 164,000 bpd.

Canadian Natural production averaged a record 1.02 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, a 19 per cent increase from the year - earlier period, as it ramped up the latest expansion of its Horizon oilsands mining and upgrading project.

Ideally, you will be looking at the change in cash (actual cash or cash equivalents) over a specific period of time.

Perhaps most notable, according to the July 6 notice, is the fact that the IRS is only trying to obtain records on users who have conducted «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 2015 period».

One could make a compelling argument that those expenses should not be taken all at once, but instead spread out of the period when a drug is sold because it is equivalent to buying equipment for your bakery.

The 27 Calgary firms on this year's ranking grew their revenues an average of 499 % between 2010 and 2015, creating an additional 1,236 full - time equivalent (FTE) jobs over that period.

The 19 firms headquartered in the Edmonton Capital Regional that made this year's ranking grew their revenues an average of 930 % between 2010 and 2015, creating an additional 706 full - time equivalent (FTE) jobs over that period.

Its massive e-commerce business is also growing, with $ 51 billion in revenue in the first quarter, an increase of 43 percent from the equivalent period a year ago.

The Committee may grant dividend equivalents to any Participant based on the dividends declared on shares of Common Stock that are subject to any Incentive Award during the period between the date the Incentive Award is granted and the date the Incentive Award is exercised, vests, pays out, or expires.

Dividend equivalents granted with respect to Options or stock appreciation rights that are intended to be Performance - Based Compensation shall be payable, with respect to pre-exercise periods, regardless of whether such Option or stock appreciation right is subsequently exercised.

The Court's order directs Coinbase to produce the following information and documents for customer accounts with at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 to 2015 period:

That means keeping enough liquidity in cash equivalents and high quality bonds to survive periods of below average performance and bear markets.

Common Share Equivalent Basis shall be determined by comparing the dividend that would have been or will be declared or paid on the number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Series A Preferred Stock would have been or will be convertible as of the record date (s) to the dividends which were paid or will be paid on the Common Stock during such twelve month period.

With cryptocurrencies experiencing worth rises in periods of worldwide uncertainty equivalent to Brexit, the election of President Trump, and North Korea's missile checks, Pouncey says that this present detrimental digital foreign money cycle will finally come to an finish.

Bottom line: every one of the ten outperformed the index over the five year period, and as a group they did so by an average of 11 % per year, the financial equivalent of back - to - back no - hitters.

The average environmental impact of a single ecoATM recycling and reusing phones over a one - year period is equivalent to the energy savings of taking four US houses off the grid.

Proposed changes in a plan supported by Paul Ryan, Speaker of the house, would levy an 8.75 % tax on cash and cash equivalents and 3.5 % on other profits, spread over an eight - year period.

«To illustrate the magnitude of the 75 - year actuarial deficit, consider that for the... Trust Funds to remain fully solvent throughout the 75 - year projection period... revenues would have to increase by an amount equivalent to an immediate and permanent payroll tax rate increase of 2.76 percentage points to 15.16 percent.»

In April 2013, Nippon ginkō announced that they would expand their program further by making purchases for the equivalent of $ 1.4 trillion USD during a two year period.

It was well - executed, with a look directly into the camera and a finger wave (the equivalent of a «period»).

From January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2011 (the period covered by our verification), the project removed from the atmosphere 413,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of nearly 69,000 compact cars.

A total of 5.5 GL was delivered during this period, in conjunction with an equivalent volume of water made available by the Victorian Environmental Water Holder.

Sales were up by 28 % in volume, the equivalent of 3.5 million bottles, over the festive period, it has been revealed.

All I have read is that wenger has said he is not leaving and will honour the last year of his contract, the equivalent of anyone here working their notice period.

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

Two later studies not included in these meta - analyses reported equivalent or even larger protective associations.265, 266 The mechanism for this apparent strong protective effect is still unclear, but lowered arousal thresholds, favorable modification of autonomic control during sleep, and maintaining airway patency during sleep have been proposed.247, 267, — , 270 It is common for the pacifier to fall from the mouth soon after the infant falls asleep; even so, the protective effect persists throughout that sleep period.247, 271 Two studies have shown that pacifier use is most protective when used for all sleep periods.169, 266 However, these studies also showed increased risk of SIDS when the pacifier was usually used but not used the last time the infant was placed for sleep; the significance of these findings is yet unclear.

During that same 21 - year time period studied, there were 109,000 cases of children under the age of 5 swallowing foreign objects — the equivalent of 14 cases per day.

There are already, new National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) research findings projecting that our priority bills will have an output impact equivalent to an average of 6.87 per cent of GDP over a five - year period on the economy.

Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.

He held that Osun was receiving negative monthly allocations from the Federation Account during the period, saying what hit Nigeria during this period was the equivalent of economic natural disaster and Osun was not alone.

After all, Democratic tech, online and grassroots staff must outnumber their Republican equivalents by close to an order of magnitude — the Obama campaign alone probably had more tech - and analytics - focused staff than Romney had staff... period.

During that period the average Labour lead in the national polls was about 3.5 points: that's the equivalent of a uniform swing of 5.25 %.

Mutual lenders accounted for a greater share of total gross lending in this period than over the equivalent period in 2011, showing that the sector has stepped up to the plate and supported many of those looking to purchase a home.

The data also show the number of R01 - equivalent awards decreasing from 22,116 to 2, 511 during that period.

Or you could find a computer in your cart that interprets the motion of the hailstorm over an arbitrary period of time as equivalent to the activity of the brain program over a period of time.

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

When plucked, the string vibrates for minutes with a period of a microsecond (equivalent to a standard guitar note playing for a month).

Studying women who had undergone gastric bypass surgery, the researchers found that those who had consumed the equivalent of two drinks in a short period of time had blood - alcohol contents similar to women who had consumed four drinks but had not had the operation.

The 40 participants who remained in the study at this latest follow - up all reported that they continued some form of meditation practice over the seven - year period, equivalent to about an hour a day on average.

The Cretaceous Period was a dangerous time for many animals, even for the «dinosaur equivalent of a tank.»

UGC startup grants provide the equivalent of $ 10,000 to 12,000 to be spent over a period of 2 years, with the caveat that you can not receive another UGC grant until the 2 - year period is over.