Sentences with phrase «factor of more»

Because of the country's extraordinary willingness to take in newcomers, the U.S. population has grown by a factor of more than 120 since 1776.

The odds ratio of a social phobia in the mothers of the purely shy children was raised over the normal control group by a factor of more than seven.

That all changed when Term life insurance made its debut with a cost factor of more than 75 % less premium.

So any analysis which overstates the cost of borrowing by a factor of more than 2 is, prima facie, not credible.

But the sun doesn't shine every day, and solar PV struggles to produce a load factor of more than 20 %.

In other words the models use values of «Total anthropogenic forcing» that differ by a factor of more than 2.5 and they are «adjusted» by using values of assumed «Aerosol forcing» that differ by a factor of 2.4.

Overall, EPA calculates that the total benefits from the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments from 1990 through 2020 exceed the costs of complying with the law by a factor of more than 30 to 1.

So although n went down by 1 / n of its value, T went up by 5.4 / n of its value, overwhelming the vapor loss by a factor of more than 5.

When models disagree by a factor of more than 3 you can't just pic an average and call that science.

There are at least 90 models that differ by a factor of more than 3 and almost all show much higher temps than have been recorded (see Spencer «95 % of climate models agree; the observations must be wrong»).

Then the question becomes: how likely is it that we have simultaneously overestimated the effect of GHGs by a factor of more than 2, and that some combination of natural internal variability and errors in our estimates of the other external forcings can combine to make up the difference?

The ensemble cast does a sterling job of conveying the realities of warfare without ever becoming overly maudlin or jingoistic, and at no point did I ever feel like I was playing through a recruitment pitch for the US military — a factor of more recent entries in the series that I have always considered abhorrent by its very nature.

OTHER Nicknamed «the Warren Buffett of Europe», his more recent fund, Bestinver Internacional (Global Equity Fund), launched 1998, has an annual return of almost 11 %, beating the benchmark (2 %) by a factor of more than five.

You can see the worse case drawdown is reduced by a factor of more than 3 while the average trade profit is increased by $ 60.

Even a year or two ago, such a thing would have been unthinkable: back in early 2014, Big Five authors were outearning Small / Medium Publisher authors by a factor of more than 2.5 x, and only a year ago — in September 2015 — total Big Five author earnings in the Kindle store were still 2x those of all Small / Medium publisher authors.

It brings a lot to the table, and while it may not have the wow factor of its more expensive rivals, it's still a compelling car.

The dark, muted, and classical visuals serve the film well, even if they lack the wow factor of more vibrant and distinctive fare.

When the physicists chose to record the laser light emerging from one of the gates, then the light traversing that route, alone, ended up with deflection angles amplified by a factor of more than 100 in the intermediate measurement step.

Over the lifetime of the released CO2, the trapped heat exceeds the heat released during combustion by a factor of more than 100,000, researchers report online June 2 in Geophysical Research Letters.

That interval has now been extended by a factor of more than 5,000.

A 1 - millisecond simulation of the folded protein BPTI reveals a small number of structurally distinct conformational states whose reversible interconversion is slower than local relaxations within those states by a factor of more than 1000.

As the beams move through a series of amplifiers, their energy increases exponentially: From beginning to end, the beams» total energy grows from one - billionth of a joule to four million joules, increasing by a factor of more than a quadrillion.

Airlines throughout North America are flying their planes fuller than ever, and are expected to post a collective load factor of more than 80 per cent this year, according to the International Air Transport Association, or IATA.

When we sat down, we were separated by a factor of more than 30 percent.

Analysts will point to a wildcard factor of more affordable EVs on the road inspiring more sales, a virtuous cycle.

Tucker Jones is discussing the lensing effect can cause galaxies to be magnified in apparent size and brightness by factors of more than 10.

Nature Climate Science reports that the IPCC's predictions of warming from 1993 - 2012 and 1998 - 2012 were over-estimated by factors of more than two times and four times, respectively.

Not exact matches

For example, as Taya Cohen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University, told New Scientist, people who score low on the Honesty - Humility factor might be more likely to cheat on their time sheets or steal office supplies.

So Falcon 9, particularly when [you] factor in payload, Falcon 9 is many times more — on the order of 30 times more payload — than Falcon 1.

To find the wealthiest people in the world, Wealth - X looked at its database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high net - worth people and used a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency - exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

Actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those implied by the forward - looking statements as a result of the impact of a number of factors, many of which are discussed in more detail in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

While there's an argument to be made that AI is over-hyped as a technology, there's data to back up Sanwal's tongue - in - cheek advice: Mergers and acquisitions of AI startups increased by a factor of seven between 2011 and 2015, from five to more than 35 deals, according to the research firm.

But one more factor must be counted, namely whether you can afford to cover the cost of loss or damage yourself.

The bottom line is that when Trump blames the filibuster as his primary obstacle to achieving more legislative wins, he is often ignoring underlying factors, mainly that in most cases Republicans can not agree enough to make good on years of promises.

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

Some of that's down to demographic factors (more senior people are more likely to have this freedom and more likely to go the extra mile, for instance), but not all of it, the researchers conclude.

Case and point: McDonald's announced it's expanding its fresh beef to 75 locations in Northeast Oklahoma, effectively growing the market test by more than a factor of six, Business Insider reports.

Constantly working in a global context, it was important from quite early on to learn to work with the more challenging elements of different cultures, while at the same time identifying their best factors and making them my own.

But factor back in the often overlooked «hybrid entrepreneurs» who keep their day jobs while founding their businesses, and the personalities of entrepreneurs start to look more and more like, well, the personalities of the rest of us.

The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

But with such significant satisfaction gap and cost factors in play, expect to do more of your consumer complaining online in the future.

Though there are, of course, still sensible steps to take to protect important financial data, like setting up fraud alerts, using more secure passwords or a password manager, and enabling two - factor authentication where available.

Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, CIO of NN, said this explained why the market has become more exposed to risk factors stemming from politics or headwinds for the technology sector.

For example, Silver argues that a number of factors had more to do with the media's misunderstanding of what was happening during the election than any alleged errors in polling.

While these factors may drive a further moderate increase in valuations, our guess is that the majority of the re-rating is now behind us, absent a more material improvement in the economic landscape than we currently forecast.

And that, dear parents, is the point at which your work is done — when your children's success becomes much more a factor of their desire and work ethic than yours.

Another factor I've called out is that our Nintendo fans are louder and there are more of them on a per capita basis.

While there is a «magic factor» to getting a cover story in the New York Times or Forbes — which can change the trajectory of a business and is hard to quantify in terms of exact impact — PR professionals can and must think of creative ways to measure outcomes in a more quantitative way.

Paul Zak, author of Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High Performance Companies, says, «People who are imperfect are more attractive to us.

At this point, Dua believes, it's more valuable for the company to double its growth in a large market than it is to increase its growth by a factor of 10 in a smaller market, i.e. moderate growth in Chicago beats explosive growth in Tampa.