Sentences with phrase «factor structure at»

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Smarter regulations and tax structures are not the only factors at play here.

At the time, TD was among the Top 10 banks in the structured - products market, a business built on arcane financial instruments that shift risk between balance sheets and was ultimately a compounding factor of the financial crisis.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Bob Peabody, a Newport, R.I., consultant who helped Paine rework her pricing structure, advised her to look at comparable industry statistics for sales and the cost of direct labor (labor that produces sales) to compute a markup factor — the amount she needs to charge to cover costs and make a desirable profit.

Price structures are often influenced by two factors: cost - plus (maintaining prices at a level that exceeds product costs by a certain margin) or opting to follow the market leader's price structure and being completely driven by its policy.

Although a number of factors led to this decision, a few worth noting are a modest level of debt (22 % of the capital structure, as shown in the Capital Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statisticastructure, as shown in the Capital Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the StatisticaStructure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the StatisticaStructure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistical Array).

Search engines also look at site structure and design, visitor behavior, and other external, off - site factors to determine how highly ranked your site should be in their SERPs.

But for Aristotle, there is, besides, this other factor of being at the receiving end of the activity of the external world, a factor which lies quite outside the subject - object structure, even with Whitehead's extended meaning.

However, this factor is not part of the essential structure of experience as such; it lies rather at the base of experience.

Whereas Aristotle, as we have seen, took the first factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the more general factor lying at the base of consciousness, Whitehead took the subject - object structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.

When family researchers look at how families function, i.e., how competently they handle tasks, challenges, and conflicts, rather than how families are structured, the encouragement and support of individuality and difference emerges as a key factor In other words, what is important is how people treat each other within families rather than who they are or how they appear.

First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.

The factor which makes possible not only complexity of structure, but any structural relationship at all, is the mental acting which is ingredient in the physical existent — structural relationship, as the outcome of inter-acting, entails the factor of «end,» which necessitates mental acting.

The second most common factor for infertility in women is tubal function — the fallopian tubes — the ability of those structures connected to the uterus to pick the egg up properly at the time of ovulation so that fertilization and pregnancy can take place.

Addressing other factors in a child's life that could be generating problems means looking at stability and structure in the family, support in school, issues with peer relationships.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

The team found that two factors were much better at predicting range: A factor measuring the amount of length change possible in the vocal cord, or how far it could stretch, and a factor measuring the stiffness of the cord due to the fiber structures within.

Scientists headed by Ferran Azorín, CSIC research professor and head of the Chromatin Structure and Function group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), have discovered why histone 1 is a major protection factor against genomic instability and a vital protein for the organism.

In 2005, the identification of an activating mutation in JAK2 (the V617F mutation) as a STAT5 - activating and disease - causing genetic alteration in a significant proportion of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) has emphasized the oncogenic role of the JAK tyrosine kinases in hematologic malignancies.2 — 5 JAK2 is a member of the Janus tyrosine kinase family comprising three other mammalian non-receptor tyrosine kinases (JAK1, JAK3 and TYK2) that associate with cytokine receptors lacking intrinsic kinase activity to mediate cytokine - induced signal transduction and activation of STAT transcription factors.6 All JAKs share a similar protein structure and contain a tyrosine kinase domain at the C - terminus flanked by a catalytically inactive pseudokinase domain with kinase - regulatory activity, by an atypical SH2 domain and by a FERM domain that mediates association to the membrane - proximal region of the cytokine receptors.7, 8 Soon after the discovery of JAK2 V617F, we and others described that activating JAK1 mutations are relatively common in adult patients with T - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and participate in ALL development allowing for constitutive activation of STAT5.9 — 11 Several STAT5 - activating JAK1 mutations were also reported in AML and breast cancer patients.10

Crystal structure of virulence factor CJ0248 from Campylobacter jejuni at 2.25 A resolution reveals a new fold.

The compositional differences were maintained at all time points, suggesting that environmental or genetic factors were important in shaping community structure

«Looking at those two factors, it really reinforces what we're thinking — that those placed in a more structured environment, outside screen time, have lower odds of moderate or severe ADHD,» Lax said.

Figure 2 shows the results of our efforts to explain the amount of schooling children completed through five factors: family structure, mother's age at child's birth, mother's years of education, the number of siblings, and parental income.

Wilsahaw maintained that a «greater emphasis» on the structure of language was a «key factor» in improving performance levels at primary level.

A key factor here is that instead of being trained once, teachers have frequent, structured opportunities to help one another get better at SEL instruction.

Many states utilized School Quality and Student Success (SQSS) indicator within ESSA to include CCR in accountability structures — and to incorporate completion / outcomes in addition to simple access to CCR opportunities.6 For 35 states, the approach to supporting CCR at the high school level involves a menu of readiness options that are factored into final accountability scores.

Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is beneficial for both general education students at risk for reading difficulties due to a variety of factors (e.g. low socio - economic status, status as an English learner) and for students with disabilities.

Since we're being asked about the ideal structure of a funding block, which factors it should contain, maybe we should look at all phases of education and try and establish some common themes.

These differences suggest that the changes that took place were a function of many factors, including the size and structure of the district, the district's «readiness» for change (i.e., previous history with regard to the subject area at hand), and the source of language arts leadership within the district.

At the same time, these 10 companies have issued 362 individual securities that are held in the Global Aggregate, and there are a dizzying array of factors that determine the relative value of each of these bonds, including currency, maturity, coupon, liquidity, and structure, just to list a few.

Alternatively, the tiered - rate structure, which starts at $.0035 per share, can be used, but routing is factored in, which can add or reduce the cost, depending on whether the client is removing or adding liquidity.

To find our lineup of structured settlement companies we looked at a variety of factors, including customer sentiment, company visibility and whether the company belongs to industry groups such as the National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP).

Processes might be more difficult to identify, law firms might be reluctant to start a project that forces attorneys to work in a structured way, or lawyers might still think that their work is not suitable at all for BPM, but there are several important factors that will make managing partners think twice before rejecting a new BPM initiative.

All the factors identified at the end of the 1980s have been exacerbated by the further changes in the structure of the UK workforce, the decline in union membership and their imbalanced preponderance in a greatly expanded public sector.

Characteristics of the political opportunity structure include factors that place the careers of judges at risk, reward judges for service, and determine the costs for remaining on courts.

A professional with at least 30 hours of training / education on listening to and reporting the views of the child including: 6.5 hours on child development and structured interviews of children, research on children in family justice decision - making, and ethics of interviewing children; 6.5 hours on child interview skills including building rapport, child friendly interview environments, appropriate language usage and questions, and effectively reporting the views of the child; and 17 hours of other relevant education on topics such as the rights of children, research on the inclusion and exclusion of children in family justice decision - making, the impacts of family breakdown or transition on children, risks and protective factors for children in family justice processes, family dynamics of separation and divorce including high conflict family dynamics.

Look at it like you would a car loan; it's great to be approved for a low interest rate, but the factor that makes the biggest difference in your overall payment structure is the amount of money you put down up front.

The experts at JEROME C WAGNER, LUTCF can also help customize a policy based on your housing structure, belongings, and even lifestyle factors.

At this stage, research is needed to confirm the suggested factor structure and further investigate the measure's reliability and validity.

At first, we did not limit the number of factors extracted so as not to influence the data's structure.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

The model included a 3 × 2 × 2 factorial structure: treatment (groups 1 and 2 vs 3 vs 4), maternal marital status (married vs unmarried at study registration), and social class (Hollingshead levels III or IV vs I or II at registration) and all interactions among these classification factors.

Participants will consist of 200 people aged 16 — 24 years who are at risk for a range of mental disorders based on personality risk factors, but have not experienced a lifetime mental illness as determined by a structured diagnostic interview.

A key factor here is that instead of being trained once, teachers have frequent, structured opportunities to help one another get better at SEL instruction.

Cf. Wilson, supra note 23, at 87 - 110 (discussing the many factors which have harmed the structure and cohesiveness of black families).

At the same time, given culture - specific factors including the authoritative communist political structure and restricted educational opportunities (Fong 2006), it is likely that vulnerability factors such as a lack of perceived control regarding the self, world, and future underscores vulnerability to depression.

The present study evaluated the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation (PANSI) Inventory in a sample of clinical outpatients at a major hospital in Malaysia.