Sentences with phrase «for a given amount»

«Is it that lower liquidity is causing volatility to be higher for any given amount of trading activity?

«Lower - quality inventions are more likely to be transferred for a given amount of tacit knowledge.»

The fact that the high - efficiency furnace generates more heat for a given amount of fuel burnt doesn't necessarily mean I will end up with any fuel savings.

Modern Portfolio Theory was developed in the 1950's with the belief that portfolio returns could be maximized for a given amount of investment risk by combining assets in a particular manner.

You start each set with a high weight that is hard for you to complete successfully for a given amount of reps or failure, then, once you've finished those reps, you immediately drop the weight by 5 - 10 pounds and crank out the next reps, and so on until you've gotten to the lowest weight you want to use and you can barely feel your muscle anymore.

(Options, for those unfamiliar with the term, are a way of paying someone in stock — that person has the option to purchase a certain amount of shares, at a certain price, for a given amount of time.

Likewise, while models can not represent the climate system perfectly (thus the uncertainly in how much the Earth will warm for a given amount of emissions), climate simulations are checked and re-checked against real - world observations and are an established tool in understanding the atmosphere.

For a given amount of exposure to radiation, the tests have shown the amount of embrittlement is reduced about five to tenfold.

This is defined as the change in average global surface temperature for a given amount of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere.

You can have fun with your child or teen by challenging him to focus his attention exclusively for a given amount of time on a single object somewhere in the house and describe what he is experiencing.

People that are insulin resistant (type II diabetics) need more insulin for any given amount of glucose.

You'll burn more calories for a given amount of time, and you'll experience the afterburn effect, or excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC).

In other words, for any given amount of food you eat during the day, your goal should be to make it as filling as possible.

Intermittent fasting is basically a form of dieting where people purposely abstain from food for a given amount of time.

If you've been a reader for any given amount of time, you've seen my affinity and collection.

Unlike prostitutes who provide sex to almost anyone for a given amount of money, mistresses make ongoing friends - with - benefits relationships, and are thereforeinvited to diners, travels, and even go to concerts and shows on occasions.

BSFC is basically how much power you output for a given amount of fuel.

That should be pretty obvious, because there are simply less candlesticks for any given amount of time on a higher time frame chart.

(This annuity calculator can give you an estimate of how much you might receive for a given amount invested in an immediate annuity today.)

If you need immediate cash and you have a credit card but you can't take a cash advance or would prefer to avoid the interest, you might offer to take a friend shopping on your credit card in exchange for them giving you the amount of cash you need.

Hussman: I do think that there are those issues, the question becomes, how much risk do you want to take for a given amount of expected return?

Insulin sensitivity is defined as the decrease in glucose for a given amount of insulin.

That means that installation times are basically the same for any given amount of data, and deletion is virtually instant (as just one file is being erased from the table of contents).

If you're like me and have been within the video game and nerd music scene for any given amount of time, chances are you've been to a few shows featuring cover and tribute bands playing music live for a captivated audience.

While you can purchase gems and unlock new characters permanently, earning the game's non-premium currencies can also eventually unlock other characters, or alternatively allow you to «rent» the character for a given amount of time.

Computing and interpreting what the actual uncertainty is for a given amount of smoothing is anything but trivial and ultimately remains a rough estimate.

Coal mining requires 100 MILLION times the amount because uranium contains 100 Million times as much energy for a given amount.

What I mean is that for a given amount of wind shear what heat content must be present above the thermocline to overcome the shear and permit hurricane formation?

The effect is a continuum of different absorption spectra that all have the same band - widenning per doubling and same effects at the center at various stages between no effect and saturation, though they are at different stages in that process for any given amount of CO2; the radiative forcing is a weighted average of the effects of each of those absorption spectra; once the center of the band is saturated for all of the spectra, the band widenning effect is the same for each and thus the forcing from the band widenning is the same as it is in the original simplified picture.

Buckminster Fuller made his Dymaxion houses round because they were aerodynamic and because a circular house encloses more floor area for a given amount of perimeter material.

For a given amount of resource input, the result can be better or worse depending on many factors other than brute force application of physical commodities.

So would not not be better to try to decide the range of options that maximize our wellbeing (dollars to those who prefer that) for a given amount of energy use or Carbon emissions, rather than ranting on about any one of the arguments that Holdren and so many other reputed, decorated and published scientists have undermined, rather than repeating over and over again the very arguments cum mantrae he mentions Berkeley CA

But even if it were true that climate change could «amplify» «poverty» and «economic shock» we are no better informed about the degree of amplification for any given amount of global warming.

This ratio is dependent only on temperature rise, which reduces snowpack at all elevations for a given amount of precipitation.

Shouldn't the comparison be based on total amount of energy input for a given amount of carbon burned?

PM - 10 ERC needs for given amounts of generation capacity can be reduced by limiting the maximum monthly fuel throughput along with output of resources needed primarily for reserves.

Since the average land temperature is lower and dryer than the SST, warming and cooling anomalies are larger for a given amount of energy transfer from the oceans, latent and sensible.

This is because their lower heat capacity causes their temperature to rise or fall more than wet soils for a given amount of heat energy gained in the spring or lost in the fall.

«We found for a given amount of warming, there is an extra amount of carbon released, which would lead to further warming — in other words, a feedback loop,» says Koven.

For a given amount of energy, is there a difference between solar forcing and back radiation forcing?

When you say «reduce CO2 emission», you mean (as everybody I guess): for a given amount of services (measured by GDP, or another index if you dislike it).

Natural gas produces about 50 % to 70 % less CO2 than coal for a given amount of energy produced (the higher figure is compared to the less efficient coal plants, which are probably those being closed right now), and while fracking and moving natural gas around isn't a free lunch by any mean, it compares favorably to mountaintop removal and all the energy that this requires (moving a whole mountain and grinding rock down to powder, can you imagine how energy intensive that is?).

While in the former area climate campaigners are Big Oil's enemy, in the latter area they are its ally, as gas emits less CO2 than its main rival (coal) for a given amount of energy.

However, for a given amount of heat, 1 mm of sea level rise can be achieved much more efficiently — by a factor of 40 — 70 typically — by melting land ice rather than expanding the ocean (Trenberth 2009).

When a person signs something agreeing to rent a space for a given amount of time, what's the difference between the person subletting, assigning and subleasing the space?

And vice versa, if you are trying to maximize the cash value for a given amount of premium then the death benefit should be low to reduce internal expenses of the policy.

Essentially, you need enough life insurance to cover all of your expenses for a given amount of time.

Like your traditional term life insurance, they are available to offer a specified, level death benefit and level premium for a given amount of time, chosen at the time of application.

Term life is bought for a given amount of time, typically between 5 and 30 years, and provides death benefits to your beneficiaries if you should pass during the term.

The major drawback is that the full death benefit is not available until after the policy has been in force for a given amount of time, usually one to two years.