Sentences with phrase «generally accepted model»

The generally accepted model of the brain contains regions devoted to each sense, such as the sight - centric visual cortex.

Speaking at the Post.Seed Conference on Tuesday, the PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund principal offered what amounted to a critique of the generally accepted model for funding startups, wherein seed and venture investors make lots of small investments in early - stage companies in the hopes that a few will yield big payoffs.

Not exact matches

The highlight was working on a whole - of - life data project that involved constructing networks of environmental monitoring stations in the Australian outback, and then using the collected data to empirically model groundwater dynamics — which doesn't sound all that interesting, but was actually quite a departure from the generally accepted contemporary methods.

While «operating earnings» are not even defined under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and «forward operating earnings» only surfaced as a creature of Wall Street in the early 1980's, it's simple enough to impute historical values of forward operating earnings because they are almost completely explained by observable earnings and employment data — see Long - term Evidence on the Fed Model and Forward Operating Earnings.

Process thought provides a different model of human beings, one that, if accepted, would have quite different consequences for public life generally.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

However, values this low are inconsistent with numerous studies using a wide variety of methods, including (i) paleoclimate data, (ii) recent empirical data, and (iii) generally accepted climate models.

It's generally accepted that Apple's iPads about as good as it gets for tablet design in 2018 — they may not be spectacular in their looks, but they're sleek and thin, and the screens on those two iPad Pro models really catch the eye.

Generally, we seem to have accepted licensing as an acceptable model for computer programs, but books are somehow different.

I believe inefficiency also emerges due to the conventionally prevailing valuation techniques & the generally accepted economics and finance principles which rely too much on mathematics and using what essentially is gut feeling in substitute for a «scientific model» is not an acceptable practice in investment management.

Therefore, interest rates must be considered as one of the basic inputs that go into the generally accepted Black - Scholes option pricing model.

It's generally accepted that the value of an investment is the current value of all future income that it provides (this is the Dividend Discount Model).

OK, AJC and others (climateprediction.net) are claiming there is some possibility of a large climate sensitivity above what is generally accepted by the climate modelling community, 6 degrees C perhaps as opposed to a more standard range of 2.5 C to 4C.

I haven't tried to create an alternative model, but if I were to do so I would try to incorporate relevant major known (or major possible) natural factors, along with AGW of course but starting with the generally accepted ECS of ~ 1.2 rather than the IPCC's 3.2 using unsubstantiated «feedbacks».

Now tides are generally accepted to be driven by celestial bodies though actually trying to model it gets rather....

However, if you say that we are really going to use a different set of models, which include observational data, you are flouting the generally accepted rules of hypothesis testing and scientific logic.

It is generally accepted that globalization and technology, among other factors, are exerting considerable pressure on the business models of many areas of professional services, including legal services.

Comment on Rule 1.15 in the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct states, «A lawyer should maintain on a current basis books and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice and comply with any recordkeeping rules established by law or court order.»