Sentences with phrase «given unit of»

Given a some unit of resources (dollars, for example), one devotes it to where it is most needed, then with the next dollar you do the same with regard to the needs that are left.

The teaching of the two strands, however, need not be correlated, i.e., teachers may provide instruction and practice in a given unit of the Skills Strand as needed, while moving on to new topics and anthologies in the Listening and Learning Strand.

Most studies of this kind look only at the extent to which climate shocks affect crop yield — the amount of product harvested from a given unit of agricultural land.

These upgrades propagate to other steps in electricity production, allowing power plants to extract more work for a given unit of fuel.

Intensity is how much energy is carried by an electromagnetic wave in a given unit of time and in a given unit of area.

Out of 100 Btus in a given unit of feedstock, only 15 Btus are used to power the process, with the remainder residing in oil, gas, and chemicals.

According to the late British political scientist, Sir Bernard Crick, politics is the art of conciliating diversity peacefully in a given unit of rule.

Researchers in the latter field have known for some time that people don't think like adding machines, tallying up potential positive and negative outcomes («gains» and «losses»), but feel worse about a given unit of loss than about a corresponding unit of gain.

Unfortunately, those results and given units of measure don't seem to add up.

If people realize you are doing this, though, then they raise the number of certificates they ask for to give you a unit of output, so your promise is just as hard to keep.

It may indicate that it is the water content but that I can not see how that could be a directly used to in the calculation of the water feedback given the units of the kernel.

Not exact matches

High turnover is common in financial services, and while the bank's wide variety of products, and preponderance of business units offering them, give employees plenty of opportunity to move up (or sideways) instead of out, the company has learned not to leave loyalty to fate.

On Monday, researcher Susquehanna International Group estimated that Apple pays $ 581 for the components inside its iPhone X, giving the company a profit margin of $ 418 per unit before it factors in assembly cost.

«We're pretty blunt about telling new customers that until we get to know them better, we insist on payment in advance — for which we give them a 2 % price discount — or payment through a confirmed, irrevocable letter of credit,» says John Kirchgeorg, the owner of Life Corp., a manufacturer of emergency oxygen units in Milwaukee.

That allowed United to give a more upbeat first quarter guidance of relatively flat unit revenue.

The Canadian unit of Amazon.com will pay a $ 1 million fine, or, or $ 756,659 U.S., to settle an investigation into pricing activities on its website that gave an inaccurate view of how much consumers could save, Canada's competition watchdog said on Wednesday.

«We attribute the disconnect of iPhone unit guide from supply chain data points given lower iPhone X demand (focus of supply chain) transferred to higher iPhone 8/7 demand (hence lower adjusted ASP),» analyst Wamsi Mohan wrote in a note to clients Wednesday.

Contact information for 1.5 million customers of Verizon's business - to - business arm was hacked this year, a surprising revelation given the company's cybersecurity strength (and the fact that Verizon Enterprise Solutions is a unit Fortune 500 companies often call for help when they get hacked).

Given that a new coal plant can't meet either of those standards without adding carbon capture and storage technology, the limit will only determine how intensively a new plant would have to run its carbon capture unit.

Given adtech's rise, let's not forget its atomic unit of value: the oft - derided banner ad.

Given the typical overbuild that occurs at the end of the year, we believe this supports our new unit estimate of 50mn iPhones for [the quarter.]

Apart from keeping in mind the values and the attitude of a brand or a unit, it is also important that individual personality traits are given their due importance so that the uniqueness and the diversity are all honored in the right spirit.

Glen De Vos, vice-president of Delphi's business - services unit, says the Intel deal gives the company everything it needs to develop an autonomous - driving package to sell to automakers.

Dan Chen, head of Roche / Genentech's cancer immunotherapy unit, told Fortune the data were particularly promising since they could lead to Tecentriq becoming a first response treatment and give additional credence to the company's argument that immunotherapies are more effective the earlier they're given to patients.

Advisory panels to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week gave unanimous recommendations for so - called biosimilars of Humira and Enbrel developed by Amgen and Novartis (nvs) generics unit Sandoz, respectively.

Marine lawyers are given infantry units to command; infantry commanders are placed in charge of supply units.

In it, the executive is given a number of performance units, which have no value when they are issued.

Fellow research firm Strategy Analytics predicted in March that Apple would ship 15.4 million watch units in 2015, giving the company 54.8 percent of the global smartwatch market.

Morgan Stanley could still not afford to swallow all of Smith Barney in one bite, and Citigroup didn't want to immediately give up all the much - needed earnings power the unit possessed.

Director of Public Information Office Jason Clark told me via e-mail that Stiles did not flood, and the inmates in all three TDCJ units were given sufficient water, food, and access to toilets.

Don't pay up front Last time, my husband had this brilliant idea of avoiding the «hassle» of collecting money from cookie sales and putting it into envelopes: Just give the unit leader a cheque for the full amount, and then pocket the cash sales.

«Total CEO realized compensation» for a given year is defined as (i) Mr. Musk's salary, cash bonuses, non-equity incentive plan compensation and all other compensation as reported in «Executive Compensation — Summary Compensation Table» below, plus (ii) with respect to any stock option exercised by Mr. Musk in such year in connection with which shares of stock were also sold other than to satisfy the resulting tax liability, if any, the difference between the market price of Tesla common stock at the time of exercise on the exercise date and the exercise price of the option, plus (iii) with respect to any restricted stock unit vested by Mr. Musk in such year in connection with which shares of stock were also sold other than automatic sales to satisfy the Company's withholding obligations related to the vesting of such restricted stock unit, if any, the market price of Tesla common stock at the time of vesting, plus (iv) any cash actually received by Mr. Musk in respect of any shares sold to cover tax liabilities as described in (ii) and (iii) above, following the payment of such amounts.

Moreover, unit costs have been rising quite quickly given the fairly poor performance of multi-factor productivity growth over recent years.

as to Shares deliverable on the exercise of Options or Stock Appreciation Rights, or in settlement of Performance Units or Restricted Stock Units, until the delivery (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of Walmart of a duly authorized transfer agent of Walmart) of such Shares, give the Recipient the right to vote, or receive dividends on, or exercise any other rights as a stockholder with respect to such Shares, notwithstanding the exercise (in the case of Options or Stock Appreciation Rights) of the related Plan Award;

Bigwigs in the ethereum world immediately vented their spleen at the conference organizers — a unit of ConsenSys, a company started by ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin — for giving a «fraud» such a prominent platform.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Companies should give CEOs share units less often and stop paying them with stock options to motivate better long - term performance and minimize the role of luck in compensation payouts, a new report argues.

«StashAway solves this issue by letting customers own as little as 0.0001 units of a given ETF, making it possible to always have an optimal asset allocation,» says Ferrario.

When calculating rent estimates, researchers draw a sample from the complete set of rental units in a given area.

He sees his principal responsibility at Alphabet as giving the CEOs of the business units the latitude they need to succeed — as legendary investor Warren Buffett does at Berkshire Hathaway.

Over a period from 2013 through 2015, three leaders of an industry - leading Credit Suisse unit that packages mortgages and other loans into securities for sale to investors were forced to give back a portion of their 2015 bonuses after the firm realized they had failed to complete required «eLearning modules» - computer - based training programs designed to keep employees up - to - date on the latest rules and procedures.

It's an irony of the financial cycle that cutting loose the U.S. mortgage unit may now give the car finance firm its best chance of repaying Uncle Sam's $ 17 bln bailout.

(The Senate bill also limits companies to making autonomous - only cars so long as they sell less than a certain number of units in a given year, capping the number at 15,000 vehicles in the first year, 80,000 in three years, and allowing an unlimited number of cars in the fourth year.)

Given that the party that comes first in the election gets a 50 - seat bonus in the 300 - member Parliament, coming first is crucial,» Martin Koehring of the Economist Intelligence Unit said.

In this video I will give you some of the situations why a person might want to sell a home or investment unit.

Besides the traditional functions of money (store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account), international exchange rates give a new dimension to currencies with several different ways of profiting from them (with the risk of losing money as well).

Originally, the bank had hoped to generate proceeds of up to 2 billion euros by selling 25 percent of DWS, giving the unit a value of 8 billion euros.

You want to recoup all your investment in the first year, so you need to make $ 10,000 profit on 1,000 units, or $ 10 profit per unit, giving you again a price of $ 60 per unit.

In the last days of February, Manfred Galdes, who headed Malta's Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit, gave notice to Sadr's Pilatus Bank that the FIAU would inspect its books.

Their focus on rental units is very important, especially for those 25 - 34 years old, but some thought should also be given to making supply which makes homeownership more feasible for residents of our region.