Sentences with phrase «good approximations for»

This was unusual, since the variational approach normally only gives good approximations for the lowest energy levels.

Whether this conversion efficiency is a good approximation for rice - eating populations with marginal - to - severe vitamin A deficiency, or perhaps is a conservative underestimate, has yet to be determined.

The Central Limit Theorem provides that when N becomes «large» (more than a few dozen voters in the district), the Gaussian distribution becomes a very good approximation for the Binomial.

«What all the studies have found is that these populations who are living a more traditional lifestyle are the best approximation for our ancient microbiota.

It was previously thought that sodium chloride was a good approximation for the hygroscopicity of the inorganic fraction of sea spray.

But to a pretty good approximation for current purposes, the photon just keeps on going, headed for space (or a GHG molecule, whichever comes first).

You need to demonstrate how diffusion is not a good approximation for convection and advection at the global level.

Not exact matches

For better or worse, the income statement requires the use of certain approximations.

The eternal peace of humanity with God, received by faith on account of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows about and experiences.

Public discourse on the fallen is going to be an approximation, but if Hayes was going to wonder whether (for instance) troops who died because their Humvee ran over an IED or because they were shot by an Afghan security officer they were training should not be described as heroes, the calendar offers about 320 or so better days to bring up the subject.

But commitment to God defined as supreme worthfulness for all men implies a faith which trusts that a finer approximation to God's goodness on the part of men in general will result in a situation that men will call good.

@ Kenrick I need some help with the above formula because you really can not divide eternity by a cardinal number however we could fold eternity 7 times and get a good approximation of the disproportionate risk Chuckles takes by living only for today.

Substitutions for pimentón include hot paprika and New Mexican ground red chile, but for a better approximation of the smokiness of the pimentón, mix in some ground chipotle chile.

Below, the full Week 8 results of college football games involving teams ranked by the AP Poll, which is a good enough approximation of Playoff rankings for now.

Their path may often be a good approximation of the shortest path, but there is no good reason to think that they will always produce such an approximation, much less the optimal solution for all placements of an indefinite number of flowers.

The researchers» database of evaluated clusters may not contain exact matches for any of those specifications, but it will contain clusters that are extremely good approximations.

That was odd, Friedmann says, as approximations tend to work better for lower energy states.

Ramanujan and others after him found formulas to predict the value of any p (n) with good approximation, for example.

This estimate is the best available, though it likely represents a conservative approximation because it is based on basal metabolic rates and allometric relationships; furthermore, among other confounds, these whales in Wilhelmina are theoretically eating as much as possible to prepare for winter.

It informs us about the global temperature change «in the pipeline» without further change of climate forcings and it defines how much greenhouse gases must be reduced to restore Earth's energy balance, which, at least to a good approximation, must be the requirement for stabilizing global climate.

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If we keep in mind the fundamental limitations of data — for example, that test scores are at best an approximation of learning and that context and implementation do matter — we are much more likely to discern reliable findings.

Find a way for local education leaders to manage school improvement across a county and across a region with county collaboration and you have a form of local governance that will serve 10x better than any central approximation of the same.

Not quite funky The 2010 Honda Fit's appearance is a good approximation of its overall character — it's different without being idiosyncratic, accurately preparing you for what's inside.

The exact number per year for the last 200 years is unknown, but Heald and his assistants were able to arrive at a pretty good approximation by relying on the number of titles available for each year in WorldCat, a library catalog that contains the complete listings of 72,000 libraries around the world.

Amazon says the Voyage offers a better approximation of print than has ever been available on an e-reader, but for me, it's far better than that.

These currently provide the best small - area approximation for the credit score standing of a specific region.

For simplicity you can add these tax rates together to get a good approximation.

Figuring a precise after - tax rate is harder, since for tax purposes this adjusted rate is not what you pay, but it is a good approximation.

This is because book value can serve as a rough approximation of replacement value, which «can be a much better proxy for intrinsic value in many industries, and in many market cycles...»

It's not to say that MTM accounting is perfect — all accounting methods are approximations and are imperfect, but does it convey the best information needed for investors to make reasonable decisions, at an acceptable cost?

An ETF's market price can actually be a better approximation of the aggregate value of the underlying bonds than its own NAV, and highly liquid bond ETFs can perform price discovery for the bonds they hold.

If he is to pay some special attention to the selection of his portfolio, it might be best for him to concentrate on issues selling at reasonably close approximations to their tangible asset value — say, at not more than one - third above that figure.»

Under an alternative method, the fair - value approach, estimates are based on market values — market prices when they are available, or approximations of market prices when they are not — which better account for the risk that the government takes on.

The exponential decay - weighted volatility estimates function as an approximation of current volatility, which is our best estimate for forward - looking volatility.

For a year, simply subtracting the annual price return from the annual total return is probably a good approximation.

I can see that the 1st month's deposit will be compounded all year where as the last month's won't, but I figure that given the volatility of the stock market, this might be good enough for an approximation?

Some additional information that report buyers can expect to see includes: ongoing homeownership costs that includes monthly and annual cost estimates for owning that home, as well as closing cost estimates, an historical depiction of crime in the area, as well as an analysis of «value factors,» an approximation of neighbourhood features that add or detract from a home's value.

Although I lost my best friend, I have to say that this place really does care and they also give you an approximation of your bill before they charge you and inform you of what they're actually charging you for.

The change of pace will be a sticking point for some players as the game rewards thought out plays and strategy over the run and gun techniques that were so successful in turning the tide in previous entries but in my opinion this change is for the better, with matches in the game now playing out in a closer approximation of its real life counterparts.

John Finn (68)-- A good approximation formula for the CO2 is logarithmic in the concentration, as found here:

understood perfectly well that there were various degrees of approximation and uncertainty involved, including, for sure, the climate modelers.

Henry's law doesn't really work well for complex carbonate equilibria and big volumes of liquid water, but even as an approximation, let's assume that if we have 38,000 Gt of dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC, (CO2 + HCO3 + CO3) in the oceans, and the preindustrial CO2 in the atmosphere is about 2,200 gigatons (300 ppm), that's a ratio of about 0.06 (atm / ocean).

A caveat is that all GCMs as well many TC models (including GFDL's) that have been used for climate change experiments employ hydrostatic approximation and «cumulus parameterization».

It is used for dust in the interstellar medium which has continuous opacity as a function of frequency but it is not really gray but rather has lower opacity at lower frequency, Thus a layer which is opaque in up welling emission may be transparent in down welling absorption so that the next layer out sees its own down welling emission canceled by emission from the opposite side in the approximation of complete transparency at the appropriate frequencies for the inner shells.

Similarly, the logarithmic nature of the radiative forcing does have a theoretical basis, but strictly speaking, is only a good approximation that is valid for a relatively narrow range of CO2 concentrations (although the range is broad enough to encompass what you'd expect to see for our present day climate change).

Otherwise, an approximation can be made by using, in place of BTc0i and ΔBTc0, three corresponding values of upward / downward / net fluxes per unit area, two values for frequencies ν1 and ν2 on either side of the band near the centroids of the areas on the graph for the band - widening effect (works unless there are temporary saturations leaving positive and negative areas, in which case more different values for different frequencies would work better) to multiply by b * BW1 and b * BW2, respectively, to find the band - widenning effect, and one value for the peak frequency ν0, to multiply by something on the order of b * 1/2 * (BW1 + BW2) to find the band center contribution.

If we had better sea level rise data for the whole period, we might see that the heat storage curve into the ocean had a shape that better matched the simple function approximation than the land surface data does, or we might have better information on internal climate modes that confused or delayed the temperature response.

Sometimes the formula used will be approximations in one form or another for the sake of simplifying calculations, but they will be good approximations, not something which was simply thrown in there to get the results one wants.

and in the approximation that other sources of optical thickness and the Planck function don't vary much over the width of the CO2 band so — or their combination of variations is such — that the baseline spectral flux for no CO2 as well as the value at any given optical thickness from CO2 is approximatly constant over wavlength — or else so that the baseline and other levels of spectral flux for a given additional optical thickness, or at least the differences among them, vary over the band is such that as the band widens, decreasing effect on one side is balanced by increasing effect on the other — but for now I'll just use the simplification of a constant baseline and additional optical thickness effect on spectral flux over the width of the band: