Sentences with phrase «idea of the alpha»

David Mech introduced the idea of the alpha to describe behavior observed in captive animals.

Having an idea of this alpha / beta / cash return framework is vital to proper portfolio construction.

Current research challenges the idea of the alpha dog.

I appreciate Steve Flores of Dragon Divide for the idea of Alpha Squad, but I fear that with the marred execution will shy people away from the game.

Not exact matches

This purpose of this report is to show investors how New Constructs» proprietary forensic accounting research empowers them to identify alpha - generating investment ideas more efficiently than traditional manual approaches.

Investors can find a diversity of opinion on a company because professionals and non-professionals alike publish and share their investment ideas on sites such as Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool, GuruFocus, Value Investors Club and SumZero.

The idea was this: the returns of a manager are equal to his alpha versus a composite index that best fits his performance.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

Forget the loyal companion stereotype, or the idea you've got to show you're the alpha of the pack.

As if the whole idea of a tick - induced allergy isn't bizarre enough, the fact that alpha - gal is a sugar, not a protein, is particularly odd, says Commins.

«The idea of targeted alpha therapy is not completely novel,» explains Clemens Kratochwil, MD, University Hospital Heidelberg in Germany.

[116] Such ideas also apply to the close approach of Alpha Centauri or other stars to the Solar System, when in the distant future of our Oort Cloud may be disrupted enough to see increased numbers of active comets.

With a brown dwarf within a parsec of our own system being a hopeful and still - possible scenario for a more - accessible long - term destination than the Alpha Centauri system, I'd say the idea and hope that there could be something even semi-habitable in close orbit around that brown dwarf is a lot more exciting than just rocks or iceballs.

The putative Centauri Bb supported the idea that there might be other planets there, and we've known since the work of Paul Wiegert and Matt Holman back in the 1990s that sustainable habitable zone orbits are possible around both the primary Alpha Centauri stars.

The idea originates with Jo Cannoott (Stef Aerts), a soft - spoken dreamer with delicate features, mussy blond hair and a drooping eyelid (the result of a childhood infection), all of which combine to give him a thoroughly nonthreatening sensibility — adorable, yes, but hardly the sort of Alpha - male persona one imagines running a bar full of chandelier - swinging drunkards.

He also showed immense appreciation for Sony Interactive Entertainment for its «invaluable help» in releasing the game's Alpha and Beta tests, noting that they proved beneficial in shaping the final release via feedback and by giving players an idea of what to expect.

The important thing is that all of these strategies tap into the free flowing «alpha» mode of thinking which is the basis for idea generation.

An interesting idea I have seen around licensing ebooks is unglue.it, still in alpha, where libraries contribute money, Kickstarter style, to buy creative commons ebook rights by title (or group of titles).

With so many women working, raising children and basically being superheroes, the idea of being with an Alpha male who swoops in and takes care of everything is a stress - free escape.

Nicholas Vardy on Seeking Alpha put forth the idea that investing in Switzerland is attractive because of its political stability, economic growth and «rock solid» currency.

The firm would like to invite readers in Alberta's capital to hear Swedroe discus the ideas in his latest book, The Quest for Alpha: The Holy Grail of Investing.

A sixth core idea is that leverage, however obtained, does not add alpha of itself.

Every day, we aim to deliver sophisticated, timely, and Ahead Of The Curve ™ ideas that generate alpha for you.

Double alpha potential The investment team uses opportunistic shorting to take advantage of buy and sell ideas, providing two differentiated sources of return.

The idea was this: the returns of a manager are equal to his alpha versus a composite index that best fits his performance.

This book, and others by the Monks of New Skete, have many helpful ideas, but their alpha training techniques have been replaced with other less potentially dangerous, more positive techniques.

The now - outdated dominance theory of dog training was based on the idea that dogs travel in hierarchical (alpha, beta, et al) packs like wild wolves do.

The idea that humans should exert physical control over animals was first widely - popularized in the 1970s in the book «How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend» by the Monks of New Skete, which recommended the «alpha roll» to deal with undesired behaviors.

At the rear you'll obviously find an HMDI output for connecting the Alpha to a screen, but there's also a surprise in the form of an HDMI input so that you can do things like plug in a set - top box, reinforcing the idea that this is a machine intended for the living room.

Release Date: Developer: Obsidian Publisher: Sega Singleplayer: yes Splitscreen: no Multiplayer: no PEGI: 15 + Alpha Protocol has the right idea's, as it proudly claims on the box it's an espionage RPG allowing you take on the role of Mike Thorton, the latest recruit to the secretive Alpha Protocol -LSB-...]

Thanks to the developer Austin Schaeffer, we bring you an exclusive small look at his first person puzzle adventure Altered State in its current alpha stage of development, showcasing how the game has come from the last time we spoke of it with earlier footage, and getting a better idea of how the game will play -LSB-...]

Thanks to the developer Austin Schaeffer, we bring you an exclusive small look at his first person puzzle adventure Altered State in its current alpha stage of development, showcasing how the game has come from the last time we spoke of it with earlier footage, and getting a better idea of how the game will play out.

Focus testing through expo visitors for ideas of what does and doesn't work in the alpha stage has proved invaluable.

Please try the alpha demo; there is about 6 - 8 hours of gameplay in there already, so it should give you an idea of what we intend to bring in the full experience.

But even with the meteoric rise of Kickstarter, Archetype Global is looking to push this integration even further with their premiere title «Nightrealm Tales», a game driven by community feedback and ideas, from alpha stages to completion.

The idea of owning a capable gaming system that isn't extremely expensive or overly large may seem like a pipe dream, but the Alienware Alpha R2 defies the typical gaming desktop stereotype.

Playable alpha builds and proofs of concept were developed, but those ideas eventually gave way to the toys - to - life Skylanders series.

Dingbat (otherwise known as xyz123 - the omega and alpha of stupidity no doubt... and ass backwards too, of course) suggests that we should be building solar panels in the deserts of North Africa - what grand idea.

I have done wolfram alpha plots o actual temp records for many countries and find very few cases of upwards trends but I have no idea how accurate those plots are.

Spencer and his colleague, Danny Braswell, put this idea to the test with their simple climate model, in which they could specify what the alpha value was, and drive the model with a combination of random fluctuations in both external and «internal» forcing.

General Introduction Two Main Goals Identifying Patterns in Time Series Data Systematic pattern and random noise Two general aspects of time series patterns Trend Analysis Analysis of Seasonality ARIMA (Box & Jenkins) and Autocorrelations General Introduction Two Common Processes ARIMA Methodology Identification Phase Parameter Estimation Evaluation of the Model Interrupted Time Series Exponential Smoothing General Introduction Simple Exponential Smoothing Choosing the Best Value for Parameter a (alpha) Indices of Lack of Fit (Error) Seasonal and Non-seasonal Models With or Without Trend Seasonal Decomposition (Census I) General Introduction Computations X-11 Census method II seasonal adjustment Seasonal Adjustment: Basic Ideas and Terms The Census II Method Results Tables Computed by the X-11 Method Specific Description of all Results Tables Computed by the X-11 Method Distributed Lags Analysis General Purpose General Model Almon Distributed Lag Single Spectrum (Fourier) Analysis Cross-spectrum Analysis General Introduction Basic Notation and Principles Results for Each Variable The Cross-periodogram, Cross-density, Quadrature - density, and Cross-amplitude Squared Coherency, Gain, and Phase Shift How the Example Data were Created Spectrum Analysis — Basic Notations and Principles Frequency and Period The General Structural Model A Simple Example Periodogram The Problem of Leakage Padding the Time Series Tapering Data Windows and Spectral Density Estimates Preparing the Data for Analysis Results when no Periodicity in the Series Exists Fast Fourier Transformations General Introduction Computation of FFT in Time Series

One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him — under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself — to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air.