Sentences with phrase «identified by the size»

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Adjusted Net Income is defined as net income excluding (i) franchise agreement amortization, which is a non-cash expense arising as a result of acquisition accounting that may hinder the comparability of our operating results to our industry peers, (ii) amortization of deferred financing costs and debt issuance discount, a non-cash component of interest expense, and (gains) losses on early extinguishment of debt, which are non-cash charges that vary by the timing, terms and size of debt financing transactions, (iii)(income) loss from equity method investments, net of cash distributions received from equity method investments, (iv) other operating expenses (income), net, and (v) other specifically identified costs associated with non-recurring projects.

The whitepaper identifies increased adoption of the Internet by small and medium sized businesses as a clear area for economic growth.

In addition, as part of our governance review and succession planning, the Board (led by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee) evaluates our leadership structure to ensure that it remains the optimal structure for Tesla, reviews the composition, size and performance of the Board and its committees, evaluates individual Board members, and identifies and evaluates candidates for election or re-election to the Board.

They identify idiosyncratic volatility shocks as large deviations from the volatility predicted out - of - sample by a regression model that accounts for market, size and book - to - market effects.

Module that sizes trades by identifying degrees to which associated market conditions are abnormal.

So would you prefer this: an unknown source says something in the media produced by someone apparently living on this planet may have caused some strong feelings among some yet to be identified crowds of unknown sizes to be engaged in possibly some distrubances which may have occured in some distant land...

Zaret identifies three types of variables that probably have general relevance to the consideration of audiences: (1) social - structural variables that concern the size, social location, and access to material resources of a potential audience; (2) technical variables that specify some medium by which ideas can be communicated to this audience; and (3) cultural variables that deal with the general symbolic or mental capacities that the audience has at its disposal for processing the ideas to which it is exposed.

Chad Dorr grades the lobsters by size and quality and every lobster is identified by the lobsterman who caught it.

This tradition is exceeded in uselessness only by the one wherein the size of a distant patch of earth is identified as being equivalent to the size of a couple of disparate states.

Traction pattern is informed by an algorithm to identify lug shapes and sizes that optimize propulsion.

They went further by identifying the large size of the cap as the likely source of the issue, and implying that the cap size is an intentional source of additional revenue for detergent manufacturers (a charge the detergent industry vehemently denied).

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.

The research tested the ability of 114 nutrition and dietetics students in the U.S. and Australia to identify foods and determine serving sizes by looking at photos of food on plates.

Working near an archaeological site in southern Yemen, Cole and his colleagues, with the help of a Bedouin guide, identified 25 middens that had been deposited in desert caves by a groundhog - sized animal called a hyrax.

Such methods can be designed to sort cells by size or to identify cells that display a targeted feature, such as a fluorescent dye that has been added.

«By adjusting for a variety of parameters we were able to identify a pore size range, a nanopore, that best suited the purpose of the textile, one that is highly opaque visibly and at the same time highly transparent in the thermal wavelength range,» said Fan.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

Medium - sized black holes have yet to be unambiguously identified by astronomers.

If successfully commercialized by industry, the briefcase - sized kit could enable detectives, field inspectors and others to carry with them a convenient version of NIST's «headspace analysis» technique, which identifies solid or liquid compounds based on the makeup of vapors released into nearby air.

By identifying length differences much smaller than the size of a proton, the experiment could in theory have spotted gravitational waves from merging black holes up to a few billion light - years away.

With advances in the separation of lipoproteins by size and functionality, research has intensified to identify HDL measures that may be better predictors of coronary heart disease than the traditional HDL - C.

By using differences in the size and shape of their fossilized teeth, a number of North American mammoth species have been identified.

The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also suggests that the size of the brain's right anterior insula may predict the risk of future bouts of depression, potentially giving researchers an anatomical marker to identify those at high risk for recurrence.

The short size of the locus was ideal for 454 sequencing, and because single - molecule reads are generated, the authors were able to identify haplotypes of somatic hypermutations carried by individual leukemic cells.

Once the corresponding position of a gap has been identified, the downstream query coordinates are incremented by the size of the annotated chain - gap being placed.

The iron - oxygen spheres identified here as framboids, ranged in size from 5 — 29 microns and fall in the range previously described by Schweitzer and Horner [6] with an average size of 25 microns.

Abstract: Kepler - 78 (KIC 8435766) was identified by Sanchis - Ojeda et al. (2013) as harbouring a transiting planet of 1.16 times the size of the Earth and an orbital period of only 8.5 hours.

By examining the results of genome - wide association studies (GWAS) in conjunction with experiments on mouse and human red blood cells (RBCs), researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Harvey Lodish have identified the protein cyclin D3 as regulating the number of cell divisions RBC progenitors undergo, which ultimately affects the resulting size and quantity of RBCs.

By identifying two classes of «Cepheid variable» stars, astronomer Walter Baade refines the extragalactic distance scale - the estimated size of the known universe doubles

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the transit technique.

Significant clusters were identified using an a priori - defined voxelwise FWE - corrected threshold of p < 0.05 and an extent of four voxels, determined by rounding above the expected cluster size estimated from the smoothness of the SPM based on Gaussian random - field theory57.

The team was able to deduce the number of exoplanets, as well as certain characteristics of these alien worlds such as their size, orbit, and composition, by identifying dips in the perceived light output of TRAPPIST - 1 as the planets passed between Earth and the star, blocking a portion of its light.

The research conducted by Wright State University involved identifying and measuring size changes of motor neuron types in a mouse model of familial ALS.

Curves Connect is for anyone who self - identifies as curvy, plus - size, or having a few extra pounds or curves, and people who don't judge a book by its cover.

PRWEB - Feb 3 - CurvesConnect.com, a new dating site for anyone who self - identifies as curvy, plus - size, or having a few extra pounds was soft launched in 2016 by the team behind the highly successful niche dating site FarmersOnly.com.

CurvesConnect.com, a new dating site for anyone who self - identifies as curvy, plus - size, or having a few extra pounds was soft launched in 2016 by the team behind the highly successful niche dating site FarmersOnly.com.

OurTime.com, a dating site for singles over 50, identified the top 10 cities for plus - sized daters by analyzing the behavioral data of its users to find the location of the site's most popular users who self - identified as «big and beautiful.»

In 1994, at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, then - reigning national champion Nancy Kerrigan stepped off the ice after practice and was clubbed in the leg by a man nearly twice her size, who would later be identified as Shane Stant.

An analysis of the size of the training pool as identified by the Department for Education (DfE) in their annual Initial Teacher Training census suggests that vacancies are eroding the pool fastest in some small subject areas, such as social studies and business studies.

Nothing in the PISA data allows us to identify crucial aspects of performance pay schemes, such as the way in which teacher performance is measured, the size of the incremental earnings received by higher - performing teachers, or very much about the level of government at which or the manner in which decisions on merit pay are made.

* Better discipline, better learning environment, smaller class sizes, and improved student safety were identified as top factors by approximately half of all respondents.

Objectives covered: Compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes Identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to 2 right angles by size Identify lines of symmetry in 2 - D shapes presented in different orientations Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry Describe positions on a 2 - D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left / right and up / down Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon

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The specific number of volunteers to be identified is determined by each institution's commission and may vary from commission to commission due to the varying sizes of visiting teams.

These budget items earmarked for early approval do not address a high priority overwhelmingly identified by district parents and staff: smaller class sizes.

While the priority actions identified by the administration are important, reducing class sizes should be a high priority.

The researchers identified five key principles of the CPC that they say led to its effectiveness, including providing services that are of sufficient length or duration, are high in intensity and enrichment, feature small class sizes and teacher - student ratios, are comprehensive in scope and are implemented by well - trained and well - compensated staff.

Evidence about class size effects not only identifies optimum sizes, it also suggests that the greatest benefits of reducing class size are found in the first two years of schooling when accompanied by appropriate adaptations to instruction (e.g., Finn, 2001).

Lower class size is one of only four strategies identified by the Institute of Education Sciences as evidence - based reforms that have been proven to increase student achievement.