Sentences with phrase «life rates based»

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«We believe the acquisition will help position [Express Scripts] for the continued shift to a value - based care world and view the added platform and lives as a significant positive... heading into the 2018 selling season which is looking to be a competitive period,» wrote David Larsen, a Leerink Partners analyst, who rates Express Scripts shares at market perform.

One out of every four American Internet users — about 33 million people — has rated a product, service, or person online, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Washington, D.C. - based Pew Research Center.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Much like the Sony band, or the Basis Peak, the device offers 24/7 heart - rate monitoring, and yet promises a battery life of up to five days.

Personal finance website GOBankingRates recently ranked the top suburbs for retirees based on cost of living, median home prices and property tax rates, among other criteria.

Based on that rate of prevalence, the researchers estimated, in a 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study, that some 67,000 Manhattanites who lived south of 110th Street (within 11 miles of the Towers) had some indication of PTSD during that time.

Although rates on federal student loans are fixed for life, rates for new borrowers are reset annually, based on the outcome of an auction of 10 - year Treasury notes held in July.

A generation that's been stereotyped as urban, single and aghast at the idea of a car - based life in the suburbs is starting to age, prompting fund managers to bet on companies that should benefit if the U.S. birth rate reverses a six - year slump.

In contrast to the three taxes listed above, state and local income tax rates can vary widely based on where you live.

Make That Money and Budgeting with Your Boo are the only courses that could be used by a non-residents, however, the tax rates used for estimation in Make That Money are Canadian and so as a non-resident, you'd have to estimate your own tax rates based on where you live.

Unfortunately for universal life policyholders, earnings in excess of basis are taxed as ordinary income rates.

The risk - free interest rate is based on the implied yield currently available on U.S. treasury notes with terms approximately equal to the expected life of the option.

In conjunction with the impairment evaluation, we also reclassified these brands to be definite - lived intangible assets to be amortized over useful lives ranging from 30 to 50 years, which will increase future amortization expense by $ 40.7 million per annum, based on current foreign exchange rates.

Risk Free Interest Rates — These rates are based on the implied yield currently available on U.S. Treasury notes with terms approximately equal to the expected life of the opRates — These rates are based on the implied yield currently available on U.S. Treasury notes with terms approximately equal to the expected life of the oprates are based on the implied yield currently available on U.S. Treasury notes with terms approximately equal to the expected life of the option.

By refinancing multiple loans into one loan with a lower rate, you will accrue less interest over the life of the loan, saving you money on a monthly basis and over the course of the loan.

Aboriginals living in Canadian cities report high rates of happiness based on their income, education, and network of personal relationships, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute...

Your mortgage interest paid over the life of your loan is based on your loan term and your mortgage interest rate.

«If you're not segmenting email campaigns based on where prospects live, I've got bad news for you: Your response rates

The cash value of a universal life insurance policy accumulates based on the amount of premium paid, monthly deductions for policy costs and an interest rate that is declared by the insurance company.

«If you're not segmenting email campaigns based on where prospects live, I've got bad news for you: Your response rates are probably suffering.

Many types of permanent life insurance policies increase in value over time based on interest rates.

Much of this growth came from consumers buying FIAs with guaranteed living withdrawal benefits (GLWBs), some with benefit base rollups as high as 8 or 9 percent and withdrawal rates greater than those in variable annuities, the report said.

If the Fed continues raising rates and the capital base is rebuilt as a result over time, the US will have a massive competitive advantage over all who thought they were pulling a fast one by living off printed money and low / negative rates.We will eat their lunch and make them say «thank you».

For example, consider how much interest you would pay over the life of a 30 - year $ 250,000 mortgage, based on the current average interest rates.

Tina Fey's chronicle of a sketch comedy show's cast and crew (loosely based on her time at Saturday Night Live) has been around for seven years, but it's never excelled in ratings.

It's true, we rarely ponder on how much of our daily lives are based on lies... marketing, predicions, calculations, speculations, promises, estimations, ratings, and on and on...

Rates from $ 2,990 per night plus taxes, based on double occupancy with VIP Grandstand reserved seating at Herald Square in front of Macy's for prime viewing of the live musical performances

Ratings are based on a unique, comprehensive statistical algorithm, calculated live during the game.

• Reducing rates of urinary tract infection later in life (for details, see this evidence - based article about the timing of toilet training) In addition, parents who train early avoid many pitfalls.

Based on those charts you could hypothesize that a c - section rate between 22 - 30 % is the «sweet spot» as it correlates with the lowest rates of death per 1000 live births.

Before the success rates based on live births can be calculated, every ART pregnancy must be followed up on to determine if a live birth occurred.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

18 This rental fee is based on the cost of comparable equipment; market conditions in the area; the type, life expectancy, condition, and value of the equipment; and other factors.19 Each district should review its rental arrangement periodically to ensure that the rate reflects the current local market.20

Combined with the unique circumstances of the post-war world, the stage was set for an extended period of broad - based economic growth that could accommodate both increased profit rates for capital and higher real living standards for labour (Anderson, 1992, 310).

The agreement also stipulates that child benefits for children of EU migrants living overseas will now be paid at a rate based on the cost of living in their home country — applicable immediately to new arrivals and from 2020 to the 34,000 existing claimants.

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In 2004, Looy and her former Ph.D. advisor Henk Visscher proposed one way this might have played out, bases on fossilized abnormal plant spores found worldwide: volcanic gases — halocarbons like methyl chloride and methyl bromide — destroyed much or all of Earth's ozone layer, boosting UV - B exposure that would have affected life and potentially increased the genetic mutation rates in pollen and spores of plants worldwide.

«I re-examined fossil calibrations, excluding those that were contentious or based on poorly resolved fossil placements and also fossil calibrations from within groups of very large or long - lived mammals, such as whales, for which parallel changes in the rate of DNA evolution in different lineages could distort dating estimates.

Questionnaire - based studies of living, retired NFL players have found rates of memory symptoms and depression between 5 % and 20 % — an imprecise comparison, but one that may reflect NFL players more broadly.

His team calculated success rates based on the number of live births per IVF procedure, while fertility clinics often judge success by the number of pregnancies achieved.

Based on the mutation rate and assuming an average of 7 years between each generation, Wallner estimates the most recent common ancestor to 18 of the 21 modern breeds lived about 700 years ago.

The survey next called on respondents to rate the companies they chose on the basis of 42 specific characteristics, such as providing job security, being a good financial investment, and being located where the individual respondent wanted to live.

The researchers also noticed differences in rates of strabismus based on the community where the child lived.

From 50,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, when humans lived in small groups of hunter - gatherers, the rate of killing was «statistically indistinguishable» from the predicted rate of 2 %, based on archaeological evidence, Gómez and his colleagues report today in Nature.

Also, although long - term studies of living kidney donors have reported low rates of premature death and kidney failure, personalized estimates based on donor characteristics have not previously been available.

For their study, Jagbir Gill, MD, MPH (University of British Columbia, in Vancouver) and his colleagues divided the US population based on the median household income level of residents» zip codes, and they examined the rates of living donation between 1999 and 2010 in high and low income populations.

SEATTLE, Feb. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Danish researchers used the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Assay risk of recurrence (ROR) score to accurately predict rates of 10 - year distant recurrence (DR) of cancer in a comprehensive and population - based cohort including all postmenopausal women in Denmark with early - stage hormone receptor (HR)- positive, Her - 2 negative breast cancer who received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy according to nationwide guidelines between 2000 and 2003.

Federal law bars genetic discrimination by health insurers and employers based on their DNA information — you can't be fired or have your rates increased — but the law doesn't cover life, disability or long - term - care insurance.

Further, most cancer treatments are based on damaging cancer cells, so understanding why a chemotherapy works, and for which patients, should lead to more effective and less toxic treatments that will increase the cure rate and improve quality of life for cancer survivors.