Sentences with phrase «magnitude than losses»

Returns of individual stocks in the portfolio followed the typical pattern for successful quarters — more winners than losers, and gains of greater magnitude than losses.

Not exact matches

According to Vanguard, the worst bond market loss in history was less than one - sixth of the magnitude of the worst stock market losses.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

With so many issues of great magnitude facing us, such as job losses and soaring taxes, we need a problem solver like John now more than ever representing us.»

The magnitude of the Republicans» loss was underscored by the apparent defeat of Diane McNally, the trustees» former longtime clerk who has served on the board for more than two decades.

«The loss of heat and hot water is a humanitarian crisis, it's a state of emergency, it's a management failure of the highest magnitude,» said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who grew up in public housing in the 1990s and said he's never seen the system in worse shape than it is now.

By 1900, increased emissions of soot could have triggered the loss of more than 15 m of ice from a glacier's surface; by 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contend.

In this study, both the reduction in caloric intake and magnitude of weight loss at 6 mo in the subjects who consumed a 25 % protein diet were significantly greater than the values observed in subjects who consumed a 12 % protein diet (10).

While he trails the Vanguard fund above half the time, the magnitude of his «wins» over the index fund is far greater than the size of his losses.

Over an entire investment career, the amount and size of investment losses will most likely have more to do with returns than the magnitude of winners.

In this case, the magnitude of losses when floods do occur would increase, often by more than 50 percent, making it critical to also prepare for larger disasters than we experience today.

It should not be so hard to accept that doubling the concentration of a gas that interacts with earth's radiative output (which is orders of magnitude larger than any other energy loss), over time and with feedbacks included, can change change the surface temperature by about 1 %.

Decadal and multidecadal variations have occurred in some regions, but their magnitudes are smaller than that of the recent ice loss.

The volume of the ice lost is much less than that from the loss of a comparable area by Jakobshavn because the ice is an order of magnitude thinner.

Finds that unearned income and excess infant mortality in the year after typhoon exposure outnumber immediate damages and death tolls roughly 15 - to - 1, helping to indicate that economic and human losses due to environmental disaster may be an order of magnitude larger than previously thought and that adaptive decision - making may amplify, rather than dampen, disasters» social cost.

Little is known about the potential of such burning to thaw and release stored carbon faster than would occur solely from broader, landscapescale decomposition, but the magnitude of carbon loss due to fire is significant and potentially offsets the increased carbon sequestration through Arctic greening (Mack et al., 2011).

We can estimate the potential magnitude of the ice mass biases by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat smaller than that of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant fraction of all published ice mass rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].

«But ozone loss from a limited nuclear exchange would be more than an order of magnitude larger than ozone loss from the release of gases like CFCs.»

Yearly losses amongst the group were greater in volume and magnitude than the quarterly trends.