Sentences with phrase «make useful comparisons»

Herschel's study didn't make a big impact at the time because he did not have access to historical temperature records to make any useful comparisons.

Furthermore, the study fails to break down e-book vs. traditional sales by title, genre, outlet, or even format, which means that it's impossible to make useful comparisons.

Not exact matches

Overall, we believe that the use of investment company accounting makes our financial statements more useful to investors and other financial statement users since it allows a more appropriate basis of comparison to other entities with similar objectives.

It may be somewhat useful to make comparisons to that period of time to see how certain interest rate sensitive asset classes such as junk bonds, REITs, dividend - paying stocks or bonds performed, but my guess is that particular environment doesn't do a great job of showing investors what a typical rising rate scenario would look like (assuming there is such a thing).

To compare Arsenal's finances to Italian clubs who been tainted by the financial fraud of one of the biggest clubs, Juve, does not make for a useful comparison.

Any of these details, however odd, if clearly specified and enumerated might make for interesting (maybe even useful) numbers and comparisons.

Richards emphasizes the uncertainties still in the method but says that with further progress «at some point we can make comparisons with what is already available and then see if these techniques add a useful arrow to the quiver.»

Whether such comparison sites are useful or not will depend on which criteria they use to make their comparisons.

In the next section, I look at academic film criticism that has addressed political filmmaking in the eighties, other farming movies of the period, and, as a useful comparison, films made in the wake of the Depression and Dust Bowl Era.

As importantly, it appears that existing survey - based measures of non-cognitive skills, although perhaps useful for making comparisons among students within the same educational environment, are inadequate to gauge the effectiveness of schools, teachers, or interventions in cultivating the development of those skills.

CDE staff provide expertise to make the data available to the Partnership, assist in the design of the site, and participate in determining how to use the data to make meaningful and useful analyses and comparisons.

One study, for example, used a number of useful strategies to help children share semantic similarities between words.32 Strategies such as encouraging children to look at two picture cards with words on them and make inferences about how these words work together helped them make comparisons of concepts.

If you can't make up your mind about which vehicle you would like to own, you'll find that our Ford reviews and car comparisons provide useful details and specifications - like fuel economy, trim levels, power ratings and more - which you need to know to make an informed buying decision.

In - depth investigations are useful to make appropriate comparisons among several appearances of dress that have gone out - of - date and those that have remained same.

Nevertheless, for the low levels of correlation we observe here, it is a useful approximation that allows us to make effective comparisons between disparate correlations measured on different horizons.

It's true the U.S. doesn't make for a perfect comparison, which is why a look at history is useful, too.

[If I'm focusing on stocks from a particular sector, or which reflect on a specific investment theme, I'll group them together — this makes for easy reference & useful peer comparison.]

In order to make earnings comparisons more useful between a set of stocks, fundamental analysts also look at a company's earnings per share (EPS).

Process - based» diagnostics — where comparisons are made for specific processes, rather than specific fields, are becoming very useful in this respect.

Not only that, but most of these indicators are only useful for making a qualitative comparison.

Then anomalies are «not useful» to tell the public, as if that justifies making an invalid comparison of absolute temperatures between two networks.

Making such comparisons may be a useful step in comparing the calculations of various groups.

Anyway, I hope I made the point I was trying to make about using units that can be useful when making mental comparisons to certain sinks and source data.

However, solar panel ratings are useful as a way to make consistent comparisons between panels.

Many people have already made up their minds, but for those who haven't I hope this comparison proves useful.

There are all kinds of comparisons you can make — competitors, industry, geographic, time, etc, but with these simple tools and a bit of diligence, you can track your own Twitter numbers and content and review monthly or quarterly to track growth and look for patterns and insight to determine how to maintain a useful and meaningful Twitter presence.

Comparison of prices is only useful if you're comparing similar policies, so be sure that the deductibles, coverage amounts, and types of coverage are the same or very close so you can make a reasonable judgement.

The most expensive Mi Band Xiaomi released to date is still highly affordable in comparison to most other fitness trackers on the market while simultaneously providing its users with a wide variety of features that make it universally useful to consumers with an active lifestyle.

Although the range of costs thus created made the report more useful, it impacted year - over-year comparisons.