Sentences with phrase «many uncertainties involved»

Because of the uncertainties involved, it is important to choose a stock which is attractive apart from its takeover prospects.

Both studies came to the same basic conclusion: that the risks and uncertainties involved in budget forecasting were simply too large to allow for a high level of forecast accuracy.

There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including, but not limited to: uncertainties involving interpretation of drilling results, environmental matters, lack of ability to obtain required permitting, equipment breakdown or disruptions, and the other factors described in Paramount's disclosures as filed with the SEC.

I worried about how you would face the uncertainty involved in adopting through the foster care system.

If this is a convention, there is a substantial amount of uncertainty involved in it.

Successfully managing uncertainty involves neither predicting an outcome and hoping you're right or doing nothing with a «wait and see» attitude; rather, it involves laying the groundwork in advance for all likely eventualities.

There are uncertainties involved, so we included wide - ranging assessments of these, as well as pointers to the most promising avenues for improvement.

As «embedded» social scientists, we routinely witness fascinating, nuanced discussions among synthetic biologists that acknowledge the complexities and uncertainties involved in their research.

Yet much of the document in fact focused on the debatable desirability of the goals of synthetic biology, and on the need to acknowledge the complexities and uncertainties involved in designing novel living organisms — issues which concern many of those working in synthetic biology and which can and should be the subject of open debate.

«Relocation decisions in any field or career are often complex and difficult both from a professional and personal standpoint given the uncertainty involved in moving to a new organization, peer environment, city, etc,» Ganguli writes.

The paper is a technical analysis of the uncertainties involved in computer modeling studies that use the amount of phosphorus entering Lake Erie in the spring to predict the size of late - summer cyanobacteria blooms, which have grown larger since the mid-1990s.

From the examples chosen a pattern emerges that requires a period of sober reflection by any minister or civil servant involved in the planning of major technological projects, for far from the comfort of scientific truth underpinning their decisions, the reality is that the degree of uncertainty involved would appear to reduce the process to a sophisticated form of gambling, with awesome consequences awaiting a wrong decision.

Coping with this uncertainty involves doing a decent head - job on yourself: blotting it out at least until the time of reckoning draws near.

A compelling example of the angst - provoking uncertainties involved has been raised by bioethicist and Scientific American advisory board member Arthur Caplan.

But given the uncertainties involved in climate change, the widespread and heartfelt mistrust of the research backing it, and the IPCC's delicate role at the crossing point of science and politics, many reckon that the communications chief will face a difficult task.

Given the uncertainty involved, however, the Nature Conservancy has recommended to USDA that ArborGen be allowed fewer acres and trees to flower, and none in Florida, she said.

«Although there are an enormous number of uncertainties involved, the hypothesis is very interesting and worth exploring more.»

Although we may spend a huge chunk of the day fantasizing about how much happier we would be if we could only find a more meaningful job, ditch a dysfunctional relationship, or finally take that dream vacation, we tend to stay stagnant because we're afraid of the uncertainty involved in making a change.

The authors argue that school districts should use value - added measures in evaluations, and to remove the lowest performers, despite the disruption and uncertainty involved.

«I think that part of the downward trend on Amazon, of giving deep discounts is because of the uncertainty involved.

Interest rates on personal loans are typically lower than those for personal lines of credit, because there is less uncertainty involved for the lender.

Automated underwriting shrinks the mortgage approval process from weeks to minutes, saving borrowers time and money and eliminates much of the frustration and uncertainty involved in getting a mortgage.

Given the number of uncertainties involved in trying to estimate a sustainable level of retirement spending — how the markets will perform, how long you'll live, what your actual expenses will be (although on that score, doing a retirement budget can help)-- you might also consider turning a portion of your nest egg into income assured to last no matter how long you live and regardless of how the markets fare by investing in an immediate annuity or longevity annuity.

There are a lot of uncertainties involved while making these assumptions when the growth is distributed at multiple levels.

As similar clinics in other areas have done, we offer walk - in appointments for feral cat caregivers because we understand the uncertainties involved with trapping free - roaming cats.

Why is it that opponents of action like to emphasize the scientific uncertainty, but never seem to notice that some of those uncertainties involve really really bad consequences that may be unlikely, but an actual risk - benefit calculation would indicate are even more worth responding to than the mean that is often called «alarmist».

But I would like to say scientists are being «responsible» when trying to assess the most likely outcome and by quantifying the uncertainty involved in that, not «conservative.»

The main reason for this is the degree of uncertainties involved in regional climate modelling, as discussed in a previous post.

A responsible skeptic will request that you remain open minded to opinions from both sides, and consider the uncertainties involved * without * prejudging them based on the demonstrable human predilection toward a «herd mentality» — by «herd mentality», I mean that once a consensus is formed, a flock of «me too» science papers become much more easily accepted, by peer review journals, than the skeptics» papers.

There are many uncertainties involved and additional factors which some later theory might account for undoubtedly.

understood perfectly well that there were various degrees of approximation and uncertainty involved, including, for sure, the climate modelers.

Once this criterion for climate change has been met (and I contend that, at best, it has only barely done so), then we can begin to talk about the further uncertainties involved in attribution.

What is clear is that uncontrolled emissions will very soon put us in range of temperatures that have been unseen since the Eemian / Stage 5e period (about 120,000 years ago) when temperatures may have been a degree or so warmer than now but where sea level was 4 to 6m higher (see this recent discussion the possible sensitivities of the ice sheets to warming and the large uncertainties involved).

AR4 specifically excluded Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet melting, due to the uncertainties about ice flow dynamics, and also specifically excluded slow feedbacks, also due to the uncertainties involved.

We have a good understanding of the range of possibilities and the uncertainties involved.

They say that given the uncertainties involved in the complex analysis, it is understandable to limit projections to the next 35 years.

In a perfect world policy decisions would be based on best (or all) available information, the decision makers would understand that information and would also understand the nature of uncertainties involved.

Now, add all those up, with all the uncertainties involved in trying to get a geographic average when, for example, large swaths of the earth are not covered by an official thermometer, and what is the error on the total?

At the fundamental publishing level I see a lack of or maybe even an avoidance of doing the required sensitivity testing that can give a better measure of the uncertainty involved.

This ends up changing estimates of cumulative carbon emissions since the pre-industrial period, but given the large uncertainties involved the authors caution against using these revisions to draw conclusions about remaining carbon budgets associated with staying within the 2C or 1.5 C warming targets.

Initial condition uncertainty arises due to errors in the estimate of the starting conditions for the forecast, both due to limited observations of the atmosphere, and uncertainties involved in using indirect measurements, such as satellite data, to measure the state of atmospheric variables.

They especially ignore or underestimate bias (Type B) uncertainties and consequently of the full uncertainties involved.

The authors are to be complimented on further detailing the uncertainties involved.

Because of the many uncertainties involved, any estimate of climate sensitivity comes with a range, a lower and upper limit within which the real value could reasonably lie.

The actual paper does discuss the uncertainties involved with the methods....

Fortunately, in one - dimensional cases where uncertainty involves measurement and similar errors it is often possible to find a completely noninformative prior, with the result that exact probability matching can be achieved.

Yes the credible interval is broad, but that is because there are large uncertainties involved.

Key uncertainties involve: 1) the degree to which increases in evapotranspiration versus permafrost thaw are leading to drier landscapes; 2) the degree to which it is these drier landscapes associated with permafrost thaw, versus more severe fire weather associated with climate change, that is leading to more wildfire; 3) the degree to which the costs of the maintenance of infrastructure are associated with permafrost thaw caused by climate change versus disturbance of permafrost due to other human activities; and 4) the degree to which climate change is causing Alaska to be a sink versus a source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Thus I find the NIPCC review reports of further scientific literature to be stimulating to explore all the uncertainties involved, not just the «consensus» models.

He also said that «the subsidies were of such short duration that the projects have difficulty finding investors because of the risk and uncertainty involved».