Sentences with phrase «meaningful estimates of»

Similarly, probands» self - reports of ADHD at FU25 were much lower than at FU41 (5.7 % vs 22.2 %).9, 12 Increases in self - reported ADHD, over time, have also been reported by Barkley et al. 8 Inconsistencies in adults» retrospective reports of childhood ADHD raise questions about our ability to generate meaningful estimates of the disorder from adult recall.

With the year coming to an end, meaningful estimates of how the 2015 national average annual temperature might rank can be made.

Satellite measurements have indeed provided meaningful estimates of Earth's radiation budget since the early 1970s (Vonder Haar and Suomi, 1971).

Then, it might be possible to make some meaningful estimates of long - term global temperature trends from the weather records.

«There are too many variables to provide a meaningful estimate of the possible point damage from closing a card,» says Barry Paperno, consumer operations manager at myFICO.com.

Does this result allow you to get a meaningful estimate of the radiative imbalance of the earth?

Not exact matches

House of Commons, Standing committee on Government Operations and Estimates, «Meaningful Scrutiny Practical Improvements in the Estimates Process» Sixth Report, 2nd Session of 37th Parliament September 2003

Forward - looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to the launch timing and success of products based on the BlackBerry 10 platform, general economic conditions, product pricing levels and competitive intensity, supply constraints, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, including its ability to implement meaningful changes to address its business challenges, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding the cash flow generation of its business.

Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF)-- an organization committed to making a meaningful difference in reducing exposures of neurotoxins in women of childbearing age, their babies and young children — asked Abt Associates to estimate the impact on IQ and the related economic impact of known arsenic exposure in infants in the U.S.

«While we recognise that the Conservatives have promised to review local funding rates, the fact that they chose to estimate the cost of extending funded childcare before finding out how much funding rates will need to increase raises serious questions as to how meaningful such a review would be,» Leitch said.

Estimates suggest that 40 percent of eczema flares are treated with topical antibiotics, but findings from a study led by Cardiff University suggest there is no meaningful benefit from the use of either oral or topical antibiotics for milder clinically infected eczema in children.

The investigators found that 32 % of patients experienced at least one clinically meaningful mental health issue (defined in the study as a mental health disorder)-- a prevalence higher than in the general population, in which 18 - 20 % are estimated to have a clinically meaningful mental disorder.

Translating those raw numbers into meaningful risk estimates is not straightforward, which is one of the reasons politicians find it easy to set aside asteroid funding in favor of more concrete hazards like earthquakes or terrorism.

With News Feed ranking, Facebook's algorithms look at available signals and make a set of predictions that help us to estimate how meaningful we think

Meaningful Investments in Pre-K: Estimating the Per - Child Costs of Quality Programs, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2008.

In fact, the researchers found significant and meaningful associations between value - added estimates of teachers» effectiveness and their experience and educational background.

Value investing means I am seeking to purchase stocks that are trading at a meaningful discount to my perception of their intrinsic value — finding the market price is easy, but estimating intrinsic value is not.

If you receive an appraised value that you do not believe is accurate, you have the right to rebut the appraiser's estimate of value but the only way you have any chance of obtaining a favorable outcome is to find meaningful errors in the original report or sales of more recent, more similar homes which if considered would have supported a higher value.

Obviously in a very small company or private sale this becomes much harder / impossible as it can't be floated in any meaningful way, but versions of this wisdom of crowd type effect can be done by approaching a few outside parties and asking them what they would pay / how they would value it (similar to asking a few estate agents for valuations of a house before a private sale) to at least get some benchmark estimates of what similar private players might pay.

The Fund's «Safe and Cheap [1]» approach to common stock investment encompasses consideration of four factors: super strong financial positions; reasonable managements; understandable businesses; and a price that represents a meaningful discount from our estimate of what the security would be worth were the business a private company, or a takeover candidate.

Most of the issues acquired by Third Avenue Funds have been acquired at prices that represent meaningful discounts from estimated NAVs.

Butler Philbrick Gordillo and Associates» argue in Valuation Based Equity Market Forecasts — Q1 2013 Update that «there is substantial value in applying simple statistical models to discover average estimates of what the future may hold over meaningful investment horizons (10 + years), while acknowledging the wide range of possibilities that exist around these averages.»

By suggesting that the failure of ECS estimates to converge casts meaningful doubt on the scientific case for AGW, JB and DDS merely reveal how alien they are to the modern culture and practice of the Earth Sciences.

These show clearly that 2002 - 2009 is way too short a period for the trends to be meaningful and that Monckton's estimate of what the IPCC projects for the current period is woefully wrong.

Although we believe that even an end year of 2150 is still too far in the future to base meaningful policy, we compared such estimates to the baseline SCC estimates.

A more meaningful calculation should look at the historical development of the imbalance and estimate by some means the temporal development of the important variables over the period.

[2] The damage functions are the very core of the models, and the models can not provide meaningful SCC estimates without theoretically and empirically sound damage functions.

A general agreement that IF this trend continues for another «X» years despite continued increase of GHG concentrations, there will be enough evidence in the red column to seriously question the ability of the GCMs cited by IPCC: a) to correctly assess human attribution of past climate change b) to estimate climate sensitivity c) to make meaningful projections of future climate changes due to AGW

Each attempt to «improve» your estimate of the global average temperature for a given month, year, etc., will not converge to the correct value but just produce another random number within the random - number generator's effective range, no more and no less meaningful than the previous one.

The «best estimate», which is the current focus of much scientific research, is less meaningful for robust decision making strategies than it is for optimal decision making.

Global energy imbalance (Fig. 15b) is a more meaningful measure of planetary status as well as an estimate of the climate forcing change required to stabilize climate.

This transient drift in the mean climatology of the network must be estimated and removed from the spatial - average time series in order to perform any meaningful comparison with homogenised datasets.

I agree that statistical characterizations of quatitative estimates are an important tool and must be appropriately applied to be meaningful.

1000 to 2000 years reconstructions do not constrain the estimates of sensitivity in any meaningful way.

Whether the estimates of climate states in 2080 is meaningful or not is a different question.

The model needs to properly reflect the underlying physical structure in order to have any chance at an end result that is meaningful with properly estimated parameters and measures of uncertainty for those parameters.

It is difficult to conceive of how a meaningful estimate could be accurately produced...» This, the report argues, demonstrates a fundamental flaw with the LASPO reforms: Government has not conceived public services reform in a holistic, cross-departmental way.

• Provided assistance to the accounting department by creating and organizing timesheets and administering payrolls • Maintained manual and computerized management information systems • Assisted in the preparation of annual expenditure estimates • Created and administered employment agreements • Maintained leave management systems • Oversaw repair and maintenance needs of the company • Created and maintained meaningful relations with vendors and suppliers

The reliability of estimates is on a steep gradient with directly identified Indigenous expenditure being most reliable and mainstream expenditure estimated on the basis of population least reliable and meaningful.

Meaningful Investments in Pre-K: Estimating the Per - Child Costs of Quality Programs, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2008.

Despite the advantages of estimating gender - specific trajectories, they may identify groups which are not clinically meaningful e.g., a «high» trajectory female group that engages in relatively low levels of CP (Brennan and Shaw 2013).

This also will result in the meaningful advance disclosure of settlement costs and the elimination of kickbacks, referral fees, and other practices that tend to increase unnecessarily the costs of certain settlement services by enabling creditors to refund amounts collected in excess of the good faith requirements, thereby furthering the meaningfulness and reliability of the estimated disclosures, consistent with section 19 (a) of RESPA.