Sentences with phrase «measure of points of interest»

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With the economy either at or beyond full employment and the consumer price index — a measure of the inflation in consumer prices — at 2.1 percent, the real 10 - year interest rate is 0.4 percent, Jones explained, roughly 300 basis points below the historical average.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

A basis point, or bp, is a common unit of measure for interest rates and other percentages in finance.

3 - month interbank interest rates in Australia peaked at over 7 per cent in mid September, more than 50 basis points above the corresponding rate that measures expectations of the cash rate (the overnight indexed swap rate: OIS)(Graph 2).

Other outcomes of interest were stopping any or exclusive breastfeeding at other time points (two, three, four, nine and 12 months), measures of neonatal and infant morbidity (where available), and measures of maternal satisfaction with care or feeding method.

The vibrations were measured with small accelerometers placed on the skin at various points of interest, such as at the foot, knee, shank and hip.

The camera measures the amount of time the mice freeze and the software allows analysis of this freezing at any time - point of interest.

I'm actually interested in a really wide range of what we call input quality measures, and I think one of the biggest challenges for the field is to pinpoint the specific features of input that are most beneficial for children's language learning at different points in early childhood.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

The question of interest is whether students» academic achievement (measured as grade point average) at Time 1 was related to the change in social acceptance over the course of the year.

Consequently, I have felt compelled (the devil made me do it) to submit comments pointing out that misinformed readers interested in getting the facts instead of the propaganda make their way to The Passive Voice, a blog devoted to writers, to discover a measure of truth before they form an opinion on the issues.

And another interesting point regarding statistical data is the fact that the measuring of probability for occurences in such a wide time horizont could be very vounerable for your stake.

A measure of the cost to you for borrowing money, the APR includes your interest rate, points, fees and other charges associated with your loan — that's why it's usually higher than your interest rate.

Roger Altman, chairman of Evercore Partners points out, for instance, that by any historical measure, the interest rates for junk bonds remain very cheap.

Basis point (BPS) refers to a common unit of measure for interest rates and other percentages in finance.

As a point of interest, I do believe that every portfolio should be measured against a benchmark.

Over the first three months of 2018, the interest rates used to measure plan obligations have climbed 35 basis points, potentially driving funding levels even higher.

Villa Molek Langkawi is a luxury boutique property brilliantly - located along Pantai Tengah, just 15 minutes away from Langkawi International Airport.Nearby points of interest include Langkawi Underwater World and Laman Padi, which are less than ten minutes away.Offering only 12 private villas, measuring 70sqm in size, guests will be battling for a spot at this four star rated hotel.Furnished with custom - made teak furniture, Malay - inspired artwork, there is only one room category available (Guest Villa), with each unit offering views of the swimming pool and the hotel gardens bright bougainvilleas and fragrant frangipanis.

All of these measures have been taken through the game world, in order to have a concrete idea of the travel time and the spacing of the points of interest.

All this is of course the flip - side of your appropriately modest claim that we have not yet proved the accuracy of the model — or more precisely, measured the fact of most interest: the sensitivity — at the 18 - year point.

Though the article makes an interesting point or two, it is substantively misleading about the offsetting process: it's not appropriate to offset emissions of a given scope or case (i.e. a presidential campaign) until after all of the emissions have occurred and have been measured.

Well, ANU, snarky though you may be, you raise a nominally interesting point; the problem, however, is that the amounts are anomalies; so the 90's are on average a certain amount above the average of the base period; now to compare the increase in anomalies in the noughties, which are higher than the nineties and say this is evidence of progressive warming, hottest ever, or whatever is the current alarmist catch - cry, ignores the fact that the true measure of the warming is not the absolute anomalies but their difference; that is the amounts for the noughties should have the amounts for the nineties subtracted from them and then compared with the nineties after they have the eighties subtracted from them.

The intensity of precipitation is of interest, but even that doesn't say a lot about total volume of precipitation given that rainfall is, by its nature, is not measured by area, it is only measured at a point — or several points — all of which will have different results.

I wouldn't have a clue how to find such a thing, but it might be interesting and a very long series of measured data points — about all one could measure and record before thermometers.

Ari: [29:16] Joe, on that point, it was interesting, when we were doing the research, that 88 percent of the people, both in - house counsels and law firm lawyers, wanted to learn more about measuring and understanding the effectiveness of predictive coding.

The Action Plan will also introduce performance measures for local authorities, a new national gateway for adoption that will provide a first point of contact for anyone interested in adoption and an «in principle» backing of the need to improve the system of adoption support.

a measure of interest; 1 point = 1 % of the home loan value.

The combination drove FHFA's key measure of the average effective interest rate on new home loans (which amortizes the initial fees and incorporates them into the rate) up by 11 basis points to 4.44 percent — the highest it's been since July of 2011 (the month prior to a substantial 36 basis point drop).