Sentences with phrase «measure of the degree»

Standard Deviation is a measure of the degree to which a fund's return varies from its previous returns, or from the average of all similar funds.

It is a perfect measure of the degree to which the utilitarian goal has been achieved.

Time - series analysis of default - mode activity provides a measure of the degree to which a task engages a subject and whether it is sufficient to interrupt the processes — presumably cognitive, internally generated, and involving episodic memory — mediated by the default - mode network.

«Many of the measures of «health of the movement» are just that — measures of the degree to which charter schools, as a movement, are increasing in number and influence,» said Elaine Weiss, who helps lead education initiatives at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank focused on low - to - moderate - income people.

So while high school graduation rates provide comparable measures of the degree to which students in various states are achieving state standards, the standards themselves are not comparable and may not be indicative of a high level of achievement.

Covariance is a measure of the degree to which returns on two risky assets move in tandem.

The concept of active share was introduced several years ago as a measure of the degree to which a portfolio of stocks differs from its benchmark.

Active share is a measure of the degree by which the weights (percentages) of fund holdings differ from those of the index.

Dispersion is a measure of the degree to which the components of an index perform similarly.

Also called the coefficient of relationship, it gives a measure of the degree of consanguinity for an individual dog by taking into account his pedigree.

We know the the areal extent of sea ice is an important measure of the degree of cold in the Arctic Ocean / sea ice subsystem of Earth's climate but is it not true that even if areal extent was to increase the amount of ice could still be much decreased?

There are those who argue that the 30 % is exactly a measure of the degree of our belief that it will rain.

It's a measure of the degree to which climate change has become political.

The degree to which this estimate is wrong is a measure of the degree to which the sea ice extent is not following a linear trend.

This incorporates not only the awareness that exists in relation to uncertainties in the system under review and its behaviour, but also a measure of degree of belief in that understanding.

Volatility: A measure of the degree of fluctuation in a stock's price.

In both studies, researchers examined the mate preferences of men and women in countries that vary in terms of their Global Gender Gap Index, a relatively new measure of the degree of gender equality that exists within a given country.

The SHS (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999) is a brief and widely used self - report measure of the degree to which the respondent feels happy.

The Conflict Resolution Scale is a measure of the degree of criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and emotional flooding that people experience during conflict.

Not exact matches

Wall Street support of similar measures also has convinced energy companies including Occidental Petroleum to address the Paris climate accord's goal of keeping global temperature increases under 2 - degrees Celsius.

Ultimately, I have realized that success is not a measure of your salary, title, or degree, but the impact you have others and the collective happiness of the people you touch.»

That means that triangle ABO is an equilateral triangle, and all of its angles measure 60 degrees.

True, managers like to say they give their subordinates a certain measure of room to fail, but the marines practice failure tolerance to a degree that would raise most managers» hair.

«This decarbonisation must start now and targets improved along the way, because without concrete, urgent measures to cut emissions from shipping now, the Paris ambition to limit warming to 1.5 degrees will become swiftly out of reach, Frank said.

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

The U.S. housing boom and subsequent bust might have been less severe had a set of macroprudential measures been in place at the time to limit the degree of leverage and speculative activity in the housing sector.

With such a measure, regulation may be possible to encompass more individuals engaged in the practice, which will likely result in a greater degree of consumer protection.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Using even longer time periods has advantages, particularly as EPS have been exceptionally volatile in recent years - and using longer time periods raises the current measured degree of overvaluation.

However, one could also measure development of a country by comparing its state of development to a hypothetical country that is developed to the maximum degree possible by the current state of the world.

Avis Budget believes that there is a degree of volatility with respect to certain of Avis Budget's GAAP measures which preclude it from providing accurate forecasted GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations.

«I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,» he told CNBC.

So much goes into building and sustaining a successful employee advocacy program, yet one of the most commonly overlooked steps is determining how to evaluate and measure the varying degrees of engagement amongst program participants.

It is noteworthy that, although measures of consumer and business confidence suggest that people are essentially quite optimistic about the future, a degree of caution still characterises consumer spending decisions.

Active share basically measures the degree to which an investing pool differs in its constituents from the constituents of its benchmark.

It should certainly be interesting, if the RECBC does decide to carry this thru to the nth degree with this example of government meddling, when some buyer, (that can't use his licensee Sister) decides it is a draconian measure for the Government of BC to dictate whom said buyer may choose to write his contract to purchase a property in The Province and brings the matter before the courts.

In particular, Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. have the highest degree of outward spillovers as measured by the average percentage of capital loss of other banking systems due to banking sector shock in the source country...

His desire to break up the most successful company of all time as measured by percentage gain in value per year is a passion born of the passing of a social mood peak of even higher degree than that of 1929.

But we do not believe the ECB will contemplate a major change in direction, since in the continued absence of a significant fiscal stimulus, the region's economic performance remains too weak for the central bank to risk measures that could create, however inadvertently, a degree of tightening in monetary policy.

Specifically, they apply wavelet transforms to analyze the degree of co-movement (coherency) and lead - lag tendencies between changes in the Gold Bugs Index and gold futures price measured at both short and long intervals.

Meanwhile his social usefulness can best be measured by the degree to which he is capable of using the liberating factors in the media and bringing them to fruition.

In large measure, however, these relations are not preconditions for but properly a part of the public world, i.e., they yield happiness beyond some minimal degree because nature is, as it were, taken into the human community.

Unanimity of both Fathers and Doctors may not represent an exercise of infallibility but it is a measure of a very high degree of certainty in matters of faith and morals.

«In the competitive world of American ethnic communities, there are two paths to success: upward mobility defined according to wealth, education, and political power, and downward mobility measured by degrees of victimhood.»

We measured this degree of similarity in four dimensions of religiosity: intensity of faith, frequency of religious service attendance, agreement with a literal interpretation of the Bible, and agreement with the importance of religion...

In other words, the adequacy of a religious act of belief is measured by the degree to which reason is radically transformed, since we established in the first chapter that the fulfillment of reason is in its radical transformation and rebirth through the act of religious belief.

But it may be that the maximal case on the closed dimensions would suffice to furnish the standard for the open ones, that, e.g., perfection of knowledge and goodness is in some sense the «measure» of degrees of happiness, even though the latter can not be absolutely but only relatively perfect (R but not A).

And in his 2007 encyclical Spe Salvi, he argues that the measure of any culture is the degree to which it can identify with the suffering of the downtrodden.

The insistence that communism and fascism be weighed on different moral scales continues, says Martin Malia in his introduction to the American edition of The Black Book, because «no matter what the hard facts are, degrees of totalitarian evil will be measured as much in terms of present politics as in terms of past realities.»

And in the numerous cases in which exact measurements are not possible one must at least measure the degree of probable error, something that determinists tend to forget.