Sentences with phrase «measure over longer time»

As for point 5, anything that you measure over longer time horizons will have lower annualized volatility than what is measured over short horizons.

Emissions may be measured over long time periods.

Not exact matches

Economists use gross domestic product to measure growth over time, but as modern economies evolve, it may no longer be up to the task

It is a well - established fact that, over longer periods of time, companies with lower accruals handily beat companies with higher accruals when measured by total return.

Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, Model S has reset the world's expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0 - 60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend.

The «Carbon - Flux project» measures greenhouse gas exchange between the farm plot and the atmosphere over long - time horizons.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

Combine that with Labour's failure to hold a full strategic defence review after 1998, whilst at the same time splurging on long - term contracts so that there are now unfunded defence liabilities of about # 37 billion over the next ten years, and you get some measure of the mess the coalition has been left with.

On La Palma we created a pair of photons and sent one of the photons over to Tenerife using a free space telescope link, and on Tenerife we decided a long time before the photon arrived which polarization would be measured.

The authors suggest future research in the form of longitudinal studies that measure eating decisions over a longer period of time would be useful in addressing this issue.

JILA researchers have designed a microscope instrument so stable that it can accurately measure the 3D movement of individual molecules over many hours — hundreds of times longer than the current limit measured in seconds.

Using an accelerator mass spectrometer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the geologists measured how much beryllium - 10 was in their samples — giving them a kind of clock to measure erosion over long time spans.

Dietary changes were measured only for a short time and caution must be used when extrapolating the study data to dietary changes over longer periods of time.

The landers could measure atmospheric conditions and dust properties over a long time.

The creation of a unified database that measures and tracks these factors over a long period of time will provide greater insight into the disease process and advance the boundaries of current research in the field.

Compared to intermediate - acting NPH, long - acting insulin significantly improved Hemoglobin A1C levels, a measure of effective blood sugar control over time.

However, measuring the masses of all of the binary systems in the Galaxy would take much too long a time — there are over a hundred billion binary systems in the Galaxy!

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

Conclusions: We have demonstrated the potential of using altitude and seroconversion rate as measures of malaria transmission capturing medium to long term time scales to detect genetic associations that are likely to persist over time.

Bypassing the kidney's control over calcitriol levels which involves the emergency measure of depositing excess calcium in the soft tissues is very serious situation to have occur over long periods of time.

Hair can be a good indicator of exposure because it grows slowly and incorporates toxic metals into its structure over a long period of time, and therefore may be a better measure of actual tissue levels.

But if a truer measure of an actor's greatness is the ability to surprise over the long haul, I'd set the date about a decade later, around the time he quietly walked away with the Keira Knightley vehicle «The Duchess,» and well into his galvanizing five - film run as Lord Voldemort.

Yes, not all that long ago AFT advocated for an ESEA that «judges school effectiveness — the only valid and fair basis for accountability — by measuring the progress that schools achieve with the same students over time.»

But in a subsequent meeting, the staff actually took portions of the MCAS and came to these conclusions: Although the test is hard, it really does measure the kinds of skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the 21st century; because the MCAS is a curriculum - referenced test whose items are released every year, it is possible to align the curriculum and study for the test; and finally, our students have a long way to go, but most can reach proficiency if the whole school teaches effectively over time.

At one time, internationally comparable information on student performance was not available for a sufficient number of countries over a long enough period of time to allow for systematic study, which is why economists relied upon the less informative measures of school attainment.

We boys spent much of our considerable energy trying to get our girlfriends to abstain from abstinence — measuring our progress in the smallest of increments over the longest periods of time.

As a result, measuring changes in the gap over a longer period of time requires some comparison across cohorts.

Mr Watts said that the fairest way of allocating funding would be to measure take - up in the middle of the school year, and possibly take an average over a longer period of time such as a half term.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)'s long - term trend assessments measure basic reading and math skills every four years to determine how U.S. students» performance has changed over time.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

Profitability should be measured over a much longer period of time; at least six months to one year.

Those that have been around long enough to provide a substantial track record, such as 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year returns, give investors an idea of the stability level when measuring performance over time with a benchmark such as U.S. Treasury bills.

It's very hard to measure the worth of an abstract concept like money, particularly over long periods of time.

To help ensure the long - term success of the HECM loan over time, HUD requires a review of each applicant's credit history, property tax payments and other credit factors that will be evaluated to measure a borrower's willingness and financial capacity to meet the ongoing obligations of the loan.

In a previous article, I detailed how research from Russell Investments had proven that the lowest risk stocks, as measured by the beta indicator of volatility, had the highest rewards over time for long - term investors.

As I have discussed at greater length in several recent issues, past performance can be a creditable guide to future performance when it is measured over a long enough period of time — even if, as the SEC requires all advisers to stress, past performance isn't a guarantee of future returns.»

Better to spend time sweating over how a manager chooses assets, limits risks, etc., than to focus on quantititive measures of risk that have no relation to long term performance.

Accordingly, price action & return tends to be far more event - driven in nature — i.e. volatile / significant share price moves in response to good / bad news, results, or rumours, followed by long periods of neglect — whereas large caps tend to enjoy far more steady & measured appreciation over time.

Over long periods of time measures of value like the price to earnings ratio (PE) hover around some average figure, both for the market and for long established companies.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

The long horizontal strips of film serve as both as a measure of the dimensions of the subject and also as a record of the subjects movement over time.

Measuring over a mile and a half long, with 25,000 LED nodes affixed to nearly five miles» worth of vertical suspension cables, «Bay Lights» is eight times the scale of the Eiffel Tower.

Yes, absolutely, «measured over longer periods of time» is the key to «true science» on the subject of global warming.

Someone actually wants to measure things over longer time spans.

At the same time, weather measured over longer periods can produce trends attributable to climate.

But measuring long - term damage requires understanding how pollutants work their way through water, sediments and the food web over time.

Measured in a long - running survey, American attitudes on global warming range from alarmed to dismissive, with some shifts over time.

It is difficult to identify the actual energy someone saves by turning off the light each time they leave the room, for a few reasons: the types of lights people use varies, it's difficult to measure how many times the lights are turned on and off per day, and if the behavior has been maintained over the long - term.

OHC may be one of the best measures of the top of atmosphere imbalance available - averaged over long time periods, global, representing (for the full depth of the oceans) ~ 93 % of the energy changes.

Atmospheric CO2 has been measured for a long time now, and we know to a near - certainty that it is our emissions that have raised those levels over 40 %.