To perform the test, a prick is made in the inner surface of your dog's lip and a stop watch is used to
measure the period of time it takes before the flow of blood from the wound to cease.
Fitbits already track how much sleep people get and use sensors to
measure periods of being awake or restless while in bed.
Not exact matches
The process is fairly simple: Extract the cell's DNA,
measure its carbon - 14 levels with a tool called a mass spectrometer, and check the result against tables
of carbon - 14 decay in the
period since 1963.
DTS earnings before tax as a percentage
of DTS total revenue and DTS operating revenue (a non-GAAP
measure) were 4.4 % and 6.5 %, respectively, up 20 and 70 basis points from the year - earlier
period.
LLC's 2016 FDD provides that $ 3,187,100 is the average annual gross sales achieved by the «top third»
of PSP franchisees (
measured by gross sales), which consists
of 55 reporting franchised stores during the measurement
period beginning 1/4/15 and ending 1/2/16.
The above series is Statistics Canada's New Housing Price Index (NHPI), which «
measures changes over time in the contractors» selling prices
of new residential houses, where detailed specifications pertaining to each house remain the same between two consecutive
periods.»
We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial
measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and performance
of our ongoing operations and are useful for
period - over-
period comparisons
of those operations.
Adjusted cash flows from operations, a non-GAAP financial
measure defined below, were $ 174.9 million in the first quarter
of 2018, compared to $ 113.7 million in the comparable 2017
period.
The DHS is accepting public comments on the
measure, for a
period of 45 days.
From our definition there flows an important corollary: The riskiness
of an investment is not
measured by beta (a Wall Street term encompassing volatility and often used in
measuring risk) but rather by the probability — the reasoned probability —
of that investment causing its owner a loss
of purchasing power over his contemplated holding
period.
The company considers same - property NOI as an important operating performance
measure because it is frequently used by securities analysts and investors to
measure only the net operating income
of properties that have been owned by the company for the entire current and prior year reporting
periods.
FFO as Adjusted: A supplemental non-GAAP
measure that the company believes is more reflective
of its core operating performance and provides investors and analysts an additional
measure to compare the company's performance across reporting
periods on a consistent basis by excluding items that we do not believe are indicative
of our core operating performance.
Rather, it's only when information on sexual activity is integrated with other
measures — such as the date
of a woman's last menstrual
period — that such tracking becomes useful, experts said.
While that might suggest the «smart money» is signaling a swift correction, don't necessarily buy it: Lipper research found that «following the most recent
periods of four or more consecutive weeks
of net outflows from the Lipper High Yield ETF segment, the market — as
measured by the BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Index — performed relatively well in the calendar month that immediately followed.
In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with U.S. GAAP, the Company also provides non-GAAP
measures that adjust for the impacts
of the NRD resolution and measurement
period adjustment to the impact
of enactment
of the TCJA.
And if you condense the
period of comparison to 63 days, the
measure of stock - specific risk is the highest since 2000, when the dotcom bubble was still swelling, according to Morgan Stanley data.
Management believes these
measures offer the ability to make
period - to -
period comparisons that are not impacted by certain items that can cause dramatic changes in reported operating results, to perform trend analysis, to better identify operating trends that may otherwise be masked or distorted by these types
of items and to provide additional transparency
of certain items.
Like the income statement, the statement
of cash flow
measures financial activity over a
period of time.
The Company believes that discussion
of these additional non-GAAP
measures provides investors with meaningful comparisons
of current results to prior
periods» results by excluding items that the Company does not believe reflect its fundamental business performance.
Renowned journalist and academic Thomas B. Edsall foresees a
period of austerity
measures in the United States.
Noting that the value
of tech stocks at the height
of the dot - com bubble was many times the size
of the current cryptocurrency market (with a total value
of about $ 519 billion), Citi's report conceded that it may be a while before the crypto bubble bursts: «Bubbles can build in plain sight, be duly identified, and prove highly durable for a
period measured in years.»
By disclosing these non-GAAP
measures, we intend to provide investors with a consistent comparison
of our operating results and trends for the
periods presented.
MKS management believes the presentation
of these non-GAAP
measures is useful to investors for comparing prior
periods and analyzing ongoing business trends and operating results.
Over the
period measured, such funds produced a net return
of 8.95 percent, which is far better than the 2.69 percent average return
of hedge funds in general.
Therefore, we believe that the presentation
of non-GAAP financial
measures that adjust for the amortization
of intangible assets provides investors and others with a consistent basis for comparison across accounting
periods.
Like the income statement, the cash - flow statement
measures financial activity over a
period of time.
Three Statistics Canada analysts have recently used newly available data to
measure Canadian replacement rates over the
period from the early 1980s to the middle
of the current decade.
After accounting for the impacts
of measures and adjustments, the Sales Tax revenue base is projected to grow at an average annual rate
of 4.3 per cent over the forecast
period, roughly consistent with the average annual growth in nominal consumption
of 4.0 per cent over this
period.
This repeated counting is not an issue, since the objective
of the analysis is to
measure the number
of mini flash crashes in the test window against the number
of mini flash crashes in each window
of similar duration during the control
period.
Unadjusted career average earnings will result in a smaller denominator than career average earnings that are adjusted to reflect wage growth, as in the C / QPP benefit rate calculation, and both are likely to be lower than a
measure of best average earnings for people whose earnings are high relative to average earnings for limited
periods of time.
2 The percentage change has been calculated using actual exchange rates in use during the comparative prior year
period to enhance the visibility
of the underlying business trends by excluding the impact
of translation arising from foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, which is considered a non-GAAP financial
measure.
The closure
of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as
measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year
period.
A similar
measure, «usual weekly earnings»
of employed, full - time, wage and salary workers, tells much the same story, albeit over a shorter time
period.
Inflation
measures how much more expensive a set
of goods and services has become over a certain
period, usually a year
In a hastily arranged meeting with industry executives that stunned many inside the West Wing, Mr. Trump said he would formally sign the trade
measures next week and promised they would be in effect «for a long
period of time.»
Over a 12 - month
period (ended June 30, 2017), global hedge funds, as
measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, delivered decent gains
of 6.0 % in US dollar terms.1 That's a vast improvement in the performance
of these alternative investments from the prior two years.
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.
In latest data, for the first 10 months
of 2015, governments around the world passed 539 protectionist
measures, up from 407 in the same
period of 2014 and 183 in 2012.
Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package
of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting
period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety
measures and access to mental health care.
In particular, the exclusion
of certain expenses in calculating adjusted EBITDA can provide a useful
measure for
period - to -
period comparisons
of our core business.
In every
period of speculation, investors begin to abandon historically reliable
measures on the grounds that the world has changed in some way that makes these
measures invalid.
The horizontal axis
measures the average monthly return net
of the US return over the same
periods.
We
measure the effectiveness
of our spending by evaluating the «payback
period,» which we view as the number
of quarters it takes for a quarterly cohort
of sellers» cumulative transaction revenue net
of transaction costs to surpass our sales and marketing spending in the quarter in which we acquired that cohort.
Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range
of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level
of valuations at the beginning
of those
periods (on reliable
measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).
We
measure the effectiveness
of our spending by evaluating the «payback
period,» which we view as the number
of quarters it takes for a cohort
of sellers» cumulative transaction revenue net
of transaction costs to surpass our sales and marketing spending in the quarter in which we acquired that cohort.
«On the other hand, using the same essential
measures of valuation and market action, but including
periods of major economic dislocation into the dataset, produces average return / risk inferences that are substantially less favorable.
Tracking repeat calls within a specified
period (we recommend seven to 14 days) is not only easier than
measuring FCR but also casts a wider net, capturing the implicit, or nonobvious, reasons customers call back, such as related downstream issues or an emotional disconnect with a rep.. A word
of caution: Tracking repeat calls instead
of using FCR inevitably makes performance appear worse.
Average Daily Trading Volume («ADTV») is a
measure of the number
of shares traded per day, averaged over a specific
period of time (we use 50 days).
Portfolio risk is
measured using standard deviation, which is a statistical
measure of how much a return varies over an extended
period of time.
Consider this a
period for an experiment in
measuring the micro behaviour
of those individuals drawing their insurance.