Sentences with phrase «measured period»

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.

By simply measuring the period with which the brightness of a Cepheid rises and falls, the relation can be used to determine its luminosity, the intrinsic brightness of the star.

Funding for higher education has declined more than 42 percent over the past five years, according to State Higher Education Executive Officers, a nonprofit association that measured a period running from the middle of Crist's term through last year.

The longer the pulsation period of one of these yellow supergiants, the more luminous the star; so measuring the period determines the star's true, or intrinsic, brightness.

Decades of previous work from the largest ground - based telescopes have only succeeded in measuring periods for two Cepheids.

Fitbits already track how much sleep people get and use sensors to measure periods of being awake or restless while in bed.

I'd count the 2007 - 2013 period as a short - term measurement in which Colgate began and ended the measuring period at fair value, and shareholders managed to generate 13.8 % annual returns during this time frame.

That period of variation is directly related to their true luminosity, so if you measure the period, you'll know the luminosity.

In each field they took 22 twenty - minute exposures spread over 14 months to find the variable stars and measure their periods and brightness.

There, the objective is different: You are searching for the certainty that comes with quality, and moderate overvaluation becomes a rounding error once the measuring period becomes two and a half decades.

Mauboussin examined the 42 companies that stayed in the first quintile throughout the measured period to see whether they leaned more toward a consumer or production advantage:

Mauboussin finds that industries that are overrepresented in the highest return quintile throughout the measured period are also overrepresented in the lowest quintile.

However, this principle only applies when valuation is fair or rational at both the beginning and the end of the measuring period.

There can be times when a given stock produced poor historical total returns simply because the measuring period started at a time of excessive valuation.

Whether your search for a South Florida bankruptcy lawyer takes place during a measured period of financial planning or under duress, Kelley & Fulton will be there for you.

Annuitant The person whose lifetime is used as the measuring period to determine how long income payments under an annuity policy may be made.