Sentences with phrase «measures a point in»

In doing so, numerous measuring points in a dense array were located on the virtual representation of Manot and on several hundreds of other braincases to capture differences and similarities.

Not exact matches

The point is to first try, then learn, and be sure you have mechanisms in place to measure and improve.

That means making them compete directly by putting their offers side by side, so that customers can choose on what really matters in this business — prices measured in rates and points.»

Test - takers no longer will lose points for wrong answers, a feature meant to discourage guessing but that produced agonized complaints that the exam was more an exercise in strategy than a measure of college - readiness.

«The only real reference point right now is commercial air travel, and we are a victim of our own excellent safety measures,» says Dr. Clay Cowl, chair of the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, who was not involved in Castleberry's research.

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average experiencing two 1,000 - point drops in recent weeks, and having fielded many, many investors» calls, I was reminded that investors truly do not know how to measure risk.

And although measuring innovation isn't exactly cut - and - dried, some metrics can point you in the right direction.

At some point in the not - distant future, Griffith will have the most accurate tool around for measuring an individual's (or collective's) energy use as well as a gigantic pile of data, both of which will be commercially quite valuable as we are pushed toward a greener lifestyle.

The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, which measures business owner's confidence, rose 0.7 points in July, to 95.7.

As the economy continues its rocky recovery, policy - makers are quick to point out that core inflation, the key measure upon which the Bank of Canada depends to set monetary policy and stave off destabilizing devaluations of currency, remains in check.

My hope is that every person gets the opportunity to have at least one great leader at some point in their professional career because the impact on their will be so great it's too hard to measure.

When Duke University's Fuqua School of Business measured the NPS of its MBA program in October, the school found that it hit an impressive 67, 10 points lower than the Welch Institute.

Add on the jumps in market - based measures of inflation expectations, the chances of more Federal Reserve hikes, and other macro-economic data points and the moves for the economy have been dramatic.

The latest index, compiled from six trillion data points, measured congestion between April and June of this year and is expressed in percentages that illustrate additional driving time.

Measuring the time to a point in the future in days, apparently, makes it feel closer, and when things feel closer, we're more likely to get cracking.

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

«The question from a financial stability point of view is whether or not those measures, to the extent they encourage more credit and more investment, may not buy some more growth today, but increase the risk of some disruption in growth further down the road,» Carolyn Wilkins, the Bank of Canada's senior deputy governor, said at least week's press conference.

On their face, the added levies would boost inflation measures by one - tenth of a percentage point while reducing annual GDP growth by one or two tenths, Barclays said in a note that assumes the moves would not have massive repercussions from U.S. trading partners.

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.

A tokenistic mindset — let's get a woman, a minority and throw in some foreigners for good measure — misses the point: It's the combination of perspectives, experiences and skills that matters, as it helps curb groupthink and anticipate more curves in the road.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Ideally, we would look at a comprehensive measure of income that covers a long time span, allows us to compare before - and after - tax income at different points in the income distribution, and accounts for changes in the size and composition of households.

The Bank's three measures of core inflation, taken together, continue to point to material excess capacity in the economy.

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

Our eight - point Summary * includes a number of statements that have all materialized in those countries in Western Europe that have adopted the full measure of global warming mania.

With Greece at boiling point following the adoption of yet more internationally mandated austerity measures in the wake of parliament's vote to slash 25,000 jobs in the public sector, opposition leaders said it was wrong for Schäuble to be visiting at all.

At the same time, the availability rate, which measures space vacant or that will be available in approximately 12 months, fell by 0.4 points to 10.4 percent, the Colliers data revealed.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

Case in point: Last week utility stocks, as measured by the Dow Jones U.S. Utilities Index, managed to buck the broader selling and post a small gain, according to numbers via Bloomberg.

At this point, obscene equity valuations are already baked in the cake on valuation measures that are reliably correlated with actual subsequent stock market returns.

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..

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

Another point to remember is that swings in commodity prices can affect the normal relationship between the total inflation rate and the core measure of inflation that we use as an operational guide.

RBC's housing affordability measure for the benchmark detached bungalow in Canada's largest cities in the second quarter of 2014 is as follows: Vancouver 81.8 (down 0.3 percentage points from the previous quarter); Toronto 55.9 (down 0.2 percentage points); Montreal 37.3 (down 1.6 percentage points); Ottawa 36.0 (down 0.4 percentage points); Calgary 33.6 (down 0.8 percentage points); Edmonton 31.7 (down 1.1 percentage points).

RBC's affordability measures fell between 0.5 and 1.5 percentage points but remained close to long - run averages, suggesting that affordability likely plays a neutral role in home buying decisions in the province.

Direct marketing has always been well - suited for digital advertising; the point of the ad is to drive conversion, and digital is very good, not only at measuring if said conversion occurred, but also at targeting customers most likely to convert in the first place.

Affordability in the province improved modestly with RBC measures easing between 0.2 and 0.9 percentage points.

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

We prefer observable measures that allow us to identify the prevailing state or «Market Climate» at every point in time.

With the CFLP index for large enterprises rising 3.4 points to 54.4 in March, and the equivalent measure of small enterprises falling by 4.3 points to 50.9, the stronger CFLP measure relative to the Markit PMI may simply reflect this bias towards better - performing larger firms.

All these measures point to that Beijing has committed in the «going global» as a long - term strategic trend, rather than a short - term arbitrage.

Recall that our measures of market internals shifted negative in October 2000, following what was until that point a reserved but still constructive stance.

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The difficulty here is that the underlying measures of capital and labor demand - capacity utilization, help wanted, bank lending, commercial paper issuance - are all still very tepid for this point in an expansion.

A measure of the underemployment rate, which includes employed people who want to work more hours, also reached a new low point of 6.4 per cent, a rate last seen in the December quarter 1989.

Latest ECB Monthly Bulletin just out 9 Nov — latest data and survey results point to unabated growth momentum in the second half of this year — ECB's monetary policy measures continue to support domestic demand Upbeat assessment overall but understanda...

That quick recovery came courtesy of a new bubble in stocks, which in 2007 were more expensive by some measures than they had been at any other point save the bull markets of the 1920s or 1990s.

In his 2013 shareholder letter, Buffett made a point to tell his investors that Berkshire doesn't measure its earnings that way.

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).