Sentences with phrase «measures of absolute»

The most apparent is that single measures of absolute concentrations of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give significant findings; deviation measures, in terms of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a number of factors, such as Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic disease.

And its scores are not dragged down by an unusually high proportion of poor students, as measures of absolute poverty find the U.S. not to be an outlier at all.

The Price Value of a Basis Point (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yield.

By this I mean that the entity, when considered «formally,» is being described in respect to those forms of its constitution whereby it is that individual entity with its own measure of absolute self realization.

If one uses a measure of absolute poverty that counts income from all sources, it becomes obvious that the scores of U.S. students «are not dragged down by an unusually high proportion of poor students.»

The Price Value of a Basis Point (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yield.

It's only natural for the two to meet, with videos of Pokemon popping up in strange places and the like being fair game, but Vine hotshot Logan Paul found a special way to do it that demonstrated something dark about human nature that has to do with Pokemon GO while simultaneously causing absolute hilarity, and more than a fair measure of absolute bedlam.

SRMR (0.064) provided a measure of absolute fit; RMSEA (0.104; 90 % CI, 0.104 — 0.105) provided a measure of fit adjusting for model parsimony; CFI (0.89) and TLI (0.87) provided measures of comparative fit.

Not exact matches

Your potential, the absolute best you're capable of — that's the metric to measure yourself against.

The growth in asset purchases, whether measured in absolute terms or relative to GDP, is truly enormous, and is no doubt responsible for much of the shock and awe that UMP has attracted.

In addition, the HRC has expanded the use of long - term Performance Share awards to a broader group of management and has added for 2012 an additional risk - balancing performance measure to reduce the awards in the event of poor absolute financial performance.

In particular, for implementing Color Management to provide multiple Color Gamuts, and then using the Color Management to provide the Highest Absolute Color Accuracy for Standard (sRGB / Rec.709) consumer content of any Tablet display that we have ever measured (in one of its four available screen modes, which many reviewers seem to overlook).

The Magic Formula diverges from Graham's strategy by exchanging for Graham's absolute price and quality measures (i.e. price - to - earnings ratio below 10, and debt - to - equity ratio below 50 percent) a ranking system that seeks those stocks with the best combination of price and quality more akin to Buffett's value investing philosophy.

Yes, the ECB, Riksbank, Swiss National Bank are at negative interest rates but it is the velocity that measures absolute zero rather than the relative level of interest rates.

This means that periods of relative underperformance are inevitable, but the economic logic underpinning fundamental value investing should ensure satisfactory absolute returns when measured over a suitable time horizon.

But as I wrote they are «the more enlightened of the bunch»; a term of comparison, not an absolute measure.

Einstein's theory of relativity holds, in part, that absolute time can not be measured and must therefore be excluded from physical reasoning.

Since in Newtonian physics time and space were considered absolute objective schemas of reference, it was possible to measure speed in terms of so many miles per hour or feet per second.

Deterrence ranks as a religious issue by invoking absolute measures in order to protect a relative (though undeniably genuine) good: the survival of Western society and values.

(If the speed of light is Einstein's absolute, serving as the measure for all other velocities, how can it be measured?

According to Gareth Nelson, «evidence, or proof, of origins — of the universe, of life, of all the major groups of life, of all the minor groups of life, indeed of all the species is weak or nonexistent when measured on an absolute scale.»

The absence of proof «when measured on an absolute scale» is unimportant to a thoroughgoing naturalist, who feels that science is doing well enough if it has a plausible explanation that maintains the naturalistic worldview.

To exist as a real thing is surely to possess some measure of independence, some «self - hood» which prevents absolute domination by other things.

Thus, while all beings have some measure of «absoluteness» or independence of relationships and some measure of «relativity,» God, and only God, is in one aspect of his being strictly or maximally absolute, and in another aspect no less strictly or maximally relative.

To measure the degree of certitude of testimony of the absolute by the norm of one of the functions of consciousness is to surrender the problematic of self - consciousness to the most deplorable metabasis eis allo genos.22 Original affirmation can not be subsumed by the standard of knowledge of objects.

The worth of the person one marries can not be measured, and the institution of marriage bears witness to this fact by the absolute commitment it asks each spouse to make to the other.

There is no absolute standard of «concrete» description against which to measure the degree of abstractness of other descriptions.

Another criticism of economic measures of which the ISEW takes no account is that personal satisfaction is much more related to relative status in a community than to absolute income or wealth.

Absolute space and absolute time have natures of their own, that is, extensional features which are independent of any external means of measurement as for example by measuring rods and peAbsolute space and absolute time have natures of their own, that is, extensional features which are independent of any external means of measurement as for example by measuring rods and peabsolute time have natures of their own, that is, extensional features which are independent of any external means of measurement as for example by measuring rods and pendulums:

What Newton wants to claim here is that absolute space and absolute time have intrinsic structures in terms of which measures such as equal lengths and equal durations may be determined.

Physical measuring standards, such as measuring rods and pendulums, simply would function to reveal these structures of absolute space and absolute time which contain those standards.

Consequently, it is incorrect to interpret Newton as maintaining that absolute space and absolute time can be measured without reference to some material objects, that absolute space and absolute time are real existents apart from all material objects, and that absolute space and absolute time are founded on essentially metaphysical considerations (see part I of Toulmin's two - part essay).

The Newtonian cosmology sets forth the potions of absolute space «remaining always similar and immovable in its own nature» and of absolute time «flowing equably of itself and from its own nature,» and the claim that the measurement of lengths in absolute space and of durations in absolute time is independent of any «sensible and external measures» of them (PNP 6 - 8).

I. Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure of duration by the means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.

It is the result of nothing but an invincible blindness from which we suffer, an insensibility to the inner significance of alien lives, and a conceit that would project our own incapacity into the vast cosmos, and measure the wants of the Absolute by our own puny needs.

In the atheist world view their can be no absolute standard of morality for there is no absolute standard to measure morality by.

Sure, there are some of my absolute favorite gluten free dinner recipes thrown in for good measure.

For absolute accuracy, weigh the flour instead of scooping and measuring with a cup.

Yea, the difference being the subtle change you just made to your stance, going from an absolute statement to one bearing a measure of optimism.

You may wish to scrutinize Le Prof's starts, but The notion that every judgement can be made immediately, which dominates football, is the most dangerous judgement of all, there is some absolute measure of success or failure.

Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities: structured review

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the twoAbsolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the twoabsolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the twoabsolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

For some reason, we as a culture think that when a child hits his first birthday that is the absolute measure of when nursing should stop.

For planned out - of - hospital births, there was an increase in some complications, such as seizures and low Apgar scores (a measure of a newborn's overall health), but the absolute risk remained low.

After spending over 6 months reading about, researching the systems, While I had been quite fond of the Peg Perego which offers an amazing line of products, however, I found myself beginning to focus on safety, reputation, product / consumer ratings and quickly discovered Britax was getting some of the absolute results for safety, which to me was most important, and I then saw their products were high quality, had a high quality look and was very competitively priced next to other products that did nt quite measure up.

He maintained town halls only take measures such as bankruptcy as an absolute last resort and with people who have a history of non-payment.

· This 200,00 children is in addition to the 400,000 more children that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has previously projected will be living in relative poverty by 2015 as a result of coalition policies, and the 800,000 more children it estimates will living in relative poverty by 2020 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm121.pdf) · The government has not disclosed the likely impact of its sub-inflation uprating on absolute poverty rates which measure whether children are experiencing a real, as opposed to relative, fall in the standard of living.

It brings New York's total outflow over the last six years to 846,669 people — more than any other state's, both in absolute terms and as a share of population as measured by the 2010 census.

A significant number of schools that are safe but below average in absolute academic performance (perhaps half to the 10 % of schools that over perform) are excellent by a value added measure.