Sentences with phrase «more local factors»

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To find the wealthiest people in the world, Wealth - X looked at its database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high net - worth people and used a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency - exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

A MAJOR factor in successfully doing business in the Middle East is understanding that business relationships, local customs and standards of behaviour are far more important and influential than in Australia.

In the interview, DeMers asks McRoberts all the major questions that every business owner needs to know about local SEO, including specific tactics and strategies that work, factors in the local search algorithm, and much more.

We also factored in the population ages 25 to 34 and the education level of each city, because a young, local entrepreneurial community is most likely to thrive with more networking and knowledge - sharing opportunities.

Whether individuals or households will pay more or less will depend on a wide variety of factors, including whether they take the standard deduction, which reduces taxable income by a fixed amount, or they take targeted tax deductions, like subtracting mortgage interest or state and local taxes.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

Now since curvature is the origin of attraction (Or, more accurately, curvature manifests itself as attraction), the only factor that determines the attraction between two bodies is the local curvature of space.

Treasury, which makes Penfolds and Wolf Blass in Australia, was among local stocks to experience a big bounce on the ASX on Thursday as markets factored in that the President - elect was likely to be pro-business, even if some of his other ideas were more controversial, after he clinched victory over Hillary Clinton.

Since there are numerous factors that play a role in the nutrient profile of the produce we find in the grocery store or at the local farmers market, the key is to know when it may be more beneficial to purchase frozen over fresh.

After more than a decade (ending in 2011) of working with the Alaska Division of Public Health tracking local SIDS and sleep - related death cases, we were unable to find evidence that co-sleeping increased the risk of death when controlling for other factors.

There are always local factors that add layers of complexity to these kinds of resignations but it will be worrying for Nick Clegg if he starts seeing many more of these defections.

It will cut the costs of healthcare for state and local government employees by 75 percent or more, radically reducing the biggest single factor driving up the costs of government.

This election, more than any other in recent memory, was about local and regional factors.

Actual increases in tax collections imposed by districts may end up being more or less than 2 percent, depending on local factors such as bond issues to fund school reconstruction or repairs, which are exempt from the cap.

More attention will have to be paid to such local risk factors when designing future plants or upgrading existing ones.

Yet some cholera scientists — including Rita Colwell, seen by many as a giant in the field — contended that the bacteria had more likely been present in local waters, and that the outbreak had been triggered by a combination of environmental factors.

A 1 - millisecond simulation of the folded protein BPTI reveals a small number of structurally distinct conformational states whose reversible interconversion is slower than local relaxations within those states by a factor of more than 1000.

For instance, managers said that a local farmer's or producer's response time — the time it took a business to respond and process an order — was more important than delivery time — how long it takes to actually receive the goods — as a factor when they considered buying local food products.

Using this method to estimate the abundance and distribution of fish species could help scientists more easily understand the impact certain environmental factors, such as oyster farms or pollution, are having on local fish populations.

Local variations in the environment appear to be a much more accurate predictor of species shifts than variations in the species life histories and other factors.

But in the context of the fish being caught in Tanzania's own Lake Victoria, the fact that locals are paid more than market price by foreign companies is seen as a contributing factor to hunger in the population.

Overlaying social factors, levels of agricultural runoff, local pollution and upwelling, a natural ocean process that brings more corrosive deep ocean water to the surface, helps tease out regional differences in vulnerability.

Since there are numerous factors that play a role in the nutrient profile of the produce we find in the grocery store or at the local farmers market, the key is to know when it may be more beneficial to purchase frozen over fresh.

The solo campaign of PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale is a little lacklustre and more enjoyment of this game can be found in multiplayer, both local and single - player which ups the challenge factor of this game.

The fact that parental perceptions track actual school quality more closely than those of other citizens, but the perceptions of homeowners do not, suggests that direct interactions with a school may be a more important factor than simply having a vested interest in acquiring information about local school quality.

State Superintendent Paul G. Pastorek acknowledged that lack of local support was a likely factor in the state's final score, but he said he does not want to water down any of the state's proposals in order to garner more buy - in for a round two Race to the Top bid.

The intent of California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is to give districts more flexibility with their state funding but at the same time to create a new school finance system that recognizes that students with specific demographic factors need greater support to address their academic needs and improve educational outcomes: English Learners, low income students and foster youth.

The «overwhelming» majority of heads (93 per cent) said this was simply because there were more children with mental health issues — but 77 per cent reported that a lack of support from local authorities or mental health services was another factor.

Dr. McCann has more than 15 years of experience designing and implementing evaluation studies for federal, state, and local - level contracts with a general focus on examining factors that influence school improvement processes and practices.

Retrieved February, 2016, from http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/the-city-that-believed-in-desegregation/388532/ Using a formula that takes into account household income, family composition, educational attainment of parents, and other factors, Jefferson County has managed to create one of the more racially diverse systems in the country, and its approach to diversity is widely credited with contributing to a thriving local economy.

«It is increasingly understood that access to broadband is the critical success factor across our society, and we must do more to connect all of our communities,» said ICMA Executive Director Robert J. O'Neill, Jr. «Libraries play an essential role in helping local governments meet their greatest challenges by connecting their services to critical community priorities.»

Although I estimated transportation at $ 20 — $ 40 a day, it could end up costing more when you factor in local transportation within cities.

According to the Exploring Emerging Markets Debt article in the Journal of Indexes, most of the emerging market USD sovereign bond yields are influenced by the changes in the U.S. Treasury curve more than the local emerging market factors.

Research suggests the vaccine may offer protection for more than three years, but most vets recommend a booster shot once a year to ensure your dog is safe, depending on local risk factors.

Predisposing factors towards infection include age (puppies and kittens are at higher risk than adult animals), life - style (free - roaming or hunting animals being predisposed), and local climate (pets living in warmer, more humid climates are predisposed).

Strategies for how best to deal with feral cat populations differ depending on a variety of factors, including availability of dedicated feeders, skilled humane trappers, spay / neuter funds, resources for food and vet care, health of the cats themselves, impact on human community and local wildlife, attitude of human community towards their presence, and more.

The measures will support the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)'s latest «Amazing Thailand Go Local» campaign, a landmark project to promote the kingdom's emerging generation of secondary destinations, better balance the distribution of tourist arrivals between urban and rural areas, even out the seasonality factor between the months of travel, and encourage more travel during weekdays to reduce pressure on the weekends.

The solo campaign of PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale is a little lacklustre and more enjoyment of this game can be found in multiplayer, both local and single - player which ups the challenge factor of this game.

Many local factors influence the observed temperature: whether a station is in a valley with cold air drainage, whether the station is a liquid - in - glass thermometer in a standard wooden shelter or an electronic thermometer in the new smaller and more open plastic shelters, whether the station reads and resets its maximum and minimum thermometers in the coolest time of the day in early morning or in the warmest time of the day in the afternoon, etc..

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

But he says in the Arctic, it's the local factors that exert a more powerful influence on the region's weather.

After reading «Landscapes and Cycles: an Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism», I am convinced that Jim Steele's view of climate change caused by multiple factors, including naturally occurring cycles between warmth and cold in the world's oceans and changes in land use on a local scale, are a much more realistic explanation than the prevailing hypothesis.

Then, after 1960 where the blanket of temp readings expanded, became more dense and more synchronized to Time of Day for the measurements (i.e., became more accurate), the reality was finally expose — tree rings DO NOT correlate to temperature at all but are driven more by other local factors (like days above freezing and not the amount of delta above freezing, freezing or some other minimal temp being a point where growth occurs).

Anyway with El Niño fading away and possibly a new El Nina with other natural cooing factors coming in to play there is a good chance of another decade or more of «Pausing» or cooling in global temperatures which is itself a stupid concept as it cools and heats in different places of the planet dependent on the local climate conditions an average is meaningless — you really need to dream up some more dire alarmist nonsense to keep your show on the road.

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

Indeed, the rise of smart water as a focus among technology companies and local municipalities is promising — we're seeing more and more cities installing smart water metering systems and more businesses beginning to factor water consumption into their accounting in the same way that they factor in electricity use.

The 2008 recession may be a contributing factor, as local food can be perceived as more expensive.

Global warming was a big turn - off factor for coal - but even more people were worried about how coal - plants lowered the quality of the local environment.

Hogan Lovells» Intellectual Property practice group has more than 390 lawyers, specialists, and paralegals worldwide, combining a strategic, global outlook with local knowledge and a keen understanding of the technological and business factors involved in this area of law.

Proponents of the UBE cite a number of factors that warrant a simpler licensing process while still allowing state supreme courts to maintain control over the attorneys practicing in their states: the job market has been tight; the practice of law has become more federal and even more global; testing students on three or four local essay topics in no way makes them practice - ready in those areas of law, which they typically learn once they start practicing; and young people today move more frequently early in their careers.