Sentences with phrase «number of assumptions in»

It also doesn't seem to occur that they're making a startling number of assumptions in this process.

The IPCC then attempts to assert their models are robust and that therefore proves the CO2 hypothesis however, an objective look at the models would say that it seems unbelievable the models are robust on the face of them considering the computational complexity and errors in the numerical processes as well as the number of assumptions in the underlying formulas.

Not exact matches

In all of these business projections, a good business plan has estimated guesses, explaining assumptions and drivers of how these numbers are expected to change in the futurIn all of these business projections, a good business plan has estimated guesses, explaining assumptions and drivers of how these numbers are expected to change in the futurin the future.

If the original tax base is $ 263 billion and if nothing else changes — the assumption you have to make in assessing the effects of a policy — then this information is enough to put some numbers on the sort of revenues you can expect to generate by an increase in corporate tax revenues.

Although Target previously stated the breach wouldn't compromise card holders» accounts, the dramatic rise in the number of people affected called that assumption into question.

Mundell's model was extremely simple and included a number of heroic assumptions, but it accurately reflected important elements of the world in which open economies operate.

Third, a number of studies have shown that Taylor Rules are robust in the sense that they generally perform quite well across a range of different assumptions about how the economy is structured and operates.

The concern that the network hashrate will become too low is based on several assumptions and variables, including the number of daily transactions, the willingness of the users to wait for confirmations, the willingness of the users to pay small amounts, the behavior of the miners, the fee policies set by various wallets, the emergent consensus on acceptable fees by the mining community, and other factors, including what actually is «too low» of a network hashrate in the first place.

A similar assumption underlies Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's widely publicized 2011 commencement speech at Barnard, and her earlier TED talk, in which she lamented the dismally small number of women at the top and advised young women not to «leave before you leave.»

No matter how I work the numbers it just seems to me very obvious that unless it sharply speeds up the process of transferring wealth to the household sector so that consumption can grow much more quickly, China simply does not have ten years in which to manage a non-disruptive adjustment unless we are willing to make assumptions so heroic that even El Cid would blanche.

I believe strongly in the need to go through the exercise of building a financial model (can focus mind and expose hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).

The expense is based upon a number of assumptions disclosed in Note 24.

A first one for the first 10 years that will reflect best the current situation of the company and another one for the years after that should correspond to a more conservative number in order to make a strong assumption.

Further challenges come from the fact that Mrs. and Mr. Surf keep their finances separate (similar situation as in the Case Study for Rene) and Mr. Surf will still be working for a number of years, so we have to make some assumptions on how to assign the tax burden between Mr. and Mrs. Surf.

Number - crunching a pension plan payout election or number - crunching a 401 (k) «payout sustainability» amount are calculations that need to be tailored to the needs of the individual and their comfort level regarding the assumptions used in analyzing the decision options so we won't explore those calculationsNumber - crunching a pension plan payout election or number - crunching a 401 (k) «payout sustainability» amount are calculations that need to be tailored to the needs of the individual and their comfort level regarding the assumptions used in analyzing the decision options so we won't explore those calculationsnumber - crunching a 401 (k) «payout sustainability» amount are calculations that need to be tailored to the needs of the individual and their comfort level regarding the assumptions used in analyzing the decision options so we won't explore those calculations here.

The plan will significantly raise ZG's risk profile and will require the assumption of $ 10's of millions in debt, depending on the number of homes ZG holds on its balance sheet any given time.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

In addition to the basic assumption that the god or gods on which a religion is based exist, every system of religious beliefs raises a number of questions.

But the science of reproductive control grew in the soil of eugenics, and mainstream assumptions about birth control still reflect strong judgements about the number of children responsible parents should have.

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions...

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions to the table.

If one makes this assumption, then one might (as Muehl appears to do) draw a further conclusion: that societal acceptance would bring in its wake a significant increase in the numbers of those choosing homosexuality.

Second, and more crucially, that secular objection (as in the hippie saying I heard so often in my youth: «Don't lay your value trips on me, man») rests on the assumption that someone can authentically sexually donate himself to another without making a definitive commitment to the other person; that is, he can «hedge his bets,» so speak, without paying the consequences ¯ a foolish assumption given the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, the divorce rates, the numbers of children born out of wedlock, and so forth.

In the past several years there have been a number of articles in evangelical publications suggesting that contraception and the moral assumptions attending it are not so innocent as many had assumeIn the past several years there have been a number of articles in evangelical publications suggesting that contraception and the moral assumptions attending it are not so innocent as many had assumein evangelical publications suggesting that contraception and the moral assumptions attending it are not so innocent as many had assumed.

In order to do the calculation, the company needs to make a number of assumptions and these will need to be disclosed in the financial statement footnoteIn order to do the calculation, the company needs to make a number of assumptions and these will need to be disclosed in the financial statement footnotein the financial statement footnotes.

with the pieces currently in place («Back on the envelope» calculation — this takes the average proportion of the salary cap devoted to corners and multiplies it by the projected 2018 cap number with no assumption for a rainy day fund).

Young 1997 (cost analysis, Turnbull 1996) used the «individual patient - based costing» approach, in which an assumption was made about the number of caseloads per midwife.

Advocates of demand feeding believe in blocking all crying since they operate under a number of false assumptions about infants and their cries» (pp.105 - 106).

Young 1997 used the «individual patient - based costing» approach, in which an assumption was made about the number of caseloads per midwife.

She arrived in Number 10 with an entirely different set of assumptions than those that kept options open.

1) Starting from the assumptions that a high participation rate is a good thing, why don't they increase the number of voting booths in the US to increase the participation rate?

This answer makes the more reasonable assumption that there is a significant number of people voting in each state while the other answer truly minimizes the popular vote.

It's only when the numbers are «machine readable» that expert members of the public can use them in a spreadsheet, where they can find potential errors, and see odd fiscal assumptions or alarming trends.

We need to understand the assumptions regarding future growth in passenger numbers, and hence, future capacity needs, if we are to consider transferring passengers from the most profitable services on existing routes to the high speed line, the economics of the other lines will be degraded.

In short, they plugged a bunch of current numbers and assumptions into the model, ran it out past 75 years until it reached some kind of stability, and reported that number.

It is an assumption which is in itself flawed; the number of «undecideds» means that the leadership race is still an unpredictable affair.

With the Tories coming out as the biggest party in terms of votes and seats, the assumption from those backing Mr Cameron to stay in Number 10 is that «if the seats are there,» the Liberal Democrats will do another deal with Cameron and we'll have coalition 2.0.

In the case of recalcitrant evidence, it is never clear whether scientists should go for the option of modifying the auxiliary assumptions (e.g., number of planets, as in the case of Neptune), or for the alternative option of revising the main theoretical hypotheses themselves (e.g., from Newtonian mechanics to general relativity, as in the case of the anomalous perihelion of MercuryIn the case of recalcitrant evidence, it is never clear whether scientists should go for the option of modifying the auxiliary assumptions (e.g., number of planets, as in the case of Neptune), or for the alternative option of revising the main theoretical hypotheses themselves (e.g., from Newtonian mechanics to general relativity, as in the case of the anomalous perihelion of Mercuryin the case of Neptune), or for the alternative option of revising the main theoretical hypotheses themselves (e.g., from Newtonian mechanics to general relativity, as in the case of the anomalous perihelion of Mercuryin the case of the anomalous perihelion of Mercury).

ETH researchers have now shown that the high estimated mutation rates at the start of the epidemic were due to the limited number of virus samples at the time in combination with the computer models used, which calculate the estimates using genetic data from virus samples and from underlying assumptions.

The different results could have come from different starting assumptions — Evans assumes the number of new dementia cases will stay the same in coming decades, while Langa takes into account the possibility that dementia risk could decline because of changes in lifestyle and health prevention measures in the last quarter century.

Residing in large numbers outside the nucleus of every cell, mitochondria contain their own DNA, with unique features that «may require a reassessment of some of our core assumptions about human genetics and evolutionary theory,» concludes Wallace, director of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

However, there are a number of gaps between making a prediction and making a decision, and underlying assumptions need to be understood in order to optimize data - driven decision - making.

Underpinning all the simulations in the two studies is an assumption about the virus's basic reproduction number (R)-- the number of people each infected person will infect.

Czeisler based his estimate of mistake - related deaths on the number of interns (at least 100,000) now practicing in the U.S. and the assumption that more experienced residents are erring at similar rates.

The research uses factors such as the area of a city, the number of taxi trips made, and the average traffic speed, to determine what proportion of rides are shareable, given some modest assumptions about the flexibility passengers might have in terms of waiting for a ride.

By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 C is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified

«This paper seeks to calculate precise figures for these assumptions, using data on traveller numbers and the export of other mosquito - borne viruses from other major sporting events in Brazil — principally the export of dengue fever virus from the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Data from the 1000 genomes project (1KGP) and Complete Genomics (CG) have dramatically increased the numbers of known genetic variants and challenge several assumptions about the reference genome and its uses in both clinical and research settings.

The presence of «Oumuamua in the Solar System suggests that previous estimates of the number density of interstellar objects, based on the assumption that all such objects were cometary, were pessimistically low.

Depending on your initial assumptions, the number of advanced civilizations in our galaxy according to Drake's equation could range from virtually zero to a whopping 36.4 million.