Sentences with phrase «of additional metric»

Given the importance of hard data to reinforce the value of federal funding to NIH, the Academy is finalizing a follow - on analysis that looks at patent output through a number of additional metrics, such as by mechanism and study section.

A number of additional metrics to potentially constrain ECS have been found.

During the day, Hexoskin measures heart rate, heart - rate variability and recovery, step count, calories burned, respiration (breath rate), and a bewildering array of additional metrics including VO2 max, breathing volume, activity level, cadence, and more (whew!).

Not exact matches

Given the additional political scrutiny on the Pentagon in the aftermath of the Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four Army Special Forces personnel, classifying vital metrics of progress in our 16 - year - old Afghanistan campaign doesn't cast the US military in the best light.

A more recent report by Aberdeen Group also concludes: «Companies deploying formal sales training initiatives lead non-adopters in overall team attainment of sales quota (78 % vs. 63 %), customer retention (71 % vs. 66 %), the percentage of sales reps achieving quota (64 % vs. 42 %), and additional key business metrics.»

If you are looking for additional metrics, a more detailed lists with additional value is available toward the end of this article.

While the Fed has laid out its framework for assessing financial stability risks and mentioned specific metrics of leverage and private sector balance sheet health, there is uncertainty with regard to the threshold of those metrics that would trigger additional monetary tightening.

These additional metrics are intended to frame performance expectations for the year for the Named Executive Officers but not to assure or preclude payment of an incentive award or to be used in any fixed or specific mathematical formula related to the amount of the incentive award to be paid.

In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

Much more likely is a scenario in which Lynas will have to make an additional commitment to safety, and will start its Malaysian refinery — which could eventually put out 22,000 metric tones a year — in one or two months (every month of delay costs Lynas $ 10 million) and make sure rare earth supply increases even further.

Factor investors work through the same accounting issues as fundamental investors, with the additional burden of trying to systematically adjust to create the best metric that accounts for the accounting differences across thousands of companies.

The EPA claims that the extraction, transport, refining and use of the oilsands crude that would be transported daily through the pipeline would result in «an additional 1.3 to 27.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year» compared to lighter crudes.

«The additional metrics of added sugars will create yet another data point for consumers to consider as they make decisions about their health and wellness,» he says.

«Additional headcount should be justified with metrics that show improved service outcomes and productivity in city government,» said Maria Doulis, vice president of the Citizens Budget Commission.

And since 2004 oil giant BP and its partners (including Statoil) in the In Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion cubic meters of natural gas produced there annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wells.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Keystone XL tar sands oil would result in additional greenhouse gas emissions of 27 million metric tons annually compared with conventional oil.

VSI provides an additional vegetation metric that can be used to assess the status of ecosystems globally scale.

The increases in frequency and duration metrics translate to 30 additional marine heatwave days per year by the end of the 35 - year period (p < 0.01; based on a linear trend) from a baseline level of about 25 days in the 1980s (Fig. 2).

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

There are additional biological metrics which one would expect to be roughly consistent across genomes from individuals of the same ethnicity (even to genomes sequenced using other methods).

To extract additional information from the data, the researchers developed new metrics — the Propagated In - Degree Rank (PIR) and Ratio of Basic Rankings (RBR)-- to quantify the influence and selectiveness of each scientist in the network.

• Include metrics and milestones to inform state evaluation of implementation and establish a process for pilot participants to identify additional metrics and milestones.

Coupled with decreased manual processes, training management systems also offer additional business insights and metrics, so you're able to make the best use of the resources you have, whether it's your technology or your dedicated training professionals.

These metrics could include demonstrating that the state provides the vast majority of funding to low - income schools and allocates significant additional funds for students who are low income, English language learners, or have special needs.

The District will continue investing in the Turnaround Strategy, providing additional support and interventions for schools that have been chronically struggling on the state accountability metric (in support of the District's mission that every student will graduate ready for college and career, and the vision of being a high - performing school District).

If the fund in question is going to be held in a taxable account, I make sure to look at two additional metrics: the «tax cost ratio» (on the «tax» tab) and portfolio turnover (on the «quote» tab), both of which can give an idea of the fund's tax efficiency.

In addition to a detailed weekly report, he often sends additional emails with daily observations of not only the physical metals and miners, but also related metrics such as the market and currencies.

An additional benefit of using dividends in evaluating a company is that since dividends only change once a year, they provide a much more stable point of analysis than metrics that are subject to the day - to - day fluctuations in stock price.

If you are looking for additional metrics, a more detailed lists with additional value is available toward the end of this article.

Meanwhile, I'm exhausted spelling out the compelling investment thesis here, let's just refresh a few of the best metrics instead: Net cash & investments amount to $ 2.39 per share — that's well over 50 % of the current share price, and that ignores an additional $ 2.59 per share in unrecognised gross embedded incentive income.

These metrics allow this group of investors with access to extraordinary financial assets and ability to invest large sums of money to track current and historical market performance by a particular size, investment style and a wide range of additional market characteristics.

While the length of stay remains an important metric for assessing the potential for decreasing quality of life and / or non-live outcomes for sheltered animals, critically examining the additional factors such as resources allocated to these animals during that length of stay may support the goal of increasing live outcomes for this population, while also preserving the animal's quality of life.

We are adding additional debugging tools and metrics while homing in on the problem, and we're currently digging into possible differences between remote and local simulation of ship movement which could lead to the jumping.

Finally, to revisit the question originally posed @ 203: Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

If we wind up emitting an extra gigatonne [billion metric tons] of CO2 into the atmosphere this year, it commits the Earth to a certain amount of additional warming that can't be taken back — a warming that starts to emerge within decades but will still be with us after thousands of years.

Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

Comparing those with estimates of the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions, they found that each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide sent into the atmosphere reduced the amount of sea ice by three square meters, or about 11 square feet.

In addition to the text of the proposed rule, EPA issued a Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Clean Power Plan, 4 along with numerous technical supporting documents and fact sheets.5 In October 2014, EPA issued a notice of data availability, which provided discussion and solicited additional comment on several topic areas, including the 2020 - 29 compliance trajectories.6 Also in October 2014, EPA issued a supplemental proposal to address carbon pollution from affected power plants in Indian Country and U.S. territories.7 In November 2014, EPA issued an additional technical support document providing examples of how a state could translate its rate - based goal into an equivalent mass - based goal, expressed in metric tons of CO2.8 In November 2014, EPA also issued a memo addressing biogenic CO2 emissions from stationary sources that explicitly relates this topic to the implementation of the Clean Power Plan.9

An Environmental Impact Report suggested that continuing the plant with the upgrades would increase local smog and produce an additional 415,000 metric tons of CO2 per year.

Depending on the type of crude used as a reference for comparison, State estimated that an additional 830,000 bpd of Canadian crude would increase annual CO2e emissions by 1.3 - 27.4 million metric tons (FSEIS Executive Summary, p. 15).

Given the data limitations it is concluded that using radiosondes to validate multidecadal - scale trends in MSU data, or vice versa, or trying to use such metrics alone to pick a «winner» is an ill - conditioned approach and has limited utility without one or more of additional independent measurements, or methodological, or physical analysis.»

Kellogg will reduce its direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 65 %, and is also committed to reducing energy and GHG emissions in its plants by an additional 15 % — per metric ton of food produced — based on the 2015 level.

In fact, investing in greater amounts of renewables and efficiency would deliver an additional 6.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emission reductions cumulatively by 2040 than by implementing a carbon standard alone.

Even after doing so, South Korea would need to reduce its emissions by an additional 100 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

Similar to the Leroy (1999) system, it adds total surface area (of heat sources and heat sinks) to the distance measurement as an additional metric for determining station site rating.

The committee believes that these limitations can be addressed through the introduction of additional forcing metrics.

The plant would have produced 720,000 metric tons of methanol and 100 million gallons of 87 - octane gasoline per year using coal from CONSOL's Shoemaker Mine, with additional coal brought in from the McElroy and Loveridge mines, which also are owned by CONSOL.

This appears to me to comport with the «IEO2011 Reference case projects about 1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035» that you cited in # 143, which clearly states CO ₂ in the sentence.

Prior to the additional 50 % of total metric tonnes of CO2 emissions being added to the world's biosphere, global warming change easily matched or exceeded that experienced since 1988 - the year of NASA's James Hansen's predictions of climate apocalypse from human CO2.