Sentences with phrase «of measures of uncertainty»

This allows the computation of measures of uncertainty in addition to a mean intensity.

As we look forward to 2018, our analysis suggests that many of these measures of uncertainty may increase.

Not exact matches

In a conference held on Tuesday, Lee said:» «We kept the base rate unchanged today as there is a need to closely examine growing protectionist measures and uncertainties abroad, although the local economy is expected to keep firm growth on the back of improvements in the global economy.»

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

South Korean shares rose as technology and auto sectors rallied after the Bank of Japan announced aggressive monetary easing measures, resolving uncertainty about its actions.

In a sign of some uncertainty among investors about the impact of the BOJ's latest measures, Japanese markets were volatile following the announcement, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index down giving up initial gains and moving into negative territory.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

But «it is likely that the uncertainty surrounding the presidential election had a negative impact, especially among lower income consumers, and without that added uncertainty, the confidence measures may not have weakened,» said Richard Curtin, the leading economist of the University of Michigan's preliminary consumer confidence survey.

Export prospects continue to support the outlook despite elevated uncertainty about the impact of potential US policy changes, notably corporate tax cuts and protectionist measures.

Further, for our main measures (inflation, home price changes, and earnings growth) we also report the time series of forecast uncertainty.

Institutional investors may be scratching their heads at why the widely watched measure of market concern known colloquially as the «fear index,» or VIX, recently reached a 23 - year low despite plenty of reasons for the sort of uncertainty that makes markets jittery.

The SCE also provides measures of uncertainty in expectations for the main outcomes of interest.

A: Every investor will have to make their own judgment about the market, it does seem like measures of volatility are relatively low given all the uncertainties at present.

A discount rate is a calculation that measures the uncertainty of cash - flow over time.

But severing Sportsnet from the TV ecosystem comes with a greater measure of uncertainty.

Uncertainty analysis of signal deconvolution using a measured instrument response function

Amid this cloud of uncertainty, investors must suddenly confront the possibility of increased protectionism, the severity of the measures and its effect on regions, companies and impacted sectors.

Uncertainty about the outcome of the US election, which affected the autumn survey, has given way to uncertainty about the measures that will be put in place by the incoming US administration and their impact on Canadian Uncertainty about the outcome of the US election, which affected the autumn survey, has given way to uncertainty about the measures that will be put in place by the incoming US administration and their impact on Canadian uncertainty about the measures that will be put in place by the incoming US administration and their impact on Canadian businesses.

As a result, there is considerable uncertainty around which combination of tax and spending measures Congress will pursue, coupled with the uncertainty around how President Trump will govern and how he will work with Congress.

To identify characteristics of firms that attract activist short sellers, he examines 12 indicators of stock overvaluation and nine measures of uncertainty about firm prospects.

Based on initial tests, he constructs aggregate metrics for overvaluation (averaging seven of the overvaluation indicators) and uncertainty (averaging six of the uncertainty measures) for subsequent tests.

Any estimate of the economic costs of protectionist measures, let alone trade wars, is subject to uncertainty given the complexity of global supply chains.

The airwaves were full opiners who warned of a market that is fully valued.Gundlach and Dalio added their two cents for measure, espousing the need to hold GOLD as a hedge against geopolitical uncertainties.

The proposed measures are far too broad and have created significant uncertainty for entrepreneurs, large private corporations and subsidiaries of multinational corporations.

If you payoff your debts, or at least the high and variable - rate variety, you'll be removing a large measure of uncertainty from your life.

Thanks to unprecedented levels of uncertainty across many financial markets — particularly at the beginning of the year when China's collapsing stock prices sent shockwaves through equities markets worldwide, and then in June in the aftermath of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union — investors piled into gold as a safety measure.

While managers and industry experts anticipate the introduction of tapering measures in 2018, uncertainty remains with regard to the pace of these changes.

Moreover, «there is particularly high uncertainty about measuring the deviation of output from its potential,» and the values of the coefficients, a and b, in Taylor's rule need to be specified.

The victory is slow, its uncertainty is a slow measure of length.

What's involved is the census - taking equivalent of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the notion that pollsters affect the content of the responses they receive merely by deciding what it is they want to measure.

From the qualitative interviews, participants expressed uncertainty about their understanding of kilojoules, while only 40 % of participants in intercept surveys correctly answered that kilojoules and calories measured the same thing.

Two of these reviews produce summary measures suggesting parent training programmes have a significant positive effect in crime prevention [12] and for non-compliant children [13] although this latter review does not provide any indication of the uncertainty of the effect estimate.

The Corker concession was one of several lingering uncertainties in the bill that Senate aides said would be nailed down as the measure neared a floor vote.

With living standards already squeezed and with the considerable uncertainty associated with the introduction of the Universal Credit — a measure that needs to succeed and will inevitably have consequences that will require adjustment — it would be irresponsible for further such steps to be taken.

«By requiring these additional measures of accountability, the State has signaled a stronger commitment to protecting its own fiscal interest in a time of economic uncertainty.

We also welcome measures to reduce uncertainty to business at a time of fragile economic recovery — so a move to only call for a referendum if certain and well understood conditions are not met is helpful.

Given the volume of the government's daily cash flows and the uncertainty about the magnitude of key transactions during those months, the Treasury could exhaust its extraordinary measures and authority to borrow as early as March or as late as May or June.

House Speaker Paul Ryan declined to commit to bringing the health care measure to the House floor next week, a fresh indication of uncertainty.

De Blasio testified against the measure when he spoke about his budget priorities in Albany last week, saying it would «produce uncertainty in financing and unnecessarily add difficulty and delay to the process of building the affordable housing struggling New Yorkers need.»

Using a representative sample of 20 different methods for predicting extreme sea levels the researchers focused intensely on the measures of uncertainty that accompany any prediction, but that are particularly vexing in the analysis of extremes.

Preserving their uncertainty would require one particle in the pair to instantly know and react when the other is measured — even at the other end of the universe.

Because of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, one can not measure both quantities simultaneously.

Persons suffering from harmless irregular heartbeat have also reported improved quality of life due to the measuring device alleviating their uncertainty about their condition.

Equally striking, if less well known, are the so - called squeezed quantum states: Normally, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means that one can not measure the values of certain pairs of physical quantities, such as the position and velocity of a quantum particle, with arbitrary precision.

Point estimates of population parameters (e.g., mean, correlation coefficient, slope) or comparative measures (e.g., mean difference, odds ratio, hazard ratio) should be accompanied by a measure of uncertainty such as a standard error or a confidence interval.

But, they argued, this scenario violated the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which said that it's impossible to know both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time [because the act of measuring one instantly and unavoidably changes the other].

Formulated in 1927 by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, the uncertainty principle puts strict limits on how accurately one can measure the position, velocity, energy, and other properties of a particle.

The study «reveals more quantitatively how stress (both self - reported and measured with physiological arousal) is driven by... «irreducible uncertainty,» uncertainty about the state of the world that we can't control,» says Ross Otto, a neuroscientist at New York University.

Using a hierarchical model, the authors combine information from these various sources to obtain an ensemble estimate of current and future climate along with an associated measure of uncertainty.