Sentences with phrase «on a relative basis with»

In addition, yields look attractive on a relative basis with long - dated municipals yielding above comparable Treasuries.

Not exact matches

«It's really attractive on a short - term income basis relative to alternatives and... the long - term prospects with demographics relative to the developed world and the sort of metrics that you would expect to generate improving economies,» Barrickman said during the panel.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

In other words it's not a fundamental call on the company, even though Nordstrom's earning report disappointed the Street, at least on a relative basis, with spending weighing on results.

Seifert points out that the stock is still cheap — «shares are undervalued on both a relative and historical basis,» she says — and with a 2.57 % yield it's also a decent income play.

That way, you can target certain customers «with content by price, relative to what they spent last year, or by category, based on what they purchased last year.»

These are often companies with more stable earnings streams that may hold up better, on a relative basis, during market downturns.

Lipper rankings are based on total return without sales charge relative to all share classes of funds with similar objectives as determined by Lipper.

The Performance Share awards are scheduled to vest in the third quarter of 2013 based on the Company's RORCE relative to the Financial Performance Peer Group, with the final number of earned and vested Performance Shares subject to adjustment upward (to a maximum of 150 % of the original target number granted) or downward to zero.

Liaison with market participants suggests that spreads on ABCP picked up sharply in August, as in the US, to be around 30 — 50 basis points above the bank bill rate relative to 2 - 5 basis points over recent years (Graph 8).

They are trading close to their historical norm, both on an absolute basis and relative to developed markets; the MSCI Emerging Market Index is currently trading at about a 25 % discount to developed markets, in line with the long - term and post-crisis average.

Small - cap stocks should post a countertrend rally on a relative basis compared with large caps.

We not only want to reveal to investors which firms are undervalued (both on a discounted cash flow and relative value basis), in our view, but we also want to provide investors with the information needed to anticipate entry and exit points.

Based on BlackRock research, stocks with a history of dividend growth have tended to outperform in a rising rate environment and may hold up well relative to other segments of the stock market more susceptible to higher rates.

In the realm of eternal objects — a realm in which the relationships between objects are simultaneously unselective and systematically complete — we discover the musical tone «B.» Considered purely with respect to its relational essence, «B» entertains the possibility of many relations: it may be a tonic, a dominant, a subdominant, a neopolitan, a relative minor; it may form the base of a fully diminished vii chord, or the seventh tone of a V / V chord, the third tone in a twelve - tone row, the fourth interval in a five - tone cell, and so on.

Calculations (3:141 - 56) based on Whitehead's theory (2:303) showed that the orientation of the two masses relative to the center of the galaxy should produce a variation in the attraction between the two masses, and hence in the gravimeter's readings: as the earth rotates, bringing the earth, gravimeter, and galaxy center alternately into and then out of line, Whitehead's theory predicts that the attraction should likewise vary periodically, with period 12 hours (i.e., the galaxy center, gravimeter, and earth are in line twice a day.)

For those who might wonder, the main difference between having a doula and having a relative or friend with you while you labor is that while your loved ones can share their experiences based on a handful (at most) births, most doulas have assisted at dozens or more births (many have assisted hundreds,) know hospital policies, often know the hospital staff, and are professionals.

The decision to bring a professional outdoor team to Chicago, and then make its home field in Arlington Heights, was based largely on the success of the World Cup in Chicago and the number of families with relatives playing the game.

However, this study only included kids at high - risk for celiac (based on genetic markers or a first - degree relative with the disease), so it might not apply to the general population.

The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32

Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39

The problem with predicted outcomes of AV based on, for example, successive YouGov polls looking at voters preferences is that they really only tell us about short term effects on the relative position of the big established parties.

In the last boundary changes which took effect in 2010, UK Polling's estimate was that Labour's net loss relative to other parties across Britain would be 28 seats (based on the 2005 result) or 8 seats with a 5 % swing from Labour to the Tories which is what happened (see note below).

And, after almost a year of relative rest, my blog is about to get active again, with substantive posts coming up on a regular basis.

The areas to be remapped will be based on their relative dangers to navigation, effects from the storm, and discussions with state and local officials as well as the maritime industry.

They then compared genetic sequences with the genome of the still common domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and, based on those comparisons, estimate they captured between 57 and 75 percent of the passenger pigeon's genetics (assuming that its genome was roughly the same size as its relative's).

CEPH's «first - generation» map, assembled by hundreds of researchers and with financial support from the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, is based mainly on the relative positions of genes on chromosomes.

Steve: And we also have the cover piece, speaking of fun articles that are based on serious things, [which] is about our closest relatives to the human beings to, well, they are human beings too, well to Homo sapiens — the Neandertals and the author Kate Wong, who is a staff editor here at Scientific American and a real expert on this stuff is with us.

His hunch is based on studies — many done by his former graduate student Brian Hare — comparing domestic animals with their wild relatives.

They also offer the possibility of connecting with potential relatives based on matches in your DNA to other users in their database.

Consistent with their obese phenotype, db / db mice had significantly more visceral white adipose tissue (vWAT), based on comparisons of retroperitoneal fat pad weights relative to body weights at euthanasia [Fig. 2 (a); effect of genotype, F1, 42 = 55.84, P < 0.01].

However, hearing loss not only affects the individual but those with whom the person with hearing impairment communicates on a regular basis — their spouse, siblings, children, friends, relatives, colleagues and carers.

Garcia - Ojalvo expressed surprise that a network based only on gene expression data could predict, with relative accuracy, the effect of multiple genetic interactions.

While it is not possible to compare antibody levels measured in this trial with those seen in trials of other AMA1 vaccines, based on the relative fold - rise and duration of antibody responses this profile compares favorably with much lower and shorter - lived increases in antibody levels observed in Malian children immunized with AMA1 - C1, an AMA1 vaccine adjuvanted with aluminum hydroxide [19], which provided no measurable protection in a recently reported Phase 2 trial at another site in Mali.

Based on our communications with and research on these institutions, we can say with relative certainty that just over 40 % of current postdocs will have their salaries raised to the new level:

The index doesn't represent an absolute statistical prediction of whether complex life could be present on a planet; rather, it can be used to estimate the relative likelihood of life having evolved there, based on the conditions that we know are compatible with the evolution of complex life forms on a planet, and assuming that no further information is available.

The European Union in 1996 proposed to limit global warming to 2 °C relative to pre-industrial times [10], based partly on evidence that many ecosystems are at risk with larger climate change.

Based on differences in imputed nsSNP allelic frequencies in different genetic backgrounds, likelihood measurements were calculated for European relative to African genetic backgrounds, with distinct patterns emerging as a function of genetic background.

Presenting results as hazard ratios or relative risks always makes effects look large — «a 30 per cent heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes» sounds like a big effect but based on figure 2 it looks like statins may be associated with an increase in the annual rate of new diabetes from about 6 per 100 people to approximately 8 per 100 people over a 10 year period.

With it, you will discover if you are insulin resistant (or not), and based on this finding, adjust your carb intake to reflect your relative metabolic health.

Strength coaches set up programs with percentages based on your 1RM because they don't know your actual strength level, but they know what percentages they want you to be using relative to your single - rep max.

To find that the actual data on which the China Study was based has a stronger relative risk associated with wheat than almost any other food variable is simlutaneously shocking and gratifying.

Based on an analysis of bowel symptoms recorded using the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale, researchers reported that despite the use of a gluten free diet — universally indicated for coeliac disease (CD)-- a proportion of their cohort still presented with «persistent symptoms» and it is within this cohort they were aiming to see whether: «abnormal intestinal microbiota may be associated with persisting gastrointestinal symptoms in treated celiac disease patients... [found] higher relative abundance of Proteobacteria and a lower abundance of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes.»

The World Health Organization recommended less than 10 % of calories from added sugar based on its assessment of higher consumption and adverse health outcomes.4 With the evidence of higher added sugar consumption and adverse health outcomes accumulating, the American Heart Association recommended that total calories from added sugar should be less than 100 calories / d for most women and less than 150 calories / d for most men.5 Our analysis suggests that participants who consumed greater than or equal to 10 % but less than 25 % of calories from added sugar, the level below the Institute of Medicine recommendation and above the World Health Organization / American Heart Association recommendation, had a 30 % higher risk of CVD mortality; for those who consumed 25 % or more of calories from added sugar, the relative risk was nearly tripled (fully adjusted HR, 2.75).

By drawing on similarities, you can establish a connection with your opening message and base your message on a relative point of interest.

An ordered how is absolute dating different from relative dating of rock layers that is based on the relative ages of the rocks, with the oldest rocks at the bottom.

Dating - The isochron method: Many radioactive dating methods are based on minute additions of daughter products to a rock or mineral in which a Interweaving the relative time scale with the atomic time scale poses certain problems because only certain types of rocks, chiefly the igneous variety

Based on the best - selling prize - winning novel by Meg Rosoff, «How I Live Now» is the latest film from director Kevin Macdonald («Touching The Void,» «The Last King Of Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strife.

The pilot, based on David Michôd's 2010 Australian film of the same name starring Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver and Joel Edgerton, follows the 17 - year - old Joshua «J» Cody, who moves in with his California relatives and discovers that they're funded by criminal activities.

The past decade has seen a relative surge in research conducted in urban, underperforming schools focused on doing exactly this — providing students with deep, language - and content - based instruction, with a focus on teaching both specialized vocabulary and the specialized structures of language in academic speech and text.