Sentences with phrase «on value contrast»

Moreover, both worked with their canvases laid horizontally on a table or pair of sawhorses, painstakingly working towards an exquisitely refined perceptual effect based on value contrast (Baer) or its suppression (Reinhardt).

Not exact matches

Contrast that with private equity governance, where directors are picked solely based on strategic requirements, where value creation is an obsession, and where the board is knowledgeable and demanding.

In contrast, when a deal is structured around stock, the assets on the books must be amortized at their value to the seller, which is likely to be far less than the total sale price.

In contrast, operating leases accounting requires no record of debt or the value of the leased asset on a company's balance sheet.

By contrast, valuing these same structures on a replacement - cost basis, land value rose slowly but steadily from the end of World War II to 1989, from 20 to about 27 percent of overall corporate real estate values.

In our view, its intrinsic value must be zero: a bitcoin is a claim on nobody — in contrast to, for instance, sovereign bonds, equities or paper money — and it does not generate any income stream.

Another big lesson of recent decades is the value of experiential learning, in contrast to the book learning the world imposed on me most of my life.

A preferred stock, in contrast, is a claim to receive fixed periodic dividend payments on the initial amount of money delivered to the company in the preferred investment — the «par» value of each preferred share.

This is in contrast to other mutual funds that tend to trade based on the net asset value of the underlying certificate.

We are indebted to Paul Pretzel's paper on «Whales and Polar Bears» for this conception of the radical value contrast between the two cultures.

Perhaps the most challenging of these (sic) is the contrast (sic) between the Christian approach to education which is based on the understanding of all life as God's gift, and a general approach to education which does not openly acknowledge any religious values.»

In contrast, sectors of the population linked to international trade, occupying a dominant position in world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretion.

Alternatively, and in contrast to the first two positions, there is the view that value is rooted in a «moral universe» which can be at least fairly well known and approximated by man through his rational capacities; this moral universe participates in, yet in its fullness transcends, the actual shape of culture, history and human will; and the task of moral agents is to discover and act on the principles, laws and rules that this universe contains and reveals to the discerning moral conscience.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

So too, attention to congregations whose practice of worship is necessarily shaped by its cultural setting would not be parochially limited to what goes on «within» congregations but rather have to question the value of any sharp contrast between «inside» and «outside» and attend to what is known about the cultural settings that inescapably shape its enactments of worship.

By contrast, those — and they seem primarily to be women — who approach experience intuitively, grasping feeling tone and insisting that value, emotion, and purpose are experienced within reality are usually patted on the head for contributing such insights and then dismissed as too emotional or intuitive to be trusted with contributing anything important about the «real» world.

Thus the value of Discord is a tribute to the merits of Imperfection» (Adventures 257)- Whitehead goes on to judge the stale perfection of Hellenism in contrast to the freshness of most religions and barbarism.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

Any healthy development of humankind requires that we see ourselves as existing with others, So we go on to say something about cooperation by each of us with our fellows and also notice the contrasts among men and women, each with distinctive qualities that must be appreciated and valued.

In contrast, today's third - generation stevia extracts are based on better tasting steviol glycosides with the highest commercial value, Reb A, B, C, D and M.

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In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

Urinary incontinence (UI) has an effect on quality of life during the postpartum period.1, 2 Fear of UI is one of the most common reasons for maternal demand for cesarean delivery.3, 4 The muscle strength of the pelvic floor returns to the antepartum value 6 — 10 weeks postpartum in most women.5, 6 However, UI symptoms after delivery do not resolve in the long term in some women.7, 8 Studies have variously concluded that the prevalence of UI changed9 or did not change within 6 months or 1 year postpartum.10, 11 A higher prevalence or incidence of UI has been observed in women who had a vaginal delivery than in women who underwent cesarean delivery.10 — 18 In contrast, a recent study found that vaginal delivery was not associated with postpartum UI.19 The long - term protective effect of cesarean delivery has not been determined.20 Validated and reliable questionnaires to evaluate UI, including severity and quality of life, are needed for postpartum evaluation.21 However, comparisons of UI severity and the effect on daily life between women who have had vaginal and cesarean deliveries are scarce.22

As I look back on a 30 - plus year career split equally between Harvard Medical School and the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I am struck by the even greater contrasts in culture, values, leadership style, and work ethic between the «Eggheads» of the Ivy League and the «Cheeseheads» in Wisconsin.

That is in contrast with what psychologists call «gist» reasoning, or representations of risk that rely on personal values and beliefs to create a qualitative, intuitive understanding of risks.

In contrast, feelers (Fs) make decisions that tend to be subjective, based on their value system, and take account of their decision's impact on others.

In contrast, the upper echelons» diet was mainly focused on species that had great symbolic value for Maya, such as the powerful jaguars and crocodiles that roamed the Central American jungles.

Low values, by contrast, lower the risk,» explains Prof. Jeanette Erdmann, director of the Institute of Integrative and Experimental Genomics at the University of Lübeck, who also collaborated on the work.

These self - conscious doubts about the value of marks on paper are in considerable contrast to the self - congratulatory tone, typical of a Coen Brothers film - the sense that the audience is being permitted, at a relatively late stage, to admire a dense web of private jokes.

This contrasts Kantian ethics which focuses on moral action and pragmatic result but approaches Stanley Cavell's moral perfectionism which defies absolute moral values.

As the weeks have gone on, students have become more confident in talking about balance, proportion, repetition, emphasis, contrast, line, value, levels, and color.

While this approach contrasts starkly with status quo «principal walk - through» styles of class observation, its use is on the rise in new and proposed evaluation systems in which rigorous classroom observation is often combined with other measures, such as teacher value - added based on student test scores.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single measure,» Weingarten said.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

By teaching for transfer, students compared and contrasted elements in both music and fractions focusing on the following elements: time signature, note value, and number lines.

When you divide the value by the number of kids, we're poorer than most districts,» said Petersen, contrasting Weber with Park City School District, where property values bring in a lot of tax money to spend on fewer students.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.

By contrast, «reducing class sizes» was far more costly and added, on average, only three months of value - add with the same 3 out of 5 for confidence

By contrast, the more value - oriented Venice starts at $ 29,950, is built on the same platform, features the same powertrain, and offers similar equipment as its higher - priced sibling.

The sports seats with contrast stitching also enhance the aesthetic value on the British hatchback.

And I value a lot the ability to change the contrast of PDFs (manuals, guides, non-fiction docs) and love that we can use the dictionary on those now and make ntoes.

[15] This was in contrast to the resistive touch screen found on value tablets.

It's hard to put a specific dollar value on the advantages of this local knowledge, but it does stand in contrast to the remote online mortgage experience.

In contrast, stockholders, even if they experience a dramatic loss of value on paper, can hold onto their shares over the long term.

In contrast, I've often quoted the Shiller P / E (which essentially uses a 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) as a simple but historically informative alternative, but I should emphasize that we strongly prefer our standard methodologies based on earnings, forward earnings, dividends and other fundamentals, all which have a fairly tight relationship with subsequent 7 - 10 year total returns (see Lessons from a Lost Decade, The Likely Range of Market Returns in the Coming Decade, Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings, and No Margin of Safety, No Room for Error).

In contrast, consider an approach that generally uses limit orders, attempting to buy attractively valued stocks on short - term weakness and to replace less attractive holdings on short - term strength.

This is in contrast to a Market Value Adjustment, which reduces / increases the amount available on surrender if interest rates have moved since purchase.

Cash Settlement Transactions generally involving index - based futures contracts that are settled in cash based on the actual value of the index on the last trading day, in contrast to those that specify the delivery of a commodity or financial instrument.

Under IFRS, in contrast, income - producing real estate is carried on the balance sheet at independently arrived at appraisal values; income statements reflect periodic Fair Value gains (or losses) on investment properties (i.e., periodic changes in appraisal values).

In contrast, book value is almost always extremely important on the macro level, i.e., where one is trying to determine if general market prices are too high or too low.