Sentences with phrase «over other measures»

The SHS has a number of advantages over other measures aimed at assessing global subjective well - being.

In a 2010 paper called «The other side of value: Good growth and the gross profitability premium,» author Robert Novy - Marks discusses his preference for «gross profitability» over other measures of performance like earnings, or free cash flow.

Census poverty estimates have several advantages over other measures of low income for the Title I program.

Total cholesterol was chosen over other measures of blood cholesterol (particularly LDL) because the former was considerably more widely available (10).

Not exact matches

There's this pressure to determine the infamous ROI of social, and yet when you look at other major marketing channels over the last few decades that we've used — billboards in the sky, ads in newspapers, even commercials on television — those extensions of campaigns are traditionally measured in eyeballs or ears.

The latter has depreciated over the last few months as other central banks across the world start to relax on their stimulus measures.

For all of the region's protests of the president, tech companies must engage both parties in equal measure if they have any hope of shaping the government's debates over tax and immigration reforms — or the myriad other issues that matter to the tech industry's bottom lines.

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).

That's because Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are decentralized systems with no one in charge, while the Russian and Venezuelan plans would give the leaders of both countries a measure of control over the new currencies.

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

Though we don't use the Coppock indicator in its popular form, the 29 signals in this measure since 1900 have been associated, on average, with market returns of 19.6 % over the following year, and only 3 yearly losses among those signals (one because of the entry into World War II, and the others because the signals were driven by the reversal of a very weakly negative reading, as was the case for the latest signal).

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

While the prospectus objective identifies a fund's investment goals based on the wording in the fund prospectus, the Morningstar Category identifies funds based on their actual investment styles as measured by their underlying portfolio holdings (portfolio and other statistics over the past three years).

Bitcoin wasn't alone in its fall, as other cryptocurrencies lost value over investor concerns that regulators would take measures to curb speculation.

The different measures of GDP are great tools for comparing the economies of other countries or how an economy changes over time.

This wage measure, along with a number of others, has been gradually trending upward over the past several years.

Year - over year growth in real GDP, real gross domestic income, durable goods orders, real retail sales, industrial production and other measures are all down to levels typically observed at the beginning of recessions.

Critics warned that buybacks, deals, and other measures that benefit shareholders were a likely outcome from the tax bill and would take precedence over investments that boost the economy and workers.

It is possible that measured GDP growth is somewhat overstated due to difficulties in estimating the GDP deflator, which is falling considerably more quickly than other price measures; nominal GDP has grown by a much more modest 0.8 per cent over the year, although this is still an improvement on recent history.

Official data suggest that industrial production contracted slightly over the year to November, but other measures show a brighter picture.

With the sales - to - inventory ratio on the other hand it makes sense for us to compare month over month changes to measure how the market is progressing.

Based on other measures of economic activity there have almost certainly been 12 - month periods over the past 10 years when China's economy shrank in real terms, but during these periods China's government still reported growth of around 7 %.

Companies in technology, investment and other industries now say that the measures the administration is taking to help them may actually end up doing irreparable harm to supply chains they have built up over decades.

The exclusion of health services, as well as a number of other services provided by the public sector, largely explains the relatively modest increase in the market goods and services excluding volatile items measure of underlying inflation over the past year.

The exception to this is the price index for market goods and services (excluding volatile items), which increased by 1.8 per cent over the year, reflecting weaker quarterly growth earlier in 2003 (relative to other measures).

Given that this measure represents the second «soft» metric to be included in the plan, proponents of hard financial metrics may voice concerns over an increased emphasis on non-financial components; however, others may view this as a company positively tailoring its pay structure to align it with company strategy and meet stakeholder expectations in the banking sector.

For all of the housing markets shown above (and for many others that are not shown here), the one - year forecasts were a fraction of the gains measured over the previous 12 months.

A security deposit is a measure used to cover any losses suffered by the rental property, however, handing over the funds to the other party for storage is an issue of trust.

Every religion in the world, past and present, stems from the same basic premise «it's probably a good idea to be nice to each other» after that it gets twisted so that one small group of people can have some measure of control over a larger mass of people.

But they part ways with many other Christians over a measure that would expand the legal definition of human life.

There is a lot of farcical chin - pulling in the book over various «possible candidates for nothingness» and «what «nothing» might actually comprise,» along with an earnest insistence that any «definition» of nothingness must ultimately be «based on empirical evidence» and that ««nothing» is every bit as physical as «something»» — as if «nothingness» were a highly unusual kind of stuff that is more difficult to observe or measure than other things are.

On the basis of this initial idolatry it develops a morality in which economic worth becomes the standard by which to measure all other values and the economic virtues take precedence over courage, temperance, wisdom and justice, over charity, humility and fidelity.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

The democratic societies have no one supreme or dominant member, with examples being such things possibly as stones and probably as some cell - colonies and even special forms of many - celled plants and animals.42 Monarchic societies, on the other hand, do have a supreme or dominant member which radically subordinates the parts to its ruling purpose but which can never completely rob the parts of all measure of control over themselves.

One index (kinship organization) was measured by only three indicators, but the others were more extensively measured, some by over a dozen separate pieces of information.

He attempted to enforce clerical celibacy, forbade pluralism, (the holding of two or more church offices and drawing the income from them), endeavored to exclude lay interference in ecclesiastical affairs, affirmed the right of Rome to review important cases under canon law and thus increased appeals to the Holy See, ordered that tithes for the support of the Church be given precedence over all other taxes, and took vigorous measures for the suppression of heresy.

Several other misplaced items and dirty dishes slowed me down and I didn't stop the timer every time, but I still managed to make this meal in JUST over 30 minutes (if you're making rice, you may need an extra 3 - 5 minutes to get that measured and set up).

Made these the other day and shared the recipe everywhere I could... I cut the auger and chips down to 1/2 cups... Worked out to 2560 calories for the whole recipe (1440 from the peanut butter) if you use a 1/8 measuring cup level to scoop them out you will get over 20 cookies and they are the perfect size

The change in load cell output occurring with time, while under load, and with all environmental conditions and other variables remaining constant; usually measured with Rated Load applied and expressed as a percent of Rated Output over a specific period of time.

The implementation of agri - environmental measures over the whole of the European Union and also other European countries is the core of the European Community's environmental strategy.

As other reviewers have stated, the dispenser cap could use a do - over but I just screw the cap off and carefully measure it into my drink.

Fit a large cast - iron skillet or other heavy straight - sided skillet (not nonstick) with deep - fry thermometer; pour in oil to measure 1» and heat over medium - high heat until thermometer registers 325 °.

Jones said the increase in wages was «nowhere near the level of revenue growth» and this «reflects both the extent of [the Premier League's] financial advantage over other leagues and the impact of domestic and European cost control measures».

Over this season he has easily been the measure of the goalkeepers in the other «big three» clubs and has been, in my opinion, the most consistent and reliable of the four.

To monitor physical development, the doctor will weigh and measure your child at regular checkups, then plot the results on a standard growth chart to follow over time and compare with that of other kids the same age and gender.

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Position ideas for comfort and labor progression cross over with hands - on comfort measures like comforting touch, counter pressure, breathing techniques and other «doula magic» for families.

After spending over 6 months reading about, researching the systems, While I had been quite fond of the Peg Perego which offers an amazing line of products, however, I found myself beginning to focus on safety, reputation, product / consumer ratings and quickly discovered Britax was getting some of the absolute results for safety, which to me was most important, and I then saw their products were high quality, had a high quality look and was very competitively priced next to other products that did nt quite measure up.

Place of birth research has been plagued with controversy over study design, variables to be measured, cohort definition and other factors specific to this context.