Sentences with phrase «over short time periods»

For example, say you want the benefits of paying whole life insurance premiums over a shorter time period but can only afford a particular dollar amount per year.

In other words, climate describes phenomena observed over long time periods, such as decades and centuries, while weather is observed over short time periods, such as days and weeks.

Evolution is not just for the long - term — natural selection also goes on over short time periods.

A similar measure, «usual weekly earnings» of employed, full - time, wage and salary workers, tells much the same story, albeit over a shorter time period.

The impacts of motherhood will result in fundamental changes in your wife over a short time period.

They also seek to understand how natural fluctuations influence the picture over shorter time periods.

Strength training using heavy resistance increases the ability of a muscle to generate force over a short time period.

Low - carbohydrate advocates are masters of documenting the efficacy of their philosophy using studies with small population sizes conducted over short time periods — often over weeks or months.

Although these studies were only performed over a short time period, their results are encouraging.

Actual returns may be higher or lower than those assumed and may vary substantially over shorter time periods.

The latter attempt to return a fixed multiple (or an inverse fixed multiple) of a benchmark over a short time period.

The difference between an account earning compound interest and one that earns simple interest is generally not all that substantial over short time periods.

It is common for stocks to fluctuate in price over a short time period.

So if you have many lenders and brokers pulling your report over a short time period it could affect your score.

The ozone, like all other natural variables, varies considerably over short time periods.

It can therefore be challenging to build statistical confidence in observed trends, especially over short time periods.

For example, say you want the benefits of paying whole life insurance premiums over a shorter time period but can only afford a particular dollar amount per year.

There are 8 Core Topics you can focus on over a short time period.

``... humans will adapt and survive over shorter time periods in climate than over the half - lives of nuclear fission byproducts.»

In fact, the average return for stocks was 11.5 % vs. 7.5 % for bonds since the beginning of 1976.4 But performance over short time periods highlights that stocks and bonds take different paths.

I don't think Cosmic Rays were ever as much about it [AGW], as say, what to do about it; if «it» were indeed happening, whether by anthropogenic causes or combinations or other field properties - nuclear power is NOT the way to go; humans will adapt and survive over shorter time periods in climate than over the half - lives of nuclear fission byproducts.

In its section on the evaluation of climate models, it points out models may have difficulty simulating the course of temperatures over short time periods, but doesn't directly discuss what's happening here and now.

He notes that even «Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lagged the S&P 500 in more than one - third of rolling three - year periods in the 25 years since 1987,» which, he says, is «something to keep in mind when trying to gauge manager skill over shorter time periods.

Like most gluten free things, they aren't very good after a couple days, they jut tend to break down in texture over a short time period - so plan to eat them fast!

These samples augment other marine records such as coral and seashells, which provide detailed records over a short time period, and deep - ocean sediments, which preserve thousands of years of history but are harder to date precisely.

Compared with other primates, human evolution featured a shift toward sleeping more deeply over shorter time periods, providing more time for learning new skills and knowledge as cultures expanded, the researchers propose.

The gull data are interesting — if you look over a short time period you can see large changes, however over a longer period and using anecdotal information from the 1930s it becomes apparent that Canna gulls may be returning to more normal, albeit lower levels.»

(Female flies typically mate with multiple males over a short time period.)

«Most pollinators visit several plant species over their lifetime, but often they will display what we call floral fidelity over shorter time periods,» Brosi explains.

Shella Keilholz and her colleagues have been looking at functional connectivity data very closely, and how the apparent connections fluctuate over short time periods.

With regards to endurance and glucose metabolism it doesn't seem to make any difference if the exercise happens as moderate training over a longer time period or as HIIT over a shorter time period.

«The benefits of fast - twitch fibres for the exerciser is that you can generate a lot more power and speed over a shorter time period.

Contrast this to the commonplace approach of providing standalone learning interventions either via 30 - 60 minute online eLearning courses or classroom based training, which sees lots of material presented in a single hit over a short time period and is very prone to the forgetting curve i.e. it's in one ear, and very rapidly out of the other and forgotten in a very short period of time.

The name of the game for promotional visibility is no longer velocity (i.e. the number of sales over a shorter time period like an hour or a day), but trajectory (i.e. the number of sustained sales over a longer period, like a week or a month).

If you can pay the full cost over a short time period, such as 18 months, you may be able to use a credit card with an introductory 0 % APR on purchases to pay for the solar system without paying any interest at all.

The benefit of bonds is they decline very little, and very infrequently, so value is preserved over short time periods.

Despite the unpredictable nature of commodities over short time periods, it's hard to identify any risks that could really threaten CN's long - term future.

The values of junk bonds fluctuate more than those of high quality bonds and can decline significantly over short time periods.

In other words, Winn will use this generous donation as a catalyst to raise additional funds over a short time period (crowdfunding) and we hope to turn one research project into two or three studies on abdominal cancer.