Sentences with phrase «over the time period measured»

Adding these together gives the dividends paid over the time period measured as index points.

Trenberth in his paper linked below compared the RSS - SSM / I for the time period 1988 to 2003 to NCEP and ERA - 40 data sets and claimed that the SSM / I data set alone showed a statistically significant positive trend over the time period measured.

Not exact matches

The above series is Statistics Canada's New Housing Price Index (NHPI), which «measures changes over time in the contractors» selling prices of new residential houses, where detailed specifications pertaining to each house remain the same between two consecutive periods.»

Like the income statement, the statement of cash flow measures financial activity over a period of time.

Like the income statement, the cash - flow statement measures financial activity over a period of time.

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.

It is a well - established fact that, over longer periods of time, companies with lower accruals handily beat companies with higher accruals when measured by total return.

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).

Earnings per Share Growth Measures the growth in reported earnings per share over the specified past time period.

Average Daily Trading Volume («ADTV») is a measure of the number of shares traded per day, averaged over a specific period of time (we use 50 days).

Portfolio risk is measured using standard deviation, which is a statistical measure of how much a return varies over an extended period of time.

A bond fund's total return measures its overall gain or loss over a specific period of time.

It's also important that traders don't measure profits based on percentages or pips gained or lost on each trade or based on the percentage account performance over xyz period of time.

-LSB-...] also important to remember that measuring performance over short time periods (like months or quarters) might frustrate you.

Beta: Beta relatively measures sensitivity to market movements over a specified period of time.

The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.

The relative strength index (RSI) is a momentum indicator developed by noted technical analyst Welles Wilder, that compares the magnitude of recent gains and losses over a specified time period to measure speed and change of price movements of a security.

This measure looks at the appreciation or depreciation (expressed as a percentage) that an asset — usually a stock or a mutual fund — achieves over a given period of time.

Compound Annual Growth Rate The compound annual growth rate is a useful measure of growth over multiple time periods.

This means that periods of relative underperformance are inevitable, but the economic logic underpinning fundamental value investing should ensure satisfactory absolute returns when measured over a suitable time horizon.

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.

I think the Index value is worth more as a relative measure of effectiveness over a period of time.

Ms May said: «Whilst we would not wish to pre-judge the outcome of the review, both parties in the coalition are clear that the 28 day maximum period should be a temporary measure and one that we will be looking to reduce it over time.»

Dr. Smith and colleagues, including Dr. Stephen Rao from the Cleveland Clinic, tracked four groups of healthy older adults ages 65 - 89, who had normal cognitive abilities, over an 18 - month period and measured the volume of their hippocampus (using structural magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI) at the beginning and end of that time period.

The authors suggest future research in the form of longitudinal studies that measure eating decisions over a longer period of time would be useful in addressing this issue.

«Examining developmental changes in the brain over a critical period of reading appears to be a unique sensitive measure of variation and may add insight to our understanding of reading development in ways that brain data from one time point, and behavioral and environmental measures, can not,» said Chelsea Myers, BS, lead author and lab manager in UCSF's Laboratory for Educational NeuroScience.

Over a 3 - hour period, the scientists measured the amount of time individual cockroaches spent inside a shelter and how much time each took to pay its first visit.

Over a three - year period, Charles Santerre of Purdue University and his colleagues tested metal levels in catfish, trout and crawfish grown in aquaculture facilities across the southern U.S. Levels of mercury in these fish measured on average 40 to 100 times lower than the one - part - per - million limit set by the Food and Drug Administration.

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

Dietary changes were measured only for a short time and caution must be used when extrapolating the study data to dietary changes over longer periods of time.

Researchers measured both the duration of pregnancy and birth weight of the offspring to identify the effects of concentrated PM2.5 over the time periods.

Looking at two different measures of wind intensity (the East - West difference in sea level pressure and the depth of the thermocline) over the time periods involved, they conclude that trade winds were diminishing over the course of 1950 to 1990, but then picked up from 1990 to 2010.

«The removal of a soil sample from its natural environment also means that the same sample can only be measured once, so the traditional (destructive) method is not suited to measuring changes at a point over a period of time..»

The creation of a unified database that measures and tracks these factors over a long period of time will provide greater insight into the disease process and advance the boundaries of current research in the field.

The sensor system therefore collects molecules in the air over a known period of time and then quantitatively measures the amounts collected — an approach which significantly reduces the system's detection threshold.

During a four - year period, the researchers used sensors to measure relative changes in the velocity of seismic waves moving through the volcano over time.

Consequently, despite the extensive and highly successful efforts of many researchers to develop infection models in Drosophila, the outcomes of infection are often measured by end - points such as insect death (survival of a cohort of insects over time) or changes in cell morphology at fixed periods throughout infection (often monitored by staining different elements of the cytoskeleton).

The Kepler telescope measured the variations of starlight over a period of time, what astronomers call a light curve.

These bursts, which were measured over a 4 - hour period, suggests this thing is basically active all the time.

For years, astronomers have estimated the age of a pulsar by measuring the rotation period of its neutron star and the tiny amount by which that rotation slows down over time.

The time spent head - tracking over each 60 second period was measured blind off - line by a single observer.

My libido is definitely higher during my period, but I have to get over the mental hurdle of knowing there will be extra cleanup afterward and precautionary measures taken ahead of time (whether or not you have nice sheets, a towel is a must).

And so, when they put them on a Ketogenic Diet and they were checking them, measuring — they're looking at their Stool Analysis over a period of time.

You will also need to measure how much you are urinating over that same period of time.

In addition, the effects of fiber type after any kind of training could differ, depending on the time period over which you measure force.

Bypassing the kidney's control over calcitriol levels which involves the emergency measure of depositing excess calcium in the soft tissues is very serious situation to have occur over long periods of time.

Hair can be a good indicator of exposure because it grows slowly and incorporates toxic metals into its structure over a long period of time, and therefore may be a better measure of actual tissue levels.

Each time, the overall fluctuation in their blood glucose is determined by measuring it eight times over a period of two hours.

Monitoring bacteria Levels of bacteria on the items of interest were measured over a period of time.

Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance rates, dropout rates, and promotion rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).