Sentences with phrase «percentage change in use»

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Represents percentage change compared to prior year period in average global rental rate per day on power units using constant currency.

Twitter is telling investors to focus instead on the percentage growth of people who use it daily, but in a May 10 letter, the SEC asked for Twitter to explain «how the percentage change information provides an investor with a clear understanding of user engagement on your platform.»

2 The percentage change has been calculated using actual exchange rates in use during the comparative prior year period to enhance the visibility of the underlying business trends by excluding the impact of translation arising from foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, which is considered a non-GAAP financial measure.

If annual point - to - point with a spread is used, the interest credited can be reduced to zero even if the percentage of change in index value is positive.

In addition to scanning hundreds of daily ETF chart patterns every night, we also use percentage change charts to compare the performance of numerous industry sectors with the benchmark S&P 500 and / or Nasdaq Composite indices.

The following table provides detail on percentage changes in historical adjusted prices as used in strategy backtests and months for which the changes affect the Top 3 winners:

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

The table below shows Zumper's list of the 100 most expensive major rental markets in the US, by median asking rents for 1 - BR and 2 - BR units in April, and their percentage changes compared to a year ago (use browser search box to find a city).

For the years 1987 through 1995, according to the methodology used in Giving USA 1997, AAFRC updated its figure for religious giving by using denominational data to show the change in giving (by percentage) from year to year.

... Burger King uses a «small percentage» of Beef Products Inc.'s beef trimmings in its U.S. hamburgers and does not plan to change that, spokeswoman Denise Wilson said.

«We showed that the model accurately represents what we measured in cities, so now we can use it to conduct sensitivity studies, where only a single variable — the percentage of the city covered by impervious versus pervious materials — changes,» he said.

And in reality, that percentage will probably be much more than 5 %, and there will be lots of other land - use change as well to replace the other 95 % of the vegetable oil.

Using the TALEN pair to edit the gene in the mosquito's germ cells early in development, they were able to change the eye color of a large percentage of the mosquitoes arising in the next generation from black to white.

However, an isocaloric diet was used, with only a change in the percentage of carbohydrate contributing to the diet.

However, Krueger and Lindahl used the absolute change in years of schooling rather than the percentage growth in human capital as their unit of measurement.

We used statistical techniques similar to the one we employed to examine changes in average scores to assess the effect of the bonus program on the percentage of students achieving proficiency on math and reading exams.

Using the paper's estimates, that would imply the recent recession caused a decline in female enrollment in elementary education of 33.6 percent (the 5.6 percentage point change in the unemployment rate multiplied by the 6 percent figure above).

The authors use data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally benchmarked proficiency standard.

Peterson, Barrows, and Gift used data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally - benchmarked proficiency standard.

Alternatively, if LEAs use the Identified Student Percentage multiplied by 1.6 for all of their public schools, such use of a new data source may result in changes in the identification of Title I schools and allocation of funds among them.

Syracuse proposed using changes in the percentage of students scoring in the four performance categories in a given elementary or middle school from 2012 to 2013 as a school - wide local measure.

Without three years of data, NMPED is to use what it calls graduated considerations or «NMTEACH» steps to change the percentages used in the evaluation formulas by teacher type.

It also shows percentage change in 54 services from 1996 to 2000 and explains how to use the calculations and the existing replacement rate percentages.

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When used together, duration and convexity offer a better approximation of the percentage of price change resulting from a particular change in a bond's yield than using duration alone.

Alpha: A statistical measurement used to determine the percentage of the change in a stock's price due to factors internal to the company, rather than to the stock market's fluctuations.

The 6 - month change in employment (using Household Survey data) had turned negative and the spread between 2 - year Treasury yields and the Fed Funds rates fell to less than -1.3 percentage points.

The cumulative use of your LTA is tracked as a percentage rather than an absolute amount, to take account of any changes in the LTA between the different times you crystallise money.

I used to have more than 50 % in large - cap, but the percentage shrank after the latest change.

As ATR uses True Ranges for its calculation, which are in turn based on absolute price changes, ATR reflects the volatility of a price not in percentage terms but in absolute price levels.

The percentage change in tax liability can also be extremely misleading if it is used to assess the impact of a tax proposal on the change in the relative well - being of households with different incomes.

Again, I like to use a threshold that is in the middle, say a minimum of around 5 %, since your portfolio's risk / reward profile will not change too much for percentages below that.

The bp is commonly used for calculating changes in interest rates, equity indexes and the yield of a fixed - income security.The relationship between percentage changes and basis points can be summarized as follows: 1 % change = 100 basis points, and 0.01 % = 1 basis point.

This can be volatile year - on - year, even with no change in underlying sub interest — so I also tend to apply a weighted average percentage, using the past 2 - 3 yrs (& weighting towards the most recent year).

«While this year's results reflected some changes in payment preference percentages, overall we continued to see that consumers prefer to use debit when making everyday purchases, credit when shopping online or making discretionary purchases and cash when making small dollar payments,» wrote the payment company.

If you're going to frame a temperature response as a percentage change in response to given size of forcing change, then at a bare minimum you need to use the temperature change due to that forcing as the denominator.

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

I think Warren is using the absolute percentage change in CO2 concentration: from 0.029 to 0.039 in the last hundred years.

If one also understands all the other issues we face in terms of resource constraints, environmental issues, climate change, etc., then one also understands we must ultimately use a fraction of the resources we do today, thus must replace a much smaller percentage than we are using today.

The percentage of a country's greenhouse gas emissions sequestered from changes in land use and forestry in 2011, as defined by the FAO.

A percentage change in cloud cover can be used to calculate the additional clear air absorption and water absorption, and thus the W / m2 warming that induced the specific near - surface energy increase and near - surface atmospheric temperature rise.

Incorporating new regulations and changes in to their contracts as well as using arbitration clauses, the corporation will be successfully managing to reduce the percentage of disputes in litigation.

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To measure changes in the child's behaviour, we used the preschool version of a clinically validated measure of childhood emotional and behavioural problems the Parent Account of Child Symptoms (PrePACS).60 Data on positive and negative interactions were gathered using a video of a child's mealtime coded according to the Mellow Parenting Scheme61 and a 5 min speech sample capturing parents» descriptions of their children and their relationship with each child, coded according to the warmth of their initial statement and the percentage of negative comments about the child.62 Speech samples and videos were coded following the training of researchers by the developer according to the developer's manuals.61, 62 Researchers received training in the administration of the PrePACS from the developer.

Use recent changes in the sales cycle as well as averages of how long it takes transactions to close and what percentage doesn't become final to estimate revenues.