Sentences with phrase «predictability of future»

A rate adjustment would then be applied to each individual employer based on their own claims experience and insurable earnings and the actuarial predictability of future costs.

The predictability of future climate is highly problematic if we don't know the timing and nature of shifts.

With longer term contracts, we ensure higher predictability of future electricity costs as well.

The accumulative nature of the process has, so far as I can see, nothing whatever to do with the absence of predictability of the future.

According to Hartshorne, no amount of explanation in terms of efficient causality can account for the precise eventual character of a new creative synthesis; such historical explanations are valuable only in explaining the general outline and predictability of the future and the necessity of each new feeling having had its own specific causal

«I think Morningstar ratings... give investors comfort, but comfort doesn't have anything to do with the predictability of future returns.»

Not exact matches

The rating agency believes the global trend towards imposing losses on junior creditors in the context of future bank resolutions reduces the predictability of such support being provided to the sub-debt holders of the large Canadian banks given the Canadian regulators» broad legislated resolution powers.

One of the must have competencies in the future of B2B is buyer predictability.

The theory is that the cost of the linkage fee - with the predictability of a three - year phase in and the certainty that comes from applying it to all commercial and multi-family residential projects - will actually be built into the cost of the land and not passed on to future tenants.

If something lies in principle outside the domain of predictability, in the open future or in the arena of what Ernst Bloch calls the Not - Yet - Conscious, (Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope.

The predictability of a gentle routine not only gifts you with the confidence that you can provide for your child's sleep needs, but it builds a solid foundation for future sleep hygiene.

The Executive Budget takes two steps backward for one step forward — with improvements to target poverty this year outweighed by the loss of predictability and transparency in future years and by not doing enough to ensure that schools serving low - income students and students of color receive the resources they need to increase achievement and opportunity.

«To plan for the future, we need predictability,» said Ron Masera, superintendent of the Remsenburg - Speonk district, has written to area representatives in the legislature to seek their help.

It is this background warming from the heat trapped by greenhouse gases that actually accounts for most of the predictability in future temperature change, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State.

Future studies are expected to explore these patterns of predictability outside of human cells and with a range of enzymes, with potential relevance to fields such as agriculture, industrial biotechnology and beyond.

Seismological Society of America > News > Journals > Call for Papers: SRL Focus Section on the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability: New Results and Future Directions

Investors skeptical of future economic growth and of the ability of the Trump administration to pass its proposed legislation opted for the greater predictability of earnings from growth stocks in an increasingly uncertain environment.

Some mortgage borrowers like the predictability of monthly payments because they don't have to worry about their rate increasing in the future, causing a higher payment.

Cohen, Polk, and Vuolteenaho (2003) demonstrate that about 55 % of cross-sectional variation in P / B reflects future differences in profitability among companies, about 25 % reflects future variations in P / B among companies, and about 20 % reflects future return predictability.

For these reasons, professionals are not ready to instantly quote prices of options with maturity dates far into the future, since the predictability of the inputs is so much more unreliable than for shorter - term options.

Future energies will be directed to determining how predictable stock returns are and what strategies make best use of predictability.

Figure 3 can be viewed as a map to the zones of continuing predictability and to the zones or periods requiring heightened attention to our future investment direction.

Predictability, Prediction quality / skill, and A projection is a potential future evolution of a quantity or set of quantities... Unlike predictions, projections are conditional on assumptions....

Summary for Policymakers Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Observations: Atmosphere and Surface Chapter 3: Observations: Ocean Chapter 4: Observations: Cryosphere Chapter 5: Information from Paleoclimate Archives Chapter 6: Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles Chapter 7: Clouds and Aerosols Chapter 8: Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing Chapter 8 Supplement Chapter 9: Evaluation of Climate Models Chapter 10: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change: from Global to Regional Chapter 11: Near - term Climate Change: Projections and Predictability Chapter 12: Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility Chapter 13: Sea Level Change Chapter 14: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change Chapter 14 Supplement Technical Summary

If entering the «climate drivers equation» is now the increasing activity of tropical (or extra-tropical) ocean cyanobacterial productivity (driven by the CO2 fertilization effect including the effect of the anthropogenic nitrogen discharges to coastal oceans), then what can we say about the strength of future El Ninos and La Ninas and the predictability of the PDO?

As such, the paper constitutes a significant departure from the mainstream view of forecasting by shifting the emphasis from the predictability paradigm to the impact paradigm, from forecast as discovering to forecast as creating the future.

«The authors write that North Pacific Decadal Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability studies of both regional and global climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO with global climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled climate models is an important «open question in climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed... report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century climate... conclude that «for implications on future climate change, the coupled climate models show no consensus on projected future changes in frequency of either the first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»

We don't really know what the outcome means for the future inclusion of these issues in the UNFCCC process, We can only hope that countries find the way to incorporate them in a way that provides for clarity, certainty and predictability - regardless of where they ultimately find a home in the ensuing global economic governance system.

We found significant changes in the spatial distributions of temperature predictability in the present and future climate compared to the preindustrial climate, although the spatial average changes for North America were rather small -LRB-

The ability of climate science to probe and answer questions about the Earth system, the changes it has undergone, and the potential for change in the future has been (in my opinion) very successful in exploring the scope and limits of climate system predictability.

The FMI contributed to the identification of extreme weather events, assessment of predictability and the probability of extreme weather hazards in the present and the projected future climate.

Scientists are interested in studying both the predictability and possible future changes in the frequency and intensity of such storms.

The quasi-periodic nature of the model's AMO suggests that in the absence of external forcings at least, there is some predictability of the THC, AMO and global and Northern Hemisphere mean temperatures for several decades into the future.

Premier Kathleen Wynne said it is fair to base future changes on the CPI since it is a key indicator of how the economy is doing and would offer some predictability for businesses.

This legislation is a great step towards mitigating against future damages, increasing fairness and improving the predictability of Wisconsin's civil justice system.

The Defense Department's best budget predictability in more than a decade shows Congress and the executive branch are aligned in terms of the threats to the nation and current and future military readiness, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said.