Sentences with phrase «rate is less than optimal»

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The study, The population risks of dietary salt excess are exaggerated, reports the optimal range of sodium at 3 to 6 g / day with paradoxical higher rate of events at less than 3 g / day:

It's said that having a credit utilization rate of less than 30 % is optimal.

Yet either way, the «optimal» rate is still less than the textbook Pigovian rate, which would normally set the carbon tax equal to the «social cost of carbon» which we assumed was $ 20 / ton in our example.

The difference between Professor Nordhaus's optimal carbon tax policy and a fifty - year delay policy is insignificant economically or climatologically in view of major uncertainties in (1) future economic growth (including reductions in carbon emissions intensity); (2) the physical science (e.g., the climate sensitivity); (3) future positive and negative environmental impacts (e.g., the economic «damage function»); (4) the evaluation of long - term economic costs and benefits (e.g., the discount rate); and (5) the international political process (e.g., the impact of less than full participation).

An important problem in implementing parent - centered interventions, however, is that engagement and participation rates are often less than optimal (DeMarsh & Kumpfer, 1986; Kazdin, 1993; Perrino, Coatsworth, Briones, Pantin, & Szapocznik, 2001).