Sentences with phrase «rating scales ranging»

Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's use rating scales ranging from AAA, for likely to meet financial obligations, to D for default.

Moody's rating scale ranges from Aaa to C with 1, 2, and 3 to indicate whether the ranking is on the higher or lower end of that category.

Moody's rating scale ranges from Aaa to C with numerical modifiers 1,2, and 3 to indicate whether ranking is on the higher or lower end of that rating category.

Yields of the Investment grade corporates as measured by the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index have tightened this month by 8 bps on average and across the rating scales range between 7 to 10 bps.

Moody's rating scale ranges from Aaa to C with 1, 2, and 3 to indicate whether the ranking is on the higher or lower end of that category.

Moody's rating scale ranges from Aaa to C with numerical modifiers 1,2, and 3 to indicate whether ranking is on the higher or lower end of that rating category.

Pain intensity (measured on a numeric rating scale ranging from 0 to 100, where 0 represents no pain at all and 100 stands for excruciating pain).

Participants were required to rate the extent to which they agree with each statement on a 7 - point rating scale ranging from 1 = «not at all» to 7 = «very much.»

Respondents indicate how often they engage in each of the examples of rumination using a 4 - point rating scale ranging from 1 (almost never) to 4 (almost always).

Not exact matches

We've rated each item on a scale ranging from five stars (we love it) to zero stars (we hate it).

The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»

On the Scoville scale, which is used to denote the heat ratings of chilli peppers, cayenne pepper is rated at 30,000 to 50,000 units (for reference, habaneros and scotch bonnet peppers range anywhere from 100,000 to 350,000).

The basic varieties of the chinense species are as follows: (To put the heat scale in perspective, ratings of a jalapeño range from 3,000 to 8,000 Scoville Units.)

Infant car seats with very high safety ratings are going to fall in the upper range of the price scale.

The building would provide one -, two - and three - bedroom apartments for tenants from a mix of income brackets, with sliding - scale rents ranging from near - market rate to significantly below.

To use the scale, scientists rate their agreement with 13 statements, including «I am able to create activities that participants find engaging» and «I am able to moderate discussions with participants, even when they include a wide range of perspectives.»

The reaction rate between atmospheric hydrogen chloride (HCl) and chlorine nitrate (ClONO2) is greatly enhanced in the presence of ice particles; HCl dissolves readily into ice, and the collisional reaction probability for ClONO2 on the surface of ice with HCl in the mole fraction range from ∼ 0.003 to 0.010 is in the range from ∼ 0.05 to 0.1 for temperatures near 200 K. Chlorine (Cl2) is released into the gas phase on a time scale of at most a few milliseconds, whereas nitric acid (HNO3), the other product, remains in the condensed phase.

Before and after, the subjects rated the scenarios on a seven - point scale, ranging from morally forbidden to morally permissible.

Finally, the women were asked to rate a range medicines, foods and other substances in terms of how harmful they thought they were for the fetus on a scale of 0 - 10.

After six months, participants were rated by clinicians on a Parkinson's disease scale ranging from 0 to 108.

The psychologists rated the mother's affection and attention level on a five - point scale ranging from «negative» to «extravagant.»

Moderate sessions involved continuous exercise with a heart rate at 70 percent of peak or less; perceived exertion in a range of 12 - 14, on a scale of 6 - 20.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the rating of perceived exertion (RPE) scale would predict a broad range of ERT intensities on the leg press with older adults.

In the paper, Frederick M. Hess and Coby Loup examine the contracts — forged with unions or set mainly through school board policies — in the 50 largest districts, rating them on a scale that ranges from «highly flexible» to «highly restrictive.»

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

The first item asked teachers to rate students in terms of their attentiveness on a four - point scale ranging from never attentive to attentive all of the time.

On a four - point scale they rated at three or higher many aspects of their program preparation including a range of aspects of classroom management; language, literacy, and reading instruction (including teaching phonics); ability to teach mathematics; ability to use a range of assessments to improve their teaching and learning; and knowledge of content.

The first 68 items were rated on a 5 - point scale that ranged from strongly disagree to strongly agree.

According to EENJ's «Core Principles,» any implemented program should feature a rating system on a scale ranging from «ineffective, partially effective, effective, and highly effective.»

New Jersey's teachers have been through the inaugural process of determining how they rate on the evaluation system's four - level scale, which ranges from «ineffective» to «highly effective.»

Each rating has its own color corresponding to this scale, ranging from green (10) to yellow to orange (1) to help you see the distinctions.

At a website where lawyers rate judges, she's got ratings for temperament and objectivity in the 1 - 2 point range on a ten - point scale.

The scores range between 300 and 850 and most lenders have thresholds of what level of FICO score they will lend to and if they do lend at what interest rate to charge based on where the consumer falls on that scale.

That's a wide enough range to push you up or down a bracket in a bank's interest rate scale, so it's worth watching.

For example, since an 800 credit score and a 750 credit score are both «excellent» on any credit score scale, if your score is anywhere in that range you'll probably have the easiest time being approved for credit and be offered the lowest rates on any new credit cards or loans.

Citibank's mortgage division — CitiMortgage — is a large - scale lender offering a comprehensive range of fixed - rate and adjustable - rate mortgages for purchase and refinance.

Rating agencies rank bonds on a scale ranging from AAA (super solid) to C (close to default).

Ratings are measured on a scale that generally ranges from AAA (highest grade) to D (lowest grade); ratings are subject to change without Ratings are measured on a scale that generally ranges from AAA (highest grade) to D (lowest grade); ratings are subject to change without ratings are subject to change without notice.

All Inspected & Approved hotels are then rated on a scale of one to five diamonds, based upon overall quality, range of facilities, and level of services.

It probably is not too bad for the upper range of the wind scale used, but, of course, in that case the scale length will also be larger, e.g. the layer thicker and the lapse rate not as extreme.

As a «rate this comment» feature, you should have a thermometer graphic, that ranges on the scale of frigid (denier) to cold (skeptic) to warm (believer) to hot (alarmist).

Although warmer temperatures have been correlated with higher rates of CH4 production across a range of ecosystems (Yvon - Durocher et al. 2014), annual - scale reservoir GHG data are currently too limited to make inferences on how seasonal biases may either under or overestimate annual - scale fluxes.

On top of bringing heavy rainfall and storm surges, the intensity of these recent tempests goes so far beyond what was previously thought to be the peak range of cyclone power that the researchers argued that they require a new level, a category 6, on a widely used rating scale for hurricanes and typhoons.

Estimates of this rate and the corresponding time - scale for either ice sheet range from more rapid (several centuries for several metres of sea - level rise, up to 1 m / century) to slower (i.e., a few millennia; Meehl et al., 2007 Section 10.7.4.4; Vaughan and Spouge, 2002), so that deglaciation is very likely to be completed long after it is first triggered.

Moreover, the model - simulated rates of radiative damping are consistent with those obtained from satellite observations and are indicative of a strong positive correlation between temperature and water vapor variations over a broad range of spatiotemporal scales.

Organic and depressive symptoms (automatic geriatric examination for computer assisted taxonomy [AGECAT], score range 1 and 2 = subclinical to 5 = most severe), behavioural problems (Crichton Royal behavioural rating scale, score range 0 = no problems to 38 = severe problems), and physical disability (Barthel activity of daily living index, score range 0 = dependent to 20 = independent but not necessarily normal).

Included studies used several tools for measuring the severity of depressive symptoms, namely the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM - D), 21 22 30 34 35 Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ - 9), 24 36 Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), 23 26 28 Hopkins Symptom Checklist - 20 (HSCL - 20), 37 38 Montgomery - Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), 18 25 27 Beck Depression Inventory - Fast Screen (BDI - FS) 39 and Center of Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES - D).40 These tools have different score ranges (HAM - D = 0 — 53, PHQ - 9 = 0 — 27, GDS = 0 — 15, HSCL - 20 = 0 — 4, MADRS = 0 — 60, BDI - FS = 0 — 21 and CES - D = 0 — 60), with higher scores in all tools representing increasing severity of depressive symptoms.

Each item is rated for frequency of use on a 6 - point Likert scale ranging from 1 «never in the past 4 weeks» to 6 «twice a day».

Secondary outcomes included depressive symptoms (end point symptom scores) and remission (defined as a score on a depression rating scale within the normal range — eg, HAMD score ⩽ 7, MADRS score ⩽ 12 or...

Participants rated their use of each coping strategy on a 4 - point scale range from 1 (I haven't been doing this at all) to 4 (I've been doing this a lot).