Sentences with phrase «report by measurement»

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LLC's 2016 FDD provides that $ 3,187,100 is the average annual gross sales achieved by the «top third» of PSP franchisees (measured by gross sales), which consists of 55 reporting franchised stores during the measurement period beginning 1/4/15 and ending 1/2/16.

It is also possible, the report said, that inspectors changed data to adjust errors by measurement equipment.

Adjusted EBITDA is not calculated identically by all companies, and therefore the Company's measurements of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

The deal is less important financially and is more a way to reduce the likelihood Disney management will attack the quality of products released by the audience measurement company, according to a report from The Drum.

The new guidance simplifies the accounting for measurement period adjustments in connection with business combinations by requiring that an acquirer recognize adjustments to provisional amounts that are identified during the measurement period in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined.

In its seventh edition, this state of the market report presents investors» perspectives on key issues important to the impact investing industry, as well as analysis of their investment activity, asset allocations by geography, sector, and investment instrument, impact measurement practice, and performance.

Although a few of these may refer primarily to other images, the average report portrays the congregation as a machine whose work is detected by quantitative measurements and program vectors.

Some of the attempts at measurement are reported in a book edited by Paul and Margaret Baltes, entitled Successful Aging: Perspectives From The Behavioral Sciences.

In the past year, tools have emerged to facilitate measurement, including the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard and the Food Waste Quantification Manual developed by the EU FUSIONS initiative.

Second, because both weight measurement and feeding practice were reported by mothers, reporting errors may have occurred.

The second phase of the study reports results from 53 healthy, non-obese men and women between ages 21 and 50 who cut calories by 15 % over 2 years and underwent additional measurements for metabolism and oxidative stress.

Apart from the uncertainty of relying largely on self - reported measurements, she points out, the authors double - dip their data by testing height and weight separately and then again as body mass index, or BMI, which combines height and weight.

A report by 47 scientists using data from 10 satellites provides exquisitely detailed measurements of Greenland and Antarctica

From in situ measurements made over a 20 - month period by the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on Curiosity at Gale Crater, we report detection of background levels of atmospheric methane of mean value 0.69 ± 0.25 ppbv at the 95 % confidence interval (CI).

The Spitzer data stacked up according to predictions, Tinetti says — especially when combined with eight - micron measurements reported in May by Knutson's team, which used Spitzer to map HD 189733 b's dayside temperature.

«STS public reporting uses a measurement system that was developed by surgeons, in conjunction with statisticians; all our measures are completely transparent and published in peer - reviewed journals.

Update: as suggested by the academy in its 2006 report, Michael Mann and his colleagues have reconstructed northern hemisphere temperatures for the past 2000 years using a broader set of proxies than was available for the original study and updated measurements from the recent past.

The research team, led by professor Kazuyo Tsuzuki, had the subjects sleep in two bedrooms set to the same temperature using ACs set at different airflow velocities, then made a comparison of the depth of sleep and body temperature control using electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements as well as subjective reporting by the subjects.

«Both regional measurements and analyses, as reported by Miller et al., and source specific studies, are needed to identify opportunities for emission reductions.»

Now, an international group led by Prof. Danny Porath of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reports reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four DNA strands, signaling a significant breakthrough towards the development of DNA - based electrical circuits.

In a study of 130 TGFs recorded by the AGILE satellite, Italian Space Agency physicist Marco Tavani and colleagues report that the most energetic particles released carry four times as much energy as previous measurements detected, and hundreds of times as much as those produced by normal lightning strikes.

Analyzing measurements of high - altitude airglow gathered by a satellite in 1992 and 1996 (years of maximum and minimum solar flare activity, respectively), the scientists found 11 cases where airglow, in theory, brightened enough to be seen by observers on the ground, they report in Geophysical Research Letters.

The evidence for benefits was strongest for treating chronic pain, reducing chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting, multiple sclerosis patients have reported that it reduces spasticity — muscle tightness and movement difficulties — although when the measurements are taken by a doctor the evidence of reduced spasticity was weaker.

A report in this week's Science finds that these bright flashes do seem to spread out by the same amount and are born from stars of identical masses, which may help refine cosmic distance measurements.

But new measurements by Venus Express (artist's concept above), which has been orbiting the cloud - shrouded planet since 2006, reveal the current rotational period to be about 6.5 minutes slower, researchers report this month in Icarus.

Here, we report on local and global changes in MHW characteristics over time as recorded by satellite and in situ measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and defined using a quantitative MHW framework, which allows for comparisons across regions and events1.

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»

They revised an earlier HIPPARCOS parallax estimate of l02 ly made in the 1990s that had an error margin (Plx = 31.92 + / - 0.51 mas) just big enough to suggest that the star may actually lie about 100 ly away, in agreement with Earth - based parallax measurements computed before 1978 as reported by Robert Burnham, Jr. (1931 - 93).

If correct, the new report raises questions about the validity of countless other measurements taken by the same instrument since 2003.

Concerning the deviations of the fluorescence quantum yield of eqFP650 from the value of 0.24 reported by Shcherbo et al. (15), we can only speculate, as the performance of these measurements including instrument calibration were not included.

We improved by a factor of four the measurement of the radius of the planet WASP - 45 b, and found that WASP - 46 b is slightly less massive and smaller than previously reported.

This study is telling, because not only did the subjects report improvements in their own symptoms, but the reduced esophageal acidity was confirmed by direct measurement.

The other figures come from 2008 demographic reports by media measurement service Quantcast.

States have increased the accuracy of measurements of student growth by examining year - to - year growth rather than reported a static score at a given point in time.

Feedback gathered from ISBE's External Evaluation of the Illinois Statewide System of Support, prepared by Measurement Incorporated, reported that:

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Reported measurements of 9.3 mm thick and a weight of 430g aren't confirmed by the Carphone Warehouse flyer although a price is - $ 399.

What it is: A measurement of prices for a fixed basket of goods and services bought regularly by U.S. consumers, reported for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI - W) and for All - Urban Consumers (CPI - U), which includes professional and self - employed people.

ASU No. 2011 - 04 will require reporting entities to disclose the following information for fair value measurements categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy: quantitative information about the unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement, the valuation processes used by the reporting entity and a narrative description of the sensitivity of the fair value measurement to changes in unobservable inputs and the interrelationships between those unobservable inputs.

It is one of the fastest growing pet categories, accounting for about $ 1.8 billion in sales during 2015, according to a recent report by Nielsen, a global information and measurement company.

Measurements of global temperature (RSS, black curve) compared to the extreme lower (green curve) and upper (red curve) forecasts for global temperature by the IPCC First Assessment Report (1990).

If the new report Rose is talking about says the increase since 1951 is 0.12 °C per decade, then it's off by only 8 percent from the earlier measurement of 0.13 °.

Here we report that the measurements of the near - Earth interplanetary magnetic field reveal that the total magnetic field leaving the sun has risen by a factor 1.4 since 1964.»

Among the observations reported are reports of warming in the early part of the century and direct measurements of Arctic water temperature by Spielhagen in 2010 who reported temperatures that never had been reached in the previous two thousand years.

Science historians would point out that Professor Revelle did not prompt the first CO2 measurement in the atmosphere; what he prompted was the first sampling of air from locations around the world, and it was actually Harry Wexler, the head of the Weather Service at the time, who prompted and actually funded the start of the long - term monitoring program by David Keeling on Mauna Loa — so Revelle did play a very important role in stimulating observations (and in 1965 he chaired the panel on this issue that prepared a quite insightful appendix for the report of the President's Scientific Advisory Council), but Revelle was not the very first to urge CO2 be measured in the atmosphere.

One example of, how accurate the floats are in their temperature measurements is given by this report, where the performance of three early Argo floats is analyzed after 2 - 3 years of use.

By the end of the same year a total of US$ 24 million had been approved by the Policy Board for quick start action for country programmes to prepare national REDD + strategies, engage stakeholders and develop measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systemBy the end of the same year a total of US$ 24 million had been approved by the Policy Board for quick start action for country programmes to prepare national REDD + strategies, engage stakeholders and develop measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systemby the Policy Board for quick start action for country programmes to prepare national REDD + strategies, engage stakeholders and develop measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems.

Here we report measurements of ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes, remotely sensed radiation absorbed by plants, and country - level crop yields taken during the European heatwave in 2003.

While the BoM has never released reports with parallel data supporting the claim of equivalence, in late October and early December 2017 a first and second lot of A8 forms were released to me — this followed my request to Minister Josh Freydenberg on 26 September for parallel measurements, and more specifically on 22 October for these A8 forms... immediately after I was informed by a whistle - blower that these forms contained the relevant information.

Global average sea levels have risen by around 3.2 mm per year since satellite measurements began in 1993, the report says, with sea levels around 67 mm higher in 2014 than they were in 1993.