Sentences with phrase «results over a time span»

However, even Amazon has an averaging strategy that is used to smooth results over a time span.

Not exact matches

When remuneration packages are tied into the performance of shares over a very short time - span, the long - term result is often a weaker corporate sector.

When the authors looked at seasonal trends over the same time period, the most notable expansion of the Sahara occurred in summer, resulting in a nearly 16 percent increase in the desert's average seasonal area over the 93 - year span covered by the study.

Results: Over time scales spanning at least a decade, the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface has varied.

The results of the largest coffee study to date were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine involving more than 400,000 U.S. men and women ages 50 to 71, over a 14 year span of time.

While capital gains can prove fickle, particularly over short spans of time, dividend growth is driven as a direct result of business prospects...

When the researchers repeated the analysis over both six - month and 36 - month periods over the same 90 years, the result was the same: investing the cash all at once came out ahead about two - thirds of the time in the case of six - month periods and 92 % of the time over 36 - month spans.

Okay, on detecting trends — here: http://www.google.com/search?q=grumbine+detecting+trends http://moregrumbinescience.blogspot.com/2009/01/results-on-deciding-trends.html ``... there has to be a time span over which our result for describing climate does not depend much on how long a time span we choose.

In a system such as the climate, we can never include enough variables to describe the actual system on all relevant length scales (e.g. the butterfly effect — MICROSCOPIC perturbations grow exponentially in time to drive the system to completely different states over macroscopic time) so the best that we can often do is model it as a complex nonlinear set of ordinary differential equations with stochastic noise terms — a generalized Langevin equation or generalized Master equation, as it were — and average behaviors over what one hopes is a spanning set of butterfly - wing perturbations to assess whether or not the resulting system trajectories fill the available phase space uniformly or perhaps are restricted or constrained in some way.

The point they make may be summarized by the following quote: «While in the observations such breaks in temperature trend are clearly superimposed upon a century time - scale warming presumably due to anthropogenic forcing, those breaks result in significant departures from that warming over time periods spanning multiple decades.»

I'm preparing a post comparing the Wang et al. results from AVHRR to NCAR / NCEP, over the same region (60N to the pole) and same time span (begin 1982 to end 2004).