Sentences with phrase «risk building our models»

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For the married co-founders of MOD Pizza, a chain of artisan - style pizza restaurants throughout the U.S., their business model was built from taking risks.

After finding some success in the B2B market, Simpson took Kitewire to the next level of risk management with netpure — a «build - it - and - they - will - come» model for the consumer market.

Jonathan Niednagel, Vice President New Market Development at Prevalent Inc., a supplier of third - party risk management technologies, puts it this way: «It will take several years of breach data before the underwriters are able to build models that support their pricing structure.

«I went down to Las Vegas and spent a day with Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, and we talked about building this customer - centric model that allowed customers to try a product risk - free, with free shipping and a 365 - day guarantee,» he says.

With the new change to our stock market timing model, we want to continue building our long exposure as new, low - risk swing trade setups develop.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Built on the Tesla platform, the battery's location on the floor gives Model X an extremely low center of gravity, reducing the risk of rollover common in SUVs.

By focusing on collecting all the data to build a more realistic model, the investor risks overlooking those key variables.

Sometimes, the risk is more obvious, such as the case of Jarden Corporation (JAH), whose entire business model was built upon growing «adjusted EPS.»

An analyst or investor with a detailed model risks becoming over committed to an idea, «I've built a 5,000 line spreadsheet, I must be right!»

Compare more than 11,000 funds and ETFs from across the industry; model and analyze custom - built portfolios using a wide range of performance and risk metrics.

Keith pioneered a risk - parity model portfolio structure used by millions today that is the most effective way to build lasting wealth.

Once the final additive model was built, interaction terms were tested, involving intended place of birth and: pregnancy risk factors, year, parity, maternal age and time of birth.

But the critical thing is to know what this algorithm is predicting; how to justify it; what is the model of climate change built into the algorithm; what risks of error are built into the algorithm that is predicting climate change?

The results of their model and risk analysis, which appear in the Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, provide a snapshot of green infrastructure performance for this particular green roof.

Ultimately, the team wanted to build a model that could use a mouse's starting gut bacterial community to predict that mouse's risk of infection.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

We have built statistical models that profile a home based on several attributes (year of construction, location, value, size, etc.), and provide an estimate of the risk level.

In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), researchers in the UPV / EHU's «Nutrition and Obesity» Group, which belongs to the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabetes.

By identifying where waterfowl are in the valley, waterfowl biologists from USGS are able to take samples from the birds to look for prevalence of avian influenza, helping to build pathogen risk models for the poultry industry in the region.

Utilizing the rich GECCO data, she and her colleagues build risk models to guide personalize screening decisions based on the individual's genetic and lifestyle risk profile.

In order to more reliably identify high - risk patients as early as possible, the researchers used data from 159 patients with FL who had participated in three prospective trials, to build a prognostic model based on TMTV and EOI PET.

March 31, 2018 • The BARR model, for «Building Assets, Reducing Risks,» has serious evidence backing it up as a solution for real improvements in student success.

Building on the pro-active service model, schools could also explore remote network management services, which can help them to stabilise their costs, widen their internal knowledge bank and, crucially, to transfer the risks associated with of day - to - day mishaps to the service provider.

She worked closely with students, faculty, and graduates of the Risk and Prevention Program to help disseminate new models of service and training and build supportive networks among practitioners.

When building routines for simple tasks like gathering materials, self - starting new tasks, taking risks, and rebounding from mistakes, I use Responsive Classroom's interactive modeling, a widely accepted practice for not only showing students how to perform routines, but also helping them understand why such routines are important.

Many large districts will struggle to create an atmosphere that promotes innovation as they wrestle with dramatically changing the existing teaching and learning paradigm, especially given existing labor contracts; building a spirit of risk - taking; and maintaining an unwavering commitment to success that will be required to develop new and innovative models that produce outstanding results.

Intervisitations offered schools low - risk ways to see other personalized learning schools in action, enrich their own evolving personalized learning models, build relationships with other educators engaged in innovation, and offer feedback to hosting schools.

Some of us have models built around the idea of working with extreme at - risk populations.

California: Mike Guerena, Director Educational Technology, Encinitas Union School District, CA Mike Guerena, described as «curious and committed» by colleagues, has led the nation in designing a complete suite of personalized learning programs for district students; believes in building the capacity of the educators with whom he works; models that risk - taking is essential for making substantial change; and looks for creative solutions to ensure equity for all students.

When used consistently with fidelity as part of an MTSS model, FAST provides teachers with exceptional and timely data to identify students at risk for academic and behavioral difficulty, as well as supports to implement the appropriate research - based intervention and instruction at the right time and build capacity for data - based decision - making.

The Model X is also built with safety in mind, as they have fitted the base model with features including side collision warning, emergency braking systems, and a low rollover risk frameModel X is also built with safety in mind, as they have fitted the base model with features including side collision warning, emergency braking systems, and a low rollover risk framemodel with features including side collision warning, emergency braking systems, and a low rollover risk framework!

Vehicles manufactured from November 2009 to January 2010 could suffer from leaky injectors and fuel pipes, while diesel models built between August and October 2010 were at risk of having cracked fuel pump seals.

That's because each Land Rover model has been built to precise specifications, and aftermarket parts could put performance, quality, and reliability at risk.

The model emphasizes access over ownership, and decreases three of the risks of building print collections, according to Elder: up - front cost, guessing at demand, and use of limited shelf space.

For example, the Big Five are simply too reliant on the existing ecosystem, unwilling to risk alienating certain channel partners and built upon a very rigid container - based creation and distribution model.

In building their credit - scoring model, FICO looks at something called `' credit utilization» as part of their risk calculations.

All the software we have built in the past 20 years — the order types and trading algos, account management, research, risk analytics, performance reporting, portfolio modeling and rebalancing tools — are all available to our customers free of any extra charge.

Efficient Advisors» portfolio models will deploy Dimensional's mutual funds to build factor - based portfolios at various levels of risk so advisers can address their clients» goals and needs.

TimesSquare believes that its proprietary fundamental equity research skills, which place particular emphasis on the assessment of management quality, an in - depth understanding of superior business models, and valuation discrepancies, enable the firm to build diversified stock portfolios that will generate superior risk - adjusted returns.

By day I am a financial analyst in London who uses VBA / MS - Access / MS - Excel and sometimes php to build financial models and portfolio valuation, trading and risk management tools.

Compare more than 11,000 funds and ETFs from across the industry; model and analyze custom - built portfolios using a wide range of performance and risk metrics.

Contribute to building credit risk models that are to be used in the assignment of Probability of Default across varying obligor and product types using a range of internal and / or external data extracted from systems or externally sourced

Initially, I thought the only way to build this venture was with a classical startup model, a risk I was prepared to take.»

The Castelli model is built around the notion that the dealer is representing a roster of artists who are mostly undiscovered and definitely underappreciated, looking at it from a long - term perspective — which means taking some risks in the beginning to help their artists build a strong foundation of interest and buzz, and then working toward recouping their investment in the second or third or even later solo exhibitions.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

Many economic models add further gross underassessment of risk because the assumptions built into the economic modeling on growth, damages and risks, come close to assuming directly that the impacts and costs will be modest and close to excluding the possibility of catastrophic outcomes.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

Participants model a sample Canadian project to assess building heat loss, energy demand and summertime overheating risk, and look at the reliability of data sources and how design decisions affect building - energy demand.

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