Sentences with phrase «risk model like»

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There's a lot to consider, like the uncertainty of bitcoin's value — and there's the risk that the extra graphics cards you buy will become less efficient at mining when newer models are released.

I like that I can set my own risk profile and that I'm using the underlying statistical model and not my emotions to know what moves to make.

But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.

«If the financial crisis taught nothing else, it showed how elegant financial models that calculate risk to decimal point precision act like a sedative towards critical thinking and even common sense» Allan Mecham

Personally I am pretty non-plussed by academics insisting that anything you do to not look like an index is somehow «cheating» (such as holding a lot more / a lot smaller companies) or explained by their risk / return models, but I haven't got the academic chops to explain myself well.

Think funds like WisdomTree's India Earnings ETF (EPI), which we like in our multi-asset risk allocation model portfolio.

This allows us to mitigate risk and deploy that cash when stocks look attractive per our model, which focuses on factors like high returns on invested capital, sales per share growth and dividend per share growth.

Mr Simotas says he doesn't believe the wage catch - up would «break the business model» but says the fact Domino's is trading on a multiple of 54 times 2017 earnings «leaves little room for risks like this».

Regardless of those who continually spew nonsense about how we can't compete with the oil - rich fat cats and the like, this club and it's majority owner have bags of cash at the ready, but simply refuse to deviate from the business model that has allowed them to reap the rewards of our financial loyalty without assuming any monetary risks whatsoever.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

In several other studies, including a number that examined flooding in the Clear Creek watershed, Blessing, Brody, Sebastian and SSPEED colleagues have shown that other approaches, like distributed hydrologic modeling and probabilistic flood plain mapping, can be far more predictive of flood damages and flood risk.

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.

«Agencies like mine can use this model to anticipate domoic acid risks and prepare for periods of more intensive monitoring and testing, helping to better inform our decisions and ensure the safety of harvested crab and shellfish,» he said in a statement.

But whereas Facbeook's algorithms crunch through uploaded photographs to detect faces and Amazon's models predict which products you'll like, we are using these analytics tools to detect homes with high risk of lead contamination and to predict the locations of lead pipes buried underground or hidden in the homes of residents.

The study is based on a theoretical model the researchers developed and was inspired by the dramatic stories people like to tell about risk - taking entrepreneurs.

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.

The current study, and studies like it that use animal models, could contribute to determining human health risks and developing policies leading to a reduction in both exposure to THS and disease.

Multiple studies show that the catechin compounds found in green tea can have various protecting effects on neurons in test tubes and animals models, potentially lowering the risk of disease like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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.

We know for kids with disabilities who are obviously disadvantaged to start with, that these kinds of risks are there and inappropriately applied behavioural models like the manage - and - discipline model can make things much worse for them and it means that it speeds up their process of being either suspended or excluded from school.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

She has led innovations such as proliferation of unique hybrid models like the YMCA and military drop - in sites and the development of an at - risk model.

And we have Ofsted moving cautiously into what can look like school improvement work — which brings significant risks and is not always consistent with a school - led model of improvement.

In the side impact test for both models, measures taken from both the driver dummy and the passenger dummy seated in the rear seat indicated low risk of significant injuries in a real - world crash like this one.

When companies like 24Symbols introduced this model, very few publishers were willing to take a risk on a model that may or may not result in due compensation for their authors and their bottom lines.

I wouldn't expect an official Amazon word on this for some time... especially with Hachette and HarperCollins both having said they'd like to go to a similar model, I doubt Amazon wants to risk screwing up their position in those negotiations by divulging any more information to the public than they have to at this point.

«Like any new business model, the advantages of hybrid publishing come with certain risks and uncertainty; the IBPA's criteria are intended to help authors navigate those risks and identify the reputable players....»

However, with this business model, there is considerable risk — and it is tempting for small publishers like us to minimize risk and go for the «sure thing.»

One of the factors organizations like FICO consider when modeling an individual's credit risk is their credit utilization - that is what percentage of total available credit a consumer is using month - to - month.

Dodd Frank is aimed at moving much more business towards the central clearing model to reduce credit risk like this.

Even in finance, which I thought was a little more rigorous, I saw unprovable monstrosities like the CAPM and its cousins, concepts of risk that existed only to make risk uniform, so professors could publish, and option pricing models that relied on lognormal price movement.

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It's expensive to use multiple credit scores and for something like an auto loan and they must feel like, for the risk, that one score works pretty well in their modeling whereas with mortgages the amount is so large that they really want to look at all three scores from all three bureaus and get a really good composite.

Note that Pokémon Go, like Nintendo's two other recent mobile game releases (Pokémon Shuffle and Miitomo), is being released under the free - to - play business model, so it may be inferred that Nintendo no longer considers inexpensive games to be a risk to the industry.

This business model looks like a money pit, a high - risk anchor snag for attracting venture capitalists and fee - paying artists.

As some contemporary artists are obsessed with the new and create sculptures with unsuspecting original materials like bottles, coke cans, tube tickets, model dolls, or model cars to name just a few, there is a risk artists might forget the innate nobility and magnificence of the world's artistic heritage.

It is a game of imperfect knowledge, where multiple competing agents must deal with risk management, agent modeling, unreliable information and deception, much like decision - making applications in the real world.

Projections of these changes of risk using models in which changes in the background climate are incorporated, and applied using models that do a fair job at the short time scale (like high resolution weather prediction, or hydrological discharge, or...) is thus a viable procedure, and does yield added value.

Others have talked about what this might look like — regional impacts, measurement quality, reduced funding to GCM modeling (consistent with their strength in testing subsystems rather than forecasting climate), and more empirical work and modeling of those systems that have a large impact on areas of risk.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

Other new technologies, like park - assist or even self - parking models, have made it easier and safer for people to park their vehicles without the risk of causing property damage or injury.

So what happens if a particular risk that you'd like to insure against doesn't fit into the pricing model offered by the NCRB?

Since the rate offered to each driver varies according to credit history, driver age, vehicle model and risk factors, obtain quotes from major auto insurers like Allstate to get the maximum coverage.

Insurance companies evaluate the car insurance policy by taking various risk factors like theft, floods, RTO location, age, gender, make and model, repairs and replacement cost etc..

That risk profile includes driving specific data like the make and model of your car and your driving record, but it also includes personal factors that are less directly related to your driving record, including your age, your credit score, and your zip code.

Roose: Is the basic economic model of Facebook, in which users provide data that Facebook uses to help advertisers and developers to better target potential customers and users — do you feel like that works, given what we now know about the risks?

We must implement new business models, including greater use of the right cloud services and more community efforts like the Global Cyber Alliance that aggregate capability to more effectively mitigate risk.

Reports state that Mataruka hinted at research being made by the central bank to help zero in on the risks involved with dealing with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, accentuating that «[bitcoin] will not be allowed» until they [Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe] had developed a regulatory model for bitcoin's use and flow within the country - a subtle detail that could point to a recognition of the currency probably in the future.

Bright Futures, the AAP health promotion initiative, provides resources for pediatricians to detect both ACEs and adverse developmental outcomes.36 Programs like Reach Out and Read, in which pediatricians distribute books and model reading, simultaneously promote emergent literacy and parent — child relationships through shared reading.37, 38 However, ACEs can not be addressed in isolation and require collaborative efforts with partners in the education, home visitation, and other social service sectors in synergistic efforts to strengthen families.29 In this way, programs like Help Me Grow39 that create streamlined access to early childhood services for at - risk children can play a critical role in building an integrated system that connects families to needed resources to enhance the development of vulnerable children.

First, the risk and resilience model indicates that being involved in prosocial activities — like self - determined leisure — helps to cultivate protective factors that make youth more resilient (Masten and Coatsworth, 1998).