Sentences with phrase «risk scale based»

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One risk is that Facebook benefits from having a giant unified user base all accessible to advertisers who crave scale.

Scaling our positions in proportion to the market's expected return / risk profile, based on prevailing conditions (rather than trying to forecast market turns), is the essential practice.

In that briefing note, we identify five entry points for sustainability standards to contribute to the development of these approaches and ensure their integrity and complementarity: preferential or risk - based sourcing; land use planning; government and stakeholder mobilization; producer support at scale; and leveraging finance.

The Republicans have a problem in that without throwing a bone to their own base upstate that regards Skelos only a step or two behind Cuomo on the «personification of evil» scale, they risk that base vote staying home in close races next year or, even worse, primaries against the senators who voted for Flanagan last week.

These smaller - scale studies assess health risks based on data already collected, giving a snapshot of a community at a particular moment.

Based on the resulting differences in intracranial pressure, the team developed an equation, or scaling law, to estimate the risk of brain injury for each species.

Many large - scale studies have linked specific base changes to higher or lower risks for disorders ranging from diabetes to arthritis.

In a long - term, large - scale population - based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to cognitively healthy individuals.

«This approach provides an important basis for a new way of carrying out continental - scale risk management,» says Hannah Cloke of the University of Reading, UK.

In a paper published recently in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from several Western institutes estimated the number of people living in low - elevation coastal zones, as well as the scale of the population at risk from one - in -100-year storm surge events, by using scenario - based projections.

These quantifications might further help, and indeed convince, decision - makers across the world to decide on wide - scale introduction of prediction models and risk - based management for cardiovascular disease.»

If future, large - scale studies replicate these findings then genetic testing based on these results can serve as a tool for assessing an individual's risk for developing certain types of cancer, Dr. Eng said.

May 15, 2006 deCODE and Illumina Form Alliance to Develop and Commercialize DNA - based Diagnostics Companies to initiate work on molecular diagnostics for the risk of heart attack, type 2 diabetes and breast cancer Illumina to install large - scale genotyping system and...

These and most other similar large - scale assessments are based primarily on species distribution (bioclimatic envelope) models, which use correlations between species» observed distributions and climate variables to predict their distributions and hence their extinction risk under future climate scenarios [9]--[11].

The study provides the first large - scale, population - based evidence for the idea that perhaps it's not just calories, but the type of calories, that matter when looking at diabetes risk.

By artificially triggering snow instabilities on a regular basis, the risk of large - scale avalanches is reduced.

It's a turn based strategy game on a grand scale, like RISK except you can build cities and research new technology, or, in this case, spells in order to dominate the world.

Given humanity's focus on the near and now, the greatest challenge posed by global warming is figuring out how to spur meaningful changes in energy norms based on a risk with this time scale.

These include identifying and understanding key environmental and societal vulnerabilities to global change over a range of time scales; developing a knowledge base to support regional and sectoral responses to global change; developing a knowledge base to support responses to global scale threats; and finally, creating and applying the tools and approaches needed to iteratively manage the risks of global change.

Our GHG stabilisation targets are also based on risks assessed on a more benign history than the future will likely be — unless we push much harder targets for renewable energy penetration, and demand the absolute reduction of large scale coal burning.

We believe this approach has significant advantages over large - scale, centralized combustion - based biomass power plants in terms of higher efficiency, lower fuel risk and reduced emissions.»

Based on this process, the person's likelihood of committing a future crime (the output) is pegged on a scale of 1 (low risk) to 10 (high risk).

That being said, considering that the Directive allows vast discretion to national competent authorities to scale up the requirements, it is hoped that the local regulator will not adopt an overly - prescriptive approach which would defeat the purpose of the risk - based approach and negatively affect Malta's competitive advantage in certain sectors.

Total scores are also recoded dichotomously, based on a validated cutoff score of ≥ 153,25 on the global scale to indicate overall mental health risk.

The distributions of the BITSEA scales were examined to determine whether statistically at - risk cutpoints should be defined based on child age and sex.

In the first ever study on a large scale, that compared the results of maintenance therapy with mindfulness therapy, the researchers concluded that Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) could be an effective «drug - free» treatment for people with severe depression at a high risk of relapse.

The results of the analysis were substantively identical when risk factors based on nonbinary scales were entered in their nonbinary form.

The scale is based on research and theory and aims to assess internal and external factors that assist in positive youth development, academic success and protection from risk - taking behaviours.

intervention reported significantly less sexual risk behavior, based on the risky sex scale at 3 - month follow - up (p <.01).

Participants will be included if they meet the following criteria: (1) at high risk for development of a mental illness based on elevated levels of personality risk factors, including hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity and sensation seeking (as measured by the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS), described below); (2) ability to access the internet via a computer; (3) residing within Australia; and (4) willingness to provide contact detarisk for development of a mental illness based on elevated levels of personality risk factors, including hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity and sensation seeking (as measured by the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS), described below); (2) ability to access the internet via a computer; (3) residing within Australia; and (4) willingness to provide contact detarisk factors, including hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity and sensation seeking (as measured by the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS), described below); (2) ability to access the internet via a computer; (3) residing within Australia; and (4) willingness to provide contact detaRisk Profile Scale (SURPS), described below); (2) ability to access the internet via a computer; (3) residing within Australia; and (4) willingness to provide contact details.

In the second quarter of 2008, investors gave retail the lowest rating of all the commercial property types on a 1 to 10 return vs. risk scale, at 3.9, reports Real Estate Research Corp., a Chicago - based real estate research firm.

«REITs have been telling Wall Street for quite sometime that with size comes economy of scale, synergies, ability to hire more qualified people and a spread of risk over a greater base.