Sentences with phrase «short average duration»

Babies arouse more frequently, but for shorter average durations than if the baby slept apart - and spend less time in deeper stages of sleep which may not be beneficial for babies with arousal deficiencies - as also shown in recently published refereed articles.

A fund with a longer average duration generally can be expected to be more sensitive to interest rate changes than a fund with a shorter average duration.

Not exact matches

Another $ 431 billion is invested in short - term portfolios (one - to 3.5 - year average duration).

These periods have been shorter in duration (average half a year) and seen slightly smaller rate moves, a reflection of the low inflation and low interest rate environment over the past 20 years.

The short durations of these funds reduce risk, but also explain why average yields aren't higher.

The average duration of cohabitation is short - a median of 1.5 years.

«If you look at the duration of past recessions, they averaged six to ten months, so they were relatively short.

Other life - threatening medical conditions may cause people to sleep longer or shorter than average, resulting in a correlation between long sleep duration and mortality.

Laboratory studies reveal that the average duration of infant and maternal awakenings in the cosleeping environment are shorter on average than the awakenings mothers and babies experience when baby awakens in another room, and requires intervention before going back to sleep (see Mosko et al 1997).

Cholesterol levels of the volunteers in the Cambridge study fell on average by 9.6 per cent — which the researchers say is «impressive given the relatively short duration of soy protein intake».

For example, below - average winter precipitation can lead to smaller mountain snowpack volumes, which tend to result in shorter duration spring runoff (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999; Stewart et al. 2004; Moore et al. 2007; Whitfield 2013).

We can only speculate about why those with shorter average sleep duration were more likely to develop calcification of the coronary arteries.»

Another small proportion of GRBs exhibit comparatively short - duration bursts that average only 0.3 seconds and very little x-ray and optical afterglow (Gehrels et al, 2002).

Historical wildfire observations exhibit an abrupt transition in the mid-1980s from a regime of infrequent large wildfires of short (average of 1 week) duration to one with much more frequent and longer burning (5 weeks) fires.

Women with longer average sleep duration said they had better genital arousal than women with shorter sleep time.

I am less than average build (5» 8») and I would not want to sit in the rear seat for even a short duration.

REITs with short - term lease durations, on average, are less sensitive to interest rates and could benefit from rising rates.

Therefore, you'd want the average duration or maturities in your bond fund (s) to be shorter, not longer.

This makes the duration of the current bear market shorter than the average recession - induced bear market, which tend to be longer in duration than «stand alone» declines.

On that basis, I'd bought XSB (a short - term bond index, average duration of about 2.9 years).

As you can see, the barbell ETFs are almost identical in yield to maturity, similar or lower in average term to maturity, and significantly shorter in duration.

Our short duration funds have an average duration that's typically less than five years, and offer varying yields and levels of credit risk.

The longer maturities of the index, which average 9.75 years and duration of 6.36 years, hurt the index at a time when short durations were the only protection to interest rate risk.

To be clear - the concept of «duration» answers the question of the effect of a rate change on price, it's a bit shorter than average maturity.

That's why a fund like CIF is a pretty good buy at times like these; its average duration is less than five years, which is short enough for it to survive the increase in interest rates we're seeing in the future.

What's not in equities, you could put in short term bonds, meaning an average duration of about 3 years.

In order to address interest rate sensitivity in a low rate environment, many investors will reduce the average duration of their bond portfolios by moving to shorter maturities.

The investment manager for the stable value fund invests in a portfolio of intermediate term bonds with an average duration of approximately three to four years that will provide a significantly higher interest rate, or yield, than for example the short - term (average 60 days or less) securities typically held by a money market fund.

In addition to larger yields, EM corporates possess a shorter duration profile than most developed market government and corporate debt instruments... EM corporates possess better credit quality, with a weighted average quality of BBB -.

Many animal shelters strive to help as many animals as possible by keeping the average length of stay to the shortest possible duration.

Limitations are imposed for small - scale effects, such as positive effects of short duration observed locally indicating ΔR12eff responses to the averaged ionospheric activity over Europe.

On the Kelvin Scale which is a far more scientific approach that looks at energy states > 0 ° K, the wwT is 288.4 ° K. Of course that is just an average, but it is a relatively stable number overy short durations like a decade.

«Due to our compact footprint, destinations are closer together, average trips are shorter, the duration of travel in the congested conditions is less and the impact per traveler is less,» he said.