Sentences with phrase «simple measures which»

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For those who prefer simpler methods, a third measure, which just takes out volatile food items and petrol, and adjusts for the recent change to the child care rebate, shows essentially the same trend over the past couple of years, though at a slightly lower rate (Graph 15).

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

The May package of reforms provides a simpler measure of the allowable surcharge, which is already in force for large merchants and will take effect for other merchants from September next year.

As children learn the simple Trigonometry with which to measure the millions of light years distance of stars, they think they have to chose between accepting math or Christianity.

In many ways this point calls to mind Descartes» criterion of clarity and distinctness of ideas as the measure of their certainty, as well as Hume's «force and vivacity» of simple impressions which enables us to distinguish present perception from memory.

The first and most simple reason for benchmark sets is to give you a starting point of where you are with fitness, strength and speed in each, and give you a measure on which you will see improvement.

What is most unsettling is that many of the heart rate abnormalities are easily resolved with simple measures such as position changes, which the mother is hindered from doing while attached to the electronic fetal monitor.

Often, there are very simple measures you can take to overcome the most common problems which threaten your ability to breastfeed.

Republicanism can help us find this, by providing a clear and simple guiding principle against which we can measure any new proposal.

Unlike much of the rest of the EU — and unlike Germany, which has posted a major success story in growing its renewable sector — the UK has mostly eschewed the simple FIT approach to support in favour of a ragbag of measures.

Or rather, comparatively simple, as it centres on one measure - the personal allowance at which income becomes taxable.

But Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and Sherrod Brown of Ohio signed a letter urging Reid, D - Nevada, to hold a vote on the proposal under a rule known as a reconciliation, which would allow the measure to pass with only 51 votes - a simple majority.

But the group had also taken button - pressing reaction - time tests, which measure how quickly and accurately a person repeatedly makes a simple decision.

He attached a glass tube or a simple manometer filled with mercury to a cut stem surface and measured the change in height of the sap, which indicated root pressure.

Brain imaging studies seem so simple and elegant: Hook someone up to a functional MRI (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow; see which parts of the brain light up; and identify regions associated with love, rejection, etc..

Looking for a simpler way, the researchers realized that they could custom - design waveguides to mimic the properties of metamaterials, specifically the gradient of the material's refractive index, a measure of the speed at which light passes through.

Bundy notes that simple safety measures are already a crucial part of the design of industrial robots, which have in rare cases caused the death of people.

TU Wien has developed a sensor for measuring the strength of electric fields, which is much smaller, simpler and less prone to distortion than comparable devices.

The simple question of whether the medieval period was warm or cold is not particularly interesting — given the uncertainty in the forcings (solar and volcanic) and climate sensitivity, any conceivable temperature anomaly (which remember is being measured in tenths of a degree) is unlikely to constrain anything.

Instead of a simple rainbow, the output is a spectrum which is recorded on a CCD detector and finally saved in a computer file for further processing and analysis, allowing the astronomer to measure the intensity of the light at each wavelength or colour precisely.

But I was delighted to learn this week about these simple «green» measures which, if they don't save the planet at least certainly don't hurt it — and might save the family member you care for:

After the fast we reintroduce foods one at the time and we test your reactions to foods with a simple sublingual test «The Coco pulse test» Alternatively there are labs that do an IgG / IgE food allergy panel which measures your immune response to dozens of different foods.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

A simple sheet I used in Kindergarten (ESL children) where they had to estimate which container would have the biggest / smallest capacity, then measure by counting cups of water to fill each container.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

For instance, building on work by McClellan and Staiger (1999) in rating hospital performance, we have proposed a simple technique for pooling information over time, which improves on a simple arithmetic mean by taking into account the amount of «signal» and «noise» in a given measure of performance.

Those results would be inverted under simple proficiency measures, which are arguably also more lenient to schools that service affluent well - prepared students.

Social acceptance was measured with a simple 4 question interview that asked whether they felt socially accepted, and the frequency with which they felt lonely, felt disliked, or felt people were unfriendly to them.

The simpler and cheaper one compares the average rotational speed of all four wheels, which is already measured by the anti-lock system.

B: A sensor + force measuring wheel, C: Possibly, a simple environmental sensor pack with a USB connector (for charging and data upload) which you stick on your handlebars.

The Aura measures a very slim and trim 5.9 x 4.48 x 0.32 inches, which is smaller than both the new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (6.7 x 4.6 x 0.36 inches) and the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight (6.5 x 5 x 0.5 inches).

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Of course, it is impossible to tell about all the peculiarities of writing a process analysis and writing a comparative analysis in the measures of a simple article, however, it is possible to gain knowledge at the subject which of the main aspects to deal with.

On a more simple measure of affordability, the median house price of the marginal Liberal seat held by Malcolm Turnbull — which needs a swing of 3.9 per cent to change hands — is a staggering $ 1.65 million.

Too often, the bonuses favor simple outcomes like higher sales, without focusing on the quality of sales, which also can be measured, but usually isn't.

Arguably the best of the lot is a simple game of matching pairs of cards, a security measure for a secret room which, and let's be honest about this, provides absolutely no bloody security whatsoever.

Their simple, rather humbling effect, almost a numbing effect, became a sort of «control» against which my increasing tendency in the seventies to be extravagant could be measured» (W. Rubin, Frank Stella 1970 - 1987, New York 1987, p. 48).

«In addition to encouraging the use of rain storage tanks, builders would be required to use other low - cost and sensible water management methods; these include simple measures, like diverting rainfall to gardens, constructed infiltration swales, mulch and permeable pavement, all of which will help to sustainably direct the rain directly where it falls.

At the news conference most of the talk was about the simplest one, the photodiode which measures total reflectivity in the UV / VIS / NIR out to ~ 1.1 microns (the band gap for silicon detectors).

-LRB-...) We are going to use a standard measure which is how much warming would occur if we doubled carbon dioxide, so we are going to go through the math and do a very simple calculation that indicates that we might be screwed.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

MD wave fades moving deeper into SH due to lack of land mass & land impediment to antarctic circumpolar (southern ocean) flow --(need midlatitude zonal land - sea contrast for meridional deflection of westerlies = differential land - sea equator - pole column - integrated - temperature gradient response to solar forcing, easily measured using a simple wavelet tachometer, which detects externally governed universal constraint)

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

He cites «the increasing acidification of the oceans,» which «is simple to measure and undeniably, chemically linked to carbon concentrations in the atmosphere.

If there was a discernable CO2 signal which could be shown to be caused by the additional CO2, then it is a simple matter to measure the climate sensitivity.

When the paper's four authors first tested the finished model's global - warming predictions against those of the complex computer models and against observed real - world temperature change, their simple model was closer to the measured rate of global warming than all the predictions of the complex «general - circulation» models (see the picture which heads this post).

SImple experiment: put a sample of a radioactive element (which has a measured temperature) inside of a Dewar flask and measure if the temperature of the radioactive element rises as a result of radiative reflection from the inner walls of the flask.

It identifies various ways in which energy can be saved in buildings as well as contains simple tips on implementing energy efficiency measures and carbon management.

I'm suggesting that if this is going to be interpreted as a study of the impact of global warming, maybe a more conservative measure would be to monte carlo a world in which the 1930s trend repeated itself (a simple proxy for AMO), instead of a world with no trend.

This is meaningful progress, but the available datasets don't provide detailed information that would enable analysis of the social aspects of the justice system, though a simple analysis of numbers of matters opened and closed would be possible, which is one possible measure of productivity.