Sentences with phrase «size as a metric»

«If we use relative brain size as a metric of «intelligence» then one would have to conclude that dolphins are second in intelligence to modern humans,» Lori Marino, Lori Marino, a senior lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University, told Discovery News.

«If we use relative brain size as a metric of «intelligence» then one would have to conclude that dolphins are second in intelligence to modern humans,» said Marino, who performed several MRI scans on dolphin brains.

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You can measure this through traditional metrics, such as the size of your email list or your Facebook audience, but approaching your audience purely as clicks, likes, or views can quickly alienate them.

The metric represents the size of Google's portfolio of cloud - based productivity apps, known as G Suite, as well as the Google Cloud Platform.

That is because, by definition, cropland, grazing land and other metrics of land and ocean use can not exceed the planet's size, as even Rees and Wackernagel acknowledge.

In the Daedalus plan, for instance, constructing a nearly 200 - meter - long, 4,000 - metric - ton spacecraft in Earth orbit was actually the easy part, nevermind that such a ship would be roughly the same size as one of the UK's Queen Elizabeth - class aircraft carriers.

Because it is comprised of two important physical properties, namely, particle size and particle concentration, it serves as good metric for comparing colloids.

It is required to report whatever metrics its state chooses not only for all its tested grades (3 - 5), but also for a number of distinct «subgroups» including those defined by race / ethnicity, as long as there are more students in each subgroup than the minimum n - size the state has chosen.

For parents who prioritize social emotional metrics such as their child's relationship with the teacher, class size might be the most important part of their school decision.

And those are our metrics: class size wherever possible 20 or less and teacher non-contact time at 20 % as opposed to at best 10 % in public service.

The academic prestige score takes into account metrics such as average amount of financial need received, average class sizes, admissions standards, and the percentage of faculty holding terminal degrees in their field.

They end up only having metrics such as class size ratios, information on school accreditation, even the percentage of a school's graduates accepted and attending college, as proxies for determining school performance.

While the Galaxy S7 screen size and resolution remain the same as the Galaxy S6, its has been significantly improved for most display performance metrics.

It's important to note that «RAFI Size Factor» is not the same as the RAFI 1500 for small companies, but rather is a blend of four factor - tilt strategies, each formed within the universe of small - cap stocks: small value, small momentum, small low volatility, and small quality (a factor that combines profitability and investment metrics).

, Moshe Levy compares Sharpe ratio, 5 - factor (market, size, book - to - market, profitability, investment) alpha and geometric mean return as portfolio performance metric.

There's no specific metric you need to be looking out for in terms of buoyancy (as it's all calculated on size).

Google will look at metrics such as the size of your following, the frequency of your posts, and the reaction and engagements that your posts get.

If 100 Hiroshima - sized bombs, each as powerful as 15,000 tons of TNT, were exchanged in a war between two developing - world nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan, models show the resulting fires would send five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper troposphere - the lowest - altitude layer of the atmosphere.

Estimates for the global size of the CO2 utilization market by 2030 in carbonate aggregates, fuels (methane and liquid fuels), concrete, methanol, and polymers are as large as $ 700 billion, utilizing 7 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to approximately 15 percent of current global CO2 emissions.

For example, an analysis of the risks of sea level rise for the State of California evaluated the economic value of property at risk of flooding, as well as the size, economic status, and demographic backgrounds of the population living in areas vulnerable to flooding, area of wetland likely to be lost, and other metrics related to threatened transportation, energy, and water infrastructure (Heberger et al 2011).

While this video shows the staggering size of 54 million metric tons of carbon, it still can't show how much carbon we really produce as a by heating our homes.

The Government is looking at a number of metrics for this threshold such as plant count, size of growing area, total production, or gross revenue.

«The collector's performance is independent of key applications metrics — such as Java heap size, mutation rates, object allocation rates — and it can provide highly consistent runtime execution for applications needing any size Java heaps,» he told LinuxInsider, for example, from 1 GB to 8 TB for a single application instance.

In each of her work experience listings, the jobseeker includes metrics such as clients served, database size, and team members.

By calculating an effect size for each study (which reflects the difference between two groups expressed in a common metric), meta - analysis makes it possible to pool results across many studies and adjust for variations such as those noted.4

For dichotomous outcomes, we used ORs with 95 % CIs as the effect size metric when presenting the effects of the individual studies.

For dichotomous outcomes, risk ratios (RRs) with 95 % CIs were used as the effect size metric.