Sentences with phrase «smoothed over periods»

Blooding and integrating young players to freshen up the squad was an important factor in how Sir Alex Ferguson smoothed over periods of transition between his best performing title - winning teams.

Not exact matches

British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to ease concerns over Brexit last week, saying she wanted a «smooth, orderly exit» from the EU, including a period of implementation to help companies make investment decisions.

The growing availability of credit has also expanded the resources available to new entrepreneurs launching businesses, and has given many families access to the funds they need to «smooth over» periods of financial challenge.9 / At the same time, competition among lenders for individuals with solid credit histories has reduced the price of credit for those consumers.10 /

Attempting to smooth out the ride for long - term investors over their investment time horizon is important — as it reduces the temptation to abandon a diversified allocation when one asset class is outperforming or underperforming others during a shorter period of time.

Because investors are only human, they will often want to hold less volatile investments with their shares to smooth their returns over shorter periods, even though it costs them money long - term.

«Whereas we've always been able to work with them and smooth it out over the period of the start of the winter, they simply can't.

Consistency of this approach, performing smooth and proficient sets and repetitions over a long period of time, will build the muscular basis for substantial strength gains and ward against premature peaking and staleness.

I transitioned to the 9790's keyboard from the 9900, so there was a period of cursing over the keyboard being a bit too small and key stroke being a little too firm in comparison, but after a week I quit the cursing and have been very smooth on the 9790's keys ever since.

Again, I should emphasize that even if we observe inflation pressures on the basis of the monetary relationships above, it typically takes an extended period of 6 - 12 months before those pressures become clearly reflected in price levels (so the relationship between actual and implied inflation is tighter if the data are smoothed over several quarters).

What's more, they use an average of these factors over five - year periods to smooth out any short - term aberrations.

The can hang on to them and pay them over a longer period, to smooth the income investors get.

The three dollar difference didn't seem worth the potential smoothing out of prices over a longer period for me.

Robert Shiller created the CAPE ratio to look at stock market level valuations, and this was based on some of Ben's work on smoothing earnings over longer periods to reduce the noise.

Thus, the compound annual growth rate of your three - year investment is equal to 24.93 %, representing the smoothed annualized gain you earned over your investment time horizon, assuming your investment was compounding over the three - year time period.

This is the perfect example of a company that you want to look at the dividend growth over longer periods of time in order to smooth out the ups and downs of the commodity cycle.

Over short periods, I think Glenn is right — it smooths out variations... but if one only has a short term investing horizon, then equities wouldn't be the best place for investments.

It didn't help over every period — indeed, it was often a huge drag — but it's fair to say that a portfolio with true international diversification should make for a smoother ride.

Over the 10 - year period, the return gap was lower among allocation funds, whose mix of stocks and bonds smooths volatility, than pure stock funds.

A moving average plots the average of those prices over a period of time, smoothing out those variations and giving you a line that shows the overall direction.

The FRAMA is a type of Adaptive Moving Average that deploys fractal geometry to dynamically fine - tune its smoothing period to fit the altering price action over a given time.

Spanning over a period of 63 days, this phase requires special care to be taken for your dog to ensure that she remains healthy and goes through a smooth birthing process, leading to equally healthy puppies.

It's through works like Homage to the Square — works that existed over a long period of time, adapting to the ever - changing environment in which they were conceived — that the sharp edges of a painting, of a poem, of a dancing body, became smoother, if not legible.

Painstakingly crafted and layered, each canvas is sprayed, stained, or hand - painted over a period of months to create a smooth surface that both preserves a satisfying materiality and exhibits a depth of pigment that is at once ethereal, resonant, and full.

It shows variation of about 0.4 degrees over a 1,000 year period (for the smoothed series).

Some people looked at parts of that work (for example, the lower right panel of Figure 1) and point out how the climate model oceans show a smooth and pretty much unbroken increase in heat content over the historical period.

And, that just coincidently, the rate of the rise has consistently been (when averaged over a few year period to smooth out variability due to seasonal cycles and other factors) equal to about half of the emissions of CO2 that we are putting into the atmosphere?

Smoothing the full Moberg reconstruction yields maxima and minima that are slightly further apart ~ 1620 and ~ 1690 The trend over this period is only about a degree which looks to be about a third the size of S&W but they are trends none the less.

So to really know whether it's changing, or whether its just «noise» in the markets, you need to look back over a period of weeks with all daily rates smoothed out to weekly rates.

Albeit accurate, this recent 12 month data for each location should be considered statistically unreliable due to its brevity compared with «climate normals» that have typical year - to - year weather variations smoothed over standard periods (commonly 30 years).

You're pretty smooth Anu; the Levitus 2009 paper sees «plenty of ocean warming»; I suggest you look at Fig S9 of that paper; and I note you haven't commented on the 2003 spike in OHC which must be a transition error and contributes 1/2 of all OHC over the whole data period.

Specifically, smoothing sea - level data (adjusting for natural variability of ENSO) over the past century fits most closely with a 4th degree polynomial model, and there has very likely not been any slowing in the longer - term background rate of sea level rise over the period of the tropospheric «pause».

For the period prior to 1985, the same time constant (one year) was used to smooth noisy data, preserving the integral of optical depth over several years around time of a given volcano.

The TRW and MXD temperature reconstructions of (a) and (b) are compared in (c) after they were normalised over the common period 600 to 2008 and smoothed with a 10 year spline.

Using but a few parameters, solar activity accounts for surface warming over the full instrumented period with an accuracy comparable to the mathematically smoothed temperature record itself.

It can be seen that HadSST3 fully retains the step change of SST2 but phases it in over an extended period and smooths the transitions.

These records have not been calibrated (though all show positive correlations with local temperature observations), but have been smoothed with a 20 - year filter and scaled to have zero mean and unit standard deviation over the period 800 — 1995.

If one defines «climate» in WMO terms (30 year averages) any of the latest 30 - year periods including 1970 - 99 (i.e. smoothing over individual year peaks) has been warmer than the preceding one, but not by much.

Weather fluctuates, and as a consequence itâ $ ™ s easy enough to point to an unusually warm year in the recent past, note that itâ $ ™ s cooler now and claim, â $ œSee, the planet is getting cooler, not warmer!â $ But if you look at the evidence the right way Ââ $» taking averages over periods long enough to smooth out the fluctuations â $» the upward trend is unmistakable: each successive decade since the 1970s has been warmer than the one before.

You just can't claim that the chaos disappears when «smoothed» over a long period of time.

However, if some are observed only for a shorter period, normalizing them to have zero mean over their own period tends to smooth out any long - run shape that might be present.

The use of different statistical scaling approaches (including whether the data are smoothed prior to scaling, and differences in the period over which this scaling is carried out) also influences the apparent spread between the various reconstructions.

But if you look at the evidence the right way --- taking averages over periods long enough to smooth out the fluctuations — the upward trend is unmistakable: each successive decade since the 1970s has been warmer than the one before.

These records have not been calibrated here, but each has been smoothed with a 20 - year filter and scaled to have zero mean and unit standard deviation over the period 1001 to 1980.

The resulting series were averaged, smoothed and then scaled so that the multi-decadal variance matched that in the Mann et al. (1998) reconstruction over the period 1900 to 1977.

A weighted average of these decadally smoothed series was scaled so that its mean and standard deviation matched those of the NH decadal mean land and marine record over the period 1856 to 1980.

At least hundreds of gigalitres with an altitude difference of 100m would be needed to smooth the output from all the wind farms in SA over a period of weeks.

This would be sufficient for smoothing one day's output, a larger storage would be needed if smoothing was required over a longer period.

It has enhanced variability, because averaging the reconstructions results in a redder time series (there is less common variance between the reconstructions at the higher frequencies compared with the lower frequencies, so the former averages out to leave a smoother curve) and the re-calibration is then more of a case of fitting a trend (over my calibration period 1881 - 1960) to the observed trend.»

But because one year term insurance isn't a well liked product (due to the constant premium increases) the insurance companies smooth out these costs over periods of time or «terms».

Term life insurance smooths that process out by leveling our premiums over periods of time called «terms».