Sentences with phrase «stress over a test»

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He also describes at length the Fed's latest mandatory stress test on Chase and all major banks, noting that the Fed estimates Chase would lose $ 55 billion pre-tax over nine quarters in those unlikely circumstances — «an amount that we would easily manage because of the strength of our capital base.»

Known as a stress test, the check - up looks at a bank's ability to withstand a future crisis and comes as the ECB takes over as a banking supervisor on November 4.

I think it's a very dangerous mistake to dispense with our present concerns by ignoring the narrative of our stress - testing response to the credit crisis, and concluding that our experience over this half - cycle has been a mechanical reflection of our pre-2009 methods, our present methods, or some perma - bearish disposition on my part.

This unfortunately dismisses the central lesson to be drawn from the awkward transition that resulted from my 2009 decision to stress - test our methods against Depression - era data, not to mention the fact that concerns similar to my present ones were rather stunningly vindicated over the completion of prior market cycles.

I have no question that these conditions will emerge over the completion of the current market cycle, and - despite the truncated bullish shift and awkward transition that followed my 2009 stress - testing decision - there is not a single market cycle in 30 years as a professional investor where those same conditions did not provoke me to adopt a constructive outlook.

Still, the fact is that I've adopted a constructive outlook after every bear market decline in over 30 years as a professional investor (including late - 2008 after the market collapsed by over 40 %, though that shift was truncated by my insistence on stress - testing), and I've also repeatedly anticipated the steepest losses.

Italy continues to face challenging market conditions with Europe again coming under the spotlight recently over its muted economic growth and with some of Italy's banks faring badly in the latest stress tests, he admits.

A recent banking sector stress test shows the storm is far from over.

Key statistics gathered by Statoshi http://statoshi.info/ for the past few months show the pool of unconfirmed transactions has held relatively steady at about 10,000 transactions — a significant decrease from over 75,000 unconfirmed transactions during «the stress test» performed in September 2015.

«For the first time in years, interest rates are beginning to rise — making it increasingly important for Canadians looking to buy a home to stress - test their mortgage against a higher rate to ensure they can afford it over the long term,» said Martin Nel, Head, Personal Banking, BMO Bank of Montreal.

At the same time, state officials this year sought to reduce the amount of time spent testing students in the classroom amid concerns over student stress.

Parents and students were angered over stress caused by the tests and test prep.

Participants are offered a battery of tests over time, including neuropsychological testing, MRI scans, DNA sequencing, and analysis of blood samples for biomarkers, such as those reflecting stress response.

Over three summers, she caught 97 salmon heading upstream and gave them stress tests in a portable «fish treadmill» mounted on a boat trailer.

That's why when you get stressed and you do a Blood Sugar Test — got my little blood sugar meter over here in the corner of my desk.

Now I have, for those you who wan na to follow along, I have all of my lab reports published over at bengreenfieldfitness.com/cortisol2, cortisol, the number two, and this is going to be incredibly insightful for you, if listening in, because we are going to delve into how some of these things that we tested actually give insight into cortisol, and into stress, and, full disclosure, I have not actually looked over these results at all with either Dr. Brady or Dr. Bryan, so this will be a bit interesting for me too, and you will get to witness it in real time.

I think the panic attacks were just my bodies way of saying it could not go anymore... I have had countless tests — ekgs, stress tests, etc, all of which are normal... and I am feeling better... I am out and about and back at work... but I still often feel woozy and fatigued after short periods of time which could be anxiety over my health... I have never felt this way in my life, ever... it appears that I have not caused any serious damage... but I can not believe how I feel... how long will it before I feel normal again and can do light exercise... I am not sure I care at this point if get back into head racing shape... I can be recreational... I just want to feel normal and good again... and be in optimum health.

Test the water with a mini date over coffee or a snack so you can briefly meet someone you like the look of without the stress of a full evening date.

Another proponent begins with a basic condition of test - taking, namely, stress, leading the authors to craft methods that allow students more control over the test but that identify cheating (one recommendation they make is to limit changed answers to 15 percent of the total number of answers).

«Every year there are concerns raised about «teaching to the test» and stress in the classroom over the national testing regime — NAPLAN online will end this,» Pyne said in a statement.

Kohn also shows that many of today's standardized tests stress disconnected facts and skills over the more intellectually demanding materials of a genuinely progressive educational diet.

It gives one more thing to blame CCSS for, and one more reason to buy into the «over tested, over stressed» argument.

Intended to reduce the stress of student applicants, the report's recommendations address such things as standardized test scores, which many colleges already treat as optional; advanced placement courses, which not every school offers; and a quality over quantity approach to extracurricular activity and service.

The organisers of the action say children are over tested and the exams, known as SATS, place too much stress on youngsters.

His proposals for assessment echo the demands of many in the teaching profession, and in particular the main teaching unions, for less intensive testing of pupils and follow a rejection of primary school SATs tests by parents, who staged a boycott of schools on May 3 in protest over the stress they have caused.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schoOver a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schoover emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

Having tested the camera quality of tablets over the past year, we can't stress enough how silly you feel shooting videos or photos with a tablet in public.

New regulations included federal measures to tighten mortgage insurance rules, expand stress tests, and improve tax fairness around capital gains exemptions as well as changes to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's securitization programs; B.C.'s new 15 % land transfer tax on foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver and introduction of the Home Owner Mortgage and Equity program to provide interest - free loans to first - time buyers, along with Vancouver's introduction of a tax on vacant homes; and Ontario's doubling of the land - transfer tax rebate for first - time buyers, combined with a tax increase on homes over $ 2,000,000.

Fortunately, I did consider some stress - testing in my analysis — noting Saga was a financially strong company, it had produced an average adjusted operating margin (inc. financial income) of 24.2 % over a 7 year cycle, its adjusted operating margin barely turned negative (1.4 %) in 2009 (despite a 39 % drop in sales), and the company's actually been around for 75 years plus!

As of this writing, the same journal search for «animal shelter» that yields a mere 150 publications before 2001 brings back over 800 citations from between 2001 and today on topics ranging from disease recognition and testing to enrichment techniques for alleviating stress in shelter animals.

To learn more about how to participate in the stress test, or if you have a new - found need for orc - smashing, head over to the official Orcs Must Die!

The blog post also reiterates that the main purpose for the beta is to stress test the servers and backend, and that the game on show is based over a month old code, so bugs are to be expected; «the code you are now playing is actually quite early and not representative of the final game.»

On putting it through a stress test, it easily lasted for over 7 hours.

Following a fruitful, feedback - filled Closed Alpha test over the summer, The Amazing Eternals is now ready for a larger - bodied stress test moving into the Closed Beta phase.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

By contrast, a second study provides each subject with a wide range of facial images designed specifically to evaluate different dimensions of facial recognition (skin colour, hair colour, ethnicity, facial shape, etc.), each subject is tested over the full range of recall time periods, and a blood sample is taken from which serum concentrations of several well - described stress hormones are measured.

Recent exercise stress test had great results with LVEF over 55 %.

Rather than having to stress out over an exam at the end, the course is set up to where you test as you go; there is no final exam.

So, I'm going to limit this column to the highlights of the S8, the things I believe most of you will want to know, and which I stressed in my testing over the past few days.

While Handbrake tells us how a given CPU deals with stress over the course of an hour or so, the Cinebench test is over in a matter of minutes, making it more of a sprint than a marathon.

Key statistics gathered by Statoshi for the past few months show the pool of unconfirmed transactions has held relatively steady at about 10,000 transactions — a significant decrease from over 75,000 unconfirmed transactions during «the stress test» performed in September 2015.

European banks have been subjected to «stress tests» to prove their financial health, although Bloomberg View said they are not enough to «dispel the fear» over the region's banking system and wider economy.

These activities include monitoring and analyzing the size and development of the market, positions and changes in positions over time, open interest, initial margin requirements, and variation margin payments, as well as stress testing positions.

A (continuous) stress test is done on positions to calculate maximum potential loss over a 17.5 % movement in the bitcoin price, either up or down.

The first study Iris Mauss and her colleagues conducted was a correlation study, using a range of measures of well - being and life stress over the past 18 months to test whether the degree to which people value happiness is associated with happiness and well - being.

AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; AFFEX, System for Identifying Affect Expression by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment and Classification; ASCT, Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; FES, Family Environment Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale; PPQ, Perceived Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF, Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self - Report.

The most painful irony here is perhaps that over the last two decades, Canadian mental health professionals such as myself have outlined and tested clear protocols for working with couples dealing with traumatic stress.

These changes, while not dramatically expensive for consumers, compound on a number of other initiatives over the last year to reduce risky borrowing, such as the mortgage stress test for high - ratio buyers, an increase to the required minimum down payments and tighter underwriting for banks.

Other difficult situations Deutsche Bank faced in 2016 included being singled out by the International Monetary Fund as the most important net contributor to systemic risk and U.S. arm Deutsche Bank Trust Corp.'s failing the Federal Reserve stress test over capital planning weaknesses.

Paul Taylor: The government's intention in requiring borrowers that are purchasing an insured mortgage to qualify for their «stress test» is (over) two per cent more expensive than the street rate.