It's worth noting that the meta - analysis in question featured nearly 350,000 people who were followed for 5 to 23 years; a fairly
substantial data set, to say the least.
Not exact matches
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set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
To elaborate: consider the formal sentence «x is Ø,» where Ø stands for an ensemble of sense
data associated with the alleged
substantial entity, x. Let x = «billiard ball,» and we can associate a definite Øb» a
set of properties in a descriptive sentence corresponding to sense
data in an ensemble actually characterizing a portion of our perceptual space, consisting of things like sphericity, hardness, color, elasticity and the like.
In this analysis of multiple independent
data sets that encompassed the availability of added and refined sugars, national dietary surveys, and beverage - industry grocery sales in Australia, we showed a
substantial decline in refined sugars and SSB consumption.
«While the value of large
data sets in health care has undoubtedly been the subject of
substantial hyperbole, our results add to a growing body of work indicating the feasibility of leveraging such
data sets with standard computational tools to make predictions that may be applied to stratify risk.
ENSEMBL makes available
substantial and diverse transcript information, including the CCDS [13, 41], Human and Vertebrate Analysis and Annotation (HAVANA)[42], Vertebrate Genome Annotation (Vega)[43], ENCODE
data [12] and the GENCODE gene and transcript
sets [15].
Also notable is the
substantial variation in ocean heating rates between the three different ocean heat content
data sets.
A
substantial investment has been made in the generation of large public resources designed to enable the identification of tag SNP
sets, but
data establishing the adequacy of the sample sizes used are limited.
In Maine, Democratic Gov. John Baldacci is proposing a new
set of measures, including allowing student - achievement
data to be used in evaluating educators, and letting districts create «innovative» schools that would have
substantial autonomy.
The
substantial investment in these projects means they require rigorous evaluations to assess evidence of impact, working with complex
data sets, and analyses that examine the critical links between implementation and impact.
Drawing on a host of
data sets, the authors conclude that a combination of slowing population growth, moderated demand for land - intensive food (meat, for instance) and more efficient farming methods have resulted in a
substantial «decoupling» of acreage and human appetites.
The
data clearly shows that substituting natural gas for coal will have a
substantial greenhouse benefit under almost any
set of reasonable assumptions.
They have been systematically adjusted using by such as Phil Jones who received a
substantial EU grant several years ago under the «IMPROVE» project to look at historic
data sets.
Large adjustments to the raw
data, and
substantial changes in successive
data set versions, imply
substantial uncertainties.
Subsequent analyses of better
data sets and
data from 2004 - 2009 have confirmed Webster et al.'s general conclusion of a
substantial increase in the % of cat 4,5 hurricanes, with different
data sets and analyses producing different quantitative estimates of the increase (ranging from 50 % to 100 %).
The studies used a
substantial number of Sea surface temperature records as one of its
data set series.
the only reason that i can think of, is that the ice core
data can be manipulated by leaving out a
substantial portion of the
data set, or adjusting time scales as one author claimed that the trap gas was 83 years younger than the ice.
The second thing that struck me about the comparison is that the
substantial «bump» that peaked circa 1980 in the AR4
data sets has disappeared in all of the AR5
data sets.
«A
substantial effort was spent filtering and attempting to recover useful information from these
data sets.
But there appear to be
substantial similarities between the two
data sets thereafter.
As a consequence of the
substantial data relating to past claims patterns and costs, coupled with their own experience if they also underwrite liability insurance, ATE underwriters are particularly comfortable with the risks involved in professional negligence cases and are able to
set premiums more accurately than in other dispute types.
Wylie told the committee that Kogan's company was
set up exclusively for the purposes of obtaining
data for CA, and said the firm chose to work with Kogan because another professor it had approached first had asked for a
substantial payment up front and a 50 % equity share — whereas he had agreed to work on the project to obtain the
data first, and consider commercial terms later.
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Substantial experience in the analysis of large
data sets to find patterns, relationships, and correlations.