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Results showed the algorithm performed significantly better than control strategies for forming groups.

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

More control over gain and loss tax exposure through ownership of individual securities, rather than mutual funds or strategies managed by third parties, except when appropriate.

Yet, more than $ 2 trillion remains in the hands of financial - engineering strategies pegged to low volatility, including volatility - control funds, risk parity, risk premia, and long - equity - trend following.

The seller centric world of yesteryears has literally been turned upside down as buyers are seemingly in more control than ever and traditional strategies no longer are effective.

Ongoing consolidation attempts across the Australian dairy sector, continuing market expansion in China and a change in long - term strategy severely affected Fonterra's ability to edge in on the highly fragmented Mexican dairy sector - of which no single company controls more than 10 per cent.

Luca Mignini, president of Campbell International, which owns the Arnott's biscuit range that controls 60 per cent of the $ 1.3 billion local sweet biscuit market, said there were other strategies to lure in consumers other than slashing prices.

The Positive: This method is liked by parents who are eager for gentle strategies to sleep training method than Controlled Crying or Cry It Out for example.

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It seems that it was the fault of a crowd control strategy that blew any perceived threat out of all proportion, and actually resulted in making the situation far more dangerous than it needed to be.

Even the phrase «controls of», rather than «the end of» suggests she will be pursuing a moderate strategy in Europe.

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

The governor has also used Washington's partisan gridlock as a foil for his own strategy of always cutting a deal with Republicans who control the State Senate rather than investing serious political capital to help Democrats win that chamber.

Strategies that boost the cell's quality control programs, rather than disarm specific pathologic proteins, have looked promising in lab animals that serve as models for human neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

Congress has been pressing the U.S. national security community to turn its attentions to the role of offensive rather than defensive capabilities, even dictating that most of the fiscal year 2015 funding for the Pentagon's Space Security and Defense Program go toward «development of offensive space control and active defense strategies and capabilities.»

«The 2014 U.S. Surgeon General Report recommended an endgame strategy for the country's tobacco epidemic, but no additional strategy was laid out other than the current status quo tobacco control policies,» he says.

«Our modelling provides compelling evidence, for those charged with controlling Bovine TB, that investment in increasing the frequency of cattle testing is a far more effective strategy than badger culling.»

Dille recommends crop producers identify exactly what weed species are a problem on their farm, and to use more than one strategy to control them.

This strategy will be cheaper than installing the extra pollution - control equipment that will be needed when emission standards become more stringent in 2000, says James Davis, the company's senior vice-president for fossil fuel generation.

But behind it is the beginning of a defensive strategy by the oil states that is likely to become far rougher than the campaign by tropical countries to maintain control of their forests.

That strategy, rather than â $ dieting, â $ is a much better way to set yourself up for successful weight control and better overall health.

The strategy has led IAC to control more than 1/4 of the $ 2.2 B online dating market in the U.S., twice the next biggest competitor, eHarmony.

Her tour de force seduction of Doc, mostly performed while naked, uncorking a slow drip of role - playing, self - revilement, vulnerability, and desperate control that's indistinguishable from nihilistic abandon, expresses more about sex as a weapon and a survival strategy than a thousand footnoted treatises on the femme fatale in film noir.

It became a class that taught students that they could, through using certain strategies, leave my classroom with greater intelligence than when they entered it, because they could control their own depth of learning.

We found Ninjas boosted the average students» fluency with mental strategies and the key skills by at least 70 % more than the gains of a control cohort.

Award - winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self - control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility.

Rather than state takeovers — which remove local control and accountability — as the go - to solution for troubled districts and schools, strategies like student - centered education, including project - based instruction, and wraparound services focused on student and family well - being, should be deployed to fix struggling schools and stabilize neighborhoods.

These goals are accomplished through adhering to uncommonly strict and harsh behavior management strategies, and by establishing an authoritarian classroom environment that is focused more on controlling students» actions than on engaging them as learners.

It does this by changing the accelerator mapping so that the same pedal travel delivers less power than in the standard mode; the transmission control strategy for the automatic gearbox is modified to bring forward upshifts and delay downshifts, while intelligent energy and climate management reduces mechanical power consumption and also the energy consumption of electrical systems - such as heated mirrors and seats.

So, in the end, I'll work my own strategy, market myself and keep the control and 15 % that I earned far more than an agent ever did.

«Agency pricing» has been, since its inception, nothing more than a means to control the retail price that Amazon, not Apple, can charge for an ebook — a means to break Amazon's strategy of using ebooks as loss - leaders to sell the Amazon Kindle.

Do that and you'll likely end up taking more risk than you intend in some years, less in others and you'll have turned over control of your investment strategy to the financial markets.

A person owning or controlling more than 10,000 contracts net long or net short in all contract months combined shall provide, in a timely fashion, upon request by the Exchange, information regarding the nature of the position, trading strategy, and hedging information if applicable.

It begins with my best attempt at laying out the case for passive investing: I explain the problems with mutual funds and active stock - picking strategies designed to beat the market, and I encourage investors to focus on the things they can control rather than basing their financial lives around the pursuit of an unlikely goal.

By implementing this strategy we are able to maintain a low fee and tax efficient approach while better controlling for risk than traditional indexing strategies do.

Yet, more than $ 2 trillion remains in the hands of financial - engineering strategies pegged to low volatility, including volatility - control funds, risk parity, risk premia, and long - equity - trend following.

In our estimation, the market faces no greater risk today than rising interest rates forcing these strategies to unwind, thus spiking interest rates beyond the control of the Fed.

I believe in the value of «long only» money management as having better chances of risk control than hedged strategies, but this is making me queasy.

If only one can stick to one's trading strategy, control his emotions and not trading more than the risk he can bear, of course, one would make a good trader.

The Skilled Investor presents Save More posted at Personal Financial Strategy, saying, «Budgeting and self - control in consumption is far more important than clever investing.

With this investment strategy analyzer, you won't have to believe everything you read; nor take anyone's word about things like: ETFs are the most efficient and inexpensive way to invest, there's no sales charges on mutual fund B - shares if you don't sell them, Roth IRAs are better than traditional IRA / 401 (k) s, or the tax benefits of 529 plans, whole life (VUL), or any kind of annuity will make up for the huge costs; lack of liquidity / choices / control, etc..

Well, maybe a bit more, like creepy time controlling veils, strange occurrences that cause gravity to disappear, ray guns that disintegrate multiple men at a time, and a bit more strategy than the original Wolfenstein had, which, in fairness, doesn't take much.

It's a turn - based strategy game at its core, but it gives the player third - person control over each individual unit, giving them a much more satisfying sense of influence than watching your units do their thing from far above could ever provide.

offers easy - to - learn four - button controls and simplified inputs for special moves, placing the focus on skill and strategy rather than button memorization.»

Every PC gamer knows that real - time strategy games control best with the traditional mouse - and - keyboard setup, presumably making the PC version of Halo Wars 2 better than its Xbox One counterpart.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't necessarily try to control their numbers as part of an overall management strategy, but it might mean that if you are touring the Everglades and you see one, you might consider yourself lucky, rather than grimacing and feeling that the purity of your experience was somehow tainted.

In addition, the committee believes that these approaches are more accurately described as «climate intervention» strategies — purposeful actions intended to curb the negative impacts of climate change — rather than engineering strategies that imply precise control over the climate.