Sentences with phrase «time as a measure»

His desire to break up the most successful company of all time as measured by percentage gain in value per year is a passion born of the passing of a social mood peak of even higher degree than that of 1929.

A clock breaks up the flow of natural time as measured by the organic rhythms of the body and of nature.

Albert Einstein unified space and time into a single entity, but he still held on to the concept of time as a measure of change.

The earliest definitions of time and time - interval quantities were based on observed astronomical phenomena, such as apparent solar or lunar time, and as such, time as measured by clocks, and frequency, as measured by devices were derived quantities.

The researchers used the number of finished races and the finishing time as measures of the participants» duration and intensity of physical exercise.

Yet, this is the first time we have been able to measure multiple features at the same time as measuring which genes are being expressed.

Though the examples I will go through below use time as a measure for intervals, you can also very easily use distance as your guide.

It would make matters more difficult because the most important flaw of the No Child Left Behind accountability system is its reliance on the level of student achievement at a single point in time as a measure of school performance.

It was primarily about blended learning and how blended learning, especially its online component, can destroy the notion of seat - time as a measure of how we move kids through school by giving students the power to progress at their own rate.

Western Governors University was chartered in 1996 to use competencies rather than seat time as the measure of outcomes.

Consequently, «observations» were sometimes reported as performance assessments and other times as measures of fluency / understanding.

Will students be judged more on their subject matter competency than on seat time as measured by Carnegie units?

Using images, sound, industrial materials and technology, she creates situations — objects and environments — that allude to recognizable landscapes thus examining the notion of space / time as a measure of reality.

Silence featured every type of work Kawara made over five decades, including painting, drawings, books, and recordings that examine chronological time as a measure of human existence.

«The Color Out of Space» uses outer space as a lens to interrogate geological time as measured against the span of a human lifetime.

KR: A valid argument against the adjustment time as measured by the bomb spike experiment would be to argue that, while the atmospheric / sink CO2 system is linear at the ppb level, it is non-linear at the ppm level.

Those three REITs, on average, had leverage of 4.5 to 5.5 times, with leverage now approaching 6 times as measured on a debt / EBITDA basis.

Not exact matches

In addition, many organisations hold these two activities together as a time - saving measure for busy managers who have multiple reviews to complete.

Charles Engler, CEO of Visual In - Seitz, a 40 - employee multimedia - presentation company in Rochester, N.Y., measures the time it takes his computer - support staff to respond to requests for repairs — as well as overall system downtime.

Feast is co-founder and CEO of Cogito Corporation, a Boston - based software startup that uses artificial intelligence to measure and improve the quality of certain key conversations, such as sales and customer - service calls, in real time.

Harris is an outspoken critic of using engagement — as measured by screen time, click - throughs, likes, and other actions — as a metric of success.

Another measure being studied is to remove a mechanism that currently increases interest rates as time elapses — the so - called step - up margin interest rate.

But TV ratings and digital broadcasts are measured in totally different ways, and when Next Level Media broke the numbers apart, it concluded that at least four times as many people watched an NBA Finals game on average as tuned in for League of Legends finals.

If Andrew Mackenzie and Sam Walsh are right, then Western Australia's commodity dependent economy could be at the start of a recovery; and not before time, given the weakening state of the property market as measured by mortgage defaults.

For the second time, Inc. crunched the data to find the fastest - growing private businesses in Europe, as measured by three - year revenue growth.

Economists use gross domestic product to measure growth over time, but as modern economies evolve, it may no longer be up to the task

In a time when some big banks and payment processors like MasterCard are getting involved with bitcoin — but cautiously, and typically citing the uses of the blockchain as the appeal — that's a smart, measured reminder.

Fleet management software is a technology that allows companies to gain visibility into their fleet, using technologies such as GPS and telematics, to measure metrics such as idling times, routes driven and arrivals and departures.

Providers need ways to measure and bill for power being consumed, just as other utilities track kilowatts of electricity or minutes of telephone talk time.

But I don't have time to mull as Ennis guides me to another room for the timed tests, which measure abstract reasoning and problem solving.

She points to offerings like the new Oral - B Bluetooth toothbrush, which records your time brushed and the parts you've missed, or SK - II's Magic Ring, which measures your skin's age, as examples of the return to P&G's technical superiority.

And dispatchers get access to more than just mapped - location data: FMS's sensors can measure vehicle speed and battery voltage, as well as the length of time a driver spends at a location.

The president has been newly combative as he argues it's time to ease the harsh measures that were taken to help pull the economy out of recession.

Hughes may have built his empire on his knack for taking time off, but as he tells Nancy Won, behind the laid - back veneer lies a hardcore workaholic who's more likely to measure his downtime in hours than days.

Because PE is a measure of earnings over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).

But its true utility is only realized as part of Microsoft Office Small Business Management Edition 2006 (about $ 500 street), and as with any accounting program, its real cost can't be measured in dollars, but in time either saved or lost.

In a guest post in The High Frequency Trading Review, Narang freely admits that «there has been an increasing incidence, in recent times, of days exhibiting unusually high volatility (measured as days when the close - to - close return, or alternatively, the high - low trading range are large in magnitude).»

Additionally, McDonald's measures their other goals such as increasing revenue and creating better customer service, by analyzing the amount of sales generated, their overall cost savings, the type of customer feedback the campaign received, and their response time when replying to customers.

As Nicholas Colas of ConvergEx wrote in a Friday note, «Against measures of long - term earnings power, the S&P 500 is clearly expensive at 25 (times) trailing 10 - year earnings.

Its rankings are based heavily on a company's long - term financial results and — for the first time this year — take into account its environmental, social, and governance performance as measured by investment research firm Sustainalytics.

As it is a non-cash charge, however, and highly dependent on our share price at the time of equity award grants, we believe that it is useful for investors and analysts to see certain financial measures excluding the impact of these charges in order to obtain a clearer picture of our operating performance.

Allen pays for 275 keywords on Google and 217 on Overture, and he invests both time and money in measuring their performance, with tools such as Conversion Ruler ROI software.

Well, our economist measures of that growth rate were three times as fast between 1920 and 1970, as they have been in the 45 years since 1970.

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.

Unadjusted career average earnings will result in a smaller denominator than career average earnings that are adjusted to reflect wage growth, as in the C / QPP benefit rate calculation, and both are likely to be lower than a measure of best average earnings for people whose earnings are high relative to average earnings for limited periods of time.

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA), which had instructed Coincheck to beef up security measures prior to the theft, is still reviewing Coincheck's application for licensure, as it had been at the time of the heist.

Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

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LONDON (Reuters)- The world's top 30 banks face a higher minimum requirement for their broadest measure of capital, global regulators said on Monday as they flagged a two - tier leverage ratio regime for the first time.