Sentences with phrase «to a first approximation»

GAAP for Industries is a good first approximation of periodic cash flow.

Picking up the equity in undistributed earnings of portfolio companies is a good first approximation of Industries» periodic wealth creation.

That is why we test mechanized first approximations to a strategy, not the strategy itself.

The top - down adaptation costing analysis applied in this report is aimed at providing a reasonable first approximation that can be refined over time as relevant and reliable local data becomes available especially from research focusing on sector specific adaptation costing.

The planet to first approximation reacts linearly to whatever forcing is imposed (whether it is from the sun or from a volcano or from CO2).

Wouldn't it be a pretty good first approximation to model a one square meter of earth and the atmosphere above it with average albedo, average solar input, average cloud cover, etc?

It's all a wash, at least as a first approximation.

He further granted that «Although I stress shared knowledge, and try to give an index to a first approximation of its contents, I do not propose in my book any best way of imparting that knowledge.

To a first approximation, all independences are illegal, so the fact this one is also illegal should make on difference.

The methodology used in the preparation of each set of results took as its starting point the gross national income (GNI) of the States Members of the United Nations during the corresponding base periods as a first approximation of the capacity to pay, and applied conversion factors, relief measures and limits to the scale in order to arrive at the final scale.

«Together with a young collaborator, I arrived at the interesting result that gravitational waves do not exist, though they had been assumed a certainty to the first approximation,» he wrote in a letter to friend Max Born.

So to a first approximation, a person's genome is fixed from the moment of conception throughout life.

Nestler: So let me say, first is a caveat that identical twins to a first approximation have identical DNA — those 3 billion nucleotides are the same in one twin as in the other.

Intriguingly, Jones points out that in this picture although the interference pattern produced by electrons will look like the interference pattern produced by light to a first approximation, other properties of electrons should produce «second order» effects, which are, in principle, measureable.

But as a first approximation to help us visualize something that is so invisible, that image works as a metaphor.

To a first approximation, tomorrow is usually a lot like today, so we can start by guessing that X-ray diffraction during the next 5 — 10 years is probably going to resemble its present state, only more so.

Since the luminosity gives the amount of energy radiated per unit time, the total life span can be estimated, to first approximation, as the total energy produced divided by the star's luminosity.

«Why is this, when, at least to a first approximation, they're driven by the same oncogenic mutations?»

This type of warming can not be produced by the ocean circulation, which to a first approximation just moves heat around on the planet — what it robs from Peter it gives to Paul.

Our calculations below of future global temperature assume such compensation, as a first approximation.

A: We're fairly hard - nosed, at least in the first approximation.

Truth is, to a first approximation, even though almost all of the quant models were proprietary, they were all pretty similar.

No, but this equation will be right to a first approximation.

As we'll see below, that isn't quite the whole story, but to a first approximation, the main effect of changes in the monetary base is to produce opposite and proportional changes in velocity.

To a first approximation, but only to an approximation, you can shift money around during the first decade of retirement.

Well, that's not all of what private equity does, but to a first approximation, that's 90 % of the deal.

The first approximation of the group element is the important part tested.

We are out to test the first approximation of a strategy, not the strategy itself.

If they do have that skill, we need to explore it, and let the behavioral investors analyze it so that we get a first approximation, a factor, to explain it.

We rely on our proprietary Investment Model to arrive at a first approximation of intrinsic value and then further refine our estimate through our independent research and experience.

To a first approximation, the 30 - Year Historical Surviving Withdrawal Rate equals the dividend yield plus a small amount because the balance is allowed to fall to zero at Year 30.

To a first approximation, most investment judgments are a comparison between two figures, whether most people want to admit it or not.