Sentences with phrase «underlying the operation of»

The cochairmen are Bran Ferren, former executive vice president for Walt Disney Imagineering, and Danny Hillis, whose insights underlie the operation of most supercomputers.

So the underlying operation of the feedback is the same: Input — > output — > output modifies input.

Professor Shany then assesses some of the theoretical and practical implications of these developments, and in particular he argues that «the rise in the number of international courts and the expansion of their powers should be primarily understood as a change in the ethos underlying the operation of international courts» (pp 77 — 83).

Reflects on the Emergence of a New International Judiciary, Professor Shany provides a clear - eyed and succinct overview of changes «in the ethos underlying the operation of international courts» that are the result of an increase in the number of such courts and an expansion of their authority.

Not exact matches

We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and performance of our ongoing operations and are useful for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.

While management believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying performance of the company's business operations, investors are reminded to consider these non-GAAP measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

We believe it is useful to exclude non-cash charges, such as depreciation and amortization and share - based compensation expenses, from our Adjusted EBITDA because the amount of such expenses in any specific period may not directly correlate to the underlying performance of our business operations.

Adjusted income (loss) from operations is a measure of profitability used by Cigna's management because it presents the underlying results of operations of Cigna's businesses and permits analysis of trends in underlying revenue, expenses and shareholders» net income.

It opted, instead, to begin using net income, saying in a 2012 proxy statement that doing so would «align compensation with a measure that more directly correlates with the underlying performance of our operations.»

The International segment reported a loss from continuing operations before income taxes of $ 1.3 million on a US GAAP basis and an underlying pretax loss of $ 1.0 million in the fourth quarter, versus a loss of $ 5.1 million for both measures a year ago, driven by the addition of the Miller brands, volume growth and positive pricing in Latin America and Australia, cost savings in MG&A, and cycling the substantial restructure of our China business in 2015.

Therefore, the task of the business school is to provide the student with the opportunity to obtain a broad knowledge of the concepts underlying the operation and management of organizations.

Organic Net Sales is a tool that can assist management and investors in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's underlying operations.

Adjusted EBITDA and Constant Currency Adjusted EBITDA are tools that can assist management and investors in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's underlying operations.

Adjusted EBITDA is a tool that can assist management and investors in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's underlying operations.

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to assist in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis for purposes of business decision making by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's underlying operations.

Your organization you should ask the following key questions: What is the underlying nature and intent of the profit - making activities of your operation?

Wall Street liked the overall number, even if the underlying operations were nothing out of the o...

I hope that the distinctions to which I have pointed help the reader to see why that would be a mistake, and why we need a framework for sorting out these finer - grained but essential differences in the operations of knowing and valuing underlying persons» selfhood, membership, interpretations, and motivations.

Ethics entails critical reflection on the social dimensions of moral behavior, the constitution of meaning by both the individual and the group, the identification of values underlying moral action, the use of warrants in grounding these values, the operation of norms and principles in a changing and diversified world and similar issues.

Those of us that have seen evidence of the gifts in operation would interpret the same scriptures differently because of our underlying assumptions and bias.

Connected with the solution was a fresh grasp of the «Myth» which underlay European culture and percolated all the operations of society.

Woolworths» underlying net profit from continuing operations slipped 3.6 per cent to $ 1.42 billion in 2017 as a recovery in Australian food earnings in the June half failed to counter losses of $ 151 million in the struggling discount department store chain.

National Australia Bank's European operations suffered a substantially larger bottom - line loss in 2014 but directors are confident the underlying performance of the up - for - sale division are improving.

Ms Watkins, who is hosting an analyst and investor tour of CCA's operations in Indonesia, reaffirmed the bottler's August profit guidance, saying underlying net profit for the 12 months ending December was expected to be broadly in line with that in 2016.

In a very small number of babies — most often, babies with serious underlying conditions such as cerebral palsy — an operation may be needed to treat GORD by tightening the ring of muscle at the bottom of the oesophagus.

It is presented here to provide greater understanding of the underlying business performance of the Group's operations attributable to the owners of Rio Tinto.

Cash flows from operations were strong, driven by our cost savings programmes but lower prices and a higher tax rate led to a reduction in underlying earnings to $ 4.2 billion in the first half of 2013.

The difficulty of performing this operation with very large semi-primes underlies modern cryptography and has offered a key rationale for the creation of large - scale quantum computers.

Revolutionary critical pedagogy is a mode of social knowing that inquires into what is not said, into the silences and the suppressed or the missing, in order to un-conceal operations of economic and political power underlying the concrete details and representations of our lives.

undertake a range of mathematical operations, applications and processes including measuring, counting, estimating, calculating, drawing, modelling and discussing (the underlying mathematical skills and knowledge required to undertake the required investigations or tasks);

Some of the conditions underlying the ability to share responsibility are developed further in our discussion of the fourth and fifth key elements of school operation.

«People with highly developed logical - mathematical intelligence understand the underlying principles of some kind of a causal system, the way a scientist or a logician does; or can manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations, the way a mathematician does.»

Shuffling superintendents in and out of leadership isn't a school reform strategy; contracting out school operations also doesn't work when there is no underlying plan for overhauling how the district does business.

It has become clear to us that all of the Company's stakeholders would be better served if Barnes & Noble were operated as a private company or as a division within a larger company, which would allow management to focus 100 % of its attention on the Company's underlying operations.

OKE is a bit hard to compare to most other utilities because of the unique structure they have, but certainly the underlying natural gas utility operations offer some stability.

«Unlike prior exemptive orders governing the operation of self - indexing ETFs, the Orders do not attempt to address potential conflicts of interest among the ETF, its investment adviser, and the affiliated index provider by requiring, among other things, public disclosure of the underlying index methodology, the use of a third - party index calculation agent, or formal «firewall» procedures.

This emphasis on earnings from operations as reported and on perceptions of growth by analysts and money managers permitted these people to ignore rather completely other factors that tend to be extremely important in any balanced analysis for which GAAP is useful: e.g., strength of financial positions; understanding the underlying business; and appraising management not only as operators and stock promoters, but also as investors of corporate assets and financiers of businesses.

In addition, a liquid secondary market for particular options, whether traded over-the-counter or on an exchange, may be absent for reasons which include the following: there may be insufficient trading interest in certain options; restrictions may be imposed by an exchange on opening transactions or closing transactions or both; trading halts, suspensions or other restrictions may be imposed with respect to particular classes or series of options or underlying securities or currencies; unusual or unforeseen circumstances may interrupt normal operations on an exchange; the facilities of an exchange or the Options Clearing Corporation may not at all times be adequate to handle current trading value; or one or more exchanges could, for economic or other reasons, decide or be compelled at some future date to discontinue the trading of options (or a particular class or series of options), in which event the secondary market on that exchange (or in that class or series of options) would cease to exist, although outstanding options that had been issued by the Options Clearing Corporation as a result of trades on that exchange would continue to be exercisable in accordance with their terms.

Reference is made in particular to the description of BONZ's plans and objectives for future operations, assumptions underlying such plans and objectives and other forward - looking statements included in the information provided.

«They utilize cutting - edge business practices to enhance nearly every aspect of daily hospital operations, supporting the underlying foundation of quality care while accelerating financial success.

Tac - Ops will bring with it single player focused tactical operation scenarios, while Tanks will, of course, add three new tanks to the game, as well as underlying vehicle improvements.

Difference between nighttime lows and daytime highs decreasing Warming of the planet since 1880 40 % rise in Atmospheric CO2 since ~ 1800 Underlying physics of the Greenhouse effect Cooling of the Stratosphere (consistent with operation of Greenhouse Effect)

Using the well - known rules of error propagation, you can generate errors that are absurd and also depend upon the number of mathematical operations you perform without changing the underlying reality of how uncertain our knowledge is.

This operation results in a pervasive «trend - in - signal» bias, which occurs when the underlying growth - forcing signal has variance on timescales that approach or exceed the length of the chronology.

But in the Court of Appeal Lord Justice Auld stated that confining the operation of the rule by reference to some time limit set close before litigation, does not fully serve the public policy interest underlying the rule.

The underlying dispute, the nationalisation of oil refining operations in the Orinoco oil belt, was the subject of ICC arbitration in New York and so jurisdiction was not in issue; in principle, s 44 of the 1996 Act clearly applies to ICC arbitrations (although PDVSA expressly reserved its position on jurisdiction throughout the proceedings).

In his ruling, Justice Dunphy concluded that «the reports are not an objective summary of the underlying medical reports themselves so much as a summary of the conclusions reached by Dr. Platnick himself, applying their expert observations to his own understanding of the operation of the SABS regulations and the criteria incorporated therein.»

Response: The concern underlying this comment is that ERISA plans, which are not now subject to certain state laws because of the «field» preemption provision of ERISA but which are subject to the rules below, will become subject to state privacy laws that are «more stringent» than the federal requirements, due to the operation of section 1178 (a)(2)(B), together with section 264 (c)(2).

Adjusted Operating Earnings Adjusted operating earnings is the measure used for management purposes to highlight the Company's results from ongoing operations and the underlying profitability of our business.

It states that «Poloniex is not responsible for operation of the underlying software and networks... makes no guarantee of functionality, security or availability of such software and networks.»