Sentences with phrase «upper bound»

The deposit and lending rates form the lower and upper bounds of the policy interest rate corridor.

Therefore the upper values of the ranges given are not to be considered upper bounds for sea level rise.

That seems like a reasonable upper bound for four years out which means the only other lever is additional devices per household.

The default prior distribution is uniform with a very high upper bound.

I show below that this is a meaningful upper bound.

I have signed a contract that has two clauses in one paragraph that sets two different upper bounds on a potential payment.

MMN11 use $ 27 per ton (from a previous study by Nordhaus, which is a rather conservative estimate) as their central SCC estimate, and also use $ 6 and $ 65 per ton as lower and upper bound estimates.

Obviously it is the ratio that matters (although I disagree that the data gives 0.25 for Pr (B ~ A)-- a more justifiable upper bound would be 0.35 - 0.4, given the limited amount of data available)

There is a very simple way to put this idea into practice: Let upper bound limits drive your behaviors in the beginning and then slowly increase your output.

The IPCC estimates a likely upper bound for sea level rise, for instance, at about a meter, but under much stronger warming scenarios.

«This extra intake of cholesterol, about 58 milligrams per day, accounts for 20 percent of the recommended upper bound of total cholesterol intake of 300 milligrams per day.»

Amorphous forms serve as thermodynamic upper bounds on the free energy scale for synthesis of metastable crystalline polymorphs.

As a seller you're not going to have any idea what the buyers upper bound is but the end goal of the seller is ultimately to maximize the money that they get.

Of course this approach is a nonsense far beyond what Michael Tobis is complaining about, since there is no hard upper bound to the uncertainties.

Nevertheless, such results may be interpreted as hinting at an achievable upper bound to the precision with which we can reasonably claim to know S, given our current scientific knowledge.»

[ACR: I did a quick Google Scholar search for «CO2 climate change greenhouse» to put a rough upper bound on this and got ~ 9,000 papers so far in 2011.]

I think it would be hard to find anyone familiar with the subject who thinks the IPCC upper bounds are a good guide for policy makers... What were they thinking of?

I meant lower bound for Pr (B ~ A), hence upper bounding the ratio (my mistake).

Nic Re: «Shindell TCR estimate range... is unbounded on the upside» Shindell's TCR upper bound does not sound realistic compared to nature and physics.

We consider these two terms to be upper bounds because, as with infiltration from reservoirs, a new steady state will be achieved after a period of years, with no further change in storage.

Under such circumstances, the proper risk mitigation strategy is to do whatever is possible without bankrupting the system to limit / avoid the risk while work continues to improve models / understand and pose more stringent upper bounds.

RoS analyses for the interaction at T3 indicated that the lower and upper bound regions of significance can not be defined.

However, taking account of sampling uncertainty (as most more recent detection and attribution studies do, including those shown in Figure 9.9) makes relatively little difference to estimates of attributable warming rates, particularly those due to greenhouse gases; the largest differences occur in estimates of upper bounds for small signals, such as the response to solar forcing (Allen and Stott, 2003; Stott et al., 2003a).

All it does is shift the «mean model performance» up (as if this has some predictive value when it is in fact meaningless) and define an improbably high upper bound for the range of possible future temperatures.

That is, they created a model that was as generous as possible in terms of genetic correlates to disease in order to create a sort of upper bounds of the utility of these tests.

In the US, variations in school quality seem to explain no more than 33 % of the discrepancies in test score performance; this number, which has been around since 1966, considers the influence of a student's classmates to be a school - based factor (it arguably isn't) and thus seems to be a conservative upper bound.

Barclays analysts targeted a «generous upper bound» for total cryptocurrency market capitalization between $ 660 billion and $ 780 billion, which is near the total in early January.