Finally, Schuttinger is no doubt correct that handgun
use inflates the rate of American homicide.
Not exact matches
Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest
rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were
using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby
inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
We
used a false discovery
rate rather than standard significance measures to avoid an
inflated false - positive
rate as a consequence of the large number of hypothesis tests (42).
The retail value (
using market value and insurance based
rates) is highly
inflated and driving up the cost of health care.
Still, NCLB gave states significant leeway in calculating graduate
rates, and for years, the states
used widely differing approaches, often with an eye towards
inflating their numbers.
A 2010 study on a pilot system in Chicago found, for instance, that when
using the high end of the scale, principals often
inflated their
ratings compared to other observers, in part because of cultural expectations.
In the age of accountability ushered in by the No Child Left Behind law in 2002 and continued under 2015's Every Student Succeeds Act, many school officials are
using fraudulent methods to
inflate graduation
rates.
Rise
rate is the force and speed with which an airbag
inflates and is controlled by factors such as the type and amount of inflator gas, the actual airbag size and the design of the vent
used to release the pressure from the airbag once deployed
When homeowners choose to
use their homeowner loan to consolidate their accumulated current debts, they often find that this is a wonderful way to pay off multiple creditors who may be charging
inflated rates of interest.
Others
use it to cheat and trick the borrowers to accept the hyper -
inflated rates.
No, indeed rather the opposite; debt consolidation loans are often taken out as a result of
inflated credit card debt and while you will still be able to
use your credit card after having consolidated all your debt, it is not advisable, since doing so will simply increase what you need to pay back and worsen your credit
rating.
By
using the 3 %
rate — we can
inflate our yearly withdrawal each year too which is important.
More recently, Dauphiné and Cooper
use the
inflated predation
rate suggested by Lepczyk et al. (along with
rates proposed by other researchers) to arrive at their «billion birds» figure.
Capital One
uses Orbitz for their shopping portal, so their
rates are not
inflated.
I've never
used FHR, but the extra points would definitely help offset the
inflated flexible
rate we have to
use.
Regarding the reports on renewable energy standards, Frank Ackerman, a Harvard PhD and Senior Economist with Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. said the Beacon Hill Institute models contained «wild overstatement (s) of the cost of wind energy, assumed that expensive backup capacity was always needed and running when wind energy was
used,
inflated the price of new transmission capacity, and overestimated job losses due to assumption of «hypersensitivity to tax
rates.
These assumptions
used to generate your quote can often result in an
inflated rate.
I found Samsung's step count numbers to be wildly
inflated relative to my Jawbone UP24, and I found no
use for the heart
rate monitor whatsoever, as you can't
use it for continuous, real - time reporting in the middle of a cardio workout.
You calculate your resume response
rate after you've subtracted the preliminary steps that many job seekers
use to
inflate their results.
Because multiple studies of behavioral adjustment in chronically ill children suggest that the inclusion of such items inappropriately
inflates rates of internalizing symptoms in this population (La Greca et al., 1995; Liss et al., 1998; Lloyd, Dyer, & Barnett, 2000), the depression and anxiety subscales were
used instead.
There was a very high diagnostic overlap with ODD; however, the
use of a proxy DMDD diagnosis containing items from the ODD module of the DISC - IV may have artificially
inflated the comorbidity
rates.