Sentences with phrase «used general index»

The most widely used general index of absorption rate is peak time; the slower the absorption, the later the peak time.

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As for future outlook (six months from now), the general business conditions index crept to 31.9 from 31.6 last month, the production index rose to 52.3 from 46.0, while capacity use increased to 49.0 from 47.1, the Fed reported.

When choosing a sweetener to use in cookies and baking in general, I look to unrefined sugars such as coconut sugar or pure maple syrup as these have a lower glycemic index than refined sugar.

Using a United Kingdom database, they surveyed general practitioners about BSA affected by psoriasis and looked at data on 8,124 adults with psoriasis and 76,599 adults without psoriasis over the course of four years, and they adjusted the samples to account for any differences in age, sex, and body mass index and other diabetes risk factors.

There are currently no devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to control general anesthesia or induced coma, but there is a device available in Europe and South America, based on an algorithm that uses the patient's EEG to compute an index on a 100 - point scale.

In general, the keyboard was fast and accurate, whether we used our thumbs in portrait mode or laid the TouchPad flat on a table and pecked with our index fingers.

This book covers general investing, it explains basic investment products such as index funds and how to use them.

In the event that The Wall Street Journal ceases to be published or ceases or otherwise does not publish the Prime Rate, we may use the Prime Rate published in any newspaper of general circulation, or we may substitute a similar index at our sole discretion.

When market conditions are unfavorable in the view of Hussman Strategic Advisors, Inc., the Fund's investment manager, the Fund may use swaps, index options and index futures, or effect short sales of exchange traded funds («ETFs»), to reduce the exposure of the Fund's stock portfolio to the impact of general market fluctuations or to market fluctuations within a specific country or geographic region.

When market conditions are viewed as favorable, the Fund may use index call options to leverage its exposure to general market fluctuations.

U.S. bonds are represented by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which is an unmanaged index used as a general measure of fixed - income securiIndex, which is an unmanaged index used as a general measure of fixed - income securiindex used as a general measure of fixed - income securities.

A key advantage of index funds is that they are a low cost option, charging just a fraction of a percentage point each year (0.05 % to 0.25 % being the general range of the ones we use, some more specialist ones may charge slightly more), while many active funds, for instance, may charge between 1 - 2 % per annum.

Target - date funds tend to be more tax efficient, in general, because they often use index funds to achieve their target allocations.

(Likely to be index fund specific... general answers or specific answers using popular stocks welcomed).

This index is used as a benchmark to help you understand the Fund «s performance relative to the general performance of broader Canadian equity market.

We compared estimates of relative abundance obtained via capture — mark — recapture and minimum numbers known to be alive, and estimates of activity obtained using probability of detection and general index methods, pre - and post-culling.

In general, indices of the annular modes are based on either 1) the leading principal component (PC) time series of gridded geopotential height anomalies at a given pressure level or 2) approximations of the leading PC time series of geopotential height anomalies using differences between sea level pressure anomalies at stations in middle and high latitudes.

The major climate system indices that are operationally used at ICPAC include evolution of monsoons, medium and upper level winds, Madden - Julian Oscillation (MJO), Quasi Biennial Oscillation (QBO), El Niño Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean dipole (IOD), tropical cyclones, sea surface temperature gradients among many others that have been derived from general circulation.

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The team looked at 99 water sub-basins using all 22 general circulation models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under three emissions scenarios and a number of different indices for drought.

The Canadian Law Firm Brand Index 2014 was compiled from the unprompted responses of 191 senior general counsel in Canadian organizations with revenues over $ 50M who, as part of Sharplegal 2013 research, were asked about their awareness of and favorability towards law firms; their consideration of firms for top - level litigation and major M&A; as well as their use of firms for high value and inbound work.

The USC is indexed by general areas such that one can quickly find what is «legal» or not, and then if desired, can use the incorporated reference to find the actual «law».

Iffco Tokio General Insurance Company is planning to introduce a satellite - based weather index for weather insurance by using grant from the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

ETL for TPI developed and employed using unix arrays and Oracle Index Organized Tables to achieve efficient staged and re runable load process from larger General Mortgage system.

The study was powered to detect a change of 0.5 standard deviations (SDs) on one measure of mother — child interaction (the CARE Index) and one measure of maternal mental health (the General Health Questionnaire), allowing for a 25 % loss to follow - up and using 80 % power.

Job Satisfaction Scale, Occupational Stress Index and General Health Questionnaire were used as data collection tools.

The findings indicate that the elderly that referred to use «emotional expression» as a Coping Strategy, presented better scores of QOL in the dimensions «emotional wellbeing», «self - determination» and for the general index.

As a consequence, we recommend use of the questionnaire as a general index of psychopathology, using the summary score (GSI) only, not the subscales.

Subjects also completed the 30 item version of the general health questionnaire.17 The Karnofsky performance index was scored at follow up by one of us (AW) after an interview with each subject.18 This interview was also used to evaluate the possibility of alternative medical or psychiatric diagnoses, 11 with the benefit of details of longitudinal course.

General Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (CBT) facilitator competence are rated using 12 items rated on 10 - point scales that assess various general indices of a competent group therapist (e.g., leader expresses ideas clearly and at an appropriate pace, leader keeps group members on task during seGeneral Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (CBT) facilitator competence are rated using 12 items rated on 10 - point scales that assess various general indices of a competent group therapist (e.g., leader expresses ideas clearly and at an appropriate pace, leader keeps group members on task during segeneral indices of a competent group therapist (e.g., leader expresses ideas clearly and at an appropriate pace, leader keeps group members on task during session).

Generally, DTI studies have used fractional anisotropy (FA) as a general index of white - matter microstructural «integrity».