Sentences with phrase «using boring numbers»

Avoid using boring numbers and metrics.

Not exact matches

Calls on executives to use capital more constructively could yet have a bearing on a number of deals in the pipeline, particularly if shareholders withdraw support in favour of more organic investment, the investors said.

Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, states that «the potential human health consequences of discouraging the use of pyriproxyfen in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs is catastrophic with potential deaths and serious disease from otherwise avoidable malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered in at least the hundreds of thousands.»

(It's also worth bearing in mind that, in Chinese, numbers such as a hundred and ten thousand can be used to mean «a lot».)

The study found that only 42 percent of millennials — people born between 1981 and 1997 — use complex passwords combining random capitalization, numbers and symbols.

Parents can establish a 529 plan even before the baby is born by using their Social Security number and naming the child as a beneficiary at a later date.

Niebuhr's categories have been subjected to numerous critiques and present a number of problems if we are to continue to use them, Without attempting to be exhaustive, let me summarize what I see as the major criticisms that bear on our purpose, which is to see if we can refine and clarify his categories so that they may» be useful to future generations.

Alternate would be to use Ramsey at number 10 who suits better up the pitch since he is weaklink while defending in the middle (example Toure Goal in Emirates this season, he looked bored while defending allowing Toure to shoot for the goal).

Pediatricians often use a corrected or adjusted age, in which you subtract the number of weeks a baby was born premature from their chronological or real age when describing a preemies growth and development.

Prior to having baby number two, I used to joke that there was no way that I'd have another baby who was as good a sleeper as my first - born son.

It is worth bearing in mind that the number of baby wipes used per day is very large.

There is good information on the number of persons naturalized in each state going back more or less indefinitely, which when compared to the number of foreign born people in each state can be used to determine the percentage of foreign born adults in each state who are not U.S. citizens, and extrapolated to the county level foreign born statistics to get a good approximation of the number of adult non-citizens in each county in the U.S. Just under half of foreign born persons are naturalized U.S. citizens.

Bearing in mind that Thomas has used them extensively in previous intelligence bestseller Gideon's Spies, we still enjoy the thoughts of a number of former CIA and Mossad directors who underpin a pulsating narrative.

A small number of children are already born to mothers over 50 every year, by IVF using donated eggs.

For the study, Dorevitch and colleagues estimated the number of recreational waterborne illnesses using data from two large epidemiological studies as well as reports of water - borne disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

Scientists have long used CT scans to peek inside fossil - bearing rocks, but the increasing use of 3D printers now enables them to make endless numbers of exact copies of those relics.

Even if the true number is more than that, my point bears out — it is unlikely we could ever use up our storage space.

Prior to the widespread use of quinine, in fact, it was mosquito - borne malaria that largely protected Africa from European colonists, who died from the disease in such high numbers that the west coast of Africa was dubbed the white man's grave.

Given the number of genomes studied and the sophisticated analysis used, the date for when the species diverges is «the best estimate of what we've gotten so far, and it makes sense,» says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, whose earlier work also suggested these bears split less than a million years ago.

«This paper seeks to calculate precise figures for these assumptions, using data on traveller numbers and the export of other mosquito - borne viruses from other major sporting events in Brazil — principally the export of dengue fever virus from the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

It's important to bear in mind that the glycemic index is only one tool used to measure the healthfulness of fruits and vegetables, and it has a number of flaws.

If in that case, it will have already been used in a number of other films such as Iron Man 2, The Borne Ultimatum, Green Zone, and plenty of other movies.

The widely held belief that children born to cocaine - using mothers are forming a permanently damaged» «biological underclass» may be largely a myth, according to a growing number of researchers in the field.

One of Medina's brain rules that I use in my classroom is number six — We don't pay attention to boring things.

On the other hand, Alison Kent described a more «traditional» INSET course where she and her colleagues were subjected to a series of boring PowerPoint slides with a long lecture from a consultant who listed a large number of tips and tricks to improve whole - school behaviour which included avoiding sanctions, giving more chances, and using more praise.

Finally, age adjustments are used for entry exams to many grammar schools, yet there remains a disproportionately lower number of summer born children who are successful.

It is very important to bear in mind that Shanghai's education system rests in part on favorable cultural factors that are widely shared with other Asian countries and uses strategies that are very similar to those used by a number of those countries and provinces in Asia that are also at the top of the PISA league tables.

That feedback manifests itself in a number of ways including Lane Departure Warnings, Traffic Sign Recognition, Automatic High Beam Assist, Flank guard (helps with parking), Adaptive Cruise (which now brings the car to a stop instead of giving up when you slow down as it used to), Blind Spot Monitor, Closing Vehicle Sensing (which tells you when another car is bearing down on you quickly) and Reverse Traffic Detection.

Bearing in mind the alarming scope of fraudulent transactions, we use reliable payment processing company and do not have access to your credit card number!

Some publishers still use contracts containing this older language, so read the out - of - print language carefully — and negotiate so that out of print status is defined by a specified minimum number of royalty - bearing sales instead of «availability» — before you sign a publishing deal.

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I don't want to bore you too much, but your credit score is just a number, derived using «secret math,» that shows how responsible you are.

Anything that does not include bear market performance can be very misleading, if you are using historical numbers for past performance.

The vast reefs that encircle the islands bear scars from decades of blast fishing, in which underwater explosives were used to kill large numbers of fish but also destroyed the coral.

At the end of the game you'll take the uncovered number to the right of the leftmost cube and use it as a multiplier for the level of the project your ambassador is on, thus if you're on level four and have a multiplier of five you'd score twenty points, bearing in mind, however, that ALL players on that project track will benefit.

Titled «Nasty Women,» in reference to a phrase Trump once used to label Hillary Clinton, the show will feature a large sign bearing the exhibition's title, with submissions from a number of female artists hung on it.

Bowling, the Guyanese - born British painter, is widely celebrated for his contributions to the field of abstraction and his advocacy of black artists internationally, created a number of paintings in the 1970s characterized by his use of world maps as organizational tools to explore color as its own subject — a recurring theme in his work.

Since we don't — as far as I know — choose our bodies when we are born, I think of it almost as a kind of «readymade» or a given; like Jasper Johns using the stencil letters and numbers you get from a hardware store, a kind of neutral decision in some way.

The probability of this kind of methane migration is a function of the number of holes drilled through aquifers into gas bearing zones (both biogenic and thermogenic) and the imperfection of measures to control the upward rush of methane using cement casings to seal off the aquifers — a process that is faulty six percent of the time and more frequently as casings deteriorate with time.

PBGS members voted to reject four subpopulation estimates used in the 2015 Red List polar bear status review — even though the inclusion of those numbers was required in order for the Red List status of «vulnerable» to be upheld.

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Using maps and data collected, citizen scientist students can explore the work of many leading scientists as they investigate why the numbers of frogs, polar bears, or penguins are decreasing as their special habitats are effected by rising temperatures.

The research was conducted in the UK; The scientists started by measuring how much air pollution go into a certain number of houses in Lancaster using dust monitoring devices and by swiping surfaces and then analyzing what was collected with magnetic remanence, a technique that provides information on concentrations of iron - bearing particles.

Given China's growing number of cars, along with other pollution sources — and Coke's growing market share in China, bolstered by its offer this week to buy Huiyuan, the country's largest juice maker — the machines couldn't come at a better time for the environment.How it happened Refrigerators used to rely on CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) for cooling — until it was discovered they were boring a hole in the ozone layer.

His efforts have bore fruit on a number of levels and he continues to use the very latest technology to deliver impressive results.

While SIP is indeed a very popular and easy way by which mutual funds investments can be carried out, there are a number of points that need to be borne in mind in order to use such an investment plan in the best possible way.

And the fact that break - in, today the simplest option available to renew your lapsed policy, is growing in popularity is borne by a bird's eye view of the numbers witnessed over the months of June, July, and August 2014: • The number of lapsed policies that were revived using break - in has shot up seven times within just three months of its launch (June — Aug 2014.)

If you can bear with me for a few quick minutes, I can show you using numbers where the job - search «roadblocks» are and how that data - supported insight can help you easily double your chances of landing an interview and a job.

Jofli Bears, «Journey of life» bears, can be used in a number of ways to help families navigate the emotional terrain along the adoption journey.