Sentences with phrase «using mean values»

(In the single view table below, it has been derived using mean values of published intervals.

Using mean values suggests that Canada lags the US by about 17 % (2009 data Wikipedia, but if one uses median values, the gap drops to about 7 % (see this Mark Thoma blog for the Distribution of Income in OECD Countries.

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Adam Cavalier, president of California - based insurance broker Cavalier Associates, notes that «There's a buzz about outsourcing, but the real value is only realized when employees internally are bought into the service and able to use these resources as they are meant to be used.»

Use social platforms to your advantage — as a means of communicating your value proposition, as a source of competitor research and as an industry database.

Though some advocates have suggested using teaspoons (that Coke can has 15 teaspoons of sugar), the FDA has proposed that labels list the percent daily value for added sugars, which means the amount of added sugar you are advised to consume each day in your diet.

We discovered some barriers to entry around the use, social value and cultural meaning of the English language, internet usage and trust in digital platforms that were specific to Egypt.

And part of both of those things — creating value and communicating better — means that we are also focused on hearing from creators about how we can help them, how we can create new tools that use our platform to help them find new fans, connect with those fans, learn about their audiences, get them to live shows, and more.

Last year we were tasked with making our websites mobile - friendly — meaning responsive and easy to use on mobile devices — but this year will be all about offering value in mobile app form.

This means developing products that are easy to use, delivering meaningful value to customers, building sales teams that are enjoyable to work with, and of course, crafting marketing campaigns that resonate.

This same scenario is what happens online when you use your thought leadership marketing as a means to sell, rather than to provide true value to your followers.

Russian officials have previously suggested that decentralized cryptocurrencies should not be used as a conventional means of payment and that their owners should be subjected to a value - added tax; President Vladimir Putin himself has stated that they «can not be a store of value.»

The upshot is that private firms track land values for their own constituencies, but their aim is to buy stocks in firms with undervalued land or otherwise benefit from speculation, not use better taxes from land - value gains as a means of lowering taxes elsewhere throughout the economy.

Universal life insurance policies are the only permanent policies that have «flexible premiums», meaning you can use the policy's cash value to make payments.

Second, assume that the bad debt generated by the system (by which I mean the excess portion of any debt used to fund projects that add less value to the economy than the cost of the project) is not written down within the reporting period in which it was extended.

Shipments containing cash or other means of payment, precious metals, art work, jewelry, watches, precious stones or other articles of value or securities for which, in the event of damage, no stoppage and no cancellation and replacement procedure can be carried out; for the avoidance of doubt the following valuable goods are exempted from this rule: Shipments using the Registered Mail special service, which contain stamps, telephone cards, vouchers for goods and low - value goods in these classes (e.g. fashion jewelry and promotional articles), up to an actual value of 30 Special Drawing Rights of the International Monetary Fund (SDR) per shipment, and individual tickets and entrance tickets;

This means some traders are using high interest rates to calculate the present value of profits, while others are using low rates.

Since trade done using cryptocurrencies means that cryptocurrencies behave as a source of value similar to that of the US Dollar, they are also taxable according to the rule of law just like any other privately owned property is in the US.

While this might sound somewhat similar to Bitcoin, there are major differences between the two, the main one being that Bitcoin is a decentralised currency — a store of value and a means of payment — whereas Ripple focuses on a single use case: sending money as fast as information.

Offering, operating, or participating in, any marketing or sales plan or program wherein a participant gives or agrees to give a valuable consideration in return (1) for the opportunity to receive compensation in return for inducing other persons to become participants in the plan or program, or (2) for the opportunity to receive something of value when a person induced by the participant induces a new participant to give such valuable consideration, Provided, That the term «compensation,» as used in this paragraph only, does not mean any payment based on actually consummated sales of goods or services to persons who are not participants in the plan or program and who do not purchase such goods or services in order to participate in the plan or program.

between the two, the main one being that Bitcoin is a decentralised currency — a store of value and a means of payment — whereas Ripple focuses on a single use case: sending money

U.S. home values have climbed more than 30 % since late - 2012 which means that many of the homeowners who have used FHA financing this decade have at least some home equity.

This value could also mean different things for offers used in different stages of the sales process.

As Ari Paul says, you may not be able to optimize a cryptocurrency both for the unseizable store of value «digital gold» use case and the low fee means - of - exchange proposition.

Just like with instant payments, expensive on - chain Bitcoin transactions do not mean that one can not use Bitcoin for cheap value transfer.

If you have been involved in the bitcoin market, then chances are that you've heard of Bitcoin Pizza Day, a celebration of the time when Laszlo Hanyecz purchased two pizzas with 10,000 BTC, in order to prove that the digital currency can be used as a means of value.

As used herein, «Digital Currency» means a digital asset (also called a «cryptocurrency,» «virtual currency»), such as, but not limited, bitcoin or ether, which is based on a cryptographic protocol (s) of an electronic system that may be (i) centralized or decentralized, (ii) proprietary or open - source, and (iii) used as a medium of exchange and / or store of value.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ruled that bitcoin and other digital currencies have an equivalent value in real currencies, which means that they can be used for services or purchasing goods.

Having a system that treats air travel almost like stocks, allowing you to buy in for tickets at the best price, that now, uses a range of crypto - based payment systems means users really can get the optimum price for their ticket, meaning total value for money is ensured.

There are no blackout dates for using rewards points toward hotel nights, which means that using them during peak holiday travel or other busy periods can exponentially increase their value!

The fact that a society — using the terms in its common sense meaning — has no value for itself does not mean that it can have no life of its own.

Just because your grandparents had some fraudulent, baseless book of lies used in school does not mean they learned anything of value from it.

What needs to be shown is not a mere filiation of concepts or the use of words, but the religious value men found in the concepts, the religious meaning they undertook to set forth in the words.

Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.

I use «ethic» to denote the basic moral attitude of an individual or a group whereas ethics means the (theosophical or theological) theory of moral values, norms and attitudes.

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.

Dewey calls this value «quality,» but by the term he means neither mathematical nor secondary qualities; he uses the term to refer, first, to the wholeness or deeper reality, in some aspect of the world, often as that wholeness is presented in a work of art. 24 If this were called the objective locus of quality, the subjective locus would be the emotional intuition of the objective quality; this subjective quality gives the experience itself the unity which makes it that particular experience.25 It is this empirical discernment of quality which provides the substance of the derivative and propositional resolution of the conflict between the individual and its environment.

The broad brush you are using has no meaning or value in a discussion.

«The part of us that doesn't die would have to be something SIC immaterial [I believe you mean «immaterial» in the sense of «non-corporeal» as opposed to «having no use or value»]».

We must now discuss what meaning or value the idiom of resurrection may have for us if we continue to use it.

While such a suggestion may have theoretical value, it does not help much practically, since the word «god» continues to be widely used and to serve as more or less useful means of communicating religious ideas.

Racism occurs when one ethnic group uses its distinctions - values, skin color, communication patterns - as a means to prevent one or more ethnic groups from flourishing as God intends.

In Chapters 5 and 6 we considered the electronic church preachers who have adopted a «Christ of culture» response which uses the techniques of the world of the technological era, a world of means that values technique («whatever works is good») over human values.

The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption against the use of force as a means of settling disputes.»

Funny how «conservatives» use the argument that Jesus didn't mean for govt to give charity but still claim that the government was founded on Christian values.

Is the biological matter that constitutes a human being so intrinsically devoid of value and meaning that it is permissible to use this material for some mundane and utilitarian purpose?

Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it meaning.

This means that the degree of consciousness attained by living creatures (from the moment, naturally, when it becomes discernible) may be used as a parameter to estimate the direction and speed of Evolution (that is to say, of the Cosmic Coiling) in terms of absolute values.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

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