Sentences with phrase «very small base»

It is based on a very small base of measurements, so it may not represent a true trend.

The percentage of doctorate holders in nonacademic S&E occupations who are underrepresented minorities increased from 4.4 percent in 1990 to 6.1 in 2005, a substantial increase if it were not over a very small base.18 Myers and Turner concluded that market forces such as wages play a more prominent role in affecting faculty representation in the short run than pipeline factors designed to increase the supply of minority faculty.19

The draw toward specialization may cause a scientist to attack more specific problems that, by the nature of their specificity, have a very small base of customer or constituent support.

Not exact matches

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

While corporate employees can afford to bury themselves in very specific, rigidly segmented responsibilities, small business employees succeed or fail based on the collective efforts of the entire group.

Olsen, who installed pricing software by Houston - based Acorn Systems last March, learned that some customers were placing only very small orders of some lower - priced items.

«We looked at why that was happening and the reason was we had some schools, like SMU, which had very few [MBA job] recruiter mentions — not a really deep base of recruiters — but that small base was wildly enthusiastic about the school.»

«It's a very good way for small publishers to be seen by buyers and gain credibility,» says Gary Kusin, president of Babbage's, a Dallas - based chain of 247 software stores.

Who cares, especially when very conservatively, the ultimate passive income includes a six digit or more base lease, plus an estimated additional six digits or more for rate increases and another six digits for more for various smaller and one bigger technology increase at 25 years.

When the strongest stocks in the market (typically small to mid-cap growth stocks) are convincingly breaking out to new highs ahead of the broad - based indexes, it is a very bullish sign and the main stock market indexes usually follow suit.

Some early - stage companies might have a high valuation when you look at their relatively small asset and revenue base because they have the potential to grow very quickly or there are high margins in their business.

But Facebook claims it can already process 10,000 posts every second in 20 different languages using Deep Text, and it's starting to deploy the technology to its user base, albeit for a very small number of use cases.

Although Wave is excellent free accounting software for small businesses — especially new, service - based businesses with very tight budgets — and it includes a good selection of features, it's missing a few that some businesses may consider necessities.

At an extreme, technology - based platform companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook have earned huge revenues from very small employee bases — $ 2.1 million per employee at Apple and $ 1.4 million at Facebook vs. $ 0.7 million per employee at Procter & Gamble and $ 0.3 million at Wells Fargo.

The future of the natural resources industry is increasingly looking like science fiction: very soon resources firms big and small will be able to quickly locate value deep in the earth thanks to lightning - fast, algorithm - based analysis of electromagnetic data.

it's more like a (very) small scale, seasonal home - based business.

Perhaps your deferred taxes have grown so large as a result of a very small cost basis that selling and switching into an investment you expect to earn even three percentage points or more over the next decade will actually cost you money as a result of the principle value lost to the IRS.

You can use certain information to your advantage, such as knowing that the 24 hours prior to the NFP release there is very little trading taking place; you can trade on smaller time frames, such as 5 minutes, and do some successful trading based on this.

So, if applied properly this update could turn out to be a massive success for Facebook as well as the small business owners as Facebook's active user base is so huge that the small business owners will have a very good chance to convert them into their clients.

But some of us make very small mental leaps BASED on evidence.

This is based on the realistic recognition that as long as a man stays on the Bowery his chances of recovery from alcoholism are very small.

I have reviewed all the actual evidence for the existence of any god that has been presented to me or that I have found and have formed the opinion, based on the available actual evidence, that the probability of any god existing is very small.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

Under these very severe tensions and pressures Italian politics reverted to its subideological base in the particular loyalties of families and small groups.

It seems redundant that the perplexities of molecular mechanisms are made via a cellular blueprint followed in conjunctions of and by intelligent designers all living amid and within each and every molecular mechanisms while the base roots residencies of such super small yet very intelligent beings could very well be each and every cell's DNA.

Financially, the average theological school is like a primary school in a small town with a very limited tax base that is not likely to grow much in the foreseeable future.

And then when the food sensitivities were cleared up and I was finally able to eat bread again, I made the decision to only do so on a very limited basis, because I decided I felt better when I only ate small amounts of gluten and starchy carbohydrates.

A quick question: in the image showing the dough being placed in the pan, (has a very small depth - of - field and it's thrown the dough - base out of focus), have you pricked the dough base before adding the filling ingredients, or are the dents caused by the fingertips as the dough is pressed onto the pan?

Zero - based budgeting is a trending practice first introduced in the 1970s that has very recently experienced a renaissance at numerous companies, both large and small.

The base of everything chocolate, Cacao Nibs is the cacao bean that's been roasted, chopped and broken into very small pieces.

It's a very small venue with basic cocktails that aren't too mixology based; it's more about the experience and just enjoying yourself.

From September to mid-October, the farmers» markets of Vladivostok were filled with fresh peppers: green, red, and yellow bells; large green and red tomato - shaped peppers, with a mild but rich flavor; long, sweet peppers much like Hungarian ones, pale yellow - green or bright yellow in color; very dark green peppers, similar to small bells but pointed at the base; triangular - shaped peppers like Spanish pimientos de piquillos, ranging in color from pale green to dark green to bright red; long, wide, red and green peppers, similar in size, shape, and taste to New Mexico ones; long, thin, very hot, medium - green peppers; and long, pointed, bright red or jalapeño - green peppers, very much like de Aguas.

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* If you'd like a very tall loaf, bake this in a small loaf tin around 20 - 22 cm length at the base.

I tried to melt the chocolate in a small saucepan (lilly's sugar free dark chocolate) and it got very clumpy and I couldn't spread it over the chilled coconut base.

I.e., I like a few recipes from Sally's Baking Addiction, who has a reputation of adapting the base recipes from Cook's Illustrated and other very reputable sources, and just not giving them any credit at all; she's lately started joining the «adapted by» group, which is a (small) improvement.

This is either an indication of chronically stressed athlete, or an athlete who has a very inefficient aerobic base and thus a smaller adaptability stress threshold.

For the record, this is a very small sample and there's a good chance we'll see an overreaction in the betting trends next week based on Tebow's performance Sunday, but it doesn't mean there isn't value being created for this week's game.

Sixty - eight percent of tickets are laying the points, but it's tough to peg this as public money due to a very small betting handle based on our number of bets statistic.

Based on the fact that most stores have a very small on - hand stock of Similac's Alimentum and the Enfamil version Nutragen, it implies that those formulas are not flying off the shelf compared to the basic baby formula.

If you have neither time nor money, then using smart plugs can be a very effective way of bringing home automation into your home on a smaller basis.

I'm very specific in who I target (based on current associations or interests), I use a small daily budget, and I limit my ads to 5 days or less.

Men are not selfish creatures that can be tarred with the same brush universally based on what might be a very small percentage in comparison.

I'm very excited to have found the toddler carrier from Action Baby Carrier, a small, Michigan - based business that hand makes their quality carriers in the U.S.A.

And in a, I don't remember this study group is maybe 40, 80 women something like that and they found a 5 % insufficient milk rate and that has, that's the basis of the number that continues to be recorded today but it was a very small population.

Some police forces have experimented with the use of GPS tracking on a voluntary basis with «persistent and priority offenders» but the numbers are very small and the tracking is part of a holistic package that includes housing and intensive personal support.

Unlike the marginal rate of tax, which is a forward looking measure that relies on assumptions about prices, revenues and production profiles, ETR is a retrospective indicator calculated on the basis of observed data for all of these parameters (this is a useful feature, as the taxes that companies liquidate may be a very small fraction of what they would have theoretically had to pay had the marginal rate of taxation applied, as the cases of Starbucks, Amazon and other companies so poignantly demonstrate).

In Central New York, Rochester - based developer Wilmorite has helped pay some of the local costs to pave the way for its $ 350 million proposal to build a destination hotel in Tyre, a very small town in Seneca County.

«In the mental health arena, there is a very small component, very small number, with mental health issues that seem to be involved in some of these mass shootings on a regular basis,» Katko said.

Ian Swales, the Redcar MP whose constituency was also polled by Oakeshott, told his local Gazette that the results suggesting he would lose his seat were «based on a small sample and look very amateurish».