Sentences with phrase «year measurement period»

The equal - weight reference portfolio's annualized rate of return over the 49 - year measurement period outpaced the cap - weighted benchmark return by 1.80 %.

To interpret this Exhibit, using the first line example, we see that 89.52 % of active mutual funds with a 10 - year track record and following a large cap growth strategy failed to outperform the S&P 500 Growth (the benchmark index for the group) over the same 10 - year measurement period.

The view in designing and using OSUs was that they struck a balance between stock options and RSUs; they are performance - based and present significant upside potential for superior stock price performance while sharing some attributes of traditional RSUs by offering some value to the recipient, even if the stock price declines over the three - year measurement period.

Not exact matches

As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, the Company may record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed with the corresponding offset to goodwill.

As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, we may record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed with the corresponding offset to goodwill.

They all show roughly the same pattern of increasing CO2.50 years is not a long time period And the CO2 measurements carry no definitive anthropogenic fingerprints.

The effect of study size, age groups at outcome measurement (comparing those aged 16 — 30 y with those aged ≥ 50 y), year of birth, the method of ascertainment of infant feeding status (whether contemporary or recalled over a period of ≥ 5 y) was examined by using meta - regression and sensitivity analysis.

The researchers studied temperature measurements over the last 150 years, ice core data from Greenland from the interglacial period 12,000 years ago, for the ice age 120,000 years ago, ice core data from Antarctica, which goes back 800,000 years, as well as data from ocean sediment cores going back 5 million years.

«We only have about 150 years of direct measurements of temperature, so if, for example, we want to estimate how great of variations that can be expected over 100 years, we look at the temperature record for that period, but it can not tell us what we can expect for the temperature record over 1000 years.

Using different calibration and filtering processes, the two researchers succeeded in combining a wide variety of available data from temperature measurements and climate archives in such a way that they were able to compare the reconstructed sea surface temperature variations at different locations around the globe on different time scales over a period of 7,000 years.

If there is a high level of acidity, the measurement turns out and it works great for measuring the climate of the past all the way back to the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

Based on a three - year study with intensive measurements at three different locations in Aarhus, they divide the grass pollen season into three periods, as shown in the graph below: a twin peak profile during the early season, a single evening profile in the middle season and a single midday profile during the late season.

The researchers carried out more than 40 such measurements over a period of four years.

Through a prospective study using 4,798 patients, they showed that their PWV measurement was significantly associated with the onset of cardiovascular diseases over a ten - year follow up period.

The researchers determined from the isotope ratio that the Taylor Glacier samples were 120,000 years old, and validated the estimate by comparing the results to well - dated ice core measurements of atmospheric methane and oxygen from that same period.

The analysis of those observations, along with measurements of orbital periods over the next few years, could help recurrent novae beat rival candidates for the role of true type 1a progenitors.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

«We have run the model over a simulated period of three million years, and taken into account measurements from ice cores and independent magnetic and seismic data,» says Petrunin.

But the temperature measurements based on the oxygen isotope O18 showed that the period between the two warm periods was colder than the cold period before the first warming 15,000 years ago.

The predictions matched actual rainfall measurements during the 75 - year period, both in the magnitude (amount) and the trend (increase or decrease) of precipitation.

Of course, solar irradiance measurements from just three years of one solar cycle can not be applied to any other period than the one measured by the Spectral Irradiance Monitor on NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite.

The data is only 33 years in length, but based on that data, there is no first order correlation between temperature and CO2 during its 33 year period and this suggests that then signal to CO2 (ie., Climate Sensitivity) is so low that it can not be measured within the sensitivity, resolution and errors of our best current temperature measurements.

We were unaware of any other stations with daily measurements over a period of more than 80 years, with few missing values or large data gaps.

In July 2008, astronomers (Michael Endl and Martin Kürster) analyzed used seven years of differential radial velocity measurements for Proxima Centauri to submit a paper indicating that large planets are unlikely to be orbiting Sol's closest stellar neighbor within its habitable zone — around 0.022 to 0.054 AU with a corresponding orbital period of 3.6 to 13.8 days.

«Over a period of a million years, which is our standard unit of measurement, the movement of the mantle can cause the surface to move up and down by hundreds of metres.»

Through meticulous observations over the span of 2.5 years, Martinez and collaborators were able to obtain a number of useful measurements for the system, including the pulsar's period (62 ms), the period of the binary (2.62 days), and the system's eccentricity (e = 0.17).

This summer's heatwave, the most prolonged period of hot weather in the UK for years, has not yet been taken into account in their measurements.

Repeated measures of both teachers and students are planned over a three - year period, with annual analysis making use of latent variable measurement models and accounting for the multilevel and longitudinal structure of the data.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

The benchmark return per share is also adjusted if the total return per share exceeds 12.0 % per year in any measurement period.

The proper measurement period for this swap is over the next 1 - 3 years.

However, given the initial six - month grace period, the nine - months of delinquency required to default, and years of available deferments and forbearances, it is simple for such borrowers to delay default well beyond the CDR measurement period to which a borrower is assigned.

Over long measurement periods ranging between 13 and 28 years, all of these value managers significantly outperformed the market as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500; however, all, with the exception of Warren Buffett went through periods of underperformance relative to these benchmarks, sometimes consecutive years of underperformance, ranging from one to six years.

The authors examine composite performance over two measurement periods, both ending in December 2017: the 25 - year period starting January 1993, when the original article was published, and the 10 - year period starting January 2008.

We're three years into this particular measurement period for stocks.

(Because these measurement periods began in 1975, right after a major market decline, they include a few robust recovery years.

Disclosures about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements in the rollforward of activity in Level 3 fair value measurements are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2010 and for interim periods within those fiscal years.

To be fair, these are only one - year figures: a longer measurement period should be used for these types of comparisons.

They observed the sky for thousands of years and with such precision that their measurements of celestial events, such as the synodic period of Venus and the Maya calendar, were more precise than ours.

For practical reasons, it is defined as a collection of meteorological measurements, their averages and fluctuations over a period of 30 years.

Their measurements, focusing on a time period in September each year — during which time the colder temperatures in the atmosphere promote the reactions that destroy ozone so that the hole is opening up — show that since 2000, the hole has shrunk by 1.7 million square miles, an area more than half the size of the continental United States.

The roughly thirty year period over which we have reliable reanalyses and satellite measurements is too short to rule out the influence of natural climate variability, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Indeed, pervious studies have tied increases in the C14 in tree rings, and hence reduced solar irradiance, to Holocene glacial advances in Scandinavia, expansions of the Holocene Polar Atmosphere circulation in Greenland; and abrupt cooling in the Netherlands about 2700 years ago... Well dated, high resolution measurements of O18 in stalagmite from Oman document five periods of reduced rainfall centered at times of strong solar minima at 6300, 7400, 8300, 9000, and 9500 years ago.»

Mr. Watts posted a piece in what he called «the weather is not climate department,» highlighting satellite measurements showing that January, and particularly Jan. 13, were unusually warm (for the 30 - year satellite period).

Secondly, salinity measurements should be able to assess the amount of freshwater inputs for this period relative to the years before, though these have probably not yet been collated.

The graph below (high - resolution copy) shows the range of the forecasts for early September, the point when the sea ice typically reaches its minimum extent, compared to recent years and the average over the period of precise satellite measurement.

Scenario B1 assumes a continuation of the compounded annual growth rate in atmospheric CO2 of the most recent period and the period since Mauna Loa measurements started in 1958 (a bit more than 0.4 % per year CAGR).

Craig (1957a), p. 2; for the large number («the surface waters can absorb only a small fraction of the extra CO2 in a period of several hundred years»), see Plass (1956), p. 149; the small number was from Dingle (1954), who used an 1899 measurement of water mixed with ordinary salt, which behaves very differently from the more chemically complicated sea water.

Then, instead of throwing out the data as hopelessly compromised and starting the experiment over with these factors corrected, you (a) do a study estimating how miscalibrated, how defective and how improperly located your instruments were and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» the improper reading, (b) you do a study to estimate the effect of the external factors at the time you discover the problem and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» the effects of the external factors even though you have no idea what the effect of the external factor actually was for a given instrument at the time the data was recorded, because you only measured the effect years later and then at only some locations, (c) you «fill in» any missing data using data from other instruments and / or from other measurements by the same instrument, (d) you do another study to determine how best to deal with measurements from different instruments over different time periods and at different locations and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» for differences between readings from different instruments over different time periods at different locations.

Including this, there is an overlapping period of about 20 years between the ice core CO2 measurements and the south pole atmospheric measurements: