Sentences with phrase «year variation at»

Then the temperatures stay there, varying by less than a degree with hardly any year - to - year variation at all, up to about 1880, when the dotted line become solid — indicating (though this is not explicitly noted) that we have switched to modern thermometer measurements — at which point they begin to tick jerkily upward.

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Over the past five years, I've heard those answers — or some variation of them — from more than 250 students in my entrepreneurship courses at Princeton University and from many of the more than 100 entrepreneurs I've counseled about their startups.

Although the monthly payment on a 30 - year mortgage with TD Bank seems lower at first glance, each bank uses its own set of assumptions in its online mortgage estimates, leading to minor variations in cost.

For each fund with at least a three - year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Ratingä based on a Morningstar Risk - Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a fund's monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads, and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance.

While there's a great deal of variation across individual market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year market cycle: a 135 % gain, a 30 % loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming in at less than half of the bull market gain).

For each U.S. - domiciled fund with at least a 3 - year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating ™ based on a Morningstar Risk - Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variations in a fund's monthly performance (including loads and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

With at least a 6 - 8 week variation, we can have Jesus birth anywhere from Succot to December 25th, but there is also the possibility the the Abia course is the first of the year which would mean Jesus would have been born anywhere from Passover to July.

The presumed duration of the whole human development (a few million years) is so trifling compared with the extent of astronomic time, even at the lowest estimate, that the chance of a variation of the solar equilibrium while the anthropogenesis is in process may be ignored.

Created at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y., more than 40 years ago, Buffalo Wings have taken on a life of their own and there are hundreds of variations from the original recipe.

It's just that time of year... I could (and probably do) eat some variation of squash at every single meal right now.

Have been using the other similar versions and variations I have used for years — and as the left overs have used as jam for toast or in the the turkey sandwich BUT now I hardly use any bread at all so very perfect to have this other use for the left over cranberry sauce!

We all grew up with a variation of a banana bread or a zucchini bread recipe that we're fond of, and either graces our breakfast table a few times a year or at least when folks come for a visit or drop by for brunch.

We all grew up with a variation of a banana bread or a zucchini bread recipe that we're fond of, and either graces our breakfast table a few times a year or at least when folks come for a visit or...

• Dalton, an instant starter in Cincinnati after running variations of a spread offense at TCU for four years.

Good article with plenty of variations each way.To my mind AFC as a club should have been tying Sánchez down 2 years ago, and Ozil should have been included at the same time.We could see how good they were and that clubs with more ambition and forward thinking than us (NOTE - Wenger and the Board you f *** ing TWATS) would gladly offer them better terms financially.These 2 are as good as we could possibly have and we have allowed this situation to happen.Sure Sanchez has gone for the wages but can you blame him?If he was tied down on a contract like he should have been then it would be us calling the shots and not Sánchez and his agent.So the answer is NO I'm more angry with the Board and Management than the player who will soon be playing under the most hated manager of all time.They deserve each other.

On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

At a press briefing in Takoradi Thursday, the acting director of the Takoradi Port, Capt Ebenezer Afedzi (retd), indicated that variation on the phase II of the project had reached 23 per cent and that by the next couple of years, the whole project would have been completed.

Otherwise, expect events at the Hilton to center around an upbeat recap of the administration's achievements built around Bill Clinton's variation on Ronald Reagan: New York is better — not just better off — than it was four years ago.

The caucus has been pushing hard for Cuomo to extend some variation of the so - called millionaire's tax, which is set to expire after a three - year run at the end of next month.

En Huang, the 31 - year - old Chinese lady, who is standing trial over alleged illegal mining (galamsey), has filed an application for variation of bail conditions at an Accra High Court (Criminal Division).

«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.

Their model integrated the effects of temperature on mosquito behavior and virus transmission, and looked at monthly variation in temperature rainfall, and vegetation throughout the year across Africa.

«Variations over weeks or months don't really tell you anything about the 1,000 - year timescale that governs hydrogen,» notes Kevin Zahnle, an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., who was not involved in the study.

The regular variation in isotope ratios suggests that rather than wandering at random from site to site, Diprotodon made the same round trip each year, following seasonal shifts in vegetation and rainfall.

In a study published online in the journal Menopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the first evidence showing that smoking causes earlier signs of menopause — in the case of heavy smokers, up to nine years earlier than average — in white women with certain genetic variations.

Observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide made by aircraft at altitudes between 3 and 6 kilometers (10,000 - 20,000 feet) show that seasonal carbon dioxide variations have substantially changed during the last 50 years.

In Brazil, for example, among several plots studied as the land recovered from pasture, there was a great deal of variation in the density of trees and number of species present even at just 10 years of regrowth.

For this new study, the researchers looked not only at crop yield, but also at year - to - year variation in crop area and double cropping.

«The variation of Mercury's calcium exosphere with the planet's position in its orbit has been known for several years from MESSENGER observations, but the proposal that the source of this variation is a meteor shower associated with a specific comet is novel,» added MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon, of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York.

«Given the solid epidemiologic evidence supporting a link between cannabis exposure during adolescence and schizophrenia, we investigated whether the use of cannabis during early adolescence (by 16 years of age) is associated with variations in brain maturation as a function of genetic risk for schizophrenia,» said senior author Tomas Paus, MD, PhD, the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor and Chair in Population Neuroscience at Baycrest, University of Toronto, and the Dr. John and Consuela Phelan Scholar at Child Mind Institute, New York.

«So, we decided to go back and look at emergency department visits for that time period and see if there were more visits here at certain seasonal variations during the year.»

J. Haubold of the UN Outer Space Office in Vienna and A. Mathai of McGill University in Montreal argue that these variations, which have been observed over the past 20 years at the Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota, are as significant as the observation that the Sun is producing fewer neutrinos than standard theories predict.

But new genetic studies of ancient DNA from Neandertals have found that they and the last ancestor they shared with humans, about 600,000 years ago, also lacked much genetic variation, which would require at least three dramatic bottlenecks — an improbable scenario.

When the team looked at the chromosomes of more than 1000 people from populations around the world, they concluded that the prevalence of two of these variations was due to an evolutionary balancing act that had kept them in the gene pool for as long as 500,000 years.

«The mitigation of these effects at low cropload suggests that variations in cropload can make an important contribution to year - to - year variation in sweet cherry fruit quality and response to treatments,» the authors said.

About three years ago they and another research team working independently at Princeton found a serious flaw in what has been the most widely accepted theory of galactic magnetic fields — a theory that with slight variations has also been used to explain the magnetic fields of individual stars such as the sun.

In other words, the earth's orbit was almost circular and, at the same time, its axis tilted less, leading to fewer seasonal variations and less extreme weather conditions for a period of about 200,000 years.

«Our approach is particularly powerful because we are mining standing natural variation resulting from tens of thousands of years of evolution and selection,» said Stephen DiFazio, an associate professor of biology at West Virginia University, in a U.S. Department of Energy news release.

«Our approach is particularly powerful because we are mining standing natural variation resulting from tens of thousands of years of evolution and selection,» said Stephen DiFazio, associate professor of biology at West Virginia University, in a U.S. Department of Energy news release.

«What we found at 23 million years ago is a rare congruence of a low point in Earth's eccentricity and a period of minimal variation in obliquity,» James Zachos, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and lead author of the paper, explains.

At the time this was probably rather useless genomic variation, but has now become incredibly beneficial millions of years later when the opportunity for major adaptive radiations arose, changing the way we think about evolutionary processes.»

Instrumental observations over the past 157 years show that temperatures at the surface have risen globally, with important regional variations.

About our estimates of the climate transfer sensitivity to solar variations at 11 years and 22 years, Dr. Benestad makes again a great confusion by misquoting and misunderstanding our paper.

«After looking at variations in the intensity of the gyros» internal lasers, we realized last year that, with our current usage, four of the six gyros were trending towards failure,» says spacecraft operations manager James Godfrey.

in the other case, another friend made disparaging remarks about my cfl's and when i later said, very casually, something to the effect that he doubted the science, he referred to something dixie lee ray said at least fifty years ago about ice ages and climate variations.

The mean insolation at Earth orbit is about 1366 W / m ^ 2; the peak - to - peak variation over the 11 year solar cycle is about 3 W / m ^ 2; the authors discuss two running averages derived from different satellite data sets and analysis derived by Willson and Mordvinov (2003) and Frohlich and Lean (1998) respectively.

There was also variation based on histology, with the highest rate of local recurrence at about a year after surgery seen in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), followed by myxofibrosarcoma; both those types saw persistently elevated rates compared to other subtypes out beyond 5 years.

According to the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 1991 5th Revised Edition notes entry for HR 4983, analysis of spectroscopy and velocity variations over at least five years initially suggested that Beta Comae Berenices may have an unseen companion, which was unresolved by speckle interferometry (Hartkopf and McAlister, 1984, page 109).