noun
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average
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A comparison of the benefit with the cost produces an average benefit-cost ratio of 1.2: 1.
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Jefferies surveyed 122 REITs recently and found that the average estimated payout ratio for this year was 78 percent.
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Even at 26,230, the average p/e ratio was still 45.
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The average branching ratios of these grammars were reasonably high, compared with HARPY1.
branching
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The typical number of children of each internal node in a tree is called its branching ratio .
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The average branching ratios of these grammars were reasonably high, compared with HARPY1.
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Such a tree is called a binary tree, and of course its branching ratio is 2.
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The rules are beautifully simple, but its branching ratio is 300 or more and it is more subtle than chess.
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Hence, if all goals are deep or the branching ratio is large, it will be very slow.
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Also, an unexpressive language permits few operators, so the search's branching ratio is small.
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In addition, the branching ratio at the start is 64, and it never falls below 57.
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Since the branching ratio is so great, search at the lower level is a poor playing strategy.
capital
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The company also plans to improve its debt to capital ratio further, to 0.5.
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Under Czech banking law, all banks must meet a capital adequacy ratio of 8 percent.
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Although such ploys help to boost banks' capital ratios , they do not bring in new cash.
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The analysis has therefore concentrated on the effect on the capital labour ratio and on competitive factor returns.
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But concern mounted that the fall in the stock market may start to undermine banks' capital adequacy ratios .
high
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Our results suggest that the second is true: women with high waist-hip ratio have difficulty in becoming pregnant.
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The butt part has a higher ratio of lean to bone than the shank part and is often priced higher.
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A high ratio value implies that the band 7 value of that the band 5 and band 7 values were equal.
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Many sausage afficionados prefer an even higher ratio of fatback to meat.
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These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
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Eventually, the economy comes back into balance with a higher savings ratio and a lower trade deficit.
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One of the major problems with electric vehicles has been the lack of a battery with a high power-to-weight ratio .
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The highest ratio was retail at 84. 1 percent compared to 86. 5 percent in 1996.
low
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They may simply go ahead and expand credit, and accept a lower liquidity ratio .
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Its 26. 6 employees per 10, 000 phone lines is one of the lowest ratios in the industry.
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Four observations were excluded because of low signal-to-noise ratio or background subtraction problems.
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The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years, and certainly a lower cash ratio.
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Banks, being prepared to operate with a lower liquidity ratio , were only too pleased to supply the credit being demanded.
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Not surprisingly, there is generally a low ratio of members per volunteer-typically less than 5: 1.
standardised
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It is therefore crucial to include standardised mortality ratios alongside age weightings to correct for variations in life expectancy.
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These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
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We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
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The sum of each subject's cumulative hazard of death was compared with observed deaths to find the standardised mortality ratio .
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There were no trends in standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease or other causes with the number of previous pregnancies.
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Death rates were expressed as standardised mortality ratios , with the national average as 100.
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The overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was close to the national average, the standardised mortality ratio being 94.
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However, because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio .
■ NOUN
aspect
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In fact aspect ratios of 40 or more are needed for such uniformity to exist.
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Therefore, we can use the aspect ratio of Spacing between the boats.
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Some programs maintain the aspect ratio between width and height whilst scaling, thereby avoiding distortion.
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Observations with apparatuses of relatively small aspect ratio have led to interesting comparisons with theories to be discussed in Chapter 24.
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The shallower angle meant that the aspect ratio of chord to span was higher.
cash
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All banks need to maintain a cash ratio large enough to meet the cash requirements of their depositors.
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These cash ratio deposits are non-operational: in other words, the banks can not withdraw them.
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The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years, and certainly a lower cash ratio.
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The bankers' deposits item in the balance sheet refers to the cash ratio and operational balances of the banks.
compression
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How do I tell the compression ratio and therefore which spark plugs to use?
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The compression ratio is a high 12.7: 1.
debt
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The debt ratio fell to 65.9 per cent, down 19.4 percentage points from 85.3 per cent last year.
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Belt-tightening would allow the debt ratio to fall faster or income-tax rates to be cut.
decidendi
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The relevant passages formed part of the Court of Appeal's ratio decidendi and the case can not sensibly be distinguished.
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What was the ratio decidendi of Pinnel's Case?
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The question arose after Donoghue v. Stevenson as to how broadly the ratio decidendi could be interpreted.
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The ratio decidendi of Donoghue v. Stevenson is open to two interpretations.
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It is 2 which amounts to the ratio decidendi of the case.
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Not every statement made in the course of a judgment is binding as part of the ratio decidendi of the case.
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It is not always easy to identify the ratio decidendi of a given case.
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Too much emphasis on the search for the ratio decidendi of cases can be misleading.
dependency
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Consequently dependency ratios for future decades are again only best estimates and not real facts.
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The bond-\#dependency ratio peaked this fiscal year, he said.
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I shall discuss the implications of the dependency ratio for the construction of family obligations in more detail in chapter 3.
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The dependency ratio is expected to top 28 percent next year for the second year in a row, economists said.
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There has been an increase in the dependency ratio because of several factors.
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Second, the typical dependency ratio assumes that all those aged 16 - 64 are gainfully employed.
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The nature of employment is also being affected by the increase in the dependency ratio .
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Calculating dependency ratios retrospectively or for current circumstances is not problematic.
isotope
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Measurements of the resulting isotope ratios closely approximated those found in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.
likelihood
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The likelihood ratio test statistic shown above is a formalization of this.
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The Wald test is equivalent to the likelihood ratio test in large samples.
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The crucial difference with the likelihood ratio test is that the models that provide the's and's can be highly non-linear.
liquidity
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Banks' liquidity ratio may vary Banks may choose a different liquidity ratio.
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They may simply go ahead and expand credit, and accept a lower liquidity ratio .
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An example of a statutory liquidity ratio was the minimum 121/2 percent reserve assets ratio imposed on banks from 1971 to 1981.
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The ratio of an institution's liquid assets to illiquid assets is known as its liquidity ratio.
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If a financial institution's liquidity ratio is too high, it will make too little profit.
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Profitability High liquidity ratios indicate short-term financial strength but do not measure efficiency of utilization of resources.
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In other words, the banks operate a 10 percent liquidity ratio .
mortality
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It is therefore crucial to include standardised mortality ratios alongside age weightings to correct for variations in life expectancy.
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Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
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These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
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We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
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The sum of each subject's cumulative hazard of death was compared with observed deaths to find the standardised mortality ratio .
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There were no trends in standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease or other causes with the number of previous pregnancies.
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Death rates were expressed as standardised mortality ratios , with the national average as 100.
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The overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was close to the national average, the standardised mortality ratio being 94.
payout
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Most firms appear to have a target payout ratio of dividends to long-run reported earnings.
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Stocks with higher yields are more likely to have higher payout ratios .
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Given this measure, dividends per share are determined by where is the target dividend payout ratio .
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Apartments had an estimated 78. 1 percent payout ratio compared to 82. 8 percent last year.
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The management have confidence in future earnings growth and the maintenance of the target payout ratio . 2.
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The important result is that in an uncertain world companies like to maintain a stable payout ratio over the long run.
weight
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It was claimed that this gives an improved warmth to weight ratio of around 25 percent and decreased bulk.
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The hydrogen to carbon weight ratio Provides another simple quantitative argument favoring the use of natural gas and coal to replace oil.
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Down: The soft plumage of water fowl, minimum weight ratio 85% down, 15% feathers.
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The hydrogen to carbon weight ratio of residual oil is approximately 1 to 9.
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Down and Feather: A mixture of the two, minimum weight ratio 51% down, 49% feathers.
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Percentage may be expressed either as volume or weight ratios .
■ VERB
calculate
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Holmes calculated a ratio of approximately 2.4:1.
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The labelling index was calculated as the ratio of Ki-67 positive to negative cells per crypt.
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Sharpe calculated a benchmark ratio using the Dow Jones Industrial Average as a proxy for the market portfolio.
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We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
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A total labelling index was calculated as the ratio of labelled cell to total cell numbers for each column.
express
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In these conditions serum pepsinogen C provides additional diagnostic information, especially when expressed as pepsinogen A:C ratio .
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Comparisons between ions are then expressed as a radius ratio , the ratio of the cation radius to the anion radius.
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This amount may be expressed as a ratio of the amount of useful information compared to the amount of redundant information.
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Death rates were expressed as standardised mortality ratios , with the national average as 100.
increase
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This is where the government increases the ratio of bonds to bills.
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His recovery of survival potential increased in ratio to the amount of energy freed from the engram bank.
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The percentage of women who became pregnant fell with increasing waist-hip ratio from 63% to 32%.
show
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Table 3.1 below shows the ratio of females to males convicted for certain crimes and makes clear the male domination of criminality.
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Table 8-8 shows the ratio of personal debt to disposable personal income.
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Three of the first five runs showed ratios between 1.5 and 2, implying excess neutrons of between 50 and 100 percent.
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A formula of an ion shows the ratio of atoms of each element present in the ion.
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The empirical formula shows the simplest ratio of the number of atoms or ions in a substance.
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Even so, by 1987, the Sinfield and Fraser estimate shows an overall ratio of eighteen unemployed to every job vacancy.
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Right axis shows the ratio of dissociation constants for a mutant and wild-type receptor.
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Even concordant Crohn's disease twins affected by the disease usually showed very dissimilar subclass ratios .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a school where the ratio of students to teachers is about 5:1
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Relative risks were estimated as matched odds ratios by conditional maximum likelihood methods.
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The ratio is similar to Rainbird.
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The ratio means that for every $ 100 of orders shipped by chipmakers, $ 109 in new orders were received.
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The butt part has a higher ratio of lean to bone than the shank part and is often priced higher.
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The inventory-to-shipment ratio in November was revised to 116. 2 from an initial 116. 4.
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The significant difference is that our interpretation of the capital-output ratio includes variable capital, not merely fixed capital stock.
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This will help with recommendations such as the ratio between sheet thickness, width and the distances between glazing bar centres.