After a change in methodology in 2007, the London School of Economics, usually regarded as one of Britain's top five academies, crashed from 17th to 59th place.
Before the change in methodology used to determine fair value, the typical portfolio company valuation was equal to the value established by investors at the time of the most recent investment.
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The Audit Bureau of Circulations just released circulation figures for the six months ending March 31, 2011, and the Journal retained its distinction as the largest weekday paper despite a switch in methodology.
The feds may be zeroing in on similar lapses in methodology in rating complex mortgage-backed securities, which got their triple-A ratings not because of the quality of the underlying assets in the case of subprime mortgages, that quality stank but because of their structure that guaranteed payment to higher tranches of securities at the expense of the lower.
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In my methodology, the objective is to generate returns in excess of those commensurate with the risk taken.
Three-quarters of the increases in F-35 support costs reported by the Pentagon have resulted from changes in the scope of work being analyzed or changes in the methodology for how costs should be calculated, rather than rising costs in the program.
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The Bloom Laptop project was a class project for a course in design methodology.
There are more issues, which Igrape addresses in their methodology, found here.
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There are also a number of systematic flaws in the methodology, which you may need to correct for.
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The implied annual yield now stands at 3.1% which of course is a slight improvement in our methodology.
We are not downplaying the importance of profitability in our analysis, and this guide-down will work against THQI in our methodology.
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If it is possible to attend these sessions at Georgetown University or Carnegie, it is sure to be instructive in the methodology of the influence operation.
By contrast, Gartner and IDC, who are better-known for tracking the PC market (and presumably thus more conservative in their methodology), do not (yet) count iPads as PCs.
What if they all could put their best and brightest ideas together in a methodology to forge an effective and efficient approach to solving a problem or serving a market?
Abraham is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, where she is a faculty associate in the Maryland Population Research Center and a professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.
The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage ensures comprehensive protection of underwater cultural heritage through clear legal and operational rules, in addition to establishing a scientific work methodology in its Annex.
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We estimate the number of jobs created or saved in different industries using a methodology developed in our first quarterly report. 2 Specifically, we decompose the response of employment in each sector into two components.
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Arthur Dempster, also a professor of statistics at Harvard, though in a different department from Dr Laird, agrees that the methodology in both design and analysis is at the standard professional level.
In terms of methodology, the main metric for inclusion is the amount of private donations received in the latest available fiscal year.
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Gaffney, Jr. in the Press Club's Zenger Room to discuss the methodology used in, and the findings of, this poll.
However, after applying the methodology in reverse, the world ceased to be the same.
Moreover, because the effects are small, slight differences in the testing methodology can yield completely different risk results.
Either way, Nintendo is said to have secured patents for the new control methodology in Japan late last year.
With all this conversation, why were there still inconsistencies in approach and methodology between the engagements at the fourteen servicers?
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First, some of what passes for scientific methodology in the forensic world would not stand up to scrutiny outside it.
But the company challenged the new index methodology in the courts, where a local judge decided that Elektra should be exempt from the new rules.
During the first year, an initial group of trainers of trainers will be trained to ensure consistent delivery, as well as building capacity in the required methodology.
Moody's methodology in particular, he says, caused him concern.
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