They should be able to carry out simple equations and algebra, calculate in fractions and percentages, calculate angles and understand probability.
Professor Martin Prince, professor of epidemiological psychiatry at King's College, London has tried to calculate in financial terms how much of a burden a depressed person can become.
And we have absolutely no way to calculate in principle all the possible interactions and functions of a single protein with the tens of thousands of other proteins in the cell!
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We go to great effort to learn how to read and calculate in school and then invest even more time and effort to learn professional skills, from evaluating market research to judging the success of a campaign.
The FAO's Abdolreza Abbassian argues that increasing links between farming and other parts of the economy are making it more difficult for farmers to calculate in advance the profitability of any one crop, so the area they plant is tending to fluctuate more sharply from year to year.
Its growth rate, as we calculate it in our annual survey of real estate investment trusts, is five times that of the average REIT.
There are four possible methods to calculate basis in a fund, but the fund companies assume you're using the "single category average cost" method.
The IMF's Steven Barnett and Ray Brooks calculate that in urban areas every extra yuan the government spends on health prompts an extra two yuan of consumer spending.
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Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch calculate that in the first week of this earnings season the number of American companies reporting better-than-expected sales outstripped the number reporting better-than-expected profits.
She said it is unclear how the new trial would proceed, but noted that Judge Koh's decision appeared to mirror that of other judges who have complained that there aren't currently good ways to calculate damages in these massive patent battles.
In addition the measure of inflation used to calculate annual increases in many benefits would be made stingier.
This offer is a toe in the waters, and a way to calculate the benefits of in-app sales over a cover price for the game.
And that, in turn, can be used to estimate the amount of carbon stored in the plot examined, and extrapolated to calculate the carbon stored in larger areas of forest that have been scanned by lidar, but not measured with tapes.
They are important because they are used to calculate annual increases in some prices and benefits.
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Analysts calculate that investors in new office blocks can expect to earn over 5% a year on their money once the buildings are fully rented.
Is there anything that this administration is doing to consider, calculate, pose in any way, shape or form, weigh or measure potential deficit implications or economic implications of a value-added tax?
In August 2000, Eli Primrose-Smith , IBM's vice president of sports marketing, told Forbes.com that it was difficult to calculate any increase in sales as a result of its involvement with the games.
That is, Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland seeks to calculate (and sometimes guess, though in an educated way, of course) how much of the UK's revenue is raised in Scotland, and how much is spent in Scotland.
In my Greenblatt model, I calculate return on capital and earnings yield in the same ways that Greenblatt lays out in his book.
Further, Wright pointed out, fund managers such as himself for the most part already put in extra homework to calculate at the same data as the new all-in costs anyway.
From the national income accounts (in fact, one of the ways we can calculate that GDP) corporate profits are in the 10-20% of GDP range in most economies.
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Insurers say the increases are necessary to offset the risk they take in insuring millions of homeowners in harm's way, but their increasingly angry customers question how they calculate rates and whether state officials in charge of balancing public and corporate interest are being too favorable toward the companies.
We have become so used to featuring ourselves in print and on video for all the world to see that few of us calculate how hard we might take rejection in the event 80 million people, rather than the few thousand we expect, will see, read or hear about our work.
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In order to calculate an earnings yield premium you must first calculate an earnings yield.
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For the moment, countries calculate and value pension rights in different ways.
Lets calculate now the percentage growth in NAV (net asset value).
The contracts may prove to be loss-leaders in the early years, but they may calculate it is worth the hit just to be players in the game.
So that leaves us with the data having some limited relevance to the uninsured, and for nonprofit hospitals in order to calculate their level of community benefit.
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On the widest definition of the market, including spares, the Europeans calculate that the true weight in the world market that Boeing will acquire with the merger is over 80%.
Few of us spend the time to actually calculate the cost of care in a facility nor for full time caregivers if our aging parents need help at home.
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