If you match your long term goals with long term investments, you may accept that fluctuations in the stock market are the norm and impossible to predict on a consistent basis.
Until relatively recently, the solar energy industry had been too young, and the technology too new, to accurately predict return on investment.
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Black Swans are difficult to predict based on their very definition.
Engagement metrics can even identify a suitable medium and combinations of media platforms for brands, providing value above and beyond exposure, audience numbers and CPMs. By adopting a new engagement-powered ROI paradigm, marketers, media companies, and planners can not only guarantee that brands will better connect with consumers but can now predict returns on their investments.
They predict a squeeze on imports, with a cut of around a third in the foreign currency dispensed by the government's exchange-control watchdog.
"The biggest implication from this particular study is that we were able to actually predict repellency based on models, synthesize compounds, test them in the laboratory, and get good agreement, " Bernier said.
Turns out the brothers signed an exclusive contract with a couple of academics who wrote a paper about how to predict daily moves on the Dow Jones Industrial Average by tracking emotional words on Twitter.
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Organizations that allow clients to see their silos, said Trefler, Organizations that have to transfer a customer in the middle of a call to finish a service interaction, or organizations which have to guess what the customer wants instead of having the system predict it based on the customer history and previous calls.
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Since obesity is estimated to show a lag time of about 25 years before more complete effects on premature death and disease are seen, public health experts predict an enormous impact on world-wide health and life expectancy in the future.
"Reform is primarily focused on health care coverage and reducing health care costs, and even optimistic estimates predict that any proposal on the table will still leave millions without access to affordable care, " said Rachel Ward, one of the authors of the "Deadly Delivery" report.
The longer-term impact of the credit crunch on lenders' business models is harder to predict (and depends in part on the severity of the housing-market slowdown).
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It then uses that data to predict how well cars on sale now will hold up.
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Since corporations can no longer predict the future based on the past, uncertainty is high.
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There are only a few examples to draw on to predict how this may play out.
Optimists predict that the elections on April 14th will show a trend away from race-based voting.
If we had to bet on what variables best predict life satisfaction anywhere in the world our money would certainly go on freedom and control .
Increasingly, however, founder PV Kannan is focused on building software so websites can predict customer problems and suggest solutions, without forcing people to wait on the phone.
A. admissions, because the school is just gathering data on what traits predict success.
Many of the broadsheets also predict that England will go on to achieve greater things.
The next step is to seek out the work scientists and governments have done on trying to predict what changes are likely.
As soon as he knew a visitor's political view, said Fisher, he also could predict where he would stand on the nature-versus-nurture issue in genetics.
The quizzical thing about history is that we rely on it to predict events and when it repeats itself it is ho hum and uninspiring.
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It's hard to predict the overall statewide impact on Election Day.
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Nobody could predict what motion would turn on the holy water.
He goes on to even predict the nice things that would be said about them and assure the purveyors of those comments that he had no other choice.
At present, no one can predict a tsunami, but on board the German research vessel Sonne, scientists are installing a system that will give people warning if disaster strikes.
As a result, an elaborate computer model had to be created on earth to predict the temperature of the receiver, so that outgoing signals could be transmitted at the right frequency.
Get this: the initial research by University of Manchester and Indiana University academics said the emotions tracked on Twitter would predict market movements up to six days in advance with 87.6% accuracy.
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The Systems Biology Knowledgebase or KBase will allow scientists to predict the effect of microbes on their communities and if they can clean-up contaminated environments or sequester carbon on land, for example.
Analysts predict that Nokia will hold on to the top spot for 1998, with a 25% share of a 140 million cell phone market worldwide, and that Motorola will trail with about 20%.
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