The ratio using these numbers is higher than that found in the study.
"There is not any issuer of limited benefit coverage that could meet the enhanced MLR standards, " said Neil Trautwein, a vice president at the National Retail Federation, using the abbreviation for medical loss ratio.
This means that the compression ratio of an ICE using ethanol can be taken up to 24:1 compression ratio before preignition begins to happen.
Recently a detailed study conducted by the researchers at Columbia University has indicated that the cost-benefit ratio of using da Vinci surgical system to perform hysterectomies is not favorable at all.
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The most likely alternatives, butter and pig fat, were ruled out using a technique called isotope-ratio mass spectrometry, which measures the molecular weights of the chemicals in a sample.
Some experts argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of total number unemployed.
For these reasons some argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of unemployed, as a percentage of the whole youth population.
Using Argon-argon dating - a technique based on the decay ratio of radioactive potassium - researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Glasgow have revised both the date of the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago, and the timing of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that occurred at around the same time.
By actively managing its credit portfolio using the analytics capabilities, the bank has improved its risk-return ratio, and it is better positioned to pursue growth opportunities and to understand the contingencies when capital is in short supply.
The CAPE model can be seen to use a long-term average ratio is calculated using market data back to 1880.
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Lehman realized a benefit by using the cash received to pay down other liabilities for a temporary improvement in the leverage ratio.
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The June funded ratio, which measures assets to liabilities. is only 74% for CalPERS even using a high-rate of return assumption for its investments.
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Using Morningstar data, Sharpe found the average actively-managed U.S. stock fund had an expense ratio of 1.12 percent during 2012.
Using U.S. cancer registry data from 2003 through 2012, Shariat and his colleagues found the ratio of deaths to cancer diagnoses decreased by 10 percent over the past decade - but was consistently higher among men than women.
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