Jack Lew, the White House budget director, said the assumptions were "consistent with updates" on economic conditions through last month, and continued the practice of assuming moderate growth rates.
A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this summer found that over the lifetime of a power plant, nuclear energy costs 6.7 cents a kilowatt-hour, compared with 4.2 cents for coal or natural gas (assuming moderate gas prices).
Unlike many rivals, which often focus on short-term results and oil-price movements, Exxon invests in or walks away from projects based on long-term returns on capital assuming moderate oil prices.
Additionally, in the following our study assumes moderate radio conditions, expressed in a relaxed fast-fading parameter of the Nakagami-m distribution.
Parents who make contributions within the annual gift-tax limit ($12,000 per parent in 2007) upon a child's birth can reasonably expect to fully cover even the most expensive college's costs, assuming moderate returns on investments.
Assuming moderate precise temperature control system, the acquisition cycle is 2 min, according to the design requirements of this article: to achieve 80 logging devices, each logging devices connected 80 thermostats.
For instance, nomadic or semi-nomadic populations tend to experience loss of diversity by genetic drift (assuming moderate admixture with those populations they meet sporadically), reducing both haplotype and nucleotide diversities.
In addition, recent forecasts by Eurostat, the UN and several national agencies assume moderate levels of future net migration.
This sample size will allow for multivariate analyses with up to six predictors, assuming moderate size effects [ 61].
We observe that HuMiTar obtains higher TP rates when assuming moderate values of FP rates, i.e., it correctly predicts more functional duplexes when assuming a larger number of false positives.
