In the past, companies have been able to smooth the effect of changing market conditions on their pension-fund assets and liabilities, so that they do not feed through immediately onto their books.
This is a statistical approach to smooth the effect of galvanic distortion that is supposed to be a random phenomenon, and the average in this method is referred to as the Berdichevsky average (Rung-Arunwan et al. 2016).
Regional groundwater flow can combine with the effect of stream meanders and can either enhance or smooth the effect of a meander bend, depending on the regional flow direction.
This difference in time integration scale will smooth the effect of short time activities in PE for models 1 3, so these models will be less affected by day-to-day variations.
The measures will also smooth the effects of the loss of housing benefits and the imposition of local taxes when people find work.
The culprit turned out to be the derivatives the firm had used, ostensibly to smooth the effects of see-sawing interest rates on its mortgage business.The good, the bad and the uglyDerivatives are not exactly new—Japanese rice traders, for example, used futures in the 17th century but they have become much more sophisticated in recent years.
A second-order autoregressive model was specified to smooth the effects of age, period and cohort, thus guarding against excessive deviation of the parameter estimates from those in adjacent time bands.
Second, in daily syndromic surveillance, a simple 7 day moving average plot is usually considered to demonstrate the observed pattern and to smooth the weekend effect in data collected at emergency rooms.
The cut-off values should also be high enough to correspond to a reasonably large window period, in order to smooth the measured effect on an adequately large time interval.
This, they write in the journal Nature Materials, has the effect of smoothing the road surface, reducing friction.
Any oil floating on the surface has the effect of smoothing the waves made by the wind on the water.
