To the Sports Editor: Your condescending attitude toward the United States team and the state of soccer in the United States reflects a genuine lack of understanding of the nature of the game, a lack of appreciation for what was accomplished at the tournament, and a shallow view of the value of a so-called "defining moment" for the sport.
Genomic prediction of breeding values involves a so-called training analysis that predicts the influence of small genomic regions by regression of observed information on marker genotypes for a given population of individuals.
In May 2010, several publicly traded companies briefly lost nearly $1 trillion of market value in a so-called "flash crash" that the S.E.C. said was triggered by a single firm using algorithms to rapidly sell 75,000 futures contracts.
This appeared to set the tone for a campaign that would pitch the values of "work" against a so-called benefits culture of people being mollycoddled by the state.
A smaller network of more powerful relationships has infinitely more value than a so-called Rolodex of people who are weak contacts at best.
In addition, a meeting of European Union finance ministers, set for Wednesday before the summit meeting, was abruptly canceled on Tuesday, largely because of continuing negotiations with banks over a reduction in the face value of Greek debt — a so-called haircut — of up to 60 percent instead of the 21 percent previously agreed to but considered grossly inadequate by most economists.
As a consequence, there exists a point in the ROC space (see above) that is associated to a threshold value τ, and plotting these points for a large number of possible threshold values τ results in a so-called ROC curve (see [ 52, 54] for more details).
ESR spectra showed not only a signal with a g value of 2.004, but also a so-called 'half-field' signal with a g value of 4.288.
Then, last month, Forbes — whose lists evaluating the world's richest people and companies are considered the most definitive measure of wealth — reassessed the value of the startup, once a so-called unicorn worth $9 billion, around $800 million.
As a result, imposing a write-down in the value of Italy's debt, a so-called haircut, would have a much more devastating effect on bank capital levels than the 50 percent reduction in the face value of Greek debt agreed to by European leaders last month.
