With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.

The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

In March 2010, a Newsmax / Zogby poll asking Americans which of the current living former presidents they think is best equipped to deal with the problems the country faces today, found that a wide margin of respondents would pick Bill Clinton.

An example would be Call Center software which helps to direct a customer to the agent who can best help them with their current problem.

However, to the best of our knowledge, the electron's magnetic moment is not due to a current loop, but is instead an intrinsic property of the electron.

This is close to the best estimate for dn / dt as of 2002 of − 25. 858 ± 0. 003 "/ cy < sup > 2 </ sup > so ΔT need not be recalculated given the uncertainties and smoothing applied to its current values.

This section discusses, then attempts to list best current estimates for the parameters of the Drake equation.

Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.

Evidence-based medicine ( EBM ) has been defined as " the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.

In 1996 David Sackett wrote that " Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.

Using techniques from science, engineering and statistics, such as the systematic review of medical literature, meta-analysis, risk-benefit analysis, and randomized controlled trials ( RCTs ), EBM aims for the ideal that healthcare professionals should make " conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence " in their everyday practice.

Phase III studies are frequently randomized controlled trials, with the experimental treatment being compared to the current best available treatment rather than to a placebo.

On February 12, 1788, Madison in the Federalist Letter No. 54, stated that the Constitutional three-fifths compromise clause was the best alternative for the slaves current condition and for determining representation of citizens in Congress.

Writing in The New York Times in 1994, Neil Strauss referred to " Forever Changes " as " a cocktail of lush strings and innocent pop ballads, ( it ) remains one of the best pop albums of the 60's and has influenced many current bands.

Many current and recent philosophers — e. g., Daniel Dennett, Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, John Rogers Searle, and Jerry Fodor — operate within a broadly physicalist or materialist framework, producing rival accounts of how best to accommodate mind — functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory, and so on.

Magnetic dipoles are best represented as loops of current but resemble positive and negative ' magnetic charges ', inseparably bound together, having no net ' magnetic charge '.

Zero-crossing detection may also be useful in triggering TRIACs at the best time to reduce mains interference and current spikes.

They were designed to have extremely small input current and are still amongst the best op-amps available in terms of common-mode rejection with the ability to correctly deal with hundreds of volts at their inputs.

Hone and Benton concluded that although more primitive pterosauromorphs are needed to clarify their relationships, pterosaurs are best considered archosaurs, and specifically ornithodirans, given current evidence.

Because they are so distant, they are apparently stationary to our current technology, yet their positions can be measured with the utmost accuracy by Very Long Baseline Interferometry ( VLBI ); positions of most are known to 0. 001 arcsecond or better, orders of magnitude more precise than the best optical measurements.

The best current practice ( BCP ) subseries collects administrative documents and other texts which are considered as official rules and not only informational, but which do not affect over the wire data.

This tree then serves to construct the routing table, which specifies the best next hop to get from the current node to any other node.

Grant ) and his current colleagues in British Columbia, were once thought to provide an intriguing example best explained by sympatric speciation.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

By becoming President under current terms, Grant would at best leave the office at age 56 with no income, assuming he served two terms.

these figures constitute the best estimate for the flux in interplanetary space near the Earth.

I decided thirty-five was the best estimate of her age.

* If it is required to use a single number X as an estimate for the value of numbers, then the arithmetic mean does this best, in the sense of minimizing the sum of squares ( x < sub > i </ sub > − X )< sup > 2 </ sup > of the residuals.

This makes finding the best move more difficult, but also requires the players to estimate probabilities by the players.

It is accepted, however, that there is an " enormous " range of reliability findings in studies, and that validity is unclear because, given the lack of diagnostic laboratory or neuroimaging tests, standard clinical interviews are " inherently limited " and only a (" flawed ") " best estimate diagnosis " is possible even with full assessment of all data over time.

We assume that the $ 150, 000 is John's best estimate of the sale price that he will be able to achieve in 3 years time ( after deducting all expenses, of course ).

In a meta-analysis, effect sizes that represent, for example, the differences between treatment groups in a set of similar experiments, are averaged to obtain a single aggregate value representing the best estimate of the effect of treatment.

* an estimate ; i. e., a particular value that best approximates some parameter of interest,

According to the available evidence, the best overall estimate of short-term memory is about four pieces or " chunks " of information.

( In 1991 when TT was first defined, L < sub > G </ sub > was to be determined by experiment, and the best available estimate was 6. 969 291 × 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup >.

As with many slaves in the United States, neither the exact year nor place of Araminta's birth was recorded, and historians differ as to the best estimate.

One estimate was that 45 % of Wall Street's " best office space " had been lost.

However, even with the best of tools, the cost of a defined benefit plan will always be an estimate based on economic and financial assumptions.

This suggests that the statistical uncertainties and best estimate for stated by Webb et al.

BMI will illustrate the best estimate of your total body fatness, while waist measurement gives an estimate of visceral fat and risk of obesity-related disease.

However, it does represent the best estimate of all market participants at any point in time — bubbles are easy to spot retrospectively, but if a market participant believes a stock is overvalued, then of course they can profit from this by selling the stock ( or shorting it, if they don't hold it ).

Though there is controversy over the exact date horses were domesticated and when they were first ridden ; the best estimate is that horses first were ridden approximately 4500 BC.

* The combination of different observations as being the best estimate of the true value ; errors decrease with aggregation rather than increase, perhaps first expressed by Roger Cotes.

For perspective, the best estimate is that 86, 000 people were deported from France without racial motive, overwhelmingly resistants, a number that exceeds that of Gypsies and Jews deported from France.

Benchmarks can be used by customers when comparing various products from alternative suppliers to estimate which product will best suit their specific requirements in terms of functionality and performance.

Curtin is credited with leading the Australian Labor Party to its best federal election success in history, with a record 55. 1 percent of the primary half-senate vote, winning all seats, and a two party preferred lower house estimate of 58. 2 percent at the 1943 election, winning two-thirds of seats.

In statistics, point estimation involves the use of sample data to calculate a single value ( known as a statistic ) which is to serve as a " best guess " or " best estimate " of an unknown ( fixed or random ) population parameter.