(n.) The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
Example Sentences:
(1) Avian intrafusal fibers are separable into types based on differences in myosin heavy chain composition and motor innervation, but apportionment of these fiber types to individual spindles is more variable in birds than in mammals.
(2) The model is evaluated for a wide range of notional patterns of noise exposure, leading to a simple equation which predicts the relative attribution of disability to previous noise exposures sufficiently accurately for the purposes of apportionment.
(3) A related approach is a system of " formulary apportionment " where companies are taxed on the basis of their economic activity and income within a particular geographic jurisdiction rather than arbitrary allocation of costs to geographical areas.
(4) The United States already uses formula apportionment internally; it sees the virtue of this system.
(5) That’s the beauty of the reformed corporate tax system, known as formula apportionment, that I’m supporting.
(6) For years, they have been blocking attempts to move to an apportionment system within the European Union.
(7) As of now, Clinton has a lead of just over two-tenths of a percent over Sanders in the overall apportionment of delegates in Iowa.
(8) The District Economics Group devised the concept of “ single sales factor apportionment ” – a mechanism that treats company income as a function of how much is sold in a particular country rather than how much profit is declared in that country; thus it proposes taxing corporations based on where sales are made, not where profits are reported.
(9) Work should start at once on the establishment of a fair apportionment of emissions country by country, based on the principle of contraction and convergence.
(10) The results are incompatible with subject-relative displacement as the sole determining factor of motion induction and they present some difficulties for the hypothesis that induced motion is the result of the apportionment of the objective displacement of the frame.
(11) Although the amount of money spent was higher in each year, little change occurred in the relative size or the apportionment of the funds.
(12) The modular rotor design consists of a discoidal center insert for eluent and sample apportionment, the chromatographic columns, and flow-through cuvetts-all mounted on an aluminum base plate.
(13) So, this paper shows the apportionment loads of dental bridges and the dependence of the elastic constants of abutment teeth.
(14) The effects of explicit strategy training, generalized instruction, and no training on recall performance and apportionment of study time were compared.
(15) In an effort to determine that role, a questionnaire survey was conducted of the apportionment, direction, duties, and training of anesthesia technicians in teaching departments.
(16) The increase in cell volume (from electronic cell sizing) and the apportionment of this volume amongst the nuclear, cytoplasmic, and mitochondrial subcellular compartments (from electron microscopy) were studied throughout the cell division cycle in partially synchronized cultures of Chinese hamster V79-S171 cells.
(17) Source apportionment of the mutagenic activity observed in urban air shows that vehicles and residential heating are major contributors to the ambient mutagenicity of the aerosol fraction.
(18) It should always be remembered that the assumptions determine much of the final solution, including the apportionment of trend to the different components, age, period, or cohort.
(19) Apportionment of liability for noise-induced hearing loss is required in medicolegal work when two or more separate instances of noise exposure have occurred.
(20) In general there are insufficient audiometric records to determine how much hearing loss was caused by each noise exposure, and hence there is insufficient information on which to base apportionment of liability.
Quota
Definition:
(n.) A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
Example Sentences:
(1) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
(2) Despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men, just 17% of the 2,500 delegates are female.
(3) Two weeks ago, the production quotas for all colony brigades was arbitrarily increased by 50 units.
(4) In the method of blood taking without previous desinfection of the skin the quota of positive blood cultures increased by the twofold to threefold per culture and test person (5.7 to 18.8% and 11.3 to 26.3%, respectively).
(5) A representative sample of 400 people, using quota sampling in 40 randomly selected electoral wards, completed a schedule structured part self administered questionnaire.
(6) This good quota at the beginning of the group sessions can be explained of this high acceptance rate appears to be a direct result of the group meetings.
(7) Theymake up 77% of the UK's fishing boats, but only get 4% of the fishing quota.
(8) 21 ringed fibres were found, raises the quota to 6.7%.
(9) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
(10) I think there are issues in the fishing industry with quotas, but those are things that can be negotiated.
(11) Germany and France demand binding refugee quotas for EU members Read more “Those arriving have been raised in another religion and represent a radically different culture.
(12) Ofcom has already moved to allow more regional hubs for local commercial radio, relax local programming quotas, and encourage digital stations.
(13) The increase of the protein quota as well as that attained by means of introducing in the diet of soybean protein isolate reduces the therapeutic effect of the diet on hemostasis.
(14) To check on impressionistic assertions that the United States is becoming an "age-irrelevant society," a quota sample of white-collar and blue-collar men and women (ages eighteen to seventy; N = 462) was studied with a questionnaire that asked for designation of the most suitable ages for various role transitions and age-related attributes.
(15) She had made her daily quota of cash needed to pay her bills.
(16) But according to those at the Brussels conference, quotas work.
(17) It also indicates that there is considerable value in production research which gives more precise knowledge of production systems, thus allowing producers to respond optimally to quota cuts.
(18) The 14-member committee – whose only woman is Northampton MP Sally Keeble – stopped short of calling for quotas on female board representation in financial firms or for legal changes to boost the profile of women in the City.
(19) Rightly, they have concerns over maintaining the integrity of affirmative action quotas.
(20) For weeks EU governments have been embroiled in a battle over commission demands to ease Italy’s burden by creating a new quotas system sharing asylum-seekers across the union.