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  • Radiolabeling
    Process of attaching a radioactive isotope, such as Iodine 131.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Radiopharmaceutical
    A radioactive compound used in radiotherapy or diagnosis.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Randomized Clinical Trial
    A clinical trial in which the participants are assigned randomly to different treatment groups.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Rate of Change ROC
    Rate of Change ROC Untitled Document Rate of Change ROC The Rate of Change (ROC) indicator is similar to momentum, a oscillator that measures the percent change in price from one period to the next. When ROC is above the 0-line and rising, prices are increasing at an increasing rate. If ROC is above the 0 line but is declining, prices are still increasing but at a decreasing rate. On the other han
    Technical Indicator Letter: R
  • Rating Agency Condition
    means the written confirmation or reaffirmation, as the case may be, from each rating agency then rating the notes that any intended action will not result in the downgrading of its then-current rating of any class of notes.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Reagent
    A chemical added to a sample under investigation in order to cause a chemical or biological reaction which will enable measurement or identification of a target substance.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Receivables From Customers
    Primarily represents loans to customers which are included in accrued interest and accounts receivable on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Receivables Turnover Ratio
    A ratio that measures companys ability to collect the loans (Accounts receivables) it has provided to its customers by dividing revenus by accounts recievable. High ratio indicates that company efficiently collects it outstanding recievables. Accounts Receivables Turnover Ratio Formula = (Revenue / Receivables)
    Fundamental Analysis Letter: R
  • Receptor
    a protein on the cell surface or inside the cell that is the binding sites of ligands, including agonists and antagonists.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Recession
    In general usage, the word recession connotes a marked slippage in economic activity. While gross domestic product (GDP) is the broadest measure of economic activity. The recession is often-cited as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP.
    Economy Term Letter: R
  • RECIST
    Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, a US standard.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Recombinant
    Novel DNA made by genetic engineering.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Recovery
    The percentage of valuable metal in the ore that is recovered by metallurgical treatment.
    Manufacturing Term Letter: R
  • Redundancy
    With regard to reserves for a given liability, a redundancy exists when it is estimated or determined that the reserves are greater than what will be needed to pay the ultimate settlement value of the related liabilities. Where the redundancy is the result of an estimate, the estimated amount of redundancy (or even the finding of whether or not a redundancy exists) may change as new information be
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Refined Products
    Petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel, that are produced by a refinery.
    Energy Term Letter: R
  • Refining
    The final stage of production in which remaining impurities are removed. Metal Mining Industry Operating Statistics
    Manufacturing Term Letter: R
  • Refining Oil & Gas Operations Industry
    The final stage of oil production in which remaining impurities are removed. Oil & Gas Operations Industry Operating Statistics
    Energy Term Letter: R
  • Refining Yield Oil & Gas Operations Industry
    The percentage of refined products that is produced from crude oil and other feedstocks. Oil & Gas Operations Industry Operating Statistics
    Energy Term Letter: R
  • Refractory
    Not responsive to the relevant treatment.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Regeneration
    Means regrowth of lost or destroyed parts or organs.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Regulatory Health Authorities
    The authorities which regulate the various stages of experimentation (pre-clinical and clinical) of potential pharmaceutical products and grant/revoke the relative authorization for marketing and sale of the products. In Italy the relevant authority is the Ministry of Health (Ministero della Sanit?) and the Superior Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore della Sanit?), in Europe, the European Age
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Reinstatement Premiums
    Additional premiums payable to reinsurers to restore coverage limits that have been exhausted as a result of reinsured losses under certain excess-of-loss reinsurance treaties.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Reinsurance
    The practice whereby one insurer, called the reinsurer, in consideration of a premium paid to that insurer, agrees to indemnify another insurer, called the ceding company, for part or all of the liability of the ceding company under one or more policies or contracts of insurance which it has issued.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Reinsurance Agreement
    A contract specifying the terms of a reinsurance transaction.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Renal Kidney
    Renal physiology is the study of kidney function.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment
    Earnings from the rental of real property by persons who are not primarily engaged in the real estate business. It also includes the imputed net rental income of owner-occupants and the royalties received by persons from patents, copyrights, and rights to natural resources.
    Economy Term Letter: R
  • Reported Claim Development Method
    An actuarial method to estimate ultimate claim counts for a given cohort of claims such as an accident year/product line component. If the reported-to-date counts are then subtracted from the estimated ultimate counts, the result is an indication of the IBNR counts.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Repurchase Agreement
    A method of short-term financing where one party agrees to buy back, at a future date (generally overnight) and an agreed-upon price, a security it sells to another party.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Reserves
    Estimated remaining quantities of natural gas, oil and related substances anticipated to be economically producible by application of development projects to known accumulations. In addition, there must exist, or there must be a reasonable expectation that there will exist, the legal right to produce.
    Energy Term Letter: R
  • Reservoir
    A porous and permeable underground formation containing a natural accumulation of producible natural gas and/or oil that is confined by impermeable rock or water barriers and is individual and separate from other reservoirs.
    Energy Term Letter: R
  • Reset Period Target Amount
    means for the reset rate notes and for any distribution date that is: (1) more than one year before the next reset date, zero, and (2) one year or less before the next reset date, the highest remarketing fee payable to the remarketing agents for the reset rate notes (not to exceed 0.35% of the maximum principal balance of the reset rate notes that could be remarketed) on the next reset date as det
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Residual Market Involuntary Business
    Insurance market which provides coverage for risks for those unable to purchase insurance in the voluntary market. Possible reasons for this inability include the risks being too great or the profit potential too small under the required insurance rate structure. Residual markets are frequently created by state legislation either because of lack of available coverage such as: property coverage in
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Residual-Interest Certificates
    Financial assets which represent rights to receive earnings to the extent of excess income generated by the underlying loan collateral of certain mortgage-backed securities, which is not needed to meet contractual obligations of senior security holders.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Resistance
    Capability of virus to become less sensitive to the effect of compounds which are intended to weaken them.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Respiratory
    Respiratory system includes airways, lungs, and the respiratorymuscles.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Restricted Stock
    An award that gives key employees the right to shares of the companys stock, pursuant to a vesting schedule.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Retail Avg. Commission per Trade
    Total trading commissions revenue divided by total number of trades.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Retailer Retail
    Business that sell goods in small quantities directly to consumers.
    Economy Term Letter: R
  • Retained Earnings
    The earnings of the company not paid out as dividends to shareholders.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Retained Interest
    A portion of a transferred financial asset retained by the transferor that provides rights to receive portions of the cash inflows from that asset.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Retention
    The amount of exposure a policyholder company retains on any one risk or group of risks. The term may apply to an insurance policy, where the policyholder is an individual, family or business, or a reinsurance policy, where the policyholder is an insurance company.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Retention Rate
    Current period renewal premiums, accounts or policies as a percentage of total premiums, accounts or policies available for renewal.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Retrospective Premiums
    Premiums related to retrospectively rated policies.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Retrospective Rating
    A plan or method which permits adjustment of the final premium or commission on the basis of actual loss experience, subject to certain minimum and maximum limits.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Retrovirus
    A type of virus which contains the enzyme Reverse Transcriptase and is capable of transforming infected cells to produce diseases in the host such as AIDS.
    Health Care Term Letter: R
  • Return On Assets ROA
    A profitability ratio that measures net income (for the last 4 quarters) as percetage of total assets. ROA displays the yield wich company generates on the total assets. ROA Formula = (Net Income (TTM) / Total Assets) * 100
    Fundamental Analysis Letter: R
  • Return On Equity ROE
    A profitability ratio that measures net income (for the last 4 quarters) as percetage of Stockholders Equity. ROE displays the yield wich company generates on the Stockholders Equity. ROE Formula = (Net Income (TTM) / Stockholders Equity) * 100
    Fundamental Analysis Letter: R
  • Return On Investments ROI
    A profitability ratio that measures net income (for the last 4 quarters) as percetage of Long-term Investments (Long-term Liabilities plus Stockholders Equity). ROI displays the yield wich company generates on the Long-term Investments. ROI Formula = (Net Income (TTM) / Long-term Investments) * 100
    Fundamental Analysis Letter: R
  • Revenue Growth Rates
    The percentage of Revenue change within a specific period (Y/Y year on year; Seq sequential, from proceeding period; TTM trailing twelve months).
    Fundamental Analysis Letter: R
  • Revenue Passenger Mile RPM
    Revenue Passenger Mile. One revenue-paying passenger transported one mile. RPMs equal the number of revenue passengers during a reporting period multiplied by the number of miles flown by those passengers during that period. Airline Industry
    Transportation Term Letter: R
  • Revenue Passenger Miles RPM
    Represents the number of miles flown by booked fare-paying passengers. Airline Industry
    Transportation Term Letter: R
  • Revenue Passengers Carried
    Represents the number of scheduled fare-paying passengers Carried. Airline Industry
    Transportation Term Letter: R
  • Revenue per Available Seat Mile RASM
    Revenue per Available Seat Mile. The amount of operating or passenger revenue earned per available seat mile during a reporting period. Airline Industry
    Transportation Term Letter: R
  • Revenue Per Employee
    A ratio that measures companys productivity by dividing cumulative revenues received over the past twelve months, by the number of employees. Revenue Per Employee displays how much a single employee contributes over the twelve months period to the total sales of the company. Revenue Per Employee Formula = (Revenue trailing twelve months / Employee)
    Fundamental Analysis Letter: R
  • Revenue ton miles RTM
    Revenue ton-miles are based on tariff miles and do not include the weight of freight cars. Railroads Industry
    Transportation Term Letter: R
  • Revenues
    Aggregate revenue recognized during the period (derived from goods sold, services rendered, insurance premiums, or other activities that constitute an entitys earning process). For financial services companies also includes investment and interest income, and sales and trading gains. Statement of Income
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Revolver Capacity
    Amount of undrawn capacity remaining on corporate and subsidiary revolvers
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • RevPAR Revenue per Available Room
    Represents revenue per available room and is calculated by multiplying average occupancy rate by Average Daily Rate ADR.
    Hotel & Leisure Term Letter: R
  • RF Radio Frequency
    Radio Frequency. A high frequency used in telecommunications. The term radio frequency refers to alternating current having characteristics such that, if the current is input to an antenna, an electromagnetic (EM) field is generated suitable for wireless broadcasting and/or communications.
    Manufacturing Term Letter: R
  • Risk Based Capital RBC
    A measure adopted by the NAIC and enacted by states for determining the minimum statutory capital and surplus requirements of insurers. Insurers having total adjusted capital less than that required by the RBC calculation will be subject to varying degrees of regulatory action depending on the level of capital inadequacy.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Risk Retention Group
    An alternative form of insurance in which members of a similar profession or business band together to self insure their risks.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • Risk-Adjusted Assets
    A regulatory risk-based calculation that takes into account the broad differences in risks among a banking organizations assets and off-balance sheet financial instruments.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • Risk-Weighted Assets
    Assets are weighted for risk according to a formula used by the Federal Reserve to conform to capital adequacy guidelines. On and off-balance sheet items are weighted for risk, with off-balance sheet items converted to balance sheet equivalents, using risk conversion factors, before being allocated a risk-adjusted weight.
    Financial Term Letter: R
  • RT Receiver Transmitter
    Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. An integrated circuit used for serial communications over a computer or peripheral device serial port. Computer Hardware Industry
    Manufacturing Term Letter: R
  • RTMs Revenue Ton Miles
    The movement of one revenue-producing ton of freight over a distance of one mile. Railroads Industry
    Transportation Term Letter: R
  • Runoff Business
    An operation which has been determined to be nonstrategic; includes non-renewals of in-force policies and a cessation of writing new business, where allowed by law.
    Insurance Term Letter: R
  • _Rolling Chip Play
    play by VIP and premium players (excludes Paiza cash players) using non-negotiable chips. Hotels & Leisure Industry
    Hotel & Leisure Term Letter: R
  • _Rolling Chip Volume
    casino revenue measurement, measured as the sum of all non-negotiable chips wagered and lost by VIP and premium players (excludes Paiza cash players). Hotels & Leisure Industry
    Hotel & Leisure Term Letter: R