Not exact matches
Many
factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational
damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission,
use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;
Many
factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational
damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission,
use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to
use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.
Among other
factors, Oliverio
used the company's lost business to show that a trial downstate would further harm efforts to repair the
damage.
Others include transplanting so - called Schwann cells from peripheral nerves,
using growth
factors to stimulate nerve growth, and boosting the immune system in the
damaged area (New Scientist magazine, 14 August 1999, p 36).
Presently, growth
factors are
used, but these can lead to unwanted collateral
damage, and government agencies in the UK and US have published warnings against their
use.
Rising costs from flood
damage are due to several
factors such as changes in climate, land
use, population and wealth.
In this case, it was not by
using a special formula of transcription
factors, but by inducing
damage to tell the body to repair itself and that it needs new cells of a certain type to do that.
«We
used a mouse model of the KPro to, first of all, identify the inflammatory
factors that cause
damage to the eye, and then we also quantified the amount of nerve cell death in the back of the eye that mediates the optic neuropathy, and, lastly, we looked at blocking these
factors with antibodies,» said Reza Dana, M.D., M.Sc., MPH, Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine were testing whether GM - CSF (granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating
factor), already
used to restore white blood cell numbers during cancer treatment, could help heal blood vessels
damaged by atherosclerosis.
«Therapeutic manipulation of repair
factors such as BRCA1 may ultimately be
used to prevent neuronal
damage and cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease or in people at risk for the disease,» says senior author Lennart Mucke, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease.
The third, «Applying Geospatial Technologies to Human Rights» first emerged when documenting the destruction of villages in Darfur, and revolves around the
use of satellite imagery to determine the extent of
damage, displacement, and other
factors.
Prior research had developed a number of new compounds making
use of a novel drug discovery paradigm which begins with natural products extracted from plants; it then entails selecting synthetic derivatives which demonstrate efficacy in multiple assays testing protection against different
factors of the nerve cell
damage and death which take place in brain injuries and in age - associated neurodegenerative conditions.
Alcohol can have a strong impact on the production of oxidative stress, because it is not metabolized in the liver — leading to alcoholic liver disease.6, 7 The development of oxidative stress is also related to smoking, which suppresses the immune response and
damages lung function.8 What may seem like a surprising
factor is the
use of pharmaceutical drugs and radiation.
Closely monitoring several markers of cell
damage (including creatine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, prostaglandin - E and tumor necrosis
factor - alpha) in their sample of 18 male athletes (who
used 20 grams of creatine monohydrate per day for five days, mixed with 60 grams of maltodextrine), the researchers found levels of these markers were reduced after the race, compared to 16 control subjects who took only the maltodextrine.
Unfortunately due to poor nutritional habits, high stress levels, regular
use of alcohol and other
factors deficiency of this vitamin is very common today and leads to tiredness, heart complications, low mood, irritability, confusion, muscle weakness, indigestion, appetite problems and nerve
damage.
That decision will be influenced by several
factors, including the threat of fires; poor air quality; smoke and fire
damage to school facilities; transportation challenges; staffing shortages; power outages; and
use of schools as emergency shelters for fire victims.
Imprudent
use of mental accounting can be as
damaging to alpha as any other psychological
factor since investors can be misled into inappropriate investments.
In this context, the term «primary» is
used to denote that the condition is direct consequence of the accumulation of copper in the liver tissues and is a direct result of the presence of the inherited «copper accumulation» genes, i.e. it is not the consequence of a malfunction caused by another
factor such as
damage to the gall bladder which would impair the removal of bile and therefore copper.
ACT - activated clotting time (bleeding disorders) ACTH - adrenocorticotropic hormone (adrenal gland function) Ag - antigen test for proteins specific to a disease causing organism or virus Alb - albumin (liver, kidney and intestinal disorders) Alk - Phos, ALP alkaline phosphatase (liver and adrenal disorders) Allergy Testing intradermal or blood antibody test for allergen hypersensitivity ALT - alanine aminotransferase (liver disorder) Amyl - amylase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) ANA - antinuclear antibody (systemic lupus erythematosus) Anaplasmosis Anaplasma spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) APTT - activated partial thromboplastin time (blood clotting ability) AST - aspartate aminotransferase (muscle and liver disorders) Band band cell — type of white blood cell Baso basophil — type of white blood cell Bile Acids digestive acids produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder (liver function) Bili bilirubin (bile pigment responsible for jaundice from liver disease or RBC destruction) BP - blood pressure measurement BUN - blood urea nitrogen (kidney and liver function) Bx biopsy C & S aerobic / anaerobic bacterial culture and antibiotic sensitivity test (infection, drug selection) Ca +2 calcium ion — unbound calcium (parathyroid gland function) CBC - complete blood count (all circulating cells) Chol cholesterol (liver, thyroid disorders) CK, CPK creatine [phospho] kinase (muscle disease, heart disease) Cl - chloride ion — unbound chloride (hydration, blood pH) CO2 - carbon dioxide (blood pH) Contrast Radiograph x-ray image
using injected radiopaque contrast media Cortisol hormone produced by the adrenal glands (adrenal gland function) Coomb's anti- red blood cell antibody test (immune - mediated hemolytic anemia) Crea creatinine (kidney function) CRT - capillary refill time (blood pressure, tissue perfusion) DTM - dermatophyte test medium (ringworm — dermatophytosis) EEG - electroencephalogram (brain function, epilepsy) Ehrlichia Ehrlichia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) EKG, ECG - electrok [c] ardiogram (electrical heart activity, heart arryhthmia) Eos eosinophil — type of white blood cell Fecal, flotation, direct intestinal parasite exam FeLV Feline Leukemia Virus test FIA Feline Infectious Anemia: aka Feline Hemotrophic Mycoplasma, Haemobartonella felis test FIV Feline Immunodeficiency Virus test Fluorescein Stain fluorescein stain uptake of cornea (corneal ulceration) fT4, fT4ed, freeT4ed thyroxine hormone unbound by protein measured by equilibrium dialysis (thyroid function) GGT gamma - glutamyltranferase (liver disorders) Glob globulin (liver, immune system) Glu blood or urine glucose (diabetes mellitus) Gran granulocytes — subgroup of white blood cells Hb, Hgb hemoglobin — iron rich protein bound to red blood cells that carries oxygen (anemia, red cell mass) HCO3 - bicarbonate ion (blood pH) HCT, PCV, MHCT hematocrit, packed - cell volume, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) K + potassium ion — unbound potassium (kidney disorders, adrenal gland disorders) Lipa lipase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) LYME Borrelia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) Lymph lymphocyte — type of white blood cell MCHC mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (anemia, iron deficiency) MCV mean corpuscular volume — average red cell size (anemia, iron deficiency) Mg +2 magnesium ion — unbound magnesium (diabetes, parathyroid function, malnutrition) MHCT, HCT, PCV microhematocrit, hematocrit, packed - cell volume (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) MIC minimum inhibitory concentration — part of the C&S that determines antimicrobial selection Mono monocyte — type of white blood cell MRI magnetic resonance imaging (advanced tissue imaging) Na + sodium ion — unbound sodium (dehydration, adrenal gland disease) nRBC nucleated red blood cell — immature red blood cell (bone marrow
damage, lead toxicity) PCV, HCT, MHCT packed - cell volume, hematocrit, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) PE physical examination pH urine pH (urinary tract infection, urolithiasis) Phos phosphorus (kidney disorders, ketoacidosis, parathyroid function) PLI pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (pancreatitis) PLT platelet — cells involved in clotting (bleeding disorders) PT prothrombin time (bleeding disorders) PTH parathyroid hormone, parathormone (parathyroid function) Radiograph x-ray image RBC red blood cell count (anemia) REL Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Ehrlichia / Lyme combination test Retic reticulocyte — immature red blood cell (regenerative vs. non-regenerative anemia) RMSF Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever SAP serum alkaline phosphatase (liver disorders) Schirmer Tear Test tear production test (keratoconjunctivitis sicca — dry eye,) Seg segmented neutrophil — type of white blood cell USG Urine specific gravity (urine concentration, kidney function) spec cPL specific canine pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test spec fPL specific feline pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test T4 thyroxine hormone — total (thyroid gland function) TLI trypsin - like immunoreactivity (exocrine pancreatic insufficiency) TP total protein (hydration, liver disorders) TPR temperature / pulse / respirations (physical exam vital signs) Trig triglycerides (fat metabolism, liver disorders) TSH thyroid stimulating hormone (thyroid gland function) UA urinalysis (kidney function, urinary tract infection, diabetes) Urine Cortisol - Crea Ratio urine cortisol - creatine ratio (screening test for adrenal gland disease) Urine Protein - Crea Ratio urine protein - creatinine ratio (kidney disorders) VWF VonWillebrands
factor (bleeding disorder) WBC white blood cell count (infection, inflammation, bone marrow suppression)
The defendants appear to concede that such
factors should not be
used to reduce
damage awards for infant female plaintiffs.
Common
factors used to determine
damages include lost earning capacity, loss of consortium, and medical bills.
While many insurance adjusters like to
use a formula of finding the total economic
damages, multiplying by a conservative multiplying
factor, then adding a few non-economic
damages, often times this formula fails to
factor in the whole long term impact of the injuries you suffered.
When aggravating
factors are involved in a claim such as alcohol, drugs or
use of a cell phone while driving, we may pursue a claim for punitive
damages.
He
used a combination of statistical techniques to examine the
factors contributing to which cases were won or lost, the
damages that were received by claimants in successful cases and the costs received by the firm.
Many general
damages are determined
using factors such as the extent of the injury, any disability or disfigurement caused by the accident, any impairment, any aggravation of pre-existing conditions, and the amount of economic loss suffered.
the Trial Judge considered an irrelevant
factor in assessing
damages for loss of
use: that the appellant had an alternative vehicle available for transportation purposes.
Although the Court of Appeal found that the availability of other vehicles which served the Appellant's needs «ought not to have been taken into account» (even in measuring the
damages caused by loss - of -
use of a vehicle «purely for pleasure»), the Court declined to find this
factor played any significant role in the Trial Judge's assessment.
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factors for relapse and to rebuild
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