Sentences with phrase «global rates of»

Introduction Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use contribute significantly to global rates of morbidity and mortality.
It's a situation that will continue to worsen as global rates of sea level rise keep ramping higher.
Unfortunately, there is risk that this trend will include the sudden acceleration of various glaciers into the ocean, which will coincide with rapid increases in global rates of sea level rise.
Since the development of the first FeLV vaccine, coupled with better management measures (and an increased understanding of virus transmission), global rates of FeLV - related lymphoma have decreased from 70 percent to 15 percent.
Global rates of temperature change in high and declining greenhouse gas emission scenarios.
Global rates of tropical deforestation have increased over the last two decades, particularly in Southeast Asia, which lost approximately 32 million hectares of forests between 1990 and 2010.
Over the past century, global rates of the bacterium H. pylori have also changed dramatically.
Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.
The objective of the Maternal Newborn Child Initiative is to give momentum to the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 aimed at reducing the outrageous global rates of maternal and child deaths, malnutrition and illness.
The scorecard was released at the start of World Breastfeeding Week alongside a new analysis demonstrating that an annual investment of only US$ 4.70 per newborn is required to increase the global rate of exclusive breastfeeding among children under six months to 50 per cent by 2025.
Previous studies have shown that the problem is even worse elsewhere in the world, with an 11.4 percent global rate of antibiotic - resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections among young people, including 27 percent in Asia and the Pacific, 8.8 percent in Latin America, and 2.5 percent in Europe.
Statistically significant improvements over placebo in secondary endpoints, including severity and urge to cough, as well as quality of life and global ratings of change.
Secondary endpoints included cough severity, urge to cough, quality of life, and global ratings of change, as measured by patient - reported outcomes.
Scientists generally agree the Earth has been cooling over the past several thousand years at an average global rate of -0.20 degrees C / millennium.
A 2009 report by ALECSO, the Arab League's Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, revealed an overall illiteracy rate of 35.6 percent in the Arab world compared with a global rate of 18 percent.
Best Western Rewards points are collected at a global rate of 10 Best Western Rewards points per $ 1.00 US dollar.
The World Seagrass Association statement — being issued ahead of a major international conference on seagrass protection in North Wales — notes that seagrass meadows are being lost at a global rate of 2 % per year.
«With the improvements to the land and ocean data sets and the addition of two more years of data, NCEI scientists found that there has been no hiatus in the global rate of warming.
Representatives applauded at the approval of an agreement reached in Lima, Peru, on Sunday to reduce the global rate of greenhouse gas emissions.
Unfortunately, the current global rate of consumption of wild seafood as a whole is nowhere near sustainable.
The third edition of the GTF provides an evidence - based look at progress at the regional, country, and international level toward ensuring universal access to modern energy services, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.
It focuses on how to move further, faster in the coming five years towards the delivery of SEforALL's three, 2030 objectives: ensure universal access to modern energy services; double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
If CAGW is going to be proven to be correct, then at some point the global rate of rise of temperature must persist at a rate considerably in excess of 0.06 C per decade for a prolonged period of time.
The average global rate of clinker substitution could realistically reach 40 percent and avoid up to 440 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
The global transition to efficient appliances and equipment is key to achieving the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) goal of doubling the global rate of energy efficiency improvement.
At present those outputs are evidently advancing much faster than is our global rate of emissions control.
Launched in September 2011 by UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, SE4All has three main objectives by 2030: to ensure universal access to modern energy services, to double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency, and to double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
simply amazing isn't it... a 6 % «perceived» out put increase does nothing to change the global rate of increase.
This third edition of the report, a multi-agency effort led by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Bank, provides an update of how the world has been moving towards the three SE4All objectives: universal access to electricity and clean cooking, doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency, and doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030
That is almost twice the observed global rate of 0.5 to 0.7 inches per decade over a similar time period.
In a 2009 study, the authors used GPS measurement to correct for local vertical movement of the Earth at key tide gages, finding a «global rate of geocentric sea level rise of 1.61 ± 0.19 mm / yr over the past century».
«We observe declines [in phytoplankton] in eight out of ten ocean regions, and estimate a global rate of decline of ~ 1 % of the global median per year.
In his own writings he says: ``... the long - term, global rate of decarbonization is about 0.3 percent per year — gradual, to be sure, but enough to cut the ratio by 40 percent since 1860.»
The mean spatial patterns of change, normalized against the global rate of warming, are generally similar in high - end and «non-high-end» simulations.
In a 2009 study, the authors used GPS measurement to correct for local vertical movement of the Earth at key tide gages, finding a «global rate of geocentric sea level rise of 1.61 ± 0.19 mm / yr over the past century» Their study shows no acceleration and no changes in rate during warm or cold periods of the last 110 years.
That growth exceeding the global rate of 5.9 % and places the nation 19th in worldwide sales.
Also, the global rate of adoption for cryptocurrency wallets has been about 1 - 2 million people.
Weiss et al. (1996) confirmed that children of mothers with BPD, compared to children with mothers without BPD, had a significantly higher number of psychiatric diagnoses and scored higher on a global rating of impairment.
Why are there discrepancies between depressed patients» Global Rating of Change and scores on the Patient Health Questionnaire depression module?
The Children's Depression Rating Scale — Revised (CDRS - R) is a 17 - item, clinician - rated severity scale for depression in children aged 6 to 17 years.41 The CDRS - R correlates significantly with clinical global ratings of depression and differentiates clinically defined groups of children who differ in depression severity.
Using the same approach as that used by Felitti et al1 to obtain global ratings of health, ratings of poor or fair overall health were coded as indicators of poor health, and ratings of good or excellent health were coded as indicators of good health.
The PIR - GAS allows for a global rating of the quality of a parent - infant (or parent — child) relationship on a numerical scale, with higher scores indicating higher relationship quality.

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Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.
The global market for voice AI speakers is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 43 per cent to reach US$ 2.1 billion by 2020, according to analysis firm Gartner.
«Still - low global rates continue to support unprecedented levels of debt accumulation,» the IIF said.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Yoshida joined trueEx in 2017 from Deutsche Bank, where he most recently was global head of interest rate sales.
That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest remaining supporting factors behind the global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S. interest rates.
«At a time when the global economy is fragile and market sentiment is sensitive, unbalanced and unjustified rating decisions such as Moody's today can initiate damaging self - fulfilling prophecies and certainly strengthen the arguments for tighter regulation of the rating agencies themselves.»
For example, in 2008 they cut interest rates together in response to the deepening global downturn, and in 2011 they helped prevent runaway appreciation of the Japanese yen following a devastating earthquake.
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