Sentences with phrase «lower end groups»

I use it for re-introducing the preterite in KS4, Lower end groups have responded well to it.

Not exact matches

The results matched these expectations in that the No - Facebook group reported lower life satisfaction at the end of the study than those in the Facebook - as - normal condition (the average life satisfaction for the Facebook - as - normal group had increased during the study whereas the No - Facebook group's had not).

International Business Machines Corp. agreed to sell its low - end server business for $ 2.3 billion to Lenovo Group Ltd., decreasing its reliance on computer hardware as sales of the products plunge.

One small group thinks that lower for longer could end soon because U.S. shale can't keep a lid on prices forever and can't catch up with expected robust demand — all the more so that investments in conventional supply around the world have slumped since the oil prices started crashing.

«While it's possible that Apple may replace Intel in some of its lower - end product lines, we think it will be difficult for Apple to completely replace Intel by 2020, especially on its higher - end offerings,» said Summit Insights Group analyst Kin Ngai Chan.

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

It appears that religious groups have a divorce rate of between 21 % -34 %, while Atheist / Agnostic couples have a divorce of 21 % - the lower end of the spectrum.

Macquarie Group looks set to report its second highest profit on record, aided by a lower Australian dollar, as the financial services giant flagged earnings may climb as high as $ 1.52 billion for the year ending March 31.

Representing 2.8 per cent of group sales, Kerry is at the lower end of ingredients industry spending on research and development, that for some can tip in excess of 12 per cent.

Australia's major wine groups ship large quantities of lower - end commercial wine to bottling plants in the United Kingdom and Europe in large bladder - type containers to save costs in a highly competitive export market which has been squeezed by the high Australian dollar.

At the end of the study, the curcumin group had lower levels of three blood markers of inflammation, including C - reactive protein (CRP), along with lower fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (a measure of longer term blood sugar levels).5 For comparison, the placebo group had higher blood sugar levels and increased inflammation after the eight weeks.

She'll enter this week's LPGA season - ending CME Group Tour Championship with a slight edge over Lydia Ko for low - scoring average but looking up at No. 1 for the top ranking, Player of the Year and another key year - long category.

There is also research showing that moms who planned to give birth at home (regardless of where they actually had their babies) ended up with fewer interventions, such as episiotomies and c - sections, compared with a group of equally low - risk women who had planned hospital deliveries.

«In the end, people who will still have insurance will fall into two groups under this plan: older Americans and lower - income people who will pay more for coverage or lose it altogether, and higher - income people who will pay less,» he said.

Wisconsin Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca, who broke with the majority of his party in supporting a $ 3 billion tax incentive package for Foxconn Technology Group and has been in charge while Democratic seats dropped to their lowest levels in 60 years, announced Thursday he is leaving his leadership post at the end of the month.

«In the end, people who will still have insurance will fall into two groups under this plan: older Americans and lower - income people who will pay more for coverage or lose it altogether, and higher - income people who will pay less,» Cuomo said.

It has led the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) to warn people in this position to file their return before the end of April in order to avoid the daily penalties accruing.

At the same time, the school groups support ending the provision that essentially caps levy increases at less than 2 percent: Currently, the cap law limits increases to either the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is lower.

Josmar Trujillo of the Coalition to End Broken Windows, one of several groups that is part of the «Swipe it Forward» campaign that provides free rides to low - income New Yorkers, argued it does not go far enough.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

By capping all the polymer sections with an end group that responds to a certain chemical, the technique could also be used as a low - energy method for recycling plastic waste, says Phillips.

At the end of the study, those who received vitamin D supplementation had much higher vitamin D levels in the blood and lower fasting blood glucose levels compared with the other group.

But the panel of scientists and other experts was wrong: By 2001, the group estimated that average temperatures would increase by 2.7 to 8.1 degrees F (1.5 to 4.5 degrees C) in the 21st century, and they raised the lower end to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) this year in their most recent report.

«At their baseline, before patients started treatment, patients in both groups were on the lower end of the scale, meaning they reported lower amounts of fatigue,» said the trial's principal investigator Neha Vapiwala, MD, an associate professor of Radiation Oncology.

Abstract: Substellar members of young ($ \ lesssim $ 150 Myr) moving groups are valuable benchmarks to empirically define brown dwarf evolution with age and to study the low - mass end of the initial mass function.

At the end of the study, the people who drank one of the beverages with vinegar had less belly fat, lower triglycerides and waist measurements, and a lower body weight and BMI, compared to the no - vinegar group.

But, the nut groups ended up with more calories — yet ended up the same or lower weight.

The high - fat group ended up burning 300 more calories a day than the low - fat group.

[13] Here they refer to a study in which 17 patients with fatigue were enrolled in a trial and «during the course of treatment, the mean total lymphocyte counts normalised within the group and were lower at the end of treatment vs. baseline.

By the end of 12 weeks the researchers found that both those who consumed the low - dose and high - dose vinegar beverage had significant weight loss as compared to the placebo group.

It turned out that the group of hotel cleaning attendants that was informed daily about the calorie - burning effects of their normal work routines ended up losing a significant amount of weight, lowered their body mass index and waist - to - hip ratio, and decreased their blood pressure.

Yoga group participants reported fewer nonfatal «device - treated ventricular events» compared to controls as well as lower reported shock anxiety at the end of the study.

Compared to the placebo group, who took a sugar pill, the probiotic takers scored significantly lower on the Ledien Index of Depression Sensitivity scale - meaning they ended up as happier (14)!

At the end of the experiment, one group had gained 32 per cent more upper - body strength and 47 per cent more lower - body strength than the other.

The rats fed the blueberry diet enjoyed substantially lower oxidative stress by the end of the study, while the other group displayed a big deterioration of antioxidant levels.

Following the end of the year - long study, according to the New York Times, «people in the low - carbohydrate group had lost about eight pounds more on average than those in the low - fat group.

At the end of the study, the low - carb group showed the following improvements:

If I'm allowed to speculate, the reason that we did not see any major additional benefit from low carb in this study is that the groups ended up so similar when it came to bad carbs.

The low fat group ended up eating fewer carbs too -LRB-!)

It's part of the media's second category -LRB-» low carb is not superior») even though it ended with a non-significant advantage for the low carb group (6 kg lost vs. 5.3 kg):

Although Dr. Weston Price found healthy populations groups that consumed fairly low levels of iodine, studies indicate that in modern times, most people do best at the upper end of the scale, taking in around 1,000 mcg per day.

Attrition rates tend to be lower on LC diets (more people make it to the end) despite arguments by dietitians about LC diets being harder to stick to because they eliminate entire food groups.

At the end of the study, pigs that ate purple potatoes had levels of IL - 6 six times lower than the other groups.

When the trial ended, Arciero and his team found that although both groups improved on nearly every measure, those who had followed the protein - pacing and antioxidant - rich diet showed the greatest improvements in fitness, including upper body muscular endurance and power, core strength, and blood vessel health (reduced artery stiffness) among female participants; and upper and lower body muscular strength and power, aerobic power, and lower back flexibility among male participants.

Groups of women who had a conversation about their bodies ended up with those women leaving the conversation with low self esteem and more body issues.

The latest look (above) at the sequel to the 2013 low - budget hit «The Purge» includes the introduction of Frank Grillo («Warrior»), who plays a character out for revenge, but ends up shepherding (or at least attempting to) a group of survivors that are unfit for the government - sanctioned chaos on their own.

Four black teenagers from Queens became a legitimate group near the end of their shared time at Lower Manhattan's Murray Bergtraum High School for Business Careers.

Useless to discuss at length, The Chorus is essentially another in a line of literally dozens of films in which an inspirational teacher changes the lives of a group of troubled / lower - class / underestimated children through will, kindness, and a rogue spark of crinkly - eyed genius that irks to no end the evil dean / headmaster / school board / community.

Everything needed, including extra challenges to stretch the top end or step by step support for lower ability groups.