Sentences with phrase «as dramatic a decrease»

But he notes that others have not seen as dramatic a decrease in copepod reproductive success during diatom blooms elsewhere and warns that the Adriatic's heavy pollution may have enhanced the effect.

I was hooked after my first class... As I began to use Bowenwork technique in my practice, I saw a dramatic increase in my clients» sense of well - being, as well as a dramatic decrease in their frequency of visits!

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As a result of rule changes, equipment standards, better conditioning of the neck, and improved on - field medical care, there has been a dramatic decrease over the past 20 years in the most serious head injuries.

The governor and state Legislature laid out a plan as part of the budget package in April to cope with any potential shortfalls resulting from a dramatic decrease in federal funds.

Suffolk Police Commissioner Timothy Sini stressed in an interview that the hamlet ended the year with what he described as «dramatic» crime decreases in other categories.

«Some cities that utilize such methods as a basis for resource allocation have seen dramatic decreases in crime,» said Gerber.

As winters arrive later and snow melts earlier, the worldwide decrease in snow cover already may have dramatic impacts on animals that change coat colors with the seasons.

As CO2 reacts with seawater, it generates dramatic changes in carbonate chemistry, including decreases in pH and in the concentration of carbonate ions.

As CO2 reacts with seawater, it generates dramatic changes in carbonate chemistry, including decreases in pH and carbonate ions and an increase in bicarbonate ions.

This dramatic increase in temperature occurs rapidly over 5,000 to 7,000 years as glacial sheets begin to decrease in size, sea levels rise and greenhouse gases increase.

That's why the Beyond Diet meal plans have proven over and over again to dramatically decrease chronic inflammation in the body and, as a result, show a dramatic decrease in markers for heart disease and a long list of other diseases like type 2 diabetes and many forms of arthritis.

There are lots of other changes this represents too, such as the presence of chemicals in our food supply (pesticides, herbicides, xenoestrogens, etc) that didn't exist in the ancient diet, as well as the dramatic changes caused by hybridization of many of our foods, which creates versions of fruits and vegetables bred more for size, sweetness, and appearance as opposed to natural nutrition... this aspect has decreased micronutrient content in the modern day food supply (just look at wild blueberries vs cultivated blueberries as an example of that with wild berries coming in at more than DOUBLE the antioxidants from ORAC testing).

Since then, endocrine - disrupting chemicals have been implicated in the dramatic rise over the last fifty years of diseases like breast cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, diabetes, obesity, decreased fertility, such as dropping normal sperm counts.

For the purposes of dramatic licence, those films tend to accelerate the level of technology while decreasing the temporal gap between the present and future as a way to make these stories connect.

• The average difference between the proportion of students achieving proficiency on NAEP and state tests decreased from 30 percentage points to 10 percentage points nationwide, which the authors describe as «a dramatic improvement over the previous two - year period (2011 - 13), in which the difference dropped only from 35 to 30 percent.»

«Schools have told me consistently that they see a dramatic decrease in peer - to - peer aggressive behavior within three to five weeks of implementing a school - wide behavior rubric, as young people get the message that discipline interventions for aggression will be inevitable, fair, and escalating for all students and in all areas of the school,» says Stan Davis, author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying.

As reflected in Figure 1, achievement gains for students identified as having disabilities have been dramatic in many grades, with no decrease or even plateauing of performance among the general student populatioAs reflected in Figure 1, achievement gains for students identified as having disabilities have been dramatic in many grades, with no decrease or even plateauing of performance among the general student populatioas having disabilities have been dramatic in many grades, with no decrease or even plateauing of performance among the general student population.

Amid this dramatic shift, another sea change was afoot: As seen in the accompanying graphic, «The Gap Between Life Expectancy and Retirement Ages,» over the past half century the average life expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decreased.

Typically, you'll see investors flock to high dividend payers after a dramatic price decrease (as we are seeing with consumer staples).

The dramatic decrease in interest rates that has forced investors to readjust their portfolios toward liquid money and away from interest - bearing assets such as government bonds

While we can not pinpoint the Spay / Neuter Wyoming Program as the sole contributing factor to this dramatic decrease, we share the belief held by participating shelters and municipalities that this program has been a major driving force behind these massive reductions in euthanasia and overall animal intake at shelters.

The first week or two of treatment will cause the most dramatic decrease in clinical signs and this is usually as good as the dog will ever get on prednisone.

Affected dogs often have signs such as increased appetite, weight gain, dramatic increased thirst and urination, and in some cases a decrease in hearing and smell;

This is incredible news as the region has seen a dramatic decrease in tourism since the Arab Spring started back in late 2010.

I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).

«Bias might be introduced in cases where the spatial coverage is not uniform (e.g., of the 24 original chronologies with data back to 1500, half are concentrated in eastern Siberia) but this can be reduced by prior averaging of the chronologies into regional series (as was done in the previous section)... Eight different methods have been used... They produce very similar results for the post-1700 period... They exhibit fairly dramatic differences, however, in the magnitude of multidecadal variability prior to 1700... highlighting the sensitivity of the reconstruction to the methodology used, once the number of regions with data, and the reliability of each regional reconstruction, begin to decrease.

In this instance (NCEP Reanalysis), the dramatic decrease in tropical specific humidity (their Figure 3 center) appears to extend into and dominate the midlatitude changes, as defined by the authors.

It is certainly clear from the data reviewed, and the new data and analysis presented, that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan, the United States and elsewhere has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes and most so among youngsters as perpetrators or victims.»

While many cities saw decreases in inventory, the change was not as dramatic as those that saw increases.

Our belief is that this market shift and decrease in prices is nowhere near as dramatic as it was in the early 1990s and that it won't last as long as it did then.»