Sentences with phrase «at decreasing the number»

The law that will go into operation will be aimed at decreasing the number of students eligible for such type of financial aid.

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And while overall life expectancy has decreased, the numbers are slightly less grim for women: female life expectancy remained the same at 81.1 years, while it dropped to 76.1 years for men.

«At the same time we took on board the concerns of the people, who are worried about the future, and this means we want to reduce, we want to drastically decrease the number of people coming to us,» Merkel told broadcaster ARD.

The number who believe that life in the U.S. is better than life in Mexico has fluctuated over the years, but as of last year was measured at 48 %, a slight decrease from 51 % seven years earlier.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

By offering strong evidence of mini flash crashes increasing transaction costs through widening the desired execution price between a market's buyers and sellers, while at the same time decreasing the number of opportunities to buy and sell in a market, Golub et al. [21] corroborated and quantified the intuition that mini flash crashes do indeed harm market liquidity.

However, he said the MLS home price index composite benchmark, which strips out the impact of changes in the mix of home sales, was down 5.2 % compared with a year ago and the number of new listings in April had plunged to 16,273, a 24.6 % decrease from the 21,571 listings seen last year at the same time.

August data indicated a decline in output levels for the first time in four months, while payroll numbers decreased at the joint - fastest rate since the survey began in October 2010...

Rice says in the decade since the Liberal government brought in the Coastal Ferry Act, fares have skyrocketed, ridership numbers have decreased, debt at the corporation has ballooned, and the government has failed to curb exorbitant executive bonuses.

The amount of funding available increases at each window while the number of ventures receiving funding will decrease.

However, I have a reasonable plan for increasing the green numbers and decreasing the red numbers, and I'm going to discuss the roadmap below by looking at checkpoints and the steps I'll be taking between each point.

Fuller's regional campus enrollment decreased by 30 percent over the past four years, with the slipping numbers hurting the sense of community at various locations as well as their financial viability, he said.

It may be that the ecumenical attitude and mentality now officially adopted by the Church will lead to a decrease in the number of conversions, at least temporarily, or lead in some cases to indifference in regard to the denominational question.

That is, as the content of the concept increases in specification (and hence, complexity), and a progressively large number of relationships is excluded, the number of members decreases to a unitary set at the level of maximum complexity.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

At present, the best available data indicate that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be a relatively small increase in the number of Muslims, a substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and a substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades.

(b) Livestock inventory looks at your previous year livestock numbers, your stock increases (births or purchases) and stock decreases (sales, deaths, agistment offsite).

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

Here's a quick look at how service academy unders perform when increasing or decreasing from the opening number:

By omitting home teams, there isn't much of a drop - off in units won at each betting percentage level, but we once again decrease the number of wagers needed to achieve those results, improving our ROI even further.

Tottenham will also be looking to decrease the number of goals that they concede this season, with the defence looking a little shaky at some points.

While athletics remains at No. 2 behind swimming, new figures show a decrease in the number of athletes competing

According to Dr. Thomas Haverbush, a Michigan orthopedic surgeon, a training program developed at the University of Vermont Medical School designed to prevent ACL injuries in skiers led to a 69 % decrease in the number of knee injuries among ski patrol personnel and instructors who received the training compared with those who did not.

Also, at around 4 weeks of age, a baby's digestive system begins to mature and the number of bowel movement usually decreases, especially if the baby is breastfed.

Every week, introduce the cup at another feeding, slowly decreasing the number of bottles your child receives.

Or look at this way: an increase in the rate of homebirth from 0.5 % to 1 % would constitute a doubling of the number of patients for HB midwives (a 100 % increase), and a drop of 1 patient for every 190 for OBs (a 0.5 % decrease).

The number of naps may decrease as they get older, and it is not true that preventing your child from having a nap during the day helps them to sleep better at night.

Once families are ready to make the transition they can start by decreasing the number of bottles offered one at a time and replacing them with a cup or snack.

Sit Down Together at the Dinner Table The number of times you sit down with your children for family meals - and actually talk to them - is directly correlated with a decreased chance they will become involved in substance abuse, research has found.

The new numbers came after a period in which births outside the hospital, which can include births at a birthing center or in a doctor's office, as well as home births, had been decreasing since 1990.

Having a look at the numbers for percentage decrease over a year in the number of crimes registered under the SC / ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 from here.

Compared to quarter 1 2011, the number of passenger flights at all UK airports decreased by 1.9 % in quarter 1 2012.

Those numbers have since dropped off and Rockland is looking at a 3 percent decrease in student district enrollment by 2020.

This Bill is aimed at reversing the decades of decline in passenger numbers, as passenger numbers have decreased steadily everywhere apart from London.

If the number decreased, but there are still fewer districts than representatives, there's one representative per district and the remaining members are elected at - large

Barbara Young, Chief Executive at Diabetes UK, said: «We are very concerned that at a time when numbers of people with diabetes are increasing — data last week revealed a 130,000 new cases in the past year — we are seeing a decrease in frontline diabetes specialists.

From 2025 the number of Lords Spiritual will be set at 12, with their numbers decreasing incrementally from their present 26 over the course of 3 election periods.

Environmental Advocate's David Gahl says years of budget cuts at the state Department of Environmental Conservation, known as the DEC, has led to a one third reduction of staff, and an even greater decrease in the number of inspections of potential polluters.

In fact, after last year's Open House at which scores of parents signed up for the G&T test on site, the number of Bronx children taking the G&T test for entry to Kindergarten increased by over 13 percent whereas in other boroughs the testing rate stayed flat or even decreased.

The number of fatalities at construction and industrial sites is decreasing overall, reports the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), but 42 workers in New York fell to their death in 2012, 10 more than the year before.

But at the same time, the number of borough street lanes rated «poor» or «fair» decreased, from 39.2 percent in 2013 to 37.6 percent last year.

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center used two relatively simple tactics to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary blood tests to assess symptoms of heart attack and chest pain and to achieve a large decrease in patient charges.

It is often said that more gambling (including playing the lottery) takes place during economic crises, but a study carried out by researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) indicates that the opposite is true: in the last year, people have decreased the frequency of gambling activities, the number of gambling activities participated in and the amount of money gambled.

And structures must be fabricated from the substrate surface up at continually decreasing growth rate and from a limited number of precursor gases available.

While BPA did not affect the number of eggs retrieved, «it's worrisome that any compound could decrease productivity of the ovarian cells,» said Dr. Fred Licciardi, a specialist in reproductive medicine and surgery at the New York University Fertility Center who was not involved in the study.

Normal seasonal flu outbreaks have only one peak of infection — the number of cases starts very low, increases to a maximum, then decreases to a very low level, and remains at a low level until the next flu season.

To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for power plant cooling waters that decreases the amount of freshwater power plants consume by increasing the number of times cooling tower water can be reused and recycled.

A decrease in calories consumed at pizza restaurants may have been driven in part by a decrease in the number of consumers because a decline in pizza sales from 2003 to 2010 has been noted by industry sources, according to the study.

Extending national breast cancer screening programs to women over the age of 70 does not result in a decrease in the numbers of cancers detected at advanced stages, according to new research from The Netherlands.