Sentences with phrase «by small improvements»

Computer makers followed this schedule with their manufacturing closely — the first year would see computer makers push out new form factors with amazing specifications to drive sales, followed by a smaller improvement to existing design the following year.

Not exact matches

There was a small improvement in self - reported medication adherence by the test group — those who downloaded and used the app — compared to the control group — those who didn't get the app.

Provide grants, business loans, or services to strengthen neighboring small businesses that may be impacted by development, including storefront improvement projects, commercial lease review, accounting, and business planning; and

While small business owners gain prestige and influence by contributing to community improvement, corporate managers garner status by advancing the company's interest, even at the expense of the community.

Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.

I.e., I like a few recipes from Sally's Baking Addiction, who has a reputation of adapting the base recipes from Cook's Illustrated and other very reputable sources, and just not giving them any credit at all; she's lately started joining the «adapted by» group, which is a (small) improvement.

We are making a small improvement by ditching the plastic water bottle though.

In the next post, we'll talk about how you can get more donations or volunteers by testing small, strategic improvements to your website.

The program, which seeks to significantly increase the number of energy efficiency improvements undertaken, will create green jobs by stimulating investment in energy efficiency improvements for residential homes and small commercial, not - for - profit and multifamily buildings.

This program, administered by the New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), allows homeowners, small businesses and not - for - profits to finance energy efficiency improvements through a charge on their utility bill.

On the economy, Lancman supports creating jobs by investing in infrastructure improvements, which he called the «modern - day new deal» at a debate on June 21, and by making it easier for small businesses to get credit.

Fayose, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Modupe Alade, said the policies and programmes implemented by his administration had in no small measure contributed to the enviable improvement in education.

What issues and / or types of businesses would be promoted by the suggested taxpayer subsidy was also not clearly disclosed though an undefined help to farmers, small business in general, and energy efficiency improvement was suggested.

The report confirms that while the status of the snub - nosed monkey remains critical due to its fragmented, small population and ongoing threats, positive actions by communities, governments and NGOs have resulted in a dramatic improvement in the outlook for the species.

Moreover, the simulations also show that only a small proportion of the energy delivered by the laser is actually imparted to the protons, which indicates that there is plenty of room for improvement.

Small hospitals showed the greatest improvement underscoring the quality improvement opportunities represented by their more limited resources.

A new study by researchers at Rice University and institutions in Israel showed patients in a small trial experienced remarkable improvement after two months of treatment.

But according to a new study led by Duke Health and appearing Feb. 16 in the New England Journal of Medicine, those rates are showing small but measurable improvement.

The San Antonio researchers stressed that the vision improvements experienced by the dark chocolate eaters «were small, and the [real life] functional relevance is unclear.»

These strategies may sound like small fiddle, but by combining three or four of them the improvement in acne could be massive.

On small study from 2004 also showed cognitive improvement when Alzheimer's disease patients were given MCT oils, but the amount of improvement was affected by certain genetic markers.

I've noticed huge improvements in regards to my gut health by having just one small juice a day (about 6 - 8 ounces).

His belief was that if you improved every area related to cycling by just 1 percent, then those small gains would add up to remarkable improvement.»

Regarding carbohydrate source, a diet with a low versus high glycemic index can be used to reduce HbA1c moderately (by ∼ 0.5 %).13 Case series and pilot studies reveal more substantial improvements in HbA1c and other benefits (less hypoglycemia and reduced glycemic variability) with a very low — carbohydrate diet (VLCD).14 — 21 Although varying to some degree among studies, a VLCD is typically defined as ≤ 20 to 50 g per day of carbohydrates or ≤ 5 % to 10 % carbohydrates as a proportion of calories.22 — 24 In T1DM, small sample sizes and methodological issues limit the significance of VLCD benefits, and little is known about prevalence, practice, and sustainability.

Formerly known as that blonde girl who was once engaged to Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow has made a name for herself without the help of past beaus (Pitt and Ben Affleck) by maturing from Hollywood's princess into one of today's more classier actresses, willing to take a chance on smaller art films for the improvement of her career rather than her bank account.

«Zero Charisma» is a movie about emotionally inert people who labor mightily to change their lives in small ways, and whose efforts at self - improvement are thwarted by emotional feedback loops that cause them to make the same mistakes over and over.

In just the D.C. district ANet schools, the increases were smaller — 4 percent in English and 6.6 percent in math — but still better than the improvement of less than 2 percent posted by district schools that didn't partner with ANet.

Any small initial improvement in teacher effectiveness will be quickly offset by higher turnover among more - experienced teachers.

The proposed three year study is set to build upon a smaller scale project coordinated by the Increasing Competence and Confidence in Algebra and Multiplicative Structures (ICCAMS) that has shown improvement in individual classes.

On the other hand, when schools can achieve substantial «improvements» by focusing on a relatively small group of students, they face a strong incentive to game the system.

Declaring that «small improvements are no longer acceptable,» a group of corporate executives in California is calling for a radical restructuring of the state's schools, including reducing the required period of formal schooling by four years.

The smaller gains achieved by always - D and sometimes - D schools compared with the performance of voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools, despite the similar characteristics of all these schools, strengthen our confidence that voucher competition is the cause of the improvements.

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

If principals spend time documenting and reviewing the small things, such as staff engagement at a meeting, tone of responses to an inquiry, or the types of concerns raised by parents, they might notice a larger trend, uncovering areas of strengths and areas for improvement.

Whereas many interventions can impose punitive measures that divide communities, the improvement in student achievement at Kuss has been credited in no small part to longer school days or extended learning time (ELT)-- a reform championed by many school officials, educators, parents, and community leaders.

The other schools inspected by Ofsted in recent weeks, according to Bore, were: Welford primary in Handsworth (judged as good by Ofsted in 2013), Adderley primary school in Saltley (judged good in January 2012), Alston primary in Bordesley Green East (judged inadequate in 2013, with an emergency inspection in January saying the school was «making reasonable progress towards the removal of special measures»), Golden Hillock in Sparkhill (judged as requiring improvement, in 2013), Gracelands nursery school (deemed good in May 2013), Highfield junior and infant school (which was said to require improvement according to the June 2013 Ofsted), Marlborough junior school in Small Heath (judged good last June) and Nansen primary (judged satisfactory in 2010).

Safety features envisioned for the Millennium include: traction control; active suspension; immobile bucket seats with adjustable control panel; four - wheel anti-lock brakes; selectable schedule electronic automatic transaxle; voice - actuated controls; lighting system improvements; head - up navigation display; rain - sensitive wipers; and rear vision improvements achieved by mounting a small video camera in the rear - view mirror area.

A sophisticated suspension system should ensure handling improvements for the new S3, helped along in no small terms by the optional Audi magnetic ride as standard equipment.

Smaller engine can be noisy from time to time but Hyundai made sure you can't hear your engine by improving their sound dampening materials and adding an integrated dual member at the wheel house panel for road noise, all these improvement made the Tucson beat the competition in all 3 aspects, Wind Noise (67.2 dBA), Road Noise (65.5 dBA) and Idle noise (61.7 dBA).

Euro NCAP's Secretary General, Michiel van Ratingen, said, «The 500 is an old car by now and the small improvements that FIAT have made on the facelift don't hide that.

Major improvements here, as the new Peugeot 308 shed around 140 kg off its waist compared to the previous generation but also adopts the small steering wheel introduced by its smaller peer, the Peugeot 208.

They have also added filters, like «most reviews,» so you can see which books have been reviewed most (whereas searching by the highest customer review would put a book with a single five star review ahead of a book that has hundreds of reviews that are mostly five stars); that's a small improvement.

As a former bookseller himself, he celebrated the launch of This Side of the River by giving 6 bookstores $ 250 grants for whatever improvements they needed... a helping hand on a little smaller scale than James Patterson, but doing his part!

While only a small update, this seems to have done a good amount for the overall performance of the BlackBerry PlayBook, and any improvement in performance should be warmly welcomed by everyone.

The bargain Last year's iPad Air was a huge improvement over the 2012 iPad, so this year's update seems small by comparison.

``... moving from a 5 percent to a 10 percent down payment on loans that already meet strong underwriting and product standards reduces the default experience by an average of only two - or three - tenths of one percent... Increasing the minimum down payment even further to 20 percent... (creates) small improvement in default performance of about eight - tenths of one percent on average.»

Marion learned his credit mix and credit utilization had room for improvement, and Credit Sesame's credit card suggestions pointed him toward appropriate secured cards he could use by starting small.

For the first few years of the 1990's, the improvement in the valuations of large - caps relative to small caps (indicated by a rising line) was entirely warranted.

While some people may be cheered by a -21 % decline in their stock value as opposed to a -29 % decline, personally, I don't think I would be particularly soothed by this small «improvement», regardless of how mindfully I viewed the situation.