Sentences with phrase «change over the long term»

While pedometers give users feedback on the number of steps, heart rate, or steps, it is the apps that drive engagement and behavioral change over the long term through competition, community, gamification and support, she said.

It's probably a good idea not to put too much emphasis on growth spurts, however, in justifying behavioral changes over the long term.

«Now with a view of the virus over seven months, we can understand how it has been moving and changing over the long term.»

«It seems that developing stable, repeatable behaviors related to food intake and weight loss early on in a weight - control program is really important for maintaining changes over the long term,» said study lead author Emily Feig.

The theory suggests that the disruptive models of blended learning will be the agents of change over the long term, but we placed a caveat on this prediction.

We began by considering how employment has been changing over the longer term, by looking at U.S. Census data for the number of employees in each urban area.

A company's financial stability and profitability may change over the long term and not be the same as when it first issued its bonds.

BEHAVIOR: Use locally inspired social art forms to raise awareness, mobilize communities and influence positive behavioral change over the long term.

A forcing is defined as something that is changing over the long term.

This may change over the longer term, or may even require long term data.

The wind patterns around Antarctica have been changing over long term observation: the fact that the southern hemisphere is colder than the northern is the start of all methodical theory regarding climate change.

Mitigation and adaptation are essential to addressing climate change over the long term, but over the short to medium term they will almost certainly be insufficient to protect the world's poorest from the worst effects of global warming.

Not having an honest, complete discussion is a bad strategy if you really want to address global climate change over the long term.

Before the Industrial Revolution and the huge increase in population that followed, temperature change over the long term was largely caused by change in sunlight explained by the Milankovitch Cycles.

This ties in directly with comments by Kevin Trenberth in this recent paper and in an accompanying commentary to the Lyman paper that while the energy budget changes over the long term are explainable, the changes over short time frames are still very difficult to quantify.

On the other hand, it also seems pretty clear that lawyer productivity has little changed over the long term.

Not exact matches

Yet, there is a very reliable way that human behavior changes over the long - term.

One of the reasons the IMF has changed its tune on fiscal policy is because research it has done in the past year shows that borrowing to pay for infrastructure pays for itself over the longer term by generating faster economic growth.

Over half, or 58 percent, now say that the problem of sexual harassment is being appropriately addressed, and 67 percent say the changes will be long - term, up from 60 percent in December.

What we're seeing over and over again is that baby steps and incremental changes and improvements are comforting in the near term, but they aren't going to change the game or move the needle in the long run.

Gold has regained its shine in recent months, but that doesn't change the dull outlook for the precious metal over the longer - term, warns Goldman Sachs, which sees prices falling to $ 1,000 in 12 months as the Federal Reserve normalizes monetary policy.

Interest rate expectations are constantly changing over the short - term but over longer periods bond returns are more or less based on math.

Mr. Zuckerberg said at the time that the changes would make Facebook more valuable over the long term.

In recent months, I've emphasized that despite prospects for a prolonged recession which I would expect to keep the stock market in a very wide trading range (probably for the bulk of 2009), long - term investors should not overlook the sea - change in valuations and security durations we've observed over the past 15 months.

In the longer term, the aim is to make the surveys and workshops a regular event, charting changes over time in how Americans and Chinese see one another in the national security realm.

Over the long term the nominal return on a duration - managed bond portfolio (or bond index — the duration on those doesn't change very much) converges on the starting yield.

I think when there is a whole comprehensive real understanding of what renewables can provide as a viable long - term energy source, over the long term I don't see anything that changes the demand profile for solar in particular over the next 5 - 10 years.

Each account is diversified across a variety of sectors and maturities to help ensure it is not concentrated in any one area, can better handle changes in interest rates, and can potentially help reduce overall risk to principal over the long - term.

A three - step process to anticipate and shape change, beginning with the identification of 70 + macro drivers that were refined into 8 dynamics defining the future for connected consumers, which constituted the basis for a highly immersive two - day Future Forum bringing together 10 outside experts, 13 internal stakeholders and 14 agency partners, from which a consumer - centric company vision and Future Playbook was developed around «4 Big Bets» over near -, mid - and long - term horizons.

Over the long term they must effect these transfers, but they can not do so quickly enough to balance a change in the balance of payments.

We view these measures, as well as the recent changes to immigration policy, 13 as positive steps that will increase growth over the medium - to - long term.

This prompted me to learn more about how this 26 - year veteran CEO successfully navigated the changing dynamics of the restaurant business, empowered his staff and adjusted to change to maintain a competitive advantage over the long term.

Has Modern Portfolio Theory failed to deliver over the past decade because users employ long - term averages for expected returns, volatilities and correlations that do not respond to changing market environments?

China's slow move to a market - based system, which has been facilitated by In a country as large and economically important as China, change should be approached over the long - term.

We have used available data to address the following question: has the prevalence of traditional metrics (relative TSR and EPS) used in S&P / ASX 200 long - term incentive plans changed over time?

The biggest long - term change for taxpayers in the bill, it would result in a tax increase over the long run, long after the tax cuts expire.

This was exasperated recently when I was discussing the case of how most investors misunderstand how it can actually be good over the long - run to change a company's capitalization structure to replace equity with debt by borrowing funds on a long - term, low - cost, fixed - rate basis to repurchase stock, lowering the total count of outstanding shares.

The longer - term expectations of financial market participants have been little changed over the past year and a half.

The central message of our discipline is that valuations are enormously informative about prospects for long - term and full - cycle returns, but that outcomes over shorter segments of the market cycle are driven by changes in the psychological preferences of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.

Changes in monetary policy might not do much to raise the economy's «long - term» growth potential, but they certainly affect output and employment over the course of the business cycle.

Moreover, for all the uncertainties of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition of a national population can be predicted over the course of the coming calendar year with far greater certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.

To restructure the incentives of the market so as to favor long - term investment over short - term consumption, or to change the institutionalization of the corporation to accountable democratic citizenship, does not at all mean to centralize industry under a government ministry.

The site makes it possible for CSIRO to conduct long - term farming systems experiments that investigate changes to the soil over time and provide a better understanding of the impact of factors such as soil organic matter and soil acidity on farm profitability.

Many changes observed in the environment are long term, occurring slowly over time.

Most importantly, Banducci has delivered much - needed cultural change — putting customers rather than shareholders first to underpin long - term growth, repairing damaged relationships with suppliers, rebuilding the confidence of staff and creating a less centralised structure by giving Woolworths» business units more control over their own destinies.

That's the model for winning over the long term in the NFL: You build a solid base, and you change the pieces around that base.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

However, Tottenham are seemingly keen to keep him happy while the report notes that this also comes amid talk that the former MK Dons starlet is changing agent and that could have led to new concerns being raised over his long - term future in north London.

Mourinho has relied on the services of Chris Smalling and Victor Lindelof over the past few matches, but there may be a noticeable change against Crystal Palace on Monday night with Eric Bailly having returned after a long - term ankle problem.

With regards Tottenham, Untold's research into what happens to clubs when they move grounds seems on the basis of the first match (and I know it was only one game) to be valid, both in terms of Tottenham, and indeed over a longer period for West Ham United, who apparently have made the most successful ground change ever, according to Karren Brady.