Not exact matches
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect
of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels
of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments
of the aerospace industry, levels
of air travel, financial condition
of commercial airlines, the impact
of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition
of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization
of the anticipated benefits
of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing
of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition
of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration
of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization
of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels
of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and
research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability
of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope
of future repurchases
of United Technologies»
common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level
of other investing activities and uses
of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition
of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery
of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits
of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits
of diversification and balance
of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the
outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact
of the negotiation
of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect
of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect
of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect
of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability
of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition
of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits
of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing
of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence
of events that may give rise to a right
of one or both
of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee
of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million
of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects
of the announcement or the completion
of the merger on the market price
of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins»
common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation
of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value
of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability
of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
Common reasons provided by industry included overly complicated intellectual property arrangements, priority misalignment (publications and grants
of research vs commercial
outcomes of industry) and a lack
of quality translators who can understand both business needs and scientific solutions.
The resulting 9
Common Ground Statements describe a maternity care environment that respects a woman's autonomy, reduces health disparities, supports cross-professional collaboration and communication, promotes physiologic birth, expands
research that includes the woman in defining the elements
of «safety», and accurately assesses the effects
of birth place on
outcomes and experience.
Also, if you haven't already downloaded my water birth meta - analysis go do that now; the publisher is providing it free for a limited time.3 Not only will it give you evidence for
outcomes, but it explains some
of the
common problems with water birth
research and whether or not they negate the findings.
«We hope that one
outcome of the workshop will be the forging
of ongoing partnerships to help develop a roadmap to establishing a
common language and framework for continued dialogue to move this effort
of promoting multi-sensory data science forward,» says Rickman, who is Principal Investigator on an National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, awarded by the Division
of the Materials
Research in support
of the workshop.
«It is
common to assume that more specialized or higher - volume medical care will result in improved
outcomes,» writes Dr. Kris Aubrey - Bassler with the Primary Healthcare
Research Unit, Discipline
of Family Medicine, Memorial University
of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland.
In our two previous
research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite
common, are among the strongest predictors
of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors
of improved academic
outcomes.»
Biography: Georgina's
research interests lie broadly in understanding the socioeconomic factors that influence opportunities for collaborative management
of marine
common - pool natural resources, and the multiple
outcomes of such initiatives.
One
of the strongest senses
of survival stems from a basic set
of paradigms that human kind seeks to fulfil their
common needs, as was the
outcome of Maslow's
research [7]:
As this brief review
of research demonstrates, it is quite
common for test score results not to be predictive
of later - life
outcomes.
Although a seemingly
common sense concept, researchers have had difficulty substantiating the connection between educator professional learning and student
outcomes because
of the host
of potential variables and the overall complexity
of the
research.
Citing the
research, and the exciting work being done by school library practitioners in realizing the vision
of the new school library learning
commons, the expert panel recommended that «the Council
of Ministers
of Education Canada (CMEC) commission a pan-Canadian assessment engaging the full range
of stakeholders, to bring forward a clear and prescriptive set
of directives to frame a national policy consensus on the most appropriate model for school libraries / learning
commons to maximize their contribution to the K - 12 experience and its learning
outcomes.»
With support from Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Evaluation Toolkit was developed for two purposes: (1) To develop a freely accessible,
research - based resource that will enable outreach programs to more readily and systematically use data and
outcome measures to improve service delivery, and (2) promote
research that will identify effective program models across outreach programs and document the collective impact
of programs by using the evaluation data generated through a
common assessment framework.
A 2013 survey
of 28,000 teachers by the Tennessee Consortium on
Research, Evaluation and Development, which is housed at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College
of Education and Human Development, found that teachers generally believed that the implementation
of Common Core was going well, and thought that the standards would result in improved student
outcomes.
It is
common for fathers» potential contributions to children's
outcomes to be overlooked in child health - related parenting
research, 14 perhaps because researchers assume either that parenting is similar across mothers and fathers or that fathers» parenting does not add anything to children's
outcomes, over and above the contribution
of mothers.
This empirical
outcome research has focused on identifying factors
common to all approaches, which appear to be responsible for the efficacy
of psychotherapeutic healing (Hubble, Duncan and Miller, 1999).
The role
of selection A
common challenge in
research in this area is that parents who are single or cohabiting may have attributes (both observed and unobserved) that differ from those
of married parents and that also foster adverse child and adolescent
outcomes.
Relationships are the message
Common - factors
research suggests that therapeutic relationship factors, such as warmth, acceptance, empathic understanding, and client - therapist agreement on goals, account for approximately 30 %
of treatment
outcomes (Asay & Lambert, 1999).
A confluence
of research has identified executive functioning deficits as a
common characteristic
of individuals with FASD.9 15 — 27 Damage to neurological structures, including the prefrontal regions
of the brain, is a significant hypothesised cause for these deficits.28 29 Executive functions are defined as a set
of cognitive processes responsible for orchestrating purposeful, goal - directed behaviour.15 30 31 These processes are responsible for the ability to plan, organise, attend, problem solve and inhibit responses.31 It is also suggested that the ability to self - regulate emotional responses and behavioural actions is interrelated with the construct
of executive functioning.17 28 32 Deficits in executive functioning and self - regulation can lead to learning and behavioural problems that impact a child's educational
outcomes as they struggle to cope with the complex demands
of school life.16 20
To provide comprehensive but succinct, user - friendly summaries
of the
outcome research literature for the major therapeutic approaches and
common child and adolescent diagnoses
Common factor's
research shows that the number one predictor
of outcome is safety - how safe and understood are you feeling in the therapy session.
Similar to prior
research underscoring the need to optimally use individual (Jopp & Smith, 2006) or dyadic (Hagedoorn et al., 2000) resources when resource status is poor (as may occur for older adults experiencing illness), this finding underscores the necessity
of pooling resources to pursue
common goals when the resources
of each spouse alone may not suffice to make progress toward a hoped - for
outcome or to avoid a feared
outcome.
We recommend that future
research focus on the following three areas: (1) development
of standardized measures
of skill acquisition and utilization from a «
common elements» perspective that can used across EBTs; (2) assessment
of the predictors, correlates, and
outcomes associated with skill acquisition and utilization; and (3) development
of innovative interventions to enhance the acquisition and utilization
of cognitive - behavioral and parent management skills.