Sentences with phrase «cost as a barrier»

Seven percent reported cost as a barrier to finding food that was safe and affordable.

This not only removes cost as a barrier, but it also encourages pet owners to schedule visits sooner and more frequently.

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) regulations do recognize the ability for fossil energy with CCS technology to help states meet their targets, but do not mandate it, citing high cost as a barrier to implementation across the entire industry.

A number of people participating in the third weekly Twitter chat, this one dealing with how legal services can be changed to increase access, pointed to cost as a barrier.

Among renters, 38 percent view the downpayment and closing costs as a barrier to buying a home, down from 44 percent in last year's survey.

Not exact matches

Nearly two - thirds of payer executives cited cost as the biggest barrier in the way of a product overhaul.

These homebodies — all with annual revenues in excess of $ 1 million as per the survey parameters — were not clear about just why they were not reaching beyond Canada, citing a variety of perceived barriers including cost, competition, regulations, staffing and marketing.

Infrastructure assets have traditionally been characterized as long - lived, with high development costs (barriers to entry) and the potential for steady income streams, often linked to inflation.

While many industries require large, upfront investments — and, in many cases, an additional cost of maintaining a brick and mortar location — the cleaning industry has the fewest barriers when it comes to not only starting your business but growing it as well.

From their website, they seek to invest in companies with «high barriers to entry, low production costs and the potential to benefit from Brookfield's global expertise as an owner and operator of real assets.»

#TradeElite A1 — 1st steps should include identifying your business» financial needs as it pertains to exporting globally & the cost challenges / barriers to entry in your international market of interest @FITTNews @VarandaNetwork https://t.co/6zq78pTxmK

«Certainly consolidation must appear to be an increasingly viable solution for smaller funds as barriers to entry and the costs of doing business have increased for hedge funds across the AUM spectrum,» added Altman.

Economists refer to such psychic barriers to consumer change as «switching costs.»

Barriers to entry for third - party certification, including direct costs and paperwork, mean that many of the smallest and poorest farmers (those that have the most to gain by joining a system of committed organic production) can not participate, and this hurts the growth of the organic movement as a whole.

As you say you are very familiar with all of the challenges to running the school meal program in SF, I wonder if you have a solution to propose to one of the largest barriers to improving the food — that is, the enormous bite that labor costs takes out of the nutrition budget.

Carmel Sullivan is a single mother who founded CoAdobe because she recognized the high cost of housing as one of the top barriers single mothers face in raising their children.

Due to the cost, Step 2 of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding (Train all health care staff in the skills necessary to implement this [breastfeeding] policy) is often cited as one of the barriers to Baby ‐ Friendly designation.

Childcare was another significant cost incurred by families and one that acted as a barrier to work for many potential second earners — usually mothers.

For example, over 600,000 disabled people who currently receive disability living allowance (DLA)-- who face significant barriers and costs in their daily life — will now have this support withdrawn as they are deemed ineligible for the new personal independence payments (PIP).

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When the follow - up eye care utilization data were examined, only 29.9 percent of patients adhered to recommendations to have an eye examination within indicated time frames, even though cost and accessibility were minimized as barriers.

Among respondents who were pessimistic about the Affordable Care Act's effects, administrative complexity was cited as the greatest barrier to reducing their organizations» operating costs.

The cost savings included use of skin barriers and other ostomy care accessories, medications, emergency department and hospital visits, as well as «social costs» such as missed work or appointments.

The authors find that the main barriers to large - scale deployment of both macro - and micro-algae, include high demands of key resources for algal growth (such as nutrients, water and CO ₂), difficulty in maintaining selected species with high productivity content in outdoor culture, as well as high energy requirements and costs of algal production and conversion into biofuels.

Whitelegg says: «Just as transport costs are no barrier to a highly organised Japanese manufacturer breaking into the UK market, so are they irrelevant for a manufacturer... in west Wales seeking to break into a new market in Milan or Frankfurt.»

«By aligning with patients» expectations, removing unnecessary barriers, such as cost and access, and engaging patients» social and support networks, we can develop patient - centered clinical programs that better serve diverse groups of cancer patients regardless of sex, race, and education levels,» Bauml said.

Experts also suggested addressing other barriers that impede vaccine uptake, such as ease of access and cost.

«This will be much more useful, as cost is the barrier to wider exploration,» he says.

In the near term before 2040, the most cost - effective way to protect New York likely is a more modest combination of building improvements — such as raising new structures and home foundations — and smaller barrier methods to keep out water, such as small levees, the policy study finds.

Union NASUWT told the Scottish Trades Union Congress that the increasing costs families face in sending their children to school are acting as a barrier to children and young people's participation in activities and educational opportunities.

The Lebanese government opened its public schools to Syrian students, but immense obstacles, including a language barrier, overcrowding, and the high cost of transportation, have made the transition a difficult one not only for students, but for teachers as well.

Second, and even more plausible perhaps, is that the emergence of the edXs of the world is systematically lowering the barriers of entry for other entrepreneurs, such as Gene Wade of UniversityNow, to create their own low - cost universities with low - cost degrees and add value by enhancing the educational process in other ways.

Yet, Hammond believes that the transport scheme will help more disadvantaged pupils attend selective schools as for «many parents the cost of travel can be a barrier to exercising choice».

Poverty poses a variety of barriers to participation for many students, such as the cost of fees, equipment or instruments, uniforms, and transportation home after participation.

To overcome the financial barriers we have a range of strategies: we advertise our trips three years in advance along with our suggestions as to the most beneficial (language trips, outdoor education trips and trips linked specifically to their GCSEs) so that parents can prioritise accordingly; we reduce the costs for pupil premium students by using the additional money given to us by the government; we are flexible with payment plans; we allow in - school fundraising for certain trips; and we keep supplemental costs (for example kit and transport) very low by doing our own fundraising for those items.

For large scale school sites the application of a capability like a «virtual tripwire» may be a cost effective approach to keep trespassers out of designated areas within the grounds, where it is simply not practical to have physical barriers such as walls or fencing in place.

School leaders consistently identify high costs and shrinking budgets as a top barrier to implementing new technology tools and programs.

eLearning is the preferred choice of multinational companies to train their international staff, as the online learning format is cost - effective and helps overcome the barriers of time and place.

Headteachers stressed to the public accounts committee «how vital it is for teachers to undertake good - quality CPD at all stages of their career», and highlighted time and cost as the main barriers to teachers undertaking CPD.

In addition, in many of our modular buildings we employ radiant heat barriers as well as increase the R - value of all insulation to better reduce element intrusion, thereby reducing HVAC load and maintenance costs.

Even where the programs existed, barriers such as cost or lack of transportation placed them out of reach for many families.

Often, the high cost of quality programs is cited as a barrier.

As long as homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictionAs long as homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictionas homeowners in affluent suburbs are allowed to benefit from the high density of cities (where they tend to work or find business and social networks) without accounting for the higher costs of public services to support it, they will continue to be barriers to inexpensive housing in their jurisdictions.

I suspect that the Kindle is facing the same barriers as Apple did with the iPhone — wireless service providers and their costs for data are high!

As the cost of setting up a blog starts at free, there's no barrier to authors who self - publish their work, and many of those are producing some excellent material too.

Marvel Unlimited makes Marvel's back catalog accessible in a way that its constant reboots and inconsistent numbering of series and collections, as well as the high cost barrier of entry, do not.

Naturally, cost is a big barrier, as is the risk of lost or damaged ebook readers.»

Incidentally, nothing I just wrote should be read as dismissing the possibility of Amazon becoming a monopsonist in the physical goods market (whether those goods are books, clothing, or anything else Amazon sells), where the cost barriers to entry are much higher.

In the end, as long as there's competition (and there always will be, because, as you point out, the barriers to entry aren't that high), the retailer's keep will fall roughly in line for costs.

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