Sentences with phrase «decreased development time»

Decreased development time and promoted user interface standards by creation of a library of in - house created programming tools to be used by developers.

Increased burden means decreased development time, and we had reached our efficiency plateau.

In bakery markets characterised by unrelenting demand for new product innovations with ever - decreasing development times, Kievit is the ideal business partner.

Not exact matches

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).

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Numerous studies have identified possible negative outcomes of screen time to include: irregular sleep patterns, behavioral issues, focus and attention problems, decreased academic performance and negative impact on socialization and language development.

It is exciting to see that these compounds may play a role in decreasing allergic and respiratory diseases, but important at the same time to note that the primary reason (and major marketing ploy) behind the addition of these supplements is for visual and central nervous system development - something for which we will have to wait and see.

Noted occupational therapist, Julia Harper, MS, OTR / L, presented «Decreased Tummy Time & the Effect on Milestone Development in Infants».

It distracts the parent and decreases parent - child interaction.30, 31 Infant vocabulary growth is directly related to the amount of «talk time» or the amount of time parents spend speaking to them.32 Heavy television use in a household can interfere with a child's language development simply because parents likely spend less time talking to the child.33

«Heat - related deaths have been decreasing over time in part due to the development of warning systems that have increased awareness of what to do and saved lives,» he says.

It is hard to understand why governments defend a system with such a poor record, or why they are dismissive of new technologies that promise increased patient safety while decreasing the time and cost of drug development, not to mention the savings to healthcare systems from fewer adverse drug reactions.

In a development that could lead to a new generation of drugs to precisely treat a range of diseases, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have for the first time designed a drug candidate that decreases the growth of tumor cells in animal models in one of the hardest to treat cancers — triple negative breast cancer.

«If you can speed up the plant development, which is what the auxin is doing, you can decrease the time it takes to get genetically engineered lines,» said Van Eck.

Butyrate is essential for good health as it decreases inflammation in the colon, improves gut transit time, resulting in regular bowel movements and helps prevent the development of leaky gut.

I hope production and development time increase and releases decrease so my wallet can recover from the past half decade....

At the middle and high school levels, 37 percent of principals reported increases in instructional time and professional development for social studies; only 7 percent reported decreases.

With a single system capturing all development and business processes for re-use, various design and engineering scenarios can be considered along with their associated costs, helping better manage the innovation process while decreasing the time needed to analyze various solutions.

Sometimes the school librarians (or their substitutes) aren't to blame: «At the building level, due to implementation of [district policies] and a decrease in funding, library personnel (including librarians and clerks) are being pulled from their regular assignments, and that decreases the amount of time for them to spend on library duties,» including professional development, said one respondent.

[Mr. Scott] intends to review his investment in [ASYS] on a continuing basis and, depending upon the price and availability of shares of the Common Stock, subsequent developments affecting [ASYS], [ASYS]'s business and prospects, other investment and business opportunities available to [Mr. Scott], general stock market and economic conditions, tax considerations and other factors considered relevant, may decide at any time to increase or to decrease the size of his investment in [ASYS].

Further, the net annual distributions per unit may decrease over time because a portion of the securities included in the portfolio will be sold to pay for organization costs, deferred sales charges, the creation and development fee and other regular fees and expenses during the life of the portfolio.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Halo 3 in particular is a game that's inextricably tied to the Xbox 360 and in a time of increasing cross-platform development and decreasing console mascots this is an achievement.

Studies have shown there's a noted decrease in emotional development and a rise in ADD - a direct result of screen time over quality human interaction.

Claim numbers have also decreased − a development that has translated to a 2015 claims rate of 99 claims per 1,000 lawyers, down from 103 in 2014, and below 100 for the first time in five years.

Recognized for ability to spot performance inefficiencies during planning phase that allow for faster project completion times and decreased need for re-engineering during development and implementation.

Increasing productivity by more than 85 %, decreasing handle time by 34 %, and cutting average time to answer by 66 % through targeted representative coaching and development in most recent position as Customer Service Manager for Ready or Not Industries.

Participated in development of cutting - edge care model that decreased wait times by 33 % and increased patient satisfaction by 50 %.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Developed a project as part of the high school pilot project series in a bid to assist students understand the methodologies for ribonucleic acid encapsulation • Increased student interest in laboratory work by introducing real time lab projects including minor electrostatic interactions with DNA • Decreased the number of high school students opting out of chemistry class by 30 % by implementing chemistry concepts through non-conventional methods of teaching • Introduced interactive curriculum development to the school which brought about much interest from students willing to become part of the chemistry lesson planning activities

Facilitate workflow, re-allocate resources, decrease project cycle time and ensure attainment of development goals.

Increased stakeholder satisfaction by decreasing standard vendor development time of three months to one month.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Played a major role in implementing an activities - based curriculum which increased student interest in the class by 52 % • Introduced a series of «negative behavior de-escalating» techniques which decreased student mayhem at a staggering rate • Developed and implemented a novel grading system which reduced marking time by 65 % • Held 12 student development workshops as part of the school's effort to train new teacher's aides

Professional Experience Vision Appraisal Technology (Northborough, MA) 03/2004 — Present Information Technology Analyst -LRB-[Insert Dates in Role]-RRB- • Provide network, desktop, printer, hardware, software, printing, peripherals devices, and application support to front - end users within a data center environment, assisting remote users with network / VPN connectivity issues • Execute various active directory tasks including both adding and deleting users and groups as well as setting up shared areas for controlled data access • Verify the successful back - up of servers as well as the deployment of anti-viral applications and system updates • Perform Oracle DBA tasks, including software installations, patching, backups, and upgrades, while creating Oracle production and cloning environments for testing and software development • Aid in the upgrade, migration, and management of servers, while participating heavily in any infrastructure changes • Maintain hardware asset control inventory as well as provide FTP, website, and intranet administration • Create standard desktop images to decrease software application re-installation time and develop documentation for both installation and back - up procedures • Deploy new desktop and laptop devices to end - users with enterprise applications accommodating specific user job functions

Preliminary research suggests an optimistic picture for preventative strategies and easily accessible education programs for the parents and caregivers of inhibited preschool children.74 Such programs are aimed at educating the caregivers regarding the nature of temperament and withdrawal and providing techniques through which they may help behavioural inhibition children develop the ability to regulate reactivity to novelty thus promoting the development of social skills and decreasing inhibited and anxious behaviour over time.

The MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development), in an assessment study of 535 parents, discovered that Triple P actually decreased the cases of behavioral problems among schoolchildren up to 33 % according to The Straits Times.

Drawing from insights gained through the creation of a mental health treatment centre at Pine River Institute and the development of subsequent collaborations with various clinical and research communities, the authors outline the importance of clarifying the goals and mechanisms of mental health treatment and creating better definitions and measures of treatment success as a strong foundation for moving toward decreasing wait times and increasing system integration.

The decrease in parental risk factors between Times 1 and 2 was associated with an improvement in socio - emotional development, whereas improvement in the quality of the home environment was associated with better performance in cognitive / language tests.