Sentences with phrase «did increase the number»

On the other hand the power of the truth seen through the resurrection, and the working of miracles, does increase numbers.

Did it increase the number of positive mentions?

A.B.: This effort plays into the whole concept of, «How do we increase the number of African - Americans, Latinos, and so forth, going into science?»

While the head - mounted display can do an increasing number of tasks (see main story) it still makes the wearer look a bit uncool.

Mind you, I bicycle every single day for at least 1.5 hours, so this does increase the number of calories I can eat.

But it did increase the number of people who came to this web site every day to numbers I never expected to ever see.

We're doing an increasing number of bankruptcies and consumer proposals for people over the age of 60 who have debt and are carrying debt into retirement.

The addition of FOS to feline diets at 0.75 % (DM) did not affect duodenal flora, but it did increase the numbers of lactobacilli and reduce the numbers of E. coli in the fecal flora of healthy cats.24, 25 Healthy German shepherds believed to have bacterial overgrowth were supplemented with FOS at 1.0 % (AF) of their diet.26 Changes were recognized in the duodenal bacterial flora but these changes were of less magnitude than seen in normal dogs for these parameters.

Lakota Animal Care will do two such relocation events every month beginning now and going year round and will do an increased number of spay / neuter clinics, offering these first in those communities which OSLH identifies as those with greatest needs.

Many types of phytoplankton do increase their numbers rapidly but they propagate primarily by asexual reproduction, which makes it less likely for populations to accumulate the genetic mutations that could allow them to adapt.

Android Wear 2.0 comes with its own Play Store, and a bunch of apps that make it possible to do an increasing number of things without a phone nearby.

Did you increase the number of customers served?

Not exact matches

If you're increasing the number of staff at your company, you'll need to have the space to do it.

While the president's report does not propose any quick fixes for growth, it suggests that large - scale investment in infrastructure improvements, regulations that ensure the internet remains open to all, and protections for the increasing number of workers who wind up as contractors in the gig economy will be essential.

Sageworks Inc., which does financial analysis of privately held companies, gave us 2009 sales percentage increase numbers for the most growing fields.

And as the number of telecommuters increases (studies suggest about 35 % of employees do some telecommuting, up from about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.

The researchers also found that when boards did vary the number of options granted to CEOs, they often picked round numbers, such as increasing the number of options by 10 % or doubling it.

Nevertheless, there seemed to me a number of simple things they could have done to significantly increase their income.

Some of them do it with laundries or restaurants or gardening or construction, but an increasing number do it now with tech.

The problem is that the number of deals are flat, so the average size of the deals has increased but the amount of deals getting done is down from 2014.

So the trouble is that we've got a mountain of dry powder, but we've got a flat number of deals and an increasing value per deal, so you quickly come to a situation where the industry is becoming much more competitive for each deal that is done.

It's a slight increase over 2012, but he doesn't expect the number to grow much higher.

But the narrative that the electorate is pushing elected officials towards trade - skeptical policies doesn't actually jive with poll numbers, which show that a majority of Americans think that increased trade is good for the economy.

But while the BlackBerrys «changed work patterns significantly,» Duxbury attests, they didn't increase the number of hours worked.

Generous daycare subsidies might be the smartest thing governments can do: Extensive research shows the most effective way to increase the number of women taking part in the economy is to ensure reliable, affordable child care.

And it doesn't really do what it's supposed to: When Sprout conducted clinical trials, women only reported a small increase in the number of times they had satisfying sex — around one additional time per month.

The challenge claimed that a majority of shareholders did not support the authorization, at the 2013 annual meeting, of an increase in the number of shares used to reward Souki and other executives; the very increase that made Souki the highest paid CEO in America (he received 6.3 million shares in February 2013).

In the U.S, an increasing number of employees who don't have a college degree remain at risk.

As the number of years westerners spend in retirement increases, raising the retirement age is becoming such an obvious solution that most of Canada's G7 peers have already done it.

But Robinson stressed that «increasing a team's hours in the office by 50 percent (from 40 to 60 hours) does not result in 50 percent more output... In fact, the numbers may typically be something closer to 25 - 30 percent more work in 50 percent more time.»

The latest word from the Financial Times, via some intermediaries that don't have a paywall, is a sudden increase in the number of employees looking to leave.

Though an increasing number of tech companies have been doing so in the past couple of years, Atlassian added a twist: It includes the percentages of teams with member of each underrepresented groups (gender, age, ethnicity).

Since starting to do this, the company has increased the number of new features added to products 100-fold per year.

One example of this would be a retail company whose owners need capital to increase the number of company - owned stores, yet who don't wish to give up significant ownership in the company.

Increasing numbers of persons were able to secure medical referrals for the monthly payments even though they really did not fit the qualifications.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Do you want to increase the number of newsletter sign - ups, generate leads, or make sales?

Millennials and Gen Zers hold the power to do this, as we will soon see them start small businesses in ever - increasing numbers.

A Danish study found that as the number of people working in a room increased, so did the relative number of sick days — and people who worked in fully open offices were out 62 % more than their cubed counterparts.

Assuming TPP does not affect the total number of cars and trucks sold in North America (in reality, the number of vehicles should increase somewhat due to the downward impact tariff removal will have on prices), TPP could affect employment levels in Canada through several mechanisms:

If you've noticed an increase in the number of webinars being marketed today, there's a good reason — webinars can be a profitable platform, but only if they're done correctly.

Something of the sort is already happening in the ways companies hire; an increasing number of companies are adopting «blind interviewing» where the interviewees don't know the appearance or even the sex of the candidate.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

By offering strong evidence of mini flash crashes increasing transaction costs through widening the desired execution price between a market's buyers and sellers, while at the same time decreasing the number of opportunities to buy and sell in a market, Golub et al. [21] corroborated and quantified the intuition that mini flash crashes do indeed harm market liquidity.

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

One of the biggest challenges that we all face is the steadily increasing number of things that we have to do on a daily basis.

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

That perspective does seem to be sinking in with an increasing number of Americans.

Examine the reasons why so few women choose to enter or stay in venture capital roles and call on the venture capital industry to do more to recruit and promote women investors to partner level roles in order to increase the number of women investment professionals

In a recently resurfaced 2016 article from The Atlantic, award - winning director Ava DuVernay talked about how diversity goals that simply focus on increasing the number of employees who don't identify as straight, white, and male can ring hollow for members of underrepresented groups with their own unique identities.