Sentences with phrase «driven by disruptions»

The poorer first - half result was also driven by disruptions to its manufacturing due to the installation of a new robotic packaging system and a charge of nearly $ 1 million relating to non-recurring bad debt.

Households now face higher food costs as well as the higher gasoline costs driven by disruptions in the Middle East.

Oil prices fell on Friday as investors cashed out big weekly profits after a rally driven by disruptions to crude supplies and Wall Street's gains from U.S. economic data.

This is the second time the Concept S has gone up for sale — in 2015, it was part of RM Sotheby's Driven By Disruption auction, where it failed to sell with a high pre-sale estimate of $ 3 million.

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The price of oil has risen to its highest since late 2014 this month, driven by concern over the potential for disruption to Iranian crude flows, but analysts say the degree of uncertainty hanging over the deal means the market is extremely sensitive to any developments.

Banking also offers some tantalizing practical applications for deep - learning innovators, too; of the three possibilities listed by Agrafioti — personalized AI - driven customer service, real - time fraud prevention and risk management — it's the last one that might appeal most to those interested in industry disruption.

Oil prices have risen this month to their highest since late 2014, driven by concern over potential disruptions to Iranian crude flows.

«There may be a bit of value that could be unlocked under that scenario, but the time to close the deal and the disruption associated with it detracts from long - term value - creation driven by improving existing operations,» Rubel said.

The modern economy is driven by creativity, innovation, and disruption.

However, the innovation economy is driven by creativity and disruption.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Few companies are doing deals now without an eye on innovation, and tackling where their business is experiencing disruption driven by technology.

Furthermore, such disruption appears capable of driving aberrant behaviours in social animals that are akin to the post-traumatic stress disorder experienced by humans following extremely traumatic events [16, 19].

Often when I work with people on sleep, we start by taking care of the basics, like sleeping in a cool room, cutting caffeine, and avoiding screens and the blue light they radiate, but this process is often like peeling back an onion, revealing the deeper anxiety driving sleep disruption at the core.

Often when I work with people on sleep, we start by taking care of the basics, like sleeping in a cool room, cutting caffeine, and avoiding screens and the blue light they radiate, but this process is often like peeling back an onion, revealing the deeper anxiety that drives sleep disruption at the core.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

You won't be doing any spirited driving in this family truckster, but what you get in return is sublime ride quality that's smooth even over some of the most badly broken pavement, aided by tall sidewalls on the 17 - inch tires that soak up bumps with little noise or disruption to your serenity.

The findings of the Census of Marine Life Tagging of Pacific Predators project, published online today in the journal Nature, are particularly significant because they come just days after another evaluation of the world's oceans pointed to severe disruption driven by over-exploitation, rising carbon dioxide concentrations, torrents of nutrients choking coastal waters and rising temperatures.

In a world of declining American influence, according to the article, the assessment foresees unavoidable social disruption, particularly in developing countries, from the effects of climate shifts driven by accumulating greenhouse gases.

An article in the New Orleans Times - Picayune reports that sea level rise driven by climate disruption is expected dramatically affect the port of New Orleans.

Climate realists like myself accept that the case for human - driven climate disruption is supported by multiple independent lines of evidence and that no alternative hypothesis yet presented has withstood scientific scrutiny or explained the observed climate changes.

The Bush Administration, driven by its politics of downplaying the reality of human - driven climate change and the seriousness of potential impacts of climatic disruption, failed to move the USGCRP to a focus on impacts and response strategy research.

I conclude that for the past 33 years there has been an increase of no more than 0,3 deg C, which would represent a «global warming» trend of around 0.9 C per century, due to unknown factors related to the Sun, and surly nothing to warrant a huge economic disruption caused by a fanatical U.S. war on carbon aimed at driving up the cost of conventional fuels aimed at unnecessarily reducing their consumption.

Australia's food supply chain is highly exposed to disruption from increasing extreme weather events driven by climate change, with farmers already struggling to cope with more frequent and intense droughts and changing weather patterns.

Despite falling Midwest exports, overall U.S. coal exports have been resurgent, reaching nearly 71 million tons in the first eight months of 2011 — the highest level in decades — driven by high global demand and significant weather disruptions of Australian coal exports.

To remain competitive in power markets increasingly characterized by disruptions, NRG Energy plans to accelerate its transition from a pure independent power producer (IPP) model to a more simplified customer - driven integrated power model that favors its retail businesses.

That's 13 different ways we know that human activity is driving global climate disruption, and six major peer - reviewed scientific papers that describe just how much is driven by human activity vs. natural factors.

And all as a result of glacier melt that has been caused or enhanced by climate disruption - driven warming.

The term «catastrophic» is used almost exclusively by people who oppose adaptation and / or mitigation of the projected outcomes of human - driven climate disruption, and it's used in an attempt to make climate scientists appear biased or extreme.

While this is local data, when combined with everything else, it is consistent with human - caused climate disruption driven by human CO2 emissions.

from Rahmstorf: Some of the AMOC's disruption may be driven by the melting ice sheet of Greenland, another consequence of climate change that is altering the region's water composition and interrupts the natural processes.

This proposed rule is significant for the United States because 40 percent of the US carbon pollution that drives climate disruption comes from power plants — the rule would cut emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, making it the largest single action that the United States has taken to address climate change.

The traditional model of a law firm is in a state of disruption and the future law firm will be driven by leaders who understand technology, efficiency and innovation.The legal sector is changing rapidly and will continue to transform rapidly.

The right software platform can help both legal and IT manage holds more efficiently and cost - effectively by automating processes, give legal teams the ability to drive more collection activities and reduce reliance on IT for day - to - day execution and, importantly, lessen custodian disruption.

The disruption of the $ 1.2 tn global payments industry will be also be driven by converging trends in regulation, global demographics and the rise of markets outside the United States.

«We've entered a period of unprecedented disruption in payments and financial services driven by the mass adoption of mobile technology and the digitization of cash,» said PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman.

Medical Affairs Liaison — Duties & Responsibilities Provide guidance and leadership with respect to the diagnosis and resolution of various issues in response to incidents reported by customers, working efficiently and effectively to implement related solutions and maintain high - quality customer service Administer all quality control functions while interacting professionally with outside contacts, including firm public relations professionals, representatives, client associates and other parties, providing relevant information, materials and support as needed Identify and deconstruct issues utilizing honed problem resolution techniques, collaborating with other professionals to address uncovered issues and shortfalls while acting as internal clinical and product - related expert Manage and oversee the development and implementation of critical systems and processes while coordinating support and customer service functions, working effectively to utilize all available resources and maintaining all relevant information Review proposed modifications to client operating environments, implementing fixes and resolutions to minimize service disruptions on an on - going basis, clearing duplicated and out - dated entries, and performing general account management functions Participate in the administration of various organizations, clinics, associations and other groups, assessing operational strategies regularly Assist in the performance of related analyses and needs - based assessments of product gaps, service requirements and operations - related areas to develop and implement required projects while determining the feasibility and functionality of proposed solutions Collaborate with sales and marketing professionals to drive revenue growth, improve firm visibility, expand product markets and integrate valuable customer feedback into future research and development Utilize talent among team members with effective communication and the promotion of a performance - based work environment Communicate all issues and user feedback to members of departments teams and vendor representatives as needed Create and maintain issue - tracking and resolution databases while auditing all entries for accuracy and completeness Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of all relevant products, services, industry trends, tools and related information Lead through example with consistent work ethic, attitude, professionalism, and commitment to firm success

Possibly, mania is a more purely biologically driven phenomenon than bipolar depression, with onsets more readily attributable to medication inconsistency, sleep deprivation, circadian disruption, or behavioral activation.21,22,84 - 86 In contrast, social and familial support has been found to protect against depression in bipolar and unipolar affective disorders, but the role of these variables in manic recurrences is unclear.86 - 88 An analysis of laboratory interactional data from a subset of 44 families in this sample revealed that treatment - related improvements in family communication skills were more closely associated with reductions in patients» depressive than manic symptoms.56 Thus, manic and depressive symptoms may be influenced by different constellations of risk and protective factors.

The distress could be driven by past trauma or family disruptions such as as early separation or divorce.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, says pending sales in October were primarily driven higher by a big jump in the South, which saw a nice bounce back after hurricane - related disruptions in September.