Sentences with phrase «factors affecting a state»

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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.

All of these things (and more) are factors that affect the state of your target audience.

There are three main factors affecting the attractiveness of European banks, according to analysts: They are late in the cycle compared to U.S. banks, they have yet to deal with legacy issues from the crisis, and the ECB is still in a state of accommodative policy, which limits banks» returns.

This cost analysis was based on three types of factors affecting retirees: state taxes, living and financial costs, and healthcare costs.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

The state of our mental health can be affected by stress, our environment, age and other factors.

The conference, titled «The Last Food Mile: A Conference on Food Loss and Food Waste in the United States,» intended to define the state of knowledge, understand the factors affecting the behavior, identify critical control points, and build a network of research and intervention strategies to address the issue.

While internal causes such as hormonal changes and your baby's growth can cause stress, other outside factors can affect your state of mind.

She controlled for such domestic factors that could affect state authority including terrain ruggedness, distance from the capitol, population density, whether ethnic groups are split across a border, and so forth.

The report also states that a fall in national law enforcement budgets, which cover funds for activities against poaching, «has probably been the most influential factor affecting levels of elephant poaching» throughout Africa.

But before you could conclude that your forest is older than one in the next state, you'd have to allow for complicating factors that affect a tree's growth rate — soil conditions, for instance.

These findings persisted even after taking into account individual, school, and state - level factors that can affect marijuana use (such as age, ethnicity, public versus private school, proportion of each state's population who were male or white).

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Another factor that can affect health center capacity is whether states expand Medicaid, the single largest source of revenue for community health centers.

While diet can play a large role in your calcium levels, there are other factors, including age, disease states, and medications, that can affect calcium absorption.

Your heart rate, the number of times your heart beats in a minute, is greatly affected by many factors, including diet, activity level, mental or emotional state and current medications.

My philosophy is in alignment with the principles of holistic health, which states that there are innumerable factors that affect our health, including lifestyle, environment, and genetics.

Get a copy of Brain Maker for risk factors for the state of your microbiome, gut - brain biology, connections between the gut and the brain, how gut microbiology affects your health and mood, links to obesity and autism, a guide to supplements including probiotics, a 7 - day menu / meal plan, and recipes for fermented foods.

There are way too many factors that go into metabolism to state that any one thing / action grossly affects it.

American citizens are more protected by the state from an economic crisis or other factors that negatively affect standard of living.

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Culture, an important factor for every state's operation around the world, can easily affect and inspire the masses.

The Rural School and Community Trust's semiannual «Why Rural Matters» report, released Feb. 12, says state leaders should consider the distinctive factors that affect rural schools and adopt and amend policies to help them improve.

Key facts about the lesson are: The content covered by the lesson are; the water cycle as a system, the states of water and the proportion of water in different states, features / components of the water cycle (transpiration, percolation etc), flows and stores in the water cycle, factors that affect the rates of precipitation, condensation, evaporation, infiltration, percolation and interception in the water cycle.

The factors that have been found to affect this comfort level such as self - confidence, trust and positive feelings for teachers, and supportive classroom and school communities are directly related to the state of mind compatible with the most successful learning, remembering, and higher - order thinking.

It will conduct intensive site visits in order to identify state and local factors affecting charter implementation and student achievement, and initiate the difficult task of collecting information on the possible consequences of charter schools for American education.

Within states, there is a positive correlation (r = 0.53) between the average mobility rates of public and private colleges, perhaps because of other state - specific factors that affect mobility in both sectors.

Trent Sharp talks about his work with the Texas Comprehensive Center to examine the geographic and social factors that affect low performing schools and high performing Title one schools, which serve a large percentage of low - income students, throughout the state.

I am confident th at state, district, and school leaders, working in concert with teachers, can properly weigh the many factors that affect student achievement.»

Ken Futernick, Director of the WestEd School Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievement.

Using a time - series regression approach described in a separate publication, this paper adjusts state SAT score averages for factors such as participation rate and student demographics, which are known to affect outcomes, then validates the results against recent state - level National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test scores.

This year's theme was «The Challenges of Ensuring Educational Equity and Excellence» and focused on factors that affect the state of equity in American education.

But for the most part, it unearthed no cut - and - dried patterns among the states, a finding that underscores the complex mix of factors that affect unions» ability to shape policy and affect politics.

Many states now base their school funding systems on education adequacy studies that assess the cost of education, including those factors that affect the cost, such as: state mandates and standards, services for students with additional needs, and geographic differences in cost.

Closing Costs Guaranteed means that AHC Lending's Processing and Underwriting fees (if applicable) for your loan application will not change between the time your rate is locked and the time you close, assuming the following: No change in your loan amount, property value, property type, occupancy purpose, interest rate, lender credit or discount points, credit rating, any stated items on your application, such as your income, assets, job history, address history, legal residency status, or any other factor that may affect the underwriting decision of the loan you applied for do not change.

Investments in foreign issues could be affected by other factors not present in the United States, including expropriation, armed conflict, confiscatory taxation, and potential difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations.

A variety of factors, including state regulations, affect the amount you can borrow.

The securities mentioned in this document may not be eligible for sale in some states or countries, nor be suitable for all types of investors; their value and the income they produce may fluctuate and / or be adversely affected by exchange rates, interest rates or other factors.

The most important factors affecting return on investment are the amount of time invested, the family's tax bracket, the amount of any fees and sales charges, the amount invested, and the availability of state income tax deductions for contributions.

Likewise, odor, consistency, taste, and learned dietary habits determine which foods a cat prefers, but how much a cat will eat is affected by factors such as noises, lights, food containers, the presence or absence of people or other animals (including other cats), physiologic state, and disease.

Answer: I found an abstract of Dr. Glickman and associates» article on this studyfrom the AAHA journal (May / June 97) which states that the only factors thatsignificantly affected a dog's risk of gastric dilitation / volvulus werebeing male, being underweight, being fed only one meal daily, eatingrapidly and fearful temperament.

Another important thing to note is that your stated income is definitely a factor that affects your Chase Sapphire Preferred approval odds.

A factor other than AGW affecting the ocean heat state in 2000 was the Pinatubo eruption in 1991.

In the next sections I expand on this critical view, list factors not mentioned by S&N which contribute to our hobbled state, and describe a campaign which might have a shot at affecting climate change policy in the U.S.

Chapter Lead Authors will have established the ability to produce text that is scientifically and technically accurate and that accurately conveys the current state of scientific knowledge about the vast variety of factors that may affect the world's climate.

«This environmental problem has become one of the main factors that affect national safety and social stability,» said Pan Yue, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration.

Simulated changes in factors affecting severe thunderstorm occurrence in the United States between the periods 1962 - 1989 and 2072 - 2099 for northern spring (left panels) and northern summer (right panels) conditions.

While a carbon cost will not be a major factor in most sectors in the United States, some sectors could be affected.

Today, Fan's Early Career Research project centers on investigations of how such physical factors could affect severe storm frequency and intensity in the central United States.

Judge Fontaine ruled out use of the «necessity» defense prior to the trial, and she also would not allow me to inform the jury about factors affecting Foster's state of mind and his action.