Sentences with phrase «for small decreases»

Kepler measures the size of planets and their distance from stars using a technique known as transit photometry, in which the telescope watches for small decreases in the light visible from specific stars, indicating that a planet has passed in front.

Because the argument for c - sections is that having lots of c - sections in exchange for a small decrease in fetal death is worthwhile because infant death is worse than a fairly safe surgery.

In summer and autumn the CSIRO projections were for smaller decreases in rainfall than in winter and spring, but the observed change was a substantial decrease: in fact, as large a decrease between the successive 11 - year periods as CSIRO projected on the high global warming scenario over the 40 - year period from 1990 to 2030.

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Ford's CEO explained the move by pointing to decreasing demand for small cars, which the Mexico plant would have built.

We know that more than 90 percent of small business owners still believe that banks are a first stop for business financing, despite more than a 30 - year history of banks decreasing the amount of their loans going to small businesses.

And that's good news for retirement savers, for whom small decreases in fees can have a dramatic impact on long - term returns.

Todd McCracken, NSBA president, said in a statement that with many leading proposals containing «penalties of up to $ 75,000 and 10 years in prison,» small business support for nation wide expansion and implementation of the existing program is likely to decrease.

This has become even more apparent over the last year, as Facebook has decreased organic reach for pages to encourage businesses to spend more on advertising, because such a small percentage of your fans see organic updates — the ones you don't pay for.

According to BizBuySell.com's data tracking the health of the small business market, the first quarter showed a 36 percent decrease in the amount of business - for - sale transactions as compared to the same time in 2008.

Since CEO tenure is decreasing and the pool of available CEOs is small, directors need to be certain that their companies have real succession plans in place and that they take care to groom less senior executives for higher - level jobs, Larcker says.

However, you need to keep in mind that we are not talking about a systematic lowering of crude oil costs in eastern North America — we are talking about an increase in crude costs in Western Canada, combined with a potential small decrease in costs for some eastern refineries.

As a result, you may see a small increase in refining margins for those refiners with firm shipping capacity on Energy East, along with a decrease in refining margins for in - land refineries in Alberta.

Likewise, digital payment has made it easier for MSMEs to get paid, decreasing risk and improving cash flow, which is often critical to smaller firms.

As of now, all bitcoin shifting out and in of Coinbase and Bitfinex occurs by way of a SegWit enabled handle, permitting for smaller transaction dimension overhead and consequently, decrease charges to be accomodated in a mined block.

Changes include a dynamic Bitcoin send fee, a BTC 0.0002 Bitcoin receive fee, a volume - based fee schedule with significant decreases for the Luno Exchange, and some smaller changes for certain countries.

Thus, while the electronic church may not be the cause of decreases in mainline church attendance, it does provide an attractive alternative for a relatively small group of people who find watching television an acceptable substitute for attending church.

The dough was nice and airy, but just a touch bland; I will add a small amount of flavor to it next time (citrus zest or other) The glaze was actually too sweet for my taste, especially given the filling, so I will decrease the sugar by 1/4 cup.

Figures announced yesterday by Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, show the value of Irish agri - food and drink exports exceeded $ 11bn ($ 11.7 bn) for the first time in 2016, despite a small decrease in UK exports following Brexit and currency fluctuations.

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Even with small reformulations — to decrease levels of salt in certain products, for instance — the impact on population health can be substantial.

Also, since the best way to outgrow a food allergy is to practice a strict elimination diet, in which you don't eat the food for a few years, eating small amounts of the food from time to time may decrease your child's chances of outgrowing his food allergies.

It will decrease the chance of pregnancy for most women by a very small margin.

If those could be treated by c - section then again there would be a situation of lots of c - sections in exchange for a vary small decrease in maternal death.

The debate about choice in childbirth has been rekindled recently1 and along with it the issue of place of birth.2 3 With the gradual withdrawal of most general practitioners from intrapartum care4 and the progressive closure of many small units in line with government recommendations choice for most women has decreased.

The evidence in this book will be particularly helpful in demonstrating to maternity hospital or maternity unit administrators how implementing the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding will help in decreasing the need for staff and equipment in a well - baby nursery; in increasing bedside care for postnatal women to educate them in the safe care of their infants after discharge from hospital, therefore decreasing the re-admission of neonates to hospital; in lessening admission of small vulnerable formula - fed infants to their pediatric unit with preventable infections; and in decreasing staff absenteeism to care for their ill formula - fed infants.

In addition, some research suggests that prenatal vitamins decrease the risk of having a baby who is small for his or her gestational age.

If your supply continues to decrease, your baby may start refusing to nurse because he has to work hard for a small amount of milk.

polycystic ovaries, a small baby and seperation - due to need for NICU meant I lost my milk supply completely after about a month even though my baby was starved and super hungry - which should have meant a quick increase not decrease in milk....

Using cotton balls or small earplugs may help to decrease the decibel level your baby is exposed to, and as a result make it easier for her to sleep or relax.

A single, small, retrospective case - control study examined the use of newborn transient evoked otoacoustic emission hearing screening tests as a tool for identifying infants at subsequent risk of SIDS.343 Infants who subsequently died from SIDS did not fail their hearing tests but, compared with controls, showed a decreased signal - to - noise ratio score in the right ear only (at frequencies of 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz).

The Legislature passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a 250 - acre land bank for the Adirondack and Catskill parks, decreasing the time it takes to get smaller projects on state Forest Preserve land approved.

The number of total hours provided for sick time decreases with a smaller staff.

I want to thank the Legislature and my Budget Office staff for the passage of an on - time, non-acrimonious Budget that in the end, includes a small tax decrease for the residents of our community.»

The letter asks for a different standard for worker injuries that happen on scaffolding and decreases in small business taxes, among other things.

«1) My vote percentage for the November 2017 election was 9 % of the total, which translates into 18 % of voters choosing me on their ballot (two seats being selected for)- a small decrease from the 20.8 % of voters who selected me on their ballots in 2015.

She interacted with industry, assessing dietary intakes in small groups to test things such as increasing fecal mass and decreasing cholesterol levels for companies that wanted to see «what effect a new cereal... had on the gastrointestinal tract,» she says.

FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) would see a small $ 3.1 million decrease below last year's level of $ 63.3 million.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

«It can't be detected at present day because the signal, the decrease in rainfall, is small compared to the interannual variability in rainfall,» said Gordon Bonan, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, who was not connected to the study.

For instance, higher dietary fiber intake increased a capsule's time in the small intestine and led to a slight increase in hydrogen concentration in the colon, compared with the hydrogen decrease seen on a low fiber diet.

The overall in - hospital complication rate significantly decreased in patients without a comorbidity, or with a small number of comorbidities, for spinal fusion and TKR; and remained stable in those without a comorbidity, or with a small number of comorbidities, for THR in the 80 and older patient group.

For female scientists, Lundblad alleges, the result has been a vicious cycle in which their lab budgets are squeezed, resulting in a smaller lab staff, decreasing productivity, and thus even greater difficulty in getting funding and further lost productivity.

Field notes that there will be «small decreases» in years to come for the publicly funded science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), which in recent years has been hit with massive cuts that resulted in extensive job losses.

A small decrease in pH affects the chemical equilibrium of seawater, making it harder for organisms to build calcium carbonate structures.

According to researcher Dr Andreas Hahn (Vienna): «It has been known for some time that higher testosterone is linked to smaller vocabulary in children and that verbal fluency skills decrease in female - to - male transsexuals after testosterone treatment.

For light coming from the backward direction, for which the angle between the photon momentum and the atomic velocity is smaller than 90 degrees, the Doppler shift is opposite and shifts the light even further away from the atomic resonance, decreasing its absorptiFor light coming from the backward direction, for which the angle between the photon momentum and the atomic velocity is smaller than 90 degrees, the Doppler shift is opposite and shifts the light even further away from the atomic resonance, decreasing its absorptifor which the angle between the photon momentum and the atomic velocity is smaller than 90 degrees, the Doppler shift is opposite and shifts the light even further away from the atomic resonance, decreasing its absorption.

In brief, it first increases with false - consensus (for small false - consensus biases), but then decreases with false - consensus (for large false - consensus biases).

We also know that after surgery for prostate cancer most men have decreased erectile function and that a small group of men suffer from urinary incontinence.

By combining two or more of these outcomes to create a single category, you can say it helped «A and B» even if it only helped A and not B. For example, although there was no statistically significant effect from tPA in the NINDS trial on the number of patients who died, there was a small decrease in disability for those who survivFor example, although there was no statistically significant effect from tPA in the NINDS trial on the number of patients who died, there was a small decrease in disability for those who survivfor those who survived.

Markus Jansson - Fröjmark said: «These findings are important because, though the effect size is small, they suggest that teaching people strategies for regulating their emotions might help prevent new cases of insomnia to occur and decrease the risk of persistent insomnia.»