Sentences with phrase «found declining rates»

Their conservative leanings are part of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and public opinion polls, which have found declining rates of approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the young and a rise in the percentage of teenagers who say they are virgins.

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A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

A small 2009 study found that of the 41 participants with mild cognitive impairment, those who had higher stress ratings also had faster rates of cognitive decline.

A Federal Reserve working paper from last year found that at least three - quarters of the decline in new charters is attributable to the weak economy and low interest rates.

We could take the $ 16 billion we have in cash earning 1.5 % and invest it in 20 - year bonds earning 5 % and increase our current earnings a lot, but we're betting that we can find a good place to invest this cash and don't want to take the risk of principal loss of long - term bonds [if interest rates rise, the value of 20 - year bonds will decline].»

Producers are finding that the treadmill of battling decline rates is far steeper than they originally thought, as much as they want to hide it from investors.

In a very real way, even our jobs have become more valuable in a declining interest rate environment if you can find one that pays you a steady or ever increasing amount.

Year - on - year, the unemployment rate declined from 5 to 4.3 percent, with as many as 215,000 individuals finding employment.

An InsideSales.com study found that 35 - 50 % of sales go to the vendor that responds first to an inquiry, and a HubSpot study found that response rates decline as the age of a lead increases.

Empirical studies find that household savings will typically decline when interest rates fall.17 This suggests that workers, instead of saving more, generally choose to invest in riskier assets, work longer or earn lower retirement incomes.

The Third Way found a long - term decline in the earnings of low - skill males and that declining wages coincided with increased rates of family disruption and worse educational outcomes for boys from these disrupted families.

The twin revolutions obliterated much more, but the double standard has reemerged in a harsher, crueler form: wreaking havoc on beta men and on beta women, too, who, as the declining marriage rate indicates, have trouble finding and securing long - term mates in a supply - saturated short - term sexual marketplace.

The Associated Press (AP) verified the abortion rate drop in an independent study last summer, which found that the decline was sharper in many pro-choice states...

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

The poll found his favorability rating stands at 54 percent to 30 percent, a decline from February when it stood at 60 percent to 34 percent.

The authors found that in the early 1970s, ~ 75 % of Borneo was forested, and from 1973 to 2010, the forest area declined by ~ 30 %, which is nearly twice as fast as a rate compared to the rest of the world's humid tropical forests.

Their findings, published in American Psychologist (September 2004), demonstrated that although those who declined enrollment in the Meyerhoff Program often attended highly regarded HBCUs and Ivy League institutions, they were significantly less likely than Meyerhoff students to pursue and complete science Ph.D. s or M.D. / Ph.D. s. «If current Ph.D. receipt rates of program graduates continue,» Hrabowski says in American Psychologist, «UMBC will in all likelihood become the leading predominantly white baccalaureate - origin university for black STEM Ph.D. s in the nation.»

«After years of improving, rates of youth suicide - related behaviors stopped declining, Canadian study finds.»

Using temperature loggers to estimate metabolic rates, he has seen only a gradual decline in metabolic rates in summer as food gets tougher to find.

Across all 19 polar bear populations, the researchers found that the total number of ice - covered days declined at the rate of seven to 19 days per decade between 1979 and 2014.

But she said the NHANES database is a broader data source than sources for studies that have found declines in obesity rates among smaller or segmented populations.

The report found that the uninsured rate among low - income adults in Texas dropped 15 percent — the smallest decline of any group in the state.

In what would be considered good news for many parents a new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston finds the rates of ear infections during a baby's first year have declined; the investigators suggested that higher rates of breastfeeding, use of vaccinations and lower rates of smoking may be the major contributors.

The latest figures, calculated from 2015 cancer data, found that smoking remains the biggest preventable cause of cancer despite the continued decline in smoking rates.

«We found that those who have non-elective (emergency or urgent) hospitalizations and who have not previously been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's disease had a rapid decline in cognitive function (i.e., thinking abilities) compared to the prehospital rates,» said Bryan James, PhD, an epidemiologist and in the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center and an assistant professor in the Rush Department of Internal Medicine.

Researchers found that sulfate concentration in rain and snow declined by more than 40 percent in the 2000s, and sulfate concentration in lakes declined at a greater rate from 2002 to 2010 than during the 1980s or 1990s.

Blueback herring have been declining at particularly concerning rates, but both species have experienced dramatic declines, the study found.

More than three years after the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against routine mammogram screening for women between the ages of 40 and 49, a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) finds that mammogram rates in the United States have not declined in that age group, or any other.

According to Cherian, studies have found that folate, vitamin E, omega - 3 fatty acids, carotenoids and flavonoids are associated with slower rates of cognitive decline, while substances such as saturated and hydrogenated fats have been associated with dementia.

«The HALT - PKD findings show that people with polycystic kidney disease do not need to take both of the drugs studied to slow their rate of kidney cyst growth and decline in kidney function.»

As some national guidelines now recommend against routine prostate cancer screening, the overall rate of men receiving treatment for the disease declined 42 percent, a new study finds.

One of the most striking findings, according to study authors, was the change in smoking rates, which increased from 28 to 46 percent — a finding counter to national trends, which reflect an overall decline in smoking rates over the past 20 years.

The research found that seismic activity increased, even when water injection rates declined, due to pore pressure continuing to diffuse throughout the area from earlier injections, the release said.

The researchers found that the addition of vitamin D3 to ciclesonide did not significantly reduce the rate of first treatment failure (a composite outcome of decline in lung function and increases in use of beta - agonists, systemic steroids, and health care utilization) compared with placebo; 28 percent and 29 percent of participants in each group, respectively, experienced at least 1 treatment failure during 28 weeks.

FAO's study found that globally, the rate of deforestation had declined to about 13 million hectares lost annually from 2000 to 2010 compared with 16 million hectares lost each year of the previous decade.

North America's populations are declining at an unprecedented rate, but research may have found a solution.»

«Our research found that healthy adults and those with mild memory loss who have a positive scan for these plaques have a much faster rate of decline on memory, language and reasoning over three years,» said lead author P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the neurocognitive disorders program at Duke.

«In a population of initially well - functioning older adults, we found a significant correlation between strong adherence to the Mediterranean diet and a slower rate of cognitive decline among African American, but not white, older adults.

Mills» group previously found that winter white snowshoe hares confronting snowless ground have higher mortality rates that could drive massive population declines as snow duration continues to decrease.

The researchers also found that during conflict the incidence rate declined by 0.07 infections per 1000 people, compared to times of peace.

While the rate of TACO was found to be on the decline, the risk to surgical patients remains high, at a rate of 4 percent, similar to previous TACO estimates in non-surgical patients.

Scientists have recently found an unexplained decline in the growth rate of sugar maples.

«New study rings alarm for sugar maple in Adirondacks: Scientists find unexplained decline in growth rate.»

The rate of decline was found to be consistent and is cause for concern if it continues.

«What we're finding is the cancer mortality rates among some of the most vulnerable populations of New Jersey, which are children, has been declining over time, and it's declined significantly,» said Nan Stroup, director of the State Cancer Registry and an associate professor at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

Looking at 80 years of U.S. fertility and temperature data, they found that «additional days above 80 degrees Fahrenheit cause a large decline in birth rates approximately eight to 10 months later.»

This small study found improvement in the rate of cognitive decline but the procedure requires delivery directly into the brain.

We find that the decline in accretion rate is caused by lower densities of material in the accretion flows, as opposed to a lower surface coverage of the accretion columns.

First, in studies over longer periods (up to 5 years) it has been found that the rate of whole brain atrophy in MCI is correlated with cognitive decline in several tests, including the MMSE [5].

An additional test, called the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive Subcomponent, or ADAS - Cog, also showed improvements in rates of decline followed the MMSE findings.