Sentences with phrase «found substantial increases»

The scientists found substantial increases along the surrounding strike - slip faults, in which abutting plates in the earth's crust — as in the San Andreas fault — get stuck and can generate destructive shaking when they lurch free.

By comparing 93 LEED certified U.S. hotels with a competitive set of non-certified hotels, the study found substantial increases in average daily rates and revenue per available room for the LEED hotels.

Researchers find a substantial increase in usage by very young children.

They found a substantial increase in the size of plates, portions and bread loaves through 52 successive paintings of the scene.

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Facebook said he will use the «substantial majority» of the windfall to cover the massive tax bill he'll be hit with, thanks to his plan to exercise a large stock - options grant that will increase his ownership stake in the company he founded.

That is why, if one examines the record of so - called bank lending «manias,» one finds that they typically involve, not a substantial decline in bank reserve ratios, but a substantial increase in the nominal quantity of bank reserves.

More commonly, as the business became more profitable and the owner begins making more money, he will leave wages where they are, but try to find a way to cut down on overhead adn production costs (potentially at a loss of worker salary or through layoffs when outsourcing is utilized), and will pocket the increased profits until the business is positioned well enough to be sold to a larger conglomoration for a substantial payout that NONE of the workers will see a dime of.

The investigation's preliminary findings show Smith received substantial increases in compensation without SUNY's permission from Pediatric Service Group LLP and MedBest Medical Management Inc., according to a letter from SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

«The findings are substantial and demonstrate a missed opportunity for cities to earn more, waste less, and increase efficiency,» the study fonud.

He founded and co-chaired the Congressional Long Island Sound and Hudson River Caucuses, which secured substantial increases in federal support.

«Although running induces both substantial changes in number and morphology of young neurons as well as significant changes in learning behavior, this does not prove a causal relationship,» noted Professor Bischofberger, «Nevertheless, our results, together with previous findings, suggest that the enhanced pattern separation during memory testing is most likely mediated via running - induced increase in adult neurogenesis.»

A study assesses flood impacts for three scenarios — of 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C warming — and finds that most of Central and Western Europe will experience substantial increase in flood risk at all warming levels, and the higher the warming, the higher the risk.

Changes in time spent working were not found to play a substantial role in the increasing sleep time trend in this study, though.

Although results from most of these studies do not find an increased risk, the results do show substantial variation, said Dr Jensen; this may be because of the limited size and follow - up time in most of them.

But the AAAS panel found that substantial upgrades to the current infrastructure would be needed anyway to carry out the RRW program, including at least a doubling of the current assembling and disassembling work at the Pantex nuclear weapon assembly facility as well as a significant increase in the amount of plutonium pits produced at the TA - 55 facility.

DNA analysis provides clues as to why elephants have so many copies, a substantial increase over the two found in humans.

It found that all the G7 countries except Britain and Germany have substantial tax incentives for companies that increase spending on research.

«Some previous research has suggested that treating patients with statins after they suffer hemorrhagic stroke may increase their long - term risk of continued bleeding,» said lead author Alexander Flint, MD, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Neuroscience in Redwood City, Calif. «Yet the findings of our study suggest that stopping statin treatments for these patients may carry substantial risks.»

As these more substantial microbes die, the researchers found they increase the flux of sinking organic carbon particles by as much as 35 percent.

«Netflix drama»13 Reasons Why» linked to suicidal thoughts: A new study finds that the release of Netflix's»13 Reasons Why» corresponded with substantial increases in Internet searches for suicide.»

Everywhere we looked we found a substantial and statistically significant increase.

We found significant differences in overall cellular composition between pre - and post-mortem blood samples (p < 0.001), the most notable changes induced by death being an increase in resting NK cells and CD8 T - cells, and a substantial reduction in neutrophils (Fig. 7a).

Testing eight different combinations of the corrective tRNAs, each designed with or without the RP import signal, its modified aminoacyl stem, or the MTS, they found that with the inclusion of all three modifications — and only with their inclusion — expression of their constructs induced a substantial increase in mitochondrially - encoded protein synthesis (6 -8-fold) and respiration (~ 2.5-fold) in mutant cybrid cells.

Norwegian researchers found that in addition to not increasing study subjects» risk of heart disease, those on a diet high in fat exhibited «substantial improvements in several important cardiometabolic risk factors, such as ectopic fat storage, blood pressure, blood lipids (triglycerides), insulin and blood sugar.»

There's substantial evidence suggesting that «exposure to pesticides may increase Parkinson's disease risk,» and autopsies found higher levels of pollutants and pesticides in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients, and some of these toxins are present at low levels in dairy products.

This pattern of findings can potentially be explained by the high fiber content of these two diets, which may have impeded calcium absorption.22 Nonetheless, the substantial increase in urinary phosphorus excretion with the combination diet suggests that the subjects in this group did consume more dairy products than the other participants.

They also found that this reduction in CEE availability was also accompanied by substantial increase in creatinine formation.

While more substantial research is needed to differentiate the specific digestive benefits of oats in comparison to other whole grains, one study analyzed secondary data and found that 14 studies carried out demonstrated that oats or oat bran can significantly increase stool weight and decrease constipation.

Results from our 2009 national poll tell us that a solid research finding has the capacity to shift public support for charter schools from 39 to 53 percent, a substantial increase (see «The Persuadable Public,» features).

When they calculate the simple correlation between income and math achievement, Helen Ladd's approach, they find that a $ 4,000 increment (a 50 percent increase in the $ 8,000 average income reported by the families in this study) in the income of the poor family will lift student achievement by 20 percent of a standard deviation (close to a year's worth of learning in the middle years of schooling), a substantial impact that seems to support the Broader, Bolder claims.

And a 2014 study of Massachusetts school districts found that school finance reforms that increased state funding and directed more of it to the highest - need districts «led to a substantial increase in student performance across all districts.»

With the dramatic increase in science instruction, the substantial increases in student achievement in science (vs. demographically similar comparison students) anticipated by the researchers were found.

Researchers found that at the same time that Denver's punitive discipline went down, the district showed «a steady and substantial increase» in the percentage of students scoring proficient or higher in nearly every subject for six consecutive years.

The study, based on nationwide data, found that school finance reforms lead to substantial increases in revenues in low - income school districts, and to increases in student achievement.

On paper, the 15.9 cubic feet of space isn't bad (it's a substantial increase on the Cadillac ATS's 10.9 cubic feet capacity, for instance), but the shape itself isn't particularly boxy and the trunk opening the widest you'll find in this class, so getting larger items like suitcases and golf club bags in and out might be a bit tricky at times.

Pew found that 45 % of U.S. adults own a tablet — a substantial increase since they began measuring tablet ownership in 2010.

Pew also found that 45 % of U.S. adults own a tablet — a substantial increase since Pew Research Center began measuring tablet ownership in 2010.

You may be eligible for this option if for example your income suddenly increases and you not find yourself qualifying to pay substantial monthly surplus income payments.

The company also found substantial rate increases in two other California markets: San Francisco / San Mateo and Anaheim / Santa Ana.

From the Physical Science Basis: «Shindell et al. (2009) estimated the impact of reactive species emissions on both gaseous and aerosol forcing species and found that ozone precursors, including methane, had an additional substantial climate effect because they increased or decreased the rate of oxidation of SO2 to sulphate aerosol.

«This uncertainty is illustrated by Pollard et al. (2015), who found that addition of hydro - fracturing and cliff failure into their ice sheet model increased simulated sea level rise from 2 m to 17 m, in response to only 2 °C ocean warming and accelerated the time for substantial change from several centuries to several decades.»

The Statement says that recent research has found «evidence for a substantial increase in the power of tropical cyclones in the West Pacific and Atlantic basins during the last 50 years.»

Conversely, Dai (2011a, b) found a general global increase in drought, although with substantial regional variation and individual events dominating trend signatures in some regions (e.g., the 1970s prolonged Sahel drought and the 1930s drought in the USA and Canadian Prairies).

One recent Nature study, however, found there was substantial potential for sugarcane biofuel to expand in Brazil over the coming decades, while also protecting forests under conservation and accounting for increases in food and animal feed production.

Another study by U.S. scientists published in the journal Nature last year found a «substantial increase in water - use efficiency in temperate and boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere over the past two decades.»

And it found: «Where extreme weather events become more intense and / or more frequent, the economic and social costs of those events will increase, and these increases will be substantial in the areas most directly affected.»

Studying the same time frame as Next 10 did, the Partnership found a dramatic loss of state funding for affordable housing, substantial increases in the percentage of income lower - income Californians spent on rent, and enormous increases in homelessness.

The U.S. National Climate Assessment finds that there has been a substantial increase — in intensity, frequency, and duration as well as the number of strongest (Category 4 and 5) storms — in Atlantic Ocean hurricanes since the early 1980s, linked in part to higher sea surface temperatures.

We have recently discussed several papers which have found substantial global dimming as a result of increased human aerosol emissions from 1950 to 1980 and 2000 to 2010.