Sentences with phrase «growing number of risks»

The face - value reading of this ascendency of science in the political sphere is that the world faces a growing number of risks, which can only be understood by individuals with technical expertise.

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But it comes with a risk: that growing numbers of rich Chinese move capital out of the country to avoid a devaluing currency.

A growing number of ETFs hedge against this currency risk, including iShares Currency Hedged MSCI United Kingdom (hewu), which tracks large - and mid-cap U.K. companies, and iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Spain (hewp), which focuses on large - cap companies.

Now, a growing number of institutional investors are watching cryptocurrencies as the frontier of risk - taking to evaluate the sustainability of asset prices.»

Tapping into the increasing number of Indonesians with internet access, the fintech industry has been growing fast over the past few years, offering peer - to - peer lending, crowdfunding, market aggregation, risk and investment management and payment services.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

A number of factors could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including but not limited to, (1) our ability to open new restaurants and food and beverage locations in current and additional markets, grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with suppliers and obtain adequate supply of products and retain our key employees; (2) factors beyond our control that affect the number and timing of new restaurant openings, including weather conditions and factors under the control of landlords, contractors and regulatory and / or licensing authorities; (3) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (4) the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and / or competitive factors; and (5) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in our filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10 - K filed on March 30, 2016 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10 - Q filed on August 15, 2016.

As interest in home birth increases, the number of studies will continue to grow to provide us with a greater understanding of the related risks and benefits.

Recent reports indicate that a growing number of individuals have opened businesses dedicated to streamlining and facilitating the eviction process for landlords by intimidating tenants into agreeing to bad deals that often leave hard - working men and women at risk of homelessness.

The health experts, including a doctor, a veterinarian, and a Cornell University medical professor, have requested a meeting with Governor Cuomo's acting health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, to go over the growing number of studies that indicate numerous health risks associated with fracking.

The number of breast cancer patients undergoing immediate breast reconstruction operations after mastectomy has grown steadily over the past 15 years, most notably among women who were once considered too high - risk for reconstruction procedures according to new research findings published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

«This study demonstrates that despite high rates of Tdap vaccination, the growing number of adolescents who have received only the newer acellular pertussis vaccines continue to be at higher risk of contracting whooping cough and sustaining epidemics,» said lead author Nicola Klein, MD, PhD, co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center.

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

Among the major reasons why the NFIP can not keep up with the growing number of claims is that it assesses risk based on outdated science.

Since the chaos of Sandy, a growing number of researchers have analyzed flood risk on a more comprehensive and granular level.

Diabetes is suspected to raise the risk of many cancers, and the number of diabetic patients who also have cancer is growing.

A growing number of analyses have found a convincing link among a heavier mother - to - be, increases in her baby's birth weight, and the child's later risk of obesity.

Other high - risk hot spots include Mexico, northeast Brazil, southern Africa and West Africa, assessed by indicators like future water availability, number of days above 30 degrees Celsius, length of the growing period, reliable growing days and high or low rainfall.

«As the number of obese children with high cholesterol continues to grow, we need to have effective lifestyle modifications to help them reverse their risk factors for heart disease,» Dr. Macknin said.

The study also finds no evidence that lipofilling affects the risk of initial breast cancer for the growing number of high - risk women undergoing «preventive» mastectomy.

The alliance will employ Illumina's platform for high - multiplex single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping to develop tests for gene variants deCODE has previously shown to have impact on the risk of a growing number of common diseases with major public health impact.

The tests are available from a growing number of commercial producers, and health care providers have been uncertain whether people who received information only about risk would follow up by demanding diagnostic testing to monitor for predicted illnesses.

A growing number of human studies suggest that a low plasma Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratio is a risk factor for major depression, 45, 46 dementia47 and higher mortality.48 The Framingham Study also showed that increased plasma Aβ42: Aβ40 ratios are associated with decreased risk of AD and dementia.13 Thus, the higher Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratio observed in regular meditators at baseline and the increase in this ratio from pre - to post intervention in the novice meditator and vacation groups may be salutary to brain health.

Growing human vulnerability (due to growing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible eGrowing human vulnerability (due to growing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible egrowing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible effects.

Regardless of your personal opinion about this issue, substance abuse is a fast - growing global problem, linked to a great number of health risks, that needs to be addressed by creating adequate policies.

Rodent Models: A growing number of trials have examined the effects of IER (100 % ER / alternate days) on cardiovascular risk factors in rodent models.

Consumption of animal - based products have also been implicated in earlier onset of puberty for girls, which had begun when girls were on average 16 or 17 until the 20th century, but now we see significant numbers of girls starting to grow breasts before they're 8 years old, and increased risk of infertility.

Well, a number of dietary risk assessments have been published lately, and although these glycoalkaloids are thought to be the most highly consumed natural toxin in North America, people have been growing potatoes for 7,000 years — currently the fourth largest food crop in the world.

Dentists are alarmed at the growing number of Australians who are unwittingly risking permanent damage to their teeth and gums by allowing people with no formal dental training to attempt to whiten their teeth.

The number of adults mentoring at - risk youngsters has grown so significantly in recent years that the phenomenon now may be said to amount to a national movement.

But, as one of a small but growing number of infants across the country taking part in a new generation of programs for infants born with disabilities or at risk of developing them, this 7 - month - old may yet beat those odds.

Leveraging the power of afterschool programs to reduce chronic absence is especially important now given the economic challenges facing communities and schools and the growing number of students at risk of academic failure and dropping out.

The release of several national studies last week highlighted what many now consider the most pressing concern facing American education: the growing number of students «at risk» of leaving school prior to graduation or without the skills needed to get a job.

The number — and proportion — of academies within a formal group is growing as governing boards realise the risks of remaining isolated, particularly for smaller schools such as the primaries that are converting now.

«Allowing schools that are low - performing and / or financially mismanaged to grow this quickly would dilute the quality of charter schools and increase the number of students being served by low - performing schools and schools that are at increased risk of closure due to financial problems,» Ellinwood wrote.

At the same time, the growing number of SUVs and pickups on the road has increased risk in side crashes.

As the number of FHA loans grows, so does the agency's risk.

When the great normalisation finally came (starting with rising risk - free real and nominal long - term rates and rising risk - free nominal short - term rates, and picking up steam with the normalisation of credit risk spreads, starting from the US subprime residential mortgage markets and derivatives based on them), a growing number of these highly leveraged open positions went belly - up.

«Having a view into a company's non-financial profile is increasingly important to the growing number of investors and regulators who understand the impact of ESG factors on risk and returns,» says John Plansky, global head of State Street Global Exchange.

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The Ladies also look at timeliness (a prediction of how fast a stock's price will grow compared to other stocks - stocks are given a number of 1 to 5, with one being the highest and the best); safety (the volatility of a stock's price around its own long term trend); beta (the volatility of a stock's price relative to the total market) and upside - down ratios (the ratio between the projected potential gain per share divided by the risk of loss per share).

Many top growing stocks look appealing at first, but once you dig deeper into your analysis, a large number turn out to be speculative and entail higher levels of risk than expected.

These factors have led to a growing number of veterinarians who recommend reduced frequency of vaccinations while at the same time tailoring vaccine recommendations to specific risk situations.

Each mosquito season put animals at risk for developing the disease or growing numbers of worms in already infected animals.

Or that in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology researcher James E. Gern, MD, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, noted that a growing number of studies suggest that kids growing up in a home with «furred animals» — whether it's a pet cat or dog, or on a farm and exposed to large animals — will have less risk of allergies and asthma?

However, strong population growth in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has meant that the number of people relying on biomass for cooking has grown by 400 million people, despite growing awareness of the associated health risks and decades of programmes targeting access to modern cooking.

While some places can expect disproportionate amplification of higher frequency events and thus primarily a greater number of historically precedented floods, others face amplification of lower frequency events and thus a particularly fast growing risk of historically unprecedented flooding.

They are also more at risk of being affected by the ever - growing number and severity of storms tied to climate change, such as Hurricane Sandy.

* Insurers and regulators currently do not have a comprehensive capacity to assess the cumulative weather - related risks from both catastrophic events and the growing number of small - scale events.

Rapid population growth also exacerbates vulnerability to the negative consequences of climate change, exposing growing numbers of people to climate risk.