Sentences with phrase «higher than the failure»

The adoption failure rate for pit bulls 1 year or older is about 50 % per year — about 10 times higher than the failure rate for all other breed types combined.

But, GIVEN the failure of OCO, we get a probably of glory failure at 30 % (only slightly higher than the failure probably for OCO, which seems counterintuitive to me).

Not exact matches

More than a decade ago, Joey Wat at Yum China, was given the chance to take on a massive career challenge that had a high risk of failure — and her decision led Wat into the role she has now.

That's not just because of Opdivo's failure — last month, Keytruda was shown to be better than standard chemotherapy in untreated advanced lung cancer patients with high levels of the PD - L1 protein, both stopping cancer progression and extending patients» lives.

«It may be that film or technology products are aiming for more breakthrough products or are offering more complicated rewards (a completed movie or gadget, rather than a band t - shirt), and are thus at a higher risk of failure,» says Mollick.

Yet Betts argues that the company is ever mindful of its high profile failures — he mentions the pizza fiasco of the early»90s more than anyone — and says they'll only launch a product if they're certain.

Startup failure rates are much higher than those of Fortune 500 companies.

So far, he has been more keen to highlight the failure of the FBI to stop the Florida high school carnage and the need to fill loopholes in mental health care than to accept the case for changing firearms laws.

Fortunately for a lot of entrepreneurs I know, that high risk of failure is more exciting than it is intimidating.

Failure to recertify on time can result in your monthly payment reverting to the amount you would pay under the Standard 10 - year repayment plan, which may be significantly higher than your monthly payment on an IDR plan.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Bar 8 - Fail, failure breakout high of yesterday second entry sell, possible high of day, but low probability so swing or wait, but always in long, limit order market, sellers scaling in above, buyers below, both scalping, magnet above, low probability short, probably buyers below, and sideways more likely than down

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

The second element of the failure framework, the observation that technologies can progress faster than market demand... means that in their efforts to provide better products than their competitors and earn higher prices and margins, suppliers often «overshoot» their market: They give customers more than they need or ultimately are willing to pay for.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

We simulate failure rates if today's bond rates return to their historical average after either 5 or 10 years and find that failure rates are much higher (18 % and 32 %, respectively for a 50 % stock allocation) than many retirees may be willing to accept.

«Unjustifiably high financial leverage has been the cause of more investment failures than any other variable» Frank Martin

Risk of failure — Equity investments have a higher risk than debt investments.

Although contraceptives have a very high failure rate amongst teenagers, on average, contraceptive sex is less likely to result in pregnancy than sex with no contraception at all.

It might be said that the failure of Prohibition legislation lay in our social class system, for the highest people socially did not taboo drinking and their social customs were stronger than legislative controls.

Justice Logan also needed to consider the fact that some contraventions occurred prior to the increase in civil penalties which came into force on 1 January 2007; however, procedural failures prevented higher penalties from being considered (at para 25) «Neither as originally cast nor by permitted amendment did the [ACCC's] statement of claim contain an allegation of any material fact necessary to engage a maximum penalty greater than $ 10 million in respect of any of the alleged contraventions.»

A study in 2011 looking at more than 645 ACL surgeries found that in patients between the ages of 10 ««19, allograft tissue had a four times higher failure rate than using your own tissue.

For me, Wenger's legacy is that the bar of what is now considered a failure is now much higher than it was 30 years ago.

Actually, the figure might be higher than that but you can't blame it on lactation failure, more like lactation support failure.»

It is vital to learn these lessons in high school as the adult world is much less forgiving than high school — and young adults with behavioral or developmental problems often experience deeper feelings of failure as they move into their adult identity.

Chojnacki said that septic system failures are running 15 percent to 20 percent higher than at this time last year because of rain - saturated ground that makes it difficult for liquid wastes to be carried away and absorbed by the below - ground septic field.

«Men are less likely to anticipate the failure of a marriage than women, reporting high levels of satisfaction in their relationship in the year before it ended» writes Ms. Rodgers.

Rather than setting such high expectations with no room for failure, how about having faith in our children to do their best?

Natural family planning methods are also an option, though these often have a higher failure rate than barrier methods.

By the way, while failure to gain weight can happen to any baby, premature babies are at a higher risk than full - term babies.

This is extra borrowing to pay for the costs of economic failure — slower growth and higher unemployment — rather than to support the economy through difficult times.

«The loss of heat and hot water is a humanitarian crisis, it's a state of emergency, it's a management failure of the highest magnitude,» said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who grew up in public housing in the 1990s and said he's never seen the system in worse shape than it is now.

More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including Universal Credit and high - speed rail, are at serious risk of failure, a report says.

The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil - drilling rig in the Gulf.

They were more likely to have other health problems, such as congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, obesity and other issues, and to have cardiac arrest caused by problems other than a blood vessel blockage, such as pulmonary embolism.

A 2012 ProPublica investigation of more than 700,000 injection wells across the country found that wells were often poorly regulated and experienced high rates of failure, outcomes that were likely polluting underground water supplies that are supposed to be protected by federal law.

In - hospital death rate was highest among those with heart failure (8.2 percent) or older than 80 (about 2 percent).

«It's higher than most diseases that immediately jump to mind, and while the likelihood of chronic kidney disease progressing to complete kidney failure is much lower, CKD itself has been linked to a number of comorbidities and adverse health outcomes.»

In addition, studies have shown that the five - year mortality rate for older adults with olfactory dysfunction is higher than are rates for adults with heart failure, diabetes, or cancer.

These prevalence estimates are within the same ballpark as coronary heart disease, and much higher than heart failure or stroke.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

Hospitalized heart failure patients in all age groups within the study and with all levels of ejection fraction had significantly lower rates of survival after five years and a higher risk of re-hospitalization than people in the United States without heart failure.

Following an injury or a failure to perform, high performers were determined to get back to their sports, stronger than ever.

In addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the work.

Intensive dialysis treatments in pregnant women with kidney failure lead to a higher proportion of live births than standard dialysis care, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

Look - ahead simulators would have identified the line as having a higher - than - normal probability of failure, and self - conscious software along the grid and in control centers would have run failure scenarios to determine the ideal corrective response.

(1) Resistant hypertension (rHTN) is defined as office blood pressure greater than 160/90 mmHg, systolic ambulatory blood pressure greater than 135 mmHg and failure to respond to more than 3 appropriate drugs at the highest tolerated doses including diuretics.

The current study found that mice meant to serve as a model of ischemic human heart failure (weaker blood flow after a heart attack) had higher levels of activated, pro-inflammatory macrophages, monocytes, dendritic cells and T cells trafficking between their hearts and spleens than did control mice with healthy hearts.

Among those who had cancer, some had a higher likelihood of facing a heart failure diagnosis than others.

For example, failure to intensify therapy in hypertensive patients with blood pressure greater than 140/90 has been reported to be as high as 86.9 % of visits.