Sentences with phrase «highest estimated impact»

Research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th of 17 intervention methods, with portion control having the highest estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.

In contrast, portion control had the highest estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The household products maker also saw revenue beat estimates, but did see its profit margins impacted by higher commodity costs.

Released in 2010, this report details the economic impact estimates of 10 years» outcomes from the Florida High Tech Corridor Council's investments into its Matching Grant Research Program.

In order to predict the impact of the Amazon HQ2 on rent growth, Apartment List estimates the impact that a larger and higher - paid workforce will have in different metros.

Back in 2014 — when oil prices were still around $ 100 — the Eagle Ford's economic impact was estimated at $ 123 billion in the 21 - county area — an all - time high to - date, according to a June 2017 report by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute for Economic Development.

They estimate the impact of the corporate tax rate reduction from 18 % to 15 % in 2012 at $ 6.2 billion [3], in line with Finance's first estimate but considerably higher than their latest estimate..

The number of impacted branches has yet to be confirmed (estimates place the numbers in the high hundreds), but what is confirmed is the impact forcing a closure has on a given location.

On May 1, 2007, the Center for Economic and Policy Research released a series of estimates on «the economic impact of the Iraq war and higher military spending.»

As Tom Talavage, the lead author of the Purdue study, told PBS's Frontline in a 2011 interview, he estimated that at least 50 percent of the high impact hits linemen and linebackers were sustaining were due to poor technique.

Nonetheless, successfully wooing an endorsement from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Cuomo pushed a new middle - class tuition subsidy program whose full annual cost he estimated at $ 163 million — a low - balled figure that failed to take account of the disruptive impact it would likely have on SUNY and CUNY budgets, not to mention New York's vital private higher - education sector.

The socioeconomic section of the SGEIS faced a huge amount of criticism when it was released because it concentrated on positive economic impacts while not giving any estimates of costs incurred to municipalities or the state or any treatment of the socioeconomic stresses seen in other areas where wide - spread drilling has occurred, such as higher rents, noise, higher crime rates, increased traffic, and loss of jobs in other sectors.

However, the budget will also add to the cost of doing business by extending assessments on electric, natural gas and steam energy, for a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, half of which will be paid by business, and by increasing the minimum wage — a measure whose impact will be felt by many business, with total cost estimates as high as $ 2 billion per year once fully implemented.

DiNapoli's estimate of the total impact for eliminating the SALT deductions — which is based on 2015 tax filings — is about $ 4 billion higher than the figure cited by Gov. Cuomo and Sen. Chuck Schumer earlier this week, and is likely to increase the pressure on GOP members of Congress from New York.

«Our calculations are all conservative, so this is the lower end of the estimate — the impact could be even higher than this,» said Dr. Waters.

But the two men's estimates of soot's impact are about twice as high as the consensus reached by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, which many scientists (including Shindell) still endorse.

In fact, the expected annual fatality rate due to climate change is estimated to be far higher than that due to an asteroid or comet impact — 150,000 versus 91, per the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alan Harris of the Space Science Institute, respectively.

Its lifetime impact on individuals and society is high, both in terms of years of healthy life lost to disability and in terms of financial cost, with studies estimating the cost of schizophrenia at over $ 60 billion annually in the U.S. alone.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by 2050.

New high - resolution observations of Vesta by the DAWN mission reveal that the creatr is part of an even larger impact basin that was created by two massive overlapping impacts roughly around one and two billion years ago, which scooped out around one percent of the asteroid's estimated volume and blasted it into space (more from NASA's DAWN Mission and NEO Program; 1997 NASA / Hubble news release; Cornell University; Thomas et al, 1997; Kelley et al, 2003; and Jerry Coffrey, Universe Today, June 15 2009; and Russell et al, 2012; Jaumann et al, 2012; Marchi et al, 2012; and Schenk et al, 2012).

Waters noted that the study «calculations are all conservative, so this is the lower end of the estimate — the impact could be even higher than this.»

It is estimated that reducing the average amount of sodium people eat to the current recommended level could result in 11 million fewer cases of high blood pressure each year, which might have a significant impact on a number of related health risks.

Along with University of Munich professor Ludger Woessmann, I have estimated the impact on U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of higher levels of student achievement.

First, I use estimates that economists have developed of the social cost of crimes, which include tangible costs, such as lost productivity and medical care, as well as intangible costs, such as impact on quality of life; these estimates are extremely high for fatal crimes.

Based on a back - of - the - envelope calculation of the relationship between enrollment and criminal activity in my sample, I estimate that the effects of winning a school lottery on enrollment could potentially explain about 45 percent of the impact on criminal activity in the high school sample, but only about 10 percent in the middle school sample.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

We found that although Florida's conversion charters have significantly greater effects on high school graduation than do de novo charters, the impact of non-conversion charters is still sizable (nearly equal to the estimate in Chicago).

If it can not be proved that those gains are due to improved school accountability, it is heartening to know that Margaret Raymond and Eric Hanushek found, in more precise estimates of accountability impacts, somewhat larger gains on the NAEP in those states that were the first to put accountability systems into place (see «High - Stakes Research,» features, Summer 2003).

Since these traits are not easily measured, the estimated impact of charter high schools on educational attainment could be biased.

And nationally, the economic impact is clear: A 2011 analysis by the Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that by halving the 2010 national dropout rate, for example (an estimated 1.3 million students that year), «new» graduates would likely earn a collective $ 7.6 billion more in an average year than they would without a high school diploma.

High School Graduation Impacts versus ELA Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign for School Choice Programs Only

High School Graduation Impacts versus Math Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign for School Choice Programs Only

Since it is possible that student achievement is higher whenever pay schedules are flexible, regardless of the connection to teacher classroom effectiveness, I estimated the impact of each of these three sets of factors on math achievement.

And we estimate the impact on per - pupil expenditure of the proportion of students in a district with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), as students with IEPs generally have special needs that result in higher spending.

Using a similar definition of scholarship use (receipt of any scholarship assistance), the evaluators of the federally funded Washington, D.C., voucher program estimated a positive impact of 21 percent on the high - school graduation rates of study participants, 88 percent of whom were African Americans.

These positive but imprecisely estimated completion impacts suggest that, at the very least, high - performing Hispanic students are not harmed by enrolling at colleges that they may not have ordinarily considered.

Figure 1 compares the magnitude of the effect of instructional days on standardized math scores to estimates drawn from other high - quality studies of the impact of changing class size, teacher quality, and retaining students in grade.

In this podcast, Rick Hanushek talks with Ed Next's Paul Peterson about his new study estimating the economic impact of teachers who produce higher than average gains in student learning.

If VA estimates capture teachers» true impact on their students, students entering grade 4 in that school should have higher year - end test scores than those of the previous cohort.

Hitt, McShane, and Wolf set out to review all of the rigorous studies of school choice programs that have impact estimates for both student achievement attainment — high school graduation, college enrollment, and / or college graduation.

Elsewhere, Stewart and Wolf have estimated the impacts of the D.C. scholarships on student test scores and high - school graduation rates.

The 2003 - 04 through 2001 - 12 figures are from Dearden, L., Fitzsimons, E., & Wyness, G. (2014), «Money for nothing: estimating the impact of student aid on participation in Higher Education» Economics of Education Review, Volume 43, December 2014, 66 — 78.

Using recent research on the impact of high «value added» teachers, the scholars estimated that the state would in the long run recoup all but 5 percent of program costs through taxes on the higher income potential of students taught by these effective teachers.

[18] Many studies [19] have calculated high correlations (mostly greater than 0.9) between estimates from models that control only for prior student test scores (such as SAS EVAAS), [20] control for student background (such as DC's IMPACT), and control for average classroom characteristics (such as Pittsburgh's system).

Below, we translate the measured impacts of the Chicago CPC program into estimates of how public investment in a universal, high - quality, prekindergarten program would affect future government finances, the economy, earnings, and crime and health, using the attenuations described above for children from middle - and upper - income families, and for children who in its absence would have attended some other preschool.

The study estimates the impact of overturning a state's school finance system and finds that, seven years after reform, a state's highest poverty quartile experienced a 4 to 12 percent increase in per pupil spending and a 5 to 8 percentage point increase in graduation rates.

This longitudinal, field - based study of programs of study (POS) / career pathways was designed using rigorous research methods to estimate the impact of POS on high school students» academic and technical achievement outcomes through the completion of high school.

She used R (i.e., a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics) to simulate correlation scatterplots (see Figures below) to illustrate three unique situations: (1) a simulation where there are two indicators (e.g., teacher value - added and observational estimates plotted on the x and y axes) that have a correlation of r = 0.28 (the highest correlation coefficient at issue in the aforementioned post); (2) a simulation exploring the impact of negative bias and a moderate correlation on a group of teachers; and (3) another simulation with two indicators that have a non-linear relationship possibly induced or caused by bias.

Summary: Australian education researcher John Hattie's latest update to the Hattie Ranking, which incorporates the results of 1,200 meta analyses, places teacher estimates of achievement as the highest - impact influence on student learning and achievement.