Sentences with phrase «improved after their second year»

That makes it difficult for outsiders to understand how much New York students improved after their second year of Common Core curriculum and testing.

Not exact matches

«If numbers remain what they are today we will not improve our results in the second quarter versus the one of last year,» chief financial officer Denis Petrin told reporters after the company's annual meeting.

Ford will benefit in this year's second half from the redesigned F - 150 pickups and is improving in China, Goldman said in a research note Tuesday after the close in New York.

Instead, Mourinho saw his side launch a sensational second - half comeback to claim all three points, and while he reserved special praise for Pogba, he was also keen to point out that after a good week, he wants the 25 - year - old to continue to improve as Utd undoubtedly need him to grow into a consistent leader.

We finished second after losing to Villa on the opening day, I think we have improved the team compare to last year even though we are still short of major signings.

At last year's IAAF World Championships in Beijing, Johnson - Thompson bombed out after failing her long jump attempts and in Gotzis she looked shaky after failing to improve on a modest opening round leap of 6.17 m at the start of the second day.

The risk of cardiovascular related illness and death is known to decrease after smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease, 40 reducing dramatically over the first three years, 41 but reducing the risk of developing lung cancer after smoking cessation generally takes longer.9 41 This review has found evidence that after lung cancer has been diagnosed, reductions in risk of developing a second primary or recurrence were associated with quitting within seven years, suggesting that, even at this stage, the prognostic outlook can be improved by smoking cessation.

The size of the effects in the second year were smaller than those in the first year, implying that the treatment group may have improved after the first year;

, with increased fuel economy (an estimated 4 percent)- Best - in - class performance: 0 - 60 mph in under 7 seconds - New interiors with premium seating, soft - touch materials, redesigned controls, floor console with shifter, and nearly double the storage options - More than 35 new or improved features - Industry - first RamBox cargo management system (crew cab) includes versatile, weatherproof, lockable, illuminated and drainable storage bins built into bed rails (a total of 8.6 cubic feet of space); pickup bed divider / 2 - foot bed extender; and cargo rail system with four sliding, adjustable cleats - RamBox bins hold up to 10 cases of 12 - ounce beverages, or other gear for work or leisure - First - in - segment «store in the floor» storage bins with removable liners, big enough for ten 12 - ounce beverages and ice - First - in - segment heated and ventilated front seats - Heated rear seats also available - Heated steering wheel a first for any Dodge vehicle - First - in - segment coil - spring, multilink rear suspension fitted to a solid rear axle provides ride and handling capabilities unexpected in a pickup truck - First - in - segment live SIRIUS Backseat TV ™ - First - in - segment surround - sound audio system - More than 30 safety features, including standard four - wheel Anti-lock Brake System and Electronic Stability Program with Hill Start Assist and Trailer Sway Control - All - new 2009 Dodge Ram to arrive this fall - Light - duty diesel to arrive after 2009; two - mode hybrid powertrain to be offered in 2010 model year

Mortgages you took out after October 13, 1987 to buy, build or improve your main home and / or second home (called acquisition debt) that totaled $ 1 million or less throughout the year ($ 500,000 if you are married and filing separately from your spouse).

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

A few years after the events of the second game, the story of anthropomorphized console war that is Hyperdimension Neptunia continues, but do Compile Heart and Idea Factory manage to improve as much as they did between the original and its sequel?

Not enough was able to even happen in the first year after launch to save it, and unlike most MMOs these days that get bad rep at launch, they couldn't significantly improve things in the next year or two which is where most MMOs prove whether or not they're worth checking out a second time.

In the first round the negotiations led to a projected temperature by the year 2100 of about 3.1 °C, after the second round, negotiations improved the climate outlook with a 2.9 °C temperature increase, thus not meeting the expected Paris agreement goals.

TCEP 2016 features some good news: after record growth for the second year in a row, both solar photovoltaic and onshore wind are on track to meet the 2025 2DS targets; the number of electric vehicles passed the 1 million milestone in 2015; and the outlook for nuclear power improved, with the long - term 2DS targets more achievable than previously thought.

Job growth in the hard - hit Midwest improved in the second quarter this year, to a growth rate of 0.9 percent after months of losses.