Sentences with phrase «improvement over results»

That's a significant improvement over the results of our survey in January 2016, which showed a national average of 59 %.

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Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods or adversely affect the results of management evaluations and independent registered public accounting firm audits of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC.

Container - handling capacity will especially increase, with a 900,000 TEU capacity immediately resulting from the improvements, scalable to exceed 1.2 million TEU capacity in the future, a significant improvement over the terminal's current 400,000 - plus TEU capacity.

Sadoun says that Groupe's organic growth results from the first quarter were an improvement over the first quarter of 2017, which saw negative organic growth of 1.2 percent.

Over the last 15 years, there have been no successful clinical trials in which fetal cell transplantation into patients resulted in patient improvement.

Results The intervention group showed significantly greater improvements over time for the primary endpoint of spiritual well - being as compared to the control group (P =.03, partial η2 =.01).

And has shown improvement to his game over the years as a result of coaching and his taking that to heart.

The «left wing» refuses to acknowledge legitimate flaws in the regs and accuses the right of politicizing our children's future and always fighting against anything the Obama administration puts forward, and the «right wing» isn't recognizing any of the improvements that were made as a result of the regs and blaming the government for over regulating and not giving the administration an ounce of credit for at least taking on an overhaul of a system that hadn't seen significant reform in 20 years.

Instead of focusing on the final performance results of a test or paper (in other words, the grades), talk about the learning and revision process and improvement over time.

I sang all of my favorite songs about a million times to my baby over the course of her first 3 months, and as a result, I noticed a pretty decent improvement in my singing voice.

While individual platforms vary in cost and capabilities, just about any CRM is an improvement over, for example, hand - entering supporter information into Excel and mail - merging the results into Outlook.

The results announced today constitute a vast improvement over past practices.

Last year's evaluations reflected significant improvement in healthy lifestyle habits for the participants, and I'm confident that we're going to see the same positive results over the next ten weeks,» said Senator Jeff Klein.

Last year's evaluations reflected significant improvement in healthy lifestyle habits for the participants, and I'm confident that we're going to see the same positive results over the next ten weeks,»

But the mayor said Cuomo's plan shows improvement over previous versions — he praised the fact that bridges were taken «out of the equation,» resulting in fairness for Brooklyn and Queens.

«The two per cent pass rate improvement is a result of the tremendous investment in education over the last decade, the commitment of teachers and the application of the students.

Spitzer is, of course, right in one way — this shake - up, because it is so embarrassing to all involved and because there will be so much scrutiny over how it pans out, will likely result in a bit (but not a vast amount) of improvement.

He has delivered over 40 million dollars in funding to our district that has resulted in the improvement of our senior programs, our public schools, and our public safety.

A University of Manchester led trial of a new psoriasis drug has resulted in 40 percent of people showing a complete clearance of psoriatic plaques after 12 weeks of treatment and over 90 percent showing improvement.

«If these improvements continue over time, they may result in a lower risk of heart disease,» said the study's principal investigator, Carel Le Roux, MD, PhD, Diabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin.

The new results are a marked improvement over earlier work with a companion virus called an adenovirus.

Over the longer term, the identification of the coffee tree genome sequence opens up new possibilities for varietal improvement, knowledge of the specific functions of the genes (in particular those specific to coffee trees), the possibility of transferring results to other species, and refining diagnostic tools for the function of the plant.

Experimental results show that almost 40 % of the photons are easily collected with a very simple optical apparatus, and over 20 % of the photons are emitted into a very low numerical aperture, a 20-fold improvement over a freestanding quantum dot, and with a probability of more than 70 % for a single photon emission.

Weiss and colleagues at Penn State aim for a 30-fold improvement over the ACME result by creating a trap with lasers rather than electric fields.

Harkema says it's unclear whether the improvement was a result of the training or due to the cumulative effects of stimulation over time.

«This shows improvement over our previous results,» said Barouch, who is also a steering committee member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

Dr. Eng and her team established a semi-quantitative diagnostic score as an evidence - based improvement over the existing National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) 2010 diagnostic criteria, resulting in more accurate diagnoses and, theoretically, better outcomes.

The researchers discovered that cyclic mechanical stimulation provided by both magnetized gel and robotic cuff resulted in a two - and - a-half-fold improvement in muscle regeneration and reduced tissue scarring over the course of two weeks, ultimately leading to regained muscle function, demonstrating that mechanical stimulation of muscle alone can foster regeneration.

This statistic is probably the result of improvement in breast cancer treatment over the years, and early detection thanks to yearly mammograms.

«In comparison to previous reports, our pilot results are striking given a brief daily Kirtan Kriya practice can lead to improvement in mental health, cognition, and telomerase activity over the course of eight weeks.

Make sure to keep a training logbook and aim for steady improvements from week to week on all of those basic horizontal / vertical presses and horizontal / vertical pulls, and over time, those poundages will add up considerably and result in significant bicep and tricep gains.

Acitretin is not unlike isotretinoin, but is prescribed by dermatologists primarily for psoriasis; it results in slow improvements over a period of several months and is targeted treatment for moderate to severe psoriasis that has failed to respond to topical treatments and phototherapy.

Indeed, the results once again showed improvement with Lactobacillus helveticus and Bifidobacterium longum vs. controls (particularly in somatization, depression and anger - hostility), and among this low cortisol sub-group the overall benefits in anxiety and depression were pronounced over time [114].

[12:50]-- A treatment with an integrative doctor that cost well over $ 200, 000... [17:25]-- How removing a 20 cm cyst on Jennifers liver led to huge improvements in her health and resolved the Mast Cell Activation Syndrome [21:53]-- The next health event that led to a complete and utter breakdown on all levels [25:45]-- How Jen started to unravel the complicated health picture that had developed as a result of many years of sickness and drug therapy [27:18]-- The importance of addressing physical stressors while working on the emotional / spiritual plane [33:45]-- The stress chronic illness can put on a relationship [38:15]-- The philosophy that Jennifer's father passed on to her that has become the underpinning of her life and practice.

Pull ups are quite the intimidating exercise, but like Optimus Prime has taught us, we can make small changes and improvements over time that will result in the ultimate goal:

We treated Paul (not his real name) for over 3 months before we started to notice significant results, but it took almost 6 months before we started to see a 90 % + improvement in his condition.

While high - intensity training is often considered the main stimulus for improvements in competitive endurance performance, 5 some studies demonstrate that lower intensity training results in significant fitness improvements.6, 7 For example, Esteve - Lanao et al. 7 showed that endurance runners who trained in a polarized fashion, 8 where 80 % of their training time was conducted at a lower intensity and 20 % of training time at a higher intensity, had significant 10 km performance improvements over those training 35 % of the time at higher intensities.

The results showed a statistically significant improvement in the appearance of the scars in patients who used rosehip oil over those patients who did not.

The National Institute of Health, a government agency (not funded by pharmaceutical grants) conducted a clinical trial to see if desiccated thyroid therapy is advantageous to T4 alone (8) The authors of the study concluded: «DTE (Desiccated Thyroid Extract) therapy did not result in a significant improvement in quality of life; however, DTE caused modest weight loss and nearly half (48.6 %) of the study patients expressed preference for DTE over l - T4 (Levothyroxine).

My clinic has been working with detoxification programs and psoriasis patients for over twenty years which have resulted in dramatic health improvements for many patients, some who have experienced years of chronic ill health, including recurring chronic skin plaques and inflamed joints in those with psoriatic arthritis.

TRUTH: In the two most recent trials, involving over 10,000 subjects, cholesterol - lowering did not result in any improvement in outcome.

Two studies used this idea by having study subjects eat normally one day (i.e. unrestricted) and essentially fast the entire second day (i.e., alternate - day fasting), repeated seven times over a two - week period and found conflicting results — one reporting an improvement in insulin sensitivity [2], while the other observed no benefit [3].

The result is a film that is a welcome improvement over Prometheus, but perhaps not the home run that sci - fi and horror fans might have been hoping for.

Though three years» worth of improvements in compression techniques might have enabled the film to look even better here than it did on the Vault Disney DVD, the apparently simple porting yields favorable results nonetheless, in spite of the presence of a second film which leaves the original having an average bitrate a shade over 1 Mb / s less than the Vault Disney's 5.94 average.

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

ACARA CEO Robert Randall said the data showed there had been improvement across all year levels in most domains when comparing the results over a 10 - year period.

Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board at the Local Government Association, said ranking councils by school results «disguises the fact that over 60 per cent of secondary schools are now academies, leaving councils powerless to intervene early and build an improvement programme».

But if the question is whether Detroit's charter schools are a significant improvement over the status quo, the results are unequivocal.

Apart from monitoring progress over time, unpacking Year 12 results can identify patterns of learning, highlight successful teaching strategies and provide starting points for improvement.