Sentences with phrase «increase by that metric»

The department store chain said on Tuesday that comparable sales rose 1.3 % in the holiday quarter that ended on Feb. 1, their first quarterly increase by that metric since the end of 2014 and well above analysts» forecasts.

Not exact matches

For example, the bank found a 1 % increase in «comfortable banking» metrics — a.k.a. the percentage of customers who said the teller made them feel appreciated — led to a 1.7 % increase in overall customer satisfaction, which increased branch profitability by 0.4 %.

With this space getting so much interest by all communities, there was a lot of pressure to grow quickly & companies began focusing on metrics such as onboarding more & more vendors, increasing queries per day by discounting.

«Try to have a metric in your value proposition, such as your clients increase their Web traffic by 25 percent.»

By effectively increasing these metrics, you can better develop each section of your sales funnel.

«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.

ISS's own metrics show that, collectively, an ISS recommendation on a shareholder ballot increases votes for a proposal by 15 % on average, while a thumbs - down from ISS leads to a 17 % decline.

Key metrics reported by clients include increases in online sales and exports, new foreign - market opportunities, and improved communication with customers and distributors as a result of the program.

With 6,092,787 metric tons of cargo handled at the facilities of the Port of Philadelphia in 2015 compared to the 5,951,240 tons handled in 2014, total cargo tonnage at the Port increased by 2.38 percent.

If you want a higher volume of leads, you can increase these metrics at the cost of quality or by qualifying a little less and putting some of that responsibility on the sales team.

However, all of our clients who implement our suggestions see an increase in revenue capture success, improved marketing return on investment, enhanced operational department efficiencies, corporate strategy clarity, enhanced organization design and improved leadership metrics to manage their business by.

10 Apr 2018 — Butter consumption has increased by 1.7 million metric tons per annum over the last ten years.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

The conglomerate plans to increase its production of sugar to 1.5 million metric tons a year by 2020 from 100,000 tons now and is seeking to add 1 million tons of rice, Edwin Devakumar, executive director at Dangote's industries unit, said Tuesday in an interview in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub.

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

To minimize economic disruption, the commission advised that the government cap the cost by selling extra permits starting at $ 7 per metric ton of CO2 in 2010 with a 5 percent annual increase.

His administration delivered the strongest increases in fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars in decades with promises to cut carbon emissions by 6 billion metric tons by 2025.

The researchers estimate that from 1975 to 2015, the yearly biomass of chinook salmon consumed by pinnipeds (sea lions and harbor seals) and killer whales increased from 6,100 to 15,200 metric tons, and from five to 31.5 million individual salmon.

Experts foresee a further 17 % increase — to 52.2 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2021, — the fastest growing part of the world's domestic waste stream.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

Such pollution has already doubled just since 1970 and the rates of pollution have been increasing by roughly 1 billion metric tons per year in recent years, a pace that must slow and stop soon.

The researchers estimate that cutting those 14 together could avoid between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths (largely from smoky, unhealthy air) and increase crop yields by between 30 million and 135 million metric tons (due to concomitant reductions in ground - level ozone, otherwise known as smog, which forms from fugitive methane and blights crops in Brazil, China, India, the U.S. and elsewhere).

An analysis of 27 states found that, on average, summer emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) go up by hundreds to thousands of metric tons per degree Celsius increase.

If countries abide by the Paris Agreement global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, potential fish catches could increase by six million metric tons per year, according to a new study published in Science.

They found that for every degree Celsius decrease in global warming, potential fish catches could increase by more than three metric million tons per year.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

The increases in frequency and duration metrics translate to 30 additional marine heatwave days per year by the end of the 35 - year period (p < 0.01; based on a linear trend) from a baseline level of about 25 days in the 1980s (Fig. 2).

That amount increases by about 2,000 metric tons each year as fuel is unloaded from operating reactors.

It is a indicator used by doctors to advice their patients of potential health problems, especially if there is a noticeable progressive increase in their BMI, and is currently the official metric for classifying individuals according to different obesity levels.

By this metric, our estimate of the effect of a 10 - percentagepoint increase in private school enrollment is equivalent to 41 percent of a year's worth of learning in high school.

Montera's Academic Performance Index — the state's primary metric for evaluating student achievement — had increased by 94 points in the previous three years, with the largest gain coming from black students.

Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a more diverse generation of future educators.16

Other enhancements include the requirement that, by 2017, each incoming class of candidates must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 and college admission scores in the top 50 % in the nation, with the latter metric increasing to the top one - third in 2020.

The recommended budget from the Public Education Appropriations Committee included $ 25 million for the technology program, with additional revenue being gobbled up by a $ 40 million boost to charter school funding, $ 90 million for enrollment growth and a 2.5 percent increase, or $ 70 million, to the weighted pupil unit, a metric used for per - student - funding calculations.

The bridge's increased capacity is projected to eliminate 10,000 vehicle hours, eliminate 230,000 vehicle miles traveled per day, reduce average travel time by 25 minutes per trip, and reduce greenhouse gases by 22,000 - 29,000 metric tons.

According to Noll's metrics and based on an average of what consumers would have paid before the price increases, he estimates that the publishers overcharged readers by $ 307,808,414.

Yet such metric - based systems can simultaneously increase the variety of books purchased by individual customers while decreasing the overall variety of books bought by everyone.

The early February move lower, by one metric, was one of the largest 5 - day percent increases in history.

The same metric through February 9 shows that volatility has increased for all S&P 500 sectors, and by generally similar amounts.

[1] And the trend couldn't be explained by the population of swallows living nearby (which increased over the study period), traffic volume (which «either did not change significantly or increased, depending on the metric used»), or the number of avian scavengers in the area («as none showed significant increases in our study area»).

It is closely connected to metrics related to return times (i.e. if areal extent of extremely hot anomalies in any one summer increases by a factor of 10, then the return time at an average location goes from 1 in 330 years to 1 in 33 years).

Finally, to revisit the question originally posed @ 203: Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

Some of them are optimal fingerprint detection studies (estimating the magnitude of fingerprints for different external forcing factors in observations, and determining how likely such patterns could have occurred in observations by chance, and how likely they could be confused with climate response to other influences, using a statistically optimal metric), some of them use simpler methods, such as comparisons between data and climate model simulations with and without greenhouse gas increases / anthropogenic forcing, and some are even based only on observations.

Assuming the IEO2011 Reference case of «1 trillion metric tons of additional cumulative energy - related carbon dioxide emissions between 2009 and 2035», and given that this case equates to following RCP8.5 until 2035 as previously demonstrated @ 408, what increase in average global surface temperature relative to pre-industrial would result by 2035?

Between 2002 and 2012, CO2 emissions from coal burning in China increased by 4.5 billion [metric tons].

The better metrics are length of active wildfire season, which has increased by about 2 months in the western US in the last 40 years, and area burned, which has also doubled... Future projections indicate a dramatic increase in area burned.»

Thanks to Germany's reliance on lignite and its low heat - energy content, German power - station emissions increased by 17.2 million metric tons between 1999 and 2012.

To have a 50 - 50 chance of staying beneath the maximum global temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius (about 4 degrees Fahrenheit) announced as a target at the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, global annual emissions by 2030 should stay beneath 30 billion metric tons.

Peabody expects the Xinjiang region to nearly triple its coal production by 2015 to increase its output to 1 billion metric tons by 2020.

Under the City's plan to reduce citywide GHG emissions 30 % by the year 2030, increasing the efficiency of its buildings is projected to reduce emissions by 12.7 million metric tons — or roughly two - thirds of the total reduction needed.