Sentences with phrase «increased number of cases of»

This home visiting programme seemed to have increased the number of cases of abuse identified in the intervention arm.

Moscow's air is heavily polluted and the city's hospitals have had to deal with an increasing number of cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma and lung cancer.

A particular cause for concern was the increasing number of cases of brain malformations in newborns (microcephaly).

In Finland, the parasite is regarded as a major obstacle to people's enjoyment of nature during the autumn when it swarms, and there are reports of increasing numbers of cases of skin inflammation in people bitten by deer keds.

Sima Sharara, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and Souha Kanj, from the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon, briefly describe the devastating effects of the conflict on the Syrian healthcare system and focus on the increasing number of cases of poliomyelitis, measles, and cutaneous leishmaniasis in the region, which they say is nothing short of a regional, and arguably global, public health emergency.

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But there are an increasing number of signs pointing to the idea that this isn't always the case.

Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

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Check out the chart below for an idea of how the number of patent cases have increased in the last eight years:

A tough business environment is bringing an increasing number of corporate malfeasance cases to the fore.

The number of cases globally is expected to dramatically increase to 24 million a year by 2035, up from about 14 million currently, with the developing world being especially hard hit.

«As the baby - boom generation approaches retirement age, the number of cases of impotence will [likely] increase,» noted the company's annual report in 1996.

Egypt's coup was an extreme case, but an increasing number of emerging markets are experiencing some increased level of civil unrest.

«Most importantly, we help sales development teams increase the number of qualified appointments set by a dramatic amount — in some cases more than 300 percent.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

In the 1800s, in Europe, the argument for the liberalization of bankruptcy law, and the introduction of limited liability, was bolstered by the increasing number of cases like John Bayer, who went bankrupt and then, later, started producing Bayer aspirin, which became a great success.

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

Seat pitch (leg room) in economy class has similarly declined, «from an average of 35 inches in the early 2000s to 31 inches today — and in an increasing number of cases -LSB-...] 28 inches,» On an American Boeing 737 MAX, the seat width in the main cabin ranges from 16.6 inches to 17.8 inches and seat pitch is 30 inches.

In the case of the S&P VIX Short Term Futures Inverse Daily Index, this would theoretically translate to increasing the number of VIX futures to short, while its benchmark is dropping.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Whatever the case, one thing is certain: the number of Bitcoin transactions is on a steady increase.

The number of use cases for blockchain technology continues to increase.

In the case of Bitcoin, the number of Bitcoin units is programmed to increase at slow and known rate.

Strong export growth has continued, but there has also been a pick - up in domestic demand in a number of economies in the region, reflecting increases in both consumer spending and, in a few cases, investment (Graph 4).

However, with the number of SARS cases having stabilised, overseas arrivals began to recover in June, with the increase in arrivals sourced largely from east Asia.

As people are having children later in life, there is a greater chance that the college tuition bill for their kids will come due during their prime retirement savings years or, in an increasing number of cases, just as retirement approaches.

8 One does not need a medical degree to recognize that admitting homosexuals into the military would bring about an increase in the number of AIDS cases and would put additional financial and personnel strains on military medicine, which must contend with a declining military budget and the challenge of recruiting and retaining sufficient medical personnel.

The number of cases of honour based violence, forced marriage and FGM reported to the police has increased by 53 per cent since 2014, figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.

In many cases, computer imaging provides pilots, surgeons, architects, machine toolmakers, heavy construction supervisors, steel mill operators, high tech color printing operators and an increasing number of technicians and professionals with the only means for them to «see what they are doing.»

What is decisive in the present connection, however, is that the number of such cases has increased in a way that we might almost say involved a change of kind.

ISEAL member standards aim to improve smallholders» livelihoods and increase incomes by improving yield and quality — and studies have shown this to be the case for a number of different standards and context.

The number of cases of mead sold in the past few years increased by 103 percent and the average gross sales increased 130 percent, according to the American Mead Makers Association.

Reducing sugar intake and increasing responsiveness to insulin is extremely important for the growing number of diabetes cases in the U.S. and other developed nations today, so goji berries make a much better snack alternative and sweetener to high - sugar packaged goods and sugar additives.

Between January and March 2015, reported cases of dengue increased saw a 240 % in comparison to the number of cases recorded in the same three months of 2014.

Now a heart specialist in Buffalo, he helped develop a polio unit capable of handling a greatly increased number of respiratory cases, assisted in establishing a hearing and speech center and set up a «heart kitchen» for disabled patients.

However, like with diabetes and PCOS, assisted fertility and hormonal support to conceive babies is leading to an increase in the number of cases of babies born to mothers with hypoplasia.

Unfortunately, there has been during this same period, and especially in the last five to ten years, a substantial increase in the number of reported cases of second impact syndrome (SIS), which occurs when an athlete who sustains head trauma, i.e. a traumatic brain injury - often a concussion or worse injury, such as a cerebral contusion (bruised brain)- sustains a second head injury before signs of the initial injury have cleared.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

Formed against a background of economic curtailment on welfare spending and a huge increase in the number of HIV and AIDS cases, Wola Nani initiated programs to help HIV + people in the local community cope with the emotional and financial strains brought about by HIV and AIDS.

In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case studies of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»

Vaccinations protect those around you: There has been an increase in the number of cases of whooping cough and measles in recent years.

If one is looking at the rate of getting excess cases of nausea from an antibiotic, then a 450 % increase on a very small number is still insignificant.

The advice from the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) comes as new research shows an increasing number of women turning to bottle feeding within weeks of giving birth, in some cases because they wish to recommence consuming alcohol.

With an increase in the number obesity cases and hormonal imbalance seen in men not only in the United States but all over the world, the cases of gynecomastia have also increased significantly.

In recent years, doctors have cut the number of implantations down to two in most cases, reducing the incidence of triplets and quadruplets, but increasing the rate of twin births.

«Are you aware of the number of militants they [South Africans] had trained, what if they trained these militants in badges (sic), can we link the increase (sic) rate in arm (sic) robbery to this training offered by mercenaries, can we link the recent cases of contract killings to the training; are there young people in the country already trained by these men and what are they actually doing with the skills acquired.»

The number of tuberculosis cases in New York City suddenly jumped by 10 percent last year — the largest increase since 1992, according to the Health Department.

The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.

However it also the case that an increasing number of sites and actors subject to and involved in immigration enforcement can demand confrontation with the costs and consequences of control measures.