Sentences with phrase «increasing grades of»

Analysis of the data indicated that maternal overweight (body mass index [BMI] of 25 to 29.9) and increasing grades of obesity (BMI 30 or greater) were associated with increasing rates of cerebral palsy.

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Just as the streaming service can predict whether someone will enjoy a Judd Apatow movie, Brightspace can forecast the grade a user will receive in a biology course and customize the learning experience to increase her odds of getting an A. Welcome to the future of school.

Adding too much more could threaten its investment grade credit rating, increasing its cost of borrowing.

All else equal, unless it possesses some sort of major offsetting advantage that makes the risk of non-payment low, a company with a low - interest coverage ratio will almost assuredly have bad bond ratings, increasing the cost of capital; e.g., its bonds will be classified as junk bonds rather than investment grade bonds.

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

Western allies press Trump to maintain nuclear deal with Iran: Reuters US intelligence monitors Iranian cargo shipments into Syria: CNN A trade war is a major risk for China's debt - ridden economy: CNBC Federal judge orders gov» t must accept new DACA immigration applications: WaPo Unification of Koreas still unlikely as leaders prepare to meet: Reuters US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in April after March decline: CB New home sales in US increased to 4 - month high in March: MarketWatch Richmond Fed Mfg Index turns negative for first time since 2016: Bond Buyer S&P Case - Shiller Home Price Index surged in Feb, up 6.3 % y - o - y: CNBC Federal Housing Finance Agency: US house prices continued to rise in Feb: HW Corp bonds with lowest investment - grade rating look vulnerable: Bloomberg 10 - year Treasury yield reaches 3.0 % for first time since 2014: CNN Money

The one I come back to is surprisingly simple: Increased demand for quality long - term bonds combined with a limited supply has created ashortage of investment - grade securities.

They note, for example, that the size of large trades of US investment grade corporate bonds (so - called «block trades») has continuously declined in recent years.6 Furthermore, in most corporate bond markets, trading appears to be highly concentrated in just a few liquid issues, and concentration appears to be increasing in some market segments.

LPI announced a 3.7-fold increase in July to Maricunga's resource, establishing it as one of the world's highest - grade, pre-production lithium brine projects.

Deteriorating grades meant Galaxy had to mine 32 per cent more ore during the quarter and increase processing volumes by 3 per cent; yet production of spodumene concentrate was still 16 per cent lower than in the previous quarter.

A second warehouse at Tioga will be converted into a food - grade warehouse, allowing the port to increase its wood pulp volumes to meet the demands of Pennsylvania companies requiring wood pulp.

This is a good dividend growth resume, highlighted by the 45 - year streak of dividend increases and the high dividend safety grades.

Currently, BBB - rated bonds are equal to 45 % of the entire outstanding high - yield market, which has increased from 30 % a decade ago.3 Since BBB is the lowest investment - grade bond rating, the risk is that many poor credits will fall, like angels, from the investment - grade into the high - yield universe.

Sugar prices for M - grade increase by $ 10 a quintal, while that of S - grade remained flat.

Yellen repeated her third grade teacher tutorial about how savers have indirectly have benefited because of the bounty of jobs available for them and their children and grandchildren and they should stop complaining because home prices have increased to pre-crisis levels in many parts of the country — all because of the wonderful work of the FED and its QE programs.

Global investment - grade corporate debt totaled $ 2.7 trillion last year, an increase of 15 % from 2011 and an all - time record.

Jakarta's 38.9 % increase was driven by a substantial recovery in domestic demand in the wake of Indonesian sovereign debt's return to investment - grade status, which energized leveraged investment initiatives and drove up demand for prime office space across the capital.

Thus the variations in the grades of ideas is endless and it is not to be understood as a single line of increasing generality.

Whitehead terms this progression in thought through successive grades of increasing complexity «an abstractive hierarchy» (SMW 167 / 241).

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

If there should be a place having a few faithful men in it, before the multitude sufficiently increase to vote (psephisasthai), who shall be able to make a dedication to pious uses for the bishop to the extent of twelve men, let them write to the churches round about them, informing them of the place in which the multitude of the faithful [assemble and] are established that their chosen men in that place may come, that they may examine with diligence him who is worthy of this grade.119

Target applications for renewably sourced grades of Fusabond ® include applications like wood / plastic composites, starch / PE compounds and glass - fiber / PE compounds where use of a renewably sourced modifier significantly increases the renewable material percentage in the structures.

Fusion Tech custom designed guarding is constructed of high grade stainless steel to provide heavy - duty protection of your building corners, walkways, industrial equipment, and increase employee safety around possible injury locations on equipment.

From the years 2004 to 2013, we've increased our Prime and Choice grading by 23 % and increased the number of Yield Grade 1 and 2 by 18 %

Now, the timing of this signing may only increase worrying about Eaton's abilities to play defense, but should there be legit reason to fret, the situation is better than it was, as Jackson is an MLB - grade defender, and Eaton's bat can play anywhere.

Local youth football organizers in Minnesota say they are experiencing a 20 percent decline in registrations this year, citing increased awareness of the potential of serious injury and parents who are apparently picking other sports for their 3rd and 4th grade children.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Other possible changes may include a greater use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to middle or high school).

ADD can affect a teen's social life and grades, so it makes sense that it can also increase the dangers of driving.

Toward the end of fourth grade year, we began to prepare our son for the increased independence of middle school (6th grade).

The School Nutrition Department credits the new garden as doubling vegetable consumption across all grade levels and increasing the sale of salads at school lunch by 300 %!

One study looked at 25 women who ate the flesh of 10 grade A palm dates 3 times a day and were found to have increased breast milk production.

Entrusted with the essential task of accompanying their students on a several - year journey, Waldorf grades 1 - 8 teachers have a role analogous to that of effective parent, guiding the children's formal academic learning while awakening their moral development and increasing their awareness of their place in the world.

Made of FDA - approved food - grade materials, this classic bottle has been updated with Micro Air Vents to increase airflow and help prevent nipple collapse.

Adderall, with its promise of increase focus leading to better grades, could be the most dangerous of all.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

Board Members also heard updates on several major CCSD projects: the proposed adoption of new instructional materials for math classes across Grades K - 12, which will provide teachers with a system of integrated text and online resources that eliminates the need to seek out additional resources in order to cover all standards and individualize instruction; and the implementation now underway of a new business management system that increases the efficiency of timekeeping, payroll and personnel operations, which will save CCSD time and money.

The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 and the resulting new school meal guidelines that went into effect in 2012 support increasing consumption of vegetables and fruits by changing the school lunch requirements to 6.25 - 10 servings of fruits and vegetables weekly depending on grade level and adding new requirements for legumes and vegetable subgroups.

Rates of cyberbullying among kids increases after fifth grade and reaches a peak during eighth grade (Hinduja & Patchin, 2008).

Overall, 27 percent of kids in the study were overweight or obese when they started school and that ratio increased to 38 percent by eighth grade.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

«Although the number of fatalities and accidents at highway - railroad grade crossings have fallen steadily on a national level, over the past several years collisions have increased across New York State,» said Carlucci, a Rockland lawmaker and member of the independent Democratic Conference.

The brunt of the cuts fell on lower civil service grades, with some losing over 30 per cent of staff (more than 60,000 posts were lost among administrative officers and assistants) while staff in top grades (Grade 7 and above) showed a small net increase.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

The Chartered Institute of Building is changing its grade structure to encourage more people to become chartered, increasing the level of professionalism within the industry and improving recognition of Chartered status.

Elia said the improvements to the standards include increasing the complexity of reading materials for each grade level and helping children to better learn how to read things like technical manuals for information, as well as developing an affinity for reading fiction and literature.

Performance at GCSE improved by 0.6 percentage points at grades A * - A (from 22.6 % in 2010 to 23.2 % in 2011), which is down on last year's increase of 1 percentage point.

Performance at grades A * - C increased by 0.8 percentage points (from 69.0 % in 2010 to 69.8 % in 2011), also down on last year's increase of 2 percentage points.