Sentences with phrase «increasing lack of control»

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These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Those technologies that manipulate DNA artificially increase corporate control over seeds, diminish rich, diverse diets of local communities, promote monoculture, increase biosafety risks to health and environment, and need high investment and complicated regulatory frameworks which many countries lack.

Basically, what she discovers is that, even when controlling for various demographic, individual and relationship issues, the «lack of joint planning with the relationship partner was associated with a 19 % increase in the odds of divorce.»

One study found that bedroom heating, compared with no bedroom heating, increases SIDS risk (OR: 4.5), 235 and another study has also demonstrated a decreased risk of SIDS in a well - ventilated bedroom (windows and doors open)(OR: 0.4).296 In 1 study, the use of a fan seemed to reduce the risk of SIDS (adjusted OR: 0.28 [95 % CI: 0.10 — 0.77]-RRB-.297 However, because of the possibility of recall bias, the small sample size of controls using fans (n = 36), a lack of detail about the location and types of fans used, and the weak link to a mechanism, this study's results should be interpreted with caution.

He criticized the mayor for a «complete lack of leadership» on transportation issues and then condemned the MTA's statement that Long Islanders working in the City should consider working from home during upcoming Penn Station repairs, eventually getting around to the position that any further capital funding from the City should be conditioned on «increased mayoral control and influence.»

Additionally, a lack of adequate price controls in the law means that already astronomical costs will increase even further.

While the increase in EPSPS gene copies has created a nonsustainable way of controlling kochia with glyphosate - only programs, Jugulam said this resistance was evolved as the result of continuous use of glyphosate and the lack of herbicide diversity in controlling this weed.

In an audit released Thursday (Dec. 8), NASA's Office of Inspector General states that the agency «lacks sufficient controls over its loans of moon rocks and other astromaterials, which increases the risk that these unique resources may be lost.»

«Tobacco smoking has now reached epidemic proportions in Asia and it is likely, with the maturation of this epidemic, and the lack of effective tobacco control efforts, smokers will continue to face an increased risk of death from cancer and other diseases.»

Various types of meditation have been shown to improve well - being among different populations such as physicians and the general public.14, 15, 16 Preliminary evidence suggests that meditation - based interventions may slow cellular aging rates by increasing telomerase activity, but many such studies lacked an active control group.17, 18 Recent randomized trials in breast cancer suggest that long - term intensive meditation interventions might have positive effects on telomerase activity.

First of all, a lack of sleep is associated with an increased daytime level of cortisol, a hormone that causes increased appetite, poor blood sugar control and excessive fat storage.

It produces the thyroid hormone, which helps control the body's metabolism as well as many other organ functions, from iodine and can not produce hormones when the body lacks iodine.2 Some thyroid troubles originate from an iodine deficiency, leading to a simple increase in iodine intake to improve health.4 However, problems can also occur when the thyroid produces either too much or too little of its hormone because there is trouble with the gland itself or with any of the other glands in the body it communicates with.

Increased conversion to estrogen may be due to age, weight gain, poor diet, lack of exercise, high stress, and hypothyroidism, and increased SHBG may occur from increased estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver Increased conversion to estrogen may be due to age, weight gain, poor diet, lack of exercise, high stress, and hypothyroidism, and increased SHBG may occur from increased estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver increased SHBG may occur from increased estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver increased estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver increased production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver enzymes).

Whereas enthusiasm for fasting is increasing, clinical relevance remains low because of insufficient human data, including almost nonexistent controlled trials (21, 33 — 36), few clinical outcomes studies (37, 38), lack of correction for inflated type I error rates from multiple hypothesis tests, and limited safety data (39 — 41).

The lack of eating is also a control issue and they may be sensitive persons mentally so in their attempt to increase the ghrelin more and more, it just isnt working.

Where is the evidence that this way is better, as I saw a comment where you said lack of carbs increase the fungi, in my experience I seemed to control the yeast better when I was lower carb.

The growing number of academies outside council control meant increasing numbers of schools had lacked any local oversight until RSCs were appointed in 2014, says the report.

Other changes on the Wraith include a marginally quicker steering rack (now three turns lock - to - lock rather than the 3.2 of the Ghost), increased roll control thanks to tweaked anti-roll technology, revised spring and damper settings for the air suspension, a 24 mm wider rear track for greater cornering stability, and extra strengthening for the under - body to compensate for the lack of a B - pillar.

We have unsustainable debt increases because of lack of self - control on the part of our leaders.

If city bylaws would forbid to the abandonment of an animal other than in a shelter and provide incentives to sterilize the animals, the costs of animal control service will continue to increase and the community will be penalized for their lack of vision.

An acute lack of veterinary services and wide spread poverty coupled with corrupt and inefficient animal control management make Romania home to an ever increasing stray population topping 2 million dogs.

An acute lack of veterinary services and wide spread poverty, coupled with corrupt and inefficient animal control management make Romania home to an ever increasing stray animal population, topping 2 million dogs and cats.

There are multiple studies in that the 30 + years you speak of that show an increase in agression, lack of empathy, reduction in self - control, increase frequency for lying and cheating by people when playing heavily violent games.

I speculate that governments could be tempted to increase their powers over individuals, considering their lack of control over the result of their citizen's actions once unleashed in a decentralized web.

However, it is also an inherently dangerous activity for its riders due to lack of protection, high speed, and increased likelihood for loss of control and collision.

Rising pollution, ever increasing stress, un-healthy eating habits, lack of exercise and other unknown factors are beyond our control.

Our coverage of the topic generally reflects the state of research on the topic, which focuses on proximal predictors of infidelity — or science jargon for those things about individuals or relationships that directly increase the likelihood somebody will cheat, such as low commitment, more attractive alternatives, lack of impulse control, narcissism, and so on.

Although the research on resilience in foster children specifically is sorely lacking, studies of maltreated children suggest that maltreated children who exhibit resilience have high cognitive competence, self - esteem, and ego control (including flexibility, planfulness, persistence, and reflection).30 Thus, foster children, who have an increased likelihood of experiencing multiple risk factors such as poverty, maltreatment, and separation from family of origin, may have more positive outcomes if they are fortunate enough to also experience protective factors.

A lack of blinding, however, should increase the difference between intervention and control groups, leading to false positive rather than null results.