Sentences with phrase «increasing number of alternatives»

Though the improving economy might play a role in this shift, factors such as the short - term commitment requirements of TFA members, the placement of inexperienced teachers in high - needs and hard - to - staff schools, and the increasing number of alternative certification programs, have all contributed to this drop.

Since the beginning of the development of Segregated Witness, an increasing number of alternative Bitcoin hard fork supporters have criticized the implementation process of soft forks on Bitcoin Core, claiming that Core developers have a complete monopoly over the process.

Consistent with a previous article on SofR, I challenged the notion that there is a causal association between Facebook use and divorce; however, I did discuss the idea that Facebook may present new challenges to relationship commitment because Facebook increases the number of alternative partners we perceive to our current relationships.2 I also incorporated SofR writer Jennifer Bevan's research which indicates that couples who use integrative communication (e.g., explaining your feelings of jealousy calmly and constructively to your partner) report more satisfaction and commitment in their relationships.3

Not exact matches

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

But a growing number of analysts and market watchers say the combination of increased rail capacity and alternative pipeline projects has made the cross-border segment redundant.

Karen Mills, former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the keynote speaker at the event said, «Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up.

And although traditional hotspots like New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco remain popular investment destinations for mainland investors, an increasing number of Chinese investors are beginning to favour alternative markets, such as Miami and Seattle.

FICO, the company that created one of the most widely used credit - scoring systems in the U.S., recently announced it was starting a pilot program to increase the number of consumers who could be assigned a credit score based on alternative data, such as utility and phone bills.

This is evident in a number of developments, including: increased demand for higher - risk assets; the increase in «carry trades» — a form of gearing where funds are borrowed short - term at low interest rates and invested in higher - yielding assets, often in other countries; growth in alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds; and growth in alternative investment strategies such as selling embedded options (see Box A).

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

But they are also now allowed to take a lump sum to do with as they please, or to purchase any one of a number of alternative financial products — it is these changes that have driven the huge increase in demand for software solutions from ASX - listed Bravura (ASX: BVS) and GBST (ASX: GBT).

In our third report this year, we explore how increasing numbers of investors are using alternative assets to help manage risk and take action in the face of market uncertainty.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

He argues that churches may have unwittingly increased the number of women seeking terminations by the shame and secrecy surrounding unwanted pregnancies and failure to present viable alternatives.

Year after year, decade after decade, we witness the spectacle of Detroit's efforts to sell ever - increasing numbers of cars designed for quick obsolescence, though it has been clear for some time now that considerations of both space and air quality dictate that we move toward some alternative transportation system.

With the decreasing numbers going to church and increasing numbers of a bortions, people living together without marrying, having children out of wedlock, «alternative» lifestyles, drug ad dictions, p o r n ography, etc.... I'd hardly call our country full of religious fervor.

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.

«Furthermore, the increase in market share as a result of the proposed acquisition would be relatively small and JBS would continue to be constrained in the market for the acquisition of fat cattle by a number of alternative abattoirs and supermarket chains,» Mr Sims said.

You may look at this question and think the answer is simple, but as an increasing number of consumers buy into the gluten - free trend, new research suggests that gluten - free products are not always a healthy alternative to regular ones.

GDT Events has provided AFI with an alternative sales channel, access to an increased number of lactose buyers, and prices that provide confidence in the market for European lactose.

General article about the increasing numbers of parents seeking alternatives to state education, in particular home education.

State schools shunned for home education (Guardian, 08-02-08) General article about the increasing numbers of parents seeking alternatives to state education, in particular home education.

So, like an increasing number of women, she chose a different — though certainly not new — alternative: nurse midwifery.

With the increasing numbers of working moms childcare centers or organizations are also demanding a high pay forcing many of them to search for alternatives.

An increasing number of parents and children want an alternative to school.

An HMRC consultation on alternative methods of VAT collection reported that the number of online overseas businesses applying to register for VAT had increased from 700 in 2015 to 8,700 in 2016.

Animal testing peaked in the early 1970s, and has been in decline since, due to both increased public pressure to reduce the numbers of animals tested and the development of available alternatives.

Mr. Bishop favors elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax; and supports expanding the Child Tax Credit and raising the maximum income limit for the 10 percent tax bracket to increase the number of people eligible to pay the lowest percentage of their personal income in federal taxes.

However, to what extent alternative splicing increases the number of functionally important proteins in individual neurons remains an open question.

According to Michael Heidinger of KIT's Light Technology Institute, the alternative of connecting LEDs in series is also associated with drawbacks, because the voltage required increases with the number of diodes used.

These findings suggest that historical milking grounds represent an alternative stable state, maintained by a number of processes, including increased nutrient cycling rates, soil biotic and abiotic processes, and selective feeding on shrubs by lemmings and voles, which prevent the surrounding vegetation from invading in the historical milking grounds.

Through this development, the Cancer Center can offer potentially curative bone marrow transplants to an increasing number of patients by using alternative bone marrow donors.

There should be alternative routes that create niches for experimentalists and the increasing numbers of devoted scientists who either do not want to open their own labs or are not able to obtain one of the rare tenure - track faculty positions.

However there are an increasing number of people looking for an alternative to dairy milk to use on their cereal or in their baking, coffee etc for many different reasons.

An increasing number of people today are trying alternative healing methods to cleanse and detoxify their bodies.

With the increasing numbers of patients suffering from hypertension and conventional medicine failing to effectively control the problem, alternative therapies offer hope.

The increasing number of herpes cases has made researchers focus extensively on alternative treatments of the ailment.

However, an increasing number of schools and colleges are now looking to alternative income streams to supplement government funding — and actually boost the amount they have to spend.

Apple TVs have been fairly popular in this way, as an increasing number of students have iPads with which they can engage with the display, but there are alternatives.

Former police sergeant Henry Platten has designed GoBubble to provide young people with a safe alternative to Facebook following the news that increasing numbers of primary school children are logging on to social media at least once a day.

The opportunity to create an innovative, alternative education for pupils has seen the likes of the National Autistic Society, Everton Football Club and Eton College decide to enter the state education sector in order to increase the number of children whose lives they improve.

He said that «huge» budget pressures on schools and colleges were leaving headteachers with «no alternative» but to cut the number of subjects offered to pupils and to increase class sizes.

The number of students in alternative schools showed moderate increases contemporaneous with new national mandates regarding standardized testing and graduation rates.

(While the percentage has increased, the actual number of for - profit alternative certificates granted has decreased since the 2009 economic recession.)

«If adopted these reforms could help expand the availability of online education alternatives and increase the number of students taking advantage of them, potentially improving student achievement and reducing costs at a time when the state budget is chronically in the red,» concluded Mr. Izumi.

The win for struggling students: Alternative certification — or alt cert, in the argot of policymakers — is designed to increase the number of minorities, career - changers and teachers with specialized training in instructional strategies to close the achievement gap.

This provides instructional alternatives that greatly increase the number and quality of instructional tools available to the teacher.

More charter campuses than ever, 538 in all, achieved Met Standard or Alternative Standard accountability, while the number of charter holders meeting standard increased to 85 percent, a 4.8 percent increase over -LSB-...]

With the increasing popularity and accessibility of the Internet and Internet - based technologies, along with the need for a diverse group of students to have alternative means to complete their education, there is a major push for K - 12 schools to offer online courses, resulting in a growing number of online teachers.

The 1997 Amendments to IDEA contain new regulations about sending students to alternative educational settings for drugs, weapons, or «substantial evidence that maintaining the current placement of the child is substantially likely to result in injury to the child or to others...» (Section 300.521) As a result, the number of students in alternative programs could increase.