Sentences with phrase «large decrease from»

Carrot also had a relatively large decrease from 2012 - 13, at 9 per cent leading to the cash costs per tonne of carrots being $ 292 in 2013 - 14.

The largest decrease from June to July Outlooks was from GFDL NOAA, which decreased by 320,000 km2, from 5.17 to 4.85 million km2.

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The largest decrease came from African and Middle Eastern countries, though these nations make up a smaller portion of foreign U.S. visitors each year.

More than one million people die from AIDS each year — an enormous number, but one that has decreased steadily throughout the past decade thanks in large part to anti-retroviral medicines that can slow its spread within the body.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Granted, if stock continues to concentrate in the hands of large institutional investors, there will be marginal increases in the gains to be had from activism and a marginal decrease in its costs.

Large scale utilization of bioplastics (plastic made from renewable resources like biomass) would significantly decrease US foreign fossil fuel consumption, aiding in the goal of fossil fuel independence and possibly lead to a reduction in US military presence worldwide.

Another «RD Loan» advantage is that its annual mortgage insurance fee is just 0.35 % annually (decreased from 0.50 % in October 2016), no matter how large or small of a downpayment.

Social welfare spending constitutes a small part of the federal budget, but the decrease in tax revenues that would ensue from this proposal appears rather large.

The largest per capita decrease (− 26 %) was in carbonated soft drinks from 23 to 17 g / d.

A large prospective study showed that breastfeeding has the potential to decrease heart disease risk, but this seems to be missing from heart disease prevention messaging.

In particular, breastfeeding may be of concern because it has been shown to be associated with both child's use of antibiotics36, 37 and cow's milk allergy, although inconsistently so.38 In a large Finnish birth cohort, the median durations of exclusive and total breastfeeding were 1.4 months and 7.0 months, respectively, and the proportion of breastfed infants decreased from 95 % at the age of 1 month to 58 % at the age of 6 months.39 Another limitation is our reliance on pharmacy records, which provides only a rough estimation of drug use.

Made with simethicone, Gas Relief Drops safely decrease the surface tension of gas bubbles, causing them to combine into larger bubbles in the stomach that can be passed more easily, providing baby with nearly instant relief from that full, bloated feeling.

On Monday, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan took the wraps off her 2017 budget, a $ 176 million spending plan that boasts a 2 percent decrease in spending from last year, which the mayor touts as the largest annual spending decrease in more than 15 years.

But the bottom line is that aside from what anyone can say about what this administration has been doing here in Central New York — it's working: No region of the state has seen as large a decrease in the unemployment rate than Central New York over the past three years: 8.6 percent in December 2010, 6.5 percent today.

Only one country had implemented standardized packaging at the time of this review, so evidence that tobacco use prevalence may have decreased following standardized packaging comes from one large observational study.

«Patented airflow system decreases pollutants from large piston engines.»

A decrease in solar radiation, they suspect, forces the jet stream to fold back on itself over the Atlantic, creating a large spiral of air that can stay stable for weeks and prevent westerly winds from reaching Europe.

Support for banning assault weapons among all respondents decreased from 69 percent in 2013 to 63 percent in 2015, and support for banning the sale of large capacity ammunition magazines decreased from 68 percent to 60 percent.

As a result of the large - scale actions aimed at alleviation of poverty, the size of poor populations in rural areas of China decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 82 · 49 million in 2010.

While official inventories suggest that methane emissions from energy have decreased during the US shale boom, other studies show emissions could be much larger.

Chambers et al. (2007) predict that the high flammability of this winter annual weed will increase wildfire frequency and thereby transform large areas of sagebrush steppe from perennial shrub to annual grass dominance decreasing the land's forage utility.

The common features include a large increase in the base H - 1B quota; a «market - based limits» provision that automatically increases (and never decreases) the H - 1B quota; transferring the 20,000 additional visas for U.S. graduates to those with foreign graduate degrees; and exempting those currently eligible for those 20,000 visas from the limits entirely.

«For me, one interesting aspect is that the carbon sink due to decreased fire is not so much in areas where the decline is largest but originates mostly from places with active fire suppression.»

Finally, studies have shown that leucine promotes energy partitioning from fat cells to muscle cells, thereby decreasing energy storage and encouraging the body to burn fat cells as fuel, with one large study providing irrefutable evidence that leucine supplementation fuels the citric acid cycle which facilitates fat oxidation.

Because not only is γ - tocopherol responsible for scavenging RNS, but large doses of α - tocopherol displace γ - tocopherol in plasma and other tissues, the current wisdom of vitamin E supplementation with α - tocopherol alone may produce an imbalance that contributes to cancer and heart disease.13 Adding support to this hypothesis, a recent clinical trial of individuals suffering from coronary heart disease showed decreased serum levels of γ - tocopherol, but not α - tocopherol.14

The reduced immunity from chronic stress has been thought to be due to excess cortisol production; but the associated reduction in tissue thyroid levels are shown to play a larger role in the decreased immunity seen with stress, and thyroid supplementation is shown to reverse the stress induced reduction in immunity (217).

This means that senna may not only cause a large amount of distress, but also could reduce the benefits from other healthy foods by decreasing the amount of them that can be taken in and used by the body.

Here's a line from a study published by the NIH, comparing Low CARB diets (LCD) with Low FAT diets (LFD): Compared to the LFD, the LCD had significantly larger decreases in cravings for carbohydrates / starches and preferences for high - carbohydrate and high - sugar foods.

Gelatin works on calming the inflammation from an interal level to show the benefits through the skin, which in turn can help reduce redness, decrease breakouts, and strengthen and tone the skin thanks to the large amount of collagen it contains.

«A «deficiency» of polyunsaturated fatty acids leads to altered rates of cellular regeneration and differentiation, a larger brain at birth, improved function of the immune system, decreased inflammation, decreased mortality from endotoxin poisoining, lower susceptibility to lipid peroxidation, increased basal metabolic rate and respiration, increased thyroid function, later puberty and decreases other signs of estrogen dominance.

Serecite will help to absorb excess oils from the skin and it decreases the appearance of large pores in the skin.

[22] More specifically, large VLDL particles reduced by 40.2 % from 3.33 nmol / L to 1.74 nmol / L, medium VLDL particles decreased by 4.8 % from 46.2 nmol / L to 44 nmol / L.

A raglan yoke is when you add the body and sleeves all to one large circular needle, and decrease stitches between the four parts, so that the decreases make a stripe that runs from the armpit up to the neck.

If you want to decrease the large armholes which are supposed to be when making a halter romper, you want to trim off about 1 inch from the armhole curve's lowest point and trim it off diagonally going down to meet the side half way as shown here:

The company is often viewed as a sort of apparel - industry savior, not only because it's supplanting the decrease in retail jobs by hiring more than 3,000 «stylists» as W - 2 employees — meaning that Stitch Fix deducts payroll taxes from each pay check and offers benefits like 401K and health insurance to those who work a certain number of hours a week — but also by emerging as one of the largest wholesale partners in the US.

As the Boston Municipal Research Bureau has pointed out, even though Boston has seen its net Chapter 70 aid decrease by $ 56 million dollars from FY2011 to FY2015, in large part due to increased charter enrollment, its overall operating budget has increased by 23.4 percent.

Over that two - year period, the average difference between NAEP and state proficiency levels decreased from 35 percent to 30 percent, the largest tightening of state standards in any two - year period since NCLB was first established (see Figure 2).

-- The average difference between NAEP and state proficiency levels decreased from 35 percentage points to 30 percentage points nationwide, which the authors point out is «the largest tightening of state standards in any two - year period since NCLB was first established.»

This decrease in writing frequency outside school is in stark contrast to the large increase in in daily reading frequency, which has improved from 29.1 per cent in 2010 to 43 per cent in 2015.

[2] I show that it should be straightforward for Congress to repurpose funds from the second - largest grant program in a way that benefits the neediest students, but that colleges that previously received more than their fair share of grant dollars would likely see a decrease in funding.

While pass rates in the first college - level course («gateway» course) in each subject decreased modestly (from 75 to 73 percent in English composition, and from 65 to 58 percent in math), because more students attempted these gateway courses the overall percentage of students successfully completing them rose markedly (by 7 percentage points in English and 4 percentage points in math), with larger increases for black students.

A descriptive analysis of four schools using SRS conducted by Russell Skiba and colleagues in 2006 found overall decreases in suspensions from the first year of SRS implementation to the end of the fourth year, with larger decreases in suspensions for students with disabilities.

Half of the 36 largest locals saw their dues revenue decrease from the previous year.

The research on class size is decidedly mixed, but the largest estimates (from the Tennessee STAR study) imply that a three - student increase in class size in the early grades would decrease test scores by 0.05 standard deviations after one year (and by less in future years).

The state's largest teachers union, the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), saw a dramatic decrease in membership over a short period of time: falling from about 98,000 members in 2011 to about 40,000 in 2015.

The bad news is that from 2016 to 2017, schools statewide saw a 2 percent dip in student participation, with many large urban districts showing disappointing double - digit decreases.

According to data analyzed by Ann Mantil, Anne Perkins, and Stephanie Aberger, the benefits from redistribution within and across multiple neighboring districts, even if implemented nationwide on a large scale, would vary widely, and efforts would decrease the percentage of high - poverty schools in some states by no more than about 10 % to 15 %.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

Although 2015 FARS data indicates that 239 large trucks and 2 buses were involved in fatal crashes in work zones, representing a 2 percent decrease from 2014 and indicating some progress is being made by DOT and its partners and stakeholders, DOT efforts must continue toward eliminating work zone crashes.