Sentences with phrase «large number of measures»

The sections were created in a way to organize the large number of measures into a reasonable number of categories to aid ease of finding appropriate measures for future research.

There are a large number of measures that presume to record adherence to prescribed unsupervised home - based rehabilitation exercises but there is a shortage of measures that have been robustly validated.

On 6 April a large number of measures that make adjustments to the existing schemes for investigating, restraining and forfeiting the proceeds of criminal conduct came in to force.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

BENGALURU / MUMBAI, April 25 (Reuters)- India's Indus Towers and Bharti Infratel Ltd agreed to combine operations in a deal that will create the world's second - largest mobile masts company measured by numbers of towers.

But these measures are less attractive because these American targets, vulnerable as they are, all employ large numbers of workers in China.

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).

The largest segment of the stock market (measured by market capitalization — share price times number of shares outstanding) consists of large, well - established companies.

In addition, the structure of compensation incentives in the investment management industry further encourages the short - term focus; a surprisingly large number of investment professionals have less than half of their compensation based on longer - term performance measures.

The big players are taking measures towards better brand safety and a better customer experience by putting systems in place and hiring large numbers of people to watch what has been uploaded onto the platform, but at the end of the day it's all happening after the event, when the content has already been uploaded.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Neither the government nor the live export industry was willing to take this obvious measure to reduce suffering, even though both admitted that religious festivals such as the Eid al Adha (or «Festival of Sacrifice») where large numbers of animals are sold to individual buyers presented the greatest risks to Australian animals.

Several of the world's largest food companies are currently measuring and a growing number are publicly reporting on food loss and waste within their operations, but more must also do so.

Finally, a Finnish trial of universal home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the large number of effects measured in this study, replication of the findings is warranted.38

Among the large number of available studies measuring developmental achievements in relation to diet, no suggestions are ever made of any intellectual or other neurological detriments associated with absence of formula supplements or human milk fortifiers, even when there is slower premature infant growth.

«Push polls» are actually political telemarketing — telephone calls disguised as research that aim to persuade large numbers of voters and affect election outcomes, rather than measure opinions.

That had been opposed by a large number of rebel MPs, buoyed up by support from a number of angry Conservative associations, who defied the whips and opposed the measure in this afternoon's vote.

«I was particularly pleased that the Gracious Speech made reference to measures to create a large number of apprenticeships, but it is important, too, that we make sure that we create enough professional engineers to make a difference.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

Another cut in corporation tax is the largest in a number of measures aimed at helping Britain's economy return to growth.

Backed by a large number of his conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

The IDC noted that there are a number of right - leaning members of the larger Democratic caucus who would likely vote against the DREAM Act and other liberal measures if they came to the State Senate floor — and challenged their fellow partisans to «call the role.»

Backed by a large number of his Democratic conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Tuesday afternoon warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

The No campaign also included a large number of Labour backbenchers; upon the division on a pro-EC White Paper about the renegotiation, 148 Labour MPs opposed their own government's measure, whereas only 138 supported it and 32 abstained.

The Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen who was in the house said the Free Trade Area will constitute the single largest trading block in the world measured by the number of countries that are participating in the trading block.

It pumps 20 liters (about 5.3 gallons) of seawater and plankton per second through a «light tight» collection chamber large enough to capture even fast swimmers and keep them inside long enough for the device's fiber - optic instruments to record and measure, in photons per liter, the size, duration, and number of an organism's flashes.

It measures only 5.6 nanometers square and represents the largest number of atomic manipulations ever achieved at room temperature.

«Before this study, we knew that these HIV prevention measures worked at an individual level, yet it was not clear that they would substantially reduce HIV incidence in a population — or even if it would be possible to get large numbers of people to adopt them,» said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH.

Huge progress has been made in tobacco control and the introduction of standard packs is the latest in a large number of effective measures already in place.

This measure can be thought of as «a composite measure of the various roles, institutions, and technologies that enable the coordination of large numbers of people to act in a politically unified manner.»

Neither quantum theory nor any other scheme has yet produced a successful means of predicting in advance whether a given particle will be measured as spin - up or spin - down; only the probabilities for a large number of runs can be computed.

In 2015, the planet saw a number of such records set, from the hottest global temperature measured to the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide.

This was only possible thanks to computer technologies, which allows to measure a large number of pebbles on digital photographs.

Importantly, we need to ask whether the use of common biomarkers is good enough, or if a larger number of cytokines needs to be routinely measured to better understand the complexity of immune responses.

Three of these proteins were studied further in a larger number of pregnant mothers using a new method that allows the levels of several proteins to be measured at once.

The way to measure this is to look for antibodies to the virus in a large number of people not known to have been infected.

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

Johnson and Spagat expected that the success of the attacks, measured in the number of people killed, would cluster around a certain figure: There would be a few small attacks and a few large ones as outliers on either end, but most attacks would pile up in the middle.

«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

The idea is to perform an extremely large number of measurements at A and B and extract the small fraction in which the EEG signals caused changes to the settings at A and B after the particles departed their original position but before they arrived and were measured..

Over the last decade, astronomers doing large photometric surveys (that is, measuring the light intensities of celestial objects) have found a number of new satellite galaxies, stellar streams, and over-densities around the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies.

«The new method has allowed us to measure several markers of diet and nutrient status at the same time in a large number of people, which we believe is the first time this has been done,» he says.

We used a false discovery rate rather than standard significance measures to avoid an inflated false - positive rate as a consequence of the large number of hypothesis tests (42).

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The study culminates many years of effort by an international team of scientists who have discovered a large number of the satellite galaxies, developed new techniques to measure their distances, and have used the Keck Observatory with colleagues to measure their radial velocities, or Doppler shifts (the speed of the galaxy relative to the Sun).

Our light scattering set - up can measure the light scattering intensity at a very large number of angles (that is the equivalent of a cascade impactor filters), so it can construct a particle size distribution plot of a very large number of points.

During the 18th century, astronomers had measured the proper motions of a reasonably large number of stars.

In an ultrathin section of infected DEF cells obtained 24 hrs post-infection, dense particles measuring 30 to 40 nm in diameter were found within cytoplasmic vesicles in large numbers (Fig. 4E) by electron microscopy (EM).

We will not only evaluate the eye for disease, but also measure a large number of molecules in the urine that may be used as a foundation for future medical tests for AMD.