Sentences with phrase «little increase of»

Fig. 6 confirms that there has been little increase of the 60 - month (5 - year) and 132 - month (11 - year) running means in the past decade, although it is not obvious that such a slowdown is outside the norm of unforced decadal variability.

Not exact matches

«The difficulty is that the growth rate has been little more than the increase of supply, so we have growth... but very modest declines in the unemployment rate,» he said.

That's an increase of a little over 35 % from where it was trading four years ago, when oil prices were three times higher.

Research from the Department of Kinesiology at Southern Illinois University showed that as little as three 11 - minute intense strength - training sessions a week resulted in an increase in fat burn at rest, and a chronic increase in energy expenditure throughout the day.

Sunlight helps you battle afternoon sleepiness because it increases the levels of vitamins D and B. On top of that, sunlight in moderation will improve your mood, help you focus and give your immune system a little boost, which is needed because you put your immune system in danger when you don't get enough sleep.

In some industries — emergency medicine, airlines, trucking — long shifts with little sleep are the norm, and managers worried about potentially deadly oversights are paying increasing attention to the effects of sleep deprivation (many railways now have directors of alertness or similar roles).

This summer, two major research groups found strong evidence that drinking alcohol — as little as a glass of wine or beer a day — increases the risk of developing both pre - and postmenopausal breast cancer.

The central bank found that 39 % of respondents said they planned to increase investment over the next 12 months, while 32 % said they expected little change from current levels and 30 % predicted a decline.

One solution would be to increase the isolation of the North, but there is little that can be done to isolate Pyongyang more than it already is.

It has been my experience that a review of neglected areas offers the best opportunity for increasing profitability and making improvements — because almost every business can use a little help in identifying hidden potential.

With prices of these once cheap cuts now approaching those of some middle cuts, some see them having little more room to increase.

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

These newest results boost the case of the those who argue that immersing yourself in a fictional world populated by layered, complex characters can't help but increase your understanding of how the human mind works and make your fellow humans a little less strange to you.

Representing more workers than any other generation in today's workforce (and an increasing percentage of your customer base, as well), they deserve a little respect.

Remember, currencies with less float will move more on a given increase in demand, so a little bit of euro selling against these other currencies could go a long way.

It's a little early for such a strategy since some of the effects aren't clearly known, but from the research I've seen it looks right now that there are going to be areas of his country that are going to run out of water, and disturbingly those are the same areas we have increased population growth.

Up until now there has been little attention paid to this increasing trend of the «other» search networks.

With increased clout, and broadcasters desperate to get content and ads to us, expect even more of these deals by the little blue bird.

A new report, conducted jointly by Ericsson, Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology in 33 OECD countries, quantifies the isolated impact of broadband speed, showing that doubling the broadband speed for an economy increases GDP by 0.3 %.

«The Department's Brexit workload will only increase as it moves from planning to implementation, but the Department insists that there is very little of its workload it can stop or postpone, and that it expects to deliver all of the policies that fall within its remit.»

«There's very little growth left in the traditional parts of the wireless industry, and as such revenue growth has to come from increased revenue per user,» says Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research.

«The evidence that I have seen is that jobs are in fact increased because there is economic activity increased and because people have a little bit of spare money, which on $ 11 an hour you never have.»

With very little cost upfront and with very little time and effort, Marsh found that with an investment of less than $ 1,000, she was able to increase her sales and recoup her initial investment within two months.

As to the increase in numbers, a little reflection should persuade even those Jews who, like Professor Namier, think of numbers as dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than real.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

There is therefore little reason for apprehensiveness on the ground merely of anti-Semitic propaganda based upon increasing numbers.

There's little argument that opioids are overprescribed in the United States, but it can still be challenging for some Americans to get the medication after their prescriptions run out, especially with increased scrutiny of late.

«A lot of us in the afternoon get a little fuzzy and can't pay attention,» Stevens notes, «so we could have a higher cacao content chocolate bar and it would increase attention.»

Little angers a client more than a contractor increasing the price of the project after work has been started.

They also found that while most would see a tax cut in the initial years of the legislation, many would see little change or an increase over time.

Unless there's little competition, no increase in raw costs, no any China inputs and very little exposure to a tweet or a crack from the president of the United States.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

For the sales letter that used the last headline above, the addition of the two little words «Car Owners:» in front of the headline increased the response by 22 percent!

So just curious why you wouldn't make, maybe, a range a little bit higher than where you're currently at today and whether there's any other issues I'm missing here, either mix or something along those lines, that would offset some of those price increases.

The central bank says it is proceeding with a plan to raise interest rates in coming months but has given little indication of whether 2018 will see three or four increases.

The company said that it is planning on delivering a little over 12,000 vehicles in the third quarter, which is a 60 percent increase in car deliveries from the third quarter of last year.

All in all, we believe eurozone bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level of purchases, at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.

They must also recognize that renewables like wind and solar have zero fuel cost (and zero risk of fuel cost increases) and produce little waste.

Devumi essentially buys fake accounts from a variety of «bot makers» and then sells them to customers looking to increase their social media reach for as little as a penny per account.

The price of insulin has skyrocketed in recent years, with the three manufacturers — Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly — raising the list prices of their products in near lock step, prompting outcry from patient groups and doctors who have pointed out that the rising prices appear to have little to do with increased production costs.

Not only is it hard to believe that monetary policy is anything like that powerful (particularly as the last of the increases — in August — had so little time to have effect), but the proximate cause of the sharp slowing is clearly found elsewhere.

The central bank acknowledged rising inflation but provided little indication that officials are worried about a sudden, rapid escalation in prices or an abrupt slowdown in economic growth that could alter its gradual pace of rate increases.

It is important to understand how debt payments are managed in order to recognize that whether or not China's debt burden is socialized has very little to do with the resolution of China's debt burden (aside from the fact that it never was «off» the government balance sheet in any meaningful way), just as analysts must recognize that an unsustainable increase in debt is embedded into China's current growth model, and is not an accidental bit of bad luck.

So far, the gauges that economists monitor show little evidence that price increases are on the verge of accelerating.

If you've seen the movie The Big Short, you may remember the scene where right before one of the funds was getting ready to increase the size of their bet against the mortgage industry, they were a little bit concerned.

Because some of them historically taken on very little debt and have offered increased dividends, royalty companies may be an attractive option for precious metals investors.

For «product sales» in aggregate (e-commerce + Whole Foods + the portfolio of crappy little service businesses) the operating margin increased to 1.16 % of sales vs. 0.3 % of sales in Q1 2017.

You had talked about the increase on delinquencies on the student loan book being a function of seasoning, and it's a little bit out of whack with what you would expect from a seasonality perspective.

But what if they show little improvement, or worse, a further loss of jobs and an increase in the unemployment rate?

Anti-tax sentiment has sunk in deep enough that political parties who would like to get elected on a platform of increasing tax revenues seem to feel they have little choice but to promise to only increase taxes that no one has to pay.