Sentences with phrase «long decline in the quality»

If you live in America (or even if you don't), it's become quite clear that there has been a slow, long decline in the quality...

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The goal is to help show the data and accounts behind engagement on social platforms in an effort to combat the long - running decline in quality.

The basic point here is that by focusing on declining credit quality you put yourself in a position to sell a bond long before any potential default.

Shedd Aquarium is saddened to announce the passing of one of its most iconic and beloved animal residents and longest - lived of any fish in a zoological setting in the world — Granddad, a male Australia lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) who was humanely euthanized Sunday due to a rapid decline in quality of life associated with old age.

However, if and when meals that are brought in for heat up and remain in a warming oven for a long period of time both the quality and nutritional value can decline.

«Even in spite of all the land that has been protected and preserved, we're still continuing to see a decline in water quality across Long Island, but that includes also the five East End Towns.»

The results refocus the debate on the causes of sea lion pup weight loss from episodic stresses associated with El Niño years to a decadal - long trend of declining forage quality in the waters around the California Channel Island rookeries, the researchers wrote.

The trends in the relative abundance of forage taxa highlight a decade - long decline in the availability and quality of forage for sea lions.

«Brain pacemaker study shows promise in slowing decline of Alzheimer's: Patients with surgical implant retain functionality longer, improve quality of life.»

Although the percentage of third graders reading Below Basic according to Connecticut's standardized tests declined from 65 percent in 2006 - 2007 to 46 percent in 2010 - 2011, far too many children attending Walsh aren't getting the high - quality instruction, curricula, and school leadership they need for long - term success.

The result of this long slide in teacher quality can be captured in multiple snapshots: the declining U.S. ranking on international education comparisons (down to middle of the pack), the embarrassing number of military applicants who get rejected (more than one in five does not meet the minimum standards for Army enlistment) and the astonishing rates of those needing remedial classes in college (as high as 40 percent).

With a decline in quality ratings due to a convoluted «touch screen» interface — this long - awaited return to more user - friendly knobs and buttons should push the «Blue Oval» back towards the top.

Additionally, returns for corporate long bonds — often used in liability - driven investment (LDI) strategies — were roughly 12 %, which offset the interest rate decline (also based on high - quality corporate bonds).

Imagine a country which has restricted the money paid to experienced criminal lawyers with the result that many lawyers can no longer afford to practice in the field and the quality of representation may decline as a result.

Although parenting quality inevitably adjusts, improves or declines as children mature and parents face new and different challenges, some level of stability in parenting style over long periods of time obtains.

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.