Sentences with phrase «lower cut point»

The much lower cut point for the Chinese version indicates that it would not be appropriate to directly compare mean scores on the EPDS between Western and Chinese patient samples.

Not exact matches

Australian shares were down 0.6 % after the Reserve Bank of Australia's policy board decided to cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to an all - time low of 1.50 %, as expected.

In effect, the BCA set caps mandating that discretionary outlays rise a couple of points a year from a low baseline established by the deep cuts between 2011 and 2013.

These cost - cutting strategies have now become the plus point for SpaceX to compete against the giants in the industry and for the first time, it is looking possible for the low - cost passenger flights in the space.

Earlier this month, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink pointed out that low to negative interest rates are cutting into retirement savings — forcing workers to set aside more each month to hit retirement goals.

Even if you believe the federal government will keep its promises and won't further shift costs to states (and they recently cut our match rate to its lowest point in 25 years), even advocates for Obamacare admit the federal subsidies are front - loaded and that expansion will eventually cost the states.

«We've been through a couple of cycles now where it seemed like central banks could not cut rates enough to generate a turnaround in the economy, because the starting point was relatively low,» he says.

Quick answer: no, as the European Central Bank, which has an inate fear of inflation, felt compelled on Thursday by the economic crisis in Europe to cut its benchmark interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, bringing the refinancing rate to a record low of 0.75 % and the overnight deposit rate to zero.

Bannon's language goes beyond Reagan - era Republican talking points about cutting regulations and lowering taxes.

Speaking by phone from Montreal on Wednesday, economist Paul - Andre Pinsonnault predicted Governor Stephen Poloz will cut the policy rate by a quarter point to 0.25 percent next month, matching a record low set in 2009 during the global financial crisis.

Citing Ripple's traction with global banks, including UBS, Santander, CIBC, UniCredit, ReiseBank, ATB Financial and National Bank of Abu Dhabi, the report points out that far from being just hype, Ripple's solution is already cutting the time and internal costs for cross-border payments for banks, while enabling the increasingly crucial use case of high - volume, low - value global transactions.

More broadly, he says that while corporate credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this point in the cycle as a bullish driver of credit spreads.

Hungary's 10 - year notes climbed, cutting yields 23 basis points to 9.85 percent, the lowest close since Dec. 28, according to generic prices compiled by Bloomberg.

Volume / mix decreased 1.6 percentage points, primarily due to lower shipments across several categories, particularly nuts, natural cheese and cold cuts in the United States as well as cheese and coffee in Canada.

The interesting, counterintuitive part about that, as Dave Parkinson points out, is that the bigger the rebound the BoC sees for Q2, the lower the bar for an additional rate cut becomes.

Volume / mix decreased 1.7 percentage points driven by a combination of distribution losses on Planters in the club channel, lower shipments in natural cheese and service - related losses in cold cuts.

If your DA is lower than that, you'll have to choose a lower cut - off point for the keyword difficulty score.

Analysts pointed out that this was the first M / M rise in intended job cuts since March, although some quickly noted that the rate in the first eight months of the year is around 26 % lower when compared to the same period in 2017.

If Dollar Tree successfully experiments with different price points and drives prices lower, it increases its chances of cutting into Dollar General's and Wal - Mart's market shares, analysts said.

They point to two inflation risk factors: years of setting low rates by the Federal Reserve, and the possibility that recent tax cuts will cause the economy to overheat.

I'll keep adding to this position until the yield breaches its 2016 low, at which point I would cut my losses.

That cut the spread with Treasuries to as little as 58 basis points, the lowest since Oct. 19.

«Rates are of course extraordinarily low,» Poloz said, adding the bank cut rates by 50 basis points in 2015 to counteract the effects of the oil price shock.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Although you will find a more detailed description of this issue in the Description section of this profile, we think that it is important to point out that the GI values that we have seen for old - fashioned rolled oats and steel cut oats are significantly lower than the values that we have seen for instant oats.

The first is the Traffic Light (TL) system, developed by the UK Food Standards Agency, where nutrients of greatest public health significance (total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium) are ranked and colour - coded as either high (red), medium (amber) or low (green), based on cut - points established by the European Regulation for Nutrition and Health Claims (Official Journal of the European Union, 2006).

Two games against below mid-table teams and we are really struggling.Is Fabs the answer?I don't think so.The first game against WBA would easily have been a draw but we were lucky though not this time round on Saturday.It was difficult and frustrating watching my team fail to create any clear cut chances in 94 minutes of football.There was such a corridor in our midfield that fulham utilized to the maximum.If we start dropping points against the likes of fulham at this stage in the competition then what will become of us in the 6 matches against the top three teams?I can see why I need to lower my expectations early enough to avoid disappointment later on.Very poor performance from Denilson.But why was Theo sub'd instead of bringing in Song for Denilson early enough?!

The benefit of diaper cuts is you can try more fabric prints / solids for a lower price point than if you purchased full yards!

Screening for depression or anxiety disorders in fathers requires a two - point lower cut - off than screening for depression or anxiety in mothers, and we recommend this cut - off to be 5/6.

In my live blog of today's historic PMQs I wrote this: «In what has to be one of the lowest points in public service broadcasting BBC2's Daily Politics coverage stops halfway through the Prime Minister's concluding remarks to cut to Wimbledon.»

«Well as a business, anytime you have a low sale price obviously you got ta cut back on a lot of the expenses that you would like to normally, including buying new equipment, but right now it's getting below a break even point, which staying in business is very difficult,» said Joe DiNitto of DiNietto Farms LLC in Marcy.

Labour needs to unite middle and lower income earners — pointing out that the Tories are putting up taxes for most people but cutting taxes for the rich is a good way of doing this.

«I've been very clear about my overwhelming... priority, and that is to give tax cuts to the vast majority of taxpayers on low incomes and on ordinary incomes by raising the point at which they start paying income tax.

Smith's remarks on this start at about the 5:30 - minute mark, when Mika Brzezinski notes a recent Times editorial that pointed out how low - income school districts are disproportionately hurt by Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion education funding cut — all but $ 270 million of which is included in the framework agreement announced yesterday.

But it did provide talking points for House Republican leaders who need conservatives support to pass the measure: lower deficits, reduced federal spending and tax cuts.

NYC arrested 16,925 people last year for low - level marijuana possession and smoking in public, a decline of only 1 percentage point from the previous year's total of 17,097, even though de Blasio said he would cut down on arrests.

The National Association of Nigerian Students has threatened to call for the scrapping of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board if it failed to reverse the low cut off points for admission into universities and polytechnics.

Electorally, Thompson's chances seem grim: He's down by sixteen points; an expected low turnout puts Thompson at a deeper disadvantage by making it more costly to draw out votes, say political analysts; Bloomberg is readying what the campaign promises to be the «largest get - out - the - vote operation in the history of municipal politics»; and the mayor's also cut into Thompson's potential labor support, depriving him of ground troops.

Low point of #PMQs has to be Cameron telling us he is «delighted» tax credits cuts were voted through again last night.

It points to five million low - paid workers, a housing market where home ownership rates have halved over the last 20 years, public spending cuts and a brutal welfare squeeze as evidence that the gulf between the well - off and the underprivileged will become permanent.

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has kicked against the low cut - off points for admission into colleges of education in the country...

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While you might be thinking you already have one, there's a key factor to point out here — while your calorie intake might already be low, you don't want this to go any lower in order to cut back on fat.

The difference between medium GI and low GI depends on the GI cut point of 55 that is typically used to differentiate between low and medium GI.

Michele, if you listen to Dr Fung's videos, one of his main points is that when you cut total calories, the body responds by lowering resting metabolism, thus negating the value of dieting.

I'd rather cut the calories sharply while my metabolism is fast, then constantly switch up my nutrient intake between low - carb and low - fat, then train myself to the point of overtraining, then back off and let my body recover and repair (hint: this is the approach I take in my Metabolic Surge - Rapid Fat Loss program).

Quintile cut points were based on the entire cohort, and multivariate - adjusted HRs are reported using the lowest quintile as the referent category.

But my point was that many people claim it's a similar dramatic reduction in calories, * and nothing else * (no different metabolic effect) that's behind low - carb dieters» success, even though the evidence for calorie - cutting is poor, as evidenced by this study, and also the high rebound rate for conventional calorie - cutting low - fat oriented diets like Weight Watchers.

We estimated the adjusted HRs by comparing the middle values of each quintile (Q) with the lowest quintile as reference (Q5, Q4, Q3, and Q2 vs Q1).35, 38 To examine the association between added sugar intake and CVD mortality by different cut points, ie, less than 10 % by the World Health Organization (in line with the American Heart Association's recommendation) 4,5 and less than 25 % by the Institute of Medicine, 3 we estimated the adjusted HRs by comparing participants who consumed 25 % or more, more than 10 %, and less than 25 % of their calories from added sugar with those who consumed less than 10 % of their calories from added sugar.

The bodices of women's gowns were usually long waisted, often coming to a point, and necklines were often square and cut low.