Sentences with phrase «marginal improvements»

Limited demand is to blame for the lack of anything more than marginal improvements in vacancy.

The latest progress report on Closing the Gap shows that efforts to address appalling levels of disadvantage have made marginal improvements, in spite of billions of dollars in government funding.

The Social Justice Report 2002 shows there have been marginal improvements in some statistical indicators, but deterioration in others.

Last year's iPad Air 2 saw marginal improvements over its predecessor; the third - generation iPad mini, however, was a total joke which led some to wonder if Apple would be discontinuing the line in the near future.

The upgrade to the 8th - generation CPU should offer marginal improvements that keep it competitive with rivals, but that doesn't mean much.

Meanwhile, the brand's ZenFone 4 Pro offers marginal improvements on the strengths of the ZenFone 4, but for most consumers the boost in power won't be worth the uptick in price.

But as the Moto X has proven, marginal improvements in performance don't necessarily translate into a great smartphone experience.

While Samsung promised better picture performance from its 2017 QLED than the year prior, what we saw then were mostly marginal improvements.

It will be difficult for US Customs to make anything other than marginal improvements in enforcement of IP and ADD / CVD.

If the oil sands were allowed to expand production with only marginal improvements in their per - barrel emissions, the rest of the country faces a much harder and more expensive challenge in meeting Canadian targets.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 isn't a bad game but what seems to be a lack of attention to detail and several inconsistencies temper what marginal improvements there are over previous versions.

You can expect a story about a group of plucky young people who save the world through the power of friendship, a diverse cast of offbeat characters and a real - time battle system with marginal improvements over last year's model.

But the games only show marginal improvements between the two.

So, when things settle down from all the launch hype, it's going to end up in the same place the PS4P is now, with lackluster improvements to most games, and people questioning why they spent $ 500 on the console itself for such marginal improvements, which at times can be hard to discern.

However, most of the benefits of diversification can be achieved with a relatively small number of stocks; reducing concentration further results only in marginal improvements.2

At the Tycuda Group we have found that marginal improvements make a huge difference, in our investment management approach and in our clients» lives.

It offers a lot of marginal improvements in a lot of places — like the browser — even if it makes a mess of some things.

These tweaks have also yielded some ever so marginal improvements to fuel economy (9.9 l / 100 km, reduced by 0.1 l) and exhaust emissions (235g / km, reduced by 3g / km).

Toyota is saying next to nothing about this, but it may utilize lithium - ion batteries and other tweaks for marginal improvements.

Despite marginal improvements in efficiency, the new Tahoe is an indulgent, thirsty, oversized monster that threatens smaller vehicles while exacerbating America's dependence on imported oil and hastening global warming.

In its application, The Romine Group said state officials should expect one transition year, with marginal improvements in student performance in the subsequent years.

What is the point of having charter operators who make only marginal improvements?

Last fall, voters in Halifax agreed to a new supplemental tax geared toward bankrolling marginal improvements in the county's struggling school system.

A citywide committee, born out of this partnership, is developing policy recommendations for how Denver can diversify their neighborhoods and better integrate their schools.73 Denver Public Schools has witnessed marginal improvements in school diversity since implementing these reforms.

Absent new business models, regulations that emphasize accountability for outcomes will likely only lead to marginal improvements.

Despite the marginal improvements in survival of patients suffering from malignant glioma treated with gene therapy vectors, the clinical trials conducted so far using viral vectors, in particular adenoviral vectors, have proven that the use of adenoviral vectors is a safe therapeutic approach, even in large, multicenter, phase 3 clinical trials.

Representation of blacks and Latinos showed marginal improvements across STEM fields but continue to be in the single digits.

These marginal improvements could have major effects: The U.N. Environment Programme estimated that 19 percent of the world's electricity goes toward lighting, accounting for up to 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

And marginal improvements may be too little and too late to make a big dent in the changing climate.

Nobody should be wasting time trying to effect marginal improvements on an institution which we can do without.

We don't want to sacrifice the great potential of amazing interactive online tools for marginal improvements in privacy protections.»

While it can reduce time lost due to unpredictable incidents, it offers only marginal improvements to the steady increases in predictable demand for road space during rush hours.

The study found only marginal improvements toward parity in senior and executive leadership positions since 2012; at the current pace of change, it will take 100 years to reach gender equality in the C - suite.

The new lithium - silicon batteries, nearing production - ready status thanks to startups including Sila Technologies and Angstron Materials, will leapfrog marginal improvements in existing lithium - ion batteries.

The upside to resource - intensive campaigns, constant A / B split testing and content - marketing initiatives is often a marginal improvement in your conversion rate, which can be frustrating.

«I think anything less than that is just marginal improvement but a lot of people confuse marginal improvement with disruption,» he says.

THE Prime Minister and the Treasurer have given away more than was desirable in the revised tax reform package negotiated with the Democrats and reform comprised to this extent is only a marginal improvement on the current system.

As nominal GDP is the underlying tax base for budgetary revenues, this would suggest a marginal improvement in the fiscal forecast throughout the entire period, all other things remaining equal.

3M's net income jumped nearly 23 % year over year on marginal improvement in revenue, but all that the market cared about was that the numbers fell short of analysts» estimates.

These teams previously had very weak squads as such the marginal improvement from adding one quality player is five times higher than the marginal improvement from Man City for instance buying Sterling.

I say this because from what I have seen, although he is strong and can ping good passes he is only a marginal improvement on what we already have.

After a few weeks, you see a marginal improvement, but it's not enough of a pay - off for the sacrifice you are making.

After reviewing state board of elections filings, researchers determined that about 60 percent of eligible voters nationwide cast ballots, a marginal improvement from 2012.

According to the report, the Nigerian economy grew by 0.55 per cent in Q2 2017, a marginal improvement, compared to -0.91 per cent (revised) in Q1 2017 and -1.49 per cent in Q2 2016.

Those numbers are not impressive, but they do represent a marginal improvement over his numbers from a Quinnipiac poll in May, when 52 percent of New Yorkers said he did not deserve reelection, and 37 percent he did.

By 2000, pharmaceutical pipelines were filled with «me too» drugs that offered low risk and a quick route to approval, but only marginal improvement over drugs already available.

Patients with progressive MS had only a marginal improvement of 0.14.

They also can have numerous side - effects and offer only marginal improvement — according to a doctor associated with the study.

Whatever the case, the marginal improvement isn't worth the 2x or higher price tag.

The sequel's marginal improvement is owed to a dynamic third act which embraces a Ghostbusters paradigm of ectoplasmic goop and city - street - threatening terrors.