Sentences with phrase «measured a rise in»

Instead of looking at the number of individuals using M - PESA, the researchers measured the rise in the number of service agents within 1 kilometer around each household — or «agent density» — during early rollout of the mobile - money services.

Project manager Fred Jansen says that they made two separate attempts to measure a rise in pressure in the gas tanks that would have signaled them being ready to fire.

WHITEHOUSE: I do come from an ocean state, and we do measure the rise in the sea level and we measure the warming of Narragansett Bay and we measure the change in PH. It's serious for us, Senator.

I have shown that the heat emissions are four times the amount accounted for in the actual measured rise in atmospheric temperature.

the measured rise in sea level has as one explanation the thermal expansion of the oceans.

And you've completely ignored the measured rise in ocean temperature itself.

According to the report's preface, signed by Fred Palmer, «the evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

«[T'he evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

Satellite altimeter data collected since 1993 have measured a rise in global mean sea level (GMSL) of ∼ 3 ± 0.4 mm / y (1, 2), resulting in more than 7 cm of total sea - level rise over the last 25 y.

How can any scientists studying the possible causes of increasing atmospheric temperature totally ignore the FACT that heat emissions alone add four times as much heat as can be accounted for by the actual measured rise in atmospheric temperature.

CoStar also measured a rise in sublease space in the market.

In its mid-year review, CoStar Group measured a rise in national vacancy at retail properties to 6.8 percent, up from 6.6 percent at the end of the first quarter.

Not exact matches

The banks are apparently spooked by reports of a rise in fraud activity over the system and are looking to add a secondary verification measure, such as requiring users to input a PIN code.

The move reversed an almost equally feverish rise in recent days that had appeared to be driven by concerns that China will introduce new measures to stop its citizens moving money out of the country.

The company's share price rose 6 percent in early trading on Friday after at least 14 Wall Street brokerages raised their price targets on the stock - a measure of the confidence around the stock among sector analysts.

Real personal consumption expenditures rose 0.1 % in December, positive but something of a disappointment compared with the big YoY increase evident in Gallup's consumer spending measure:

Comments: «S&P 500 sales, which are measured in nominal terms, will rise by 4.4 % in 2013 and 4.7 % in 2014.

According to Sheng's research, Bangladesh's textile imports from China, measured by value, rose from 39 per cent in 2005 to 47 per cent in 2015, and similar trends could be seen in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and other developing countries in Asia.

The flash measure of consumer price inflation in the euro zone is forecast to rise an annual 0.4 % in September.

Macy's recently said comparable sales, a measure the strips out newly closed stores, rose 1 % in November and December, a modest result compared to the torrid growth of overall retail sales.

In recent years, Ottawa has implemented several measures to restrict mortgage lending in the face of rising house priceIn recent years, Ottawa has implemented several measures to restrict mortgage lending in the face of rising house pricein the face of rising house prices.

The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, which measures business owner's confidence, rose 0.7 points in July, to 95.7.

This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix of conditions: Volatility as measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies around the world were in growth mode.

Some have argued that these high - income earners will flee the country to avoid this steep rise in tax rates or engage in tax avoidance measures to shelter their income.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

The Fed's preferred measure of underlying inflation has retreated to 1.5 % from 1.8 % earlier in 2017 and investors are growing increasingly doubtful policymakers will be able to stick to their anticipated pace of tightening of three interest rate rises this year and next.

And 2,700 miles from June's office in San Francisco, in a low - rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion - measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the facial - cue recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.

The rise in the annual inflation measures reported by the Commerce Department on Monday was anticipated by economists and Fed officials and is not expected to alter the U.S. central bank's gradual pace of interest rate increases.

Steel prices have climbed on the back of rising demand and capacity cuts in China, coupled with a spate of anti-dumping measures that knocked Chinese steel exports from record levels of 2015.

Bonds, as measured by the Barclay's Aggregate Bond Index, have risen 5.8 % in 2014, including interest payments.

Protests in Greece have already turned deadly, and public discontent is expected to increase as unemployment (above 16 %) continues to rise thanks to unpopular austerity measures.

Announcing the report findings, commissioner for census and statistics Leslie Tang Wai - kong pointed out that the Gini coefficient - an index from 0 to 1 that measures the wealth gap - for households rose by 0.002 from 0.537 in 2011 to a record high of 0.539 last year.

Rose sometimes wears a continuous glucose monitor, or CGM, that measures sugar in his blood, which keeps him accountable and informed about the peculiarities of the human body.

The company said comparable sales, a measure that excludes the 100 - plus stores Penney has closed in the last year, rose 2.6 % during the three months ended Feb. 3, its busiest quarter of the year.

Sales rose by just 0.5 % in the US last year when measured by volume, according to the Brewers Association.

CPI inflation rose to 2.1 per cent in January, reflecting higher energy prices due in part to carbon pricing measures introduced in two provinces.

A key risk measure in money markets known as the Libor - OIS spread has risen to levels not seen since worries mounted in 2011 and 2012 over the debt troubles of European countries Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain.

Sales Tax revenue is projected to rise based primarily on growth in consumer spending after adjustments for measures and prior - year amounts.

Both measures, from 1962 through the end of this August, painted similar pictures of the market — it rises and falls more now in greater size.

The same measure, by comparison, rose about 20 percent in Britain between 2000 and 2010 and 14 percent in the Netherlands.

RBC's aggregate measure for housing affordability in Canada rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.

The index, which measures all nine U.S. census divisions, found that home prices rose 5.9 percent year over year in January.

In this period, the dollar's trade - weighted exchange value rose by 2.9 percent, as measured by the Federal Reserve's major currencies index.

Duration is a measure that helps estimate the amount the price of a bond will rise or fall in response to changes in interest rates.

The reality is that rising volatility as measured by the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, «is only a reflection of volatile movements in the market — it is not a predictor of future returns,» David Kotok, the head of Cumberland Advisors, sent in a Friday note written by Leo Chen Ph.D. to the wealth management firm's clients.

It has just been quicker in responding to changes that the rest of the work world is now experiencing: data that allows individual performance to be measured continuously, come - and - go relationships between employers and employees, and global competition in which empires rise and fall overnight.

The Institute proposes expenditure reduction measures affecting program expenses and tax expenditures amounting to $ 1.7 billion in 2011 - 12, rising to $ 8.6 billion in 2015 - 16 (see Table 2).

In addition, broad measures of saving have remained positive, and household wealth — assets such as stocks and homes, less debt — is on the rise.

For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.