Sentences with phrase «more dramatic decline»

An even more dramatic decline is observed for offshore wind farms in Denmark, but this may be a reflection of the immaturity of the technology.

In fact, these gains would increase the total account value and produce a more dramatic decline.

This more dramatic decline in free T levels is directly linked to the increase in SHBG.15 - 23 As a result of this increase, aging men may potentially experience signs of feminization.

However, the industry is projected to further embrace technology to prevent more dramatic declines, recover readership and reclaim lost advertising revenue.

Not exact matches

It all suggests that the dramatic day and a half of legal proceedings are but a prelude to even more courtroom theatrics and combat in what has become a sordid, long - standing matter (for the full saga, read the Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone) that reflects poorly on countless participants, not least the boards of CBS and Viacom, which took no action to remove Redstone as their executive chairman until Herzer's case forced their hand.

While the decline in IPO transactions for venture - backed companies in the 2000s is dramatic, the rise in M&A transactions has more than offset the losses such that there is a healthy trend line of positive exits over the three decades.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Generally, as news anchors and the news itself, more and more become the products of popular culture and consumers» desire to see the handsome and the beautiful, and the dramatic and alluring, television viewers will suffer more and more from inaccurate reporting, inane and nearly meaningless stories, outright stupidity, and a complete decline in journalistic integrity (of which this story on CNN is a part).

In fact, some argue the 1990 Little study encouraged more parents to use disposables and contributed to a dramatic decline in the use of diaper services throughout the 1990s.

People point to the worrying figures about the numbers of journalists that have been laid off (with net newsroom employment down by more than 10,000 since 2007), the difficulties facing city and state newspapers, and to the dramatic decline of ad revenues.

The quality of government — an elusive concept but measured here by various measures of public satisfaction — has not shown the dramatic decline that some expected, but neither has it improved significantly as expected by advocates of more responsive and transparent government processes.

And while his base may want more, Mr. de Blasio can point to several police reforms in his first year: a dramatic drop in the number of people stopped by police; a staggering decline in marijuana arrests thanks to a policy change; a plan to roll out body cameras in accordance with a federal lawsuit.

By the late 1980s, the decline in Tay - Sachs births was more dramatic within Orthodox neighborhoods than outside them.

Over the last three decades, giraffes are in dramatic decline across their range in Africa with their numbers dropping from more than 150,000 to fewer than 100,000.

«Scientists, policy makers and the public have been focused on the dramatic declines in the well - known eastern population, yet this study reveals that western monarchs are even more at risk of extinction,» Pelton said.

Among elementary schools, where bilingual education was most common, the decline was more dramatic, but again bilingual education was not eliminated entirely.

The research also found that while there had been a steady increase in the number of sponsored academies, i.e. struggling schools forced to convert, between 2006 and 2012, there has more recently been a dramatic decline.

Fifty - three percent of the Dominion State's young black men in fourth grade were functionally illiterate in 2011, a mere one point decline from nine years ago; this trails the eight percentage point decline nationwide, and the even more dramatic 13 - and 16 point declines in functional illiteracy among young black male fourth - graders in respectively, Florida and Alabama.

For non-fiction, the dramatic decline was even more intense from $ 9.04 to $ 6.47.

In the more adverse «disaster» scenario — which entails vast deforestation, dramatic biodiversity declines and increasing extreme weather — the global index falls by 15 percent, with the deepest losses felt in poor regions.

The drop in the number of weather stations was dramatic, declining from more than 6,000 stations to fewer than 1,500.

I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

The most dramatic decline is registered in the A1B marker; this is related to its aggressive assumptions on the introduction of low - sulfur technologies and fuel switching in the ASIA region (see Box 5 - 3 for more details).

Is the dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice, spurred by manmade global warming, making the weather where we live more extreme?

Maybe more worrying still, Germany — the early leader in the race to run industrial economies on renewables — showed a dramatic 56 percent year - on - year decline in renewables investment in 2013.

And the decline has accelerated, becoming far more dramatic, since about the year 2000, leading to annual average sea ice loss of around three million square kilometers.

A much more dramatic future halt and decline of production will be significantly more economically and socially disruptive.

The decline in a sub-index on ICT use is even more dramatic.

What's more, this technology could lead to a dramatic decline in the number of batteries that need to be produced and disposed of, which would obviously have a huge positive impact on the environment.

While there have been dramatic changes in the lives of parents as welfare caseloads declined, more single mothers entered and remained in the labour force, and teen pregnancy and out - of - wedlock birth rates declined, the outcomes for children have changed very little.

Perceived positive outcomes for the model include: decline in crime rate and level of violence; an effective community corrections program at Palm Island that has kept people from appearing before court and from possible incarceration; dramatic decrease in juvenile crime at Kowanyama; changes in social patterns; more effective government service delivery, leading to savings in time and money for government and community agencies, courts, law enforcement agencies and correctional centres.

The decline of dugong is more dramatic and difficult to understand.

PICTURED ABOVE AND BELOW: The number of home sales and the number of available listings offered for sale below $ 750,000 has been in dramatic decline within the resale market as median priced homes rise and new construction offerings, few as they are, struggle to deliver meaningful numbers of homes at more affordable price points.

Fire deaths in the United States realized a dramatic decline over the past three decades as smoke alarms became common — more than 95 per cent of homes have them, says a statement from the organization.