Sentences with phrase «most recent decrease»

This most recent decrease in math proficiency isn't a blip but a statistically significant trend.

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Barnes & Noble reported in March that comparable sales decreased 5.8 % in the most recent quarter.

However, the most recent labour force survey from Statistics Canada showed signs of hope: youth unemployment was 13.9 % in March, a 0.8 % decrease from the previous month and 0.5 % lower than the same period last year.

The company has decreased its headcount by 14 % over the last year in a steady drip of layoffs, according to its most recent quarterly report, but it still employs more than 10,000 people.

We sell our units on a continuous basis at initial offering prices of $ 10.00 per Class A unit, $ 9.576 per Class C unit, and $ 9.186 per Class I unit; however, to the extent that our net asset value on the most recent valuation date increases above or decreases below our net proceeds per unit as stated in the Company's prospectus, our board of managers will adjust the offering prices of all classes of units to ensure that no unit is sold at a price, after deduction of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and organization and offering expenses, that is above or below our net asset value per unit as of such valuation date.

Jobless claims decreased by 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 233,000 in the most recent week.

The decrease in US real rates and the inverse relationship that this has with gold was a contributing factor in the recent rally to $ 1800 ``... most importantly we think US real rates will likely head significantly lower, sending gold to $ 1800 + within a matter of months.»

Our most recent Constitutional Amendment, number 27, adopted in 1992, which prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives, was first introduced by James Madison in 1789.

There are a few studies, the most recent in 2014 that showed cacao polyphenols have been shown to decrease stress in highly stressed individuals as well as normal healthy individuals.

Henry Ashworth, the CEO of beverages industry body Portman Group, said PHE's 241 - page report «does not contain any new arrangement thoughts, nor does it completely mirror the critical decreases in destructive savoring the most recent decade.

The most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

The good news, as Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney put it in her most recent budget presentation, is that state mandates did decrease by about $ 8 million.

Looking at results from just Quinnipiac polls, his approval among Democrats has decreased from a high of 64 percent in January 2014, the month he took office, to 55 percent in this most recent poll.

Combined with a decrease in atmospheric water vapor and a weaker sun due to the most recent solar cycle, the aerosol finding may explain why climate change has not been accelerating as fast as it did in the 1990s.

New research by UC quaternary paleoecologist Brooke Crowley, assistant professor of geology and anthropology, shows that although many lemurs typically stay put for most of their lives, their mobility may have decreased in recent years, possibly due to the deforestation of Madagascar by its human inhabitants.

«From 2010 through 2013, the most recent survey years, the postdoctoral population decreased from 40,970 to 38,719, a loss of 5.5 %,» the October article states.

According to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the wind speed and rainfall rates in tropical cyclones are projected to increase during the 21st century, even while the total number of tropical cyclones remains nearly steady, or even decreases.

According to the most recent Arctic Report Card, winter has been losing sea ice at a rate of 2.6 percent per decade, while the summer extent has decreased at an even greater rate of 13.3 percent per decade.

According to a recent study at the University of Sydney, regular aerobic exercise may not result in weight loss, but it does decrease fat in the liver, where it possibly does the most metabolic damage.

The only difference I can isolate between the two Lp (a) measurements (that might explain the decrease) is that just prior to the most recent test I finished a round of SIBO treatment (herbal abx) and had been taking DIM to reduce excess estrogen.

In the most recent meta - analysis, researchers found that drinking two or more cups of coffee per day was associated with a 12 percent decreased risk of developing the disease.

Most Nvidia GPUs Are Now Available At MSRP In The UK GPU mining has seen a massive decrease in popularity in recent months, thanks in...

His most recent book, The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, coauthored with MIT's Frank Levy, shows how the spread of information technology has increased the value of some human skills and decreased the value of others.

By the 2012 - 13 school year, the most recent data available, turnover at charter schools had decreased to 18.4 percent.

A recent mega-study of 270,000 students found that SEL programs increase cooperation and good behavior and decrease misbehavior like bullying an average of 10 % (more in the schools that need it the most)-- and increase academic achievement scores by 11 %!

In the most recent decade, the most marked demographic shift among students has been a decrease in the percentage of white students and an uptick in the percent of Hispanic students.

Although this deal decreases the likelihood of GM using VM Motori diesels in its future models, it doesn't completely prevent it, as the Detroit Three have a history of sharing resources in powertrain development, the most recent example being GM and Ford's announcement of collaboration on nine and 10 - speed transmissions, after a successful collaboration on six - speed automatic transmissions for transverse applications.

A few materials in out - of - the - way places are not quite as smart as the Volkswagen Golf's, but the quality gap is small, and the most recent update decreased it still further.

Although crime has decreased in recent years in Tacoma, it's still the most dangerous city on our list.

The fund's substantial front load further decreases its most recent 10 - year return below that of its benchmark index.

Another reason the default rate has decreased is because the Department of Education will impose sanctions on specific schools with default rates of at least 30 % for three consecutive years or 40 % for the most recent year.

According to its most recent quarterly report on Form 10 - Q, since June 30, 2008, the Company's assets have decreased by $ 31.7 million, or 45 %.

According to the most recent figures from the Reserve Bank, the floating rate mortgages is 61.7 percent of the overall mortgage lending by banks for the month of May, which is a decrease from the 63.1 percent during the month of April.

While it may be premature to call the recent decrease a trend, the data stand in stark contrast to some of the most basic assertions made by TNR - deniers.

According to the most recent statistics from the World Tourism Organization, the top 10 most visited countries in the world was unchanged in order from 2008, with France leading the way, welcoming 74.2 million international travelers in 2009, a decrease of 6.3 % from the previous year.

While FarmVille's audience has decreased significantly in recent months due to changes made to Facebook's application notifications, the Zynga - developed game is still the most popular app on the social network, attracting more than 63.7 million monthly active users, according to figures from AppData.

While periods of increased and decreased warming exist over the 132 - year period, the linear rate is still ~ 0.6 C / century, and the most recent monthly GISS values fall right on the linear trend (the linear trend value for the Feb. 2012 temperature anomaly is +0.38 C, while the last two months have been +0.35 and +0.40 C.)

The data could just as easily be described as a large increase, following by a slight decrease, another large increase and slight decrease, a recent large increase, and most recently, a slight decrease.

And note in addition that in addition to the warming, there are strong trends toward decreasing rainfall across the Antipodean continent, which are backed up by tragically decreased river and stream flows, severe water restrictions in most states (starting to ease in some places due to recent floods), and a significantly increased farmer suicide rate.

If one plots the records from GISS, HADCru, RSS and UAH; GISS is the outlier, and three of the four primary global temperature measuring systems show a decrease over the most recent six years and a downward trend over the past decade; not that this establishes a significant trend yet.

Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact on grain production and the nation's ban on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is causing fluctuations in commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.

B. Over the same time interval there have been periods during which the reported «Annual Temperature of the Earth (TOE)» has increased, others during which it decreased, and yet others, like the most recent 15 - 20 years over which it has remained statistically flat.

[2] Some of the most dramatic changes are visible in the Arctic region, where sea ice has steadily decreased in recent decades.

For example, atmospheric carbon dioxide grew by approximately 30 % during the transition from the most recent cold glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, to the current warm interglacial period; the corresponding rate of decrease in surface ocean pH, driven by geological processes, was approximately 50 times slower than the current rate driven largely by fossil fuel burning.

Exponential atmospheric CO2 growth rate will most likely not increase beyond the recent ~ 0.5 % per year, when population growth rate is expected to decrease to less than one - third of the recent past rate, even if per capita use of fossil fuels increases by 50 % by 2100.

A recent study listed the 4 most effective activities that people can do to decrease their emissions.

The most recent general circulation models indicate increased cooling closer to both poles in the middle mesosphere and a decrease in cooling toward the summer pole in the upper mesosphere.

The most recent study (Stern, 2005) suggests a decrease in global anthropogenic emissions from approximately 73 to 54 TgS yr — 1 over the period 1980 to 2000, with NH emission falling from 64 to 43 TgS yr — 1 and SH emissions increasing from 9 to 11 TgS yr — 1.

The most recent data available, from 2008, shows that California car accidents that resulted in fatalities have decreased by nearly fourteen percent, which brings them to the lowest level since the Department of Transportation started recording crash and fatality statistics in the 1970s.

A recent CareerBuilder survey found that the words and descriptors that most impress hiring managers include: achieved, improved, trained / mentored, managed, created, resolved, volunteered, influenced, increased / decreased, ideas, negotiated, launched, revenue / profits, under budget and won.