Sentences with phrase «nearly zero in»

The nursing care annual inventory growth rate was nearly zero in the fourth quarter of 2016, while annual absorption was down by -0.6 %.

The nursing care annual inventory growth rate was nearly zero in the third quarter of 2016, while annual absorption was down 0.7 %.

And, you can see from the chart below that following a download spike shortly after the announcement, new activations have trailed to nearly zero in recent weeks.

(11/28/2011) If governments commit to an international program to save forests known as REDD +, deforestation could be nearly zero in less than a decade, argues the Living Forests Report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

This is an issue because we know there is a substantial long - term natural cooling trend for high - latitude summers because of Earth orbital effects, but the trend is nearly zero in the global annual average.

Following the enactment of the CFPB's QM rule in January 2014, the cumulative default rates for the loans backed by the GSEs have fallen to nearly zero in 2015 and 2016.

Because of the SAT slide of new private elementary school teachers, the «ability gap» (measured by these tests) between private and public school teachers shrank to nearly zero in 2008.

Lack of ovulation, whether it occurs naturally as the result of aging ovaries, or unnaturally, from extremes of stress, exercise, diet, and / or use of synthetic hormones in HRT or birth control pills, will cause estrogen to drop from 40 to 60 percent (enough to stop the menstrual cycle), but progesterone levels plummet much lower, to nearly zero in some women causing a raft of symptoms from heavy / painful periods, mood swings, PMS and depression to water retention, weight gain, slowed thyroid function, and heightened risks for endometriosis, fibroids, fibrocystic breasts as well as breast and uterine cancer.

«If the trend continues like this, we expect that the Anopheles malaria mosquito population will soon be collapsing down to nearly zero in the treated villages,» Mafra - Neto says.

The supply of CDSs in particular soared from nearly zero in 2000 to an estimated $ 60 trillion in 2008 with almost no regulatory attention.

So let us get on with the method of how you will pay nearly zero in taxes by utilizing multiple tax shelters.

Not exact matches

The project's three fields, Chayvo, Odoptu, and Arkutun Dagi, produce some 100,000 barrels of oil a day in temperatures that drop to nearly 50 degrees below zero.

The Fed lifted rates from near zero last December — the first rate hike in nearly a decade — but has since stood pat given an economic slump at home and volatile markets overseas.

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

Prankster Julius Dein went from zero to nearly 7 million Facebook followers in less than a year, spreading his videos across social media and around the Web.

During this period, the Federal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities.

Mordechai Shefer, an Israeli rocket scientist formerly with Rafael, Iron Dome's maker, studied nearly two dozen videos and, in a paper last month, concluded that the kill rate was zero.

In short, the economic impact of the SJSF demands on the targets of their ire would be nearly zero.

The zero lag shows the «coincident» relationship between these two in data since 2006: a strong negative relationship, with a slope coefficient of nearly -0.6 (aggressive monetary easing has largely been a response to strong market losses over the overlapping period).

The fact that these expectations have not been fulfilled in the nearly nine years since the initiation of zero interest rates, notwithstanding the recent 25 - basis - point Fed rate hike, leads us to believe that investor credulity in central bankers may be stretched about as far as it can go.

Because it is fundamentally more secure and efficient than trust - based fiat currencies, it can be used in ways they can't, like nearly zero - cost international remittences, or anonymous payments on the internet from one user to another.

But markets are betting that the Fed will not be able to tighten monetary policy nearly as much as it expects, and if another recession starts in the next few years, cuts will soon bring interest rates back down to the zero lower bound.

It is tragic, therefore, that in the United States today, federal infrastructure investment, net of depreciation, is running close to zero, and net government investment is lower than at any time in nearly six decades.

These nearly zero interest rates is what drove many U.S. and European fixed income investors towards higher income opportunities in their own home countries — so, they bought more equities, REITs and dividend growth stocks over the last 5 years, driving up valuations (though the February correction has brought back some sanity.)

Nearly half of the portfolio is in financials, and there is basically zero exposure to technology and utilities, consistent with the market.

At the market's actual 2000 peak, valuations were so high that even a future price / peak earnings ratio of 20 could have been expected to result in a nearly zero annualized returns over the following 10 years.

While economists have always welcomed a reduction in marginal cost, they never anticipated the possibility of a technological revolution that might bring marginal costs to near zero, making goods and services priceless, nearly free, and abundant, and no longer subject to market forces.

New research by Zero Waste Scotland has revealed that nearly 1.35 million tonnes of food and drink was wasted in Scotland in 2013, a figure that will be used as a baseline for efforts to reduce food waste by a third by 2025.

A 2015 study co-authored by the Rainforest Alliance established that the deforestation rate in the Forest Stewardship Council - certified community forestry concessions was nearly zero, as compared to an annual deforestation rate of 1.2 percent in the MBR overall and 5.5 percent in the reserve's buffer zones.

The project is part of our longstanding and highly successful strategy of using sustainable community forestry to reduce deforestation rates in the area to nearly zero.

This indicated the emergence of activity in other parts of the world, perhaps most notably Australia, where activity came from virtually zero in 2014 to account for nearly 16 % of the 2015 total, putting it ahead of Europe with 10 %.

However, the rapid growth trajectory of D's Naturals, which went from zero to «nearly $ 10 million in revenue in less than two years» led by a founder - Daniel («D') Katz - who is just 20 years old, coupled with its potential to become a broader lifestyle brand, had made him sit up and pay attention, said Hickey.

You begin to pretty clearly notice how a team begins to zero in on an eventual score with tighter, more purposeful possessions; suddenly, the team doesn't lose possession as much, the passing penetrates the defense a little more, and a goal becomes nearly imminent.

And whilst everyone can see the effect the stadium construction had on spending (zero net spend for nearly 10 years) this too is airbrushed out of any conversation as to what Arsenal should have achieved in the «bleak» years between 2006 - 2013.

According to one forecast the high temperature in Moscow tomorrow will be 62 degrees Fahrenheit, above zero that is, which by the law of averages nearly guarantees the high on Sunday will be at or near 62 degrees below zero.

The most important paper on homebirth published in 2013 showed that homebirth increases the risk of a 5 minute Apgar score of zero by nearly 1000 %!

And in the freezer, it slows to nearly zero.

«The nearly zero growth in the tax cap will limit budget options for school and municipal officials as they plan for next year,» said DiNapoli.

Lumley, whose father fought with the Gurkhas in Burma, said: «Just before this vote was taken our spirits were nearly at zero.

However, he doesn't appear to be nearly as corrupt as the other two which is why he has zero chance of prevailing in the Republican conference.

CNN: Poll: New Yorkers oppose mosque, recognize constitutionality New York voters oppose by a nearly 2 - to - 1 margin plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, according to a new Siena Research Institute poll released Wednesday.

«President Obama has this all wrong and I strongly oppose his support for building a mosque near Ground Zero especially since Islamic terrorists have bragged and celebrated destroying the Twin Towers and killing nearly 3,000 Americans,» Greene said in a statement.

As soon as it became clear that patient zero was a case of indigenous dengue hemorrhagic fever, American health officials began collaborating with counterparts in Matamoros (a Mexican city just across the Rio Grande with a population of nearly three - quarters of a million), dispatching teams to do a blood - sampling survey to uncover the overall extent of dengue infections.

For instance, due to nearly zero gravity conditions on board any spacecraft, handling fluids in open containers is impracticable.

«After prostatectomy serum PSA levels go to nearly zero because it is produced almost exclusively in the prostate.

To test the material's superconducting properties, they put it in two extremely cold refrigerators, one of which cools down to nearly absolute zero.

While conventional sintered magnet manufacturing may result in material waste of as much as 30 to 50 percent, additive manufacturing will simply capture and reuse those materials with nearly zero waste, said Parans Paranthaman, principal investigator and a group leader in ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division.

This new revolution, powered by the ability of the Internet to allow us to communicate, share and monitor things, will result in what he calls the «zero marginal cost society,» where the cost to create consumables such as energy and information — the marginal cost — is nearly free after the initial capital investment is made in equipment such as computers, smart phones and solar cells.

Highly crystalline single - walled carbon nanotubes (HCSWCNT) have nearly zero defects in the carbon network on the surface, Shimoi explained.

The Brooklyn band One Ring Zero transformed astronomical controversy into song with the album Planets (a nod to the nearly century - old Gustav Holst suite), which arrived in stores in September.