Sentences with phrase «other problems with the system»

That leads us to the other problem with the system's overall design.

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The depots were hampered by other factors, caused by lingering data problems and the learning curve associated with the new systems.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Cyber specialists say the problem with GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is their weak signals, which are transmitted from 12,500 miles above the Earth and can be disrupted with cheap jamming devices that are widely available.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).

Politicians and central bankers will manage the crisis of 2016 - 2017 as they have most other crises (such as 1987, 1998, 2000, 2008) by increasing spending, addressing an excess debt problem with even more debt, and pumping more «funny money» into the global financial system.

Venue reform was the one piece of comprehensive legislation that had broad support in Congress, so while the court's decision frees up capacity for patent reform advocates to tackle other problems with the patent system, the hard fights are still to come.

You're running into the problem that syncretists always do — both of the «syncretized» belief systems include a purist tradition that objects to polluting their Truth with anything from any other source.

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

And I also know from personal experience that it can be very encouraging to an individual to see that there are others that recognize the problems with the system that has hurt them.

Some people see these problems as cause for national moral alarm; others, merely as reason for minor tinkering with the legal system.

playing with g - rod up front is like sticking to fingers up to traditional arsenal play of fast movement one twos and pass and move football this is very unlike wenger to make such a major shift away front his normal trends of style of play big man up front with no pace just isn't the wenger way really he needs to go back to the past really to answer the current problem i have noticed all the other top 4 teams are more wenger they are (wengerites to coin a phrase) than wenger himself playing with a big srtong pacey team like we use to have they all copied wengers blueprint and left him behind somewhere along the line and he altered his and its not been the same since do nt change a winning system of power and pace if it is was working for you mr wenger

Some gloves were found to contain a variety of molds that could cause respiratory or other infections in individuals with chronic health problems, or in individuals who have impaired immune systems.

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

Obviously lasering your dick would hurt like hell, but the ministry also warned of other potential side effects of the completely unnecessary procedure, like inflammation, scars, and even problems with the reproductive system and penile function.

Kids with asthma or allergies or problems with their immune system can get sick more than other kids.

«This makes the systems smarter and more resilient in everyday use but also means that extensive damage to one system can cause problems with others - which needs careful planning to avoid critical loss of services, such as communications in flood - hit areas at times when they are especially needed for example.

And that still doesn't address the problems with every other system: that they give power to the people making the decision.

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.

Abinanti says even if the lost revenue is made up, there are other problems with the cashless toll system that a crackdown would not address.

I have problems with a system that costs multiples more than almost every other state and which is top - heavy with administrators and paper - shufflers, and there's where the cuts need to be made, but what exactly is the alternative?

The constituency system combined with first - past - the - post voting brings other problems and grievances in its train, especially the issue of «wasted votes» in safe seats.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city wosystem City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city woSystem (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

His priorities include implementing procedures to deal with new requirements to provide counsel to all defendants at the initial arraignment; taking advantage of modern information technology in the court to process its caseload and exchange information with other parts of the state court system; and to improve the court's ability to address the problems of domestic violence and substance abuse.

Common Council President James Noble, who recently formed an infrastructure committee to help track and coordinate the city's efforts to deal with an aging sewer and stormwater system and other problems said that he had received no word from the Mayor's office regarding the status of the sinkhole project.

Giambra says, «It is time we join with the other states that have moved to legalize marijuana and take advantage of the enormous opportunity we have to raise money to deal with our very serious infrastructure problems, including the subway system in New York City.

His U-turn was partially welcomed, but Labour and other opposition parties said it did not go far enough in addressing problems with the new system, which is designed to roll six existing benefits into a single monthly payment.

Around one sixth of people in the UK aged over 75 have vitamin B12 deficiency, which when severe can lead to significant problems in the nervous system including muscle weakness, problems with walking, tiredness, and pins and needles, as well as depression and problems with memory and other important everyday cognitive functions.

«Dependence on others and geriatric illnesses, such as cognitive impairment and mobility problems, affect the majority of older emergency patients across a wide range of nations with different health systems and cultural contexts.

Either way, Churchyard says, his team's study illustrates how broken South Africa's TB treatment system is, a problem echoed across other countries with high incidences of TB.

Because wild mice are constantly exposed to germs and other environmental insults, he adds, they carry microbiomes that have evolved to help their hosts cope with these problems, seemingly making the immune system less reactive to harmless microbes and other environmental insults, yet more reactive to other, potentially deadly ones.

Chronically elevated stress hormone levels in vertebrates interfere with the immune system, inhibit reproduction, and cause other health problems.

I was able to, in the early stages, identify problems with the system and suggest approaches that I felt would be able to fix one problem without creating a host of other problems.

The findings are consistent with some other studies about the impact of fat and sugar on cognitive function and behavior, and suggest that some of these problems may be linked to alteration of the microbiome — a complex mixture in the digestive system of about 100 trillion microorganisms.

But in an analysis just published in The Electricity Journal, scientists say that much of this problem could be addressed with enhanced energy storage technology or by developing «hybrid» systems in which, on a broader geographic scale, one form of renewable energy is ramping up even while the other is declining.

A multimodal learning system is also beginning to emerge: instructor - centered learning, which is the traditional approach, but with technology that helps the teacher mediate the delivery of courseware and instruction; pupil - centered learning, in which the student uses Internet resources to expand learning experiences; and collaborative learning, in which the student and others on the Internet work together on cross-disciplinary projects concerning open - ended problems.

The basic problem the team faced with these and other vaccines they've developed is that the opioid drugs are small molecules, which are not recognized by the immune system.

Users with Macintosh and other non-Windows systems have had problems with Grants.gov.

Nevertheless, after hearing other countries» experiences with their regulatory systems and the problems faced by universities, an informal vote at the end of the meeting overwhelmingly rejected the idea of having a central government regulator of research integrity in the United Kingdom.

The system, called TriCheck, allows designers and others interested in working with a design, to detect memory ordering errors before they become a problem.

With higher levels of alcohol, problems can arise as important neural and other bodily systems become overinhibited and shut down.

A key problem with the current system is that companies tend to work in parallel, identifying similar or identical targets and developing their own molecules — unaware of other similar products that have already been tested and discarded.

Experts, however, say that ransomware is less likely to cause major problems for infrastructure than other types of malware because it deals with data rather than interfering with control systems.

To solve this problem, a University of Southampton researcher has developed a loudspeaker system to help people with hearing problems listen to television without affecting the sound for other viewers.

This is the specific system I use when working with women on fertility, but it is also very useful for helping with PMS, cramping, fatigue, heavy periods, and other hormone - related problems.

Most commonly known for the help in improving and maintaining the immune system, probiotics found in certain foods and supplements are known to help with: the common cold, strep throat, and even those pesky ear infections, as well as many other immune linked health problems.

There tends to be a lot of fighting in this system, with each partner being very reactive and blaming the other person for the problems.

Other problems that have been anecdotally associated with children of both sexes who were fed soy - based formula include extreme emotional behavior, asthma, immune system problems, pituitary insufficiency, thyroid disorders and irritable bowel syndrome.

So to solve the problem for ourselves and other homebrewers, in 2011 we came out with the very first models of our custom Kombucha heating mats, the Essential Heat Strip and Year Round Heating System w / Dimmer, heaters that used highly efficient technology to deliver heat directly to the sides of the vessel where it can do the most good.