Sentences with phrase «over recent decades as»

Over recent decades as law inexorably moved from print to digital and from «reported» to a state where effectively all cases are reported, «practical obscurity», as some have called it, associated with limited access to legal decisions is no longer assured.

Shared decision making (SDM) has been studied over recent decades as a method for improving provider - patient communication and partnership, with improvements seen in satisfaction, adherence and health outcomes.

Not exact matches

Over the last two decades, such loans as a percentage of total bank commercial loans, have dropped to 30 percent of bank portfolios from 50 percent in 1995, according to recent research compiled by former Small Business Administration head Karen Mills and Harvard University.

Indeed, a recent study suggests the number of retail gas stations has been slowly dropping over the past two decades, with a «continued lack of profitability» as the driving force behind the decline.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

In terms of our transportation infrastructure, according to the most recent World Economic Forum rankings, the U.S. fell from 7th to 18th in the quality of our roads over the past decade, as our investments in this space have declined by half as a share of GDP since the 1960s.

While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase in U.S. government liabilities in recent years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.

«what unites the experiences of the main deficit countries is a steep increase in income inequality over recent decades, as measured by the share of income going to the richest 5 percent of -LSB-...]

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

We might also note that the moral limits for the regulation of individual behavior have over recent decades become increasingly arbitrary as the notion of the public good has become a more psychological, more subjective, and thus a more confused, notion.

From long standing members such as Kellogg's and Cadbury to some of the lesser known recent additions, we explore how the top 50 food brands have grown (or not) over the last decade.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Mr. Rangel has represented the area of Upper Manhattan, which was placed into the 13th district as part of the recent redistricting process, for over four decades.

His subsequent decision to stand as an independent, followed by his crushing victory over the New Labour machine still counts as the biggest strategic success for the Labour left in recent decades.

As a recent IBO post showed, the number of paraprofessionals, or teaching assistants, in the city's public schools has grown considerably over the past decade.

Though conventional cigarette smoking has declined dramatically over recent decades in the US, the report stresses that e-cigarette use is associated with the use of other tobacco products and that perceptions of e-cigarettes as less harmful than traditional cigarettes can lead to increased rates of vaping.

Over the past decade, ever more sophisticated dating of the ancient basalt has shown that the lava bed could be about the same age as the extinction, and recent studies have revealed that it covered twice as much area as previously supposed.

The results do suggest however that if sea ice loss continues as it has over recent decades, the risk of wet summers may increase.

Concern over honey bee declines in recent decades as well as annual losses has sparked debate over their causes and has led to hypotheses that a specific novel syndrome «Colony Collapse Disorder» (CCD) is plaguing bee populations.

Over recent decades the remaining Amazon forest has acted as a vast «carbon sink» — absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases — helping to put a brake on the rate of climate change.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

It has been recognized by the most recent National Academy of Sciences decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics as an area that is ripe for new discoveries over the next decade, and one whose excitement we are pleased to share with our colleagues at NASA, with the scientific community, and with the American public.

As our profession evolved and spread throughout the globe over recent decades, it took on a span of tasks that requires distinctive skill sets.

Recent methane measurements at Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal and Tae - ahn Peninsula, Republic of Korea (See http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/iadv/index.php) in the context of outlier data points over the last decade at sites such as Storhofdi, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and reports of methane releases from the Arctic seabed, tell us that at current levels of AGW, the Earth's sea - floor methane systems are not stable.

This more recent article might also be helpful for you: nutritionfacts.org/2014/11/20/how-beans-help-our-bones/ Which includes this quote: «Phytate is a naturally occurring compound found in all plant seeds (like beans, grains, and nuts) that over the decades has been maligned as mineral absorption inhibitors.

As has long been noted, our feathered friends often provide «canary in a coal mine» early warnings as to the impacts and perils of environmental changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeeAs has long been noted, our feathered friends often provide «canary in a coal mine» early warnings as to the impacts and perils of environmental changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeeas to the impacts and perils of environmental changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeed.

Granted, people had been waiting for a new live - action Star Wars film for over a decade before The Force Awakens hit theaters and may have been a bit easier to please, but a great team has been assembled both in front of and behind the camera, and the new footage looks great, so, as of now, there's no reason to believe that Disney and Lucasfilm won't be going two for two with their recent Star Wars releases.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

Following recent demand - driven reforms, some universities are admitting larger numbers of teacher education students with increasingly low Year 12 performances — a trend that may continue as the number of teachers required to staff our schools grows over the next decade.

As I noted in The Same Thing Over and Over, «The debate over the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.&raOver and Over, «The debate over the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.&raOver, «The debate over the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.&raover the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.»

That power has steadily increased over the decades, especially in recent years, as federal initiatives like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have pushed states to assume more authority over education.

While these stories (e.g., Partelow, 2016; Rich, 2015) and a highly - publicized recent report (Sutcher et al., 2016) generally discuss teacher shortages as a national problem, we argue that the popular conception of a «teacher shortage» is not borne out by historical data; in fact, the production of newly - minted potential teachers has increased steadily over the past several decades, and only about half of these recent graduates have been hired as public school teachers in a typical year.

In the broad resegregation of the nation's schools that has transpired over recent decades, New York's public - school system looms as one of the most segregated.

It had been rising relentlessly — a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile — and it seemed now to herald the end of the world as we knew it.

And yet, as recent white paper from Vanguard shows, that simple 50/50 portfolio would have served investors extremely well — not just over the last 20 years, but during nine tumultuous decades.

In addition, the leptospirosis vaccine is now recommended as a core vaccine for dogs in California because the disease has the potential to occur in any dog (even in urban environments), can be life - threatening, and the vaccines are considered safe and efficacious, with recent improvements in safety over the last decade.

Travel Incorporated has offered group air services for over a decade under the TI Groups umbrella, servicing corporate clients and incentive houses nationwide; however the recent surge in industry demand for high - touch services, together with corporate trending towards Strategic Meetings Management initiatives has created a void in both the services and expertise now available industry - wide, which is the underlying principle behind launching GTP as a separate entity.

This game has gotten better over the decades as story beats that I missed as a kid shined bright in a more recent play through.

According to a recent interview, it turns out the studio's been paying special attention to the DC camp, as the Arkham series has set the standard over the past decade or so.

Over the recent decades the Turner Prize has played a significant role in provoking debate about visual art and the growing public interest in contemporary British art in particular, and has become widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.

Over time, the Guggenheim has expanded the type of art that it exhibits and collects through the addition of other great collections — notably, those of Karl Nierendorf, Peggy Guggenheim, Justin and Hilde Thannhauser, and Giuseppe Panza di Biumo — as well as through opportunities that resulted from the institution's increasingly international focus in more recent decades.

These works have been informed by the development of the contemporary art world over recent decades, as a previously more insular, scholarly culture has transformed into a more market - driven scene appealing to a new class of international plutocrats.

Sturtevant is often regarded as having led contemporary art investigations in to authorship and aesthetics over recent decades.

Over recent decades, movie posters have become as iconic as the movies themselves.

Beckman's work consistently treats film as a performance medium, and astutely anticipates the social and cultural impact of video gaming and online networks over recent decades.

The exhibition as a whole encapsulates many of the significant directions Hamilton's art had taken over recent decades, when his international reputation soared.

The works, which largely come from the collection of the Cruz - Diez Art Foundation, show the richness and variety of the artist's research over more than six decades of creation, with early works such as El Muro negro (1957), Physichromie 459 (1969), Couleur Additive 105 (1976), Couleur à l'espace (1995), until recent works of the Couleur Additive, Induction Chromatique and Physichromie series.