Sentences with phrase «percent less change»

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«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

An era when less than 10 percent of voters respond to pollsters, and where mass opinion changes rapidly, will be one where Election Day is again a day of drama.

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

The change is less dramatic for what the Commerce Department calls «intellectual property,» but still the statistics show an increase, a 4.6 percent annualized rate of increase this year so far from 4.2 percent a year during that earlier five - year period.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

Eco-CutTM enables 20 percent less film to be used per pack sealed, which gives longer running time between film reel changes and impressive cost savings.

Half of the top ten states with the largest losses experienced a less than one percent negative change.

The change means total fat will be limited to 30 percent of the calories in the weekly menu, Lale said, and saturated fat must make up less than 10 percent of total calories.

In what she called the most historic change in the school - lunch system, Haas has been converting a program in which less than 1 percent of the lunches were meeting national nutrition guidelines into one in which every school will meet the requirements by next year.

The sentence «The two - parent family is no longer the typical US family» was changed to more accurately read «In 1950, almost 90 percent of children aged 0 to 14 lived with married parents — now that proportion has fallen to less than two - thirds of children.»

That's less than one half of one percent — which sounds like small change to me.

Based on past results, any change in the numbers from these preliminary rates to the final scores released by the State next year will be negligible (expected to be less than one - tenth of one percent).»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said he doesn't want to negotiate any changes to the 2 percent cap Cuomo proposed, saying anything less than the gubernatorial program bill passed by the Senate early on in the session would be too watered down to be effective.

Even this change was limited to disputes involving «fiscally eligible» municipalities — defined as those with relatively high property tax burdens or fund balances of less than 5 percent.

According to Siena, 5 percent thought government is less open on Cuomo's watch, and 46 percent say there has been no change.

Less than half, or 48 percent of voters, are prepared to re-elect Cuomo to a third term next year, while 44 percent would back a generic «someone else» — little change from a 46 percent split in July.

McAdam, who makes an $ 18 million annual salary, has said that Verizon's landline business now accounts for less than 30 percent of the company's total revenue, and changes are needed for the company to stay competitive.

Cuomo says the change could increase tax liabilities for some New Yorkers by as much as 25 percent, potentially prompting an exodus to cheaper states and making the state less competitive economically.

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

The governor said the change is needed because less than one percent of teachers were rated ineffective (the lowest category on the rating system) last year but students continued to «lag behind in performance.»

In recent years, county legislators and Council members have changed less than one percent of operating budgets submitted for review and approval.

Thanks to changes Miner implemented during the past year, city officials anticipate that health care costs will increase less than 1 percent in 2015 - 16, to $ 46 million.

Tires that our partner companies are now working on can improve gas mileage by up to 10 percent, just by changing the tires, because this rubber rolls with less resistance.

«The slow changes that we detected — about 4 percent less frogs and lizards each year — would be difficult to notice,» Whitfield says.

One percent or less of the contaminated sediment that's moving offshore every year means things aren't going to change very fast,» Buesseler says.

Only about 40 percent of used electronics are currently collected for recycling, and much of that is «down - cycled» into materials of lesser quality, but the computer company aims to change that.

Dell's Plastics - Recycling Program Earns Green Electronics Award Only about 40 percent of used electronics are currently collected for recycling, and much of that is «down - cycled» into materials of lesser quality, but the computer company aims to change that.

The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short - and long - term consequences of environmental changes to the reef.

Of those who expressed concern, less than 10 percent have changed their travel plans.

Fifty - nine percent want the U.S. to do more to address climate change, while 18 percent want it to do less.

Their findings indicated that, overall, the contribution of changing solar activity, either directly or through cosmic rays, was even less and can not have contributed more than 10 percent to global warming in the 20th century.

Embedded in the supports will be the world's most accurate giant bathroom scale, capable of supporting 2 million pounds and sensing changes of less than half a percent.

«We conclude that the level of contribution of changing solar activity is less than 10 percent of the measured global warming observed in the 20th century.

A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year found that between 1993 and 2010, the Greenland ice sheet contributed less than 10 percent to global sea - level rise.

For example, burning compressed natural gas emits roughly 30 percent less CO2 than burning diesel but, if the new methane leakage estimates are true, the practice ends up being worse for climate change.

These changes can alter the luminescence of the star by less than one percent over the course of several days, making observations challenging.

More than 70 percent of those surveyed said they were concerned about the virus, but less than 10 percent of those with concerns changed their travel plans, according to researchers at the university's Tourism Crisis Management Initiative (TCMI).

However, a recent study published in the journal of Global Environmental Change, which used an iPhone app called Mappiness to track the location and corresponding emotional state of over 20,000 participants, found that we spend less than 5 percent of our waking hours in nature!

Five minutes is less than half a percentage of the time we have in a day, but it can completely change how the other 99.7 percent goes — for anyone looking to get a better snapshot of their fitness while adding a meditative moment to the start of their day, you really can't beat HRV monitoring coupled with a few mindful breaths.

Experts advise that by changing from a traditional incandescent light bulb to an efficient LED, CFL, or halogen incandescent, you'll use 25 to 80 percent less energy, and the bulb will last up to 25 times longer.

In a study involving dietary ketosis via a low carbohydrate diet (less than 10 percent of total calories), compared to subjects on a 50 percent carbohydrate diet, the low - carbohydrate subjects demonstrated better performance on memory tests, with higher scores being correlated to higher serum KB levels.14 A study using cultured mouse hippocampal cells showed that addition of the KB β - hydroxybutyrate (β - OHB) to cells exposed to Aβ resulted in no decrease in the numbers of dendrites or total neurons — two of the noted pathological changes in AD.

Measuring changes using a Crohn's Disease Index, the researchers observed that about 74 percent of those in the growth hormone group experienced noticeable improvement, including elimination of abdominal pain and less bouts of diarrhea.

After six weeks, these lacerating HIIT sessions produced similar physiological changes in the leg muscles of young men as multiple, hour - long sessions per week of steady cycling, even though the HIIT workouts involved about 90 percent less exercise time.

Twenty percent of the population is estimated to sleep too little (less than 6 hours a night); this can lead to changes in genes that regulate stress, our immune system, sleep - wake cycles, inflammation, and aging.

While the number of his online subscribers looking only to hook up is less than one percent, according to Frind, it is something he is working to change.

So even though the last few years of reasonably pleasant outcomes in the top Oscar category have us less than 100 percent sure we won't actually hear the Facebook movie's name read out when the envelope is opened, nothing changes the fact that it's not the movie that swept the guilds.

And at the end of the day, the federal government accounts for less than ten percent of total spending on education, so any changes would be relatively modest.

Had the districts applied our statistical adjustment to the observation scores of these dismissed teachers, the fate of 15 percent of that four percent would have changed (less than one percent of the total teacher workforce).

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.