Sentences with phrase «performs in a number of years»

The company hasn't really updated the way it fundamentally performs in a number of years, but this has changed in the last few months.

Not exact matches

And while historically, women in the U.S. have never been prosecuted for receiving abortions, a growing number of American women have been arrested in recent years for performing DIY abortions.

As the CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, I have seen firsthand, over the last five years, an increase in the number of world - class companies seeking to hire top - performing B2B salespeople.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

All of which is to say, what these numbers really tell us is that, in general, stocks tend to perform below average in the year leading up to and during a recession and perform above average in the 1, 3, and 5 years following the end of a recession (with the usual caveats that there are always outliers and this is a small sample size).

«I am particularly pleased that our highest - performing schools, Hampden Gurney, has secured fantastic outcomes with a significant number of disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 - demonstrating once again that a child's success should never be limited by their background.»

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported last week that the rate and number of abortions performed in the United States fell by 5 percent in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available.

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Santi Cazorla and Francis Coquelin have performed manfully in the midfield engine room but this area has needed attention for a number of years.

The Slovenian stalwart has performed at a high level for a number of years in Italy, securing a move to join the Nerazzurri after impressing with Udinese.

Within 5 years, the number of Cesareans performed in the hospital was cut in half.

Every year for the past 11, we have set a new record in the number of cesareans performed.

«Our results evaluated patients at an average of five years of follow up and most patients continued to be very satisfied and performed a high number of sporting activities, including those that required high use of their shoulders,» said study author Grant Garcia, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York.

Currently more than 1 million knee replacements and hip replacements are performed each year in the United States, and with the aging population, the number of total joint replacements is expected to grow.

Each year, more than 1 million knee and hip replacements are performed in the United States, and the numbers are expected to rise dramatically over the next decade with rising rates of obesity and an aging population.

They anticipate performing 40 transplants this year, the highest number since the program began, and foresee an accelerating rate of increase in the annual volume of transplants performed for the fifth consecutive year.

He advocated widespread use of these immunosuppressants, and because of these drugs, the number of transplants has grown every year for the past several decades; in 2005 surgeons performed 28,107 transplants of the kidney, liver, pancreas, heart, lung and intestine, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.

Cronstein says related future therapies, if successful, would prevent or delay the need for some of the million or so joint replacements performed each year, numbers of which are growing in part thanks to obesity, which puts more pressure on joint structures.

Three years ago, an I - Stem team identified a genomic anomaly that very frequently appeared in undifferentiated cell lines when the latter were forced to perform too great a number of proliferation cycles.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

Unbiased stereology was performed by a blinded observer to count the number of dopaminergic neurons in the SNpc of the mice after that had reached a year of age.

Over the past two years Feldman, a software engineer with a strong interest in science, has performed several dozen experiments on himself and collected data from a number of other keto and low - carb dieters whose cholesterol levels have increased far beyond the «optimal» range.

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

From here, your ruler will hold a war council every few months to define objectives for the year ahead and by choosing a variety of activities to embrace, such as performing a set number of raids or invasions for example, your officer can gain merit which in turn will increase their standing within the army that they serve.

Two of the network's three schools rank among the 15 top - performing high - poverty schools in the state, and the newest site, opened last year, was the number - one first - year school in the state.

During the current academic year, a limited number of districts in five states — Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia — have been permitted to offer students a choice of supplemental educational services a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.

A study of 700 students from 11 school districts in Tennessee found that students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three - week period performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.

During this time, he has made immense changes to the math curriculum which, in one year, resulted in a 40 percent drop in the number of students performing below proficiency on the Standard 9.

A 1992 study of 700 students from eleven school districts in Tennessee found that students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three - week period performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.

KH: Over the past 10 years, the total number of students attending schools run by high - performing CMOs increased at least tenfold, from approximately 10,000 students in 2000 to more than 100,000 students today.

There will likely be a significant increase in the number of charter schools that open in New Orleans in the next school year, as 117 of the 125 schools were labeled as «low performing» by the state and thus could be taken over and converted to charters.

In recent years, a number of nonteachers have performed competently as district superintendents or charter school principals.

When we performed this analysis, we found, as other economists before us, that when the average number of years of schooling in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over subsequent decades.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and

That debate often overlooks the considerable progress since then: a record - high national high school graduation rate for 2014 - 2015, above 83 percent, and double the number of students performing at grade level in reading and math, compared with 20 years ago.

The new policy on social promotion caused a large number of low - performing students in these grades to be retained, substantially changing the student composition in these and subsequent grades beginning in the 1997 - ’98 school year.

The state of California has implemented a number measures to close one of the largest and most persistent achievement gaps in the nation, Recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test for fourth - and eighth - graders in math and reading given every two years, show that California's students are still performing below the... Continue reading California: Moving the Needle on the Achievement Gap

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt says teachers and pupils are suffering because of government interference as the number of under - performing state secondary schools more than doubles in a year.

«Our goal is to turn around the 5,000 lowest - performing schools over the next five years, as part of our overall strategy for dramatically reducing the dropout rate, improving high school graduation rates and increasing the number of students who graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace,» said Arne Duncan, the administration's new secretary of education in August of that year.

• In school year 2016 - 17, Turner students achieved double - digit Math PARCC gains, and we have decreased the number of students performing at a Level 1 by 22 % • Turner ES has 35 + partnerships that provide a great balance of family engagement, joy and rigor • Turner is also a Turnaround Arts school paired with Grammy Award winning composer, vocalist and bassist, Esperanza Spalding

«When a school continues to perform in the bottom five percent of the state and isn't showing signs of progress or has graduation rates below 60 percent over a number of years, something dramatic needs to be done,» said Duncan.

Sanger Unified is a prime example of a district that finds itself in a bind as it faces new federal requirements under the No Child Left Behind law, which was supposed to raise the number of American students who perform on grade level to 100 percent this coming year.

When asked what should determine teacher pay, 86 percent said a teacher's education and training should be either the most important or an important factor, followed by 77 percent who said their students» achievement and progress on a range of measures including standardized tests, classroom observations and parent feedback; 77 percent said whether the teacher is at a low - performing school where students need the most help; 64 percent who said students» achievement and progress on standardized tests; and 57 percent who said seniority in the number of years of classroom teaching experience.

Ms Williams said Wales» most able children had not performed across the board as well as they were expected because the priority in recent years had been to focus on increasing the number of children leaving school with five good GCSEs.

Over the next five years, Boston Schools Fund will commit significant financial and administrative support to increase the number of available spaces in high - performing district, charter, and Catholic schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children by 2025.

Prior to SCPCSD, Hunter was a high school math teacher at an international school in Buenos Aires, Argentina and then worked for a number of years in Tennessee to launch 16 high - performing public charter schools in Memphis and Nashville.

As a third factor, the report says the effort can only succeed through an strategy of finding quality charter operators, pointing out that the state charter association has taken steps in recent years to reduce the number of «under - performing» charters and «growth for growth's sake» is not the aim.

The SRC passed a resolution authorizing Cambridge Education, for $ 100,000 this year, ``... to retain a consultant to conduct objective third party school quality reviews in a number of schools that have been identified as under - performing through the District's SGS process.

Over the past few years, the number of low - performing schools has increased, which deepens the challenge facing students in our state who are already not performing at grade - level in reading and math.

The IIHS performs a number of safety tests on the newest vehicles every year, and the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica was named a Top Safety Pick + for Automatic Emergency Braking and great results in the other five crashworthiness tests.