Sentences with phrase «positive change in this rate»

A positive change in this rate, even without an improvement in your overall breastfeeding rate, could indicate an improvement in breastfeeding care.

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Gallup notes that this positive change is also associated with an increase in standard of living ratings, economic confidence, and job availability.

Chart 2 shows the historical positive correlation between changes in the Fed Funds rate and the profits cycle.

Commentary: «Revenues were up 8.3 % for the third quarter versus the prior - year period, due primarily to higher commodity prices impacting the Company's supply chain revenues, higher same store sales in both domestic and international stores, store count growth in international markets and the positive impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates.»

Foreign currency movements: Assuming spot rates as of 29 July 2015 there is no material change in the calculated positive 2015 currency translational impact compared to prior guidance.

These positive earnings drivers were more than offset by the combined impact of several factors, including increased energy - related provisions for credit losses, a 17 basis point decline in net interest margin, moderate growth of non-interest expenses, the addition of acquisition - related contingent consideration fair value changes reflecting performance within CWB Maxium Financial (CWB Maxium), higher preferred share dividends, and the 20 % increase to CWB's income tax rate in Alberta.

Wall Street falls sharply amid tech and trade - war concerns: Reuters Korea expert recommends cancelling Trump - Kim meeting: CNBC US ISM Mfg Index edged down to still - strong 59.3 for March: MarketWatch US Mfg PMI rose to 3 - year high in March: IHS Markit Construction spending in US posted a weak 0.1 % gain in February: Reuters Eurozone mfg sentiment still positive in Mar, but eased to 8 - month low: IHS Markit German retail spending fell for third month in February: Reuters Fed funds futures predicting no change in rates at FOMC meeting in May: CME US visitor visas fall 13 % over past year: Politico

Real EFFR plotted with one - year percent changes in investment (not shown) from 1954 to 2016 reveals a small and weak positive relationship between rates and investment — the reverse of the standard assumption.

So how do packaging manufacturers keep up with this rapidly evolving rate of marketing change in order to contribute to a positive brand experience?

Team News & Lineups: Athletic Bilbao will be without the services of Aritz Arduriz who was the star player when Athletic Bilbao defeated Barcelona 4 - 0 earlier in the season but his omission is likely to trigger some positive changes with Sabin Merino leading the forward line alongside highly rated Iker Munian and Inaki Williams.

Feedback from more than 200 participants involved in the pilot has been overwhelmingly positive, with 94 % rating the resource as «excellent» or «good» and just under two thirds (65 %) intending to make a change to their school food culture as a result.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Mentoring as well as positive institutional change can improve the success rates of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, Malcom said, but students can also take a «bottom - up» approach, by improving their leadership skills.

While some scientists in the region complain about the slow rate of change, Nicolelis sees many positive changes taking place.

To determine if positive selection has played a role in Boule evolution, we compared the ratio of the rate of nucleotide changes that result in a non-synonymous amino acid substitution (Ka) to the rate of nucleotide changes that cause a synonymous amino acid substitution (Ks).

Nearly every paper that I have seen recently that has indicated a meaningful change in rate for a variable related to warming has suggested that, if anything, average model sensitivity may be too low, with positive feedbacks underestimated.

In short, inside every cell in your body are telomeres, the changing protective caps on the ends of your DNA strands that get shorter with age at a rate that can increase or decrease with lifestyle factors either positive or negativIn short, inside every cell in your body are telomeres, the changing protective caps on the ends of your DNA strands that get shorter with age at a rate that can increase or decrease with lifestyle factors either positive or negativin your body are telomeres, the changing protective caps on the ends of your DNA strands that get shorter with age at a rate that can increase or decrease with lifestyle factors either positive or negative.

Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest - performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.

But, because the district countered those demographic shifts with a strong, data - driven plan, it also saw positive changes in that time, such as an improvement in its graduation rate, higher levels of parent involvement, and more low - income students enrolling in Advanced Placement courses.

Other indicators of positive systemic change are: 29 % enrollment increase compared to five years ago; increase in graduation rate from 84.1 % (2012 accountability report) to 97.5 % (2015 accountability report); increase in attendance rate from 93.3 % (2012 accountability report) to 95.0 % (2015 accountability report); and a 22 % decrease in discipline referrals from 2011 - 2012 to 2014 - 2015.

I am outraged that Steven Adamowski is Special Master of Windham and New London, and was Superintendent of Hartford Schools, where he changed what it meant to graduate so that he could instantly improve Hartford's graduation rate; where he manipulated stats to make it look like he had «closed the achievement gap;» and finally, where he parleyed every positive soundbite in the toadying Hartford Courant into a bonus or raise for himself.

What does not work might be a surprise: harsh, zero - tolerance policies, added security equipment and patrolmen — in the absence of the other interventions like changing the school climate and getting kids to practice positive interventions — do little or nothing, and sometimes actually increase rates of bullying.

Carnegie's report on how the productive persistence strategy within the Community College Pathways has resulted in positive changes in student engagement and outcomes to addressing the alarming failure rates of students in developmental mathematics.

The results have been promising: A study of statewide implementation of the 5Essentials across Illinois — a state that encompasses districts of diverse size and composition — found that strength on the five essential supports is positively related to higher test scores and larger gains over time in math and reading, positive changes in attendance rates, and improved graduation rates.

On the positive side, the EPA - rated fuel economy hasn't changed, even though the car uses the same power train as in previous years.

Your rating reflects positive changes in behavior once the credit bureau reporting agency updates the information.

«When in comes to positive rates of change, it screens incredibly well on that basis,» Hodgins said, adding that the stock trades below book value.

The effect (positive and negative) of a change in tax rates is an unknown until the time of withdrawal.

The change in value is even more than the reduction in the DAC, because in the writedown process, the discount rate on the DAC went from a positive number to zero.

Vettese did say however that reducing the clawback rate (currently 15 %) could be a positive change since the current system is a real deterrent to staying in the work force past traditional retirement age.

The FHA estimates the proposed changes will generate about $ 300 million a month in positive receipts, allowing the agency to replenish its reserves at a much faster rate than it otherwise would.

For the period 1949 — 2015, each percentage point increase in price of the U.S. equity market is associated with a positive 13 - basis - point change in the dividend growth rate in the coming year.4 The deviation of dividend growth rates from their long - term averages is also persistent.

Colorado received a lot of heartworm - positive dogs after Hurricane Katrina, but the actual rate of heartworm infection in the state is less than 3 % and has not changed significantly in decades.]

Nearly every paper that I have seen recently that has indicated a meaningful change in rate for a variable related to warming has suggested that, if anything, average model sensitivity may be too low, with positive feedbacks underestimated.

Seeing this as a baseline, positive CO2 feedback from temperature changes, or a running out of capacity for greater uptake from CO2 accumulation, would be seen as adding more CO2 to the air in addition to anthropogenic releases, but it would have to surpass some level before it would result in a total atmospheric accumulation of CO2 greater than anthropogenic emissions (first, as a rate, and later, cummulative change).

If we isolate the ocean for diagnosis, there is a rather short list of suspect forcings and feedbacks (ie changes in shortwave reaching ocean surface possibly from strong negative aerosol feedbacks, net positive rate change in loss of longwave from the ocean (which would have implications for the positive WVF), net positive heat loss through evaporation without balancing compensation (with other implications for positive WVF).

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They do occur and the rate of change in CO2 carefully reflects this as a positive feedback.

You are aware the sea level rise has not altered for decades (rate of change) and whilst it is a positive trend it remains fairly constant and has in fact slowed in recent years?

So the date in the past where the hypothesis that the rate of change in global warming temperature data ceases its positive trend is some 17 years ago or 1995.

Instead, natural variations in the climate system and other external forcing factors (such as volcanic eruptions) will likely cause the rate of Arctic sea ice change to vary considerably from decade to decade, and perhaps even temporarily switch from negative (sea ice loss) to positive (sea ice growth).

Paleoclimate data are not as helpful for defining the likely rate of sea level rise in coming decades, because there is no known case of growth of a positive (warming) climate forcing as rapid as the anthropogenic change.

This is a peak for the temperature time series and the transition from positive to negative rate of change in dT / dt.

A low or moderate rate of warming will most likely result in net positive changes.

• While the complex biological relationships among fisheries and other aquatic biota and physiological responses to environmental change are not well understood, positive effects such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes may be offset by negative factors such as a changing climate that alters established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships (High Confidence).

* The rising CO2 content of the atmosphere may induce very small changes in the well - buffered ocean chemistry (pH) that could slightly reduce coral calcification rates; but potential positive effects of hydrospheric CO2 enrichment may more than compensate for this modest negative phenomenon.

The positive effects of climate change — such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes — may be offset by negative factors such as changes in established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships.

In addition, the rate of warming for a given CO2 trajectory is sensitive to both positive (CO2) and negative (aerosol) forcings, and so higher sensitivity to both will change in the trend in an uncertain direction depending on the balance of these forcingIn addition, the rate of warming for a given CO2 trajectory is sensitive to both positive (CO2) and negative (aerosol) forcings, and so higher sensitivity to both will change in the trend in an uncertain direction depending on the balance of these forcingin the trend in an uncertain direction depending on the balance of these forcingin an uncertain direction depending on the balance of these forcings.

It is evident that major reforms will be required before substantive positive changes in the Indigenous graduation rates and outcomes at the secondary and post-secondary education levels will emerge.

The insurer outlined changes meant to have long - term positive impact on the legal representation rate among its clients, including resolving claims effectively and quickly «in a fair and reasonable manner» through streamlining determination of coverage and payment of benefits, implementing initiatives improving access to benefits and providing education to customers so they have more control over the claims process.