Sentences with phrase «predicted more ability»

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More analytics: As we see more marketing channels in play and an improved ability to understand how they all touch, I predict marketers will be seeking out new ways to prioritize their many opportunitMore analytics: As we see more marketing channels in play and an improved ability to understand how they all touch, I predict marketers will be seeking out new ways to prioritize their many opportunitmore marketing channels in play and an improved ability to understand how they all touch, I predict marketers will be seeking out new ways to prioritize their many opportunities.

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.

He promised us Lemar (a done deal) and he genuinely seems more interested in members of this forum acknowledging his ability to predict transfers than he does in anything else.

The Chiefs have to be more confident in their ability to beat the Broncos after watching the Patriots come back last Sunday night, but they don't have Foxborough weather on their side: the temperature is predicted to be in the high 40s around game time.

Findings will help language teachers devise more effective strategies for assisting learners and influence the accuracy of tests that predict SFL reading abilities.

To understand how confidence in parenting may predict parenting behaviors in women who were abused as children, psychologists at the University of Rochester have found that mothers who experienced more types of maltreatment as children are more critical of their ability to parent successfully.

What's more, the ability to smell one of the compounds doesn't predict the ability to smell the other.

The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in Queensland, Australia is predicted to almost completely lose its ability to host the endemic plants that grow 1000 metres or more above sea level.

He also predicted that the United Nations» history of pushing countries to cut more carbon doesn't bode well for diplomats» ability to raise the level of ambition before 2020.

Besides helping scientists better understand the risks of P. aeruginosa colonizing equipment on spacecraft or causing diseases such as urinary tract infections among astronauts, the experiments may improve scientists» ability to predict whether other species of bacteria might become more virulent in space.

In people with schizophrenia, for example, the ability to perceive another person's emotional state canaccurately predict social functioning more broadly.

Writing this week (May 23, 2016) in the journal Nature Microbiology, a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka describes a novel strategy to predict the antigenic evolution of circulating influenza viruses and give science the ability to more precisely anticipate seasonal flu strains.

«Getting the past climate change correct in these models gives us more confidence in their ability to predict future climate change,» Otto - Bliesner says.

Children aged 5 or 6 develop the ability to predict which of two simple events is more probable.

That ability opens the door for sequencing many more genomes at an even faster pace, which is necessary if scientists are going to get better at learning to predict or perhaps even change an animal's characteristics based on their DNA alone.

«The ability to use invertebrate DNA for detection of host DNA will become more and more popular,» she predicts.

That puts more pressure on NOAA to improve its ability to better understand and predict those events, at a time when budget pressure in Washington threatens to reduce the agency's ability to carry out those tasks, Lubchenco said.

The researchers predicted that if voice pitch contains information about leadership ability, then individuals with lower - pitched voices would show evidence of being more effective elected officials.

The ability to predict crystal structures could therefore enable the design of materials with superior properties, for example the creation of brighter pigments, more effective pharmaceuticals, or even lower calorie foodstuff.

The research team says that benefits of knowing predicted longevity include the ability to make more informed healthcare decisions by both physicians and patients, especially regarding the prescription of particular drugs for chronic diseases.

January 2004: «Directions for Climate Research» Here, ExxonMobil outlines areas where it deemed more research was necessary, such as «natural climate variability, ocean currents and heat transfer, the hydrological cycle, and the ability of climate models to predict changes on a regional and local scale.»

«Our study indicates that climate models might have a more limited ability to predict which regions will get drier and which regions will get wetter with global warming than previously assumed.»

The ability to model and simulate different treatments prior to administering them to a patient can help predict with more certainty which therapeutic approaches may be the most effective.

Scientific conclusions predict that when consumed by humans, it can increase «motor» ability of seniors (physical movement potential) like the capability to do more exercise.

They find that, across all seven Noble high schools with graduating seniors in that year, students were 19 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than one would predict based on their incoming ability, suggesting that the network has continued to produce positive results as it has expanded.

These effects are all larger than what would have been predicted based on the same students» test - score gains, leading the researchers to conclude that «high achieving charter schools alter more than cognitive ability.»

Other teacher attributes: Recent studies suggest that measures of teachers» academic skills, such as SAT or ACT scores, tests of verbal ability, or the selectivity of the colleges they attended, may predict their effectiveness more accurately than the characteristics discussed above.

Measures of teachers» academic skills, such as their verbal ability, may more accurately predict their effectiveness, but there is far less evidence on this issue, and these findings are also not conclusive.

Completion of more - advanced math courses increased the predicted probability of college graduation even when the authors controlled for demographic traits, socioeconomic status, family and school characteristics, and overall measures of math ability (i.e., math GPA and grade 10 math test score).

Findings from the Rainbow Project, conducted by the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise, showed that assessing students for creativity and practicality in addition to analytic skills gave a more complete picture of student abilities, more accurately predicted academic success in college, and provided more opportunities to various ethnic groups to show where they Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise, showed that assessing students for creativity and practicality in addition to analytic skills gave a more complete picture of student abilities, more accurately predicted academic success in college, and provided more opportunities to various ethnic groups to show where they abilities, more accurately predicted academic success in college, and provided more opportunities to various ethnic groups to show where they excelled.

Based on more recent data, Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy speculated in 2005 that, because students across the income and ability spectrum can be shown to benefit from attending high - performing schools, aggressive efforts to homogenize schools» demographic profiles will likely hurt better - prepared students, with predicted declines for the highest - achieving students (who are now concentrated in high - income schools) exceeding the expected gains for low - income and minority students.

In short, focusing on non-cognitive abilities, those not measured by test scores, are more important in predicting success in high school and beyond.

One with a higher top speed (predicted to be close to 250mph), coupled to the ability to sustain cornering forces in excess of 3.3 g and braking deceleration of more than 3.5 g.

Some reviewers are so sure of their ability to predict where I'm going next that they barely bother to glance at the book at all, with embarrassing results (check out the journalist who described Coastliners as «another of Harris» sweeping historical epics», or the one who based her entire review of Jigs & Reels on a single story and wrote how «once more, food and France play a leading role in this feelgood confection.»)

More ability to sell to the global market is being predicted by successful «authorpreneur» Joanna Penn of TheCreativePenn.com.

The ABA predicts that delinquencies will hover around historic lows «over the next several quarters,» in part because consumers have strong debt - to - income ratios and because bankers are said to be more cautious about gauging applicants» ability to pay.

I predict more people will be seeking these free night certificates for their ability to use them at more expensive hotels.

It may have been that you have more abilities at your disposal by the time you reach the third area, but the patterns and moves seemed much easier to predict or avoid in that third area than with some of the guys in the previous areas.

Science and environmentalism may get intertwined if, for example, you prefer the mall but predict that environmental side effects might compromise the ability of industrial society to build more of them.

I don't have confidence in our ability to very precisely predict the responses of the Earth system, and that makes me more concerned about results like this, not less.

Rightly or wrongly, if you can show that you predict the simple things right, people are much more inclined to believe in your abilities with the more complex ones.

Our ability to reliably predict the weather days or even a season ahead is easy to take for granted because weather forecasts are part of our daily Read more

I sincerely believe that an ability to predict weather for an additional day in advance would be much more valuable.

It will be important to know more about the compositions and associations of these substances in the soil if we are able to predict reasonably accurately the ability of any soil type to sequester C in different cropping and soil management systems.

Moreover the recent decline of the yearly increments d (CO2) / dt acknowledged by Francey et al (2013)(figure 17 - F) and even by James Hansen who say that the Chinese coal emissions have been immensely beneficial to the plants that are now bigger grow faster and eat more CO2 due to the fertilisation of the air (references in note 19) cast some doubts on those compartment models with many adjustable parameters, models proved to be blatantly wrong by observations as said very politely by Wang et al.: (Xuhui Wang et al: A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations, Nature, 2014) «Thus, the problems present models have in reproducing the observed response of the carbon cycle to climate variability on interannual timescales may call into question their ability to predict the future evolution of the carbon cycle and its feedbacks to climate»

CSIRO's Dr Leon Rotstayn said that further research into how aerosols are influencing climate and rainfall patterns across Australia is critical to scientists» ability to more accurately predict the longer - term effects of climate change.

The company recently updated its weather forecasting ability with tools that allow it to more accurately predict the strength and duration of the wind.

That makes lawyers more uncomfortable than legal automation because they have traditionally provided this ability to predict how a judge is going to find in a case before it happens, or how negotiation with another party will turn out.

Although the incorporation of EU law into UK law means that the predicted «bonfire» of social rights may well not occur, the ability for future governments to gradually «unpick» legislation in the future means we may see a more slow - burning social deregulation in the United Kingdom.

Administration can also benefit from AI's ability to predict capacity bottlenecks to ensure that workload is managed more smoothly.