Sentences with phrase «ratings than the control»

On a popular online news aggregator, the researchers found, comments with early, fake positive votes got considerably higher ratings than controls.

The treatment group was dying at a faster rate than the control group eating all the saturated fat.

After the first year, when TTI teachers were still receiving payments for remaining in their schools, teachers in the TTI group returned to their schools at significantly higher rates than their control group counterparts: 93 versus 71 percent.

In fact, treated programs had lower ratings than the control group in 2016.

The training / coaching group had higher recovery rates than the control group at post-test 2 and follow - up, but the differences were not significant.

Not exact matches

Republicans» ratings have been lower for longer than those of Democrats; they last were above water in January 2011, at 47 - 43 percent, right after they took control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Adds Henry: «Across the more than 3,500 clients who hire us (and our renewal rates are typically 95 % and higher), we deliver the savings we promise by providing solutions that drive out pharmacy waste, control costs, and improve patient outcomes.»

The rate of women who had their first child between 40 and 44 has more than doubled in the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

If they want room for short term rates above 0 they will have to get long term rates up and I don't see any control input other than the inflation target to move them.

Despite the mainland's capital controls, its bond market joined the global market ructions on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve surprised by saying it expected to hike interest rates three times next year, rather than the previously forecast two hikes.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

As we reduce the small business tax rate to 9 percent from 11 percent, we will ensure that Canadian - Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC) status is not used to reduce personal income tax obligations for high - income earners rather than supporting small businesses.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

But policy makers appeared to hint that they had little fear that inflation was running out of control, which traders took as a sign the Fed won't feel compelled to move more aggressively than expected to lift rates in the future.

The corporate rate is lower than most personal rates and, in the case of Canadian - controlled private corporations, there is a further deduction of about 10 %.

But it is less a physical territory than a proving ground for an idea — that easing of controls over the renminbi and liberalization of interest rates can be introduced in a discrete area, evaluated and then rolled out to other parts of the country.

It shows that, even when controlling for age, marriage rates, and price - to - income ratios (home value to income ratios), the Hispanic or Latino homeownership rate is still about 11 percent lower than the white homeownership rate, suggesting that factors beyond what is accounted for in the model are affecting the differences.

After more than 10 years of measuring and rating the effectiveness of the boards of directors of widely held Canadian publicly traded companies, the Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness (CCBE) published a report in 2013 about the performance of family - controlled corporations (family firms).

Interest rates in China already are significantly higher than in many other countries, making it a tempting target for speculative «hot money» flows, which tend to find a way in despite the country's capital controls.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

The People's Bank of China has been selling US dollar reserves at an alarming rate to maintain an orderly devaluation, and there is a more - than - trivial risk that it loses control should pressures continue to intensify.

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The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The TOMRA 5A sorting machine brings more than 98 % removal rate of foreign objects, quality inspection and peel quality control to the table.

The Frenchman's tenacity, work - rate, first - touch, strength at holding up the ball and his highly underrated passing accuracy more than make up for his lack of pace or his awful ball control while moving at anything over 3 - kilometres an hour.

But ¨ variety of scientific studies indicate that rather than it being completely controlled by the environment, the baby's own maturational rate as influenced by its unique internal needs to awaken, to feed, to find reassurance, or to oxygenate, are as much influencing factors in night waking and «sleeping through the night» as is sleep location, per se.

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

Compounding this problem, a fair number of the controls still had sex, albeit at a lower rate than cases, watering down the comparison between the two groups.

A randomised control trial conducted in BC [30] found home visits in early labour to be more effective than telephone triage in reducing the number of women attending the hospital for assessment before they are in labour and those attending before 3 cm cervical dilation, although the home visits had no impact on CS rates or birth outcomes.

In the study by Merewood et al. (27), the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk PP was considerably higher in the intervention group than in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03).

There is a concern that participating control individuals have a higher socioeconomic status than nonparticipating control individuals, 19 and in developed countries, maternal socioeconomic status plays a role in the decision to breastfeed and its duration.59, 60 If indeed the control individuals have higher socioeconomic status and therefore higher breastfeeding rates, it constitutes a differential misclassification that might lead to overestimation of the association between breastfeeding and leukemia.

The intervention tested by Bonuck et al. (31) yielded impressive results with significantly higher rates of any breastfeeding through 20 wk PP, with the exception of week 18 (53 vs. 39 %, P < 0.05) and greater breastfeeding intensity (defined as more than half of feedings derived from breast milk in this study) through 9 wk (46 vs. 33 %, P < 0.05) in the intervention (vs. control) group.

School: The KMC group spent about 23 percent more time in preschool and had less than half the rate of school absenteeism compared to the control group.

But according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, accidental death rates dropped among all age groups in 2009, the latest year for which data is available — except among babies younger than 1 year.

At 4 wk PP, the intervention group had a significantly higher rate of exclusive breastfeeding than controls (based on 24 - h recall).

The mortality rate in the control group (7.7 percent) was more than double that of the KMC group (3.5 percent).

It showed that women who exclusively breastfed their babies but were separated from them by work (they pumped breast milk at work) had a higher pregnancy rate than mothers that were not separated by their children when relying on the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) for birth control.

Walking away during inconsolable crying was significantly higher among mothers who received the PURPLE materials than among those who received control materials (0.067 v. 0.039 events per day, rate ratio 1.7, 95 % CI 1.1 to 2.6).

Statistics from the Infant Feeding 2000 survey, however, suggest that rates of breast feeding in the UK20 are similar to those of Singapore.7 Our results were also consistent with the results of PROBIT study in Belarus, in which 36 % of women in the control group were breast feeding at all at six months.21 Around 90 % of the women in our study had monthly household incomes of less than Singapore $ 5000 (# 1630, $ 2413, $ 3294).

In support of these themes, Wolfberg et al. found that breastfeeding initiation rates were higher (74 %) when fathers attended a two hour prenatal intervention than in a control group (41 %)[43].

In November of 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the national cesarean birth rate at 29.1 %, which was the highest rate ever recorded involving more than a quarter of all births.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

In November 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the national cesarean birth rate was the highest ever at 29.1 % — more than a quarter of all deliveries.

At all ages, control infants were breastfed at higher rates than SIDS victims, and the protective effect of partial or exclusive breastfeeding remained statistically significant after adjustment for confounders.244 A recent meta - analysis that included 18 case - control studies revealed an unadjusted summary OR for any breastfeeding of 0.40 (95 % CI: 0.35 — 0.44).

Even after controlling for socioeconomic and demographic differences, immigrant women have higher rates of initiation and duration of breastfeeding than women born in the United States (18).

Another cited article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list analyzes gun control and crime rate in various countries, but there are much more differences between those countries than gun control only.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

In the state Senate, which is controlled by a coalition of Republicans and five independent Democrats, the conservative rating is actually higher than 2013.

Mayor Bloomberg's name has been drawn into the debate over a proposed 1 peso - per - liter tax on soft drinks to fund weight - control efforts in Mexico, which now has higher obesity rates than the US.