Sentences with phrase «reduce global numbers»

Not only will the disease reduce the global numbers, but the ones whose DNA is changed by the disease will become a stronger breed of human.

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In the case of Waymo, Felten told Fortune senior writer Michal Lev - Ram that her team decided one way to reduce the massive number of global driving deaths would be to remove drivers from the equation by developing autonomous driving technology.

Given limited resources, officials and observers said, the Commission's competition directorate is likely to focus on a fairly small number in the expectation that success — still to be tested in court — can deter others from going to extremes in reducing their global tax burdens.

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.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

In 2016, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, headed by Oil Major Saudi Arabia, made an agreement between its members and a number of non-member countries to cut their oil production and reduce the global glut that had pushed prices so low.

Based on more than 180,000 interviews conducted between May and October in 54 countries, 2009 GEM data show that the global economic downturn reduced the number of people who thought there were good opportunities to start a business in many parts of the world.

A basic global fundamental is the number zero (0) as merely a place holder which, truly describes the «actuality» of something as only «reduced» (in whatever form) from its existing «place.»

Number of pages: 195 Publication date: 2010 Languages: English ISBN: 9789241599573 Download the report [pdf 2.91 MB] Overview Countdown to 2015 is a global movement of academics, governments, UN agencies, foundations, health care associations and nongovernmental organizations formed in 2005 to track progress in reducing maternal and child deaths in the 68 countries where over 95 % of these deaths occur.

Thanks to aid spending from around the world, we have seen massive breakthroughs in reducing global poverty, and especially the number of child deaths.

«New fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases: Most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, will also reduce number of premature deaths.»

The target set by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is to reduce the number of endemic countries to zero by the end of 2013.

Trying to find other issues, «Masking», or crutches,... still isn't ever goin to reduce the numbers on the GHG content we already have and their future global warming potentials that continue to go calculate, compound daily...

We first demonstrate less variability of global Pearson correlations with respect to the two chosen networks using a sliding - window approach during WM task compared to rest; then we show that the macroscopic decrease in variations in correlations during a WM task is also well characterized by the combined effect of a reduced number of dominant CAPs, increased spatial consistency across CAPs, and increased fractional contributions of a few dominant CAPs.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on May 14 issued a step - by - step guide called REPLACE to eliminate industrially - produced trans fatty acids from global food supply, a move the agency said would reduce the number of cardiovascular disease - related...

«Ford has reduced the number of orderable configurations by as much as 92 percent versus the previous Focus, reducing from up to 360 configurations to as few as 26, depending on the global market,» the automaker says.

For the new Versa Sedan, the approach was a little more radical — create a totally new global platform and drivetrain, reducing the size of engine and transmission, reducing the number of component parts and reducing platform weight.

A decrease in the number of pages of my books being read (probably due to the increased competition as more books are added to KOLL / KU) A slight decrease in the amount Amazon pays per page read (due to the KDP Global Fund not keeping pace with the total number of pages read) A change in the KENP algorithm that reduced the number of pages in my books.

The Guerrilla Girls believe that art is global, boundless, and shouldn't be reduced to a small number of artists who have a popularity contest in the art marketplace.

In a forthcoming post, I will provide my own thoughts on the necessity for reducing the unsustainable increase in absolute global human population numbers as well as on the need for recognizing «OCPF» as the most powerful means of re-establishing the family of humanity as a sustainable species within the biophysical framework of our wondrous, finite planetary home.

It's a start, but we should be observing a global response that would really crash the emission numbers instead of possibly reducing the rate of increase or producing several years of flat emission numbers.

Large variability reduces the number of new records — which is why the satellite series of global mean temperature have fewer expected records than the surface data, despite showing practically the same global warming trend: they have more short - term variability.

If global warming were to reduce the number of pink hairless monkeys with chainsaws, it might not be such a bad thing.

Since it appears it is we humans who are contributing to the global warming phenomina, why not reduce the number of humans in order to control the issue.

«A comparison between the future and present - day experiments reveals that the occurrence number in the future experiment is generally reduced, showing approximately 30 % total global reduction, as stated before.

Global averaging of stations has also not been compensated for dropouts which have reduced the total number of reporting stations dranatically since 1989.

Rising temperatures due to global warming have boosted the beetles» numbers by increasing their reproductive rate and reducing their winter die - off.

Impacts of global warming in Churchill include an increase in the number of ice - free days and reduced nutrition in polar bears due to a shorter feeding season (Stirling et al., 1999).

3 biilion people more to feed, to drink, to work, to study... that's will be really a calamity... Seems to me that the most important thing in global warming is to reduce the number of us.

If so, this is one way in which global warming may end up causing a decrease in Atlantic hurricane activity over the coming decades, since the increased wind shear over the Atlantic during El Niño events greatly reduces the number and intensity of these storms.»

In the U.S., several states are firm in their commitment to fight global warming by reducing their carbon footprint, while Europe as a whole is committed to closing a number of its coal plants.

You can tinker with those numbers a bit by reducing the GDP - growth assumptions, but it's very difficult to see how India's Copenhagen commitment would put us on a path to keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.

If you work backwards from the numbers, the conclusion is inescapable — we only have a short time to start rapidly reducing emissions, or global warming is going to slip out of control.

There are a number of emerging technologies that have the potential to markedly reduce the human footprint at the global level, in terms of energy, water, emissions of contaminants and other impacts.

The goal laid out in Adaptation for a High - Energy Planet is simple and can be supported regardless of views about global climate risk: reduce the number of deaths caused as a result of extreme weather and disasters every year, while still accelerating modernization and low - carbon growth on an increasingly high - energy planet.

... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes more than 3,000 scientists from around the world, agrees that climate change is caused by a number of factors, including excess carbon dioxide... The Government of Alberta accepts the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and recognizes the need to reduce emissions and take immediate action to deal with the impacts of global warming.

Plan B to deal with climate change has always been to reduce the global population to a less consuming number: http://www.theonion.com/article/scientists-look-one-third-of-the-human-race-has-to-27166 The Onion «America's Finest News Source» nailed it a few years ago.

However, if we can bring the developing world up to developed world productivity, the total cost suddenly reduces to less than 6 months of global production (1 % of output spread over 50 years)-- certainly a manageable number if we consider what is at stake.

Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000 between 2020 - 2030 compared to 2005 - 2015

Climate change is also resulting in reduced number of rainy days during rainy season, unseasonal thunderstorms / lightning and a rise in global temperatures.

The blanket - exemption treatment is based on increasingly questionable assertions that wind turbines reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that supposedly cause global warming, climate change, extreme weather events and an amazing number of dog, people, Italian pasta, prostitution and other exaggerated or imaginary problems, plus others that exist only in computer models whose forecasts and scenarios bear no resemblance to Real World conditions or events.

Research was quick to identify the «headline numbers» of NDCs: if these climate action plans were fully implemented, global mean warming by 2100 would be reduced from approximately 3.6 to 2.7 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Threats to marine biodiversity in the U.S. are the same as those for most of the world: overexploitation of living resources; reduced water quality; coastal development; shipping; invasive species; rising temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide in the surface ocean, and other changes that may be consequences of global change, including shifting currents; increased number and size of hypoxic or anoxic areas; and increased number and duration of harmful algal blooms.

Besides retrofitting two - strokes in the Philippines, the environmental non-profit will also be collaborating with the U.K. - based Shell Foundation to reduce the number of global deaths caused by indoor air pollution — or more precisely, the smoke the billows forth from traditional fires and stoves used in homes in developing countries — by distributing cleaner - burning cook stoves.

Even as the Trump Administration seeks to weaken the US response to global warming, however, there are a number of sub-national and private sector efforts emerging to reduce emissions, usher in an era of renewable energy, and honor the Paris Agreement commitments.

The Spice team - drawn from a number of universities as well as Marshall Aerospace - calculates that 10 or 20 giant balloons at a 20 km altitude could release enough particles into the atmosphere to reduce the global temperature by around 2C.

As expected, we found that at mid - and high latitudes, projected warming will reduce the number of days below freezing, resulting in more suitable growing days (the average global number of days above freezing will increase by 2 %, 5 %, and 7 % under RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, and RCP 8.5, respectively; Fig 2A, S5A — S5D Fig, S6A — S6C Fig)[35].

And if the evolutionary approach does lower the risk of a given small modular reactor, who can say whether reduced risks in individual power plants are outweighed by an overall global risk of dispersing a much greater number of nuclear reactors across the planet?

The time - integral of sunspot numbers, properly reduced by earth IR radiation by using conservation of energy, accurately (R2 = 0.88) correlates with average global temperatures since 1895 as shown in the pdf made public 3/10/11 at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true

A press release circulated by the Japanese government added up the cold but convincing numbers: ``... the total emissions of energy - related CO2 from the countries undertaking obligations to reduce emissions under the Protocol account for only about 27 percent of the global emissions in 2008, which dropped down from 42 percent in 1990.