Sentences with phrase «reduced average number»

A reduced average number of days on the market does not necessarily mean it is easier to sell properties.»

Then there's the studies examining bromelain specifically; this review of many medical studies on bromelain found that «administration of bromelain before a surgery can reduce the average number of days for complete disappearance of pain and postsurgery inflammation».

Among these students, winning admission to a preferred school reduces the average number of felony arrests over the study period from 0.77 to 0.43, a pattern driven largely by a reduction of 0.23 in the average number of arrests for drug felonies (see Figure 2).

By providing free spays and neuters to the citizen's animals living in our service area beginning July 2000; this had a direct effect in reducing the average number of animals coming into the Shelter each year from 1,500 to 700.

Not exact matches

365 stores will be about a third smaller than the average Whole Foods outlet, and carry roughly a quarter the number of products — reducing real estate and merchandise - related costs.

But this weighting significantly reduces the average; if you weight by the number of years you find a higher growth rate above 90 percent.

The number of stock options and RSUs is determined by using the Binomial option pricing model and using the 180 - day trailing average stock price as a guide, which helps reduce the impact of short - term share price volatility.

Of course you can — but then, you reduce the average age of accounts and add to the number of inquiries, which may drop your score, at least temporarily.

In one study in the mid-1980s, the average number of different partners allegedly fell from 70 to 50 per year; in another study, the number was allegedly reduced from 76 to 47 per year.

According to Keep Australia Beautiful's 2013/14 National Litter Index, litter rates also continue to reduce nationally — with the overall average number of items per 1,000 m2 at 51, down from 56 in 2012/13, and the overall average estimated volume per 1,000 m2 at 5.97 litres, down from 6.13 litres in 2012/13.

The industry is consolidating with the number of sites reducing and average employment per site increasing over the last five years.

The risk of SIDS is actually very small for the average baby (about one in almost 2,000) and getting smaller — especially thanks to the American Academy of Pediatrics» (AAP) «Back to Sleep» campaign, which has helped reduce the number of SIDS deaths by half since it was initiated in the early 1990s.

It is estimated that the cumulative incidence of breast cancer in developed countries would be reduced by more than half, from 6.3 to 2.7 per 100 women by age 70, if women had the average number of births and lifetime duration of breastfeeding that had been prevalent in developing countries until recently.

Southern was selected for the grant based on the number of students that qualify for free or reduced priced meals, average daily participation in the school breakfast program, and district and school - level support.

Also, we have reduced the number of calories in our most popular Happy Meals by an average of 20 percent,» Cindy Goody, senior director of Menu Innovation and Nutrition for McDonald's USA, LLC, told Reuters Health in an email.

A central tenet of the report calls for reducing the number of inmates in the city to 5,000, from the current average of about 10,000, within 10 years.

The results of the trial show that treatment with fremanezumab reduced the number of days patients experience headache by an average of 4.3 days with quarterly treatment and 4.6 days with monthly treatment.

On average, patients using SCP neurofeedback were able to reduce the number of seizures they suffered by a third.

It is estimated that reducing the average amount of sodium people eat to the current recommended level could result in 11 million fewer cases of high blood pressure each year, which might have a significant impact on a number of related health risks.

In a 6 - week pilot study of 30 menopausal women, taking 40 grams of ground flaxseed per day reduced the number of daily hot flashes by an average of 50 %.

They found that on average, probiotics reduced gut transit time by 12 hours, increased the number of weekly bowel movements, and helped soften stools, making them easier to pass.

Relativity raised its average Metascore, reduced its number of poorly reviewed films from five to three, and managed to hold onto its 9th - place ranking in domestic market share (though its grosses fell by over $ 50 million).

In the past two decades, the number of false alarm activations generated by security alarm systems has reduced dramatically, from an average of 1.36 per system, per year in 1995 to 0.10 per system, per year in 2013.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

Relative to statewide averages, charter schools tend to attract a disproportionate number of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch as well as minority students, especially African Americans.

CEP schools serve meals free to all students and are reimbursed by the USDA based on the Identified Student Percentage multiplied by 1.6, which is intended to reflect the average ratio of the number of Identified Students to the number of students receiving free or reduced - price school meals.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

Learners can learn and apply techniques or strategies for reducing call time, but their average call time reduction will be affected by any number of factors that are out of the learners» control, like the complexity of the issues callers have, or the effectiveness of the techniques and strategies for call time reduction they're provided with.

They said high - school grade - point averages were better gauges of preparedness for college - level work and would reduce the number of students assigned to remedial courses by somewhere between 15 and 50 percent.

They examined a variety of factors, such as student gender, age, health, socioeconomic status, education of parents, whether the school was urban or suburban, the number of years of experience among teachers, the school's average test performance and the rate of free - or reduced - price lunch program participation.

The results speak for themselves: Our students are community assets, instead of tax liabilities; academic test scores are improving; students spend more time actively learning; discipline problems have significantly reduced; and we cut students» average stay in half, while doubling the number of students who return to their home schools.

This work can be double - checked against the figures in the 2015 budget when — under slightly different numbers for grade 1 enrollment and average teacher salaries — reducing the grade 1 allotment ratio from 17 students to 16 students was calculated to cost $ 27 million.

His work included an effort to reduce a high number of suspensions — 10 times the state average — by bringing in meditation and a social emotional program from Chicago - based CASEL.

He added that there was a risk that pupils in areas with large numbers of selective places, more grammar schools would «reduce the results achieved by poorer children» on average.

Opposite to Amazon, where on an average book page there are around 150 visible links, we reduced their number (and possible distractions) to only 20.

On average, clients remain active for 6 to 8 months, although for each individual case, this average can be reduced or extended based upon the promptness of the client to forward necessary information and upon the number and circumstances of the issues being disputed on the individual's credit report.

On average, clients remain active for 6 to 8 months, although for each individual case, this average can be reduced or extended based upon the promptness of the client to forward necessary information and upon the number and Circumstances of the issues being disputed on the individual's credit report.

We minimize the number of decisions you have to make, which de facto reduces how much you interact with your investments, which on average hurts returns.

The average share price of these stocks is divided by a special number meant to reduce «distortions» from non-essential factors.

Within the U.S., the researchers concluded that, to be confident of reducing 90 % of the diversifiable risk 90 % of the time, the number of stocks needed on average is about 55.

In Edwin J. Elton and Martin J. Gruber's book «Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis,» they concluded that the average standard deviation (risk) of a single stock portfolio was 49.2 percent, while increasing the number of stocks in the average well - balanced portfolio could reduce the portfolio's standard deviation to a maximum of 19.2 percent (this number represents market risk).

If you take that average age up to 18 months then that number reduces to 8 investors with the best investor earning 16.75 %.

Of course you can — but then, you reduce the average age of accounts and add to the number of inquiries, which may drop your score, at least temporarily.

This problem is reduced if a very large number of samples are available, but when this is not the case, rather than rely on the averaging process to cancel non-common growth signals it could be argued that it is more efficient to remove clearly «anomalous» data from the sample.

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

Adding CO2 is a combination of directing more data into the buffer (absorption spreading) and lengthening the buffer (increasing the average number absorptions per photon / reducing the mean distance between absorptions).

-- The qualifying emissions for a merchant coal unit for a given calendar year shall be the product of the number of megawatt hours of merchant coal unit sales generated by such unit in such calendar year and the average carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour generated by such unit during the base period under paragraph (2), provided that the number of megawatt hours in a given calendar year for purposes of such calculation shall be reduced in proportion to the portion of such unit's carbon dioxide emissions that are either --

Averaging more years reduces the standard deviation by the square root of the number of years, so by the time you average ten years the standard deviation for a decade is down to 0.03 degrees.

«Bias might be introduced in cases where the spatial coverage is not uniform (e.g., of the 24 original chronologies with data back to 1500, half are concentrated in eastern Siberia) but this can be reduced by prior averaging of the chronologies into regional series (as was done in the previous section)... Eight different methods have been used... They produce very similar results for the post-1700 period... They exhibit fairly dramatic differences, however, in the magnitude of multidecadal variability prior to 1700... highlighting the sensitivity of the reconstruction to the methodology used, once the number of regions with data, and the reliability of each regional reconstruction, begin to decrease.

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