Sentences with phrase «relatively small improvement»

Such a relatively small improvement that provides such a big upside.

Relatively small improvements in students» educational performance can have large impacts on a nation's future economic well - being.

Relatively small improvements in students» educational performance can have large impacts on a nation's future economic well - being, according to The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long - Run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes.

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However, if the trees are looking like they have dropped all their old leaves, or have a light crop of small fruit with relatively weak flowering, then there is room for improvement.

«Our results suggest that the use of these small, relatively inexpensive devices is associated with significant increases in physical activity and improvements in some key health outcomes, at least in the short term,» internist Dena Bravata of Stanford University and her colleagues report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

However, even small improvements in their relatively low living standards will have negative environmental consequences.

Even though limited to relatively small sample groups, the results show significant improvements in blood pressure, cardiorespiratory fitness, insulin resistance and body composition in healthy adolescents after a 7 week intervention of different intensities of exercise.

With just that small change — adding coconut oil to a high - carbohydrate diet - she noticed enough of an improvement to continue, increase the dose over time, and eventually progress to using a ketone ester, still in the context of a relatively high - carb diet.

On the other hand, when schools can achieve substantial «improvements» by focusing on a relatively small group of students, they face a strong incentive to game the system.

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That explains the relatively small number of mechanical changes too, though small detail changes result in improvements across the board.

This is a relatively small bump over all the improvements that came with the initial 5.0.1 update a few weeks back, but we're still glad to see any updates that...

However, most of the benefits of diversification can be achieved with a relatively small number of stocks; reducing concentration further results only in marginal improvements.2

Although the employment report for October was relatively positive, the job market had improved only marginally through the third quarter, so while there was a small improvement in the delinquency rate, the level of that rate remains quite high.

Ordinary consumer bank loans are handy as home improvement loans, especially for those who need to borrow relatively small amounts of money without much paperwork or delay.

This system update is relatively small, but it does make a few notable improvements, all related to bugs.

Also, I've already forgone the camera improvements available on the iPhone 7 Plus in order to keep my phone small and relatively cheap.

The improvements are relatively small because problems such as being suspended from school, engaging in delinquent behavior, and attempting suicide have many causes, with family structure being but one.

Our finding that the severity of depressive symptoms was a significant but relatively smaller contributor to physical disability in this sample (after controlling for the possible effects of age, sex and duration of pain) is consistent with findings of some previous studies of patients with chronic pain, but not with some treatment studies, which found that depression level contributed to less significant improvement in pain - related disability.11, 27 It is not surprising that cognitive, pain and behavioural variables accounted for more physical disability than depressive symptoms but it is notable that social support (as measured by the MPI), sense of control over life, and catastrophising did not significantly contribute to physical disability.

Of those, based on Austin, Texas's experience with a similar mandate, a relatively small share of listed homes will undergo energy - efficiency improvements.

«Many of these are relatively small markets in terms of their population and building volume, which is why their improvement is barely registering on the national scale as of yet.