Sentences with phrase «report substantial increases»

Educators who start the year by inviting parents to participate in First Day activities report substantial increases in parental involvement during the year, Ehrich said.

Twelve states currently offer online registration, with an additional two on the way; a number of them report substantial increases in registration rates.

Amid restarting refineries along the Gulf Coast and growing optimism about strengthening demand, the EIA dampened spirits somewhat by reporting a substantial increase in crude oil inventories for the week to September 15.

The New York Times reports a substantial increase in age of dads with newborns.

Over the past decade, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a substantial increase in incidence of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens, with Pseudomonas alone accounting for 51,000 hospitalizations per year with more than 6,000 multi-drug resistant infections in 2011.

In the present study, we report a substantial increase in both type I and type II muscle fiber size in response to resistance - type exercise training (Figure 2).

The Animal Poison Control Center has reported a substantial increase in the number of cases of Xylitol poisoning.

According to NASF estimates, commercial open - sea fishing in the Atlantic has dropped by more than 75 percent in the last 15 years, and river anglers in several countries in areas where nets have been closed have reported substantial increases in salmon catches.

The survey also reports a substantial increase in the selection of the «Immigration, Refugees and Asylum» topic as a key focus area for pro bono work.

The lawyers and judges surveyed also reported a substantial increase in the use of equal parenting time over the past five years: 31 % of participants reported a substantial increase in such arrangements; 53 % reported somewhat of an increase; 16 % reported no change; and less than 1 % reported a decrease in such arrangements.

Not exact matches

According to a report released Thursday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a substantial increase in household debt in 2016 was led largely by growth in student debt and auto debt.

The net percent of owners reporting inventory increases fell 4 percentage points to a net 3 percent (seasonally adjusted), still positive and extending a three month run of substantial inventory building.

In the 23rd Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan (OCA, 2007), the Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) certified that, in spite of the substantial increase in CPP benefit payments that would result from the retirement of the baby boom generation, the current legislated contribution rate of 9.9 per cent for employers and employees combined would be more than enough to pay for benefits through 2075.

The company reports that its net revenue will increase to over RMB 5.8 billion ($ 924.0 million) in the second quarter of the year, but said the prediction is subject to «substantial uncertainty.»

The effect on Amazon has been equally significant: I detailed last year how the revelation of AWS» financial results was effectively a Facebook - level IPO, and subsequent earnings reports in which AWS has demonstrated the power of scale — increased revenue plus increased margins — have only solidified the fact that AWS will be a substantial driver of Amazon's revenue and (eventual!)

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Unfortunately, there has been during this same period, and especially in the last five to ten years, a substantial increase in the number of reported cases of second impact syndrome (SIS), which occurs when an athlete who sustains head trauma, i.e. a traumatic brain injury - often a concussion or worse injury, such as a cerebral contusion (bruised brain)- sustains a second head injury before signs of the initial injury have cleared.

A little - reported result of the 2015 general election was a substantial reduction in the number of marginal seats, and a consequent increase in the number of very safe ones for both the Conservatives and Labour.

The chairman of its GP committee's clinical and prescribing sub-committee, Bill Beeby, said: «The PAC report acknowledges that there has been a substantial increase in prescribing generic drugs in recent years and with just over two per cent of the overall drugs bill identified as potential savings it shows that the official advice is already being heeded.»

Even though there has been substantial reduction in CVD mortality over the last 30 years, new reports show an increase in acute myocardial infarction among the younger population in Norway, and similar observations have been reported also from other countries.

«I am most concerned by the fact that a substantial portion of American adults already report sleep difficulties and that increases in nighttime warming could further exacerbate the problem,» Migliorini said.

While there has been substantial progress in some cancer control efforts in the past several decades, like reductions in smoking and increased utilization of cancer screening, progress in some areas is lagging, according to a new report.

«We have seen a substantial century - to - century variation on these fossil layers,» Anderson reports, «but the monsoon wind strength has increased during the past four centuries as the Northern Hemisphere has warmed.»

No one knows how many innocent people have been convicted based on junk forensic science, but the National Research Council report recommends substantial funding increases to enable labs to conduct experiments to improve the validity and reliability of the many forensic subfields.

The committee reports «substantial evidence» linking early marijuana use with substance abuse later in life and suggesting that cannabis increases the likelihood of respiratory problems, motor vehicle accidents, and low birth weight in infants born to pot - smoking mothers.

«These changes have occurred in the context of substantial increases in the proportion of adults reporting no leisure - time physical activity, but in the absence of any significant population - level changes in average daily caloric intake,» explains lead investigator Uri Ladabaum, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), Stanford University School of Medicine.

«It is clear that increases in the incidence of the Guillain — Barré syndrome to a level that is 2.0 and 9.8 times as high as baseline, as we have reported here, impose a substantial burden on populations and health services in this region,» wrote the team, made up of researchers from the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and individual countries» health ministries.

In fact he's noted that the IPCC reports themselves describe a «vast array of uncertainties», but at the same time give rise to «well - supported concern that increasing emissions of CO2 (in particular) are posing a substantial risk to human society».

When they calculate the simple correlation between income and math achievement, Helen Ladd's approach, they find that a $ 4,000 increment (a 50 percent increase in the $ 8,000 average income reported by the families in this study) in the income of the poor family will lift student achievement by 20 percent of a standard deviation (close to a year's worth of learning in the middle years of schooling), a substantial impact that seems to support the Broader, Bolder claims.

The report said: «The reality is that the increased freedoms are not nearly as substantial as is often suggested, but many school leaders feel a general sense of liberation with academy status: it provides a sense of «grown up» responsibility and agency, and «permission'to innovate.»

Substantial improvements were reported by schools in areas such as pupil well - being, confidence and self - esteem and an increased willingness from pupils to participate in classroom activities.

Exactly how the city would pay for substantial base salary increases and annual bonuses is not explained in the report.

For example, one commonly reported problem is insufficient Internet bandwidth to support the substantial increase in devices in a 1:1 implementation.

While drivers may be more ready to go on road trips, the is not a substantial increase in overall driving distance, with only 13 percent of participants reporting driving more than they did when fuel was more expensive.

Forbes reports that the number of savers currently using this tool is low, but that it's responsible for a substantial number of account increases.

The risks of investing in emerging markets include the risks of illiquidity, increased price volatility, smaller market capitalizations, less government regulation, less extensive and less frequent accounting, financial and other reporting requirements, risk of loss resulting from problems in share registration and custody, substantial economic and political disruptions and the nationalization of foreign deposits or assets.

Between 2007 and 2008, US EPA noted a substantial increase of reported harm to pets from the use of spot - on flea and tick control products.

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As expected the report shows substantial growth across the board with the industry registering a 60 percent increase in turnover to 3.7 billion Swedish kronor.

In the BBC piece, Martin Parry, one of the leaders of the 2007 assessment by the intergovernmental panel, was quoted as embracing the main thrust of the Dutch report, which said the issues it identified did not undermine the core conclusions that humans are warming the climate, with substantial, and increasing, impacts:

Later control dates were no doubt partly due to later ignition dates, given that the date of the last reported wildfire ignition increased by 15 days, but a substantial increase in the length of time the average wildfire burned also played a role.

In fact he's noted that the IPCC reports themselves describe a «vast array of uncertainties», but at the same time give rise to «well - supported concern that increasing emissions of CO2 (in particular) are posing a substantial risk to human society».

Compared with results reported in the TAR, smaller increases in GMT are now estimated to lead to significant or substantial consequences in the framework of the 5 «reasons for concern.»

Easterbrook criticized Gore's claims that the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could lead to substantial increases in sea levels, that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, and that Bush administration officials have attempted to tamper with official reports on the threat posed by climate change.

Increasing attention is being paid to IPCC misrepresentations of natural oceanic variability on decadal scales (Compo and Sardeshmukh 2009): «Several recent studies suggest that the observed SST variability may be misrepresented in the coupled models used in preparing the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, with substantial errors on interannual and decadal scales (e.g., Shukla et al. 2006, DelSole, 2006; Newman 2007; Newman et al. 2008).

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Brazil's Council for Economic Defense is expected to post substantial fines in 2017 following reports of a heavy on - going case - load, which includes 30 active investigations linked to Operation Car Wash, the investigation and prosecution of corruption and collusion in Petrobras contracting, and an anticipated 300 % increase in leniency applications in 2016 compared to 2015.

Following a substantial decrease in U.S. travelers planning to spend their holiday in Paris last year, the City of Light projects a 16.3 percent increase in U.S. visitors for the 2017 season, according to part two of Allianz Global Assistance's Top 10 Holiday Destinations Report.

Allianz Global Assistance Compared Number of Travelers Planning European Vacations During Winter 2017 to Winter 2016Following a substantial decrease in U.S. travelers planning to spend their holiday in Paris last year, the City of Lights projects a 16.3 increase in U.S. visitors for the 2017 season, according to part two of Allianz Global Assistance's Top 10 Holiday Destination Report.

Following a substantial decrease in U.S. travelers planning to spend their holiday in Paris last year, the City of Lights projects a 16.3 increase in U.S. visitors for the 2017 season, according to part two of Allianz Global Assistance's Top 10 Holiday Destination Report.