Sentences with phrase «response times increasing»

With response times increasing, you would expect the Conservative manifesto to address this.

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Even though this will take more time, it will increase your response rate many times over.

Moreover, effective timing can lead to increased email response times.

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.

So they spend their time focused on the things they can control (and «improve») like access, speed and response times even if the net effect is to increase the company's exposure to external threats.

Video is personal and different, so it increases our initial response rates and saves our team time as they don't need to go through an entire cadence.»

Additionally, McDonald's measures their other goals such as increasing revenue and creating better customer service, by analyzing the amount of sales generated, their overall cost savings, the type of customer feedback the campaign received, and their response time when replying to customers.

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

«US Fleet Tracking was one of the best decisions I made in a long time... Our call volume has only dropped because our first - call efficiency numbers are increasing and the use of GPS has greatly improved our response time and calls per day.»

Whereas a central bank that stabilizes spending «would not respond to either positive or negative supply shocks,» one that endeavored to stabilize the price level at all times would seek to increase the money stock and spending to keep prices from falling in response to a positive supply shock, and would seek to reduce the money stock and spending to keep prices from rising in response to a negative supply shock.

In part this increase was due to an increase in the cash rate in light of inflationary pressures building on the back of the boom in the resource sector, as well as reflecting the increasing return to capital in Australia at that time; thereafter, interest rates declined sharply in response to the global financial crisis.

In the inner Melbourne apartment market, prices have been flat for some time and falling in some areas, and rents have been under downward pressure, partly in response to the rapid increase in the supply of new apartments.

As well as the increased sales opportunities, lead nurturing has also been proven to shorten buyer response times, build thought leadership, identify the interests or challenges that are important to a company, highlight other opportunities for cross-selling and upselling, and maintain or even increase customer engagement.

Additionally, they wrote, «it is in the public interest for the pipelines to be in closer proximity to each other, so as to maximize monitoring resources and increase the efficiency of response times» with «issues that may arise with either pipeline.»

Use chat improvements like canned responses to increase your response time.

Last year, around the time Jon Stewart held his Rally to Restore Sanity, John Piper «farwelled» Rob Bell, and Stephen Colbert hosted his Rally to Keep Fear Alive, we hosted our own response to the increasing theological and political polarization online: The Rally to Restore Unity.

Although the company had to increase it's price at King's Island, the response was positive and Tom + Chee will be back full - time this summer.

Tesco added that the allegations from the OFT relate to a difficult time for the dairy industry, when the retailer independently increased the price of a number of dairy products in an effort to support farmers and in response to feedback from customers and others.

Crying unattended for an extended period of time increases the secretion of stress hormones (cortisol), which can lead, to an over activated adrenaline response and may damage early neurodevelopment.

If a young child is snacking in the car seat while you're driving, it also increases the risk of choking, and will delay your response time.

Considered a little gentler than full - blown «cry - it - out,» graduated extinction calls for parents to ignore their child's cries for two minutes, gradually increasing the response time for up to six minutes in the first night, according to Forbes.

It recognises that response times have increased and that lives are being put at risk.

«Reforming Emergency Care» saw improvements in emergency response times, the deployment of new technology (including satellite navigation systems and better equipment to deal with heart patients) and funded increases in frontline ambulance staff and vehicles.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's remarks in response to the terror attacks in Brussels Tuesday, calling for increased law enforcement patrols of Muslim neighborhoods, are the reason why he won't be the next president, NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton said at a press conference in Times Square.

But the average pothole repair response time in all five boroughs between January and March — when they're most likely to form — increased from 1.26 days in 2013 to 2.2 days last year.

Between trucks, training, and the increased building of larger and often expensive new facilities there are significant costs already and with response times on average three times longer than Syracuse.

In hundreds of trials, the monkeys» reaction times varied from roughly 150 to 400 milliseconds, and the response time depended on how fast the neurons increased their firing rate to a level that seemed to trigger the eye movement.

Doctors at the University of Arizona Cancer Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix reported today in Lancet Oncology that a new treatment for ovarian cancer can improve response rates (increase the rate of tumor shrinkage) and prolong the time until cancers recur.

A more immediately useful metric included in the IPCC report is probably the transient climate response, which describes the response of climate systems to gradual increases in carbon dioxide and can be applied to a particular moment or period of time.

This time, they found that young men and young women responded differently, with males showing a greater increase in electrical activity in the brain in response to a TMS pulse.

At the same time their skeletal muscle ramps up production of an immune molecule that increases their response to insulin, resulting in reduced circulating insulin levels, protection against type 2 diabetes and longer lifespan.

Further experiments confirmed that these increases in IgT and IgT - producing B cells were specific to the gills and not the result of a systemic increase in production, showing for the first time that a non-mammalian species can locally induce a dedicated mucosal immune response.

The latter has been deferred for the time being, thanks to the Fed's decision on Sept. 17 to keep rates unchanged as a response to global uncertainties (though with the implicit assumption that rates would nonetheless be increased in the near future).»

In comparison with other vapor sensors based on nanosheets, the new photonic architecture displays markedly increased response times, higher sensitivity and long - term stability.

The researchers calculated the proportion of time that a patient's current medication was increased or a new medication was started in response to an elevated high blood pressure reading during an office visit.

Researchers found participants in the group treated with tDCS showed significantly greater improvements on sensitive, computer - based measures of complex attention and increases in their response times across trials compared to the group that did cognitive training games alone.

The healthy pancreas can at times boost its production of β cells, both in response to injury and to increased demand for insulin — for example, during pregnancy.

When participants held their own hands crossed during the tests, a similar increase in response time was observed in all three groups.

Those with complete paraplegia did not show the typical increase in response times that one would expect in healthy conditions.

Though trastuzumab and pertuzumab have increased response rates and improved outcomes in HER2 - positive breast cancer, 30 % to 40 % of early - stage patients treated in the neoadjuvant setting will have residual disease at the time of surgery.

Importantly, at both time points examined, there were no differences in locomotor activity and / or pain sensitivity between rat groups (Additional file6: Figure S5), suggesting that the reduced fear conditioning responses (freezing behavior) in transgenic rats were not influenced by any differences in sensitivity to pain or by increased locomotion.

For instance, the sensitivity only including the fast feedbacks (e.g. ignoring land ice and vegetation), or the sensitivity of a particular class of climate model (e.g. the «Charney sensitivity»), or the sensitivity of the whole system except the carbon cycle (the Earth System Sensitivity), or the transient sensitivity tied to a specific date or period of time (i.e. the Transient Climate Response (TCR) to 1 % increasing CO2 after 70 years).

Characterizing the molecular pathways regulating genomic stability at damaged replication forks in HR - deficient cancers will increase our understanding of the cellular response to replicative stress, and in the same time, potentially allow the identification of new predictors (biomarkers) of chemo - sensitivity / resistance in these tumors (Figure 2B).

Using administrative data from the county, Virginia Tech researchers are working to increase fire safety and improve 911 emergency response times.

In response to mounting concerns about the adequacy of protection of research participants, at a regulatory level, increasing attention is being focused on safety and confidentiality of human subjects participating in research protocols.26 - 28 Beginning with applications submitted for the January 2001 council round, institutional review board (IRB) approval is no longer required prior to NIH peer review; previous NIH policy had been that IRB approval was required at the time of submission.

They conclude, based on study of CMIP5 model output, that equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is not a fixed quantity — as temperatures increase, the response is nonlinear, with a smaller effective ECS in the first decades of the experiments, increasing over time.

Driving a bus in the afternoon during a split shift situation was shown in a recent study to be related to higher levels of self - reported sleepiness, higher levels of physiological sleepiness and increased response times, compared to an afternoon shift.

The good news is that disabling both brakes at the same time often increases the response rate by a substantial amount.

As these stressful thoughts continue over time, your blood pressure increases while your body's immune response decreases.

Well, you'd have to experience it for yourself, but Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA told the New York Times that participants will often experience «deep mental and physical relaxation» that would «increase the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system tone» and decrease the stress response.