Sentences with phrase «showed small declines»

Despite successful implementation of this professional development based on what many experts believed to be the best practice for improving math instruction, scores on the NWEA and state math tests showed small declines (and the NWEA decline was not statistically significant while the state test decline was).

Also out this morning: U.S. trade deficit, which likely narrowed in September, will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET and the ISM non-manufacturing index, which is expected to show a small decline in the pace of service sector growth, will be released at 10 a.m. ET.

July data showed a small decline in the composite index, while first mortgage default rate were unchanged and second mortgage default rates rose by two basis points.

In the longitudinal prospective Three City cohort study of 4,197 healthy women and 2,820 healthy men over 65 years, women consuming more than 3 cups of caffeinated coffee per day for four years showed a smaller decline in verbal retrieval and visuo - spatial memory than women consuming one cup of coffee or less per day.

The results — which show a small decline in the overall pass rate for the first...

The report shows a small decline in Apple's tablet dominance, strong momentum for Amazon, and perhaps surprisingly, second highest in - class growth for Microsoft's Surface line of devices.

The few existing studies are consistent with research on general aggression and show a small declining tendency for both functions of aggression through childhood [18, 19] and into adolescence [20].

Not exact matches

Wells Fargo, according to my own analysis of its Q1 earnings report, showed surging deposits in its «community banking» category (consumer and small business), but declining deposits in its «wholesale banking» category, and plunging deposits in its Wealth and Investment Management (WIM) category.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

And as the chart below shows, as wealth grows, even small percent declines become huge dollar declines.

Abstracting from changes in the composition of corporate bond indices, spreads between yields on government and corporate bonds have shown a small net decline over the past three months (Graph 48).

Shown in the figure above, although refinancing applications fell significantly in response to higher rates in late 2016, and have declined over the September 2017 to January 2018 mortgage rate increase period, the decline in February was smaller compared to the extent of the rate increase in the same month and mostly offset the modest increase in January.

Using an analytics package such as Google Analytics is recommended for all but the smallest campaigns as this kind of reporting system will show where site refinements need to be made — high bounce rates and declining visitor numbers will be picked up, suggesting that on - page efforts be focused in certain areas rather than spread around the site as a whole.

Emirates stadium and huge sponsor deals we finally have had two poor years by his standards at the helm we always havent been so great and are we weak supporters or strong give him a contract i mean hes won with ants for money let him spend for once cause even if we do get new manager inflation has occured and no body else will win with the small amounts we gave him to spend and in 20 years actuall more it seems the club is finally willing to spend give him a contract let him spend and if we do nt improve which i think we will i think that the club is finally willing to spend shows were on an upturn because as long as top four the owner and board weren't and after we spend big or somewhat big for once and auba and mkhitaryan arent the big im hoping for i want more if liverpoodlians can pay 75million for a cb let wenget spend a bit and if we still do bad we can always sack him or ask him to leave wouldnt be uncommon but we owe it to him and do nt say we do not because emirates london colney that will bring in high talent here for years to come and we have never spent for him just gave little and hes always done big things with little i think he can do bigger things in his final years if we give him big i do nt see us in decline but if we sack him we will be for a good three maybe four years

The latest monthly survey on small business job growth by Paychex and the research firm IHS shows a decline in that growth, but an increase in wages.

Men who stayed single showed a small age - related decline of about 12 to 15 percent in the male sex hormone, while the testosterone levels of new fathers — those with a baby between 1 month and 1 year — on average dropped about 30 percent.

Interestingly, the study shows that there is a long - term decline in heavy rainfall events (greater than 25 mm / h) and an associated increase in the number of smaller storms each delivering less rainfall.

Current estimates show that it has declined to less than 10 percent of its original range, and mostly consists of isolated and relatively small patches of land.

The NEJM and The BMJ, however, showed small decreases over the first five years, followed by increases back to their approximate starting points around 2007 - 08, before once again declining (fig 1 ⇓).

This is why research shows that certain exercises, like the flat and decline bench press, emphasize the main (large) portion of the chest muscle, whereas others, like the incline and reverse - grip bench press, emphasize the smaller upper portion.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

Although these issuers do not use the same FICO - score categories, the following charts show that all issuers reported continued declines in outstandings held by cardholders with lower FICOs (below 660), while oustandings for cardholders with higher FICOs either had smaller declines or in fact grew over the past year.

Just a thought, but maybe you should be using a value index or small cap index to show us how much the worst declines have been, the lowest rate of return for 5 or 10 years, etc?

By the time ABC News had lost faith in my ability to reverse a ratings decline in the show, nothing about how I was living had really changed, except for nicer furniture in our small home.

The October Tourism Barometer showed just a small decline ---3 % for the peak season months of July and August — compared to the year before.

After a decade of colonization in the Everglades, Burmese pythons have nearly wiped out populations of small and medium - sized native mammals — one study showed declines as high as 99 percent.

A new report from Partners in Flight shows that about 17 % of North American land bird species (148 of 882 species) are facing rapid declines, due not in small part due to habitat loss in their winter

But the evidence shows this can't be true; temperature changes before CO2 in every record of any duration for any time period; CO2 variability does not correlate with temperature at any point in the last 600 million years; atmospheric CO2 levels are currently at the lowest level in that period; in the 20th century most warming occurred before 1940 when human production of CO2 was very small; human production of CO2 increased the most after 1940 but global temperatures declined to 1985; from 2000 global temperatures declined while CO2 levels increased; and any reduction in CO2 threatens plant life, oxygen production, and therefore all life on the planet.

If it can be shown that if we take no mitigating action there is a small but irreducible risk of the collapse and terminal decline of all humanity then that is enough to trigger mitigation, if there is no existential threat, but the future is going to be challenging, then that is human normalcy.

And while temperature should decrease the total amount of carbon in the upper layer of the oceans, we see an increase in carbon (and a decrease in 13C / 12C ratio)- Ice cores, tree carbon and coralline sponges all give small 13C / 12C variations over the Holocene, but all show a steady and ever faster decline since about 1850.

It shows albedo decline of about 10 % for small areas of the Arctic ocean for March - May.

As shown in the WRE paper (Nature v. 379, pp. 240 - 243), the differentials at the global - mean level are so small, at most a few tenths of a degree Celsius and a few cm in sea level rise and declining to minuscule amounts as the pathways approach the SAME target, that it is unlikely that an analysis of future climate data could even distinguish between the pathways.

It would then show just how very small the average southern citizen's emissions would be when (just after 2020) the Souths emissions had to peak and then begin to rapidly decline.

Satellite data showed that a majority of the world's largest aquifers are declining, and isotope dating revealed that a small fraction of the world's groundwater is being used in a renewable way.

But as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity.

ice core data which show a smaller, and less abrupt decline at the end of the 16th century.

Because bitcoin and Ethereum have significantly larger market valuations and daily trading volumes in comparison to other cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and Ethereum tend to decline or increase by smaller margins, showing a lower level of volatility.

Hauser's testimony is based on online surveys conducted across 1,600 people; under cross questioning, he conceded he hadn't analyzed real - world programming disputes that sometimes show much smaller declines.

For example, amid this diversification of interest, data shows investors are becoming less certain about industry startups, as evidenced by a decline in smaller and earlier - stage investments.

Specifically, as Figure 2 shows, improvement from baseline operated as a ∩ - shaped curvilinear function in relation to baseline severity, with those at the lowest and highest levels experiencing smaller gains, whereas those in - between experienced larger gains; the slope for placebo declined as severity increased, whereas the slope for drug was slightly positive.

Studies show that couples who participate in weekly group counseling had a much smaller decline in marital satisfaction — than parents who didn't attend counseling.

Shown in the figure above, although refinancing applications fell significantly in response to higher rates in late 2016, and have declined over the September 2017 to January 2018 mortgage rate increase period, the decline in February was smaller compared to the extent of the rate increase in the same month and mostly offset the modest increase in January.

Data released today by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) show that interest rates on mortgages for new homes declined in September, but the changes were very small.

«Looking back at the early shows, we had a lot more furniture in the mix... the number of furniture dealers gradually declined over the years as the show evolved into more antique and vintage decor accessories, estate jewellery, ephemera — more «smalls» vs. large furniture pieces.»