Sentences with phrase «shown little improvement»

Real estate professionals also reported that lenders» and servicers» short - sale procedures have shown little improvement in the past six months.

Unfortunately, Greenpeace reports that the three biggest tuna companies — Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee, and StarKist — have shown little improvement on sustainability and social responsibility.

Student test scores, which are increasingly used to assess teacher performance, have shown little improvement.

New York City's fourth graders are doing significantly better in reading since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took control of the schools, but eighth graders have shown little improvement, according to the results of a national reading test released on Thursday.

In a draft report, the Productivity Commission says that education spending has substantially increased over the past decade but student achievement has shown little improvement, and in some areas has declined.

But what if they show little improvement, or worse, a further loss of jobs and an increase in the unemployment rate?

The 1990s showed little improvement in the area of social commentary.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

The teachers union called the test results, which showed little improvement since last year, essentially meaningless because of the 20 percent opt out rate.

The Central New York economy shows little improvement from all that spending.

It certainly was a harsh winter, and spring showed little improvement.

Many of these patients are prescribed increased dosages of corticosteroids, but continue to experience daily symptoms and recurrent infections, showing little improvement.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

1) U.S. education outcomes, measured in many ways, show little improvement since 1970.

Despite best efforts, most school improvement initiatives in high needs schools fail or show little improvement.

Despite best efforts, most school improvement initiatives — especially in high - needs, disadvantaged schools — fail or show little improvement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School Improvement Grants.

The systems that invested in the standard school - reform model — emphasizing improved instruction, leadership, data, and accountability — showed little improvement.

Despite best efforts, most school - improvement initiatives — especially in high - needs, disadvantaged schools — fail or show little improvement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School Improvement Grants.

The powertrain, at least for South Korean local market shows a little improvement on the diesel CRDi 1.6 - engine, that moves from 128 hp to 136 hp.

If weak puppies show little improvement you may need to bottle feed.

The Taylor's brought Jaylyn to their local veterinarian where she was prescribed medication but showed little improvement.

A 2008 audit showed little improvement.

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Indeed, in countries like Spain and Greece, youth unemployment remains above 50 percent and shows little sign of abating despite improvements in the economies of these countries.

When behavior is successful our cells become finely tuned to what the animal was learning at the time while a failure shows little change in the brain or improvement in the monkey's behavior.

Economic data in the United States have been a little more positive, showing, among other things, stronger - than - expected GDP growth in the second quarter, improvements in business sentiment, a rise in capital goods orders and a small pick - up in industrial production in the past couple of months, though the performance of the labour market has so far remained disappointing.

Personally yes, we were adopting a little boy however the mom has been showing a lot of improvement with staying clean over the last few months and the state has decided to allow her to keep her child.

Basically their figures showed that growth in gross product and growth in welfare rose together from 1939 to 1947 but that since then a large continuing growth in product was accompanied by very little improvement as judged by the Measure of Economic Welfare.

How pathetic it is that the World Trade Center's new iteration, including the memorial and museum, shows so little improvement over the original.

The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement.

In two years, we have shown little to no improvement against the premiere teams in the country in fact we've gone the opposite direction.

Teammates Juan Pablo Montoya, Helio Castroneves, Josef Newgarden, and Simon Pagenaud each showed little - to - no improvement Sunday.

The MCL32 is a decent chassis, as shown in Spain and Monaco, but the Honda power unit is still holding the team back with little signs of improvement.

meanwhile Teddy goes to NY, struggles a little in the first 2 yrs, but shows improvement year 3.

Since then, he's cooled off a little and hasn't really shown the improvement from freshman to sophomore year that scouts were hoping for.

Three - point shooting is Pinson's achilles heel, as he never shot higher than 29 % in college and showed little to no improvement in that area.

In this season, Arsenal showed very little improvement.

Consider getting help if your child Shows little or no improvement after you try an approach to help change the swearing for at least two months.

But, with its recent improvements and upgrades, NCF is working to show fathers that being a good dad can be simple, and with a little help, it can even fit into a busy schedule.

The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement.

Bronx Little Italy's First Car Show by Gonzalo Duran The Belmont Business Improvement District (BID) presents Bronx Little Italy's First Car Show sponsored by Allan Nunez, former President of Bronx Realist Auto Club and now member of Solo Pa Mi -LSB-...]

But, Feeney's ad comes just days after the release of a new poll commissioned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that showed the incumbent in a dead heat with former state Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (43 percent Feeney, 42 percent Kosmas) and with the sort of favorability ratings (37 percent favorable / 38 percent unfavorable) that would suggest he has little room for improvement.

After training, the older adults showed improvements in their multitasking skill, measured by how little their performance dropped when the driving task was added on top of the symbol task.

Statin use is widespread in middle - aged and older individuals, who also have an increased risk of AMD; however, previous studies have shown very little correlation between regular statin use and improvements in AMD.

For example, supplementing your diet with zinc for as little as six weeks has been shown to cause a significant improvement in testosterone among men with low levels, while restricting dietary sources of zinc has been found to lead to noticeable decreases.

In fact, I'm going to share with you the medical research showing that 90 % of psoriasis sufferers treated by modern medicine today show absolutely LITTLE IMPROVEMENT in their symptoms (actually many of their their symptoms get worse).

In fact, I'm going to share with you the medical research showing that 90 % of psoriasis sufferers treated by modern medicine today show absolutely LITTLE IMPROVEMENT in their symptoms (actually their symptoms get worse).

If this is true, then it's no surprise that most E4 carriers show little to no improvement from interventions that elevate ketones a single time in a laboratory, or even from interventions that elevate ketones for an extended period of time but do nothing else, especially when this happens in the context of the usual high - carb diet.

This analysis has shown that performance improvements can be demonstrated after completion of adequate warm - up activities, and there is little evidence to suggest that warming - up is detrimental to sports participants.

As long as your MAF tests show improvement, it's time to incorporate a little bit of anaerobic work.