Sentences with phrase «significant change point»

However, the FMI researchers found that storm - induced forest damage went through a statistically significant change point in 1990.

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Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

The key turning point came a decade ago, when Smith made significant changes to Winters» management structure after reading Jim Collins» bestselling business book Good to Great.

From a legal and regulatory point of view, that's a significant change, bringing for example new requirements for financial transparency.

Windows automatically creates a restore point each day, and before making significant changes to the system.

There is at this point no significant rise in loan arrears, and no reports of significant changes in bank's lending attitudes.

In December 2015, the Fed had communicated a cycle of four likely 25 - basis - point increases, so this was a fairly significant change.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

«Some of these changes in price are significant — such as offering emerging markets exposure at 11 basis points.»

Burke recommends that the analysis of any written work should begin with the «principle of the concordance».21 The critic builds an index of significant terms: terms that recur in changing contexts, terms that occur at significant points in the narrative, terms that seem heavy with symbolic meaning.

Growing coffee is both a point of pride and a significant economic driver for Colombia but a changing climate is now threatening the harvest.

Talking point: Roy Hodgson made significant changes for England's final group game, resting Wayne Rooney, Dele Alli and both full - backs, Kyle Walker and Danny Rose, as well as starting with Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge, the strikers who had such an impact as half - time substitutes against Wales.

I'm not saying for a moment we brush this under the carpet, but no players or staff will change before the summer, so any speculation on significant changes are moot at this point, and emotions are running too high to even have a rational discussion in those areas without getting lost in a sea of shouting.

The point of this whole post is that we can not MAKE our significant others change.

While I agree with your overall point that there is a value of differentiating arguments of principle and ultimate values from political strategy and tactics about how to make change happen, I am somewhat sceptical of the implication that a significant problem has been that modern political philosophy has been too pragmatic or applied.

At this point, there was a significant push to enshrine the office as a two term limit for the sake of changing status quo and in 1951 they drafted an amendment to the constitution doing just that (Though it allowed the incumbent FDR and VP Truman to be exempt from this law until they were voted out, though this did not happen.

At first, this does not appear to be a major change in the electoral fortunes of the parties but when we look at the revised national shares, the impact is more significant as this suggests that Labour and the Conservatives would be neck and neck in England & Wales rather than the 2.5 point lead the Conservatives actually had.

In terms of proving progressive credentials to the Left my guess is that the Conservative leadership would also point to the party's acceptance of homosexual rights, efforts to promote women and ethnic minority candidates and the significant emphasis that the party has placed on civil libertarianism and combating climate change.

Party officers pointed out the just - introduced Republican AHCA would have significant negative impacts on coverage for New Yorkers and health care cost for state government, and that Gov. Cuomo's budget proposal has no plan to deal with changes to the ACA.

«We desire free exchange of information between the government and the international community on combating corruption and so ask the government to establish a single point of contact, someone who is authorised to engage with us specifically on these issues but also empowered to carry out significant change.»

We should point out that the changes to the district are fairly significant.

«The proposal to change the law to provide anonymity up to the point of charge is a welcome and significant step in the right direction.

In contrast to clinical manifestation, the concussed players demonstrated a significant blood flow decrease at eight days relative to 24 hours post-injury, while the non-concussed players had no change in cerebral blood flow between the two time points.

The study reflects a significant advance in the integration of research among scientists and historians, and points to the need for more interdisciplinary scholarship to better document and analyze how humans have related and responded to past environmental changes, says Marlon.

These results point to significant changes in the American workforce with impacts likely felt by workers and employers.»

A report in 2014 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pointed to human - caused climate change as a significant influence on some extreme weather events in 2013 — notably heat waves in Europe, Asia and Australia.

They found that certain changes in lifestyle led to significant long - term changes in reported life satisfaction, rather than causing the temporary deflections in happiness that set - point theory would suggest.

The outcomes of the study reveal the complexity of the processes shaping climate change in the Arctic and point to significant spatial and chronological variances in sea ice cover.

When I sought the views of William Waldegrave, the science minister, he replied saying that Richmond appeared to be pointing out the kinds of issues which might need to be considered in the event of significant changes in the SERC's funding expectations.

«It was surprising to see all these significant changes in A1C and body weight without altering medications or activity level and without aiming for weight reduction,» Dr. Hamdy pointed out, «Which tells us that nutrition therapy can be as effective as medications even after a long duration of the disease.»

His earlier research showed limited evidence of significant changes in the magnitude of floods, but strong evidence pointing toward an increasing frequency of flooding.

The daily leaf - thickness variations were minor, with no significant day - to - day changes when soil moisture contents ranged from high to wilting point.

In control bees kept under anesthesia, there was no significant change in the expression level at any time - point sampled.

We also compared changes in the vacation versus novice arms at the follow - up time point, and, notably, there was not a significant differential GE signature beyond what would be expected by chance, suggesting that these groups changed in similar ways (see Supplementary Information for more explanation of the group comparisons made).

Thus, we apply circular binary segmentation (CBS) to smooth the data and detect significant copy number change - points.

Students at this point in their lives are in the midst of significant physical, psychological, social, and emotional changes associated with the gradual transition from childhood to adulthood.

From Neal's vantage point, the district needed to make significant changes to get back on a sound financial footing and bring families back to its schools.

Finally, pupils will evaluate how far things had changed for the Indians using acts and treaties to explain whether there were any significant turning points.

Although the relationship between changes in the student - teacher ratio and changes in school performance is not statistically significant, the size of the relationship suggests that the governor's plan would increase scores by roughly 0.36 percentage points.

When pressed, the main evidence they point to in support of PM is a study by Doug Harris that shows that New Orleans made significant gains post-Katrina that can not fully be explained by changes in the composition of students in the district.

Always - D schools made no statistically significant gains on the FCAT or Stanford - 9 reading tests, while sometimes - D schools experienced a decrease of 1.1 points on the FCAT and no significant change on the Stanford - 9 reading test.

Such lessons must become a focal point in academic communities in order to promote and inspire significant change.

All of these gains by racial / ethnic groups were significant, and all exceeded the insignificant overall change of 2 points in math and 1 point in reading at age 17.

However, the significant point here is that a school's culture changed when it had 30 % new staff.

In round one, however, scores only changed by 4.6 points on average after the interviews, not a significant margin on the 500 - point grading scale.

From 2004 to 2008, the black - white score gap closed 2 points and the Hispanic - white score gap remained unchanged, with no changes being statistically significant.

The only significant change since 2013, the year de Blasio was elected, was a 7 - point decrease in the proportion of fourth graders considered proficient in math.»

«Big, big change on this product, significant freshening on the front end, it was a really significant update, so we thought it was appropriate to make the change at that point,» said Parker, who indicated that the days of MK - badged Lincolns are numbered.

At this point, there is no information regarding new engine options or significant mechanical changes but we'll get back on the topic as soon as more details surface.

Mechanically it is nearly identical to the 2013 models at this point but will be considered the third generation of models with significant changes to the exterior including a larger grille, more defined fenders, and new lights all the way around.