Sentences with phrase «significant change to this report»

The most significant change to this report is that that Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing has slipped to third and also reflects the growing discontent self - published authors have with the introduction of Amazon Unlimited and recent communications regarding the new VAT law in Europe for 2015.

Not exact matches

Perth - based information technology company ASG Group has reported a significant financial loss for the 2013 financial year as it struggles to come to terms with the changing sector.

According to this Mercer Talent Trend report, 93 % of executives plan to make significant changes inside of their corporations over the next two years.

But the Pentagon maintains that climate change impacts, including refugees from drought - stricken areas of the world and rising sea levels, are a significant threat to national security, as The New York Times reported.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports&rreports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports&rReports»).

One survey of software startups found that 41 % reported «significant operational impacts» from patent troll lawsuits, causing them to exit business lines or change strategy.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Credit Karma provides free credit monitoring to track its users» TransUnion credit reports on a rolling, daily basis and notifies them of any significant changes, such as if a new account is opened in their name or if a creditor registers a delinquency.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

The final standard retains the pass / fail opinion of the existing auditor's report but makes significant changes to the existing auditor's report, including the following:

«It's significant because we haven't seen a change like this from the very beginning to (the) start of reporting season,» Bell said.

Due to increasing complexity and length of annual and quarterly financial reports, meeting these criteria requires a focused effort and, perhaps, significant changes in the way research is created by most firms.

Rising interest rates and a banner year for stocks could lift reported earnings at some large companies that have made an arcane but significant change to the way their pension plans are valued.

LOUISVILLE, KY — Trucking Moves America Forward, the industry - wide image and education movement, reported significant achievements in the past year in its mission to change the public perception of the trucking industry.

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.

CNN: Hate crime numbers steady, FBI reports As New York authorities investigate what appears to be the nation's latest hate crime, the FBI's annual hate crime report, released Monday, shows no significant change in the level of crimes motivated by bias.

[26] The Sixth Forum on Bilateral Dialogues held in October 1994, in its Report: International Bilateral Dialogues, 1992 - 1994 (Faith and Order Paper No. 168)(Geneva: WCC Publications, 1995), observed that where openness to reception and renewal exits, significant changes in the life and mission of the church occur through, among other things, «contact in theological formation with the broader heritage of the church through the ages.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

While it may be some time before you actually feel any movement (somewhere between weeks 16 and 25), any significant changes in activity moving forward should be immediately reported to your doctor.

It is unlikely that we missed any significant adverse consequences by excluding infants changing from supine to nonsupine after the 3 - month report, because only 3 % of all infants with complete data were excluded for this reason.

The Tories may have tacked to the right, but there were significant and under - reported changes to the Liberal Democrats as well.

If transparently reported, this method allows us to identify significant changes and understand the consequentiality of those changes.

A report published today by Universities UK reveals there has been «no significant change» in the social class, age or ethnicity of applicants from 2004/05 to 2007/08.

The Irish Government has still to respond on these later reports, but already it is clear that the Convention recommendations on many matters will lead to the holding of referendums on specific issues in 2015; and we are likely to see real and significant constitutional change made as a result.

In a letter to the chairman of LAG, environment secretary Liz Truss MP said the report «did not show that the impacts of lead ammunition were significant enough to justify changing current policy».

The Regulatory Review and Reform Program has resulted in significant changes to eliminate unnecessary reporting and paperwork, streamline or clarify regulatory requirements, and reduce administrative and operational costs for small and large businesses, health care providers, and individuals.

In a letter dated Aug. 11, Carl Weisbrod wrote that while the changes to the neighborhood were significant, they did not «require any new waivers or zoning actions,» the Lo - Down reported.

Although there was an increase in the percentage of U.S. youth ages 12 to 19 reporting exposure to loud music through headphones from 1988 - 2010, researchers did not find significant changes in the prevalence of hearing loss among this group, according to a study published by JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.

... Buried within it, the plan describes a few significant policy changes,» including the end to the 10 % budget set - aside for AIDS research, as Kaiser reported last Friday.

On climate science: «As summarized in the 2013 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there continues to be significant progress in climate science.

The event commemorates the 5 November 1965 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report to President Lyndon B. Johnson, which warned that the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels would «almost certainly cause significant changes» to the environment.

By 2015, they report, about half of the orangutans estimated to live on Borneo in 1999 were found in areas in which resource use has since caused significant changes to the environment.

Melting permafrost is causing significant changes to the freshwater chemistry and hydrology of Alaska's Yukon River and could be triggering global climate impacts, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released yesterday.

«Barring any significant policy changes by other nations, China - based companies are poised to increasingly dominate as clean - tech employers,» according to an October report from Clean Edge, a research firm in Portland, Ore..

They report that the test can detect significant drops in the metabolic activity levels of all three types of tumors within 72 hours when exposed to an effective drug whereas tumors that were resistant to a drug show no change.

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.

A recent Surgeon General's report on e-cigarettes and youth notes that there are significant known deleterious health effects resulting from nicotine exposure in adolescence, including changes to the developing brain.

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.

They found no significant change to subscribers reporting they were in poor to fair health five years after Part D was implemented.

The models» results also play a significant role in the latest assessment report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where they are used to link the mitigation options described for different sectors such as buildings, transport, or energy supply.

In a study of 1,979 overweight and obese adults in the UK, people who lost 5 % or more of their initial body weight over four years showed significant changes in markers of physical health, but were more likely to report depressed mood than those who stayed within 5 % of their original weight.

In an online survey of 342 parents of young children, those who reported high levels of biospheric concern also reported feeling the most stressed about global climate change, while those whose concerns were more egoistic or altruistic did not report significant stress related to the phenomenon.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

Yet the report also argued against a rapid shift to non-fossil fuel energy sources, noting that «making significant changes in energy consumption... amid all the scientific uncertainties would be premature in view of the severe impact such moves could have on the world's economies and societies.»

We report here a significant improvement in the resolution of array CGH, with the development of an array platform that utilizes single - stranded DNA array elements to accurately measure copy - number changes of individual exons in the human genome.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

Clarke, working at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, was acclaimed by the group for his skillful and tireless leadership to ensure the significant work of the Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) community was objectively and prominently represented in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Trappe et al. (2006) reported that there was a significant change in muscle fiber type, involving an 8 % increase in type I fibers (48 ± 6 % to 56 ± 6 %) that was created by a loss of hybrids but not by a loss of type II muscle fibers.

Senior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.