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&r
reports on Form 10 - Q (the «
Reports&r
Reports»).
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.