Sentences with phrase «slowing their decline by»

Kale and other green leafy vegetables can slow this decline by a whopping 40 %!

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The result is Canada is at «some risk» of a balance sheet recession — a period of slow growth or decline caused by consumers saving and paying down debt rather than spending.

By integrating Zappos into a city, Hsieh wondered, could he cheat the slow decline that seems to befall most large companies?

Most notably, its same - store sales have been dwindling by 1 % to 2 % for several quarters, though the rate of decline has slowed and the fast - food market is improving.

The Luxembourg - based company's results were weighed down by a sequential decline in advertising revenue and slow growth in subscription revenue.

«All year this reading has been in focus as activity in the US manufacturing sector, particularly driven by a decline in oil - related activity and the strengthening of the US dollar, has slowed,» Business Insider markets editor Myles Udland reports.

Finally, in a nominal GDP targeting regime, a decline in r - star caused by slower trend growth automatically leads to a higher rate of trend inflation, providing a larger buffer to respond to economic downturns.

As traditional lenders shied away from the smallest small businesses, loans to those businesses have been in decline and slow to recover [3], online lenders are making more capital available to small businesses by adding a financing option that didn't exist previously.

This can be attributed to declining demand in the entire energy / metals / commodities complex since GDX's constituents are heavily invested in silver, a metal that is used in several industries that have been impacted by slowing industrial demand.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Although Hershey reports annual sales exceeding $ 7.4 billion, its growth pace slowed in 2013 and 2014, followed by a 0.5 percent sales decline in 2015 and a rise of just 0.7 percent in 2016.

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

This is the headline for this morning's release of the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, and here is the opening paragraph from the report: «Led by slower growth in production - and employment - related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) declined to +0.10 in March from +0.98 in February.»

Since the beginning of 2015, Netflix's free cash flow has declined by $ 644 million, with seemingly no signs of slowing down.

The WTI contract is back at the crucial $ 50 level, with the help of the strong decline in the Dollar, the prospects of slower tightening by the Federal Reserve, the positive news regarding the OPEC production cut deal, and the slower growth of the US output.

While the decision to leave the EU has caused notable market upheaval, global market declines were actually more extreme in the first few months of 2016 due to significant commodity price weakness, concerns regarding slowed economic growth in the U.S. and China, and monetary decisions by major central banks.

The pound fell 1 % after the announcement while yields on United Kingdom government bonds declined, aided in part by concerns expressed by the MPC that the uncertainty surrounding Brexit will continue to weigh on domestic activity, which has slowed even as global growth has accelerated.

The opposite is true: they are trying to keep it from falling or are at least trying to slow down its descent with every trick in the book (every intermittent phase of yuan strength since the beginning of the decline was triggered by intervention).

If, however, it deteriorates at a slow rate, the home ownership rate would most likely follow the average decline rate of the last five years (2012 - 2016), decreasing on a year - over-year basis by 0.5 percent of the prior year's rate.

CFO Dave Wehner first addressed the looming GDPR regulations in the company's opening statement, confirming that Facebook user growth in Europe may slow or even decline as the company gets people to agree to updated privacy guidelines required by the laws.

The writer is concerned with the Colossians» slow decline from a grace - filled life to a religious life dominated by domineering men.

In one study, observed infant negativity predicted declines in supportive parenting by toddlerhood, while harsh parenting during infancy predicted increased toddler negativity.37 Similarly, another study found that maternal relationship stress was associated with concurrent infant negativity, which predicted slower emotion regulatory development across infancy, which in turn predicted negative parenting in toddlerhood.38

Instead he will attack Osborne on the (perfectly valid) grounds of long - term and youth unemployment, as well as the decline in living standards caused by wages that grow slower than the rate of inflation.

Among other points, the new data shows that the number of UK - born Christians decreased by 5.3 million since the 2001 Census, but Christianity's overall decline was slowed as this was topped up by 1.2 million Christian immigrants.

Baucus declined to specify the «concerns» presented at the meeting, although the legislation has been slowed by Democratic differences over policy and financing.

But Cuomo's Department of Corrections decided on a slow summer Friday afternoon, and five weeks after the legislative session ended, to announce that four prisons would be shuttered by July 26, 2014, citing a declining inmate population.

But Governor Cuomo's Department of Corrections decided, on a slow summer Friday afternoon, five weeks after the legislative session ended, to announce that four prisons would be shuttered by July 26th, 2014, citing a declining inmate population.

The model also suggests that the decline in water vapour concentrations that occurred in 2001 slowed down the rate of global warming in the last decade by 25 per cent.

The decline in air travel in the months after the terrorist attacks delayed the annual flu season in the United States by almost 2 weeks, they conclude — a finding that suggests that a flu pandemic, too, could be slowed down, perhaps by months.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Drugs can not slow or stop the progressive decline caused by the disorder, which leaves patients unable to walk, talk or eat.

While some research suggests that a diet high in omega - 3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega - 3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons.

«The growth factor released by these genetically engineered cells will bath the other cells in the growth factor, slow down the degeneration and thereby improve, or slow the decline in Alzheimer's disease,» Tuszynski explains.

The pattern is of a slow rise in the number of neutrinos arriving, followed by a more rapid decline over the four years during which sunspot activity rises to its peak.

Using 30 years of satellite and water balloon data, she and her colleagues have found that water vapor there has actually declined by about 10 percent after the year 2000, slowing warming by as much as 25 percent.

The recent advances in the science of aging will be the topic of an MDI Science Café presentation by MDI Biological Laboratory scientist Aric Rogers, Ph.D., entitled «Slowing Aging to Prevent Age - Related Disease and Decline.»

PET scans demonstrated an increase in the brain's use of glucose, an indication of increased brain activity, while mental - status tests showed a slowing of the patients» rate of cognitive decline was reduced by 36 to 51 percent.

According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, doing so could help slow the decline of your lung function, by reversing some of the damage caused by smoking.

Specifically in relation to Parkinson's disease, a recent study published by researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Harvard revealed a direct relationship between higher cholesterol levels and slowing in the rate of decline in the 744 Parkinson's patients they followed.

And in these patients, the annual rate of decline in ability to perform day - to - day tasks (like preparing meals and bathing) slowed by an astounding 20 %.

But the researchers saw different patterns when they broke the group down by age: For patients younger than 65, symptoms worsened when the deep brain stimulation system was turned on; for older patients, the treatment seemed to slow down their decline over one year.

In fact, it showed that increasing strawberry and blueberry intake could slow cognitive decline by as much as two and a half years.

Many of the problems related to age are caused by declining hormone levels, and bringing those hormones back to their optimal state can slow down and even reverse many of the effects that aging has on the body.

Those who ate 2.8 servings of vegetables a day or more slowed their rate of cognitive decline by roughly 40 percent, the equivalent of about five years.

The vitamin C content of food will start to decline as soon as it is picked, even though this decline can be slowed down and minimized by cooling and retention of the food in its whole form.

In a linear mixed model adjusted for age, sex, education, participation in cognitive activities, physical activities, smoking, and seafood and alcohol consumption, consumption of green leafy vegetables was associated with slower cognitive decline; the decline rate for those in the highest quintile of intake (median 1.3 servings / d) was slower by β = 0.05 standardized units (p = 0.0001) or the equivalent of being 11 years younger in age.

However, when taken as a long - term supplement, ginkgo can improve memory and slow down the cognitive decline experienced by the elderly.

Injections tend to have a roller coaster affect, where you can experience an immediate peak after the shot followed by a slow decline towards the end of the cycle.

Blueberries have been known to help slow down cognitive decline, and improve memory function by protecting the body from inflammation and combatting oxidative damage, and stress.

By the time a woman reaches menopause, gonadal hormone production, which has been on a slow, steady decline since her 30's, reaches its lowest point.