Sentences with phrase «while leading measures»

As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks was mixed - valuations remain unfavorable, technical action was mixed but tenuous, with various indices flirting with widely observed levels of support and resistance (e.g. the 1100 level on the S&P 500), while leading measures of economic activity remain decidedly unfavorable.
While leading measures and our Recession Warning Composite do not currently provide enough evidence to anticipate an oncoming recession with confidence, they do suggest much greater prospects for economic weakness than the Wall Street consensus suggests.

Not exact matches

While the GGEI is recognized as a leading international measure of the green economic performance of many countries, researchers at Yale (who also produce their own green country ranking each year) have criticized it for having limited geographic coverage.
While DOJ officials believed there wasn't enough evidence to move forward with the probe and wouldn't authorize further investigatory measures, FBI officials, including McCabe, believed they had the authority to continue the investigation using whatever leads they had already acquired, the report said.
Now for some more caveats: The sample, while large, was overwhelmingly made up of white people, and the measure of vitamin intake was based on surveys rather than blood draws (which could potentially lead to some misleading results).
Additionally, GoPro can measure how well their content relates to audience development by tracking how their social following, email subscribers, leads generated, and unique pageviews grow while they promote engaging content.
«When it comes to the success of female - led campaigns (success is measured by way of them meeting their funding target) we see Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand come out jointly on top with female success rates of 33 % Sweden and the UK come next with a success rate of 26 %, while for the US and France female - led campaigns rank joint third for success with 24 % of female - led campaigns achieving success compared with 20 % of male - led campaigns in the US.
So while no one wants a trade war, a great many companies quietly agree with measures that might hopefully lead to a more level playing field for business in China and an end to vast theft of IP.
But when measuring discount brokerages by consumer satisfaction, Scottrade leads the pack while E * TRADE comes in fourth.
In November, measures for employment and new manufacturing orders within a leading business survey reached their highest levels in 17 years, while the composite index itself hit a six - year peak.
A measure recognizing pornography as leading to individual and societal harms was passed by the Virginia State House with a landslide majority of 82 - 8, while Tennessee's Senate Health and Welfare Committee is set to consider a similar resolution next week.
While we must still admit that nature reveals to us only the answers to questions selectively focused by our interpretive structures, we may reaffirm that we are still in her leading strings, to reverse Kant's point, because reality is the first motive for the natural process of thinking as well as the final measure of its results.
A leading critic of the Articles of Confederation, the feckless league under which Americans were governed for much of the 1780s, Madison was among the first to contemplate a more far - reaching union, one that would attend more energetically to national needs while offering a measure of security to those who had suffered at the hands of local majorities.
Playing your second from 315 yards out, well out of range of any sort of measured yardage, while one stroke off the lead?
While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.
While it is understandable that parents would want to take any measure possible to minimize a potential risk to their child, good intentions can sometimes lead to dangerous outcomes.
Anthony Weiner was an outspoken advocate for — and opponent to — many things while he served in Congress, but he was the lead sponsor one just one bill that was signed into law — a 2010 measure aimed at reducing cigarette sales - tax evasion.
And while the Ministry of Defence is included in these measures, they will be given flexibility on their multi-year budget to ensure that this will not lead to reductions in military manpower or the core defence equipment programme over the Parliament.
New Jersey's Democrat - led Assembly passed a measure that would force the governor's beach house to close during a shutdown, while a second measure they approved would keep state parks open.
«Cameron's tribute to the Queen: «While the sands of culture shift and the tides of politics ebb and flow, Her Majesty has been a permanent anchor» Main Dominic Raab leads the House in passing measures to bring the killers of Sergei Magnitsky to justice»
While the measures — as well one that reassigns executive - office cars to social service workers — barely dent the $ 557 - million deficit projection, Bellone said they're designed to «lead by example.»
But while welcoming the measure as potentially leading to increased air traffic into Ghana, airline operator Gloria Wilkinson warned that the country would have to ensure its security measures were tight to prevent possible abuse of the system.
Eighty - nine per cent agreed that the measures would lead to a fragmentation of services, while 65 % of respondents agreed that the quality of patient care would be reduced as a result.
A statement spelling out the conditions of the Shiite movement and signed by Ibrahim Musa, President Forum of the Islamic movement said, «While the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has called for the setting up of an impartial and independent Judicial Commission of Inquiry made up of independent persons and members of the international human rights community to unravel the circumstances that led to the pogrom in Zaria and its environs, it believes that the events of December 12, 2015 that led to the massacre of its members, the maiming of hundreds, the detention of its cadres and destruction of its properties are premeditated and that the Federal and Kaduna State Government are in a face saving measure regarding the gross human rights violations that it deliberately perpetrated.
While some measures designed to make life harder for illegal migrants date back to the last Labour government, most Whitehall insiders and immigration experts point to the arrival of the Tory - led coalition government in 2010 as the moment when the «hostile environment» mission began in earnest.
«Protecting our children from the hazards of lead common in pre-1978 housing has been a high priority of my administration; and while it may take years to provide adequate lead safe housing in our community, there are measures we can take now to reduce children's risks of lead poisoning, including insisting that rental property owners replace or repair older windows and chipping and peeling lead paint and ensuring the work is performed by EPA certified contractors using lead safe work practices,» Picente said.
On Wednesday, the Democrat - led Assembly aligned itself with Cuomo, a second - term Democrat, on measures like voting and campaign finance reform, while separating on other items related to transparency and budget control.
While the bill will be sent to the Republican - led state senate for consideration, Heastie hailed the legislation as combating «ever - increasing rents» through measures that include the repeal of vacancy decontrol and limiting rent increases associated with building or apartment improvements.
While Proposal 1 was handed a resounding loss — and a measure to bar officials convicted of a crime of their state pensions easily passed — returns for the land bank were a nail - biter, with «no» votes leading the charge until late - night returns from the Adirondacks put the proposal over the top, carving out a modest 4 percent victory.
In addition, while our data suggest that sleep loss impairs working memory in a sex - dependent manner, this does not mean that the sex - differences we observed can be generalised to other mental or physical measures of how we are affected by sleep loss,» says Frida Rångtell, PhD student at the Department of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.
The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»
But we found that measuring their skills in English, while not perfect, is a helpful predictor of future success,» said Katie Whiteside, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, the study's lead author.
While it would be difficult to obtain a truly objective measure of impact, up to mid-January 2015, out of 425 former and current ProFiL participants, 148 have achieved formal eligibility for professorial positions, and 176 have attained professorships, including two vice-chancellors, according to Dorothea Jansen, who established and leads the ProFil programme and has advised other institutions in Germany and Poland on similar programs.
The thermal flashlight has already led to the birth of different tools, with the Gowanus canal team developing a thermal fishing bob that directly measures water temperature while kept afloat by plastic bottles gathered from the canal itself.
«The follow - up period was relatively short — six weeks — and the study was not statistically powered to measure clinical outcomes,» said Tindle, who served as the lead study physician while working at the University of Pittsburgh through the summer of 2014.
While previous studies have shown that this student - centered method can be more effective than teacher - led instruction, Wieman says this study attempted to provide «a particularly clean comparison... to measure exactly what can be learned inside the classroom.»
Schumacher and his students and colleagues, including lead co-author Christine Godwin, measured the brain patterns of more than 100 people while they lay in an MRI machine.
Lead author Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, recruited 47 healthy volunteers and used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to measure glucose metabolism in the brain while cell phones were placed over the right or left ear.
Professor David Wraith, who led the research, said: «Insight into the molecular basis of antigen - specific immunotherapy opens up exciting new opportunities to enhance the selectivity of the approach while providing valuable markers with which to measure effective treatment.
Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.
Led by researchers at NYU Langone's Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, the new study reports that participants with MS who used tDCS while playing the cognitive training computer games designed to improve information processing abilities showed significantly greater gains in cognitive measures than those who played the computer games alone.
And while decreasing lung cancer death rates are encouraging, many countries have yet to implement the kinds of comprehensive tobacco control measures that have led to drops in other countries.»
Lead author Dr Shelby Putt, from the Stone Age Institute, said: «This work offers novel insights into prehistoric cognition using a cutting - edge neuroimaging technique that allows people to engage in complex actions while we are measuring localized brain activity.
«While pregnant women should still be counseled against excess weight gain, additional measures may be required to reduce the associated complications,» study lead author Dr. Alan Peaceman said in an SMFM news release.
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While inflammation itself is meant to be a protective measure, when it occurs in response to autoimmunity or chronic stress, it ceases to be protective and begins to cause a destructive friction within the body that leads to further breakdown.
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But we found that measuring their skills in English, while not perfect, is a helpful predictor of future success,» said Katie Whiteside, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, the study's lead author.
While school officials «must consult the Disciplinary Code when determining which disciplinary measure to impose,» they also are required to consider «the student's age, maturity, and previous disciplinary record... the circumstances surrounding the incident leading to the discipline; and the student's IEP, BIP and 504 Accommodation Plan.»
«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»
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