Sentences with phrase «with additional decline»

Exacerbations were associated with additional decline in FEV1 in COPD patients beyond losses due to aging and COPD without exacerbations.

Not exact matches

Laurence declined to discuss the potential of any additional partnerships with Quebecor should it expand outside its home province, saying if the company was serious and wanted to talk to Rogers, «they know where we are.»

«After considering the other options that I have been presented with for post-gubernatorial employment, I declined their request to do additional shows,» Christie said in a statement, adding, «I made that clear to them prior to leaving for my family vacation two weeks ago.»

An American Airlines representative told Business Insider that the airline spoke with Zanone «to offer additional support and details of what transpired at Dallas / Forth Worth Saturday» and confirmed that she declined the airline's request for medical assistance after the flight.

«Benign inflation data combined with increased worries about further stock market declines has led to some additional short - covering.»

In the brief time period, Pouncey is of the opinion that there will likely be additional declines as a result of attainable improve in laws and a continued sell - off of enormous items of cryptocurrency such because the bitcoin with the Mt. Gox trustee.

As with stocks, you may be called upon to deposit additional cash or securities if your account equity declines.

The conference organiser, Pareto Securities, showed a chart pointing to an additional 13 million barrels of oil supply per day required to meet declines in existing production (compared with current daily production of 96 million barrels) by 2020.

Since the end of last year, we've purchased shares in what we'd consider good businesses with growth opportunities in the UK and Australia; additional shares in a couple of mining services companies as tax selling and a further decline in sentiment drove down prices; and a couple of Hong Kong - listed companies with decent businesses and real estate portfolios.

At a time like this, where many life insurers, particularly ones facing credit risks, and those having variable policies, where profitability has declined along with the stock market, the surcharges could have kicked additional life insurers over the edge, and who knows how big the cascade would have been.

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.

8 One does not need a medical degree to recognize that admitting homosexuals into the military would bring about an increase in the number of AIDS cases and would put additional financial and personnel strains on military medicine, which must contend with a declining military budget and the challenge of recruiting and retaining sufficient medical personnel.

So, while I suppose it's possible that the nation's overall green houses gases could slightly decline (which I disagree with), many states» will drastically increase their pollutants as they will be forced to create additional cement.

Between the day 0 and day 3 interviews, an additional 11 participants declined to continue and an additional 6 went to live with a relative outside the catchment area, resulting in 431 with information on delayed OL (96 % of those eligible at day 0).

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Presented with a copy of the email during a break in a recent JCOPE meeting, Weissman said it had «nothing to do with the commission» and declined additional comment.

A spokesman for the party confirmed «a routine call» last night with state committee members, but declined to provide additional details.

«Our study provides additional evidence that exercise plays a protective role against cognitive decline and suggests the need for future research to investigate how physical activity may interact with genetics and decrease Alzheimer's risk.»

With two additional years of denusomab treatment, their bone mineral density increased further and the wrist fracture rate declined to levels significantly lower than the FREEDOM placebo rate (rate ratio = 0.57, 95 % CI = 0.34 - 0.95; p = 0.03).

Each exacerbation was associated with an additional 23 mL / year decline.

Each severe exacerbation was associated in this group with an additional 87 mL / year decline.

According to asthma symptom rate decline seen in this research, it's estimated that a child having asthma residing in a house that has indoor air filtration would typically have 33 additional asthma symptoms free days a year in contrast to children residing in any cigarette smoking home with no indoor filtration.

Additional research has shown that regular MCT consumption in dogs with «age - related mental decline» increases the phospholipid and

Additional research has shown that regular MCT consumption in dogs with «age - related mental decline» increases the phospholipid and omega - 3 fatty acid (EPA & DHA) content in the parietal cortex of the brain (11).

On the other hand, a person that simply takes thyroid medications and does not treat the infection may continue to see declines in his / her health, as eventually, the presence of the infection may burn out the immune system and cause it to start recognizing additional sequences on the infectious organism that may cross-react with different organs in the body... This is why, in the conventional medical approach, it is widely known that having one autoimmune condition will put the person at greater risk for getting another autoimmune condition.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

[2] These additional requirements, along with declining funding [3] and a growing perception that all young people should be encouraged to obtain a four - year college degree, led to a sharp decline in CTE participation.

38 % of teachers said their PE provision has declined because core / eBacc subjects have been given additional time with students taken out of timetabled Physical Education for extra tuition in other subjects.

38 per cent of teachers said their PE provision has declined because core / eBacc subjects have been given additional time with students taken out of timetabled Physical Education for extra tuition in other subjects.

They document that public school districts with the largest declines in instructional expenditures during the recession had worse achievement outcomes and that this grew with additional years of exposure to the Great Recession.

«With the infusion of dollars into these schools, and the additional vendors, we should not see test scores and outcomes and student growth declining,» she said.

Lack of funding can lead to declining quality, caps on quantity, or both, and prioritizing free tuition for all means less money to help the neediest students with additional costs.

School funding simply does not stretch to equipping every school with all the facilities new courses, such as specialised diplomas, require and central government have declined additional funding.»

I thanked him but declined politely saying I would a) prefer to work with our CU that I've been with for over 10 years and b) the additional loan with the CU would save a lot more than five bucks a month on a HELOC rate discount.

Fiat +29 % After some recent declines, Fiat was able to move forward again, with sales of the 500 coupe largely stable and the 500L providing the additional volume.

Question is, did the additional 1.75 percent of increases serve to tip the housing market into decline, or was the collapse inevitable with or without the last seven quarter - point raises?

At a time like this, where many life insurers, particularly ones facing credit risks, and those having variable policies, where profitability has declined along with the stock market, the surcharges could have kicked additional life insurers over the edge, and who knows how big the cascade would have been.

Gross goes on to note that «homes are the most highly levered and monetarily significant asset that American consumers own, if they decline much further they will drag the rest of the economy with them,» and therefore any further decline needs to be stopped quickly in order to avert additional crises.

In addition to the normal risks associated with fixed income securities discussed elsewhere in this SAI and the fund's prospectus (e.g., interest rate risk and default risk), CDOs carry additional risks including, but not limited to: (i) the possibility that distributions from collateral securities will not be adequate to make interest or other payments; (ii) the quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the fund may invest in CDOs that are subordinate to other classes; (iv) the complex structure of the security may not be fully understood at the time of investment and may produce disputes with the issuer or unexpected investment results; and (v) credit ratings by major credit rating agencies may be no indication of the creditworthiness of the security.

I also love to use Boost in a Bottle with senior aged patients whose body conditions are declining and need additional support with their joints, emotions, and immune system.

If the temperature doesn't decline with height in that layer (perhaps because of solar heating), it is still the case that increasing the LW optical thickness will, by concentrating the source of OLR into a yet thinner layer at the top of the atmosphere, remove some of the cooling of the lower part of the original OLR source (by adding additional downward LW flux from above, replacing the darkness of space), thus tending to cause warming there.

The mean value of δ13C has declined into the present with a decrease of 0.36 ‰ from the midden to the archival shells and an additional 0.53 ‰ decline for δ13C in modern shells (Figure 1a, ANOVA and Tukey HSD, F2, 289 = 81.32, p < 0.001).

An additional graph (figure 4) shows that total NIH funding trends and national death rate trends can be closely correlated, even to the extent that periods of rapid or slow growth in NIH budgets correlate with rapid or slow declines in overall death rates.

For example, with each degree of warming, renewable water resources are projected to decline by at least 20 percent for an additional 7 percent of the global population.

Cumulative emissions (2012 — 2100) are about 1,160 Gt CO2 for fossil fuels, with an additional 110 Gt CO2 for LUCF, and 35 Gt CO2 after 2100 assuming continued exponential decline.

Overall the G8 pathway has cumulative carbon dioxide emissions (2012 — 2100) of 1,485 Gt CO2 for fossil fuels, and 125 for LUCF, with an additional 45 GtCO2 after 2100 assuming continued exponential decline.

[4] Fossil - fuel emissions and emissions from land use change and forestry (LUCF) both decline asymptotically to zero, with budgets of 725 and 50 Gt CO2 respectively for 2012 — 2100; adding a small additional contribution of 5 GtCO2 to the post-2100 for continued exponential decline.

Even with these assumptions of large fertility declines in the projections, each additional billion humans added will not be spread evenly across the planet.

Healy declined to give additional details, citing geopolitical sensitivities in dealing with the reclusive North Korean government.

On what would be the additional capital requirement with regards to Basel - II operational risk and market risk»» Singh said, «We are at present carrying out the exercise and would NPA at the bank has also declined from 48 per cent last year to 3.4 per cent and its cost of fund has also declined from 6.96 to 6.46 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal.