Sentences with phrase «with substantial variations»

The analysis also found that the chance of pregnancy was reduced in all age groups, with substantial variations between different cancer diagnoses — notably, reduced pregnancy rates in women with cervical cancer, breast cancer and leukemia.

Fewer than half of U.S. schools have full - time nurses, with substantial variation by region, according to the data.

This same study revealed large inter-locus variation in cline width and cline center among some loci, consistent with substantial variation in patterns and levels of introgression as indicated by previous work [21], [24]--[26].

In addition, Estyn (the school's inspectorate in Wales), reported in June 2014 that schools record and deal with bullying inconsistently, with substantial variation present within schools.

The processes and their interactions are complex, however, with substantial variation between models (Winton, 2006b), and their relative importance contributing to or dampening high - latitude amplification has not yet been properly resolved.

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Comments on the NPRM and various media reports together suggest that there is substantial variation in different firms» preparedness to comply with various provisions of the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs.

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.

The researchers also found that a substantial amount of genetic variation among individual warblers is associated with the different precipitation levels of their respective environments.

They have shown that there is substantial genetic variation in nature for both long - term seasonal acclimation and short - term acclimation associated with rapid extreme weather events.

Prevalence rates exhibited substantial variation across age, sex, and countries, with rates below 5 percent for women in some African countries to more than 50 percent for men in countries such as Indonesia, Armenia, Laos, Papua New Guinea and Russia.

Using occupancy modeling to control for variation in detectability, we show substantial (∼ 500 meters on average) upward changes in elevational limits for half of 28 species monitored, consistent with the observed ∼ 3 °C increase in minimum temperatures.

Table 1 also reports the percentage of spouses who died within a year after their own hospitalization; as expected, the diseases show substantial variation in lethality, with one - year death rates varying from 7.3 percent (for women with psychiatric disease) to 82.0 percent (for men with pancreatic cancer).

There are substantial multi-decadal variations in the Pacific sector over the 20th century with extended periods of weakened (1900 — 1924; 1947 — 1976) as well as strengthened circulation (1925 — 1946; 1976 — 2005).

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Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in test scores: that single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.

All district leaders believe that they focus on instruction, but we found substantial variation from district to district in the levels of skill and understanding with which they address this focus.

A key consideration with much of this research is the substantial amount of variation in effectiveness within each approach to school improvement.

River flows have generally increased in winter and decreased in summer, but with substantial regional and seasonal variation.

Conversely, Dai (2011a, b) found a general global increase in drought, although with substantial regional variation and individual events dominating trend signatures in some regions (e.g., the 1970s prolonged Sahel drought and the 1930s drought in the USA and Canadian Prairies).

Of particular interest is the so - called «mid-Holocene highstand» between about 6000 and 3000 years ago, with substantial regional variations.

It also doesn't exhibit variation of calibration error with age, but such variation shouldn't have a significant impact unless, over the range where the likelihood function for the sample is significant, it is substantial in relation to 14C determination error.

That appears to show substantial variations since 1850 with the current solar cycle 24 returning to much lower levels.

Nevertheless, k is a useful concept since for monotonically increasing forcing and not too near the beginning of an integration (when mixed layer effects have an influence), κ does not vary with time nearly as fast as ΔT so that a substantial part of the time variation of ΔF can be explained by the time variation ΔT.

Wintertime Antarctic sea ice is increasing at a small rate and with substantial year - to - year variation.

Comparisons with other stars, that resemble the Sun in mass and age, indicate that the Sun could undergo more substantial variations in brightness than those observed by satellites so far.

Variation across gas plants is less, though still substantial, with the best combined - cycle plants having nearly twice the efficiency (and hence roughly half the damages) of typical steam or centralized turbine plants, and lower damages even than the cleanest coal - fired plants.

There is substantial variation across coal - fired power plants, however, especially in terms of air - quality related emissions, with damages typically greater for older plants and less for newer ones.

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The findings revealed three different patterns of associations between support, discrimination and mental health, with substantial ethnic group variation: One direct pattern, one mediating pattern,