Sentences with phrase «year effects significantly»

After eight years he again repeated the whole process and found those two - year effects significantly more pronounced.

Not exact matches

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

If that $ 3.2 billion was significantly lower than what DoD normally gets for submarines, it would take seven years for the full effect of those budget reductions to show in the real economy.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

The study, based on Trade in Value Added data recently released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, shows that between 1995, the year after NAFTA went into effect, and 2011, U.S. content of manufactured goods imported from Canada dropped significantly — from 21 percent to 15 percent.

Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).

For example, she studied brain activity and speech in a group of teenagers before, and three years after they entered high - school, and found music training in school significantly improved the auditory processing of phenomes (speech sounds) and had lasting effects on language skills.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

They found that milk from women who'd been lactating for more than a year had significantly higher fat and energy content, but they acknowledge that «the long - term effects of such high fat intake have not been studied».

The government's attempts to emphasise that Gordon Brown will continue to govern in the same way that Tony Blair has seems to have had some effect though, the same question asked a year ago found that 61 % thought that Brown would be significantly different to Blair.

«They have significantly and grossly overspent and it is going to have a major effect going into the next fiscal year,» said Sen. Thomas Libous, (R - Binghamton), who is heading up transition talks with the Senate Democrats.

The conference has expressed its disappointment with the effect the policy is having on admissions in private schools, with reports that enrollment of first - years has dropped significantly.

Especially informative are the long - term studies on the effects of early childhood interventions, which indicate that an appropriate schooling of children as young as 3 years old produces remarkably large benefits for society, even in cases where the children do not perform significantly better academically.

After inserting the gene from Neandertals, living humans, and one 45,000 - year - old human into animal cells and exposing them to carcinogens, the Neandertal cells were significantly more likely to experience a toxic effect.

«We found a mother's exposure to dogs before the birth of a child is significantly associated with lower risk of eczema by age 2 years, but this protective effect goes down at age 10,» says allergist Edward M. Zoratti, MD, ACAAI member and a study co-author.

Those with household incomes of less than $ 25,000 a year (51 %) are significantly more likely than those with household incomes of $ 75,000 a year or more (37 %) to report one or more negative experiences in childhood that they believe had a harmful effect on their adult health.

Although Olshansky stresses that the estimate is «a first - pass approximation,» he believes the effect is large enough to demonstrate «that trends in obesity in younger ages will lead to significantly higher rates of mortality in the future — we will lose 2 to 5 or more years [of life expectancy] in the coming decades» if the obesity epidemic continues unchecked.

In fact, a study in Child Development revealed that when parents are significantly stressed during their child's first few years of life, some of the child's genes can even be altered, harming development and leading to negative effects years later.

With two doses of deworming treatment each year, we can significantly reduce the negative effects of worm burden in children and stop parasites from absorbing the critical nutrients they need to develop.

Circulating testosterone levels decline with increasing age but do not appear to be significantly affected by the menopausal transition.8 As early as the 1940s, testosterone was reported not only to alleviate menopausal symptoms but also to restore libido.9 In recent years, evidence has accumulated supporting the hypothesis that the decline in endogenous testosterone levels is associated with menopausal symptoms, including decreased libido, worse moods, and poorer quality of life.10 Clinical trials have demonstrated that exogenous androgens in conjunction with estrogens can ameliorate symptoms affecting sexual function and general well - being.11, 12 In addition, studies have found beneficial effects of androgen therapy on bone mineral density.13 - 15

A new study has found that positive teacher - student relationships at age 10 can significantly reduce problem classroom behaviours, and the effects last for up to four years.

In order for the existence of another policy to affect our results significantly, we would have to believe that the program substantially improved the education of the 3rd graders in 2002 — 03 without having a similar effect on the previous year's cohort.

The effect of the Nurse - Family Partnership on African - American boys specifically has not been isolated, but in one study in Memphis — where the participants were overwhelmingly African - American (though not all boys)-- the children whose parents participated in the program performed significantly better during their first years at school than did those in the control group.

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

«A teacher who had been teaching at a particular grade level for more than 5 years was positively and significantly associated with increased student achievement (effect size =.27)... grade level experience was sizable compared to race (minority status effect size = -.33) and SES (economically disadvantaged effect size = -.08)....

And because of the effects of tax - deferred compounding, what seems like a relatively small withdrawal today could result in a significantly smaller account balance 20 or 30 years from now.

In effect, you will be making one extra mortgage payment per year, leading to significantly faster amortization — without hardly noticing the additional cash outflow from the small overpayment.

The verdict on currency - hedging then (based on an admittedly short history of just 6 years) is clear: Long - term investors are highly unlikely to profit from hedging their currency exposure because currency effects have to overcome significantly large tracking errors simply to break even.

(A second cashback would serve to magnify the negative impact significantly) We still see the continued ripple effect of the initial cash back decision ten years later.

You can repay these loans over thirty years, which can have the effect of bringing down your monthly payment significantly.

This is too late in the progression of CHD because the dogs with crippling arthritis have missed two surgical options (JPS and DPO / TPO, see Treatment) that can significantly reduce the effects of hip dysplasia by 1 year of age.

Because of the possible life - threatening effects of these illnesses, poor oral health can shorten your pet's potentially ten - to twenty - year lifespan significantly.

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

That's justified when their influence on the values obtained for most interesting parameters is affected significantly by somewhat arbitrarily chosen other details of the approach, which can not misbehave badly for the interior period but may introduce much stronger spurious effects at the end where they are not bound by data from future years.

However climate change is expected to keep atmospheric CO2 levels significantly elevated for about 1000 years I recall according to the IPCC, so this is effecting what, about 300 generations or so.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

The existence of the greenhouse effect, the increase in CO2 (and other GHGs) over the last hundred years and its human cause, and the fact the planet warmed significantly over the 20th Century are not much in doubt.»

The δ13C of modern shells at Tatoosh declined significantly at a rate of − 0.071 ‰ yr − 1 over an 11 - year period (Figure 1b, linear mixed effects model, se =.011, n = 53, df = 85, p < 0.001).

The Wall Street Journal editors focus on an overestimation of surface warming in the past 15 years, neglecting to discuss other impacts and time periods where models significantly underestimated the effects of climate change.

Although the sunspot effect may very well be minimal over 100 years or so the cumulative effect over 500 years does seem capable of providing a background temperature trend that eventually does rank significantly as compared to ENSO on its own.

A joint test for the significance of the YAD age specific effects rejects that they are jointly zero although many individual parameters are not significantly different from zero and the individual year parameters flirt with significance at the 5 % level over the last 50 years of their life).

I'm not sure how the year effects compare with the RCS chronology but the endpoint is significantly different from zero (that is, the ring width in year = 1000).

In their transient simulation over the period 1990 to 2100, Johnson et al. (2001) find a dominant effect of climate change on OH in the free troposphere so that the global CH4 lifetime declines from about 9 years in 1990 to about 8.3 years by 2025 but does not change significantly thereafter.

Productivity increased significantly however, as a result of both treatments and the heating effect was found to accumulate massively in effects on productivity over the 3 experimental years, from a first - year 12 % effect to 57 %.

It will become increasingly clear in the next few years that global temperatures have not warmed significantly since about 1980, and the small amount of observed atmospheric warming was primarily due to the natural recovery after the temporary cooling effect of two major volcanoes, El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991 +.

Halting the production of marine biota C and maintaining the same fluxes of C out of marine biota, the marine biota C would be used up in about 3 weeks, at which point a 0.0022 % / year ** drawdown of O2 could persist for some longer time (** the actual removal of O2 from the atmosphere via oxidation in the deeper ocean may occur over a timescale of 1000 years, but the oxydation of organic C in the ocean might be completed over a significantly shorter time, so the actual removal of O2 from the atmosphere may be slower than 0.0022 % / year)-- but it still wouldn't have much total effect on the amount of atmospheric O2.

Most significantly, in June the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new regulations to limit carbon emissions from power plants; if these regulations go into effect — they're expected to face years of litigation — they will cut power plant emissions 30 percent by 2030.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

New Jersey's Bail Reform and Speed Trial Act, [put in effect earlier this year], will largely eliminate bail for minor crimes and is expected to significantly reduce the state's jail population.