Sentences with phrase «year pattern of growth»

By combining the measures of current API status and three - year pattern of growth to the approximated added value as measured by SSM, the framework provides a more comprehensive performance management construct to assess school progress than any one metric alone.

Not exact matches

The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years.

Indeed, a number of forecasters are now predicting that the expansion, which began in 2009 and has remained subpar ever since, might prove to be far more durable than the typical five - to - six - year growth cycle, in part because of the absence of the traditional boom, then bust pattern.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past year.

This is consistent with the pattern of growth seen over the course of last year and confirms the underlying strength of the labour market.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) looks likely to tighten monetary policy further, as inflation and unemployment move closer to its targets — underlining the strength of the domestic economy — but, while awaiting more substance on policy initiatives, we remain cautious about predictions of an end to the pattern of modest US growth seen in recent years.

Nonetheless, we would not read too much more into the Fed tightening, and, while awaiting more substance on policy initiatives, we remain cautious about predictions that the US economy will soon break out of the pattern of modest growth seen in recent years.

Seeking to further explain the weakness, a number of economists emphasized the recurring pattern evident in quarterly GDP numbers since 2010 — whereby first - quarter growth has averaged less than half the rate for the rest of the year — raising suspicions that seasonal effects may be skewing the data.

Notwithstanding the broad pattern of slowing GDP growth in 2004, business and consumer confidence remained very strong during the year.

The quarterly pattern of GDP growth in 1996 is difficult to interpret, but suggests some bounce - back after a relatively flat period in the middle of the year.

This pattern is expected to be reversed somewhat over the second half of the year, as activity in the house - building sector begins to pick up and growth moderates in the medium - density sector.

With Japan's unemployment rate now at its lowest in 23 years, moreover, wage growth should gradually pick up, further helping the country break out of its pattern of deflation.

Three pronounced trends in American beverage consumption and recycling patterns have emerged since CRI's first BMDA looked at year 2000 data: overall sales growth, non-carbonated sales growth, and stagnating recycling rates — all of which are resulting in higher rates of landfilling, incineration and littering, and other negative environmental impacts.

Paul metropolitan area during the 2009 - 2010 school year to a series of five questions about muscle - enhancing behaviors, two healthy (changing eating patterns and exercising more) and three unhealthy (using protein powders or shakes, taking steroids, or employing another muscle - building substance such as creatine, amino acids, HMB, DHEA, or growth hormone), researchers at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University found that almost all students surveyed (90 % of boys, 80 % of girls) reported doing at least 1 behavior with this as the goal, and up to one - third reported the use of unhealthy methods.

This pattern of weight gain for breastfeeding babies — faster weight gain than formula - fed babies in the first few months, but then slower weight gain for the rest of the first year — is easier to see on the WHO growth charts.

Differences in weight patterns continue even after complementary foods are introduced.4 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that health care providers in primary care settings use the 2000 CDC growth reference charts for children and teens aged 2 to 20 years to monitor growth in the United States.

«Local seafood consumption surveys should continue to be completed once every three to five years to track changing patterns, especially with the ongoing growth of tourism.

Brawn's team looked at the relationship between population growth rates and the length of the dry season during those 33 years, then simulated another 50 years with an average of a 10 percent change in the rainfall pattern in Panama's dry season.

In the centenary year of the publication of a seminal treatise on the physical and mathematical principles underpinning nature — On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson — a Cambridge physicist has led a study describing an elegantly simple solution to a puzzle that has taxed biologists for centuries: how complex branching patterns of tissues arise.

These estimates project the historical pattern of growth to determine the result of gains in student achievement, calculate the additions to GDP over the next 80 years, and discount them back to today so that they are comparable to other current investments.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

Over the past 12 months, unit sales of comics and graphic novels have increased 6 percent, continuing a pattern of more than five years of robust annual growth.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, including store closings, higher - than - anticipated or increasing costs, including with respect to store closings, relocation, occupancy (including in connection with lease renewals) and labor costs, the effects of competition, the risk of insufficient access to financing to implement future business initiatives, risks associated with data privacy and information security, risks associated with Barnes & Noble's supply chain, including possible delays and disruptions and increases in shipping rates, various risks associated with the digital business, including the possible loss of customers, declines in digital content sales, risks and costs associated with ongoing efforts to rationalize the digital business and the digital business not being able to perform its obligations under the Samsung commercial agreement and the consequences thereof, the risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, the performance of Barnes & Noble's initiatives including but not limited to its new store concept and e-commerce initiatives, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, potential infringement of Barnes & Noble's intellectual property by third parties or by Barnes & Noble of the intellectual property of third parties, and other factors, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2016, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Without it, the pattern of zero or negative growth seen in the preceding seven years would have continued.

While the country continues to feel the effects of the Great Recession, Idaho has followed a steady pattern of growth over the last few years.

Its not just the worst 10 % of stocks ranked by debt, interest, and profits that are outperforming: Mark Hulbert notes a similar pattern exists when stocks are ranked according to «three - and five - year growth rates, along with return on equity, assets and investment.»

The extreme difference between growth patterns of the tidal and satellite data suggest that one procedure is wrong, even though there are only a dozen or so years of overlap.

Since tree rings are formed by patterns of growth in a tree, individual rings can tell us about the weather to which the tree was exposed during the year it was formed.

I conceive of it this way: if a tree has its roots sunk in the watertable along the bottomland of a fairly steady river, a few years of rainfall aren't going to change the pattern of its growth rings.

Using computer models of future climate change and analyzing tree - ring growth patterns, the study found that the latter half of this century is likely to be drier than at any time in the past 1,000 years.

Also, running your calculations with other, unrelated sets of tree - ring data might help to decide if my layman's impression (merely from looking at the «age effects» curve) that something is fishy with the 300 + year part of the present data is correct, or if very old trees generally show this kind of erratic growth pattern and my suspicions are thus unfounded and your «year effects» curve correct as - is.

If I understand correctly the graph showing tree ring width dependence on tree age, trees above 300 years old show an increase in tree ring width, which is against the general pattern of exponential growth decline.

The average growth (age) pattern of the four «dead» cores is close to the regional curve for the first 100 years before diverging upwards.

This is evidence that the pattern of winds and the temperature conditions have become more favorable for the growth of trees over the past 90 years.

What Humanity IS altering is weather patterning, and THAT can be so done in a few hundred years, and the process of Humanity producing these alterations is around 300 years old, perhaps back even 400 years, tied to the growth (and sprawl) of the Human population.

Since the 1970s, the glaciers have followed a pattern of periods of accelerated melt with two to three years in between of slower retreat and occasional advance (or growth).

That would represent a fourth year of consecutive growth - a pattern which owes much to Weightmans» nationally - recognised insurance and litigation teams.

Spending growth at mom - and - pop businesses has outpaced that of the big chains in the past two years, according to Sarah Quinlan, senior vice president at credit - card giant Mastercard Inc., which tracks purchasing patterns.

«Meanwhile the purchase loan market continued the pattern of slow - and - steady growth that it has been following the past two years, and HELOC originations increased on a year - over-year basis for the 16th consecutive quarter, showing that borrowers are regaining both home value and the confidence needed to increasingly leverage their home equity,» he says.

«It's clear that occupancy rates have established a pattern of trending sideways over this past year, while the pace of year - over-year rent growth continues to slow,» says Michael Hargrave, vice president of NIC MAP, which tracks properties in the nation's top 31 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) to compile the results.

Salt Lake City is rapidly on its way to becoming one of the nation's hottest real estate markets, with prices following a very similar growth pattern to that witnessed in Denver over the past few years.