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A leading web analytics company says in a new report that traffic from Facebook to some of the top news publishers declined at double - digit rates in the second quarter of this year.

- Despite the rise of mixed martial arts — and subsequent talk about the decline of boxing in mainstream culture — six boxers led their countries in earnings, and four of them made in excess of $ 20 million last year.

This is known as email churn and statistics show that it can lead to a decline of around 25 percent of your subscribers each year.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

During the first four months of the year, mine production fell 8.1 percent from the same time a year earlier due to declines in Australia, India, Peru and Ireland, according to the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.

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In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

What if, at the start of the year, you had a crystal ball and you knew January and February would see severe stock market declines leading to the worst start of any year, Britain would shock the financial markets by voting to exit the European Union, and Donald Trump would be elected President?

Operating profits declined 14 % to $ 69 million, but a large tax benefit led to GAAP earnings of $ 3.78 per diluted share — more than double the year - ago figure.

Following any decline of greater than 5 percent in the year - over-year change of the leading indicator has led to an average contraction in the Italian economy of about 3 percent six months later.

Probably the best way to summarize this chart is that when the majority of developed economies have negative leading indicators on a year - over-year basis, investors should at least allow for large stock market declines.

Adding to the problem is the fact that these mega banks have been allowed to gobble up their peer banks over the years, leading to a drastic decline in the number of Primary Dealers that can bid at U.S. Treasury auctions.

The combined effects of falling commodity prices, weak global demand for exports and soft internal demand have led to year - over-year (YOY) declines in the gross domestic products (GDPs) of the largest Asian economies.

Saphir said the situation was leading to an overall decline in UK production, with net output this year falling by three million litres due to the rate of farmers leading the industry.

About 95 percent of schools are reportedly meeting the standards, but GOP lawmakers backed by the School Nutrition Association (SNA) said the provisions have led to an increase in food waste and a dramatic decline in student participation over the last three years.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Although SIDS rates have declined by more than 50 % since the early 1990s, SIDS remains the third - leading cause of infant mortality and the leading cause of postneonatal mortality (28 days to 1 year of age).

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

According to these voices, the decline in stop and search over the past three years has led to young people feeling invincible and without fear of being caught possessing knives.

He claimed that in local elections contested by all four Scottish parties this year «it is the Lib Dems who are leading the pack, rising by an average of ten percentage points while the others flatline or decline».

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.

After two years of major declines in New York City's traffic deaths, the number of people killed in crashes dropped slightly last year while pedestrian deaths rose, leading to questions about whether Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious campaign to eliminate traffic fatalities has stalled.

In Nevada, the worst economy since the 1930s produced a May unemployment rate of 14 percent, surpassing the 9.5 percent U.S. rate, and falling home values led to a 12 percent revenue decline of $ 95 billion between September 2008 and year - end 2009, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Hoosick Falls: Robert Allen is one of the new mayors who'll lead villages this year, succeeding David Borge, who declined to run this year.

But its very welcome, it will cause worry and concern in the PLP and this will feed into the public narrative of a government in serious trouble and decline If this type of Conservative poll lead continues with the Labour party continuing to drop under the 30 % barrier, I would expect it to have a similar destabilising effect on the Labour party comparable to the run up to the Conference season last year when we were facing an Autumn election with Labour riding high in the polls.

In a Nature paper last year, a group led by Simon Hay at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom estimated that between 2000 and 2015, some 633 million malaria deaths were averted, with 68 % of that decline due to insecticide - treated bed nets and 10 % to IRS.

The research, led by Sara H. Konrath of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and published online in August in Personality and Social Psychology Review, found that college students» self - reported empathy has declined since 1980, with an especially steep drop in the past 10 years.

«About four years ago, there was evidence of a decline in obesity in preschoolers,» said Asheley Cockrell Skinner, Ph.D., lead author and associate professor of population health sciences, who is also a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).

The study has found that Darwin's frogs are infected with the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), and despite an absence of obvious mortality researchers have noted population declines, leading them to believe that these infected populations are at a serious risk of extinction within 15 years of contracting the disease.

A look at total U.S. venture capital investment, for example, reveals a decline that began in the first quarter of 2008, even before the credit meltdown, leading to a 60 % drop a year later.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

In trying to explain the apparent decline in reflectivity, lead author Chris Polashenski, an adjunct assistant professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and a research geophysicist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and his colleagues analyzed dozens of snow - pit samples from the 2012 - 2014 snowfalls across northern Greenland and compared them with samples from earlier years.

«Our research found that healthy adults and those with mild memory loss who have a positive scan for these plaques have a much faster rate of decline on memory, language and reasoning over three years,» said lead author P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the neurocognitive disorders program at Duke.

«Tooth loss could be used as an early marker of mental and physical decline in older age, particularly among 60 - 74 year - olds,» says lead author Dr Georgios Tsakos (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health).

In addition, the lead scientist, nutritional biochemist Dale Bauman of Cornell University, has been a paid consultant for Monsanto since the 1980s, though he declined to disclose how much the company has paid him over the years.

Pütz and his colleagues found that declining microclimate at these forest edges is leading to more than 68 million metric tons of carbon emissions in 10 years.

«We were lucky that we detected the event just 3 - 4 years after the decline started so we could begin monitoring campaigns to study details of the accretion physics of active galaxies that can not be studied otherwise,» Bernd Husemann, project leader at the Close AGN Reference Survey and the lead author of the second study, said in the statement.

By the University of Southampton A decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels led to a fundamental shift in the behaviour of the Earth's climate system around one million years ago, according to new research led by the University of Southampton.

8/5/16 While Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima as the first sitting U.S. president in May highlighted again the need to eliminate nuclear weapons, Japan's major anti-nuclear group, which has led the movement for 60 years at home and abroad, sees a rocky road ahead as its membership declines with the passing of atomic bomb survivors.

Testosterone starts declining 1 - 2 percent per year starting in your thirties, and it leads to decreased confidence; feelings of helplessness; low or no sex drive; loss of muscle mass or less of a muscle response to resistance training; and loss of pubic hair and clitoral size.

The high - carb low - fat diet actually sets in motion a pattern of physiological decline that leads to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, which have come to dominate modern life over the past 40 years since the low fat dietary guidelines were promoted.

Hey Doc I started training at the age of 13 and literally never stopped ever I have had major knee surgeries 5 or so years ago I have had countless stressful jobs I could not stand I finally said enough is enough and pursued by Personal training career I have an unbelievable passion for the fitness / nutrition lifestyle I'm 26 now at the age of 22 - 23 I achieved body fat percentage of 2 percent while working a back breaking job and literally sleeping 2 - 3 hours a night due to my hormone imbalance I didn't have a spoil meal in 8 months I was finally achieving the look I've been longing for for the 10 years I was already training and it was due to proper training times and nutrition little did i know I was already deep in a over trained zone for years before that I used to spend 3 - 5 hours a day in the gym from the age of 14 through 19 years old i just loved it so much and though more was better as I got older I got smarter I studied non stop this all leads to my decline at age 23 I look back and I know every little thing I did wrong basically al all started at work 3 years ago to make a very long story short I had continued dizziness lack of sex drive for years insomnia all of the above to the 10th degree I know I've abused my body not many can say they have done the work i have done in gyms over all these years I left work one night with sharp pains in my abdomen got blood work done got called back a week or so later and was notified in A very unprofessional way that at the age of 23 I had a testosterone level of 73.6 I have all the blood work to prove it from then on I was treated horribly by doctors none believing what I havenput myself through in the prior years basically going into every appointment and teaching each person endos euros physicians etc..

Aided by the palettes of cinematographer Dick Pope, Leigh crafts an environment that conveys the ebb and flow of Turner's life, from his most successful period in the 1830s through the decline of public interest in the years leading up to his death in 1851.

This tells us all about one of the film's leading ladies, from her arrival in Hollywood at age 14, breakthrough at age 15 (being passed off as 17), years of stardom at 20th Century Fox for Darryl Zanuck, and inevitable decline.

Leadership turnover in CPS led to a decline in institutional and district support for EITP between the first and second years of the pilot program.

As West shows in his Education Next article, moving to middle school leads to a «substantial drop in student test scores» in the first year of the transition, and the «relative achievement of middle - school students continues to decline in the subsequent years they spend in such schools.»

In 2015, just a few days after AB240 took effect, the California Department of Education issued a press release documenting sharp declines in suspensions during the previous two school years.4 The Department had been providing workshops and other resources on alternatives to out - of - school suspensions, with restorative justice and positive behavioral support programs leading the list.

Figures also show a steady decline in the proportion of approved applications from parent - led groups over the past five years.