Sentences with phrase «yield improvement of»

A yield improvement of 6.9 per cent boosted the figures, while load factors increased by 0.5 percentage points to 84.7 per cent.

Still, passenger revenues climbed in the first quarter from $ 3.1 billion last year to $ 3.5 billion this year, driven by traffic growth of 11.4 per cent and yield improvement of 0.4 per cent.

Not exact matches

And the high yield bond market is already showing signs of improvement.

«Overall, we expect the benefits of Business Transformation to significantly exceed the current $ 500 - 700 million of targeted cost savings, while «supply chain» streamlining / improvements could yield significant revenue synergies.»

However, when considered as an alternative to classic equity financing, token sales yield a > 100X increase in the available base of buyers and a > 1000X improvement in the time to liquidity over traditional methods for startup finance.

«Our credit policy adjustments that began in the middle of the first quarter continue to yield benefits, with sequential improvements in both our Provision Rate and 15 + Day Delinquency Ratio.

Ideally, any removal of the current overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yields syndrome would involve a substantial improvement in valuations, an initial deterioration in market action, and then an eventual firming of internals.

While there has been experimentation with robotics to perform some of these tasks, even with automation, it's unlikely that time gains in order processing would yield the sort of exponential speed improvement needed to propel Amazon into an untouchable position on delivery times.

Though the underlying reason for that Treasury price strength was concern about economic weakness and credit defaults, falling bond yields do allow us to take a more constructive stance once market internals show evidence of improvement.

But protection (and perhaps even a slight improvement) of an investor's purchasing power, when keeping that huge yield in mind, is worth plenty.

Case in point: A few days ago, I wrote on Whitestone REIT (WSR), and while the 10.7 % dividend yield appears attractive, «I can not recommend shares until I see improvement in the stability of the dividend.»

As to whether the stock market has put in a «real» bottom, Reynolds said he would like to see corroborating evidence of improving conditions, like the yield on the 10 - year U.S. Treasury note moving back up, and improvement in the investment - grade corporate credit market.

GFI argues that though it is true that plant - based products already exist, there may be significant room for the improvement of plant - based technology, and improving plant - based technology may yield shorter - term traction, i.e., greater market share, than the cultured foods.119 Recently developed plant - based products already seem to seem to represent improvements from past products; for example, the Impossible Burger, released in 2016, has received favorable reviews from vegans and omnivores alike.120 GFI's fostering and promotion of the development of similarly popular plant - based products could cause a significant reduction in the demand for animal products, particularly if they focus on plant - based chicken and fish and if they convince institutions to serve the plant - based products rather than animal products.121

The more general forces that have influenced the exchange rate over the past year or so have been the relative strength of the Australian economy, the associated yield differential in favour of Australian dollar assets, and the continued improvement in Australia's terms of trade, which are now at their highest level in more than 25 years.

At the long end of the yield curve, sentiment began to improve noticeably a year ago, reflecting the decline in the Budget deficit and the improvement in inflation.

The program also supposedly aims to address the improvement of seed quality, conversion of farmers from traditional farming to high - yielding hybrid rice seeds, lack of irrigation, and lack of fertilizers.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Improvements in yield potential of inbreds will also contribute to increasing the yield potential of hybrids.

This success is largely a result of genetic improvement in the form of high - yielding, climate change - ready, and short - duration rice varieties.

Claret and Blue fans may have got their wish in Lambert's departure, yet his dismissal is unlikely to yield huge on - field improvements, or at least not instantly, and with both sides struggling at the foot of the table, a goal - feast isn't expected.

In adjusted analyses, this intervention yielded a considerable improvement in the rate of any breastfeeding at 6 wk vs. controls (OR: 1.7, 95 % CI: 1.1 — 2.8; P = 0.03) with marginally significant improvements in the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk (OR: 1.6, 95 % CI: 1.0 — 2.5; P = 0.05).

The lawmaker stated that the Inspector General of Police's visit to the area two weeks ago yielded no improvement.

At the end of July, Lhota unveiled the NYC Subway Action Plan: an $ 836 million short - term plan to yield upgrades within a year and an $ 8 billion long - term plan that focuses on long - term improvements, such as better subway cars, the adoption of a new signal system and modern communications technology.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

At present, the quantum yield is still low, and the improvement of the yield is the challenge for the future.

«The peanut genome project will lead to reduction in production costs through development of disease - resistant varieties and improved yield for farmers, speed of selection and release of new varieties for breeders and potential for improvement of nutritional value of peanuts for consumers,» Nwosu said.

Understanding the mechanism that determines seed permeability could also give researchers better access to the largely untapped genetic diversity of wild soybeans to enrich cultivated varieties, whose lack of genetic richness has curbed improvements in yields.

Nerve growth factors produced by the body, such as GDNF, promote the survival of the neurons; however, clinical tests with GDNF have not yielded in any clear improvements.

Although the data suggest that spatial models can effectively forecast tree community composition and structure of unstudied sites in Amazonia, incorporating environmental data may yield substantial improvements.

Years of meticulous research have yielded big rewards: the team has gained a better understanding of the structure - activity relationships of these enzymes to predict the best places to make changes and improvements.

Nicolelis has faith that science will one day ferret out all the brain's information - processing tricks — or at least enough of them to yield huge improvements in neural prostheses for people who are paralyzed, blind, or otherwise disabled.

Plant breeding is the genetic improvement of the crop in order to develop new varieties with desirable characters (traits)-- higher yield, resistance to diseases, better nutrition (higher micronutrient content).

Within just the past three years, improvements in electron detector technology have yielded an explosion of high - resolution structures.

As part of varied approaches at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changes.

This webcast features: Jamie Freeman, PhD, Product Manager, Horizon Discovery While great strides have been made in increasing the yield of biotherapeutic proteins, these have been achieved mainly through process improvement with a particular focus on media and feed strategies.

Improvements in yield potential of inbreds will also contribute to increasing the yield potential of hybrids.

Until recent improvements that have yielded 50, 75, and 100 bp read lengths, alignment of Illumina reads was particularly difficult given this base quality paradigm.

Analysis of four SNPs, in tandem with genetic risk factors detected by the deCODE ProstateCancer ™ test, yields substantial improvement in efficacy of PSA screening Reykjavik, ICELAND, 15 December 2010 — Scientists from deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from...

Although we can not rule out that exercise might also increase hippocampal progranulin in 2 - to 3 - month - old Grn + / − mice, there is no data that an increase of this magnitude (only 10 — 15 %) restricted to hippocampus would be sufficient to produce functional improvement, and the fact that the effect is not sustained even until ∼ 4 months of age makes it highly unlikely to yield any sustained benefit after onset of functional changes between 6 and 12 months.

«Helping producers manage yield and quality of wheat forage and grain are priorities of the wheat improvement team,» Rudd said.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging yields improvement in our understanding of brain development.A recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania is a good example.

While some «experts» criticize the notion that such a window exists, claiming that taking advantage of it doesn't lead to any significant improvements in performance and recovery, a vast pool of scientific data has already confirmed that by employing certain techniques, you can yield better results from your hard gym efforts.

It kind of makes you wonder: if adopting the most basic of healthy habits can yield tremendous results, how much more improvement would you see by taking an even greater step?

11 out of 17 studies showed caffeine ingestion yielded significant improvements in exercise performance.

An alternative strategy, wherein the person confines eating to a specific window of time each day (e.g., eating breakfast and dinner only [4], or lunch and dinner only [5]-RRB- yielded robust improvements in insulin sensitivity.

Though three years» worth of improvements in compression techniques might have enabled the film to look even better here than it did on the Vault Disney DVD, the apparently simple porting yields favorable results nonetheless, in spite of the presence of a second film which leaves the original having an average bitrate a shade over 1 Mb / s less than the Vault Disney's 5.94 average.

The chief improvement over the HD DVD comes on the audio side with the provision of a new 5.1 DTS - HD Master audio track that yields an even more impressive audio experience to support the visuals.

Investigating the causal effect of school spending increases generated by the passage of SFRs, we conclude that increasing per - pupil spending yields large improvements in educational attainment, wages, and family income, and reductions in the annual incidence of adult poverty for children from low - income families.

Since reformers claimed that the mere presence of choice will bring about dramatic improvement in schools, the expectation has been that the simple fact of having an alternative should yield demonstrable gains in academic achievement.

First, the insistence that simply fostering the expansion of school choice or charter schooling would inevitably yield school improvement has been long been a destructive distraction.