Sentences with phrase «yielded a performance boost»

You'd have done well to buy stocks that had underperformed over the prior five years because holding them for a subsequent year would have yielded a performance boost of 2.9 percentage points on average.

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Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

The 2009 model - year features a new dual exhaust system yields a more powerful sound while also boosting horsepower to 265 (up from 263); standard high intensity discharge (HID) head lamps sharpen front styling and aid nighttime visibility, and standard Active Stability Control (ASC) enhances driving safety and performance.

The yen had a mixed performance this week, even though bond yields slumped hard, which should have given the yen a bullish boost.

Research conducted to date suggests that parental help with children's homework yields little positive influence on Asian American and Asian immigrant students» academic achievement even though such involvement appears to boost European American students» educational performance.