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.
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.
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.