In contrast, patients who received placebo showed a 0.03 percent mean relative change in lung function at Day 28 (within-group).
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There are huge opportunities relative to behavioral change and care improvement changes.
The report found that borrowers tended to focus on the low initial cost of the debt, failing to consider how those payments might change relative to their incomes.
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But that is a small change, relative to the big downgrade in the forecast a year ago.
We and the markets need to embrace the idea of sustaining innovation, periods of incremental change and relative failure.
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Changes in gasoline prices also change the relative prices of the most fuel-efficient cars and the least fuel-efficient cars.
The combined effect of these two actions would change the relative price of labor and goods by roughly 30 percent.
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The change in relative prices between labour and machines means the machines are being used in place of the people.
We are seeing this: so what, if any, is the alternative explanation for this change in relative prices if real wages are not rising?
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Yet that change is relative: even the most gung-ho of Brazil's younger diplomats dislike what they see as the often heavy-handed foreign-policy interventions of the United States.
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The fact that different bodies in the solar system change their relative positions as they orbit the sun will, Dr Hooke concedes, complicate routing a bit: when the earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, for example, it might be best to send e-mail via Venus.
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Context is a function of the business environment, organizational history and recent business performance, informing the relative importance and urgency of change.
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Although the three highest paying countries remain unchanged when comparing net salaries, the relative positions of some other countries change significantly.
As China buys more euros, yen and pounds, and less dollars, on the margin, the relative value of those currencies will change.
However, that may not change the picture much relative to other conferences because they each either have new or upcoming contracts that are more lucrative than the ones reflected in these numbers.
The book world meets at a moment of relative calm during an age of revolutionary change.
Just to repeat, yes, this is a very rough only method of looking at this change in prices, in relative prices between labour and nails.
Much of the media will dislike this kind of change because it would reduce their relative influence--with more resources, candidates could take their messages directly to the voters.
Those that resist change can look forward to years of relative decline.
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If investors focused on the economic cost of losses relative to the benefit of gains, they would likely change their perspective on performance evaluation.
Mr Pitcher's view is that it is precisely the Rt Rev Justin Welby's relative inexperience as a bishop that could allow him to change the system.
Overall, I believe it is fair to say that the Stern Review consistently leans toward (and consistently phrases issues in terms of) assumptions and formulations that emphasize optimistically low expected costs of mitigation and pessimistically high expected damages from greenhouse warming relative to most other studies of the economics of climate change.
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Other aspects of climate change and land subsidence significantly exacerbate this effect though the relative importance of these factors varies from location.
He also promised that it would be neutral in terms of distribution: the relative positions of the rich, poor and middle class would not change.
One reason for this change is that a tiny thing has a large surface area relative to its mass.
While there was little impact on the overall labor market, there was a striking change for those workers who gained new insurance: they saw wage reductions (relative to the trend) of almost precisely the cost of health insurance to their employers.
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The small business investment market is small relative to the broader pooled investment market, presenting less risk for regulators in making a dramatic change.
"With new HP management, we expect to see change at division-level management, particularly in business units that have had poor relative performance, " Bachman said in a research report, indicating that the software division has struggled up until the current January quarter.
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