Although high-volume units treated the sickest infants and had highest crude death rates, when the statistics were adjusted for factors such as the severity of the illness, patient volume and staffing provision, unit size did not influence death or brain damage rates.
The -19% decline from previous year left the global volume at 264 million units.
This is obviously less than what Microsoft planning with the Surface RT, which had an initial shipment volume of four million units.
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This is a legitimate concern, but the industry still runs several million units below normalized volume.
During the first four months of 2010, 383, 000 heavy duty trucks were sold, and volume should top 1 million units by year end.
That goal includes components of being the most profitable OEM, and the best employer, and offering customers the best experience, as well as a sales-volume goal of 10 million units a year, Tony Cervone, head of communications for Volkswagen of America, told reporters.
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The total volume levels for 2010 including carloads and intermodal units are still below 2008 levels and so we believe railroads have further opportunities for volume growth.
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But the unit did manage a sequential volume uptick of nearly 3 Million units, to 19.6 Million units.
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Lumia shipment volume was 4.4 million units, more than 4 times the same in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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According to a recent report from Digitimes, Microsoft was only planning on having an initial shipment volume of one million Surface Pro units.
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The company added Samsung's 2012 shipment volume was the largest number of units ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single year.
While Lumia shipment volume of 4.4 million units was more than 4 times the same in the year-ago quarter, the newly launched full-touch Asha phones saw close to 45% growth in unit sales sequentially.
Largely shunned by pickup purists and casual truck buyers alike, the Ridgeline never was a strong seller, and at that the vehicle saw its volume dwindle from 13, 959 units last year to a paltry 7, 356 in 2011.
The agreement calls for up to 100, 000 engine units per year at peak volume.
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This would be 2 M units above North American unit volume.
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In its latest results, Santander reported a 6% reduction in the total volume of loans held by its Spanish units, and the sale of 33, 500 Spanish homes it owned, helping to reduce its total exposure to real estate prices in the country by half, to 12.5bn euros.
At the same time, smartphone volume grew by 38% to 208 million units.
Edwin Heathcote, author of the Meaning of Home, says that the volume housebuilders "try to squeeze in" as many units as they can into urban sites.
Sales volume in Asia jumped by 31.4% to 493, 393 units, including 327, 341 BMW and Mini cars sold in China.
The sales volume of these new mobile computers is astonishing perhaps 800 million units in 2012 and another 1.2 billion in 2013.
For example, the number of units in a bottle of wine can be discovered by multiplying the volume by the percentage.
The total 2010 carloads plus the intermodal units are still below 2008 levels so the railroads have further opportunity for volume growth.
Ford now expects industry volume to be in the lower end of the range of 13 million to 14 million units.
Chery, for instance, offers 10 models but only three sold more than 40, 000 units in 2012, and those three accounted for 76% of total sales volume.
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But the more sophisticated units, which allow you to not only automate your piano and control the volume of it, can also record and play back your own recitals and integrate with your home theatre system.
The packaging company's units that serve industrial markets are seeing a much larger than expected decline in volume and profitability as a result of the significantly slowing global economy, according to CharlesHupferCharles Hupfer, the Sonoco chief financial officer.
In fact, during the quarter that ended in March, which typically sees volume declines of 5-7% sequentially, industry HDD shipments actually climbed 2% to 163 million units.
Three units equates to two small (125ml) glasses of wine (containing 12% of alcohol by volume) or a whole pint of strong lager (5% ABV) or cider, according to the advice charity Drinkaware.
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