These savings result from, among other things, reduced need for remedial services and reduced grade repetition.
A Union Pacific spokesman said the company has reduced grade-crossing accident rates along its rights-of-way by 15% from 2003 to 2013.
Lower extremity muscle strength was reduced (grade 3 out of 5).
2. Positive impacts on children's schooling LEAP has increased school enrolment among secondary school aged children by 7percentage points, and reduced grade repetition among both primary and secondary aged children.
In NSCLC, the use of a 3 weekly regimen results in significantly fewer dose delays and reductions (19 vs 51%), improved dose intensity, similar response rates and reduced grade 3/4 thrombocytopenia (6 vs 30%) than a 4 weekly one.
In response to the findings by other authors that reducing the dose of docetaxel significantly reduced grade IV neutropenia and febrile neutropenia in breast and lung cancer patients (Salminen et al, 1999; Fossella et al, 2000), the study protocol was amended and the final two patients received 70 mg m−2.
"There will be cross-currents with end-of-course examinations tending to reduce grades.
Embankments were raised above the level of the Lancashire Plain to improve the drainage of the line and to reduce grades on a gently rolling natural surface.
It should also reduce grade inflation.
"We have found that they reduce grade repetition and that children start school earlier," Woolard says.
The mayor will also be under pressure to increase spending on the Board of Education, which has been reducing grade-school class sizes and moving to expand kindergarten programs.
