Applications to purchase a home, which
are less sensitive to rates on a weekly basis, fell 2 percent for the week but are 12 percent higher than a year ago.
Men
are less sensitive to smells than women, so they tend to overdo.
While attachment assessment in preschool years relies on observation of behaviors during separation and reunion procedures (Main and Cassidy 1988), toward the end of early childhood children
are less sensitive to brief separations from parents, as their attachment representations become more elaborate because of strengthened verbal and memory skills (Messina and Zavattini 2014).
Relative to twin designs, adoption studies
are less sensitive in detecting genetic effects, in part because only additive genetic influences between adult birth parents and, in this case, young children are examined.
This result is consonant with previous data, showing that children with CU traits and ODD - related problems
are less sensitive to emotions that reflect others» distress, such as fear and sadness (Blair et al., 2001; Kimonis et al., 2012, 2016).
The manner in which parents respond to child emotion plays an important role in defining the type and quality of attachment a child develops towards his or her caregiver, such that children with parents who
are less sensitive and attuned to their emotions, are at greater risk of developing a disrupted attachment.
Research indicates that depressed mothers, especially when their depression is chronic,
are less sensitive with their infants and toddlers, play with and talk to their children less, and provide less supportive and age - appropriate limit setting and discipline than non-depressed mothers.4, 8,9 When mothers report more chronic depressive symptoms, their children are more likely to evidence insecure attachment relationships with them, show less advanced language and cognitive development, be less cooperative, and have more difficulty controlling anger and aggression.8, 9 Lower levels of maternal sensitivity and engagement explain some of these findings.
Your breasts may be tender and swollen the week before and during your period, so try to schedule your mammogram after your period, when your breasts
are less sensitive.
People who are secure — i.e., those who are lower in attachment anxiety, who have higher self - esteem, or who
are less sensitive to rejection tend to interpret ambiguous situations more positively.
People with two copies of one version of the serotonin transporter gene region 5 - HTTLPR (the long allele, in case you're into doing your own genetic testing)
are less sensitive to emotional information in the environment than those with one or two copies of the short allele.
Outside of a certain number - crunching minority, benchmarking a smartphone is an unnecessary and anachronistic experience, since both the individual apps (and games) and the platforms on which they run
are less sensitive to the minutiae of small hardware changes.
Ironically, however, «as technology increases, the courts
are less sensitive to the burdensome nature of e-discovery,» cautioned another participant.
On the other hand, investment subsidies and technology standards provide immediate incentives to change behaviour, and
are less sensitive to long ‐ term market uncertainty.
We argue that integrated column measurements of the urban dome of CO2 from the ground and / or space
are less sensitive than surface point measurements to the redistribution of emitted CO2 by small - scale processes and thus may allow for more precise trend detection of emissions from urban regions.
If
they are less sensitive at detecting changes to global temperature, then why would anyone trust them to detect far more subtle changes to the global temperature?
The lessons learned from studying this problem can and should be applied towards the improvement of existing climate monitoring systems, so that future model evaluation studies
are less sensitive to observational ambiguity.»
Unless you can read Japanese, though, or
are less sensitive than I about using an FAQ to play the game for you, there's no reason to trudge in vain through Loretta no Shouzou.
Small - to medium - sized breeds
are less sensitive to slightly overfeeding or underfeeding calcium, and as a result, the level of calcium in foods for these puppies have a broader margin of safety.»
A CT scan (computed tomography) and myelogram are other tests that can be performed to look for other causes of spinal cord dysfunction, but
are less sensitive for confirming an FCE.
Cesar «The Dog Whisperer» Millan says that human scalps
are less sensitive than a dog's hair and skin.
- Dogs
are less sensitive to acetaminophen because they tend to be bigger, but four or five of the pills eaten by a 50 - pound dog can cause liver failure, she said.
Lower beta stocks
are less sensitive to stock market movements.
The most important idea is that, all other things being equal, short - term bonds
are less sensitive to interest rate movements than bonds with longer maturities.
Utilities such as telephone companies
are less sensitive..
Kohlhepp said that with interest rates rising, investors should favor bond funds with shorter durations, which means their prices, or NAVs,
are less sensitive to changes in interest rates.
Academic studies and raw market data have shown that dividend - paying stocks
are less sensitive to market changes and outperform the general market even more when stock prices come down.
Fortunately, the bulk of the portfolio's bond position is held in short - term bonds, which
are less sensitive to interest rate movements.
In contrast, the values of the shorter - term bonds — represented by the US Aggregate Bond Index and the one - month T - bills —
are less sensitive than the cost of income to interest rates and inflation.
Floating - rate bonds, on the other hand,
are less sensitive to interest rate fluctuations but the income stream from floating - rate securities will fluctuate based on prevailing interest rates.
«Shorter term bonds with higher yields
are less sensitive to interest rate changes and those really would be the ones you might want to focus on in a portfolio in order to kind of mitigate that effect of rising interest rates,» he says.
REITs with short - term lease durations, on average,
are less sensitive to interest rates and could benefit from rising rates.
The properties with shorter rental agreements are more flexible in terms of renegotiating rental rates; thus, REITs with shorter lease terms
are less sensitive to rate increases and behave more like floating rate bonds.
Put simply, high yield energy spreads
are less sensitive to changes in oil today.
While I'm not doubting the possibility of there being bad batches, I also think some people
are less sensitive or suspectible to the gradient.
In cases in which boards of education
are less sensitive to the needs of stakeholders, stakeholders are pushing back through local elections.
Second, public educators
are less sensitive to competitive threats than are private - sector employers and employees.
Never fear though for if there is a time change when you arrive at your destination and your baby is less than 6 months old, this change should not have much effect as
they are less sensitive at a younger age.
Sometimes big boobs
are less sensitive than small boobs.
Research shows the muscles of older people
are less sensitive to anabolic signals that tell them to grow, a phenomenon called anabolic resistance.
Research shows a difference in DNA could mean some people
are less sensitive to the taste of sugar, so they chase sweeter and sweeter foods to get the reward — foods the average person would find way too sweet.
People who
are less sensitive, maybe a grass - fed whey, and then individual amino acids that are free form, because even pea and whey and beef they aren't free form.
And finally, the testosterone receptors in the cells
are less sensitive to even the same levels of testosterone.
They have demonstrated that female rats
are less sensitive than males to the depressive - like effects of kappa - opioid receptor activation.
But certain pathogens like listeria monocytogenes
are less sensitive to low temperature so can proliferate during transportation and in storage.
She is exposing them to increased acidification levels, returning them to ambient conditions, and then re-exposing them to higher acidification conditions to see if they have a «memory» of those conditions and
are less sensitive to it.
Some feel overwhelmed by busy environments such as supermarkets, others
are less sensitive to pain, or dislike being touched.
«These findings suggest that AN individuals, even after recovery,
are less sensitive to reward and the motivational drive of hunger.
Now in a study appearing in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists report that people who can easily taste salt have differing amounts of certain proteins in their saliva than those who
are less sensitive.
Lieven De Veylder said, «Our data suggest that certain organizing stem cells in plant roots
are less sensitive for DNA - damage.
«Physiological endpoints
are less sensitive than behavioural ones,» she says.