Sentences with phrase «as high a threshold»

The owner explained to me that the traditional Indonesian recipes are toned down for the Dutch, who don't have as high a threshold for hot spices.

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Meanwhile in the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average finally edged above the elusive 20,000 threshold and continued higher as investors digested a host of earnings reports.

Its shares were 2.8 percent higher as the French media giant Vivendi said earlier this week that it intended to extend its share in the Italian company until the 30 percent threshold.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

Other countries, such as Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, have higher thresholds of more than 5 percent.

His tests employ a higher threshold for hypertension and don't require participants to fast for 12 hours before taking a glucose test (which is seen as important when testing one individual but is impractical in doing a companywide screen).

The latest proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules from the United States would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor rules.

The latest proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules from the United States would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 per cent regional value threshold as well as new labour rules.Tuesday, May 1, 12:01 am ET

Housing markets of course don't look the same in every city or state, so for some places the maximum threshold is even higher, particularly if an area has been identified as a high - cost community.

WASHINGTON, April 30 The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

Of course, these investments carry a lot higher risk thresholds which make them much less viable as investment vehicles for a majority of people, but regardless it's time for the technologies that have improved public markets for the individual investor to help them go private as well.

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depressioAs Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depressioas higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

That being said, $ 1634 is looking like a solid threshold for gold to cross near the end of the year, possibly going as high as $ 1665, from its lows near $ 1450 later this summer.

This volatility is likely to lead to a situation in which companies with a high level of risk meet the threshold conditions for inclusion in indices solely as a result of exceptional trading, even before they have any business activity whose results can be evaluated.»

The participation of accredited investors at higher levels will provide non-accredited investors with added value as they are more likely to do greater due diligence then if they were only investing the minimum threshold amount in a campaign.

«This new process will eliminate the risk of TCA in natural cork at levels as low as 1 part per trillion, a level far below sensory threshold — all at higher production volume and lower cost, providing customers with the finest quality cork at an unprecedented value.»

Jumps are great for increasing power and speed, as well as improving the ability of your athletes to recruit high threshold motor units, which will have a positive impact on strength.

Instead of being withdrawn, and exhibiting many signs we now know as attachment problems — high threshold of pain, no eye contact, independent self - care — she started tantruming.

But they are both Democrats and need special permission from party leaders known as a Wilson Pakula, which has a higher threshold (jsut over 50 percent) that only Cuomo managed to cross.

He said that some the current threshold was meaning some «not very well off» workers such as teachers, nurses and train drivers are being «caught» by the higher rate.

«As the law stands now, if someone is mentally ill and dangerous to self or others they can be civilly committed, but that's a fairly high threshold for civil commitment.

«It is the same as a basic tax rise of almost 5p for the typical family just above the higher earnings threshold.

This comes as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told me yesterday that his one - house budget would include a millionaire's tax with a higher threshold — perhaps as high as $ 1 million — and GOP Sen. John Bonacic broke with his conference to say he would introduce a bill to continue the millionaire's tax as long as it truly lived up to its name and no longer hit people who earned less than $ 1 million a year.

In April many basic rate taxpayers will suddenly find that they are now higher rate taxpayers as those thresholds change again.

[16] The use of the d'Hondt method makes for a higher effective threshold than certain other allocation method such as the Hare quota or Sainte - Laguë method, which are more generous to small parties.

He rattled off a list of achievements that, as usual, was headed by a higher tax threshold and the so - called pupil premium.

An umbrella threshold, she said, doesn't capture the differences in households and property values across the city, so those with a high property tax burden would stand to receive the same benefit as those with a negligible one.

«On certain days during peak fire season, air pollution in Delhi is about 20 times higher than the threshold for safe air as defined by the World Health Organization,» said Daniel H. Cusworth, a graduate student at SEAS and first author of the paper.

The significant, abrupt and reversible increase in length of the sodium amidoborane crystals at a clearly defined value of pressure makes the material an interesting candidate for e.g. components of detectors of a certain threshold pressure of approx. 30 thousand atmospheres (in industry pressures as high as up to 300 thousand atmospheres are used).

The NIH also sets a BMI threshold of 35 for those who have already begun to experience weight - related health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, high cholesterol and heart disease.

«Given the high prevalence of treatable sleep problems in MS patients, and the fact that many patients with MS rate fatigue as one of their most bothersome symptoms, physicians should have a low threshold to refer MS patients who report sleep disturbances to sleep specialists,» says last author Ronald Chervin, M.D., M.S., professor of neurology and director of U-M Sleep Disorders Center.

However, Stitt says, as long as the U.S. government continues to list 2,000 IU as the safe upper threshold for vitamin D, it's been hard to get approval for experiments with doses higher than that in the United States.

It found that computers operating at the higher threshold are freely available from places such as South Korea, Taiwan and India.

According to Karwautz, this is partially due to the stigma that still persists around mental health problems and the associated high inhibition threshold to confide in a doctor, lack of understanding about mental health problems on the part of caregivers, so that the manifest problem often goes unrecognised, but also to the lack of sufficient child and adolescent psychiatrists and associated institutions in Austria, since this was only recognised as a specialism 10 years ago.

In an HBM poster from the 2012 meeting, You and colleagues reported using a «connectivity degree» — computed by counting, for each voxel, the number of voxels meeting a correlation threshold of r > 0.25 inside (local) and outside (distant) its neighborhood defined as a sphere of 14 mm radius (Sepulcre et al., 2010)-- to find that degree of functional connectivity was higher in 7 — 13 - year - old children with ASD than TD children (You et al., 2012).

Instead, book it in for a few days after your period as this is when your pain threshold is highest.

Fact: Diabetes is diagnosed as a fasting glucose that exceeds a fixed threshold of 126 mg / dl, and in those with metabolic syndrome (but not those without) higher carb consumption leads to higher fasting blood glucose.

The fact that she qualified only after she had health insurance struck her as a catch - 22, and she does nt feel that the income threshold for uninsured people (four times the federal poverty guidelines, or $ 58,280 for her two - person household) is high enough.

The brain scans revealed that people with a lower exercise capacity — defined as the amount of time people could exercise on the treadmill before their heart rate hit a certain threshold — in midlife were more likely to have smaller brains years later, compared with people who had high fitness levels in middle age.

This tells us that worrying about spiking our insulin immediately after training with tremendous amounts of high - GI carbs is not necessary, as our insulin is already above the threshold for exerting its maximal benefit.

A consumer advocacy group As You Sow did independent testing on a number of popular brands and found levels to be higher than the safe threshold set by California (though the levels were still within the FDA's limits).

Therefore, a high ppm Colloidal Silver product that is diluted down will NOT have the same effectiveness as a Colloidal Silver that has never been over the 12 ppm agglomeration threshold due to increased particle size.

Anaerobic metabolism produces energy for short, high - intensity bursts of activity lasting no more than several minutes before the lactic acid build - up reach a threshold known as the lactate threshold and muscle pain, burning and fatigue make it difficult to maintain such intensity.

The more «in shape» you are (using measurements such as VO2 max), the higher the BPM threshold before you start using glycogen for fuel.

Compared with the participants who consumed less than 10 % of calories from added sugar (same as in Q1), those who consumed above the thresholds of 10 % or 25 % of calories from added sugar were younger; more likely to be non-Hispanic black; less likely to be currently smoking; had lower levels of physical activity, total serum cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, HEI, American Heart Association healthy diet score, 44 and antihypertensive medication use; and had higher intake of sugar - sweetened beverages and prevalence of family history of CVD (Supplement [eTable 2]-RRB-.

Though it seems unlikely that anyone, let alone someone with as many downs as Fincher, could long maintain his impressive current streak of strong attendance and numerous accolades on non-tentpole fare, the director seems to have reached a threshold where his every move should get noticed and his every movie considered for the industry's highest honors.

As Chris and Jessie lead the requisite search for help, the horniest guy and girl decide to wait by the car, giving us our first glimpse of the hillbillies from Hell: expert marksmen with super-strength, a high pain threshold, and traces of ESP, they make you wonder what the disadvantage to being inbred is aside from having the face and hygiene of a Dairy Queen employee.

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

To address this question, we measured the share of students in each country who reach a threshold of basic competency in mathematics and science, as well as the share of students who perform at very high levels.

However, a structural quality element such as small class size can facilitate learning when it is paired with high - quality teacher - child interactions, leading to improved outcomes for children.Martha Zaslow et al., Quality Dosage, Thresholds, and Features in Early Childhood Settings: A Review of the Literature, OPRE 2011 - 5 (Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010).