Sentences with phrase «at a baseline level»

As the job market rebounds and top talent enjoys greater opportunity, we need a better way to ensure our managers are performing at a baseline level across the board.

«Before she gets out of bed each morning, she takes her temperature, writes it down on a chart,» Dr. Marrs explains, «And at the time of ovulation, the temperature is at a baseline level, it's kind of consistently until ovulation, and it shifts up and stays up after ovulation.»

In the lab, the e-cigs proved to be just as effective in suppressing the craving for a smoke as tobacco cigarettes were, while the amount of exhaled carbon monoxide remained at baseline levels.

In humans and chimpanzees, however, the researchers discovered that DNA sequences in regulatory areas have accumulated nearly as many mutations as have sequences evolving at the baseline level.

More importantly, the men's low - density - lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the so - called bad cholesterol, fell by 15 percent during the period when they ate the calcium - fortified chocolate but remained at baseline levels when they ate the unmodified candy.

What this means is that when you exercise with your insulin at a baseline level, your body is able to both mobilize and burn more fat during your workouts than when insulin levels are elevated.

(You've probably heard of «fasted training,» which we'll talk more about soon, and this is what it's referring to — exercising while your insulin levels are at a baseline level.)

The reduced inflammation ramps up your metabolism and keeps blood sugar at baseline levels.

What this means is when you exercise with your insulin at a baseline level, your body is able to both mobilize and burn more fat during your workout than when insulin levels are elevated.

After significant fury, the implied volatility settled out at a baseline level, and the carry trade returns because conditions are more placid.

At baseline the levels of confidence, system awareness, and knowledge of IPV service delivery varied among participants.

Our study can not directly address this question but hypotheses that temperamental characteristics such as anxiety, anger or psychopathic traits [26] could partly explain the common variation at the baseline level of PA and RA is supported by our results.

Not exact matches

A willingness to have meetings at the highest level marks a major divergence from past interactions between the two nations, even if the baseline demands have not changed.

After studying oil prices over long periods, the GMO chief strategist has come to believe that there have been two major paradigm shifts when oil reset at higher baseline levels.

It's worth noting too that across all participants, cortisol levels at baseline were not associated with any of the study's other measures, such as intensity of Facebook use.

The budget baseline would be altered to assume discretionary spending is constant at its current level and that trust funds are not allowed to spend in excess of their resources.

«At a local level we are providing farmers with support to understand their emissions and how to identify efficiency opportunities, as we work towards a target of climate neutral growth to 2030 for on farm emissions from a 2015 baseline.»

The baseline heat level of the sausage is only warm, so if you want a real kick, add at least half a habanero to the pot.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

At the time of recruitment, all participants were invited to complete a baseline questionnaire that contained demographic information that included age, marital status, occupation, educational level and nationality.

it may be alarmingly high and we need to get at least a baseline level,» MRB Engineering Group consultant David Lukas wrote in a January 15 email to the health department's Vickerson.

At a Wednesday news conference announcing the move, DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker repeatedly said his agency would start with a safety baseline of 400 ppt safety measure, the EPA's maximum allowable level for short - term PFOA exposure, as it began its health assessment of the contamination.

At baseline, 40 percent of SLR patients reported having some level of pain related to sex.

A greater obesity level was associated with worse pain at baseline but greater postoperative pain relief, with average postoperative pain scores at six months similar across the BMI levels.

The nonathlete controls had lower levels of tau in their blood than the athletes at baseline, supporting the idea that exercise may lead to naturally higher tau blood levels.

At the end of 2014, researchers noticed a spike 10 times the baseline level.

This meant a return to the sequestration - level baseline in FY 2016, seen at right, with spending capped at just above $ 1 trillion in nominal dollars.

Neil Jones, programme manager at Upside Energy, said: «These tests at a single house level (Energy House) will help us establish a baseline of data which could be scaled up to hundreds if not thousands of homes and vehicles and start to identify what services can be offered to householders and the grid in the future.»

For that reason, says Travis Longcore, an urban ecologist at the University of Southern California Dornsife who was not involved in the study, the new atlas only provides a minimal baseline for what are likely much larger levels of light pollution.

Independent of the severity of COPD at baseline, steps per day, total daily energy expenditure, and daily physical activity level (PAL) decreased by 393, 76 kcal, and 0.04 per year, respectively.

The concussed players demonstrated significant impairment on clinical assessment at 24 hours post-injury, but returned to baseline levels at eight days.

Interval intensity important «When we compared VO2max before and after the training period, we found that the number of training sessions, the subject's age or baseline fitness levels had no impact,» says Trine Moholdt, a postdoctoral fellow at the center and lead author of the study.

«Baseline data on Bd can help to form a more complete picture of the presence and significance of this fungus and help guide and inform discussions on climate and species - related conservation strategies at both the local and global levels.»

Patient clinical characteristics, including age, sex, ethnicity, college and work status, body mass index (BMI), smoking, comorbidities, level of back and leg pain, self - assessment of general health and treatment preference, were reviewed at baseline.

The researchers assessed blood AMH levels by immunoassay at baseline and every three months for up to a year after treatment.

Understanding how this immune system is regulated at the appropriate level of activity gives the researchers more ideas of points in the immune signaling pathway that could targeted to increase the plant's baseline ability to resist disease.

African - Americans and men reported the greatest levels of improvement, and the 79 patients who reported moderate levels of anxiety at baseline generally did well over the course of follow - up, whether they were later randomized to the study intervention or not.

Cook - Mills examined the CARDIA results for individuals» lung function tests at four intervals from baseline to 20 years and the type of tocopherol levels in their blood plasma at three intervals from baseline to 15 years.

The children who started at age 3 had parents with higher levels of education at baseline.

Researchers measured cortisol levels by analyzing 7,000 samples of children's saliva; samples were collected at morning baseline, and after arts and homeroom classes on two different days at the start, middle, and end of the school year.

It also accelerates an upward - sloping population trend in agreeableness for students from low socioeconomic status, boosting agreeableness scores from the lowest levels observed at baseline to the highest levels at the eight - year follow up.

The authors have also compared baseline emissions versus mitigation emissions levels to formulate mitigation potential at break - even prices for 2010, 2020 and 2030.

Using the findings of the TRIO study [2] as the basis for their recommendations, the Working Group recommends measuring serum PINP (procollagen type 1 N - terminal propeptide) and CTX (collagen type 1 C - terminal telopeptide) levels at baseline and after 3 months of initiating treatment.

«Our study was designed to quantify the level of variation within each patient's cancer at baseline, prior to receiving any treatment.»

Researchers measured an epigenetic marker, DNA methylation levels, in obese adolescents from a blood sample at baseline and again at the end of the 10 - week program.

Compared with men with sodium levels of 141 - 142 mmol / L, men with levels of 126 - 140 mmol / L were 30 % more likely to have cognitive impairment at baseline and 37 % more likely to experience cognitive decline over time.

We thought that if we looked at vitamin D levels when the disease was inactive and then followed patients moving forward, the impact of baseline vitamin D levels on future events may be clearer.»

The results suggested that higher levels of PA at baseline were associated with an 11 % reduced risk of developing anxiety over the next 5 years, and a 15 % reduced risk of becoming depressed.

In nonhuman primates that received ALN - TTR01 in a single dose of 1.0 mg per kilogram, the mean percent transthyretin knockdown at the nadir level (7 days after administration) was approximately 50 %, with recovery to the baseline level by day 28 (Fig.