Sentences with phrase «baseline use levels»

Although men have higher baseline use levels of both alcohol and marijuana, the effect of the minimum legal drinking age is larger for women.

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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.

Washington uses the current spending levels as the «baseline» for establishing future funding requirements.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

This chart shows the rolling 10 - year average strength for each, based on the SRS stat (SRS uses zero as its baseline for a perfectly average team, with anything around the 18s or higher usually signifying elite - level):

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.

During the first three years of denusomab use, the participants» bone mineral density recovered to the original baseline levels.

Using tumor biopsies from BRAF melanoma patients treated with either BRAF inhibitors or with combined BRAF and MEK inhibitors, a recently FDA - approved drug combination to fight the other mechanisms of resistance, the researchers found that tumors resistant to the BRAF inhibitors had increased levels of autophagy compared with baseline tumors.

Hospital - level norepinephrine shortage was defined as any quarterly (3 - month) interval in 2011 during which the hospital rate of norepinephrine use decreased by more than 20 percent from baseline.

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.

Establishing baseline levels of antibiotic resistance will allow scientists to differentiate resistance caused by human antibiotic use from resistance that occurs naturally.

long - term monitoring of groundwater levels, groundwater use, and surface - water flow to establish baseline properties and conditions for predicting change.

Short of using anabolic steroids there isn't much to do to elevate already healthy baseline levels.

I've also found through this testing that adding 1 tablespoon of coconut oil before each meal helps my glucose reactions improve and get back to baseline more quickly, so I would use this if I ever needed to control my levels.

Cox regression was used to quantify the association between running and mortality after adjusting for baseline age, sex, examination year, body mass index, current smoking, heavy alcohol drinking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, parental CVD, and levels of other physical activities.

Model adjusted for age, race, baseline BMI, randomized treatment, nonalcohol energy intake, physical activity level, smoking status, postmenopausal status, postmenopausal hormone use, multivitamin use, history of hypercholesterolemia and hypertension, and intake of fruit and vegetables, whole grains, refined grains, red meats and poultry, low - fat dairy products, high - fat dairy products, energy - adjusted total fat, carbohydrates, and fiber.

They can be used to directly uplift your testosterone level at or above the baseline or by hormonal support.

Analysis of baseline data using an ANOVA for parametric data and a Kruskal — Wallis test for nonparametric data showed that all groups were equivalent on all sleep measures (i.e., time needed to fall asleep, number and length of night - time awakenings, total time asleep, fatigue level next day).

For the non — parametric - level sleep measure, fatigue level next day, we used a Kruskal — Wallis test to determine if all groups were equivalent at baseline (Portney & Watkins, 2015).

Still, the tone of these films, and the use of terror, oppression and despair juxtaposed with opulence (remember, this was Heavensbee's plan of attack in Catching Fire) works so astonishingly well that it almost does not matter what happens to these characters, just their existence in the world is enough to resonate on a baseline level.

Specifically, he will work with the PI and core project staff to develop an analysis plan, direct the evaluation of the efficacy of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Listening and Learning Read Aloud Program, articulate the fully specified multi-level models used to estimate treatment impacts on child - level vocabulary, listening comprehension and domain knowledge outcomes, and guide the secondary analyses that examine whether the quality of read alouds mediate treatment effects on child outcomes and the baseline, child - level moderators of treatment effects.

A research assistant will be supervised by Dr. Kim and will be responsible for organizing a student - level data set that will be used for the impact analyses, cleaning the data set at each wave of data collection, monitoring and reporting attrition across waves, and conducting descriptive analyses to check for baseline equivalence, attrition across waves, and posttest differences on the child - level outcomes.

Test results be used by standards developers and curriculum developers to provide a baseline for understanding of science keyed to grade level.

At the conclusion of this research project, not only had baseline levels of use within the EEI amongst students been established, a set of improvement goals had been outlined.

The baseline assessment will be used to assess each child's level of development at the beginning of school, so the progress they make by the time they leave can be measured.

Beginning with the 2014 - 15 school year, Utah will move forward with the reduce - the - gap - in - one - half targets, at the subgroup level using the first year results (2013 - 14) as the baseline.

These measurable levels are used as baselines for the development of the measurable annual goals (§ 300.320).

Using the measurable data or baseline provided for each area of need in the present level of performance, the IEP team will develop measurable annual goals in those areas requiring specially designed instruction.

This should give you a very good baseline for steady - state running, since the data can be used to perform a regression that maps mass air flow and throttle position to the vane angle that provides the targeted boost level.

Additionally, the S&P 500 index is often used as a baseline level of performance against which mutual funds and other asset managers» performance is measured.

We'll use the results to establish baseline information about current levels of care and determine the kinds of resources needed to better nurture, support and save the lives of these vulnerable animals.

We will use these results to establish baseline information about current levels of care and determine the kinds of resources needed to better nurture, support and save the lives of these vulnerable animals.

The sterilization approach using CaCl2 in alcohol resulted in a durable reduction of testosterone, as compared to baseline levels, and reduced aggressive and sexual behavior.

and in the approximation that other sources of optical thickness and the Planck function don't vary much over the width of the CO2 band so — or their combination of variations is such — that the baseline spectral flux for no CO2 as well as the value at any given optical thickness from CO2 is approximatly constant over wavlength — or else so that the baseline and other levels of spectral flux for a given additional optical thickness, or at least the differences among them, vary over the band is such that as the band widens, decreasing effect on one side is balanced by increasing effect on the other — but for now I'll just use the simplification of a constant baseline and additional optical thickness effect on spectral flux over the width of the band:

We established our baseline energy levels during the first week of the EcoChallenge and then starting making adjustments to reduce our energy use wherever possible.

Using the 195 pounds / MMBtu emissions rate for biomass assumed in EPA's Regulatory Impact Analysis, as in the CPPBIO195 case, EIA projects that biomass generation in 2020 and 2030 would be 33 % and 71 % below the respective AEO2015 baseline levels of 24 billion kWh (BkWh) and 41 BkWh for those years.

In the Base Policy case (CPP), which uses the standard EIA treatment of biomass generation as a net zero emissions generation source, EIA projects that biomass generation in 2020 and 2030 would be 46 % above and 5 % below the respective AEO2015 baseline levels for those years.

We quantify sea - level commitment in the baseline case by building on Levermann et al. (10), who used physical simulations to model the SLR within a 2,000 - y envelope as the sum of the contributions of (i) ocean thermal expansion, based on six coupled climate models; (ii) mountain glacier and ice cap melting, based on surface mass balance and simplified ice dynamic models; (iii) Greenland ice sheet decay, based on a coupled regional climate model and ice sheet dynamic model; and (iv) Antarctic ice sheet decay, based on a continental - scale model parameterizing grounding line ice flux in relation to temperature.

The energy system reference cases used for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways in climate change research are a case in point: baseline emission scenarios commonly project levels of coal combustion many times higher than current reserve estimates by the year 2100.

The City's greenhouse gas reduction goals use 1990 levels as a baseline.

Rachel Buxton, a post-doctoral researcher at Colorado State University's Warner College of Natural Resources and lead author of the study, led a team of researchers that recorded sounds at 492 sites across the country in order to quantify the extent of noise pollution in the U.S. Using baseline sound levels for each study area established by machine learning algorithms that took into account geospatial features of the area, the researchers determined that anthropogenic noise pollution exceeds three decibels (dB), essentially doubling background sound levels, in 63 percent of the nation's protected areas.

We use the average new gasoline car (28.7 mpg) as the baseline for gasoline - powered cars, at both the local and national levels.

Translating the 2005 baseline to a 1990 baseline (the level most other countries use) would have made a major difference, converting Obama's economy - wide target of a 17 percent reduction by 2020 to just a 3.5 percent cut.

The baseline for atmospheric methane used in the study is just under two parts per million — a figure accepted by most experts as well within the range of naturally occurring gas levels.

Remember that compared to the most commonly used international baseline of cuts from 1990 levels by 2020, the US commitment as put into the Copenhagen accord (contingent upon action in Congress) is effectively less than 5 % below 1990 levels — when 40 % is what is needed.

Like Indonesia and several other emerging countries, Mexico isn't using a baseline year, but instead proposes to reduce its emissions to a level 22 % below a «business as usual» scenario by 2030, with that target nearly doubling to 40 % below business as usual if it receives technical and financial support within the context of a global agreement.

[30] The plaintiff used her Fitbit data to show that her post-injury activity levels were lower than the baseline for someone of the same age and profession to prove she deserved compensation for the injury.

The primary outcome was clinical response defined using a global rating scale (eg, «much improved» or «very much improved» on the Clinical Global Impression Scale (CGI)-RRB- or a set level of improvement on a continuous depression rating scale (eg, improvement of 50 % or greater from baseline to end of treatment on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) or the Montgomery — Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)-RRB-.

Changes in rates of child diagnoses from baseline to 3 months as a function of mother's remission and subsequently mother's level of response were analyzed using a repeated measures analysis with binary response data, using generalized estimating equation (GEE) methods.27 A linear probability model with an identity link function (rather than a logit - link function) was used to model interactions on the additive scale28 and to model a dose - response function using rates (rather than odds) as the outcome measure because we considered risk differences to be a more relevant measure than odds ratios in our study.

Data were extracted on type and intensity of the intervention, target group, extent of programme integration with the child's medical care, level of training of the intervener, consistency of the delivery of the intervention, the extent to which a theoretical model was used to develop the intervention, study design, sample size, patient baseline characteristics, follow up, and outcome measures.