Sentences with phrase «become less responsive»

It wasn't easy to get everyone on the same page, especially since the public has become less responsive to pro sports teams» relocation threats.

Controls become less responsive.

Eventually, many dogs trained to be service dogs become less responsive to their duties, usually because of old age.

How you can help Observing your beloved dog become less responsive because of hearing loss can evoke a laundry list of emotions such as sadness, frustration, and discouragement.

Its chief side effect is that most cats become less responsive to everything while on the medication.

To stop insulin from pushing more glycogen in, the stores become insulin resistant, meaning that they become less responsive when stimulated by insulin.

In people with Type 2 diabetes (the commonest form of diabetes), blood sugar control fails because the fat and muscle cells that normally respond to insulin by removing excess sugar from the blood become less responsive to insulin.

Insulin resistance means that cells have become less responsive to the effects of insulin.

In a process comparable to insulin resistance, the sympathetic nervous system activity continues to increase, yet cells become less responsive.

Instead, the number of ovarian follicles declines and your ovaries become less responsive to two other reproductive hormones, luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle - stimulating hormone (FSH).

When fetal hypoxia is prolonged, the embryo's heart and vessels change: The walls of the heart and aorta grow thicker, and blood vessels may become less responsive to signals to relax, which makes it harder for blood to flow.

This illusion shows that adaptation, the process by which neurons in the brain become less responsive to unchanging stimuli, can be simultaneously selective for both color and orientation of edges.

It's possible,» he adds, «that the brain would get used to the stimulation — just as it adjusts to medications — and also become less responsive over time, but we are hopeful that continued stimulation might improve symptoms.»

Many autistic children begin talking normally until about 18 months, when they suddenly seem to «lose» the words they've learned and become less responsive to their parents.

The end result, investors say, is that the national team is unwittingly encouraging short - term trading patterns that amplify the detachment of stock markets, which have become less responsive to fundamental drivers such as earnings trends, domestic economic data and shifts in global markets.

What this means is that large doses of capsaicin result in the body becoming less responsive to capsaicin, but that large doses of nicotine cause the body to become more responsive to nicotine.

And, to confuse matters even further, the brain becomes less responsive to the hormones that your body does still produce.

To confuse matters even further, the brain becomes less responsive to the hormones that your body does still produce.

After all, inflammation is over-activity of the immune system and the immune system becomes less responsive to threats with age.

As skin ages, it loses energy and becomes less responsive to anti-aging ingredients, resulting in dryness, wrinkles, and sagging skin.

He has always been ver playful and friendly with other dogs and wants to play with everyone, recently however as his adolescence has kicked in he is becoming less responsive when they tell him to go away.

Let's see: as a result of the FOI requests in July 2009, Phil Jones had already commenced becoming less responsive a few years ago.

As noted in the Google Product Forums (via Android Central), some users are reporting that their Pixel 2 XL fingerprint scanner became less responsive after installing Android 8.1 Oreo.

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As we age, they become less and less responsive to negative stimuli, and «in some automatic, preconscious way,» begin to accentuate the positive at the expense of the negative.

There is a reason why people are becoming less and less responsive to antibiotics these days... when you get pumped full of it through food every single day, our bodies simply become immune to it.

The researchers played back these ultrasonic vocalizations to the mice after they had activated the motor cortex and found that the neurons became much less responsive to the sounds.

As Tim Birdsall, vice president of integrative medicine at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, explains it, cancer is a disease in which the cells become less and less responsive to their external environment.

As you learn to maintain the shape with less muscular effort, your mind becomes more silent and spacious, and you become much more sensitive and responsive to the movement of prana within.»

Our tissues become less sensitive to the hormone, and our immune system less responsive to its» regulatory effect.

When women's estrogen levels decrease during menopause, blood vessels can become rigid and less responsive to changes in blood flow and blood flow - altering mediators such as nitric oxide.

The fuel that is broken down and used for good energy within the body is now turning that source into a negative after the time eating window and we become less insulin responsive and our bodies do not function to its full capacity based on the 12 - hour eating clock.

«But time will tell if the government becomes lax and less responsive.

Other techniques that may fall into «less relevant» include such ones as «Stretch It,» which is designed to help «meet students where they are and push them in a way that's directly responsive to what they've shown they can already do,» and becomes more embedded in a blended - learning environment; «Wait Time,» which is designed to help all students have a moment to answer a question, but isn't relevant when each child is working at her own pace online; «Do Now» to help focus students on a particular learning activity when they enter the classroom; and several tips around varying pacing for the entire classroom, which become more irrelevant when each student has a unique pacing schedule.

Millions of dollars less to spend on their pet candidates and causes might shake up union leaders — all of whom have become all - too - comfy with their all - too - compliant members — and force them to be more responsive to those they insist on representing.

Turning the Drive Select feature to Comfort, I was able to enjoy more relaxed driving as throttle and steering become looser, a little less responsive.

I had a little bit of trouble with that on the PS3 version where the controls became a tad less responsive, particularly at the scorpion battle.

While the game running at a lower frame - rate is only natural given the new medium, Ryu feels less responsive than in the original game, and combat can become a little messy when dealing with a game focused on reactions and precise button timing.

It is clear why the satellite method is more responsive at detecting global temperature change, but that doesn't explain why the station method is becoming less effective over time.

Indeed, Jones says he has become «markedly less responsive to the public over the past few years as a result of this».

That means you can enjoy all of the improvements Apple has made without having to worry that your device will become bogged down and less responsive.

Several iPhone X owners reported last week that their phone, more specifically the display, becomes far less responsive when taken outside into cooler environments.

In humans, both the HPA system and the autonomic nervous system show developmental changes in infancy, with the HPA axis becoming organized between 2 and 6 months of age and the autonomic nervous system demonstrating relative stability by 6 to 12 months of age.63 The HPA axis in particular has been shown to be highly responsive to child - caregiver interactions, with sensitive caregiving programming the HPA axis to become an effective physiological regulator of stress and insensitive caregiving promoting hyperreactive or hyporeactive HPA systems.17 Several animal models as well as human studies also support the connection between caregiver experiences in early postnatal life and alterations of autonomic nervous system balance.63 - 65 Furthermore, children who have a history of sensitive caregiving are more likely to demonstrate optimal affective and behavioral strategies for coping with stress.66, 67 Therefore, children with histories of supportive, sensitive caregiving in early development may be better able to self - regulate their physiological, affective, and behavioral responses to environmental stressors and, consequently, less likely to manifest disturbed HPA and autonomic reactivity that put them at risk for stress - related illnesses such as asthma.

Eron et al concluded that without early family treatment, aggressive behaviour in children «crystallises» by the age of 8, making future learning and behavioural problems less responsive to treatment and more likely to become chronic.5 Yet recent projections suggest that fewer than 10 % of young children who need treatment for conduct problems ever receive it, 6 and an even smaller percentage receive empirically validated treatments.

Gradually, we train ourselves to become far less reactive and far more responsive.