Sentences with phrase «by bursts of activity»

«That's a challenge,» says Justin Molito, director of organizing for the WGA's East Coast branch, who nonetheless is «encouraged and excited» by the burst of activity in the space and has even adopted some of the tactics of collective action that the newer guilds are using.

Not exact matches

«By leveraging kids» familiarity with both screens and visual media, we are able to engage them and get them moving for short, but impactful bursts of physical activity while keeping them visually entertained,» says McQuigg.

For the financial markets, those risks are compounded by the unbalanced «risk - on» exposure that investment managers and institutions adopted early this year, encouraged by a short - lived burst of economic activity, and faith in a central - bank backstop.

Active Play is described by ACT Health as: «Any form of regular physical activity that babies and children do, which includes moderate to vigorous bursts of high energy, and which raises...

Theories abound, but one popular idea — favoured by the authors of this study — is that it reflects the action of attention which appears to sample neural activity in rapid bursts.

Round four: it arrives at the drop of a hat, followed by an intense burst of activity in response to the referees» comments.

When patients are in a medically induced coma, the brain is quiet for up to several seconds at a time, punctuated by short bursts of activity.

This is partially because oxygen, which causes the iron to precipitate, had not yet entered the ocean to great depths, and also because the seafloor at that time contained abundant iron released by bursts of hydrothermal activity.

In one patient, the FO electrodes revealed frequent bursts of electrical activity called spikes, often associated with seizures, most which were not detectible by scalp EEG.

Within several seconds of detecting a strong burst of radiation, the BAT calculates an initial position, decides whether the activity merits investigation by other instruments and, if so, sends the position to the spacecraft.

Stage 2 lasts slightly longer, around 20 minutes, and is marked by rapid bursts of rhythmic brain activity known as sleep spindles.

However, the study of early career markers over the past 7 to 10 years has demonstrated increasing interest in research careers by medical students, steady growth of the MD - PhD pool, and a new burst of activity in the «late bloomer» pool of MDs (individuals who choose research careers in medical school or in residency training), fueled by loan repayment programs that were created by the NIH in 2002.

By giving your body less time to recover between bursts of intense physical activity, you're able to burn a lot more calories.

Buchman and his colleagues tried to estimate the intensity of the participants» activity by looking at whether their movements were spread out evenly throughout the day or clustered in short bursts suggestive of vigorous exercise.

By Matt McMillen THURSDAY, May 5, 2011 (Health.com)-- Having sex, drinking coffee, working out — these and other everyday activities that cause blood pressure to spike may briefly raise the risk of a burst aneurysm in the brains of certain vulnerable people, a new study suggests.

Exercise that consists of two minutes of rapid walking followed by a twenty or thirty - second burst of running up and down a flight of stairs (or similar activity) that gets your heart rate up past your anaerobic threshold repeated a total of three to five times is all you need to promote a burst of growth hormone secretion.

High intensity interval training (HIIT), sometimes simply called interval training, is characterized by the repetition of short 2 - 3 minute bursts of activity followed by rest.

We also talk about ancestral patterns of movement which involved mainly low - level activity punctuated by brief adrenaline - pumping bursts of activity.

«Studies by the American College of Sports Medicine have found that short bursts of activity add up throughout the day,» says Hopper.

Just understand the order in which energy substrates are used by the body: ATP and creatine phosphate during short, intense bursts of activity (5 - 15 seconds of actual activity), glucose for medium duration activity (20 seconds to a minute or two), and fat stores once effort is extended out beyond that.

This drill is best used for short bursts of high intensity activity followed by active recovery.

In 2018, Eric will have his clients training hard with high - intensity interval training (HIIT) that involves a burst of activity followed by rest or recovery.

Intervals are short bursts of intense activity that push you to your limit followed by very brief rest periods, then repeated.

First, realize that our bodies are designed to perform physical activity in bursts of exertion followed by recovery, or stop - and - go movement instead of steady state movement.

This downloadable activity pack is inspired by methods of transport and is bursting with 10 fun and educational activities.

For example, bursts of brain activity from the somatosensory cortex are followed milliseconds later by bursts of electrical activity in the hippocampus, amygdala, and then the other parts of the limbic system.

Levetiracetam may act by preventing hypersynchronization of epileptiform burst firing and propagation of seizure activity.

Spring is popularly defined by the senses — the bustling and buzzing of renewed insect activity, shrill and gurgling bird song, and the shockingly iridescent greens, purples and yellows that symphonically burst from the landscape.

In what turned out to be a whirlwind year, our activities ranged from bursting the gigantic balloon of 13 gigatonnes CO2 - equivalent of «hot air», to achieving a major victory against coal power projects in the CDM, to helping local communities negatively affected by CDM projects to be heard at international level.

And the political green - light given by Keystone approval is likely to set off a burst of investment activity.

The data showed a burst of activity, possibly due to her being attacked, followed by a period of calmness — presumably when she was unconscious.

«While the worst of the foreclosure problem is in the rearview mirror for a narrow majority of counties, others are still working through rising levels of foreclosure activity, inventory and distressed sales as they continue to clear the wreckage left behind by a bursting housing bubble.»

«The drop in overall foreclosure activity in November was caused largely by a 71 - month low in foreclosure starts for the month, more evidence that we are past the worst of the foreclosure problem brought about by the housing bubble bursting six years ago,» says Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.

Fueled by government policies and the broad decline of the stock market, the Chinese real estate market has seen a spike in sales activity in recent months despite poor underlying fundamentals, leading many observers to suggest that a speculative bubble is about to burst.