Sentences with phrase «by contractions in»

Are blood flow and lipolysis in subcutaneous adipose tissue influenced by contractions in adjacent muscles in humans?

Substantial rises in interest rates, designed to restrain inflationary booms, have been followed by contractions in demand and a reduction in inflation.

However, (inaudible) expanded loans were 3.2 %, mainly driven by the contraction in the corporate segment.

In response, KIPP laid out plans to grow to 42 schools by 2020 — a formidable target under any circumstances, and made all the more challenging by the contraction in public school funding.

The present level is about 70 % above that, and can be expected to be followed by a contraction in corporate profits over the coming 4 - year period, at a roughly 12 % annual rate.

Not exact matches

In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in 2017, overall growth fell by 0.2 percent with Saudi Arabia seeing its first economic contraction since 200In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in 2017, overall growth fell by 0.2 percent with Saudi Arabia seeing its first economic contraction since 200in 2017, overall growth fell by 0.2 percent with Saudi Arabia seeing its first economic contraction since 2009.

The extent of the contraction is especially apparent when compared to the United States: a study compiled by Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association found that from 2003 to 2008, venture capital investment as a share of GDP dropped 35 % in Canada; meanwhile, south of the border, it increased by 17 %.

The State essentially guarantees by its (mis) management and manipulation, the ensuing collapse will not be limited to certain sectors of the private economy but will cause massive contraction in the entire economy — including the State's share of the national income.

Commercial rents in the Perth CBD have been tipped to fall by 9.4 per cent over the next 12 months, with the Western Australian capital one of only two major Australian cities to experience a contraction in office rental values.

Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline by 40 per cent over the course of the year.

The world economy is expected to grow by 3.5 percent in 2012, including a 0.3 percent contraction in the euro zone, according to the International Monetary Fund.

In July, when the Bank of Canada cut its policy to its current setting of 0.5 %, policy makers expressed concern over weak non-energy exports and a deep contraction in business investment brought on by the collapse of commodity priceIn July, when the Bank of Canada cut its policy to its current setting of 0.5 %, policy makers expressed concern over weak non-energy exports and a deep contraction in business investment brought on by the collapse of commodity pricein business investment brought on by the collapse of commodity prices.

Gastrointestinal Disturbance Caffeine acts like a laxative by increasing contraction in the small and large intestinal muscles.

By identifying low - risk entry points in leading individual stocks, we are able to use high volatility to our advantage because we look for stocks engaged in a volatility contraction, which are due for an inevitable range expansion within a few days.

A tiny quiver in the joint followed immediately by an extension and contraction of the muscle being worked.

What's more, the number of active North American oil rigs fell by two in the week ended June 30, from 758 to 756 rigs, the first such contraction since January, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count.

If it is much higher, then a contraction in the trade deficit can not occur without a contraction in net foreign investment, which would only increase the gap between desired and actual investment by reducing actual investment levels.

The Trump administration, for example, wants not just to force a contraction in the trade deficit but has also proposed policies aimed at increasing U.S. investment, partly by making investment more profitable (cutting corporate taxes and rebuilding American infrastructure) and partly by increasing savings (cutting taxes on the very wealthy).

Greek budgets include tax hikes and spending cuts by more than $ 4.5 billion, a debt increase to more than 200 percent of GDP, an economic contraction of 1.3 percent and a new rise in unemployment by almost one percentage point to 25.4 percent.

Thus, this week's new highs in the major price indexes have been confirmed by an ongoing contraction in Supply and expansion in Demand — a pattern that has historically provided investors with the best opportunities for new buying.

Much of this stagnation is supposed to have been caused by a monetary contraction leading to the resumption of specie payments in 1879.

In the 12 months ended 2015 Q3, valuation multiples expanded by an amount roughly equivalent to earnings» contraction, but in early 2016 prices are rapidly adjustinIn the 12 months ended 2015 Q3, valuation multiples expanded by an amount roughly equivalent to earnings» contraction, but in early 2016 prices are rapidly adjustinin early 2016 prices are rapidly adjusting.

Even the alleged «monetary contraction» never took place, the money supply increasing by 2.7 percent per year in this period.

Much of the improvement was driven by a recovery in greater China (PRC, Hong Kong and Macau), where demand appears to be normalizing following two - plus years of contraction after a government crackdown on gifting reduced demand for luxury watches.

The eurozone composite PMI compiled by Markit hit 53.9 in October, one of the strongest readings over the past four years and well above the dividing line between expansion and contraction.

Durable goods orders fell by 1.2 % in September, while the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers» index (PMI) fell to barely over the 50 mark in October, the level that separates expansion from contraction.

The contraction in this margin partly reflected the growing popularity of loans secured by residential property, which have a lower indicator rate than other loans and in most cases no additional risk margin.

Unfortunately, average weekly hours fell by -0.58 %, resulting in a net contraction in labor input during the month of February.

Credit strategists are increasingly disturbed by a sudden and rare contraction of U.S. bank lending, fearing a synchronized slowdown in the U.S. and China this year that could catch euphoric markets badly off guard.

In contrast, a large contraction was experienced by the farm sector.

As noted above, the contractionary impulse arising from the Asian crisis has occurred in two stages — an initial, rapid contraction in the economies first affected by the regional financial instability, and a more delayed slowing of other economies in the region.

Our current investment position isn't driven by that thesis, but again, a contraction in foreign capital inflows will certainly make things worse.

Companies in the benchmark gauge for American equities trade at 10.2 times 2012 forecast earnings, compared with the average in economic contractions since 1957 of 13.7, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Joy asked where I wanted to deliver as we were right by my bed but I wanted to be back in the water as the contractions were more manageable there.

The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.

By the time the tinies were on their way to Granny's house, my contractions were three minutes apart and growing in intensity.

This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.

Is not this precisely the kind of spectacle to which we are now awakening (still without really believing in it); the spectacle of Mankind, suddenly shaken out of a deceptive inertia, being swept along ever more rapidly, by the current of its own proliferation and contraction, into the diminishing circles of a sort of maelstrom coiling irresistibly upon itself?

I suggested that the very excess of external compression to which we are subjected by the relative contraction of our planet may one day cause us to breach that mysterious wall of growing repulsion which, more often than not, sets the human molecules in opposition to one another, and enter the powerful, still unknown field of our basic affinities.

He seemed to me to be exactly like a man who should begin by saying that I, Socrates, do all I do by mind, but who, when he went on to assign a cause for each of my actions, should say, first that I am sitting here now because my body is composed of bones and muscles, and that the bones are hard and divided by joints, while the muscles can be tightened and relaxed and, together with the flesh and the skin which contains it, cover the bones; and that therefore when the bones are raised in their sockets by the contraction or relaxation of the muscles, I am now able to bend my limbs; — and that that is the cause of my sitting here un prison] all huddled up.

I would certainly agree, as Eric Voegelin put it in his lectures on Hitler and the Germans, that Aquinas» understanding of the corpus mysticum was subsequently, tragically, overshadowed by a «ghettoizing» conception of the Church among both Catholics and Protestants and that Pius XII's Mystici Corporis Christi represents «the most severe contraction of the membership of the Church that it had ever received.»

This again is achieved by a series of steps, each of which triggers off pre-set neural mechanisms, activates linguistic holons of a more and more automatised type; the canons of grammar and syntax exert their rule unconsciously, automatically; and the last step in articulating the sounds of speech is performed by entirely mechanised patterns of muscle contractions.

Meanwhile, Europe will continue to slide in terms of wine consumption by volume though it still remains the largest wine consumer, accounting for about 60 %, despite a projected contraction of 33.9 million cases by 2020.

The cyclists in the Montmorency tart cherry group maintained muscle function (as measured by maximum voluntary isometric contraction) and experienced a reduction in certain inflammatory responses following the simulated cycling race, compared to those consuming the placebo drink.

Exports rose 5.3 points to 50.0, but new orders slipped into contraction in September, declining by 3.2 points to 48.3.

Growth in sales and production were offset by a further drop in employment and a contraction in new orders.

It is the belief of the owners that the best way to counter the losses incurred by the league is to propose changes to the current CBA that include: the institution of a hard salary cap with incentive - based salaries that also includes a salary floor, elimination of free - agent exceptions, raised age limits for players to enter the draft, revenue sharing among all NBA teams, and as a last resort, relocation or contraction of teams in the league.

STD's / HIV the study was conducted in Africa and since then has been shown to be extremely flawed, studies on STD / HIV contraction in regards of circumcision status have been conducted in the UK Australia New Zealand Puerto Rico and even one conducted by the US navy and it showed circumcision status had no effect in the contraction of the diseases.

After weeks of many, many, many contractions each day, and many moments of thinking we were in full - on labor (oh... the birthing tub that was filled up and then drained so many times by my sweet husband)... the actual day of labor amounted to a total of 43 minutes from the time I woke up with a start until I was snuggled back in bed with a baby.

Red raspberry leaf enhances fertility, helps in preventing miscarriage, eases morning sickness, reduces pain in labor by making contractions more effective, and diminishes postpartum bleeding by helping to ensure a well contracted uterus postpartum.