Sentences with phrase «by measuring stress»

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The researchers acknowledged their findings are limited by their small sample size, and that it would have been useful to measure stress and anxiety to see how this was affecting the results.

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

As always, the best opportunities are likely to emerge when a material retreat in valuations is joined by an early improvement in our measures of market action (which, following our stress - testing earlier in this half - cycle, are robust to every market cycle we've observed across history).

Then, a stock under consideration is stress - tested by Mauldin Economics» proprietary Equity Evaluation System (EES), which measures more than 100 qualitative and quantitative factors.

Their first wearable product, Reveal, measures the body's response to stress and anxiety in real - time by tracking physiological signals and sending data via Bluetooth to its accompanying app.

Risk is measured by calculating the average of relative volatility, relative Value at Risk (VaR), relative Estimated Tail Loss (ETL) and relative stressed downside capture.

The EES is a cutting - edge stock - selection system that puts individual stocks through a stress test by measuring more than 100 qualitative and quantitative factors...

First, it must again be stressed that the eschatological message of Jesus, the preaching of the coming of the Kingdom and of the call to repentance, can be understood only when one considers the conception of man which in the last analysis underlies it, and when one remembers that it can have meaning only for him who is ready to question the habitual human self - interpretation and to measure it by this opposed interpretation of human existence.

Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.

But there are times when the stresses become abnormal, when the populace truly is at odds with each other, when people can not agree on the proper measures for coping with dangers and problems, when they blame those in authority and flout the establishment by unpatriotic acts.

Results of the study showed that the total antioxidant capacity in the bloodstream of the participants increased, and that their level of oxidative stress (as measured by the amount of carboxymethyllysine in their blood serum) decreased.

Because macarons can be so temperamental, all the experts stress the importance of always measuring your macaron ingredients by weight.

But what I want to stress is d desire d Wenger has shown and wholistic measure taken by Arsene to make sure our fist team never gets depleted.

Their stress levels have been measured by researchers who have found that they are as high as the stress levels of children who are being put into foster - care.

Similarly, «grandparent» volunteers who massaged neglected or abused children were less stressed (as measured by cortisol levels in their urine), needed to make fewer trips to the doctor and reported higher self - esteem.

Women who are diagnosed with preeclampsia can take measures to help alleviate their health issues, by managing stress levels, eating a good diet, and making their prenatal appointments to monitor their condition.

Megan Gunnar and others found that they could measure the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in a baby's system by offering the baby a soft strip of fabric with a sweet taste to suck.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller Thursday as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

The City of Troy has had its fiscal stress score lowered by the New York State Comptroller's office after putting in place measures to control costs and boost revenue.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration's resolve to deal decisively and expeditiously with the continued attacks on communities across the country by armed herdsmen, stressing that he has ordered heads of national security agencies to take all necessary measures to apprehend and expose those behind the heinous attacks.

De Ruyter is the only other district in our area considered even Susceptible to Fiscal Stress by the Comptroller's review.Homer and the other districts in Cortland County received no designation — they measure up okay under the Comptroller's standards for year - end fund balances, borrowing and deficits.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

The UMD and UMB team, led by research associate Eunkyoung Kim, used a discovery - driven approach based on the assumptions that chemical biomarkers relating to oxidative stress could be found in blood, and that they could be measured by common electrochemical instruments.

A stressor that raises an isolated animal's plasma cortisol levels (a measure of stress) by 50 percent does not increase cortisol levels at all when the animal is surrounded by familiar companions.

The researchers conclude in today's Science that stability — as measured by total biomass — depends more on the ability of species in an ecosystem to withstand environmental stress, than on the sheer number of species.

Nevertheless, the measurement was exceptional, because it was the first observation of its kind in light nuclei,» concludes Prof. Fornal and stresses that the measured delay times of return to the basic state correspond to an acceptable extent with the values provided by the new theoretical model, which further enhances the attainment of the achievement.

By measuring levels of the stress hormone cortisol, plus other chemical markers, the team found that the task caused more cell damage in the women who were already stressed.

The study «reveals more quantitatively how stress (both self - reported and measured with physiological arousal) is driven by... «irreducible uncertainty,» uncertainty about the state of the world that we can't control,» says Ross Otto, a neuroscientist at New York University.

Workers with the highest stress levels, for instance, had the lowest heart - rate variability, a measure of heart rhythms controlled by the body's autonomic nervous system.

By measuring jet heights as a function of time and velocity histories for a range of impact stresses, the scientists used several methods, including computer simulation, to estimate the yield stress for cerium following its reversion to the γ phase.

The global index is a standardized measure of vulnerability, by species of coral, to thermal stress.

That would suggest that a little stress, measured by cortisol in this experiment, may be associated with activities that toddlers can learn from.

By measuring ocean health in the same way at sites across the Caribbean, it's possible to understand where coastal environments are the most stressed out.

A giant earwax plug pulled from a blue whale recently revealed a fair bit of its life history, from its testosterone kicking in as it grew up to its times of stress (measured by cortisol levels) and contaminants it picked up from the waters it swam in.

Using the Canadian Work, Stress, and Health Study (CANWSH), a national sample of Canadian workers, the researchers measured proficiency, or mastery, by asking study participants how much they agree or disagree with statements such as: «You have little control over the things that happen to you» and «You often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life.»

If we are able to refine a test to diagnose lung cancer by measuring breath temperature, we will improve the diagnostic process by providing patients with a stress - free and simple test that is also cheaper and less intensive for clinicians.»

This technique, performed by LANL researcher Donald Brown, measures residual stresses deep within a material by detecting the diffraction of an incident neutron beam.

The researchers measured the stress levels of the animals by analysing the stress hormone metabolites (glucocorticoid metabolites GCM) in the collected faecal samples.

Immediately after the subjects viewed the slide shows, researchers drew their blood, exposed each sample to bacteria and then measured the levels of a substance known as interleukin - 6 (IL - 6), which is secreted by white blood cells as a response to stress or trauma.

Wemmer and Krishnamurthy aim to document methods of training and command: to assess the animals» welfare and to correlate methods of treatment with the working efficiency of the elephants and their degree of stress, as measured by the stress hormones ACTH and cortisol present in their urine.

He is studying the relationship between stress and health in children, and two of the best ways to gauge stress are by asking personal questions and by measuring a hormone called cortisol, found in saliva.

The idea that male humor might sometimes be bad for a relationship is supported by results from the Coping Humor Scale (CHS) test developed by Martin and psychologist Herbert Lefcourt of the University of Waterloo, which measures how much one uses humor to cope with life stress.

A resort vacation provides a strong and immediate impact on molecular networks associated with stress and immune pathways, in addition to short - term improvements in well - being, as measured by feelings of vitality and distress, say researchers.

Royer and colleagues tackled these quandaries by measuring how colloids with different concentrations of bacterium - sized spheres responded to stresses ranging from slight to large.

«The habitats of many chameleon species, and not only, are highly threatened by the ongoing deforestation in Madagascar and we need rapidly to expand our knowledge about the biodiversity, so that suitable conservation measures can be taken,» he stresses.

To measure the effect of estrogen therapy on working memory under stress, Ycaza Herrera recruited 42 women with an average age of 66 from the USC Early versus Late Intervention Trial with Estradiol led by Howard Hodis, a professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a coauthor of the new study.

Continuously monitoring plant «water stress» is particularly critical in arid regions and traditionally has been done by measuring soil moisture content or developing evapotranspiration models that calculate the sum of ground surface evaporation and plant transpiration.

Using a world - first scientific discovery, Australian researchers are developing a stress - test for coral, to measure how coral reefs are being impacted by pressures from climate cha...

Our findings first confirmed previous work with this model in demonstrating that compared to undefeated control animals, mice most susceptible to social defeat stress demonstrated a number of abnormalities in social avoidance, depression and anxiety as measured by routine test procedures.