Sentences with phrase «changes in activity while»

But making use of functional MRI for imaging the brain allowed the researchers to reveal changes in activity while being stimulated, with the flow of information being potentially modulated by the electrical current.

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Listeners tune in and out, change stations, and are often engaged in some other activity while the radio is on, so your message needs to appear often if they're going to hear it.

But here's the good news: Researchers biopsied the participants» muscle cells and found that while the under - 30 group that did interval training experienced changed activity levels in 274 genes, those in the plus - 64 group experienced changes in activity among nearly 400 genes.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changeIn the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changein years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changein China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changein the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Leclerc writes: «The Aristotelian doctrine is that the physical existent, by virtue of its inherent activity, is necessarily involved in internal change, while... the denial of internal change in matter is the one feature of the modern conception of matter which has persisted until this century» (NPE 257f.).

While process theism welcomes expressions of God's dynamic activity, I for one am hesitant ever to endorse any change in God's values not dictated by a change in the objective situation.

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

Enzyme activity can be beneficial in bread baking in that it brings about a depth of flavor to the dough while lending textural changes through the fermentation which might not occur as quickly otherwise.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

While F1 already had a Fan Zone at races, bringing in new activities and changes is certainly an encouraging step forward.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.&raquIn an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.&raquin which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.&raquin which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.&raquin instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.»

With the prospect of my husband going back to work and being home all day with an 18 month old and a newborn, I needed fresh, exciting toys every day of the week to keep the toddler busy while I nursed baby, diapered baby, changed baby's outfit for the fourth time in a day, etc. (Meanwhile I kept baby busy, happy and learning during her awake times with activities from my infant play book, Begin With A Blanket)

While it may be some time before you actually feel any movement (somewhere between weeks 16 and 25), any significant changes in activity moving forward should be immediately reported to your doctor.

Melaye, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Abuja, noted that change mantra was not about the APC as a political party but about the way Nigerians conduct themselves and operate government agencies and activities.

A Washington Post-Stanford University poll in June found 77 percent of Americans say rising global temperatures are at least partly the result of human activity, while 22 percent said that climate change is the result only of natural causes.

The primary accounts providing funding for the National Ignition, Z, and Omega facilities would see only modest changes, while exascale - related activities would increase in accord with DOE's prioritization of exascale.

While IQ is not easily changed, a solution could be to find effective interventions to increase some personality traits — doing well in social interactions, for example, or being industrious — or interest in activities related to the arts and sciences, Damian said.

Roi Cohen Kadosh at the University of Oxford and colleagues applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-- a way of changing the voltage across neurons that makes them more or less likely to fire — to the right parietal cortex while simultaneously using the opposite current to subdue activity in the left.

«We saw strong changes in the electromagnetic wave frequency while they were interacting with the electrons and strong changes in the electrons» activity as well,» Konstantinov said.

Scientists already employ fMRI, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for brain activity, to scan the brains of restrained monkeys, but Berns wanted to train dogs to willingly enter the machine and learn simple things, such as associating a hand signal with a reward of a hot dog, all the while staying still enough to collect interpretable brain scans.

These cognitive impairments may go unnoticed by physicians assessing patients with Parkinson's who are lying down or seated, and could lead to difficulty in daily activities performed while standing and walking, such as tracking conversations, counting change and interpreting traffic signals.

The number of daily steps taken was not associated with changes in telomere length, while an increase in moderate intensity physical activity was linked to a shortening in telomere length, although this was not significant.

In the UK, concerns were raised about the room for manoeuvre those working in schools feel they have and, while youth and community workers seemed more able to develop activities based on the training materials, it was found that the buy - in of senior managers was crucial to secure changIn the UK, concerns were raised about the room for manoeuvre those working in schools feel they have and, while youth and community workers seemed more able to develop activities based on the training materials, it was found that the buy - in of senior managers was crucial to secure changin schools feel they have and, while youth and community workers seemed more able to develop activities based on the training materials, it was found that the buy - in of senior managers was crucial to secure changin of senior managers was crucial to secure change.

Through a combination of a variety of information gathering activities and Committee deliberations, the Committee has concluded that the nation's need for these scientists remains strong and that the NRSA program, while small compared to the many other sources of doctoral and postdoctoral support, is enormously powerful in terms of its ability to change research emphases and to attract the highest quality individuals to research careers in the basic biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences.

Once the bacterial cell signaling protein cagA reaches the host cytosol, it is capable of altering subsequent generations of progenitor cells, leading to the development of cancer through changes in mitotic activity, apoptosis, cellular assembly, and signaling.26 Although it should be noted that while the presence of the cagA protein doubles the risk of gastric cancer, cagA - negative strands also increase the risk of distal gastric cancer.27 Additional H pylori virulence factors include babA2, which encodes bacterial adhesion with gastric epithelial cells, and vacuolating cytotoxin A, which is encoded by the gene vacA.28, 29 H pylori strains carrying some combination of the babA2, cagA, and vacA genes were associated with the highest risk of developing intestinal metaplasia.

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

While the new formula, which accounts for both temperature and salinity, can be used to forecast tropical cyclone intensity in real time, it can also be applied to the results of climate modeling to provide scientists with a framework to evaluate changes in future tropical cyclone activity.

Methods: While a few studies in the past investigated the influence of climate phenomena such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Madden - Julian Oscillation on the inter-annual variability of tropical cyclones in the post-monsoon Bay of Bengal, changes in long - term cyclone activity are less well understood.

While the Advisory Group members applauded the performance of the activity, they also reminded the Board that the SKA project may change the landscape of radio astronomy in Europe.

While my initial interest lay in the chemico - physical properties of MR imaging probes, I became increasingly involved in their application to functional MRI (fMRI), a method to map hemodynamic responses in the brain as a surrogate for changes in the underlying neuronal activity.

While previous research has focused on biomechanical differences as the main source of these problems, a new study suggests another distinction that could play a role: changes across the menstrual cycle in nerves that control muscle activity.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

Insulin resistance is an early stage in the diabetes development, and while several studies have demonstrated that it can be reduced with physical activity, this study estimated the impact on insulin sensitivity from long - term changes in daily step count.

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

In animal studies, changes include decreased body temperature, less spontaneous activity, and lowered resting metabolic rate (the amount of energy the body uses while at rest.)

So if you rock your ring while participating in certain activities that put pressure on these metals, you risk changing their shape.

As a funder engaged in new and often - complex activity to affect systems change, learning while doing is paramount.

Future researchers will need to address the challenge, finding meaningful ways to document student achievement while documenting formative measures of progress such as parents» understanding of instructional goals, teachers» priorities and their practice, teacher understanding, and surface - level changes in materials and activities.

Researchers found widespread changes in brain function, meaning greater amounts of executive control in the students that engaged in physical activity while participating in the afterschool program.

The changed investing practices of leading investment banks reinforces the tendency toward the creation of IPOs Before the late 1970s - early 1980s, most investment banks worked only for fees, while employing their own capital only in their own investment banking / broker dealer activities.

However, they apparently did see some change in composition of other activity in the economy; this statement noted that «growth of household spending moderated from its strong fourth - quarter pace, while business fixed investment continued to grow strongly.»

While the forecasted trend for activity has not changed in CREA's revised forecast, it has been pulled forward, with the fourth quarter of 2009 marking the peak of national activity.

While degenerative arthritic changes are inevitable with this ligament injury, dogs that have this surgery are likely to be at least 75 to 80 % of normal, and most owners are satisfied that the procedure helps a pet dog to perform normal activities and be relatively comfortable in the long - term.

Now that I'm building my career and my business, focusing on my health and fitness, throw in some social activities all while being a new father, changing nappies and supporting my daughters growth, TIME IS PRECIOUS!

In the past week there has been a hive of activity surrounding Virgin Atlantic, Delta, Air France / KLM and China Eastern and, while the individual details aren't really important, the net result sees Virgin Atlantic owned by Delta (49 % — no change), Air France / KLM (31 % — big change!)

While the story in Mafia II was very much on rails, taking players along a tight storyline leaving exploration around Empire Bay almost non-existent, Hangar 13 have change things up a little in Mafia III with more of an open - world experience while filling more of the map up with side quests and optional activiWhile the story in Mafia II was very much on rails, taking players along a tight storyline leaving exploration around Empire Bay almost non-existent, Hangar 13 have change things up a little in Mafia III with more of an open - world experience while filling more of the map up with side quests and optional activiwhile filling more of the map up with side quests and optional activities.

While it is «likely» that anthropogenic influences are behind the changes in cold days and warm days, there is only «medium confidence» that they are behind changes in extreme rainfall events, and «low confidence» in attributing any changes in tropical cyclone activity to greenhouse gas emissions or anything else humanity has done.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

While we know that treeline can be climatically «elastic» in the space of both latitude and altitude, i.e., moving north and south and up and down with topography, this paper raises important issues about rates of ecological adaption, rates that are being tested by contemporary rates of change forced by human activities.