Sentences with phrase «decline in activity levels»

Not exact matches

Recent data suggests weak global demand for Chinese - made goods, declining levels of factory activity and a slip in the amount of freight being carried by the China's rail network.

Forward - looking indicators of labour demand in the construction sector suggest a significant decline from current levels, in line with the expected decline in construction activity noted above.

Activity is thus likely to have held up at a relatively high level in the early part of 2004, but is expected to decline thereafter.

Despite the pronounced fall in approvals in the first half of the year, the level of activity is not expected to decline in the second half of 2003 given the large amount of work still in the construction pipeline.

In the non-manufacturing sector, «Business activity and employment level declined at slower rate; while new orders and raw materials inventories declining at faster rate».

As smartphones decline in cost and adoption rates continue to rise, people will come to engage in political activity on their mobile phones more and more frequently — meaning campaigns will be seeking mere snippets of time from supporters on the go, but they may gain access with an unprecedented level of immediacy.

Independent of FEV1 measurements, sustained physical inactivity was associated with greater declines in 6 - minute walk distance results and fat - free mass compared to some level of physical activity.

It was found that complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for human skin.

By the 1950s, a declining mayfly population in the western basin of Lake Erie indicated widespread anthropogenic eutrophication (human activities resulting in more nutrients such as phosphorus in the water, leading in turn to decreased oxygen levels).

This species showed a significant decline in calling activity over four years, but in the fifth year the calling rate recovered to the original level (a dynamic which is common in many species, but often difficult to measure).

Its levels declined again in late - stage patients with full dementia, closely mirroring the pattern of microglia activity during the course of the disease.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

The researchers» findings suggest that Nav1.1 levels in special regulatory nerve cells called parvalbumin cells, or PV cells, are essential to generate healthy brain - wave activity — and that problems in this process contribute to cognitive decline in AD - mice and possibly in patients with Alzheimer's.

Context Although levels of physical activity and aerobic capacity decline with age and the prevalence of obesity tends to increase with age, the independent and joint associations among fitness, adiposity, and mortality in older adults have not been adequately examined.

The campaign, called 50 Sports in 50 Weeks, is designed to tackle childhood obesity and the declining activity levels in kids and families and as part of the tour, took in Dublin, Cork and Tipperary.

Spending time outside not only increases daily activity levels, which in and of itself increases circulation and decreases stagnation and lethargy, but also uplifts mood and motivation, which can decline during the dark and depressing, often sedentary, Winter time.

Lactase activity declines to low levels in mid-childhood and becomes absent in many individuals.

But a review of the literature in The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality, and Ideology by Michael Gard and Jan Wright asserts that there is no evidence that food intake levels have increased in industrialized countries, or that activity levels have declined.

A study in the August 2013 issue of the «British Journal of Nutrition» reports that when you do not eat breakfast, your energy is reduced and physical activity levels decline.

The decline in our public playground provision is hugely significant and is already affecting physical activity levels among children across the country.

Led by an 11 % decline in refinance applications, the MBA measure of mortgage activity is now at the lowest level since the year 2000.

In light of the declines in the prices of energy and other commodities and the weaker prospects for economic activity, the Committee expects inflation to moderate further in coming quarters to levels consistent with price stabilitIn light of the declines in the prices of energy and other commodities and the weaker prospects for economic activity, the Committee expects inflation to moderate further in coming quarters to levels consistent with price stabilitin the prices of energy and other commodities and the weaker prospects for economic activity, the Committee expects inflation to moderate further in coming quarters to levels consistent with price stabilitin coming quarters to levels consistent with price stability.

Although this is a similar percentage decline compared to CREA's previous forecast -LRB--7.1 per cent), the downward revision in national activity levels for 2010 means that the forecast level for sales activity in 2011 has also been revised downward.

Although advances in veterinary care, better nutrition and better educated owners have helped improve the quantity and quality of these years, studies reveal that senior cats continue to struggle with weight as the result of reduced activity levels and a steady decline in senses, nutrient absorption and fat digestion.

And, «There has indeed been a slight decline in global ozone levels, probably due to sunspot activity and natural dynamics in the atmosphere.»

So if the second half of the 20th century had the highest average absolute levels of solar activity for «several thousand years» (Solanki) and at least 350 + years (Lean), then this could well have been a significant cause of late 20th century warming (building in all the «time lags» one might envision), despite the fact that the absolute level of solar activity was declining over this period.

New paper predicts solar activity will decline over 21st century to average Holocene levels — Published in Climate of the Past

The change in trend coincided with the declining levels of solar activity after the peak of solar cycle 23.

We have seen that happen in the form of increased jet stream meridionality since about 2000, as the level of solar activity declined in the transition from active solar cycle 23 to much less active solar cycle 24.

Secondly, the decline in lake level since then matches the decline in solar cycle amplitudes (but not overall activity as noted on my blog yesterday — link above).

He added that it's not outside the realm of possibility that this level of PTAB activity will continue, a viewpoint which would undermine the notion that PTAB's recent decline in activity has «flushed the hairball» of bad patents out of the U.S. patent system.

In humans, the end product of the HPA axis is cortisol, a steroid hormone that follows a diurnal rhythm — increasing early in the morning, peaking approximately 30 minutes after waking, and declining throughout the day, reaching near - zero levels at night.14 This diurnal pattern is not present at birth but begins to emerge around 3 months of age15, 16 and is fully entrained to daylight cycles by age 2 years.17 Children experiencing social deprivation or maltreatment show departures from this typical profile of diurnal HPA activity, suggestive of chronic stresIn humans, the end product of the HPA axis is cortisol, a steroid hormone that follows a diurnal rhythm — increasing early in the morning, peaking approximately 30 minutes after waking, and declining throughout the day, reaching near - zero levels at night.14 This diurnal pattern is not present at birth but begins to emerge around 3 months of age15, 16 and is fully entrained to daylight cycles by age 2 years.17 Children experiencing social deprivation or maltreatment show departures from this typical profile of diurnal HPA activity, suggestive of chronic stresin the morning, peaking approximately 30 minutes after waking, and declining throughout the day, reaching near - zero levels at night.14 This diurnal pattern is not present at birth but begins to emerge around 3 months of age15, 16 and is fully entrained to daylight cycles by age 2 years.17 Children experiencing social deprivation or maltreatment show departures from this typical profile of diurnal HPA activity, suggestive of chronic stress.

Providing after school activities is a community level approach for reducing the decline in physical activity of girls as they reach early adolescence.

Pending home sales declined in October but remained at a healthy level of activity and are above year - over-year levels for the second straight month.

Seeing a decline in portfolio and corporate - level activity, RCA Senior Vice President Jim Costello notes that «in 2016, people pulled back from making the biggest bets.»

In any event, the cost of capital is on the rise, meaning lower investment, little job creation, declining investment levels and fewer economic activities.

To be sure, all activity, sale or lease, has occurred at significantly lower price levels, with prices and rents down 10 to 15 % in medical properties, albeit significantly less than declines in the market for general office space.

In addition, there's also hope for California's foreclosure activity: from August 2012 to August 2016, it declined 75 % and is now below pre-financial crisis levels.