Sentences with phrase «earlier than their counterparts»

Hautier's team found that a sloth's bottom neck vertebra, directly above the rib cage, ossifies earlier than its counterparts in other mammals.

The authors of the study, published in the fall issue of the journal Human - Wildlife Conflicts, concluded that the extra weight caused urban females to reproduce about three years earlier than their counterparts in the wild.

Not exact matches

As President Donald Trump prepares to welcome his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, for the first ever state visit of his presidency, Paris and Washington are closer now than they have been since the early days of the Iraq War.

Whether women more quickly become dissatisfied with climbing the corporate ladder or just can't ignore the drive to pursue their passions, female business owners began their entrepreneurial journeys earlier in life than their male counterparts.

They are also hungrier for success than their European counterparts who are pampered by the big clubs from an early age and don't retain the hunger for success.

Women who enter marriage in their late twenties or after are more likely than their counterparts who do so earlier to have completed 16 years of schooling or more, by a wide margin.

They found the massaged babies gained 50 percent more weight each day than their counterparts and were ready to leave the hospital six days earlier at an average savings of $ 10,000 a child.

«Age and maturity do not always rise proportionally, and some women in their early 40s may be healthier than their 20 - something counterparts, thanks to excellent lifestyle habits.

In fact, research shows that babies who sign tend to talk earlier than their non-signing counterparts.

James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.

The driving force behind the call for increasing legislative pay, which hasn't changed since early 1999, has come from downstate lawmakers whose cost of living is considerably higher than that of their upstate counterparts.

Educated male NYC residents earn more early in their careers than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.

He explained that since the Ekiti State governor's tenure and his counterpart's in Osun State will expire on 15th October and 26th November 2018 respectively, Section 178 (2) of the country's 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Section 25 (8) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) had stipulated that election into the office of governor should be held not earlier than 150 days and not later than 30 days before the expiration of the term of office of the last holder.

The report also finds that women scientists in the Enwise countries, which have been taking part in European activities since the early 1990s, are more proactive than their Western counterparts.

On average, girls on job training programmes had sex for the first time when they were 17 years and 1 month, 7 months earlier than their high - school counterparts.

The pretreated rodents were 60 and 40 percent less likely to develop benign papillomas (an early sign of progressing cancer), depending on how the cancer - causing agent was applied, and had far fewer tumors than their untreated counterparts.

Even during recent years when a La Niña (the cold water counterpart to El Niño) has been in place, the year turned out warmer than El Niño years of earlier decades.

He found that to begin with juvenile birds abandoned cooperative breeding, leaving home earlier and breeding sooner than their counterparts back on Cousin.

Indeed, earlier this year a UK study found that female graduates earn around 8 per cent less than their male counterparts when they start work with an engineering company.

Swedish PhDs traditionally have not completed their theses until their early 30s (although this is a situation which is changing) so are generally older than their foreign peers, and postdoctoral fellows have more independence than their counterparts in other countries.

In work that confirmed earlier research by others, Ross presented compelling evidence showing that rats fed restricted diets not only lived longer than their fully nourished counterparts but also suffered from fewer diseases.

They also matured up to 5 years earlier than their modern counterparts and grew to twice their current size of 100 kilograms.

By starting treatment for high blood pressure earlier and being more aggressive, physicians in the United States control hypertension significantly better than their counterparts in western Europe report researchers from Temple, the University of Chicago, and Stanford in the Jan. 22, 2007, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

From early studies done in the 1970s and 1980s, we already knew that those who exercised regularly were not only less likely to be depressed, they were also less likely to ever become depressed than their inactive counterparts.

Put another way: individuals with high SAT scores from earlier cohorts were less likely to pursue a teaching position than their lower - scoring counterparts, but for the 2008 cohort, high - and low - scoring individuals were about equally likely to pursue a teaching job.

In states with earlier cutoff dates, eligible children who enter on time (and not a year late or early) are, on average, older than their counterparts in states with later cutoffs.

Here's just one example: After almost a year in Head Start (with an average cost of about $ 7,700 in 2005), children were able to name only about two more letters than their non — Head Start counterparts, and they did not show any significant gains on much more important measures, such as early math learning, vocabulary, oral comprehension (more indicative of later reading comprehension), motivation to learn, or social competencies, including the ability to interact with peers and teachers.

And earlier this month a new study revealed that England is rising up the international literacy league table, with English nine - year - olds now significantly better readers than their American, Canadian and Australian counterparts.

In Holt, Michigan, where two schools open early, students «are learning the current year's content quicker than their counterparts on the traditional calendar,» Superintendent David Hornak told the News.

Cami Anderson, former superintendent of Newark public schools, talked about the way that current discipline policies negatively impact students of color, referencing research that shows that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts as early as kindergarten.

That's a lot less than the $ 1.35 billion the administration asked for, and even less than the $ 800 million provided by a measure approved earlier this month by the Senate subcommittee's House counterpart.

To be priced between INR 2.5 lakhs to INR 4.5 lakhs, the new Hyundai Santro appears larger than its earlier counterpart as it is based on Hyundai Fluidic 2.0 design language on which the Verna, Elantra and Grand i10 are also positioned.

This is the counterpart to the Chase Freedom Credit Card mentioned earlier; it is more attainable than its cash back sibling.

Of course that happens, but the vast majority of outdoor cats die an earlier death than their indoor counterparts.

but British Airways has been busy devaluing its loyalty program and, following the latest devaluation earlier this year, their own flyers earn less for flying on British Airways than their AAdvantage counterparts... and that's quite strange if you think about it.

My first time through the game I did pretty badly, but the second time I won (if you play the one - player version you have to win more than a certain amount of money that your counterpart won earlier while answering the same questions; you can also play against each other or in teams), so the mix of questions is hard enough that you won't get all of them right but easy enough that you won't feel like you're watching Jeopardy.

The Saturn didn't lose because of an early release; it lost because it was overpriced and lacked enough compelling third - party software due to costly development kits that required more development time than its PlayStation counterpart.

Earlier expansions that were released in China either followed 8 months (World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade) or 23 months (World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King) later than their Western counterparts.

What American painters embraced, instead, decades earlier and more enthusiastically than many of their European counterparts, was the ascendance and importance of color.

Despite being less brash, less kitschy, more romantic and more nostalgic than its counterpart across the Atlantic, British Pop - art during the early and mid-1960s was strongly influenced by a US pop culture which it regarded as being more up - to - date and more exciting than the home - grown variety.

As you may recall, in a 5 - 4 decision back in 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that Ledbetter's claim against her employer for paying her less than her male counterparts because of her gender was time barred because her present lower pay arose out of salary decisions made years earlier, well outside of the 180 - day statute of limitations for discriminatory employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

That China's legal services industry is at an earlier stage of development than many of their Western counterparts is another potential sticking point.

Besides, early risers are more proactive and better positioned for career success than their night - owl counterparts, according to one study.

Individuals with pre-existing health conditions or poor habits like tobacco use tend to have significantly lower life expectancies than their healthy counterparts, increasing their likelihood of early death and making them comparatively expensive to insure.

Although many people believe that mobile homes burn more easily than conventional homes, mobile homes built since 1976 and those upgraded to meet HUD standards are significantly safer than their earlier counterparts.

Although many people believe that mobile homes burn more easily than conventional homes do, manufactured homes built since 1976 and those upgraded to meet recent HUD standards are significantly safer than their earlier counterparts are.

As mentioned earlier, BOX is not promoted as a high - end router, but it proved to be very efficient, far better than its counterparts.

She found that at early - stage startups, women make about 4 percent less than their male counterparts.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

Results Adolescents maltreated early in life were absent from school more than 1.5 as many days, were less likely to anticipate attending college compared with nonmaltreated adolescents, and had levels of aggression, anxiety / depression, dissociation, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, social problems, thought problems, and social withdrawal that were on average more than three quarters of an SD higher than those of their nonmaltreated counterparts.