Sentences with phrase «found high levels of lead»

On a recent summer day, Chief Operating Officer Ben Reyes summons her to his office to help respond to a local television reporter who claims to have found high levels of lead paint on the playground equipment at an elementary school.

One health advocacy group said it found high levels of lead in dozens of products purchased around the country, including children's jewelry, backpacks and ponchos.

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This research supports the findings of other studies, which show that spending time in nature and increasing your exposure to sunlight can lead to higher levels of creativity.

Hard water can also have high levels of bicarbonate, which Hendon found could lead to more bitter flavors coming through.

In fact, researchers have found that the more you use Facebook, the worse you feel and that quitting the social network actually leads to higher levels of well - being.

When growth is most needed, when a country is suffering from excessively high levels of debt, it is hard to find many cases in which the aggressive implementation of reforms led to growth rates fast enough for the debtor to grow its way out of debt.

A recent study by University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found that high levels of emotional exhaustion that come from workplace anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.

Lead by The Centre for Innovation Studies (THECIS) and authored by University of Calgary professors Cooper Langford and Chad Saunders, this is the first time the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) methodology has been used to assess a post-secondary institution — finding a high level of innovation across campus.

Led by The Centre for Innovation Studies (THECIS) and authored by University of Calgary professors Cooper Langford and Chad Saunders, this is the first time the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) methodology has been used to assess a post-secondary institution — finding a high level of innovation across campus.

Cardinals appointed by the former pope to find the source of the leaks investigated high - level Vatican clergy involved in homosexual affairs who might have been vulnerable to blackmail, according to La Repubblica, a leading Italian newspaper.

In a study I led after Hurricane Katrina, we found that people who reported higher levels of spiritual surrender viewed God more positively and as being more in control.

Lucky for us, researchers took advantages of this opportunity to produce some interesting findings showing that, although fasted individuals may experience higher levels of fatigue during training, this perception does not necessarily lead to a lower performance or strength.

In a study of 20 women ages 40 - 70 with inflammatory osteoarthritis, the researchers found that drinking tart cherry juice twice daily for three weeks led to significant reductions in important inflammation markers - especially for women who had the highest inflammation levels at the start of the study.

Two years ago, Carlo Leifert, the leader of the review and a professor of ecological agriculture at Newcastle University in England, led a similar review, finding that organic fruits and vegetables had higher levels of some antioxidants than their conventionally grown counterparts.

He was also the Crop Team Leader for the HarvestPlus Program and led the efforts to develop rice varieties with higher levels of iron and zinc to combat two of the other critical micronutrient deficiencies that can also be found in rice consuming populations.

Gerard was also the Crop Team Leader for the HarvestPlus Program and leads the efforts to develop rice varieties with higher levels of iron and zinc to combat two of the other critical micronutrient deficiencies that can be found in rice consuming populations.

Our outstanding team of instructors is led by David Maley, a former San Jose Shark and Stanley Cup winner who founded Rollin» ice in 1996, as well as Travis Hawkins, a veteran professional roller hockey player who is in high demand as an instructor for youth and adults at all levels.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

Her organization has tested water in schools in D.C. and other cities and found levels of lead as high as 20,000 parts per billion, even in schools without lead pipes.

Consumer Reports tested samples of apple and grape juice and found that 10 percent of the samples had total arsenic levels that exceeded federal drinking - water standards of 10 parts per billion (ppb) and 25 percent of the samples had lead levels higher than the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) bottled - water limit of 5 ppb.

DECEMBER In light of articles like this one, stating that as recently as Nov. 20, hazardous toys (containing high lead levels and other dangers) were still being found on the shelves in stores like Target, itâ $ ™ s validating (but really no surprise to me) to read that Simple Retro Toys May Be Better For Children Than Fancy Electronic Toys.

The recent EPA study found that in 12 of 13 homes where there had been construction or a disturbance in the water line between 2005 and 2011, there were dangerously high levels of lead in the water.

Chasing a narrow notion of success has led to epic levels of cheating, drug use, anxiety, sleeplessness, loneliness and other ills among high school students, Pope has found in her research.

The highest lead levels were found in the changing pads of three bags from K - Mart including a Disney Baby «Winnie the Pooh» bag, a Baby Got Bag leopard print bag, and a «Baby Necessities» brand bag.

Some of the formula recalls in the last few years have been triggered by the discovery of high levels of phytoestrogen hormones, high levels of aluminum and lead, bacterial contamination, unsanitary production linked to gastrointestinal illness, salmonella, and glass particles mixed in with the powder Researchers in the Netherlands found dangerous bacteria, which can cause meningitis and sepsis, in 52.5 percent of the formula samples they cultured from 35 countries.

Criminal Complaint Accuses Nestlé India of High Lead Levels in Maggi Noodles Food inspectors say they found seven - times the permissible level of lead in a routine test By PREETIKA RANA Wall Street Journal, MaLead Levels in Maggi Noodles Food inspectors say they found seven - times the permissible level of lead in a routine test By PREETIKA RANA Wall Street Journal, Malead in a routine test By PREETIKA RANA Wall Street Journal, May...

In one recent test of 31 kinds of fidget spinners, the popular spinning toys, Rubin found nearly half had higher levels of lead than are legally allowed in products sold to children.

Rentals are targeted because the study found 80 percent of the children in Buffalo who test positive for high levels of lead in their blood live in rental properties.

What is likely (and this is just my opinion) is that the FBI got a warrant to conduct surveillance on a Trump campaign official (Paul Manafort, Carter Page, or Michael Flynn), as plenty of them were engaged in questionable business activity with high - level Russian officials, and that this led to something else being found.

Just days after Gov. Cuomo signed a bill requiring lead testing in schools, three water sources in a Vorheesville elementary school have been shut down after high levels of lead were found.

Borough Presidents Ruben Diaz Jr., Gale Brewer, Melinda Katz, James Oddo and Eric Adams recently penned a joint letter to the Department of Education calling on them to take immediate action on high lead levels that have been found in the water at many schools across the city.

Elizabethtown - Lewis Central is taking action to remediate the 10 sites found to contain high levels of lead following test results received on Nov. 15.

Higher lead levels were found in the blood of vultures in the hunting season and in hunting areas, suggesting that the source of the lead in their blood stream was lead bullets used for hunting.

We found that the kids who had the higher lead levels had significant slowing in their motor skills and significant reduction in their IQs — an average of eight points.

In the study, led by post-doctoral fellow Long N. Nguyen of Duke - NUS, researchers found that mice without the Mfsd2a transporter had brains a third smaller than those with the transporter, and exhibited memory and learning deficits and high levels of anxiety.

(Edwards was also previously involved in uncovering an earlier spike in lead levels in the drinking water of Washington, D.C.) Speaking with The Chronicle of Higher Education in an interview he found surprisingly «emotional,» Edwards adds that «[t] he pressures to get funding are just extraordinary.

Collecting blood samples from 137 vultures and 27 ravens, they found that lead levels in ravens were almost six times higher during hunting season, when they were exposed to animal remains tainted with lead ammunition, than the rest of the year.

One such study featured data finding a correlation between children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and high levels of lead in the blood.

From testing the water in just a minority of homes the Mississippi Department of Health found that samples had high lead content — above the 0.015 per liter level established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Exposure to higher UV - B levels led to more malformed pollen, the researchers found, with up to 13 percent of the pollen grains deformed under the highest conditions.

Another study led by colleague Gina Muckle found subtle deficits in memory in infants whose mothers had higher levels of PCBs; heavy metals such as lead and mercury appeared to lengthen the amount of time the babies needed to remember information and to reduce their ability to remember while distracted.

The researchers found high levels of resistance to the antibiotics Ciprofloxacin and Trimethoprim - Sulfamethoxazole (TMP - SMZ), which could lead to poor outcomes in the community as these are the commonly used antibiotics in outpatient settings for urinary tract infections.

«The effect can be partly explained by the higher overall fat content and the higher levels of omega - 3 fatty acids found in farm milk,» says Tabea Brick, a member of the research group led by Erika von Mutius, Professor of Pediatric Allergology at LMU and Head of the Department of Asthma and Allergies at Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital in Munich.

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, suggest that high levels of carbon monoxide in the seals» blood has a protective effect — echoing laboratory research on rats and mice that has found the gas has anti-inflammatory properties and can lead to better outcomes after organ transplant.

«We found high levels of PCBs in a region of the world where we wouldn't expect to find them,» says Rosalinda Gioia, an atmospheric pollution researcher at Lancaster University, UK, and the lead author of the report of the high levels in Environmental Science & Technology.

Not so, according to a field study led by CU - Boulder researchers, who found that higher levels of spruce beetle infestation did not lead to more ecologically severe fires.

Researchers found high levels of ammonium, selenium, lead and other toxic contaminants as well as high salts in the brine - laden wastewater, which primarily comes from hydraulically fractured oil wells in the Bakken region of western North Dakota.

The research team, led by Dr. Syed Shakeel Raza Rizvi, also looked at the effect of smoking marijuana on levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, in 10 marijuana addicts; they found that marijuana smokers have significantly higher levels of cortisol than non-smokers.

The findings, featured on the cover of the March 7 issue of Cell Reports, show that patients with high levels of the biomarker, CD151, have a poor prognosis, says lead author Mauricio Medrano, a molecular biologist and research associate at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.

In a new study led by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), researchers have found that there are also higher rates of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in individuals with low income and lower attained education levels in the United States.