Sentences with phrase «higher activity levels of»

The toddler challenge Many mothers find that the higher activity level of their nursing toddlers brings about changes in breastfeeding.

Not only does nature invite us to indulge our senses, but the high activity levels of traveling and touring while on vacation often result in the need for rejuvenation.

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Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Dr. Laurie Helgoe cites several studies in which researchers compared the two and found that introverts generally have higher levels of electrical activity in the cerebral cortex, which may explain why they limit external stimulation so as to maintain an appropriate level of arousal.

«The result has been a high level of promotional activity in the marketplace competing for consumer attention.»

In the Middle East («MEA») Area, McDermott experienced high levels of both fabrication activity and utilization of marine assets, as the majority of the Saudi Aramco Long Term Agreement II («LTA II») platforms left the Jebel Ali yard to be installed.

Working with the app and equipped with a grip of high - tech parts (a microprocessor, an accelerometer, a lithium - polymer battery and Bluetooth, 2G and 3G cellular components), the collar monitors your dog's overall health and activity levels, lets you remotely play with and train your dog using customizable programs and even helps you keep your dog within an invisible «geofence» perimeter around your yard.

As astronomers continue to closely monitor the high - level activity occurring on the surface of the sun, the White House has revealed plans that would respond to such an event.

Shadow banking refers to activities performed by financial firms outside the formal banking sector, and therefore subject to lower levels of regulatory oversight and higher risks.

Bad debt and high levels of shadow banking activities are among the country's most worrisome risks.

«However, if we frame this from a multi-year perspective, we're still at a relatively high level of deal and funding activity, so the sky is not necessarily falling although the forecast is uncertain.»

(Updates prices, market activity and comments to U.S. market open, new byline, changes dateline, previous LONDON) NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar was little changed in choppy trading on Thursday as investors took profits from a rally that sent the greenback to its highest levels of the year and awaited Fridays payrolls data for April.

It's ranked fourth in the world in scientific activity, in terms of scientific publications per million citizens, and has some of the highest levels of R&D investment globally.

«This flu season continues to be extremely challenging and intense, with very high levels of office visits for flu and hospitalization rates, all indications that flu activity is high and likely to continue for several more weeks,» Schuchat said.

The Aussie dollar could see a spurt higher as recent activity shows it testing a long - term resistance level of 81.

As well as improving motivation levels, team building activities can lead to higher levels of loyalty.

The overall level of activity is up more than 67 percent from a year earlier and about a third ahead of 2007, the previous high - water mark for takeovers.

«All Americans should be alarmed by Russia's actions,» Obama said in a statement, noting that Russia's «data theft and disclosure activities could only have been directed by the highest levels of the Russian government.»

The U.S. and Australia were among the nations with the highest levels of activity, each at around 11 percent.

Non-compensation expenses of $ 2.5 billion reflected higher levels of business activity and costs associated with the U.K. bank levy.

In North America, we see several meaningful differences from prior cycles, including a high level of oil - directed activity.»

Non-compensation expenses of $ 1.5 billion increased from $ 1.2 billion a year ago primarily reflecting higher levels of business activity and costs associated with the U.K. bank levy.

The bank said it benefited from «higher levels of client activity» during the quarter.

This news comes only a couple of weeks following the release of the August global manufacturing PMI, which shows that manufacturing activity around the world accelerated to its highest level in over six years.

Apache plans to continue an elevated level of activity in the Permian Region during 2018, while continuing to balance capital investments between its larger development project at Alpine High and focused exploration and development programs on other core assets in its Permian region.

Most had high levels of foreign investor activity during the last cycle.

Countries can force up economic growth rates (actual the growth rate of economic activity) simply by mobilizing savings and forcing up investment rates, but ultimately their inability to absorb continuously the higher levels of capital mean that they can not push real wealth per capita beyond some fairly hard constraint represented by their institutional inability to absorb investment.

Ethereum's ecosystem is experiencing the highest level of activity in its history.

This week, a new report published by Thomson Reuters pointed to even higher levels of domestic activity.

According to the National Association of Realtors ®, «Pending home sales inched higher for the second consecutive month in March, but unrelenting inventory constraints once again kept overall activity below year ago levels.»

Investors that buy and sell all the time, thinking high levels of activity add value, don't allow themselves to learn the nature of compounding.

In a similar vein, the Markit composite eurozone PMI, which combines measures of manufacturing and services activity, has continued to indicate healthy expansion, rising in June to its highest level in four years.

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.

Although a large part of this activity probably reflects the desire to complete construction prior to the introduction of the GST, other factors have contributed to the strong demand for housing, notably the relatively high levels of affordability throughout 1999.

Simultaneously, as low - return activities attract excessive levels of undeserved capital, high - return activities are starved for capital.

As we have argued before, structural factors may mean prices take longer to respond to the current higher levels of activity than would normally be expected at this point in the economic cycle.

It is crucial that you know that there is a high level of administrative work involved in the industry, such as the processing of investment activities that need more labour input than capital input.

Structural factors may mean prices take longer to respond to the current higher levels of activity than would normally be expected at this point in the economic cycle.

have earned over $ 2 billion to date, with over 80 % of miners performing multiple mining value chain activities, half of those able to influence protocol development at high levels across all mining operations.

In addition, residential investment increased solidly in the quarter, to be up by 6.6 per cent on its year - ago level and forward - looking indicators suggest a continuation of high levels of activity in the housing sector.

As Bill Hester recently observed, the current level of economic activity has had a much higher probability of being recessionary in periods when the S&P 500 was also weak — for example, below its level of 6 months earlier, or below its 12 - month moving average.

Bitcoin miners alone have earned over $ 2 billion to date, with over 80 % of miners performing multiple mining value chain activities, half of those able to influence protocol development at high levels across all mining operations.

This is the highest level of hiring activity since October, 2007.

This volatility is likely to lead to a situation in which companies with a high level of risk meet the threshold conditions for inclusion in indices solely as a result of exceptional trading, even before they have any business activity whose results can be evaluated.»

In recent months, as discussed in the section on Domestic Economic Activity above, housing loan approvals have stabilised after the strong growth recorded earlier, but they remain at a high enough level to generate continued strong growth in the value of loans outstanding.

The strength appears to have been sustained into the final quarter of the year, and leading indicators suggest that residential building activity will remain at historically high levels as a share of GDP in early 2004.

The ACCI - Westpac survey of manufacturers reported some softening in business conditions in the March quarter, with the composite index of activity and the measure of capacity utilisation both falling from very high levels, to be closer to their long - run averages.

In line with this, the Master Builders Association construction survey indicates that large backlogs of work to be done can be expected to sustain building activity at high levels over the next six months.

Levels of «intrapreneurship» are quite high among students and faculty, There is a great deal of innovative activity going on with community partners.

Similarly, the ACCI - Westpac composite index of expectations for activity, comprising survey measures of employment, new orders, output and overtime, has recently risen to the highest level in the 35 - year history of the series (Graph 37).