Sentences with phrase «higher mean levels»

We expected that more parental resources (e.g., higher SES, better health) would be associated with patterns reflecting higher mean levels of parental support, but less differentiation across offspring.

Some consistency is seen for MDD, mainly higher mean levels.

However, follow - up analyses suggest that the intervention effect of PATHS ® was present for children with higher mean levels of verbal ability, but children in the intervention group with lower verbal ability were no different from comparison group children.

Not exact matches

Without wanting to sound too cynical, starting at low levels will mean challenges for salespeople in getting access to higher levels and long sales cycles.

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

Some 29 million Americans have some form of diabetes — and an additional 86 million of us (over the age of 20) have prediabetes, meaning that we have higher - than - normal levels of blood sugar.

If you were in the market to buy, he'd tell you that this machine has the highest suction rating J. D. Power gives, with «level suction,» which means the vacuum's suction will be as good in the tenth year as it does in the first.

By installing a defeat device, the urea was conserved sufficiently to meet this goal — although it meant belching illegally high levels of NOx.

«Meanwhile, the masses are convinced that master's degrees and doctorates are the way to wealth, mostly because they are trapped in the linear line of thought that holds them back from higher levels of consciousness... The wealthy aren't interested in the means, only the end.»

This means that you will save money by not having to hire another analyst and that the analysis will be higher level due to the lack of human error.

By this, I generally mean a shared Google spreadsheet (s) with a high - level multi-month performance summary, which allows all stakeholders to «dig down» and explore all the drivers that affect business growth.

This means figuring out what infrastructure they'll need to build, which design patents they will employ and what the finished project should look like from a high - level perspective.

That means that as gross domestic product (GDP) has expanded, the gains have flowed to corporate and owners» profits and to the state, which is delighted to collect higher taxes at every level of government, from property taxes to income taxes.

As it turns out, people with higher income levels are more likely than those of modest means to opt for HSA - qualified health plans, because they are less concerned by the potential out - of - pocket medical costs and more interested in the tax savings, according to Fronstin at EBRI.

But they also point out it could inflict further headaches on Employment Minister Jason Kenney if the set salary level is higher than the minimum wage, meaning temporary foreign workers would stand to make better money than Canadians.

Engagement levels are higher with video, meaning people tend to spend more time with them, and therefore they are seen as being more valuable.

«It means even high - level executives or employees are not exempt from accountability for such behavior,» she says.

This means managers need to understand the work product that their employees create, and it means a higher level of trust with employees.

CPI's jump in April means it has hit a level not seen since September 2013, while CPIH is higher than at any point since April 2012.

What all this means, of course, is that entrepreneurship has become an accepted occupational choice in the United States, occasioning a continuing boom of company building that fluctuates modestly with economic conditions but persists at a generally high level.

Depending on the business this may mean overseeing the warehouse or higher - level leadership on operations and logistics.

According to Wikipedia, strategy is from the Greek word meaning «art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship» and is defined as: a high - level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.

Today, the average home - price - to - rent ratio is at its highest level on record, which means renting may actually be more affordable than paying a mortgage.

At a broader level, that generally means companies selling commodity products are good candidates because commodities by definition are high - volume, low - margin products and services.

(High - level means that it's easy for people rather than machines to understand.)

If the ratio of the mean to median worker's hourly compensation in 2016 had been the same as it was in 1973, and mean compensation remained at its 2016 level, the median worker's pay would have been around 33 % higher.

Those who defend very high levels of compensation point out that the value of stocks and options depends on how successful the company is, which means that money gained that way rewards CEOs for helping make the company stronger.

Even so, today's sluggish economic recovery and high unemployment levels mean companies are under less pressure to keep employees happy, and under more pressure to boost profits.

The low level of interest rates means that even though debt levels are higher, the share of household income devoted to paying mortgage interest is lower than it has been for some time.

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.

The high level of automation on which most interbank and institutional trading in London now depends on means that the speeds of dealing are now reaching ever - swift execution.

While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.

Limiting things to only maths and science will mean you lose perspective on higher level functionality, for the same reason physics doesn't predict the outcome of a cricket match.

A larger government does not mean running deficits or a higher level of debt or debt burden.

The recent high - volume breakout above key resistance at the $ 55.50 level, followed by lighter volume consolidation, means that a volume - fueled move above the three - day high of $ 58.00 could present a near - term buying opportunity in this ETF:

Structural factors such as aging populations, poor productivity growth and high debt levels mean historically low government bond yields are likely here to stay.

Despite this high level of interest, 53 % of people worry that investing in line with their beliefs means earning less.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

So there's a few technical and mathematicals, I don't wan na get too deep into that, that's almost a whole episode on its own, but there are a few reasons why the CAPE can be sustained at a little bit higher level, and it doesn't have to go all the way down to... I mean, it went into the single digits, right?

When I bought my home a decade ago, my high credit and low debt levels meant that I still qualified for the best available interest rate at the time, even though I got an FHA loan with a small down payment.

That doesn't mean that the interest rate is going to suddenly rise to an obscenely high level though.

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.

Despite the difficulties endured during the era of post-Lehman austerity, commercial and private - sector debt levels are low: Nonperforming loans are below 5 % and the banking system, unlike those of Poland or Hungary, did not have to tackle the fallout from high levels of foreign currency loans, because low interest rates and a stable Czech koruna meant these weren't taken up in large quantities.

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.

Medicare tax continues to have no level of maximum taxable earnings in 2018, meaning all earnings, no matter how high, face Medicare taxes.

In addition, the higher debt - to - income limit means that people who already have significant levels of personal debt will find it easier to qualify for a conventional loan than an FHA loan.

Very few firms are actually listed, which means international investors looking to get a piece of the turnaround are pushing valuations to very high levels.

That's not to say you will never draw S / R levels at exact highs or lows, because you will, a lot, but it just means you don't always have to draw them that way and won't always want to.

Firms of growth stocks all trade at high valuation levels, meaning they usually have high price - to - earnings (P / E) ratios.