Sentences with phrase «highest average concentrations»

Not surprisingly, highly populated regions such as the Los Angeles, Riverside and Houston areas, where the climate is sunny for much of the year and the air mass is relatively stable, had the highest average concentrations of ozone, ranging from 62.5 to 104 ppb.
Sunbelt cities like Los Angeles, Riverside, Calif., and Houston, with their seemingly endless sunny days, gridlocked urban sprawl and heat - trapping stagnant air masses, contain the highest average concentrations of ozone, according to a 2009 study by University of California, Berkeley scientists.
In fact, Antarctica has the highest average concentration of research personnel in the world — scientists make up 100 % of its population (which is still quite low with only 4000 «inhabitants» during the summer and about 1000 during the winter).
Consumers Union tested white and brown rice grown in a variety of locations to determine arsenic content; brown rice had a higher average concentration than white.

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The answer, among all the spices they studied was: «Pure turmeric powder had the highest curcumin concentration, averaging 3.14 % by weight.»
Its average concentration in milk is 0.01 g / 100 ml but lactoferrin is found in higher concentration in whey protein products: 30 to 100 mg / l of sweet whey.
For me, An average player with high Stamina levels, who gives 100 % commitment and concentration for the team, Is far better than an expensive brand with an ego, who only plays, when it suits him.
In Liverpool Coutinho, Lallana, Sturridge (if he avoids injuries), Mane, Clyne, Wijnaldum, Can and even Mignolet (with highest concentration) are the players who have potential to be world class.Don't even deny it.Listen I fear Klopp bringing Liverpool to its best because he's selling a lot of the average players and by next season with some world class additions they are gonna spell disaster.
On average, smokers have 4 - 5 times higher blood cadmium concentrations and 2 - 3 times higher kidney cadmium concentrations than non-smokers.
An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.
The water concentration reaches a maximum average of around 500 to 750 parts per million in the higher latitudes.
Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that in the two decades since Dutch farmers began using the pesticide on a variety of crops, the birds» population declined by an average of 3.5 percent annually in farmlands where local water levels contained high concentrations of the chemical.
Men appear to be making less sperm on average, several studies report, and what is made tends to be subfertile, which the World Health Organization describes as sperm that swim poorly, take on a funny shape, fail to reach concentrations higher than 15 million per milliliter, or otherwise struggle to impregnate an egg.
For example, the researchers found higher - than - average concentrations of water in lunar volcanic deposits near the Moon's equator, where background water in the soil is scarce.
The FDA Monitoring Program data set, which includes only 19 spiny dogfish specimens, puts the average mercury concentration in dogfish over 0.5 parts per million — high enough to result in an advisory for women of reproductive age and children in many states.
The odds of failed implantation doubled among women with the highest blood level of PCB - 153 (the form of the chemical, on average, present in the highest concentration) compared to women with the lowest levels.
The men in the study had much higher concentrations of DDE and PCBs than the U.S. average.
Four years ago, Julia Sacher and her colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH in Toronto already succeeded in showing that, in the first week postpartum, the concentration of the enzyme monoamine oxidase A in the brain is on average 40 percent higher than in women who had not recently given birth.
During some years, up to as many as 12,000 green sea turtles aggregate around Raine Island to lay eggs on the beach, which offers scientists a natural laboratory to compare the movements and behaviours of the turtles and tiger sharks during a time when sea turtle concentrations are higher than average.
In January 2005, for example, Ohio State University geophysicist Ralph von Frese and his colleagues noticed a concentration of higher - than - average - density material in the rock about a mile under the surface of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
About 460 million years ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ranged somewhere between 14 and 22 times the current level, and the average global temperature was about 5 °C higher than it is now.
This will permit the average terrestrial concentrations of uranium and thorium to be 2 to 4.7 times higher than that observed in chondrites.
R. S. Sharma, a public health specialist on the panel from the Indian Council of Medical Research, writes in the report that, «the hot tropical climate of the country, the low body mass index; low fat content of an average Indian as compared to European countries and high environmental concentration of radio frequency radiation may place Indians under risk of radio frequency radiation adverse effect.»
New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.
Average concentrations of gold in the leaves are much higher than normal, but individual particles of the metal are still very small, few, and far between.
Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.
The findings, published in the journal Environmental Research, show a relatively high average mercury concentration in umbilical cord blood (8.2 micrograms per litre), with a 24 % of samples exceeding the WHO's provisional tolerable weekly intake equivalent.
The fighters at surgical risk in this study had higher - than - average concentrations of eosinophils that would still be considered normal.
The analysis revealed that average concentrations of each class of POP were significantly higher in the 1980s than is found today, with a drop in concentration of 15 - 30 percent per decade.
On average, compared to women with lower concentrations of these metabolites, women with higher concentrations had a 10 % reduced probability of successful fertilization, 31 % reduced probability of implantation of the embryo, and a 41 % and 38 % decrease in clinical pregnancy (fetal heartbeat confirmed by ultrasound) and live birth.
After just two weeks, concentration of salt in the sweat had plummeted from around 100 millimolar — a typical value when the CFTR protein is dysfunctional — to about 50 to 60 millimolar, a bit higher than average but below the diagnostic bar for CF.
Larsen and her colleagues found that ozone concentrations were on average 11.1 percent higher on days when plumes were seen than on clear days.
Washington wines had the highest arsenic concentrations, averaging 28 parts per billion, while Oregon's had the lowest, averaging 13 parts per billion.
For O3, the design value represents the three - year average of the fourth highest daily 8 - hour maximum ozone concentration.
Mouse allergen concentrations in the homes of both groups were equally high, with average concentrations of 6.1 and 6.6 micrograms per gram in bedroom floor dust for IPM plus education and education only groups, respectively.
Linear regression fits to these data were calculated using the R Statistical Software package.22 The data for the San Francisco Bay air basin was queried in a similar manner as above, but instead of recording days above the federal standard the daily average concentrations at the highest monitoring site in the basin are reported by month through October 2017.
The figure below shows that, of the men with a high or average concentration of all those hormones in their blood, about 90 percent were still alive after 6 years.
One study investigated over 700 salmon samples from around the world and found that on average, the PCB concentrations in farmed salmon were eight times higher than in wild salmon (19).
In a study on healthy trained men, 2.5 g of betaine taken daily for two weeks before a training session resulted in a significantly higher average post-workout blood concentration of IGF - 1, all while significantly attenuating the training - induced cortisol response.
Those categorized as having the most prudent (high fiber) diet had average CRP concentrations of 0.13 compared with an average CRP concentration of 0.17 in those classified as having the most Western (low fiber) diet.
Most athletes do require more calories and a higher concentration of certain nutrients than average, sedentary folk, however.
Further, Dr. Barnett had found that the magnesium bone content of the average Deaf Smith County resident was up to five times higher than that of a resident of Dallas, while the concentrations of calcium and phosphorus were about the same in both groups.
In a prospective, randomized, controlled trial with a low fat and a low fat plus high Dietary Fiber groups, the group consuming high Dietary Fiber exhibited a greater average reduction (13 percent) in serum total cholesterol concentration than the low fat (9 percent) and the usual diet (7 percent) groups (Anderson et al., 1992a).
367 D IETARY, FUNCTIONAL, AND TOTAL FIBER total cholesterol concentrations averaged 23 percent lower on the high fat, Bengal gram diet than on the high fat diet alone.
Some individuals are considered salty sweaters, meaning the sodium concentration of their sweat is higher than average.
In addition, in schools with larger concentrations of low performers, the quality of educational resources is lower, and the incidence of teacher shortage is higher, on average across OECD countries, even after accounting for students» and schools» socio - economic status.
The upshot, per the article, is that «children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.»
On average, low - income urban high schools with high concentrations of minority students sent about half, or 51 percent, of their 2013 graduates to college in the fall immediately following graduation.
Rather than comparing averages as many studies had done before, this research revealed that charter schools had higher concentrations of schools at both ends of the performance spectrum (a U-shape).
Children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.
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