Sentences with phrase «improved ability»

This can equate to better breathing, improved ability to exercise or perform physical activity as well as reduced chest pains and improved energy levels.

Furthermore, by simply slicing meat and pounding USOs, hominins would have improved their ability to chew meat into smaller particles by 41 %, reduced the number of chews per year by another 5 %, and decreased masticatory force requirements by an additional 12 %.

But thanks to MODIS, the Dartmouth Flood Observatory has also dramatically improved their ability to chart innundated areas (right).

It is hoped that greater understanding of these volcanic triggers may lead to an improved ability to predict dangerous eruptions in the future.

Using the new technique on laboratory - sourced fingerprints, Professor Hillman and colleagues have already demonstrated an improved ability to make positive identifications due to better sample resolution.

«The NDI project improved the ability of blade manufacturers to confidently determine the quality of their product before it leaves the factory, enhancing the in - service life of the blades.

Last year Sylvain Moreno of York University in Toronto and his colleagues showed that giving third graders nine months of music classes improved their ability to read.

This reservoir gives older people an improved ability to size up situations and solve problems without going through the step - by - step assessments a younger person might need.

Those experiments showed that vibrato significantly improved the ability of a listener to detect formant patterns.

Scientists have improved their ability to detect underground nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C. today.

In the past, asteroids were thought to be mostly unchanging objects, but an improved ability to observe them has allowed scientists to discover tails and comas, which are the thin envelope of an atmosphere that surrounds a comet's nucleus.

This improved ability to foresee the possible adverse effects of drugs may entail saving many lives in the future.

By engineering nano - size branches and trunks into plastic solar cells, researchers have improved their ability to harvest the energy in sunlight

Advances in genomic sequencing technologies have improved the ability to detect molecular aberrations with greater sensitivity and to identify genomic alterations that can be matched to targeted therapies.

«By assimilating information on commuting patterns, we've taken a big step forward and improved our ability to accurately forecast where the flu might crop up next.»

A recent study from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that a 45 - minute online sexual health program improved the ability of teen girls to communicate effectively about safe sex.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

The combination panel also improved the ability to distinguish cases of cancer from pancreatitis.

By using a system that receives light only from a certain angle, such devices could have an improved ability to detect faint targets.

I - RITE was a great exercise, and it definitely improved my ability to explain my research.

Although SOHO, RHESSI, and other satellites have improved our ability to prepare for solar hazards, they are only a start.

«It is possible that this focus on one's body, mind and breath during yoga practice may have generalized to situations outside of the yoga classes, resulting in an improved ability to sustain attention.»

They provide many deaf people with a significantly improved ability for oral understanding and thus a considerable boost to their quality of life.

Over the past two decades, forecasters have improved their ability to predict where hurricanes will go, but improvements in forecasting a hurricane's intensity have proved elusive.

Balls» Budget response showed an improved ability on the Labour benches to deploy damaging framing devices against the coalition, with the shadow chancellor branding yesterday's housing policy a «spare home subsidy».

From this improved ability to describe and explore data comes the possibility of generating new and interesting hypotheses.

Some mothers have found that metformin, either through pregnancy, postpartum, or both, has improved their ability to make milk, and this makes a lot of sense given what we know about insulin and lactation.

In addition, children showed an improved ability to regulate their positive emotions if their mothers showed higher levels of warmth (Davidov and Grusec 1996).

Those who were able to wait showed an improved ability to handle stress and manage their anger.

I would be the first one to promote any technique that improved our ability to accurately detect babies in distress and thereby avoid unnecessary C - sections.

It isn't all rosy though, as the goal columns attest — we scored fewer and conceded more than last season, evidence of both the improved ability to win close games and the tendency to lose big on occasion.

Consequently, I continue to invest in young prospects who I believe will be subject to a significant share price rise in the future, on account of not only their improved ability, but also their increased popularity as a result.

Balance this assessment against other potential short - term benefits of filing a patent, including an improved ability to demonstrate to customers, partners and investors that you hold a sustainable competitive advantage.

More analytics: As we see more marketing channels in play and an improved ability to understand how they all touch, I predict marketers will be seeking out new ways to prioritize their many opportunities.

The launch took place in the fall and in the dead of night, at 3 a.m., which might suggest North Korea has improved its ability to fire missiles in an unpredictable, operational way.

Facebook says over the past few months it has taken the feedback it received from tens of millions of people and made the search tool faster, improved the ability of the function to understand queries and made the interface easier to see and use.

Several years ago they published a study in the influential journal Science that showed reading literary fiction was linked with an improved ability to better read fine emotional cues on people's faces.

Paluri said that with the improved ability to understand images, Facebook would be able to create more accurate audio descriptions of photos to its blind users.

The move simplified the privacy deal Google strikes with its users — and improved its ability to track you no matter where in the Googleverse you go.

But how to improve your ability to delay things like eating junk food when healthy alternatives aren't available, or to remain on the treadmill when you'd rather just stop?

Understanding the «why» and «what» will improve your ability to attract and retain valuable customers.

Singapore Airlines has a reputation for quality and a substantial amount of business travel to and from the city - state, improving its ability to configure aircraft with a high number of premium seats and charge more than one - stop competitors, according to analysts.

You don't need to to go back to school, take an online course or spend an unwieldy 10,000 hours to improve your ability to speak well and communicate effectively.

Some cognitive exercises and immersive action video games also seem to improve our ability to focus.

If you want to improve your ability to intuit effectively, do not depend on wild hunches or sheer luck.

«We know exercise improves our ability to think,» concludes Ratey.

He notes that he goes into how to get in touch with your intuition in great detail in his book, but also explains the essential initial step to improving your ability to read others: Consciously ask key questions (Will my boss give me this raise?

Pros: It's a simple, straightforward way to help you manage your email marketing, and many users report that iContact improves their ability to manage multiple email marketing accounts from a single platform.

Google plans to to hire significant numbers of staff and develop new artificial intelligence tools to improve its ability to review «questionable content» after a clash saw major brands including Marks and Spencer and HSBC withdraw advertising from its video sharing site YouTube.

«Building an acoustic buffer inside a chip improves our ability to control information by several orders of magnitude,» said Merklein.