Sentences with phrase «increased by the consumption»

While there has been no evidence of plasma melatonin levels in human brains being increased by the consumption of any food item, there is a debate that melatonin has the ability to regulate the internal or body clock.

Not exact matches

While the consumption of vanilla increased 1 % and chocolate fell by 1 %, the popularity of maple walnut hiked by 6 % and cherry ice cream increased by 8 %.

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

Rosé has been a stronger selling wine in the U.S., a trend that has been led by increased consumption among women.

The U.S. Department of Energy projects that global energy consumption will increase by 53 % between 2008 and 2035, with most of that growth coming from the long - term economic expansion in Asian countries.

Researchers funded by the American Heart Association and the University of Colorado School of Medicine say they've uncovered an association between increased coffee consumption and better heart health.

Maloni of the American Restaurant Association estimated last year's shift to butter by McDonald's increased the nation's annual butter consumption by around 20 million pounds, or about 1 percent of total production.

«There was still a risk that growth in consumption might turn out to be weaker than forecast if household income growth were to increase by less than expected.»

Global natural gas consumption increases by 1.4 % / year.

By second - order effects, I mean whether cutting the deficit will in the short run increase other forms of investment and consumption demand by increasing confidence or reduce other forms of investment and consumption demand by reducing spendinBy second - order effects, I mean whether cutting the deficit will in the short run increase other forms of investment and consumption demand by increasing confidence or reduce other forms of investment and consumption demand by reducing spendinby increasing confidence or reduce other forms of investment and consumption demand by reducing spendinby reducing spending.

At the same time, global consumption is expected to increase by 1.5 million barrels a day both this year and next, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), with North America and Asia, particularly China and India, responsible for much of the growth.

The paper's authors apply a simple model of the world oil market to reach their conclusions, which are driven by the potential for the pipeline to increase global oil supply, thus lowering oil prices and increasing consumption.

If the Chinese economy is going to continue to increase its oil consumption by 10 % a year, another economy will have to cut back its oil consumption by a comparable amount to make room for the increase in Chinese demand.

So, using their numbers above, for each barrel shipped on KXL, you'd have somewhere between 0.08 and 0.78 barrels of increase in total consumption, with between 0.22 and 0.92 barrels of oil which would have been produced elsewhere being substituted - for by oil sands production.

Historically, household consumption has increased by roughly 0.2 percent for every one percentage point increase in household debt.

Industrial consumption in non-OECD Asia (excluding China and India) will rise by 60 percent between 2015 and 2040; passenger travel will more than triple; and freight transit will increase sharply.

The complementary currency itself has declined in importance over the period while levels of overall consumption of goods and services have increased (although it is unclear whether the recent digitisation is to change this) A detailed study18 of the usage and circulation of the Palma found that around half of its usage was accounted for by just 6 economic actors in addition to the Banco Palmas itself: four local stores selling basic consumer items, the neighbourhood petrol station, and a party and décor shop.

For developed economies, in other words, significantly higher capital inflows from abroad would either cause savings to decline as the inflows strengthen their currencies and reduce exports — causing either unemployment or consumption to rise — or, if their central banks act to sterilize the inflows, to increase imports by increasing consumer debt.

If Japan tries to increase domestic savings to fund the debt, for example by limiting wage increases, or by taxing consumption, both of which they have proposed, these measures may well cause domestic investment to fall.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

I think this would subsidize exporters indirectly (reducing the currency value) and therefore increase invesment while also reducing domestic savings by forcing up consumption on «core» items, so that would reduce the current account surpluses.

A reduction in income or consumption taxes, financed by an increase in carbon taxes, would be a clear gain for the higher income, lower carbon demographic.

Volume / mix increased 0.8 percentage points driven by strong consumption gains in condiments and sauces and gains in foodservice that were partially offset by shipment timing versus the prior year period as well as ongoing consumption weakness in Italy.

Mining energy consumption has increased by 29.98 % in the past month alone, and Digiconomist ranks it at the same level as the entire country of

Mining energy consumption has increased by 29.98 % in the past month alone, and Digiconomist ranks it at the same level as the entire country of Serbia.

The pick - up in consumption in the March quarter appears to be continuing and is being supported by further increases in consumer confidence; household spending increased by 2 1/2 per cent in the June quarter and consumer confidence is now at its highest level in 4 years (Graph 3).

In the September quarter, household consumption rose by 1.1 per cent, a slight increase from the pace in the June quarter, but less than might have been expected given the boost to incomes from the budget measures.

M2 growth rates of 5 - 6 % or more in turn would have triggered the portfolio re-balancing plus the increased investment and consumption spending effects that were achieved by the US and the UK QE programmes.

On the demand side of Russia's Asia gas pivot, China has plans to increase the role of natural gas to 10 per cent of primary energy consumption by 2020, or 360 bcm (about half the US's current gas consumption).

Household consumption remained strong in 2004, increasing by 5.4 per cent over the year to the September quarter.

In the past few quarters, the composition of growth has gradually shifted, with a slight slowdown in the pace of consumption growth offset by an increase in export growth, in line with the strengthening world economy.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

Prices of imported consumption goods at the docks increased by almost 4 per cent in the June quarter, after a very modest rise in the March quarter, and have now regained their level of nearly two years ago.

Motor gasoline consumption is expected to increase by 194,000 barrels per day (b / d), up 2.1 % from last summer, reflecting higher real disposable income, substantially lower retail motor gasoline prices and higher employment and consumer confidence.

In underlying terms, imports increased by around 2 per cent in the September quarter, with services and consumption goods imports accounting for most of the growth.

High - saving countries created employment, and low - saving countries enjoyed faster consumption growth as cheap imports meant that living standards rose by more than the increase in production — worth around half a percentage point a year in the United Kingdom.

As a result, a very small change in consumption in the U.S. and Europe has to be overcompensated by a huge increase in consumption in China, and that is going to be very difficult to do, especially considering that the Chinese currency is kept at artificially low levels.

The growth in consumption over the last few years have been driven by the «wealth effect» created by people feeling richer as the value of their property has increased (have a look at my blog post from June 19th last year).

The recent step - up in growth has been underpinned by strong household consumption, which rose by 1.6 per cent in the September quarter, propelled by a sharp increase in disposable income flowing from recent fiscal initiatives.

The fixed - weight deflator for private consumption rose by 1.5 per cent over the year to the December quarter, while the broader fixed - weight deflators also showed increases of less than 2 per cent.

«Even though the consumption tax is scheduled to be raised by 2 percentage points, a number of measures to mitigate the burden, such as a reduced tax rate and an increase in welfare benefits for pensioners, and the provision of free education are planned to be implanted,» the report said.

Mobile internet consumption increased at an average rate of 44 % a year between 2010 and 2016, driven by the spread of mobile devices, improvements in technology and greater availability of mobile - adapted content.

While most of this borrowing has been used to finance the acquisition of dwellings, including by investors, households have also increased their borrowing to finance consumption.

Over the four quarters to December, consumption increased by a little under 4 per cent, down from a peak growth rate of more than 6 per cent seen earlier that year.

Consumption was also supported by an increase in household net wealth in the December quarter of 4.2 per cent, driven by a substantial increase in the value of equities and rapid growth in house prices.

Japan's economy kicks into gear Fueled by increases in consumption and capital expenditures, Japan's economy expanded at a 4 % annualized rate in the second quarter, far exceeding expectations of a 2.5 % rise.

In the December quarter, consumption rose by 0.4 per cent, but this followed a 1.2 per cent increase in the September quarter.

However, household consumption increased by just 5.17 per cent at the top of 2013, a shift down form the 5.36 per cent posted in the last quarter of 2012, he mentioned.

The second is consumer capitalism, the intricate socio - economic system that taps the human drives of individual gain and greed, rewarding incentive and encouraging participation in the system by the prospect of increased consumption of pleasurable goods or services and access to otherwise restricted activities.

We really don't know how our lives would be improved by increased consumption.