Sentences with phrase «lack of stimulus»

«In answer to the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, I would say that the nervous system defect is the cause, and the flattening of the chest cavity is a result of this lack of stimulus to the limb muscles to move them under the body and push the torso up, sideways, and forward.

«It could be the lack of a stimulus, or too much of an inhibitor on different parts of the scalp,» says Cotsarelis.

If it is dark and you are asleep he may cry or play for a bit, but eventually the lack of stimulus should get him back to an acceptable pattern.

Touch is so important to the healthy development of an infant that a lack of stimulus and touch actually causes high amounts of the toxic stress hormone cortisol to be released.

They look at the ineffective remedies at the time: negative monetary growth, Smoot - Hawley, and lack of stimulus, and they conclude that if they can stimulate a lot more, they can avoid Depression II.

We wondered whether this lack of stimuli could be observed in a transplantation model.

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Its government has put a stimulus package in place and is continuing its much - vaunted transition from infrastructure to consumer spending, but a lack of trustworthy economic data and corporate reporting continues to scare investors.

Like some other hedge funds betting on economic trends in developed markets, a lack of volatility amid years of central - bank stimulus made it difficult to make money.

He said that Japan's greatest problem was a lack of private sector borrowers, and argued that the Japanese government needs to put in place stimulus measures to try to encourage companies to borrow.

Nixon said the Germans are probably suffering from a «lack of legitimacy» at the central bank and are still very concerned about the impact of quantitative easing — a massive stimulus program following the euro zone debt crisis of 2011 that's designed to boost lending but also stoke inflation.

Marc if you consider that the thinking behind this plan effectively captures the intent of your Stimulus Plan, contact me to discuss another technology based proposal which resolves a significant current commercial problem concerning lack of interoperability among technical standards in the digital satellite radio sector.

Any ratings downgrade may shift focus toward greater credit scrutiny for the U.S., which we believe has been lacking as a result of the extreme monetary stimulus since 2008.

Yet confusion and a lack of details over what exactly Trump's stimulus program will look like, whether he will succeed in getting it through Congress and what impact it might have on the economy have muddied the outlook.

The eurozone's lack of organic growth and its reliance on continued central bank stimulus likely increased market sensitivity to a report claiming the ECB might be considering tapering its $ 80 billion monthly purchases of bonds, though the claim was quickly dismissed by the ECB.

To whatever extent in primitive men or young children dominant occasions of experience are determined more by new stimuli received through the body than by continuity with past dominant occasions, the requisite identity through time is lacking.

Whitehead thought that the lack of technical manual activity on the part of educated people caused a deprivation of stimuli, vital to creative thought, to the brain.

Unfortunately, by the fifties most of the advocates of that approach were retired and the necessary stimulus for this work was lacking.

There are several possible causes for speech delays in young children: neurological causes, behavioural difficulties, and lack of access to appropriate stimuli are among them, and multiple factors could be at play.

A detailed look at the impact (some say lack of impact) federal stimulus money has had on creating jobs for Bronxites.

The assumption that an ambiguous stimulus contains a reward despite the lack of evidence is called an optimism bias.

Lead author Masahiro Imafuku adds that a lack of interest in social stimuli — for instance, another person — could be an early sign for whether preterm infants are following a path toward atypical social development.

We've focused primarily on exercise, cold, and lack of oxygen, to understand what each of these stimuli do in terms of its impact on Richard's psychology and physiology.

Liver cells lacking TRF1 gene (right) show, under chronic stress, larger nuclei and other markers characteristic of patients with cirrhosis or hepatitis (an increase in p21, PCNA and cyclin D1), when compared to normal cells under the same stimulus (left).

Nerve cells in the parietal lobe registered the lack of countable dots as a missing visual stimulus, without quantitative significance and therefore fundamentally different from numbers.

This free, downloadable poster file is an engaging visual aid, source of information, and stimulus for discussions related to Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cells.

In a typical fMRI data set acquired during resting - state, BOLD (blood - oxygen level - dependent) signals often exhibit strong correlations between distant brain areas despite a lack of external stimuli or a cognitive engagement [1]--[3].

The sensation honestly reminded me of silent meditation retreats I've attended where the lack of speech and external stimuli allow inner truths to emerge.

Lack of sleep increases the stimulus to consume more food and increases appetite - regulating hormones.

The total lack of external stimuli lets you sit undistracted with your thoughts.

This is when puppies would learn under the guidance of their mom, which stimuli are threatening and non-threatening for the purpose of survival.At this stage, once they are fully mobile and outdoors, a lack of caution may cause them to easily get killed, explains Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist Patricia McConnell, in her book «For the Love of a Dog».

By default, American bulldogs are not born aggressive, but the lack of your watchfulness may lead to unwanted reactions of the dog, caused by outer stimulus.

For people, boredom is essentially a lack of external stimulus that serves to distract us from our mental gyrations.

Even canines that lack the energy for play benefit from the stimuli of outdoor smells, sounds and sights.

When there is a lack of communication and appropriate foundation training, sudden exposure to stimuli — whether a stranger's quick reach to the pet's head or unfamiliar, unleashed dogs rushing into the pet's space — can create...

Most cases of Dog Aggression in the Mastiff, or in any breed, are due to this lack of early introduction and stimuli with other dogs.

The sensitivity testing will ascertain if there is an abnormal response (or lack of it) when certain stimuli are applied.

I usually say something along the lines of: A novel environment, tons of stimuli, and lack of social interaction are among the factors that cause dogs stress when entering a shelter.

Signs of hearing loss may include: • Being easily startled when resting • Lack of response to an auditory stimulus (squeaky toy or owner's voice) • Disorientation or confusion in familiar situations.

In their review of the behavioural testing methodology used in over 30 studies, Diederich and Giffroy [22] found a widespread lack of standardisation for most parameters: age of testing; site of testing (indoor / outdoor); social stimuli used (caged dogs, free - range dogs); and, especially, environmental stimuli used.

The deliberate lack of fluidity in my work between representation and abstraction reflects this separation in one's attention between inner and outer stimuli.

And with the lack of Republican support for the stimulus bill, the relatively small (partisan) margin by which the House passed Waxman - Markey, the then - upcoming challenges of health care and financial regulatory reform dominating the legislative calendar, and concerns voiced about climate legislation by moderate Senate Democrats, success in the Senate was always a long - shot.

Low economic strength, inadequate infrastructure, low level of social development, lack of institutional capacity, and a higher dependency on the natural resource base make the country more vulnerable to climate stimuli (including both variability as well as extreme events)» (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 16).

Thus, for instance, there's a letter by Charles Bukowski written to a reader who had told him that the library in Nijmegen had removed one of his books from their shelves, and a 1909 letter from Okhil Chandra Sen written to the railway office in West Bengal detailing the disastrous consequence of the lack of toilets on the trains, which letter was the stimulus needed to introduce those conveniences on Indian trains.