Sentences with phrase «lower mean level»

Pairwise comparisons revealed that minor homozygotes had significantly lower mean levels of serum serotonin (M = 853.5, SD = 370) than major homozygotes (M = 1790.9, SD = 711.4, p = 0.037).

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.

Discussing the VIX's lowest level since August 5, 2015 and what it means for the options market with «Fast Money» trader Dan Nathan.

Even so, one internal DFAIT briefing about Nevsun noted that while the allegations could not be substantiated, «the low level of respect for human rights in Eritrea means that the allegations should not be dismissed lightly.»

This means lower energy levels, potential acne, and, you guessed it - weight gain.

Additionally, advisors were embedded at lower echelons of Iraqi security forces at the brigade and battalion level, rather than division — meaning that US forces are increasingly getting closer to direct combat.

But that means there's a whole group of middle and lower - level managers without leadership experience — and their lack of training has a serious impact.

The industry also faces a lingering, low - level panic about Airbnb and what the home - rental business will mean for the sector — particularly in the battle for millennial loyalties.

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.

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.

He also said that wealthy Americans have been sitting on their cash lately (meaning new taxes wouldn't reduce already - low investment levels, though if that changes, so could the effect of these taxes).

First, the resource economy is going through a painful and complex adjustment to low prices — an adjustment that will mean lower levels of income, investment and employment, as well as the migration of families within Canada.

The combination of these factors means real interest rates are likely to trade at a lower level than was the case 10 or 20 years ago.

Lower levels of implied volatility mean less income from each call option sold.

With unemployment at such low levels, the real chances of recession are becoming less likely, which also means that rate hikes are becoming more likely.

I am still bullish on P2P lending, however, I am likely going to transition my investments to more predictable levels of risk, which will mean lower returns.

The nature of how travel programs are managed means that inbound leads often originate with lower level, non-primary persona people.

Sales Intelligence: The nature of how travel programs are managed means that inbound leads often originate with lower level, non-primary persona people.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

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

Currently, the VIX is trading at about 13, but the 20 - year average is just above 20 or 21, so sitting at lower - than - average levels, it means many investors have become less concerned about risk and maybe a bit too complacent.

The USDCAD is not one of the liquid currency pairs but tends to be at a lower level, which means that every trading decision should be carried out with minimum mistakes since one can not afford to lose on a low - liquid currency pair.

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

Productivity gains have been weak, the participation rate (meaning the percentage of the labor force in employment) declined to 62.6 % in June — the lowest level since 1977 — and hourly wage growth was flat in the same month.

But what if the mean value for interest rates has itself shifted to a much lower level such that today's term structure is the new normal?

Small caps (Russell 2000) and to a lesser extent Nikkei and EM equities in stocks all have below - average vol and correlations today to S&P 500; makes index hedges cheaper, although the lower level of realized volatility means consensus is looking for an even better entry point to buy equity vol.»

«However, inventory will continue to be the story in the new year, as any movement within the market will be exaggerated at their current, extremely low levels, meaning that if sentiment remains unchanged, conditions could worsen and prices may fall even further.»

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.

The USD is banging on big resistance levels ahead of today's FOMC, which includes only the release of a policy statement and fairly low expectations, ironically meaning that surprise risk may be underappreciated.

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.

Peter Plester, head of FXPB at Saxo Bank, notes the level of understanding of what the term PoP means remains low, despite these companies becoming part of the market's infrastructure.

This means that if you believe the current share price should move towards its intrinsic value over time, a low beta could suggest it is not likely to reach that level anytime soon, and once it's there, it may be hard to fall back down into an attractive buying range again.

So even though the minimum wage has been raised in Massachusetts and out West, when the minimum wage level is raised, that means the families that have been living on food stamps while they've been working at McDonald's or at other low - wage companies don't qualify anymore.

The USD is banging on big resistance levels ahead of an FOMC that includes only the release of a policy statement and fairly low expectations, ironically meaning that surprise risk may be underappreciated, especially given conflicting extremes in speculative US dollar short and US interest rate shorts.

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.

Drawing your levels in this manner gives you a better reference point to look for signals from since you are getting closer to the mean or average turning point price in the market, so it's basically a higher - probability level than a level that's further out but exactly at a bar high or low.

Corporate gearing ratios remain conservative, which together with low interest rates, has meant that interest payments by firms have remained at relatively low levels.

While the current oversold condition may mean that CVX will rebound above its current price of $ 113 before you read this if it remains at that level or continues to slide lower it will be a tremendous buying opportunity in early spring.

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

In order to determine whether man's «other» is other men, we should go to the lower levels of evolution to learn what otherness is and means for things that grow and evolve.

This means that when higher levels are formed out of lower levels of order there is no modification of the lower level to a pattern of the higher level.

Thus «x» is any propositional function with individuals for its arguments, «(x) x» means «there exists some individual in the universal domain that has the property».4 At the lowest level in the theory of types there are individuals — a, b, c, d,... n, but the precise identification of the individuals is left open since the system of logic was only to be used as a foundation for pure mathematics.

By life meaning self - activity and at least sentience, feeling, the death of animals means only falling back to lower animal, vegetable, or sub-vegetable but still self - active and sentient levels.

A good example of this behaviour is seen in the shape of an apple which can be explained in terms of the cells of the apple but «apple shape» has no meaning at lower levels of description.

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating function in the wider society.

To be a sinner does not mean to stand on a relatively low level of morality, but means to be rejected of God.

This means that there is a certain «vulnerability» of the higher level in relation to a lower.

An identity transformation of this type occurred among many Roman Catholics in the U.S. following Vatican II, and it may happen to the next generation of Protestants if lower levels of childhood involvement in the church result in a different interpretation of what it means to be a Christian and an «active church member.»

The ultimate level (field, dimension) which dwells in and gives transcendent meaning to the whole cosmic edifice would itself be the most precarious and susceptible to the breakdown of the lower levels within which it dwells.