Sentences with phrase «measure this increased activity»

While previous studies have suggested that the sympathetic nervous system - the «fight or flight» response - of veterans is overactive, this study was the first to measure this increased activity directly and provide a potential mechanism behind this response.

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Apple updated its Apple Watch software, including a heart rate measuring tool that alerts users to increased heart rate that is unrelated to increased activity — a sign of a potential health problem.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

GDP growth measures the increase in economic activity, whether that activity is building bridges to Brooklyn or bridges to nowhere.

China recorded 7 % annual growth in the first quarter of 2015 and again in the second, which was slightly better than analysts» forecasts, while measures of monthly activity showed bank lending increasing in June and a rebound in factory orders.

During this same period, activity on the crude oil futures market — as measured by the number of contracts outstanding, trading activity, and the number of traders — has increased significantly.

My quarrel is not with measuring market activity and drawing conclusions from its increase and decrease.

Are improvements in economic welfare so connected to increases in GNP that, despite the differences between economic welfare and market activity, it is appropriate to continue to use GNP as a way of measuring economic success?

This is what is chiefly measured by GNP, and policies directed to the increase of GNP consistently focus on increasing this activity.

Intermittent lower - dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher - dose exposure; Miller cites monkey research showing that either 10 nontoxic weekly doses or one toxic dose of an organophosphate pesticide led to the same increase in brain wave activity as measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG.

Given that collecting, processing, analyzing, and reporting quality data are costly in time and resources2 — resources that are often taken from direct patient care when these activities involve physicians and other clinicians — there has been an increasing call to rein in the proliferation of measures by identifying a small set of high - priority measures.

The initial results published last year showed that people who scored in the top 15 percent of the U.C.L.A. Loneliness Scale, a self - administered psychiatric questionnaire for measuring the emotion, exhibited increased gene activity linked to inflammation and reduced gene activity associated with antibody production and antiviral responses.

The researchers then measured progesterone in 92 women's saliva and found that as progesterone increased so too did openness to the idea of engaging in homosexual activity.

The experiments used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure increased blood flow throughout the brain, a marker of increased neural activity, during a wide range of activities, including finger - tapping, whistling, chewing, drawing, writing, reading, watching a movie and playing video games and memory games.

It may be premature to suggest a direct link between pollution and electrical destruction, but keeping an eye on increased lightning activity could be helpful to those working on preventive measures

He et al. (14) measured horizontal and vertical beam breaks in a metabolic chamber and reported a significant increase in activity levels of female IL - 15Rα — KO compared with control mice.

Although the cage running wheel system and the ambulatory photobeam break system used in the current study are measures of spontaneous activity, the dramatic increases observed in both studies reflect a consistent behavior of increased activity that suggests an increase in the capacity to perform exercise.

We also identified a «meditation effect» within the regular meditator group, characterized by a distinct network of genes with cellular functions that may be relevant to healthy aging, and this network was associated with increased expression of a number of telomere maintenance pathway genes and an increase in measured telomerase enzymatic activity.

The technique measures changes in the magnetic properties of blood as it transports oxygen to brain tissue in response to increased activity.

In the current study, ActD also showed a time course - dependent increase in p53 activity, assayed by measuring the transcriptional activity of a p53RE reporter plasmid.

The fMRI measures blood flow for instance, which is an indicator of increased neural activity.

The researchers measured an increase in blood flow in the brain's prefrontal cortex during all 3 activities, in comparison with rest times where blood flow decreased to normal rates.

One study showed increased activity in the visual cortexes of participants (1) while other studies found increased creativity in university professors and students (measured by standardized tests for creativity).

If you're seriously plugged up and lifestyle measures (like eating more fiber, getting plenty of fluids, and increasing physical activity) don't help, your doctor can prescribe either lubiprostone (Amitiza) or linaclotide (Linzess) to help get things moving.

The content of mitochondria in skeletal muscles, as measured by activity of an enzyme on the biopsies, increased by the same amount in the two exercise groups.

The researchers discovered that increased activity of host antioxidant defense enzyme measured before onset of disease was linked to a reduced asthma risk.

A scientific research study on eight healthy male volunteers showed that subjects supplementing with 10 mg of boron significantly increased free (active) testosterone levels and decreased estrogenic activity as measured by a significant decrease in estradiol after only seven days.

In a study using EEG electrodes to measure brain activity, researchers found that Kapalabhati Pranayama increased the speed of decision - making in a test requiring focus.

Norwood et al. (2007) explored the effect of increasing instability on latissimus dorsi by measuring muscle activity during the bench press performed on a (1) stable bench, (2) with the feet placed on a BOSU ball, (3) Swiss ball, or (4) Swiss ball with feet placed on a BOSU ball.

Norwood et al. (2007) explored the effect of increasing instability on abdominals by measuring muscle activity during the bench press performed on a (1) stable bench, (2) with the feet placed on a BOSU ball, (3) Swiss ball, or (4) Swiss ball with feet placed on a BOSU ball.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

Using dashboards to measure whether learning activities are working can also assist you with identifying areas of opportunities that can help increase the potential for reaching these business - level KPI targets.

For example, to increase payments online is easier to measure (simply by counting transactions or getting a bank report) than say, provide information on class activities, where there is no tangible results such as a form completion or a link click.

Although the overall incidence of criminal activity in schools has dropped in the past few years — thanks to increased awareness amongst staff and parents, as well as the introduction of sturdier security measures — acts of theft, vandalism and especially arson are still a reality.

JV: We measure outcomes such as a reduction in bullying, an increase in physical activity, kids» sense of safety, and the ability of kids to solve conflicts.

The left temporo - parietal cortex showed a relationship between increased activity after remediation and improvement in oral language ability and word blending, a measure of phonological awareness (Fig. 2).

Districts should report on the effectiveness of professional - development activities by measuring improvements in classroom teaching and administrative activities that lead to increased student achievement.

A 2012 article titled «Physical Activity Strategies for Improved Cognition: The mind / body connection,» referenced a study on Australian elementary students that found «across age and sex, academic ratings were significantly correlated with measures of physical activity» and that «it can be concluded that daily quality physical education appears to increase the rate of learning and is positively related to academic achievementActivity Strategies for Improved Cognition: The mind / body connection,» referenced a study on Australian elementary students that found «across age and sex, academic ratings were significantly correlated with measures of physical activity» and that «it can be concluded that daily quality physical education appears to increase the rate of learning and is positively related to academic achievementactivity» and that «it can be concluded that daily quality physical education appears to increase the rate of learning and is positively related to academic achievement.»

Measures to expand provision of all - day activities and care with the aim of increasing opportunities for education and support, with particular regard to pupils with educational deficits and to especially gifted pupils.

In the period after the 2001 recession, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained a low federal funds rate, and some observers have suggested that by keeping interest rates low for a «prolonged period» and by only increasing them at a «measured pace» after 2004, the Federal Reserve contributed to the expansion in housing market activity (Taylor 2007).

Take simple measures such as increasing exercise, engaging in training activities, and providing interactive chew toys and recreation bones.

Nevertheless, this measure serves as an indication of increased activity in potentially compulsive behaviours.

But despite the increased tourism activity, much of it still wouldn't measure up to Bali's development — think Bali ten years ago, as one Indonesian friend would put it — and this is why many think it's charming.

Some past studies (e.g. Goldenberg et al, 2001) assert that there is no evidence of any long - term increase in statistical measures of tropical Atlantic hurricane activity, despite the ongoing global warming.

Further to 12 and eric's response: I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough: in the second sentence by Stefan that I quoted, «this» can only sensibly refer back to the whole of the first sentence, giving the reading That carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing rapidly in the atmosphere due to human activity is a measured fact not even disputed by staunch «climate skeptics.

Emanuel found a close correlation between increases in this measure of hurricane activity (which is likely a better measure of the destructive potential of the storms than previously used measures) and rising tropical North Atlantic SST, consistent with basic theoretical expectations.

More important, it is to be noticed this increase of solar irradiance as not been measured by anyone yet (despite the 24/7 observations of the solar activity since long before 1980).

Wouldn't increased weather activity suppress surface temperatures, making temperature a less useful measure of total change?

While many studies of the effects of global warming on hurricanes predict an increase in various metrics of Atlantic basin - wide activity, it is less clear that this signal will emerge from background noise in measures of hurricane damage, which depend largely on rare, high - intensity landfalling events and are thus highly volatile compared to basin - wide storm metrics.