Sentences with phrase «measured by the consumption»

Ragland noted a worrying and unexplained trend: a declining number of surgeries performed over the past five years, as measured by the consumption of inhalant anesthetics.

Not exact matches

The city government has for the past several months urged its citizens to drastically cut their consumption by taking short showers, and reusing the water in their toilets and gardens, among other measures.

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.

The Commerce Department said on Thursday consumer prices as measured by the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, rose 0.4 percent.

Natural Resources Canada used to have a program called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 per cent.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

Consumer prices as measured by the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index jumped 2.0 per cent on a year - on - year basis last month.

Inflation as measured by the core personal consumption expenditures price index jumped to 1.5 percent in the first quarter, government figures showed on Thursday, a jump from 0.4 percent the prior quarter.

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.

Inflation, as measured by the personal consumption expenditure deflator, is currently well below the Federal Reserve's objective of 2 percent.

The first step for multinationals is to define the market by measuring current total consumption, examining product alternatives that satisfy similar needs, and studying potential spending likely to be unlocked once incomes grow.

The Fed's favored measure, the personal consumption expenditures price index, moved up 0.2 % to 2.1 % year - on - year in February at the headline level, though the core measure was unchanged at 1.8 %, after the previous month's reading was revised up by a tenth.

Consumption indicators over the last few months were mixed with retail sales volumes rising in the third quarter, in spite of declining in September, while seasonally adjusted consumer confidence measured by the GfK / EC survey rose modestly in October.

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.

Domestic demand has been held back by weak consumption, which fell by 2.6 per cent over the year to the December quarter in response to restrictive measures introduced in 2002, aimed at slowing the previously very strong rates of growth in consumer credit.

«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.

That is the danger of consumerism: the measure of life, indeed the consuming of life, by consumption, the discontent bred by the feeling that yesterday's anticipated enough is never enough.

Consumption is not measured by the amount of gasoline purchased or the number of miles it enables us to drive.

It may be true that measured only by levels of consumption few are worse off.

And now we know also that prosperity as measured by the quantity of consumption has very little to do with happiness or wellbeing.

«Calorie availability» is a measure used by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as a proxy for overall food consumption.

As was highlighted by Dr Brian Lipinski and Dr Karen Brooks, share of losses from each area of the supply chain (production, handling & storage, processing, distribution & marketing, consumption) differed dependant on what part of the world was being measured; developing countries tended to experience greater loss during production and storage, whereas developed countries experience greater loss during consumption.

Includes 289 lines of beverage consumption data (historical and forecasts to 2016) by category, pack type, pack material and individual pack size Data also measured in million units, useful when calculating raw material requirements as part of the packaging production process.

A study conducted by Mexican econometricians and researchers of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) on the impact of the tax on drinks with added sugars found that the measure failed in reducing calorie consumption and tackling overweight and obesity.

While data represent foods selected by students, we did not measure consumption.

The effects of the dietary intervention, mode of feeding (breast - fed or formula - fed), and time were evaluated by using three - factor repeated - measures ANOVA for the outcomes of reported number of egg yolks consumed; reported consumption of meat, chicken, and fish; reported consumption of baby cereal; reported consumption of adult cereal; erythrocyte DHA and AA; plasma cholesterol; and indexes of iron status.

All the measures to reduce emissions to combat global warming also help a bit by reducing energy consumption in general.

The Westchester County Department of Health on Wednesday urged people with private wells that were flooded to either boil their water before consumption or to use bottled water as a precautionary measure since sewage and other harmful contaminants can be washed into private wells by storm waters.

The measure, introduced by Manhattan Democratic Sen. Liz Krueger, would remove penalties for possession of two ounces of marijuana or less and make 18 the minimum legal age for marijuana possession and consumption.

«The beauty of this method is that you have the data to store and code to indicate what was selected, what was consumed, and what was wasted as opposed to weighed plate waste, where everything needs to be done on site,» said Amin, who hopes to develop an online training tutorial that could be used by schools across the country to measure consumption and waste.

Researchers sponsored by the Nutrition Science Initiative will soon address the question by precisely controlling food consumption by volunteers living in a test facility and then rigorously measuring energy expenditure and how it changes with differences in diet composition.

Decreased consumption, driven by the price hike, was brought about by measures ranging from insulating houses to improved fuel efficiency.

These measures may reduce our consumption by 10 per cent or so; as an answer to a possible increase of 800 per cent, they amount to no more than mopping up some of the water.

To make sure data from the countries were comparable, the CREDES measured consumption in defined daily doses (DDDs), the amount of a drug that would be needed by a person weighing 75 kilograms.

But even more damning is that the formulation Lomborg offers now, following criticism that he muddled the point, is still not unambiguous: sometimes projected resource lifetimes are measured based on extrapolating a constant rate of growth of consumption into the future starting «from the year discussed», rather than assuming a constant consumption rate, and sometimes they are measured «from the year discussed» by assuming that the consumption rate is following a bell - shaped curve (the famous «Hubbert's pimple»).4

Seeking a long - term solution, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council announced on 29 January the massive investment, which aims to achieve sustainable water use by controlling total water consumption, improving irrigation efficiency, and restricting groundwater pumping, among other measures.

Last year, 85 car manufactures in China measured their corporate - average fuel consumption, and about 30 percent of them, mostly domestic brands, failed to meet their annual target for 2013, according to results published by MIIT earlier this year.

A commitment to introduce regulatory food measures to reduce daily salt consumption to a given amount by a certain date, for instance, was removed by the European Union — despite the fact that many E.U. countries already enforce such regulations.

A study published this week in the journal BioScience by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment proposes to extend the way we characterize global food trade to include nutritional value and resource consumption alongside more conventional measures of trade's value.

Hebei plans to slash crude steel output by 15 million tonnes in 2014 and cut coal consumption by the same amount as part of anti-pollution measures.

Pedler, a marine biology graduate student at Scripps, spent several years working with Scripps marine microbiologist Azam and chemical oceanographer Aluwihare in designing a system that would precisely measure carbon consumption by individual bacterial species.

Researchers monitored the mice's energy expenditure by measuring oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production, and tracked the rodents» movements during the day and at night.

Like other major automakers, Audi (and its parent Volkswagen Group) is working on meeting its medium - term regulatory requirements (e.g., in the 2020 timeframe) by reducing the average fuel consumption of its new vehicles using a combination of three primary measures: optimizing its combustion engines for greater efficiency; developing alternative drive... Read more →

Unlike many heart studies that rely on blood sugar and cholesterol tests that anyone might get at a doctor visit, the Washington University researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to image the heart and measure blood flow, oxygen consumption and fatty acid and glucose uptake by the heart, among other measures.

For starters, the participants» sodium consumption was gauged by measuring the sodium content of their urine over just one 24 - hour period at the beginning of the study.

There are many opinions on olive oil but the fact is that it reduces blood flow almost immediately after consumption as measured by a scientific tool.

VO2 (or oxygen consumption) is a measure of the volume of oxygen that is used by your body to convert the energy from the food you eat into the energy molecules, called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), that your body uses at the cellular level.

In fact the VO2 max, which is the measure of the maximum oxygen consumption, increased by 14 % and the anaerobic capacity increased by around 28 %.

In one recent study, soy consumption seemed to attenuate bone loss from the spine in premenopausal women when measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry.1 However, in another study, soy did not prevent bone loss when measured at autopsy in female monkeys who had had their reproductive organs removed.9

So truly, you'll want to avoid forcing your body to resort to these measures in the first place, and the way you do that is by feeding it correctly... This is yet another essential detail that explains how and why extreme fructose consumption is so damaging to your health.