Sentences with phrase «much earlier levels»

More importantly though, this combat design causes players to engage in mind games with their opposition at much earlier levels of play then would otherwise be possible.

Not exact matches

«He's always been a learn - it - all person, to a level that is sometimes maddening, considering how much more I have to learn from him than he does from me,» says Matt Cohler, a venture capitalist at Benchmark and an early Facebook employee who has remained close to Zuckerberg.

While the early - 2017 Federal Reserve minutes «expressed concern [about] the low level of implied volatility in equity markets,» it is worth noting that the SPX implied volatility levels at both 80 % and 90 % moneyness (corresponding with out - of - the - money puts used for portfolio protection) generally were much higher than the VIX levels.

> 1980 - 1982 — The early 1980s recession affected much of the developed world, triggering long - term effects including high levels of unemployment and bankruptcies.

As Bill Hester recently observed, the current level of economic activity has had a much higher probability of being recessionary in periods when the S&P 500 was also weak — for example, below its level of 6 months earlier, or below its 12 - month moving average.

Measured in real terms, variable loan rates are as much as 1 percentage point below their average level over the past five years, and up to 2 1/4 percentage points below their average since the early 1990s (Graph 65).

The early 1980s recession affected much of the developed world, triggering long - term effects including high levels of unemployment and bankruptcies.

In early March, it reached the upper end of this range, much the same level as the peak a year earlier, against a background of, inter alia, strong domestic profit results, speculation of foreign takeovers, and rising commodity prices (especially base metals).

After increasing strongly during much of 1997, loan approvals for housing appeared to level out in the early months of this year, before showing a strong further rise in June (Graph 15).

The Japanese authorities slowed the very heavy intervention they had been undertaking in earlier months and the yen appreciated by as much as 8 per cent to 108 against the US dollar between end August and late October — its highest level for nearly three years — before weakening a little.

Earlier this year the company reported that patients who took PRX - 002 saw their alpha synuclein levels drop by as much as 96 %, which is a massive improvement that performed significantly better than a placebo.

Furthermore, in much of the industrialized world we have taken for granted a level of personal freedom and assured rights that only a few have known in earlier periods.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

Getting in an early morning workout (more than stretching at the hotel gym like I used to do...), finding clean, nourishing food makes allll the difference in how much I can accomplish, how well I can handle airport annoyances and travel chaos, my energy levels both during the trip and when I get home, etc. etc..

On top of that, there's a much bigger drop - off from Chubb to the early 2nd level DEs than Barkley is to Michel (using this example).

* His speed wasn't really much of a factor early in routes, but if he was able to catch the ball in stride and get his legs going he was able to house it against the 2nd - and 3rd - levels.

Despite looking a top talent, it is questionable if Chelsea would be wise to pay that much for a player at this early stage of his career, as he may still have much to prove at the top level of the game.

It seems Wenger gambles too early on overpaying for players like Theo and Ramsey, who had not proven consistency at their level when they got handed big salaries, and have not really earned their salary since their big pay rises, (although Theo is playing much more like his salary this year).

It's a little disappointing Ziggler got in as much offense as he did, as it kept Nakamura from seeming as next - level as he is, but it's early enough in this run that we can wait and see where it's going before going in too hard on that point.

However, even before that, with a better strikeforce the Gunners, largely bypassing midfield in favour of longer balls, would have drawn level much earlier — several chances emanating from errors in the Toffees» pressured rearguard.

Following the injury of Fernando Torres, Liverpool have opened the wallet to sign an early substitute for the club level will not notice too much lack of scoring without the Spanish.

There is a paradox at the heart of much of the new research on early adversity and child development: While the problems that accompany poverty may be best understood on the molecular level, the solutions are not.

This same bureaucratic divide occurs at the state and county level, where, with rare exceptions, early - childhood and school - system administrators do not collaborate or even communicate much.

On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.

But, if a woman has a very early preemie between 23 and 27 weeks, she will have much higher levels of EGF in her breast milk for the first month after delivery.

While much of my apprehension was tied to the fact that we had some pretty significant breastfeeding challenges in the early weeks, a lot of it had to do with my confidence and comfort level, too.

Checking the hCG levels in blood as performed by your doctor is a much more sensitive test than a home pregnancy test and can detect pregnancy as early as 11 days after fertilization.

But when they studied expecting mothers with cortisol levels consistently higher than normal early in the pregnancy and their newborns, Davis and her colleagues made a startling discovery: The infants displayed a much higher sensitivity to stress than other babies.

This level of ability tends to occur at around 6 months of age — seldom much earlier, but sometimes later.

I've written in a bit more detail elsewhere about just some of the important differences that exist (and this post builds on and overlaps somewhat with my earlier post), even within the Western world, between countries like the U.S., where the newspaper industry has suffered greatly in recent years, and then other countries like Germany or the Nordic Countries, where developments have been much less dramatic — though these countries have levels of internet penetration and use that are as high as or higher than in the U.S..

The early years were challenging times, with much hard work behind the scenes to attract respectable numbers and keep morale at a reasonable level.

Finances in some areas will improve by the end of the year, but overspends at this stage are much harder to eradicate than earlier on - as Birmingham council notes in a report (para 1.4, page 3) on its forecast # 37million overspend, «this is an exceptional level of challenge at this stage in the year».

These findings are very much in line with our earlier polling after the budget and the spending review, which found high levels of support for capping the total amount of benefits a family could receive, reducing the welfare budget and freezing the working tax credit.

Since scientists created the first magnetic resonance images (MRIs) in the early 1970s, the technology has grown more powerful by leaps and bounds — so much so that the Food and Drug Administration has capped the level of magnetism to which humans can be exposed.

In an article earlier this month, Ridley compared estimates of how much the sea level would rise over the next century.

«The high radon levels may not have caused the Curse of Tutankhamen,» says Murdoch Baxter, editor of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, «but it probably won't have done those early Egyptologists much good.»

With a test to look for elevated levels of miR - 34a, researchers could create an early warning system to catch cancers in their youthful stages when they are much easier to cure.

Her deafness could have been treated earlier, and her mathematical abilities might have been nurtured much more actively at all levels of her education.

Twelve days earlier, on January 12, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake had leveled much of Port - au - Prince, Haiti.

The level of star formation is much smaller because interstellar gas and dust has been reduced during earlier stages of the collision.

While some earlier studies, using different approaches, have posited that Antarctic ice sheets could add as much as a metre to sea levels by 2100, this new evidence suggests ice loss on this scale is «implausible», the paper says.

Although the level of tumour DNA present in the blood is much lower during the early stages of these cancers, the program was still able to make a diagnosis demonstrating the potential of this method for the early detection of cancer, according to the researchers.

The patient safety team at the University of Chicago Medical Center is investigating two cases during May and early June in which blood tests showed insulin levels much higher than would normally be observed.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

Someone's risk of dying early is much more dependent on other aspects of lifestyle, including smoking, exercise levels, weight and medical conditions, such as high blood pressure, she explained.

I pretty much exclusively drink either in the early, early stages of a meal or in the 30 - 60 minutes leading up to dinner, when I actually have slightly emptied liver glycogen levels.

First off, women's bodies naturally produce testosterone just like men's bodies, but at a much lower level (for adults anyway — according to this Huffington Post article on testosterone for women, women actually have 10 times as much testosterone in their bodies in their early reproductive years than estrogen).

As the quote above suggests, patients reporting these two crucial aspects of their early lives are much more likely to have demonstrated excessively high levels of cortisol and other stress hormones early in life.

It looks from early evidence that intake of plant toxins may be much more consequential for health than the overall carbohydrate level.

It's actually not much of a problem anyway; as we discussed earlier you can negate the problems of a certain level of sebum production by getting enough antioxidants.