Sentences with phrase «of less stimulus»

Not exact matches

Retail sales rose less than expected in June, the latest sign of a slowdown in economic growth that offers a cautionary note to the Federal Reserve as it mulls scaling back its monetary stimulus.

«Positive stimuli are less imperative than the negative ones, because the immediate costs of not paying attention to them are typically smaller.

As we age, they become less and less responsive to negative stimuli, and «in some automatic, preconscious way,» begin to accentuate the positive at the expense of the negative.

If we don't start educating policy - makers and the public about the possibility of providing fiscal stimulus without increasing national debts, we may get even less fiscal stimulus than we got the last time.

In this scenario Canada would be required to contribute $ 41 billion of stimulus, which is only slightly less than what the federal government did under its Economic Action Plan.

A stimulus package of $ 600 billion would be roughly equal to their share of G - 20 GDP and a little less than the commitment of the US.

It has come to my attention that some economists claim that our sovereign federal government is more or less powerless to kickstart the economy because of our great dependence on the United States and therefore should do next to nothing: «Mr. Orr and other economists urged Ottawa to ignore pleas to boost stimulus spending further -LSB-...]

The better - than - month - long climb in the market since the election of Donald J. Trump as President - elect has been driven by optimism about domestic economic stimulus and the expectation that the incoming Administration will push for lower corporate taxes and less government regulation.

And Americans will pay the costs of the misguided «stimulus» for a decade or more, in fewer jobs and a less dynamic economy.

Even so, a company of 10,000 workers... all it takes is $ 1mil less in exec bonuses to basically match the tax rebate stimulus Dubya so loved.

One is more or less conscious of certain stimuli.

Our observations of reduced fever at 1 month and reduced stuffy nose at 6 months associated with nonprone sleep positions are consistent with this hypothesis, as is the reported observation that adults with upper respiratory tract infections have lower nasal bacterial counts after lying supine for 1 hour vs lying prone for 1 hour.11 Also, infants sleeping supine swallow more frequently than infants sleeping prone in response to a pharyngeal fluid stimulus, suggesting more effective clearing of nasopharyngeal secretions in the supine position and, hence, less potential for eustachian tube obstruction and fewer ear infections.12

Physiologic studies have demonstrated that, in general, swaddling decreases startling, 301 increases sleep duration, and decreases spontaneous awakenings.310 Swaddling also decreases arousability (ie, increases cortical arousal thresholds) to a nasal pulsatile air - jet stimulus, especially in infants who are easily arousable when not swaddled but less so in infants who have high arousal thresholds when not swaddled.301 One study found decreased arousability in infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddled.

State leaders lost a chance to make this transition less wrenching when they used federal «stimulus» money to sustain existing levels of spending, rather than to ease the changes that must come now.

State Budget Director Robert Megna added that the state has gotten less funding from the federal government during the past year and a half, especially with the end of the stimulus package instituted after the 2008 financial crash.

«We were able to detect periods of mind wandering through distinctive electrophysiological brain patterns, some of which indicated that the drivers were likely less receptive to external stimuli,» says Baldwin.

It takes less than a quarter of a second for the body to register a physiological response to a threat, and somewhat longer — a second or two, according to Ulrich — to register a positive stimulus.

The program's modest scale — less than 1 % of NIH's approximately $ 10 billion in stimulus funds — reflects the desire to establish a realistic number of sustainable new faculty positions rather than set off a «feeding frenzy,» Berg says.

That's less than a tenth of the United States's science stimulus package, but that's a still a lot of money in the United Kingdom, which has arguably been hurt even worse than the United States in the world economic crisis.

Less serotonin elicits socially defensive responses such as avoidance or submission, where enhancement — the main goal of antidepressants — induces a positive shift in the perception of socio - affective stimuli, promoting affiliation and dominance.

There is a window of less than a tenth of a second in which a stimulus from one sense can affect the others.

The hypersensitivity seen in patients with some anxiety disorders could arise from a faulty ability to distinguish between true signals of danger and similar but less vital stimuli, the Northwestern team speculates, adding that its research could help develop new therapies.

This illusion shows that adaptation, the process by which neurons in the brain become less responsive to unchanging stimuli, can be simultaneously selective for both color and orientation of edges.

For some of us (i.e., me), the stimulus for leaving the bench is less a reach for fulfillment in other areas than an acknowledgment of certain failure in the current one.

«Captive - born animals are at a particular disadvantage because they have less fear of humans and less fear of novel stimuli,» Jule says.

Although the effects of ODS on acid and salt responses closely phenocopied 5 - HT3AKO, the effects of ODS on other stimuli were less robust but trended in the same direction.

«Its a stimulus for poor dietary behavior, whereas some of the other types of sedentary behavior are less likely to stimulate poor snacking behaviors.»

When testosterone levels are normalized, either by natural means or through treatment of Low T, the brain reduces the stimulus to produce testosterone by secreting less GnRH.

Because the biceps and triceps have a less overall volume of muscle fibers it doesn't require as much stimulus to fatigue these muscle groups and deplete glycogen stores.

But if you're looking for a way to shock your body into a metabolic stimulus or new muscle growth or fat loss response, pulling out some of the lesser - known, less popular workouts can be just the thing to get this done.

and thus present less of a proto - something stimulus».

The participants of this study not only experienced less anxiety when faced with negative stimuli, but also showed lower levels of the stress hormone

The participants of this study not only experienced less anxiety when faced with negative stimuli, but also showed lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol (the stress hormone — «fight or flight»).

The Obama administration's stimulus bill included language for correcting teacher distribution problems, and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has expressed interest in incentivizing teaching jobs in less desirable schools.

We also designed a less sophisticated version of the interactive video method that maintained the critical design elements of using classroom teaching video of other preservice teachers for stimulus material and using experts» observations as feedback.

That will eventually affect the prices of bonds where the value proposition is less than clear, unless the Central bankers decide to do another round of ill advised «stimulus.»

However, since 2014, QE has ended and monetary stimulus by other central banks, notably the Bank of Japan and European Central Bank, is proving less effective in stimulating asset prices, outside of European credit.

Some of the equity pullback reflects earnings projections that were adjusted down on the expectation that less stimulus will lead to slower growth.

What might be a more politically viable approach to student debt — although it would provide less fiscal stimulus — would be for the government and loan providers to have a better way of distinguishing between those borrowers who really need help and those who don't.

With a moderately growing economy and less Fed stimulus, investors expect returns for stocks to be in the high single digits this year — the kind of backdrop where individual stock selection can make a big difference.

Instead, with a moderately growing economy and less Fed stimulus, investors expect returns for stocks to be in the high single digits this year — the kind of backdrop where individual stock selection can make a big difference.

That rout was triggered by the prospect of less Federal Reserve stimulus and, while a withdrawal of easy - money policies still weighs on investors» minds, that's not the full story now.

And bearing in mind unprecedented stimulus this time» round, the fact that post-credit crisis volatility has proved to be far less responsive & far more jagged — not to mention central banks have failed to generate any appreciable price inflation, despite all forecasts to the contrary — is rather terrifying confirmation of how bad the underlying collapse & deleveraging really was (& still is), absent currency debasement...

Puppies that are properly socialized beginning at around 8 weeks of age are more tolerant of new stimuli and people and are less likely to grow into nervous, fearful dogs.

Sooner or later, the tail becomes a less salient stimulus, and the puppy finds more interest in other forms of play.

The last is defined as a pain lasting for more than 3 months, which can persist beyond or in the absence of the original noxious stimulus and most often is not associated with an obvious external injury, but rather arises from less apparent chronic conditions, such as cancer and osteoarthritis.

The stimulus: we were discussing the pressure of expectation that today's developers can find themselves with, using Hello Games and No Man's Sky as an example of players reacting to receiving less than they felt they'd been promised.

Western Europe with much less fossil fuel use than ever before, produces 50 % of its electricity from nuclear reactors and could provide the stimulus for others to re-instigate their nuclear production.

We considered the possibility that SAAF rendered youth less vulnerable to initiating smoking or developing obesity, both of which are potent inflammatory stimuli.

The researchers found that, compared to the positive arousal and neutral groups, women in the sexual arousal group rated sex - related stimuli in particular as less disgusting and completed a higher percentage of disgusting behavior tasks (both sexual and non-sexual).