Sentences with phrase «people at altitude»

Our study was unique in that it enabled us to see things in healthy people at altitude that which we might normally only see in obese people at sea level.

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On top of things like people chatting and rattling service carts, engine noise levels inside the cabin can be as loud as 85 dB at cruising altitude — that's nearing levels that can be dangerous with extended exposure.

At altitudes above 15,000 feet, people struggle to breathe and keep enough oxygen in their blood.

The flour is milled from hard wheat from Colorado, the Dakotas, and Montana, so the «high altitude» refers to where the grain is grown - some people feel that grain grown at high altitude is healthier than other grains.

This coffee is grown at an altitude between 3,200 and 3,900 feet, under shade trees, with orange and tangerine trees planted People: Arabica coffee farmers in Kintamani are organized into traditional groups called Subak Abian.

I have helped a few people perfect the recipe at different altitudes and with different oven temperatures.

This one, he says, should be able to fly five people to an altitude of 100 kilometres — where space officially begins — at speeds up to Mach 6, giving 2 minutes of weightlessness.

People living at high altitude have evolved different ways to cope with low oxygen levels.

Nielsen's team compared the DNA of the Tibetans with that of 40 Han Chinese people living at altitudes below 2000 metres.

In the meantime, she thinks the reason the selective difference at altitude is so large is that the altitude is constant, affecting people every day.

The lagoon is at an altitude of 3,020 m. and has recently registered the evolution of atmospheric pollution from Neolithic times up to the present day and which, therefore, offer trails of the activities carried out by each of the peoples that have inhabited southern Spain: Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Moslems, etc..

Unless a client is capable of troubleshooting at high altitude, or is one - on - one with a responsible guide, the person will always be especially vulnerable.

I was fascinated to learn about the highland people who live in the forests at altitudes between 200 and 800 metres, where there is great medicinal flora diversity.

During the study, 24 people travelled to Mount Everest and underwent assessments of glucose control, body weight changes and inflammation biomarkers at Everest Base Camp, which is at an altitude of 5,300 m. Half the group remained at Base Camp while the other half climbed the mountain to a maximum of 8,848 m. Measurements were taken in each group at week six and week eight of the trek.

Now researchers have discovered two new gene variants that help Tibetans use oxygen more efficiently than people who live at low altitudes; natural selection favored these variants in Tibetans, whose ancestors have lived at high altitude for thousands of years.

Two gene variants help Tibetans use oxygen more efficiently than people who live at low altitudes

To enable people around the world to witness first - hand this exciting milestone in humanity's quest to understand the cosmos, a live video stream of the inauguration will be webcast from the observatory's Operations Support Facility, at an altitude of 2900 meters in the Chilean Andes.

Eleven percent oxygen is close to what a person would encounter at high altitudes such as the base camp at Mount Everest.

The makeup department shows how faces and bodies break down at that altitude — as the doctor for Hall's team observes, the body begins to die so far above ground level — and we gain new respect for people who try literally to live above the clouds.

Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the former head of Australia's defense forces who now leads the multinational effort to find the jet and any sign of the 239 people who were on board when it disappeared March 8, reminded reporters Tuesday that «we don't know what altitude the aircraft was traveling at.

2005 BMW X3 The popularity of BMW's X Series proves that some people don't mind seeing BMW's classic twin grilles so high off the ground, and it shows that BMW can build performance at any altitude.

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FOR BODY SCANNERS: The TSA claims, «Each full body scan produces less than 10 microREM of emission, the equivalent to the exposure each person receives in about 2 minutes of an airplane flight at altitude.»

Some people can experience mild symptoms of altitude sickness at this altitude.

Most people will have no problems as long as they take the time to acclimatize properly but as the first day you stop at 4800 meters on the drive in you will most likely feel the altitude at that time!

I will check Sacred Valley Many people stayed at Sacred Valley because of the relatively low altitude.

They tell you how high up that is — but how many people actually looked and thought about the altitude at which the measurement is being done?

But what nobody talks about, what few people are aware of, and even those that are are loathe to acknowledge, is the complementary reduction in temperatures at high and very high altitudes.

blueice, you sound as a dedicated person; so let me correct you regarding establishment of desert being warmer than rainforest, on same latitude / altitude: deserts are hotter at daytime / colder at night, than in the rainforest.

I'm so looking forward to this exhilarating experience for those living at inconveniently lower altitudes that I plan to buy a Humvee for every member of my family along with an armory to keep these people off my property.

Also in 2009, the pair made a dangerous high - altitude skydive in another effort at raising awareness of people with disabilities.

If that's true, they should put the person in charge of developing them at the right altitude: at C level.»

People who live at higher or lower altitudes will note they need to make all sorts of adjustments when working with eggs.

At the top was Portland, Ore., due to the incessant drizzle, low altitude, and cloud cover that protect people from ultraviolet rays.