Sentences with phrase «quality index levels»

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EPA has developed an Air Quality index to help explain air pollution levels to the general public.

Published in open - access journal Frontiers in Physiology, the study reports that obese men have increased levels of inflammatory markers in their seminal fluid and lower sperm quality, both of which correlate with their body mass index (BMI).

Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

One of the labs I run on my patients is a 24 - Hour Adrenal Stress Index, a salivary test which tracks your cortisol levels, HPA axis quality, and other hormone levels throughout the day to get a comprehensive view of what's going on in your particular case.

Low growth - hormone levels and production are associated with low quality of life as measured by numerous criteria, including the Nottingham Health Profile and the Psychologic General Well - Being Index.

100 - point achievement index; 100 - point progress index; four -, five -, and six - year cohort graduation rates; 100 - point English - learner progress index; various school - quality indicators depending on grade level

While grades on the Chance - for - Success Index are sometimes interpreted as measures of school quality, researchers from CREDO found that the grades are closely related to measures of family income and the level of education achieved by parents in a state, and do not represent the contribution of a state's schools to the success of its youngsters.

One of Ohio's primary school - quality indicators is its performance index (PI)-- essentially, a weighted proficiency measure that awards more credit when students achieve at higher levels.

Kentucky does not provide a school - level teacher - quality index that demonstrates the academic backgrounds of a school's teachers and the ratio of new to veteran teachers.

The LibertyQ U.S. Large Cap Equity Index utilizes a multi-factor selection process that is designed to select equity securities from the Russell 1000 ® Index that have exposure to four investment style - factors: quality, value, momentum and low volatility — while seeking a lower level of risk and higher risk - adjusted performance than the Russell 1000 ® Index over the long term.

A single - family Passivhaus home was placed in a small biome contaminated with extreme levels of pollution (1,000 µg / m3 of PM2.5 vs. the EPA's «good» air quality index limit of 12 µg / m3).

Each FCI report will give the specific property and its surrounding area a rating from the EarthSense NO2 Air Quality Index, which assesses average NO2 levels at 100m resolution as a result of vehicle emissions and other sources.

Highlights ASE Certified Automotive Master Technician ASE Certified Advanced Engine Performance Specialist Certification Average of 65 labor hours earned per week over the past ten years 99.4 % career customer satisfaction index from all third - party survey results Successfully upsell services on at least 40 % of all work orders Experience Master Repair Technician 2/1/2009 — Present House of Imports — Eugene, OR Perform services and repairs according to factory specifications Achieve an average of 15 % saving for shop customers compared to dealer pricing Maintain highest level of quality and reduced shop rework by 18 % Negotiate additional repair fees with federal warranty claims

Sleep quantity and quality (sleep diaries and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) and nocturnal activity levels (actigraph monquality (sleep diaries and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) and nocturnal activity levels (actigraph monQuality Index) and nocturnal activity levels (actigraph monitors).

Where studies have failed to find associations between high EE and functioning, this may be associated with low levels of EE in these samples and therefore insufficient deviation in the data to produce significant effects.10, 28 Therefore, although high EE may be associated with social functioning and challenging behaviors, given the relative low levels of high EE in staff - patient relationships, other constructs such as the absence of a positive relationship may be more robust indices of relationship quality in this group.28

They hypothesized that these variables indexed the quality of dyadic interaction, and used a latent variable model to study the association of the couple - level variable with economic and employment stressors.

General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.

According to The Green Street Commercial Property Price Index, property values have risen at a strong pace over the past year and prices of institutional - quality commercial real estate are now about 15 percent higher than the peak levels reached at the top of the last cycle.