Sentences with phrase «relatively higher activity»

1) The start date in 1923 is a relatively low period in landfalling and basin - wide hurricane / or tropical storm time series with relatively higher activity in the late 1800s.

Not exact matches

People are «happiest when they were just talking to one another, when they gardened, knitted, or were involved in a hobby,» he explains, citing his research and noting that all of these activities «demand a relatively high investment of psychic energy.»

«However, if we frame this from a multi-year perspective, we're still at a relatively high level of deal and funding activity, so the sky is not necessarily falling although the forecast is uncertain.»

The portfolios of investors just after retaining a financial advisor exhibit relatively high trading activity for restructuring to increase diversification and otherwise lower risk (less home bias and more passive investments).

Activity is thus likely to have held up at a relatively high level in the early part of 2004, but is expected to decline thereafter.

Although a large part of this activity probably reflects the desire to complete construction prior to the introduction of the GST, other factors have contributed to the strong demand for housing, notably the relatively high levels of affordability throughout 1999.

«I think there will always be a need for people to identify and review the high priority activities but I do think that a substantial amount of work that is done today that is relatively trainable can be replaced via technology over the coming decade,» Sutton said.

Thus we must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the later states of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade.

Their large numbers (approximately two - fifths of the population in 1960), their relatively high levels of religious commitment and political activity, and their conservative opinions on most issues all combined to produce formidable support for the GOP up and down the ticket.

We must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the latter stages of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade (PR 261).

Fathers were rated relatively high by the Family Nurse, for both involvement and understanding of the material, and as having a low level of conflict with the programme hand - outs and activities.

Significantly, the trend toward relatively high levels of political interest and activity holds true beyond just the top social network enthusiasts: in most cases, average MySpace / Facebook users were closer in behavior to the power social networkers than they were to the non-networked population.

Every 11 years or so, the sun's magnetic activity peaks and then troughs, resulting in relatively high and then low numbers of dark spots and flares on the solar surface.

The gene for MAO - A has several variants, some of which are associated with relatively higher and lower levels of enzyme activity.

During these difficult conditions, the participants showed relatively lower levels of activity in prefrontal brain regions which may compromise their ability to implement effective, higher - level thinking strategies in cognitively demanding situations.

After using new methods to measure user influence and the extent to which the Generalized Friendship Paradox exists in social networks, a research team has concluded that almost all users (up to 90 per cent of us) experience this paradox — even those with relatively high levels of activity and influence.

Eight HARs showed differences in their enhancer activity when the human mutations were present.4 These differences modify how genes were expressed in the developing limb (HAR2, 2xHAR114), eye (HAR25), and central nervous system (2xHAR142, 2xHAR238, 2xHAR164, 2xHAR170, ANC516 / HARE5).4, 10 Because relatively few time points have been examined, it is likely that an even higher percentage of the tested HARs are active enhancers at some point during embryonic development or in adult tissues, possibly with human - chimp differences.

Yoga is a relatively safe activity when practiced responsibly, especially when compared to higher impact activities such as running and contact sports.

And that included even those people who had relatively high levels of physical activity when they weren't sitting.

Basic Multiplier: Assuming you're starting out from a relatively lean base of around 10 - 15 % body fat (I highly recommend that anyone committing to a focused bulk be somewhere around this range before beginning), you can simply multiply your current body weight in pounds by 14 - 16, going with the lower or higher end depending on your overall activity level.

Instead, they imagine themselves performing relatively high intensity activities requiring significant sweating and heavy breathing; things like running, swimming, cycling, stair climbing, aerobics, etc..

CrossFit is another metabolic conditioning technique, often done as a group activity, this involves a variety of functional movements that engage the whole body at a relatively high intensity.

You can eat a wide variety of low - glycemic carbohydrates that have relatively little impact on your blood sugar (in modest proportions) in order to fuel yourself in a way that allows for high - intensity bouts of activity when necessary.

«Generally, brain cells have relatively high metabolic activity and use discrete oxidative damage - repair mechanisms to remove end - products of intracellular damage.

Therefore, it appears that the lower erector spinae muscle activity is relatively high regardless of load, while thoracic erector spinae muscle activity displays a larger increase between loads < 60 % and loads of > 80 % of 1RM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcitriol Because the normal dietary range of Ca is lower than that attainable from supplements, (and even dairy products are a relatively recent food for adults) this problem does not exist in nature so we have not adapted to retain vit D activity in the face of this high doses.

Dr. Caballero asked whether needs for electrolytes and water remain relatively constant through various levels of physical activity, except at the very high or competitive level.

Regardless, AFF is definitely the type of site where increased involvement (and payment) on your part will get you better results, but with such a high number of members and constant activity it's easy to connect with others quickly and relatively hard to get bored thanks to the magnitude of features.

That more pragmatic role will be played by the — relatively — higher - roofed Compact Activity Tourer (CAT).

given the small bid / ask spread and relatively high order sizes on both sides, it would take a lot of activity to move the price outside of the bid / ask spread.

Keep in mind that this isn't «your father's» Visteon, as the company will exit bankruptcy permanently improved and completely transformed, offering investor's both a 1) quick, high - return, relatively risk - free arbitrage and / or 2) an inexpensive way to play any upturn in — or at least the stabilization of — global auto sales and economic activity in general.

Combine the many leisure activities with Arlington Heights relatively high cost of living — 10 % above the U.S. average in 2009 — and you realize that the more ways you can save money on fixed expenses the better.

Mortgage fraud is a relatively low - risk, high - yield criminal activity that tempts many.

Rewards Checking Accounts - These are checking accounts that will pay a relatively high interest rate (3 % or more) provided you generate enough activity.

High Ropes Course These activities range from the relatively easy to the most challenging.

Increased human activity disproportionately in the northern hemisphere may lead to greater particulate (mostly soot like with relatively high absorptivity) deposition on Arctic ice which absorbs solar radiation and leads to the ice melting.

And even regions which are not traditionally associated with tectonic activity, can also show geological movement at relatively high rates, e.g., using a GPS study, Dokka et al., 2006 (Abstract; Google Scholar access) found that the land at southeast Louisiana (USA), including New Orleans and the larger Mississippi Delta, is naturally subsiding at a rate of -5.2 ± 0.9 mm / yr.

Because the active region of convective clouds is located relatively in the eastern Pacific sector during El Niño events, it is suggested that the stronger upwelling and the higher tropopause associated with the convective cloud activity bring about less total ozone.»

«Alec Rawls says;... Muscheler's that I was paraphrasing (with emphasis added): ``... Solar activity & cosmic rays were relatively constant (high solar activity, strong shielding and low cosmic rays) in the second part of the 20th century and, therefore, it is unlikely that solar activity (whatever process) was involved in causing the warming since 1970...»

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

So, for example, if we go through a period of relative higher solar output, and less volcanic activity, relatively less cloudiness, and higher greenhouse gas levels, these would all tend to increase ocean heat content.

At the root of the problem is reduced night jet activity and relatively high ozone levels (yes high) over Antarctica.

The cosmogenic radionuclides confirm the existence of these and other longer periodicities (e.g., 208 year DeVries or Suess cycle, 2300 year Hallstatt cycle, and others) and also the present relatively high level of solar activity, although there is some controversy as to how unusually high it really is [Muscheler et al., 2007; Usoskin et al., 2004; Steinhilber et al., 2008].

At least four key findings from these projects relating to arctic heterotrophic food web, pelagic - benthic coupling and biodiversity have emerged: (1) Contrary to a long - standing paradigm of dormant ecosystems during the long arctic winter, major food web components showed relatively high level of winter activity, well before the spring release of ice algae and subsequent phytoplankton bloom.

During disturbed conditions, it is still relatively small (10 — 13 %) for predictions provided 1 h ahead and may reach 20 % and 30 % at middle - to - low and middle - to - high latitudes, respectively, for high ionospheric activity level and predictions provided 24 h ahead.

You aren't thinking about the warming period early last century, because we know it was a relatively brief period, and so lacked huge significance, and was caused by a combination of CO2 emissions, high solar activity and low volcanic activity and the later two factors haven't been apparent since the 1970's modern warming period.

While I have not conducted any research into the matter, I believe this may have to do with relatively recent changes in parenting and educational programs that place a high value on structure and planned activities.

Low app discovery activity, relatively minimal app download activity, minimal app engagement in relation to the breadth of available apps and very high mobile web engagement paint a picture of human - smartphone - and - app - behavior we rarely see.

Relatively large falls in average wages in high - skill sectors such as professional and scientific activities reduced the wage gap between high - and lower - skill industries.

It is likely that social desirability leads parents to over report these activities; indeed, the relatively high rates of activity reported by control parents suggest that this is the case.