Sentences with phrase «showed less ability»

However, the offspring of these adults, when reared in hypoxic conditions showed less ability to regulate their oxygen uptake and were significantly smaller than those of normoxic parents, potentially because they were having to expend more energy simply to survive in those conditions.

Nucleus accumbens Famous for its role in reward, pleasure and addiction, this area showed less ability to change in a study of rats with symptoms of postpartum depression.

Alienated children of all ages show more problems with impulse control than normal, and many children show less ability to be considerate of the feelings of others (except when they accommodate a chosen parent) than normal for the child's age.

Not exact matches

Continued Markham: «For fund managers, financial industry leaders or any regulated group, the ability to show a regulator a report of [expenditures] in real time, having spent far less time and money gathering that data relative to legacy solutions, is immensely powerful.»

The move, first reported by Bloomberg Law, would scale back a 2013 Obama - era policy, known as Directive 307, which had expanded the DOL's ability to investigate and sanction federal contractors that showed a pattern of paying female workers and employees of color less than their white male colleagues.

Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait - the ability to understand numbers - also is shared by humans and their primate cousins.

Research has shown that when parents behave harshly or unpredictably — especially at moments when their children are upset — the children are less likely over time to develop the ability to manage strong emotions and more likely to respond ineffectively to stressful situations.

Their study also showed that sleeping less than eight hours decreased individual's ability to resolve conflicts and were more likely to exhibit negative emotions.

By the age of 11 there was no difference in reading ability level between the two groups, but the children who stared at 5 developed less positive attitudes to reading, and showed poorer text comprehension than those children who had started later.

I think that Danny Alexander, Cable AND a majority of Lib Dems would think long and hard about teaming up with them — especially as all polls show the public having less confidence in Labour's ability to manage the economy than the Conservatives»

Those scores reflect teacher evaluations from the 2013 - 14 school year, the same year that less than 4 in 10 students across the state showed proficient abilities in math and English language assessments.

Men showed less activity in a key face - processing region of the brain than the unstressed men did, suggesting that their ability to evaluate facial expressions declined.

The study showed that 13 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had CT scans showing new brain damage, as well as 39 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, had significantly less ability to coordinate their eye movements than normal, uninjured control subjects.

«Making a leap from high - ability high school to college of lesser academic status can be a real downer: Students who are «undermatched» as they shift into higher education show a 27 - percent hike in symptoms of depression.»

«Some studies have shown that menthol smokers have had less successful rates of quitting smoking than non-menthol smokers, feel less confident in their ability to quit, and have more relapses and quit attempts than non-menthol smokers,» says Olivia Wackowski, MPH, a tobacco specialist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, in New Brunswick.

Research shows that the ability of ADHD children to stay attentive and vigilant significantly worsened after losing less than 60 minutes of sleep each night for a week.

Other studies have shown that getting less than 5 hours of sleep a night can impact driving ability and cognitive function the next day.

Previous studies show that individuals recovering from stroke who attended 8 weeks of bi-weekly yoga rehabilitation demonstrated significant improvements in balance, decreased fear of falling, greater physical strength, walking ability and range of motion, and less pain.

With less ability to function, less antibodies are produced against it so you could not distinguish whether the thyroid showed improvement or more damage.

In one study in the Journal of Psychology Science, psychologists show that when you hold in your emotions, the feeling does not have the ability to dissipate from your body, but when you identify and express the emotions, it allows your body to feel less of this emotion in your body [3].

And while beauty is more of a mindset, and less a specific ability for us to fit some impossible standard created by Hollywood or Instagram, studies show that fatty acids also reduce deep wrinkles, restore our skin's elasticity and boost collagen!

Greater numbers make the bosses less overwhelming, and we all hunger for opportunities to show off our party tricks, like how my insect glaive's vaulting ability makes it easy for me to mount creatures, while my gunlance - toting partner can unload what appears to be a small nuclear device into a sleeping monster's face.

As the season progresses, the show becomes less about the Young Pope's ability to dazzle admirers with a smile than his willingness to compensate for his own insecurity by doubling down on extreme, conservative views.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

In secondary, PISA data show teenage girls are less confident when it comes to applying their maths knowledge in a real - world task: Although 88 per cent of 15 - year - old girls were confident in their ability to solve a formal maths equation, only 41 per cent were confident they could calculate the petrol consumption of a car (compared to 86 per cent and 66 per cent, respectively, for boys).

PISA results show that, even after accounting for differences in performance and socio - economic status, girls who perceive that their parents encourage them to be confident in their abilities were 21 per cent less likely to report that they feel tense when they study, on average across OECD countries.

Pupils who lack verbal skills, but have high spatial ability perform less well in GCSEs, research shows.

PISA results show that, even after accounting for differences in performance and socio - economic status, girls who perceive that their parents encourage them to be confident in their abilities were 21 % less likely to report that they feel tense when they study, on average across OECD countries.

In general, girls are less confident in their math abilities and show less interest in math and science careers, beginning in early adolescence.

Research shows that students are becoming more self - centered and less empathetic, affecting their ability to learn and connect.

The Per Pupil Revenue Limit (PPRL) analysis shows that districts of higher poverty have significantly lower PPRL, and therefore less ability to receive aid and levy appropriate taxes to fund public education than more affluent districts.

All applicants less than 21 years old must provide either financial information sufficient to show an independent means to repay required minimum payments, or have a joint applicant at least 21 years of age who furnishes information sufficient to show ability to repay required minimum payments.

An elapsed period of less than two years, but not less than 12 months, may be acceptable if the borrower can show that the bankruptcy was caused by extenuating circumstances beyond his or her control and has since exhibited a documented ability to manage his or her financial affairs in a responsible manner.

The company has shown a relatively impressive ability to keep operating expenses in check and generate solid free cash flow, while the P / E is less than 10, the dividend payout is more than 5 % and profits per share are expected to increase from $ 6.14 last year to $ 6.67 this year and $ 7.79 in 2015.

All applicants less that 21 years old must provide either financial information sufficient to show an independent means to repay required minimum payments or have a joint applicant at least 21 years of age who furnishes information sufficient to show ability to repay required minimum payments.

Studies have shown that upon the initial meeting between you and your client, it usually takes less than two minutes for them to form an opinion as to whether or not they feel confident in your ability to do the job.

If you've been to the show before, try to recall where everyone heads first, and go the other way — less traffic means more ability to navigate.

Scientific research has shown that thin dogs are less likely to develop hip dysplasia, and if your dog has bad hips and is overweight or obese, losing weight will improve his ability to walk.

The levels were as interesting as any other Halo campaign but due to the better graphics and the ability to climb up a ledge rather than having to jump above it's height it made it great to explore for skulls and collectables, within the 9 hour co-op game both myself and Russ found ourselves venturing off and climbing up different parts of the maps to see how high we could get or what was hidden away, we came across a few Easter eggs on the way and found some rare or «special» weapons, Halo has always been a FPS which you have to explore to find Easter eggs etc. but Halo 5 just seemed better than the rest for this, the game flowed well between each level bouncing from blue team and team Osiris following the story to show where paths cross and what each team is doing in between, I feel like all of the trailers kind of pointed the story into a different direction to the way the campaign developed which was surprising and confusing at the same time but none the less it was a great campaign and one of the best Halo games I have played in many years, I was never a fan of Halo 4 I thought it lacked everything a Halo game should be but Halo 5 has surprised me and was well worth the wait.

In 2006, a small study by Indiana University found that teenagers who played violent video games showed higher levels of emotional arousal, but less activity in the parts of the brain associated with the ability to plan, control and direct thoughts and behavior.

Each day seems to find more curators bemoaning the ability of commercial galleries, with less bureaucracy and more financial clout, to create strong shows with speed and efficiency.

«For instance, elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, near the Tanzanian border in the south, have shown the ability to distinguish between the voices and scents of potentially threatening spear - carrying Maasai warriors with those of less threatening farming tribes,» Saigal writes.

When applied to complex earth system processes, where several irreversible processes compete to deplete the same gradients, it is easily shown that the maximum thermodynamic efficiency is much less than the classic Carnot limit, so that the ability of the earth system to generate power and disequilibrium is limited.

While undue hardship may involve something less than insolvency, the Agency is not bound at law to find undue hardship simply if the carriers show any negative impact on their ability to weather a future economic downturn.

Research shows that there are genuine scientific reasons why young people are less likely to anticipate danger and assess risk and we want to do what we can to help develop this ability as much as we possible.»

But bitcoin has shown, on several occasions, a persistent ability to defy detractors like me to grow an order of magnitude in less than 12 months; if it does so again, it will be three times larger than LTCM.

The Specifications show that the ZenFone 3 Ultra has superior camera abilities and costs about $ 50 less.

More disruptive girls tend to show less empathy than girls without behavior problems, and this deficit is greater among females than among males.95 It may be that lower levels of empathy pose a greater risk for girls than for boys because empathy strengthens the ability to foster the strong attachments and relationships that girls value more highly than boys do.96

Research shows that attacking or challenging your partner's behaviour could make them feel even worse, leading them to become more withdrawn and less confident in their ability to improve things [5].

However, recent research has shown that children exposed to high levels of adversity may be less prepared to succeed in school, in part due to deficits in executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These deficits may undermine children's abilities to succeed in academics and develop positive peer and teacher relationships.12, 14,15 This may have long - term implications for school success given that the achievement gap tends to persist and even widen throughout the school years.16, 17