Sentences with phrase «significant changes in»

Similarly, the control group saw no significant changes in quality of life or perceived stress.

From a proposed border tariff that could affect energy imports and exports, to recent approvals for new oil pipelines and an early rollback of regulations on coal production, the Trump administration is likely to usher in significant changes in energy policy.

Using carbon dating and chemical analysis, researchers from Northumbria University, Newcastle have shown that significant changes in dust levels occurred in Romania around 6,100 years ago, despite the climate in Eastern Europe being relatively wet at this time, indicative of an extraregional source of such dust, most likely to be from the Sahara.

Researchers found working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in more effort but experienced no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

Fifty - three of the brain cells showed significant changes in activity as the coils rotated, reacting to field strength and polarity.

«Concentrated solar power plants are massive projects, requiring lots of steel and glass, which are unlikely to see significant changes in efficiency or cost,» says Adam Schultz, a senior policy analyst for the Oregon Department of Energy.

Any significant changes in election technology will come too late for this year's bid for the White House.

In addition, the team found that there were no significant changes in genetic diversity during the three years that the patients were followed.

As for the future, I look forward to significant changes in the medical paradigm, forced by relentless consumer demand for alternative therapies and the impending total collapse of the health - care system.

When Bordenstein and Brucker compared gene expression patterns in normal and microbe - free offspring, they found significant changes in many of the genes involved in the immune response (Science, doi.org/m87).

But the researchers found no significant changes in the expression of genes known to be involved in calcification from prior studies comparing strains with dramatically different calcification levels.

The authors of the paper also found significant changes in the genomic structure and gene families, contradicting the idea of a genuine «living fossil.»

Twelve months after enrollment results of the study showed no significant changes in average weight loss for participants in any of the four groups.

The scientists say that baseline data they collected and modeling predictions are important for comparative studies, especially if significant changes in amphibian health status or climatic conditions are encountered in the future.

These results point to significant changes in the American workforce with impacts likely felt by workers and employers.»

Scientists at USC have definitively demonstrated that large sets of variations in the genetic code that do not individually appear to have much effect can collectively produce significant changes in an organism's physical characteristics.

And we know that changes in solar activity have made significant changes in climate.

Tropical widening is associated with several significant changes in our climate, including shifts in large - scale atmospheric circulation, like storm tracks, and major climate zones.

«Although running induces both substantial changes in number and morphology of young neurons as well as significant changes in learning behavior, this does not prove a causal relationship,» noted Professor Bischofberger, «Nevertheless, our results, together with previous findings, suggest that the enhanced pattern separation during memory testing is most likely mediated via running - induced increase in adult neurogenesis.»

The annual Antarctic ozone hole has caused significant changes in Southern Hemisphere surface climate in the summer.

More than just a list, the Check - list groups birds into genera, families, and orders based on their evolutionary relationships, and some of the most significant changes in this year's Supplement involve the tanagers, family Thraupidae.

Their analysis reveals that the conversion of broadleaved forests to coniferous forests caused significant changes in evapotranspiration, the evaporation of water through leaves, and albedo, the amount of solar energy reflected from the Earth back into space.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the pesticide DDT and other banned compounds dropped about 50 percent in fish in Lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron from 1999 through 2009, although there were no significant changes in Lakes Superior and Erie fish, according to the study to be published this month in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Not surprisingly, even healthy individuals show significant changes in brain wave activity during brief exposures to olfactory stimuli that are actually below the sensory threshold and not even consciously perceived.

They are also going to have to preside over significant changes in academic culture, administration and leadership.

This shift results in significant changes in forest species composition with their accompanying ecological effects and, moreover, affects the capacity of forest biomass (the mass of living trees) to store carbon.

From building - blocking bollards to millimeter - wave scanners, the September 11 terrorist attacks have led to significant changes in security techniques and technology worldwide over the past decade to discourage future attacks and to avoid being surprised again.

When the researchers looked at a combination of three proteins in patients with concussion — copeptin, galectin 3, and matrix metalloproteinase 9 — they found significant changes in the levels that provided a high degree of sensitivity and specificity for injury compared to the controls.

Although there was an increase in the percentage of U.S. youth ages 12 to 19 reporting exposure to loud music through headphones from 1988 - 2010, researchers did not find significant changes in the prevalence of hearing loss among this group, according to a study published by JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.

Utilizing this very sensitive technique they were able to demonstrate significant changes in the expression of over 4000 genes.

Labour leader Ed Miliband is promising significant changes in the party's relationship with the unions.

The chief judge of New York's highest court, Jonathan Lippman, this week announced that the need for significant changes in grand - jury protocols is «obvious.»

«We have over the last five years... we have made very significant changes in the law,» Flanagan said of past ethics reforms.

«Listening to families across the [New York 19th Congressional] District, it is clear that we need to make significant changes in how this district is represented... I've run successful small businesses, and I'm not afraid to spend some of my own money to make sure that working families from this area finally have a voice in Congress.»

People familiar with Bratton's thinking said there would be significant changes in personnel, priorities and how the NYPD is organized and run.

He noted the Justices of the Supreme Court recognised the need for significant changes in our electoral process and therefore gave a road map in their various judgments during the 2012 Election Petition.

Northeast Queens will see significant changes in how the area is represented in state and federal government now that the dust has settled on the redistricting process.

«(T) he governor did not describe any significant changes in the oversight and enforcement structure,» NYPIRG said.

With significant changes in membership after the 2014 European elections, the group was re-formed as «Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy», led by Farage and David Borrelli (Five Star Movement, Italy).

I asked the mayor whether he plans on any significant changes in the allocation of disaster response responsibilities among City agencies or on the structure of those agencies with respect to disaster response: Press Q&A:

Significant changes in the nature of the party's membership and its registered supporters make the outcome of any future leadership contest hard to predict.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.), one of the most outspoken lawmakers seeking significant changes in how the military handles sexual assault cases, attempted to push the military service chiefs closer to her position on the matter.

Some intervention programs based on standard breastfeeding advice are associated with significant changes in knowledge, breastfeeding initiation and duration but not in exclusive breastfeeding rates [44, 45].

The body of the baby prepares itself to the birth, and the closer the date of birth is, the more significant the changes in its body are.

This study assesses whether there were significant changes in breastfeeding initiation and mixed breastfeeding duration between 2004 - 2005 and 2010 - 2011.

As a result, we have seen significant changes in what hospitals offer in terms of childbirth.

Dana has intimate familiarity with what it takes to make significant changes in a large, urban district like my own, and she is less - than - starry - eyed about the ability of any other district to follow suit without outside funding — over and above the current USDA reimbursement rate, OR that amount plus six cents.

«Significant changes in clinical practice have seen an increase in planned births before 39 - 40 completed weeks» gestation from an increased use of primary and repeat cesarean section and a greater use of labor induction.

Planned births occur where a considered decision is made to deliver an infant, and in recent years there have been significant changes in clinical practice resulting in an increase in planned births before the ideal time of birth at 39 - 40 weeks» gestation.

1 out of every 16 infants fed ready - to - eat liquid formula are exposed to BPA at doses exceeding those that caused increased aggression and significant changes in testosterone levels in laboratory animals.