Sentences with phrase «slower response rates»

Higher caseloads for family social workers, for example, could lead to slower response rates and follow - up services.

«We recognized early on that the brand sites were generating leads, and we were looking for ways to beat the industry's slow response rate,» says Alex Perriello, president and CEO of Cendant's Real Estate Franchise Group, which operates the Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, and Sotheby's brands.

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The central bank, which kept its rate at 1.25 per cent Wednesday, said slower first - quarter growth of about 1.3 per cent was largely a result of housing markets» responses to stricter mortgage rules and sluggish exports.

Domestic demand has been held back by weak consumption, which fell by 2.6 per cent over the year to the December quarter in response to restrictive measures introduced in 2002, aimed at slowing the previously very strong rates of growth in consumer credit.

Third, in response to slower growth and lower inflation (owing partly to lower commodity prices), the world's major central banks pursued another round of unconventional monetary easing: lower policy rates, forward guidance, quantitative easing (QE), and credit easing.

Why it works: «Studies suggest that a calming response is triggered in an infant's brain when being carried or rocked, causing the baby's heart rate to slow and the muscles to become more relaxed,» says Kristie Rivers, M.D., a pediatrician in Fort Lauderdale.

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

These deep - diving marine mammals have similar physiological responses to those of an animal frozen in fear: Their heart rate, breathing and metabolism slow, mimicking a «deer in the headlights» reaction.

Lo's team set out to find ways to further weaken the tumors, since the drug addiction response (which can range from a mere slow down of the cancer's growth rate to cancer cell death), can be used to improve clinical outcomes.

The global collapse in fertility rates and rise of feminism is not the slow diffusion of a new idea, or a mechanistic response to aid workers handing out condoms.

In contrast to a fight - or - flight response, gearing the body up for action, a parasympathetic response slows heart rate and breathing and constricts the pupils.

In response to lost packets, computers slow down the rate at which they send their data, reducing congestion.

The function of these genes were involved in molecular maintenance strategies, such as DNA repair, chromosomal maintenance, immune response and programmed cell death The authors argue that the «slower rate of change in these functions is consistent with increased constraint on somatic cell maintenance as would be required in these relatively long - lived and large - bodied mammals, illustrated by the additional large and long - lived species with slower rates in these genes (e.g. double - strand break repair gene XRCC4 is also highly constrained in elephant.»

Despite some local successes and increasing responses (including extent and biodiversity coverage of protected areas, sustainable forest management, policy responses to invasive alien species, and biodiversity - related aid), the rate of biodiversity loss does not appear to be slowing.

Two, despite the animals» blindness, their pupils still constricted in response to ambient light, albeit at a slower rate than did the pupils of sighted mice.

For people, substitution therapies, which include slow acting opioids (methadone), opioids that produce a partial biological response (buprenorphine) or antagonists that block the opioid receptor (naloxone), are the only available treatments for opioid addiction are often leading to high rates of relapse.

The results showed that the infants» heart rate slowed in response to the brushstrokes but only when the strokes were of medium velocity; in other words, the touch of the medium - velocity brush helped to decrease their physiological arousal.

Plus, nature has proven to slow our heart rate, release serotonin (which stimulates the relaxation response), and grant us magical creativity and inspiration.

Dr. Richard Brown, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and coauthor of The Healing Power of the Breath, says that deep, controlled breathing communicates to the body that everything is okay, which down regulates the stress response, slowing heart rate, diverting blood back to the brain and the digestive system and promoting feelings of calm.

Slowing and deepening the breath activates the nervous system's relaxation response, slowing the heart rate and increasing oxygen intake and circulation — which, in turn, increase calmness and cSlowing and deepening the breath activates the nervous system's relaxation response, slowing the heart rate and increasing oxygen intake and circulation — which, in turn, increase calmness and cslowing the heart rate and increasing oxygen intake and circulation — which, in turn, increase calmness and clarity.

The key is to choose tunes you like that have a slow beat — such as classical music or soft jazz — because your heart rate will slow in response to them, which sets the stage for sleep.

Whenever the adrenal glands, which sit atop the kidney, are stimulated by stress, they excrete hormones including cortisol, adrenaline, and testosterone, which play a role in increasing heart rate and blood pressure, slowing digestion, and shutting down executive brain functions, among other physiological changes collectively known as the stress response.

People who are aerobically fit tend to have a slower resting heart rate and that's because the heart becomes a more efficient pump in response to regular aerobic exercise training.

The relaxation response is a natural phenomenon that we can induce in ourselves which when activated causes a decrease in our heart rate, slows our breathing down, reduces the metabolic activity within our body and quiets the mind in a measurable, predictable and reproducible way.

Fiber slows down the rate at which glucose enters the bloodstream, which controls the insulin response, but, at the end of the day, sugar is sugar.

When you eat foods low on the glycemic index (complex carbs), the insulin response is much more mild, since the food increases your blood sugar level at a slower rate, unlike simple carbs.

The heart rate also slows on the exhalation, making it less activating than an inhalation and inducing a relaxation response.

In AD patients consuming C8 MCTs for 6 months or more, there were variable responses, but a slower rate of decline in Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores versus AD patients receiving pharmacotherapy alone

In AD patients consuming C8 MCTs for 6 months or more, there were variable responses, but a slower rate of decline in Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores versus AD patients receiving pharmacotherapy alone [29].

In response to the slow rate of economic growth after 1973, states took a number of actions to improve the skills of students graduating from public high schools.

Euro NCAP was a response to high rates of serious injury in car crashes and the slow progress being made with improved safety regulations.

Rate of response is the same as all the Kobo units... somewhat slow.

The key ideas revolve around the way mutual funds and other asset managers react which makes interest rate movements and markets asymmetric: when rates fall the reactions are slow and measured, when they rise the response is accelerate by positive feedback.

Rating agencies are taking action in response to their view of the increased risk that certain FFELP ABS bonds will not be paid in full on their legal final maturity dates as a result of slower than expected repayment rates on FFELP student loans.

Cortisol is a stress hormone that has powerful anti-inflammatory properties, and prepares the body for the «fight or flight response,» where peripheral circulation is minimized and pooled centrally, the heart rate increases, the pupils dilate, and the gut slows down, leaving the body primed for a fight or rapid flight from danger.

In all cases, those with a fiduciary charge to protect their investors ultimately resorted to exaggerated claims about costs, relying on public fear to help slow the rate of policy response.

(More specifically, you've read it as supporting a * lag * in response, without considering that perhaps (given the physics of a high mass / high specific heat system like the oceans) what is really implied is, rather, a slow * rate * of response — but one which nevertheless «starts» immediately.)

If I understood Armour's paper correctly, he claimed that all feed - backs were close to linear in response to temperature over time, but that different regional warming rates (specifically, slow warming at high latitudes) could make the feed - backs and sensitivity appear to increase with time.

DK12 used ocean heat content (OHC) data for the upper 700 meters of oceans to draw three main conclusions: 1) that the rate of OHC increase has slowed in recent years (the very short timeframe of 2002 to 2008), 2) that this is evidence for periods of «climate shifts», and 3) that the recent OHC data indicate that the net climate feedback is negative, which would mean that climate sensitivity (the total amount of global warming in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels, including feedbacks) is low.

However, while August is generally a time when the decline rate begins to slow in response to decreasing solar radiation, this year the extent decline actually accelerated.

Hans, the models suggest it's more like 2000 years (most driven by the response time of the deep oceans, due to their very slow overturning rate).

Gregory and Forster 2008 and other papers show how high sensitivities don't really make any difference to current climate change rate, as high sensitivities slow down the system response.

1) The slower rate of increase (0.4 % / year) means that the climate response should be a little higher than TCR as defined by IPCC.

For the ice sheets the answer is probably no (but experts on the subject might have a better idea), but for the overturning circulation or the ecosystem changes, the answer is probably yes — i.e. a slower rate of warming could lead to a different response (allowing time for ocean mixing to mitigate the effects, or adaptation of species to the new conditions).

Imagine that the response of bristle - cone pines to temperature has a peak, i.e. it does not track temperature monotonically, but has a temperature with a maximum growth rate, then beyond that it slows down again (maybe it is too warm for the pine trees or something like that).

The results of the 2012 Am Law Tech Survey, which compiled the responses of 83 Am Law 200 CIOs and technology chiefs regarding their law firms» use of technology over the past year, were similar: the use of cloud computing by large law firms is increasing, albeit at a slower rate than that of solos of small firms.

During today's earnings call covering the first quarter of 2018, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked whether investors should be concerned about slowing upgrade rates due to Apple's battery replacement program and the fact that consumers may opt to replace their batteries instead of purchasing a new iPhone.In response, Cook said that he couldn't answer because it wasn't something that Apple took into account.

Likewise, it's up to a good technology consultant resume sample to create a clear roadmap toward transforming your slow - moving, ineffective resume into a sleek, streamlined document that dramatically improves your job response rates.