Sentences with phrase «system effects of»

It is said that three minutes in a cold shower is equal to the magnetic, glandular, and nervous system effects of 31 minutes of meditation.

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Company director Shinya Takahashi followed with a history of Nintendo's platforms illustrating how Switch is in effect a composite of everything the company's been working toward for decades: a game system you can dock with a TV, but also removed to go mobile, and attach a pair of left and right controllers — called Joy - Cons — that let you play anywhere.
Any chilling effect on diplomatic relations could also affect the Chinese market's strict and complicated regulatory system, which limits the number of foreign - made movies that are released in the country each year.
And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.
«One thing we do know is that over the course of the years we have had some macroprudential changes to how this system works and we are comfortable those changes have done a lot to make sure the most fragile or the most vulnerable of those in that borrowing space are in effect being protected or have been prevented from excessive borrowing,» he said.
Such a paradigm shift in the system of provider incentives can have a broad and surprising effect on how all of us live our lives.
The pre-eminent American science journalist, Gleick herein explores the history and effects of knowledge communication between humans, drawing a link from African talking drums and the earliest alphabets through the telegraph — once «a nervous system for the Earth» — to Wikipedia and Twitter, and the current state of information overload from which so many claim to suffer.
Instead, you're seeing the predictable effect of artificially suppressed interest rates coupled with «free» money being poured into an investment and banking system through the primary dealer banks.
U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his move to strip Haitians, Salvadorans and others of their temporary legal status have had a broad effect on Canada's refugee system, Reuters interviews with social service providers, government officials and a review of Canadian immigration data show.
A bleaching event in 2017 devastated even more of that reef, and the cumulative effects have killed an estimated half of the magnificent system in just two years.
«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»
The graph of founder - density by city suggests a classic power law, which we see in network effect systems where «the rich get richer.»
So, they created a dog food that helps fight the effects of aging — everything from deteriorating brain function, immune system and energy levels.
If an interoperating system allows a lot more diversity, creativity, and meets the real needs of communities while at the same time not shutting them out of the greater network effect, then Facebook will certainly have to change.»
IEX emerged as a new exchange in 2016 with a system that slowed down trading in an effort to neutralize the effect of high - frequency trading.
Adding to these real - world effects was Luthor Jr.'s sponsorship of the free WiFi at New York Comic Con and launching a LexCorp website which mentions «the world's first neural network based operating system
The effects are being felt by some companies that have been in the vanguard of developing 3D printing technology, not just 3D Systems, but also rival MakerBot, which has laid off more than 100 employees over the last seven months.
There's been a lot of angst in the media and advertising industries about the potential effects of ad - blocking software, which appear to be increasing in popularity, in part because Apple's new operating system includes support for such programs.
System - wide sales growth and comparable sales are measured on a constant currency basis, which means that results exclude the effect of foreign currency translation and are calculated by translating prior year results at current year monthly average exchange rates.
The highest effect we ever find for Canadian trade policy is in the case of full unilateral elimination of tariffs for vehicles from all three trading partners — Korea, Japan, and the E.U. — and assuming a restrictive demand system.
At some point, the accumulating side effects may reach a critical mass and force a critical review of, and change to, the supply management system.
Chinese policy shifts may cause tectonic effects, but one virtue of their system is their big plans don't switch with each election cycle.
A more leftist system of greater drug price regulation could come with other negative side - effects, Miller continued.
While the payment - card - processing system as a whole isn't in danger, the proliferation of mobile devices will have a significant effect on the way we pay.
The reason the caffeine - nap combo is so effective is that caffeine takes about 45 minutes to be absorbed, so taking a nap while the caffeine is making its way through your system allows you to awake when the alertness effect of the caffeine has kicked in.
This system substantially improves the warning time to individuals, which would have the effect of reduce casualties from rocket attacks.
Although the Bush administration issued new regulations relating to the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens in units of the National Park System and National Wildlife Refuge System that went into effect on January 9, 2009 --
The system uses information from your sleep to create a model of your body clock predicting the effect on your concentration and performance throughout the day.
Beneficial effects of intermittent fasting and caloric restriction on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems
However, we also need to envisage a case where the effects of monetary policy on financial stability are not limited to one sector, as in the case we just saw, but spread across many different parts of the financial system.
an independent agency of the federal government, created in 1933, charged with preserving and promoting public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions up to applicable limits; by identifying, monitoring, and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy and the financial system when a bank or thrift institution fails; further information on the FDIC and FDIC coverage may be found at fdic.gov
Network effects — which Facebook has gone to great lengths to reinforce — lock both businesses and users into Facebook, even if they all individually might prefer a different system of rule.
These include the potential adverse effects on European economic activity, on the perceived health of the global banking system, and on broader financial market conditions.
The optimistic view is that over the next decade or two, Bitcoin will have the same kind of transformative effect on the financial system as the internet had in the telecommunications industry during the 1990s and 2000s.
The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not inflate commodity prices and wages.
What will make this recession worse than average is not the fact that a couple of additional industries are affected, but that the extreme speculation and excessive debt of recent years will propagate the effects of this downturn through the financial system.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.
Amongst other things, banks and other lenders need to consider the risks they are taking on, not just from individual loans, but from the collective effects of lending decisions on the system as a whole.
As I've already noted, Fed policies have significant effects internationally, given the central place of U.S. markets in the global financial system and the dollar's status as the leading global reserve currency.
In the past, Australia's centralised wage - setting system had the effect of spreading wage increases across the economy to sectors where profitability had not increased, resulting in higher inflation and unemployment.
The rationale for these changes is that the tax system is used solely to determine eligibility and the amount of benefit but it has no effect on taxes payable.
As the temporary once - off effects of GST, construction «pull forward», the Olympics and the threefold price pressures pass through the system, the fundamental health of the economy can reassert itself.
The outages have already proven to be one of the storm's deadliest effects: Eight people died and 115 were evacuated from a Hollywood, Florida, nursing home after the air conditioning system went out during the storm.
The first is a fiscal policy that acknowledges the role of the government social safety net in buffering the effects of creative destruction, seeks to provide those services in an efficient, market - oriented fashion, and pays for those services with a simple and transparent tax system.
One reason for the muted effect: Solar cells and modules account for one - third or less of the overall cost of solar systems, and the industry has been relentlessly cutting the costs of all components.
Metabolic inflammation is the inappropriate activation of your immune system, which can disrupt many of your body's systems and can have severe effects on weight retention and weight gain.
Martin Shkreli, the founder and chief executive of Turing, said that the drug is so rarely used that the impact on the health system would be minuscule and that Turing would use the money it earns to develop better treatments for toxoplasmosis, with fewer side effects.
It is a measure of the effect of the tax system on incentives to work, save, and shelter income from tax.
During my hiatus, I spoke with Rick Santelli (click on the image below) to discuss some of the new issues presenting investment opportunities, in addition to concerns surrounding potential negative fallout from ill - conceived models, such as the effect of the border adjustment tax on the global financial system.
In effect, the Federal Reserve decided last week to overstep its legal boundaries - going beyond providing liquidity to the banking system and attempting to ensure the solvency of a non-bank entity.
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