Sentences with phrase «tendency for»

This tendency for chemical levels to decline the longer one eats plant - based suggests that food of animal origin contributes substantially, but note the levels never get down to zero; so, diet is not the only source.

Node Smith, ND A very interesting study on an off - label use of a common diabetes medication for the treatment of cocaine addiction was recently published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.1 The research is specifically addressing the tendency for cocaine addicts to relapse on the drug.

As opposed to traditional wisdom that has been around for decades, holding your breath while doing a contraction for 6 secs or more is not a great idea — particularly if you have a tendency for having high blood pressure, as I do.

The lack of effect at the glucose disposal level amongst males in this study may be explained by their tendency for greater baseline glucose disposal rates, as has been observed by others.56

Along with cauliflower, consumption of cabbage may render one fewer tendency for stroke.

Doctors need to be aware of this tendency for bias, says Chrisler, and should be making efforts to stop such behaviors in their offices.

«It is a natural tendency for women to look back and try to find an association between something they did and the loss,» says Zev Williams, MD, PhD, chief of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Columbia University Medical Center.

«It is important for healthcare providers to know that there is a systematic tendency for ambulatory blood pressure to exceed clinic blood pressure in healthy, untreated individuals evaluated for hypertension during well - patient visits.»

In recent years there's a tendency for reducing consumption of boiled potatoes.

And recognizing the incredible level of determination and tendency for pushing himself out of the imaginable limits this strongman has showed so far, who could possibly doubt his ability to make it happen?

There's a tendency for one knee to slide up and out.

Staying up late and sleeping in every morning is also associated with a greater tendency for risk - taking, according to a 2014 study in Evolutionary Psychology.

When something works, makes people feel great, there's a tendency for misguided leaders to wrap it up, complicate it a bit, and make people feel like «You have to go through me to get this great thing.»

The study done by scientists from the University of Grenoble - Alpes in France managed to find a relation between how much spicy food a man likes and his tendency for aggression, social dominance and risky behaviors.

«Manufacturers have deep pockets, and there is a tendency for research efforts to follow the money (with accompanying academic prestige), rather than a path defined only by the needs of patients and the public.»

«Because you don't get light as early, it allows that tendency for delay to take place.

On this front, Yildiz, working with CRISPR - Cas9 co-discoverer Jennifer Doudna, also at Berkeley, on August 4 described in Science Advances why CRISPR - Cas9 cuts at specific target sequences in the genome, and where the tendency for off - target binding comes from.

«This study indicates that there is an increasing tendency for people to label themselves as gluten - sensitive, when they are not coeliac.

Stiffness, the tendency for heat to rapidly escape as the plasma temperature gradient rises above a threshold, has been observed in tokamaks but less so in stellarators.

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, doi: 10.1029 / 2011GL049784 Arctic winter 2010/2011 at the brink of an ozone hole ``... severe ozone depletion like in 2010/2011 or even worse could appear for cold Arctic winters over the next decades if the observed tendency for cold Arctic winters to become colder continues into the future....»

«Our general prediction of the model is that treatment that dramatically alters the microbiome might lower [the] tendency for altruistic behavior,» Hadany said.

«These are problems with solutions which are not being effectively used — everyone is part of the problem and the solution but there's a bit of a tendency for one group to blame another.»

Thus instead of a strong zonal wind that keeps cold polar air locked in the Arctic, there is a tendency for more cold air outbreaks to middle latitudes.

«This study shows that young people who experiment with tobacco cigarettes also try e-cigarettes, and vice versa, consistent with a tendency for young people to try things, and to try things that are related to each other.

Thus instead of a strong zonal wind that keeps cold polar air locked in the Arctic, there is a tendency for a less zonal flow and thus more cold air outbreaks to middle latitudes.

SEM has highlighted a reduced agglomeration tendency for modified phosphors.

Similarly, if as a number of recent studies suggest, anthropogenic climate forcing leads to a greater tendency for the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)[or related «Arctic Oscillation» (AO)-RSB- pattern, we would expect increased baroclinicity and storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Atlantic ocean and neighboring western Europe..

There's also a tendency for some people just to concentrate on atmospheric or surface air temperatures when there are other, more useful, indicators that can give us a better idea how rapidly the world is warming.

This long - term change in the East Asian monsoon index is consistent with a tendency for a southward shift of the summer rain belt over eastern China (Zhai et al., 2004).

Couple that with a condition known to the plant community as «plant blindness» - the tendency for students to be more interested in studying animals than plants, and biology teachers» preference for using animal systems to demonstrate biological concepts - and you have yourself a plant publicity crisis.

Island dwarfism», the tendency for animals to reduce their size as a means of adapting to a severely constricted environment, such as an island, is thought to explain Hobbit's small size

«Unlike in the evening we could see that there was a tendency for the children with ADHD to fall asleep faster during the day than the children in the control group.

The tendency for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder to lash out in anger can be significantly amplified if they are also depressed, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Psychologists also tackled problems of publication bias head - on, he said, referring to a tendency for studies that are new and flashy to get more space in the journals than replications of previous work; that's the case even though replications are what show that science is strong.

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

In MS patients, Patil and colleagues were expecting a greater tendency for forgiveness, because of difficulty with Theory of mind that has been described in some of these patients, as well as a decrease in empathic response.

If true, it is not at all surprising because there is a natural tendency for arm movements to be made outwards away from the body, meaning that left - handed people should find it slightly easier to write from left to right.

As it happens, this tendency for some agelenids to eat others may help explain why the hobo has apparently harmed people in North America but not in Europe.

«There is a tendency for the net influence of fire to suppress precipitation in northern sub-Saharan Africa,» he said.

The tendency for adults to care for their offspring beyond birth is a key feature of the reproductive biology of living archosaurs — birds and crocodilians — with the latter protecting their young from potential predators and birds, not only providing protection but also provision of food.

In Mother Nature, published in 1999, Hrdy synthesized her previous work, positing that both infanticide and polyandry — the tendency for females to mate with more than one male — exist because humans evolved as cooperative breeders and, as such, are ill - equipped to cope without helpers.

In fact, the researchers found a tendency for older streets to be the more central ones in modern times — 90 percent of Groane's most interconnected roads in 2007 had already existed in 1833.

Co-author Pam Feetham said: «The responses are remarkably consistent from both countries, with surprisingly few variations except for a slight tendency for older respondents to view climate engineering more favourably.»

Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi established that although certain genes are linked to an increased tendency for antisocial behavior, these genetic traits don't necessarily manifest themselves if the individual has had a favorable upbringing.

They boil down to climate (warm and friendly behavior), input (the tendency for teachers to devote more energy to their special students), output (the way teachers call on those students more often for answers) and feedback (giving generally more helpful responses to the students for whom teachers have the highest hopes).

Although there was a tendency for people to experience more anxiety about romantic relationships if they were from divorced families, the link between parental divorce and insecurity in romantic relationships was relatively weak.

There was a tendency for pairs that knew each other well to show more altruistic behavior than pairs that were unfamiliar.

There would be a natural tendency for people to go off and work on other projects.»

«We further find that the tendency for givers to select overly specific gifts can contribute to gift nonuse.

The tendency for UGC to become a mere agent of government was exacerbated — until 1979, when it regained a somewhat greater initiative.