Sentences with phrase «while such a decrease»

In 2015 scores in mathematics decreased for low - and mid-performing 4th graders compared to 2013, and this year we again see a decrease for lower performers in 4th grade math, as well as in reading, while such a decrease is not evident for higher performers.

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While there's reason to believe, based on past changes, that media outlets might not see sizable decreases in traffic from Facebook, it's natural for media outlets to be wary of such a huge and drastic change to the way news posts are treated on Facebook.

While ROI targets are typically financial, such as Increasing revenue or decreasing costs, they may also be non-financial such as increasing productivity, improving operational efficiency or reducing time to market which have financial implications.

As such, the odds of getting stopped out decrease, while the odds of producing an above average gain increase.

While some of these measures seem sensible, overall there is little empirical evidence that such security measures decrease the likelihood of school shootings.

While Tillich provides a system to overcome the subject - object dilemma of Cartesianism, he denies that Being - itself is actually increased or decreased by events, i.e., it is not in process, and, therefore, does not share in human adventures.5 Camus» position implies that if there is a God, such a God would be tolerable only if God is involved in the struggle of man's existence.

While there has been a decrease in fighting in parts of Burma, in other areas such as Kachin and the northern Shan states, there is more than ever.

Antihistamine and decongestant combinations such as Dimetapp and Contac while also posing a risk of decrease milk supply, will also have a sedating effect and can cross into breast milk affecting your baby.

While some of the benefits, such as regulation of baby's body temperature and reduction of baby's post-procedural pain occur within minutes of KC, others — such as decreased levels of stress for mom and baby, increase in mom's milk production or a healthy sleep cycle for baby — take longer.

Football might be synonymous with impact, but such technology combined with the measures and changes being passed throughout the country will decrease the risk of serious, perhaps permanent, brain damage to athletes while enabling them to keep on playing the sport they love.

It is hard to understand why governments defend a system with such a poor record, or why they are dismissive of new technologies that promise increased patient safety while decreasing the time and cost of drug development, not to mention the savings to healthcare systems from fewer adverse drug reactions.

Results from the study find that throughout the course of development, language indicative of self - centeredness (e.g., using the word «I») decreased, while complexity (words such as «but» and «although») increased.

«To think that a simple decrease in calories caused such a widespread change, that was remarkable,» says Don Ingram, a gerontologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who designed the study almost three decades ago while at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

While bans in public transportation or in schools were found to decrease the exposure of non-smokers, those in recreational public places, such as bars, restaurants or recreational facilities, increased their exposure by displacing smokers to private places where they contaminate non-smokers, and in particular young children.

But while the historical observations showed a decreasing trend, climate models suggested such events should increase.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

While snowmaking allows some downhill ski areas to compensate for decreasing snow totals, sports such as cross-country skiing and snowmobiling are incredibly vulnerable to these trends since artificial snow is not used for these open courses.

Microbial richness decreased while levels of certain types of microbes, such as Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria, increased.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

Peppermint essential oil may decrease milk supply while nursing, and as such, I avoid it topically while nursing.

While it is true that low levels do present themselves in unpleasant symptoms such as decreased muscle, low libido and gaining weight, one should always strive for a natural supplement to increase testosterone before trying TRT with either gel or injection.

The findings revealed that individuals following a Mediterranean diet had reduced sleep apnea symptoms such as a decreased amount of disturbances, called apneas, while in the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep, which normally makes up about 25 % of total sleep throughout the night.

In fact, many people see little to no increase in their LDL cholesterol while experiencing beneficial changes in other markers, such as an increase in HDL cholesterol and a decrease in triglycerides, blood sugar, and insulin levels — all of which are associated with reduced risk of CVD.

In the first recorded volume of my Latest in Nutrition series back in 2007, we learned that meat is so packed with sex steroid hormones that when pregnant women eat meat, it may affect the development of their sons» genital organs while still in the womb — such that when they grow up, they have decreased fertility.

Some of these treatments such as Gerson Therapy work to strengthen and balance the immune system and take some time to be effective while other treatments, such as High Dose Vitamin C intravenous therapy, target cancer cells safely and work right away to decrease tumor load, allowing time for the nutritional program to work.

Just as different kinds of fats have different effects in our bodies (e.g., saturated and trans fats are linked to increased risk for cardiovascular disease while omega - 3 fats decrease cardiovascular disease risk), some carbohydrates, such as whole grains, are healthful while others, such as refined grains and the foods made from them, are not.

Some studies have found that eradication of H. pylori decreases risk factors associated with atherosclerosis, such as oxidative stress, C - reactive protein, body fat, and blood pressure (27), while others found that H. pylori eradication increased the incidence of hyperlipidemia and obesity (28).

Numerous subsequent studies have confirmed that a calorie restriction of 30 to 60 percent of ad libitum intake increases the life span by similar amounts in a range of organisms including yeast, roundworms and rodents, while simultaneously decreasing or delaying the occurrence of age related diseases such as numerous cancers (including lymphomas, breast and prostate cancers), hypertension, stroke, diabetes, nephropathy, autoimmune disorders and other risks factors for cardiovascular disease (3,4).

While swelling allows important healing components such as white blood cells and other chemicals involved in the healing process to migrate into damaged tissues through increased vascular permeability, and also physically protects an injured area through decreasing it's potential range of motion, there is no physiological reason to allow swelling to freely progress for hours or days after an injury occurs.

GHRP 2 is one such peptide, stimulating hGH secretion by 7 - 15 times, increasing appetite and meal initiation, while also decreasing fat mass and cholesterol.

It has been proven to be effective for tendinitis, arthritis, and both acute and chronic pain, and it can lower levels of pain producing chemicals such as prostaglandins and interleukin while decreasing oxidative stress from free radicals, bruises, swelling, and bleeding (10).

And while magnesium deficiency is not proven to cause PMS symptoms, some studies have shown increasing the amount of the mineral your diet can decrease PMS symptoms such as irritability, fluid retention, and headaches.

While the extent of diastasis recti is also affected by some genetic factors (such as your particular collagen makeup), I propose that addressing these factors before and even during pregnancy would be helpful to decrease severity of postpartum DR. — > If anyone is interested in setting up a clinical trial with me, let me know!

And, while rates of some degenerative conditions, such as heart disease, have decreased since 2000, deaths from Alzheimer's disease have soared by an astonishing 89 percent — causing researchers and scientists to scramble... Read More»

This typically means increasing your intake of animal based omega - 3 fats, such as krill oil, while decreasing your intake of damaged omega - 6 fats (think trans fats).

While the majority of benefits from saunas are related to increased cardiovascular function, other studies have demonstrated benefits such as improved chronic fatigue, increased autoimmunity, decreased depression, and even helping your body rid itself of toxins such as PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) levels.

Certain vitamins such as Vitamin B9, also known as folic acid, can help decrease the risk of certain defects, while other nutrients such as DHA omega - 3 that is necessary for proper brain and retinal development can not be produced efficiently by infants, and can only be obtained through the placenta during pregnancy, or in breast milk after birth.

Here's a quote: «Lactoferrin: Lactoferrin found in foods such as yogurt and kefir will stimulate new bone growth while preventing further breakdown of existing bone tissue, lactoferrin enhances both the growth and the activity of osteoblasts (the cells that build bone), and reduces the rate of bone cell death by 50 to 70 percent and decreases the development of osteoclasts, the cells responsible for breaking down bone.»

Many studies have suggested that increasing the consumption of plant foods such as grapefruit decreases the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and overall mortality while.

While decreasing these foods, it is also necessary to increase the consumption of foods with a high lysine to arginine ratio, such as Swiss cheese, margarine, butter, plain yogurt, whitefish, salmon, mango, low fat milk, avocado and a host of other high lysine foods.

California, however, appears to be one of the only states now reporting an increase in teacher preparation enrollment, while others such as Tennessee, Oregon and Idaho have reported further decreases in the last three months.

The green circles on the map indicate schools that saw an increase in the number of preschool applications from in - boundary families, while the red ones indicate schools where such applications decreased.

Sociological research has shown that such stringent disciplinary systems teach students to stifle their own opinions and defer to authority, while decreasing their desire to learn (Golann, 2015).

A new pattern has been introduced to decrease reflections and brighten dashboard surfaces, while high grade materials such as real aluminum and wood grain are applied to the center console.

Yet such metric - based systems can simultaneously increase the variety of books purchased by individual customers while decreasing the overall variety of books bought by everyone.

The unsold inventory became the catalyst for the shock resignation of former co-CEOs Lazaridis and Basillie late last month for new CEO Thorsten Heins, currently present at DevCon Europe and laying down the gauntlet against Android by claiming such figures as 13 % of developers making $ 100K + in revenue via BlackBerry App World, as well as talking up substantial growth in Europe and Southeast Asia while lamenting the decreasing marketshare of the platform in its core US and Canadian markets.

Some believe that the difficulty in getting a job after graduation is due to an enrollment decrease in technical majors like sciences, math and engineering — called STEM — while enrollment in more «soft» majors such as Gender Studies, Fine Arts, Literature, and other humanities are rising.

As such, the true strength of ability to explain what is going on decreases, while economic becomes an odd «inside game» for a funny group of mathematicians trying to make sense of an idealized world that bears little resemblance to our own world.

«Forbid» is one such product and many owners swear by it, while some have not found much of a decrease in coprophagia episodes in their pets.

This is basically what Allie was saying and I did not articulate well at all, that there are both benefits and risks associated with spay / neuter and while the S / N may increase the incidence of some cancers / conditions, it basically balances with the decrease of others, some of them more deadly such as mammary tumors.