So the idea behind beta blockers for preventing PTSD is that if you can prevent the body's stress system from reacting strongly to a trauma, you might be able to reduce the brain's fear and horror response.
That puts some stress on the system, as well as on pocketbooks.
That risks a demand deflation spiral, which is sure to increase the debt burden and sharply slow down growth, not to mention stress the financial system.
On transport, rail patronage had increased which should be welcomed but it had to recognised that it put stress on a system that had suffered underinvestment over the years, said Mr Barber.
According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
However, 71% claim they would accept credit or debit cards if there was a low cost, low hassle way of doing so. iZettle meets this need with an effortless sign-up and stress-free system that has one of the lowest cost and complexity profiles on the market.
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Unfortunately, without rigorous testing and accurate results with the aim of truly finding out how much stress the banking system can handle and adapting accordingly, these tests may not soothe in the short-term, but more likely leave markets extremely fragile when the next real-life test is had.
We have been conditioned by experience to expect a panic when we hear of stress in the banking system, and in that context Europe may just be a distraction to the real threat facing the market.
The additional paying customers with what many believe will be a pent up demand for medical care service are already expected to stress the health care system, putting more pressure on primary care doctors like internists and family doctors.
And when our financial system is under stress, all Americans bear the consequences.
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Then, if you look at leverage and asset quality, for instance, you see a healthy system with low stress points.
The move can help take stress off the primary health system and allow patients to get the medicine more quickly, he said.
System-wide stress tests might also highlight common exposures and "crowded trades" that would not be visible in tests confined to one firm.
It should be doing just the opposite: collecting reserves when times are flush and lowering premiums when the banking system is under stress.
When I saw that 14% of them reported no financial stress, my internal radar system went off, and I wondered what those employees were missing that could hurt them later.
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However, this approach would result in a disastrous situation for doctors who are not set up to handle the huge administrative difficulties that would result from having to re-bill along with enormous stress on the CMS payment system.
Beta blockers work by reducing activity in the sympathetic nervous system, which is one of the two major branches of the body's stress (or fight-and-flight) system.
As tens of millions of baby boomers reach retirement, the system will undergo enormous stress.
But the collapse of Mycal, a big employer with once-powerful friends, is a sign that the system is under awful stress.
If we interpret the scenario as a threat, powerful stress chemicals are released into our system that shut down some mental and physical functions, while igniting others.
Digital Storm technicians stress-test and benchmark the system via industry standard testing software coupled with a proprietary testing process that detects components which can be prone to future failure.
Outside the brain, stress can wreak havoc on the immune system, according to another study to be presented at the meeting.
They believe it may be caused by the body's reaction to stress which effectively leads to the immune system becoming overloaded.
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In keeping with previous work, they found that high- and low-rank individuals showed different levels of responsiveness to a class of hormones called glucocorticoids, which regulate immune-system activity and response to stress.
Although this medicine may have helped cure the problem, it was the emergency rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve in the fall of 1998 that pumped enormous liquidity into the global system and dramatically reduced financial stress in Asia.
There were also fears that too much stress might be placed on the fragile banking system.
When testing for credit stress, it seems they used a uniform system where losses on Greek debt were 23.1%, 12.3% loss on Spanish debt and a 4.7% loss on German debt.
Britain may find itself being ordered by a European banking regulator to inject yet more capital into the bank, despite its negligible exposure to Greece and other peripheral countries, because of stress tests designed to shore up the financial system in the euro-zone.
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