Sentences with phrase «additional focused change»

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In fact, by engaging in small, daily tasks — like the ones we designed for Happify — you can train your brain to focus on the positive and perceive additional opportunities for positive changes in your life.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing multi-component psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.

Two additional working groups, which focus on climate change impacts and responses, will release their reports early next year, followed by a synthesis volume.

Placing the blame of our weight problems on the stress hormone cortisol is just additional way of scapegoating the fundamental issues of obesity on something else - taking our focus away from what really matters: making small, positive changes towards an active life style, choosing to eat healthy, and choosing to live healthy.

But remember the ten laws — The best strategy, generally speaking, is to focus on high ROI changes so you get maximal results with minimal additional effort.

We propose that studies using a reductionist philosophy to identify active components of whole foods, such as lycopene or sulforaphane, should continue, but with additional investments in research focusing on changes in dietary pattern incorporating whole foods which are safe and potentially more effective.

In summary, the changes have the objective of simplifying the framework, with less bureaucracy to enable early years settings to focus in on key areas including safeguarding children and the early identification of special and additional learning needs.Taking the central aspects of the revision in turn we'll look at what this means for early years settings.

The Massachusetts result reinforces our analysis: significant structural changes that focus incentives on improved achievement are more important than just providing additional funding.

Other changes include torque vectoring for each of the rear wheels, shorter gearing, recalibrated control software, all - new titanium exhaust with 7 kg weight saving and retuned acoustics, forged 21 - inch alloy wheels in gloss black, Pirelli tyres, sport - focused Electronic Stability Control programme, Carbon Silicon Carbide (CSiC) braking system (420 mm front and 356 mm rear brake discs, 8 - piston front calipers in green), two - seat cabin with carbon fibre, Alcantara and leather interior upholstery; bespoke sport seats with additional side support through deeper bolsters upholstered in Beluga black leather and diamond - quilted Alcantara, upholstered steering wheel and gear shifter, centre console and fascia panels in carbon fibre, carbon fibre door casings with diamond - quilted Alcantara inner panels, rear cabin with a carbon fibre surround and upholstered in leather and Alcantara, green hide colour on the seats, instrument panel, door panels, contrast stitching throughout the seats and diamond - quilted areas; GT3 - R badging on the centre console, passenger - side fascia panel, sill treadplates; GT3 - R stitching at seat headrests in with contrast - green stitching, carbon fibre fixed rear wing and boot lid, bonnet with two vents, Glacier White body colour with gloss carbon fibre contrasts, two - tone green graphics tracing two power lines to the side profile of the car (one leading backwards from the front wheel, the other tracing the shape of the Continental GT's rear haunch), headlamp bezels, matrix grille, window surrounds and bumper strips in gloss black.

The former Sears Canada retail exec announced his intention to make B&N a «lifestyle» brand, and bring additional focus to toys, games, action figures and bring changes to the store layouts.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

With instant matchmaking for every activity, ship interior and exterior customization, living quarters, the Focus system for additional benefits, hundreds of weapons and dozens of Frames to collect, numerous cosmetics, and constant changes and content updates, Warframe wants your time.

The approach to adding extra content post-launch to the game has changed, with a focus on adding characters and gameplay content (perhaps additional modes) on a regular basis, rather than publishing a new edition of the game every year or two.

Accounts of the show tend to focus on how Hammons revisited the gallery on multiple occasions to contribute additional framed materials and reposition those artworks already included, and on how his last - minute changes to the show's installation meant the works featured in the catalogue did not match up with the works on view, as if the real story was about Hammons and his enigmatic ways.

Drawn from the Zimmerli Art Museum's collection, with additional loans from public and private collections, the exhibition focuses on American, European, and Soviet and post-Soviet Russian photographers who use the camera to educate, persuade, and to effect social change.

e Commit adequate and predictable new and additional long - term finance to support developing countries to reduce their emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change with a particular focus on addressing the current structural underfunding of adaptation needs;

Activity between 2019 and 2020 will focus on expanding the hydrologic projections and water temperature modelling into additional basins and completing an analysis of regional changes in hydrologic extremes.

A spokesman for Great Lakes United, an environmental coalition focused on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, said the changes sound promising — but added that without additional funding to support scientific monitoring in the Great Lakes, they may not make much difference.

Man adds that in the past year in particular, a focus on users has created additional chores: «A user - first policy has meant a lot of changes to the way our homepages look; the way our mail operates; the apps that we've developed for iPhones and mobile devices — that has required a lot of work from our compliance teams to make sure that we are complying with the laws in all of the markets where we operate.

«Revolution: Apple Changing the World» will also focus on additional subjects including immigration reform, the future of work, technology's role in society and more.

Supercell has achieved this without major changes to the core loop, and with updates focusing on additional troops, balance improvements, and features that drive additional social gameplay.

Nurses use an additional two «process» focus modules — video feedback and motivational interviewing strategies — to help parents instigate behavioural change.47 Nurses and the social care practitioners also help parents access early childhood health services, volunteer home visiting services and family support services; hold group activities specifically for intervention families; and link women into community activities, as needed.

The content of the sessions is as follows: session 1 consists of a parent interview, session 2 features additional assessment (e.g., parent - child observation; child interview), session 3 introduces core change strategies (responding to good behaviour, responding to misbehaviour), session 4 functions as a review of strategies, session 5 introduces advanced strategies (e.g., managing sibling conflict, high - risk situations), session 6 is another review, sessions 7 and 8 focus on parent care, and session 9 is a module for review and relapse prevention.

Includes a focus on building sustainable interventions that natural agents of change can continue to use and adapt across time with a minimum of additional technical assistance and support.

An additional focus for Dr. Forgatch's work includes the development and application of direct observation measures of family interaction to evaluate changes in family process and intervention sessions to evaluate fidelity in implementing the PMTO model.