Sentences with phrase «by less activity»

This is consistent with findings, from a large literature of studies on depression and reward circuitry, that depression is characterized by less activity in the brain's reward system.

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A noted decrease in job growth is less of a concern if it's accompanied by signs «that manufacturing activity is starting to rebound, that businesses are spending more on investment, and that consumers are continuing to spend,» he said.

Available cash flow is defined as U.S. GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.

We calculate free cash flow as the sum of net cash provided by operating activities and net cash provided by the sale of revenue earning equipment and operating property and equipment, collections on direct finance leases and other cash inflows from investing activities, less purchases of property and revenue earning equipment.

Free Cash Flow - Net cash provided by operating activities less cash purchases of property and equipment, including proceeds related to beneficial interests in securitization transactions and less cash payments for debt prepayment of debt extinguishment costs.

They found that elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary.

By age group, however, boomers reported significantly less multitasking, logging only 10.3 hours of activity, while Generation Y clocked 22.9 hours.

The Company defines free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property, plant and equipment.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

By engaging in these activities while you search for a job, you won't have gaps on your resume, you'll be practicing new skills and potentially make side income so you will be less desperate for a job, which makes you more attractive as a job seeker.»

And yet the Australian economy avoided a major downturn and turned in a performance on economic activity characterised by no more, and on some metrics slightly less, volatility.

They spur growth by enabling more advanced and efficient activities and encouraging producers to expand, displacing less efficient activities and producers.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

What I can prove, and have proved if you agree with my assumptions that Chinese economic activity is much less limited by hard - budget constraints than other economies and that debt is much less likely to be written down correctly, is that it is definitely not 6.9 percent.

The portfolio turnover measures the trading activity of the fund, which is computed by dividing the lesser of purchases or sales for the year by the monthly average value of the securities owned by the fund during the year.

Investors have been disappointed by the revenue drop stemming from less trading activity in the OTC retail segment, as last year's market volatility was hardly noticeable.

With imports increasing by 40 per cent over the past year, and exports expanding only slightly less rapidly, the current pace of growth in China is providing impetus to activity in the region.

Surprisingly, the «None» category reported less sexual activity by a 35 percent to 30 percent margin.

By a 44 percent to 27 percent margin, Catholics report more rather than less sexual activity over the last three years, similar to the Protestant margin of 41 percent to 29 percent, whereas Jews turned in a more ambivalent figure of 39 percent to 35 percent.

And then, Lord, at that point where all things are set ablaze, do you act upon me though the united flames of all those internal and external influences which, were I less close to you, would be neutral or ambivalent or hostile, but which when animated by an Energy quae possit sibi omnia subjicere7 become, in the physical depths of your heart, the angels of your triumphant activity.

Judged by its activity, the NRA operates on the same principle as less reputable and less legal organizations: the principle that the end justifies the means.

These and other less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.

This was viewed by the diocese as discriminating against practising families less able and inclined to get involved in group activities, perhaps because of other commitments or lack of appropriate skills.

The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

In other words, nurturant fathering helps relieve sons of the compulsion to prove themselves adequately masculine by engaging in truculent and misogynist activities, and so frees them to use their energies for acquiring more adaptive and less rigidly gender - stereotyped relational and work skills.

What distinguishes the biological molecules is not only greater complexity of structure, but certain features of activity not possessed by the less complex chemical molecules.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Learning and teaching certainly require institutional support, but they are activities that may be more or less supported or corrupted by their institutional embodiments.

In such a world and encompassed by these attitudes Christian folk have found difficulty in reaching out to new enterprises, and often have been less than half hearted in supporting activities and organizations which their hopeful fathers brought into existence.

' (a) The competitive constraint imposed by Franklins upon Metcash's wholesaling activities was far less significant than the constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains.

The sale of the EU sugar operations is intended to achieve in a more focused, less volatile business, and a solid platform to deliver sustainable long - term growth in Tate & Lyle's speciality food ingredients business, supported by cash generated from its bulk ingredients activities.

Here at MMU Sport, we recognise that it's not for everyone, and that's why this term, we're delighted to unveil our brand new Active Lifestyles programme, which has been designed to help you be more active, healthier and ultimately happier, by offering a range of classes and activities that are more about «me» and less about the «team»!

My kids take baths and the problem there was also solved by running less water in the bathtub and also planning activities better.

Getting an active child to sit down for a meal of any kind, much less a well - balanced, made - from - scratch meal with the entire family, as he rushes off to or home from school, sports practices or games, or other activities that cram virtually every nook and cranny of a child's day, has become virtually impossible for many families, especially those headed by single parents.

There are some kids who find it less fun to engage in tummy time activity which is largely recommended by pediatrics as it strengthens the arm and back muscles.

«Natural growth parenting» is characterized by less structured time and activities and a lower degree of parental involvement.

For example, when kids feel accepted by their peers, they report higher levels of self - esteem, more enjoyment of activities and are less likely to want to avoid participating.

By engaging in these activities, the child will also have less opportunities to participate in activities that are less desirable.

Or try gradually filling his cup with less liquid at night, keeping him more occupied in activities before bed, and taking longer and longer to refill his cup when he asks by distracting him with other comforting bedtime items (e.g., special stuffed animal, blankie, or cold teething toy).

The Fisher - Price Beginnings Activity Walker can be compared to the VTech Learning Walker, with the exception that less features offered by Fisher - Price.

As such, playing games or singing to children may be less affected by depression than reading stories, an activity that may take focused effort.

The only real climate change solutions that I have seen are to reduce carbon dioxide in the air by having human activity emit less of it.

Stalinism is a more or less thin cover for class rule by party and state nomenklatura, though at times when connected with recent revolutionary activity it has produced liberatory ideas (Milovan Djilas, Imre Nagy (and his «co-conspirators»), Alexander Dubček).

Men can get back to their lives more quickly, which means less time away from the activities they enjoy and less time distracted by their cancer treatments.»

They add: «The greatest reduction in risk of developing metabolic risk factor clustering observed for intermediate levels of physical activity and leisure time sitting was unexpected and suggests that moderate amounts of both moderate - to - vigorous physical activity and leisure time sitting may be sufficient to protect against developing metabolic risk factor clustering over time... The lack of protection for the most active adults may reflect a chance finding, or confounding by other factors such as wider use of prescription drugs by participants in less active groups.

The model calculations, which are based on data from the CLOUD experiment, reveal that the cooling effects of clouds are 27 percent less than in climate simulations without this effect as a result of additional particles caused by human activity: Instead of a radiative effect of -0.82 W / m2 the outcome is only -0.60 W / m2.

They identified 56 hits that inhibited Ebola virus activity by more than 70 percent, while showing less than a 20 percent chance of being toxic to cells.

They got 11.5 percent less physical activity than before, and their mood score dropped by 7.5 percent.

Although their training may be shorter compared to U.S. graduate students, Chinese students are generally less distracted by outside activities and their reputation for being hard workers is well founded.

By comparing participants» mental health assessments at the time of the brain scans, and in a follow - up occurring on average seven months later, he found that these at - risk individuals were less likely to develop anxiety if they also had high activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.