Sentences with phrase «conditions than positive»

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market conditions at times were significantly more favorable for generating positive performance, particularly in our Corporate Private Equity and Real Assets businesses, than the market conditions we experienced in the past three years and may continue to experience for the foreseeable future;

We believe conditions are more positive than the reaction of the past few days would suggest, which is why we think this is a short - term respite within the ongoing bull market.

Basically, a Market Climate says «when these conditions were historically true, here is the set of returns that the market had - some are positive, some are negative, but look, the average return / risk profile is different in this Climate than in the other ones.»

Third, a sales pitch under these conditions is more likely than not to make the experience for the «buyer» rather negative, and any person with common sense will tell you that a negative experience takes multiple positive experiences just to make up for the one negative.

But my focus is less on setting limits than it is on creating the positive conditions in which technology becomes less compelling and different kinds of engagements thrive and flourish.

On one hand, it's arguably a positive sign for United fans to see Shaw working hard to regain full fitness and to reach peak condition during the break to return stronger than before.

Goldberg distanced himself from pro wrestling after exiting WWE under less - than - favorable conditions in 2004, but his last run — one which solidified his standing as a Hall of Famer in the eyes of the WWE — finished on a far more positive note.

NIPT screens for more chromosomal conditions than other screening options, as well as offers the highest detection rate and lowest false positive rate for Down syndrome.

Women or their infants were excluded from participating if the mother was under 16 years (Hoddinott 2012), had a medical contraindication (Hoddinott 2012; Junior 2007; Paul 2012), the physical condition of baby prevented breastfeeding (Junior 2007), if the hospital stay was longer than usual, there were any postnatal complications in the mother or newborn, no phone number, living outside the area, or child protection concerns (Paul 2012), and any prenatal drug use, psychiatric illness, or HIV positive status (Serwint 1996).

Results found that those who «walked» around Wembury were less anxious, experienced less pain, and had more positive recollections of their treatment a week later, than those in the standard care condition.

This condition maintains that any real observer can only measure positive rather than negative energy, ruling out the types of theoretical time machines that involve travelling through black holes held open by exotic material with negative energy.

This contradictory behavior explained that Cyclin D1 acts as a negative regulative protein under some conditions rather than a positive regulator in the cell cycle, i.e. the modest increase in Cyclin D1 expression could hasten the G1 phase while the overexpression may lead to block the progression through the S - phase [28, 29].

With more than 86 percent of current healthcare spending used to pay for chronic conditions, such as arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular issues and diabetes — we clearly are ready for a positive change to help humanity.

But its findings are more positive than Rick suggests, especially when compared to conditions before the onset of teacher - evaluation reforms.

Rather than asking what we are doing (or not doing) in schools that so alienates some students that they eventually leave (or are pushed out), schools are often content with implementing «bullying prevention» programs or «positive discipline» initiatives that treat selected symptoms but never get at the root causes connected to problematic, unequal, unproductive, prejudicial conditions and relationships.

It was positive the highest percentage of the time, 74 %, in bear markets that lost more than 20 %, an on average gold gained 6.5 % historically in this condition.

The present environment is characterized by unusually overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions, with rising 10 - year Treasury bond yields, heavy insider selling, valuations on «forward earnings» appearing reasonable only because profit margins are more than 70 % above historical norms (fully explained by the negative sum of government and personal savings as a share of GDP), with the S&P 500 at a 4 - year market high, in a mature market advance, with lagging employment indicators still positive but more than half of all OECD countries already in GDP contraction, Europe in recession, Britain on the cusp, and the EU imposing massive losses on depositors in order to protect lenders in an unstable banking system where Cyprus is the iceberg's tip.

We are glad that the editors of Today's Veterinary Nurse published this article and the accompanying client handout on a difficult - to - diagnose condition that likely affects more cats than veterinarians have been able to confirm.1 — 3 Veterinary technicians can be positive influences to the veterinarians with whom they work and can feel that they are empowered to encourage their veterinarians to consider heartworm disease and test their feline patients after reading both the article and the client handout.

Stephanie patiently and creatively showed us how to counter condition and re-direct our dog in a positive, set - up - for - success way using rewards rather than punishment.

A positive aspect of Koh Tao is that, being a small island, it is possible to travel around it by boat in less than an hour, visiting the best dive sites that each day has to offer, in terms of conditions and marine sightings.

Experiments like the Alcator C - Mod and JET help scientists and engineers move closer to determining the right conditions and design elements to create a functional, energy - positive fusion reaction that can reliably produce more power than it consumes.

Between 1976 and 2006, El Nino's were relative more common than La Nina's (a condition that exists if there is a positive PDO), producing an overall warming of the planet.

Rather than define a somewhat arbitrary threshold for a La Niña / El Niño year (i.e. based on the size of the index and number of months exceeding a certain threshold) or limiting the analysis to one ENSO index, I first took the average of the three indices mentioned above (ONI, MEI, and SOI, accounting for the fact that positive SOI indicates La Niña conditions while the opposite is true for ONI and MEI).

They find that sea surface temperature was up to 4.5 oC warmer than present and that the latitudinal temperature gradient for the southwest Pacific is consistent with persistent La Nina and positive Southern Oscillation Index conditions.

Radiative forcing is a measure of the change in boundary conditions, to which the climate system responds by either warming (in the case of positive radiative forcing; more energy coming in than going out) or cooling (negative radiative forcing).

Dr. Rissel also reinforces a point made by many TreeHugger readers whenever I promote helmets: «We should create a cycling friendly environment and accentuate cycling's positives rather than stress negatives with «safety campaigns» that focus on cyclists without addressing drivers and road conditions.

Old positive feedback examples in climate change... «Feedback Loops In Global Climate Change Point To A Very Hot 21st Century Using deuterium - corrected temperature records for the ice cores, which yield hemispheric rather than local temperature conditions, GCM climate sensitivity, and a mathematical formula for quantifying feedback effects, Torn and Harte calculated the magnitude of the greenhouse gas - temperature feedback on temperature.»

Indeed, those underlying problems were brought up throughout the inquiry process, especially when associates compared their positive experiences to the conditions they felt were creating a less - than - desirable workplace.

• You are currently being treated in hospital for a serious medical condition • You are currently residing in a nursing home • You are currently residing in a hospice • You have been advised by your attending physician that you less than 1 year to live • You are older than 89 years of age • You have tested positive for either HIV or AIDS • You have recently been diagnosed with either Dementia or Alzheimer's disease

Graduate Practical Nurse — Duties & Responsibilities Accumulate 678 clinical hours in medical / surgical, cardio vascular, neurology, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, pediatric oncology, and outpatient care at the Veteran's Administration Obtain and maintain federal clearance to work with VA staff and patients Assist more than 200 RN's, Charge RN's, CNA's, and physicians Perform intake, preoperative clearance, history and physical, EKGs, lab tests, discharge, and follow - up Assess, diagnose, and treat sprains, strains, lacerations, and other physical injuries Responsible for IV line insertion, blood product administration, and medication Determine severity of patient condition and promptly refer to specialists when appropriate Develop and administer disease management plan ensuring high quality, comprehensive care Provide acute episodic and chronic care to adult and pediatric populations Facilitate case management, consultation, and interdisciplinary patient care Educate patients in healthy diets, exercise, smoking cessation, and overall positive lifestyles Maintain working knowledge of current medical technology, procedures, and standards of care Proven ability to remain calm and levelheaded in high pressure, emergency care situations Perform administrative functions including phones, data entry, and other tasks as needed Perform all duties in a positive, professional, and courteous manner

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

If you set conditions for your positive regard, your child might grow up thinking that behaving and thinking in other ways than yours is «wrong» or «bad» - that he or she will not be accepted if he or she does not act according to your terms.

Older adults were judged to express greater negative affect than young adults in the spontaneous expression condition, but there were no age differences in expressed emotion during expressive suppression or positive refocusing.

Comparisons within each age group revealed differences between the conditions: older participants showed less affect during both positive refocusing and expressive suppression conditions than they did in spontaneous expression, whereas younger participants showed less affect during the expressive suppression condition than they did in spontaneous expression and positive refocusing conditions.

Positive parenting and attachment parenting is driven by a desire to try to provide the child with the best conditions of having a deeply fulfilling life rather than just a liveable one.

Two marginally significant findings were observed: Child's positive adjustment favored families assigned to family skills training condition relative to minimal treatment and child training only, and family supervision and bonding was lower for children in family skills training than in the other three conditions.

The simple effect analysis (Figure 1) suggested that participants responded faster to positive emotional faces in the secure prime condition than in the neutral prime condition [F (1,37) = 5.984, p < 0.05], which was in line with our assumptions.

A close examination of this two - way interaction revealed that the decrease in physical attraction in the negative condition was more pronounced than the negligible increase in physical attraction in the positive condition.

These findings are consistent with previous studies that have demonstrated a mediating effect of parent — child relationships and material resources on the relationship between psychosomatic health and living arrangements.31, 44, 45 Positive relationships to parents have been found to be more common in children in JPC than in single care, in particular to the fathers.13, 32, 46 Children's satisfaction with their material resources was included as a potential mediator since economic stress has previously been shown to be associated with psychosomatic symptoms in children29 and is more common among children with separated parents.4, 13 Also, these conditions reduced the differences in psychosomatic health between the living arrangements.

This piece of worthless garbage (the SPIS) is nothing more than a smoke - screen vehicle to be adopted by sellers (whether honest or dishonest in nature, not to mention their ignorance of the state of their own properties) in pursuit of facilitating smooth sales whereby sales would be more difficult to achieve without the supposed «feel good» SPIS boxes being initialed «yes» or «no», as the case may be, reflecting the negative reality, or positive unreality, as the case may be, of the condition / hidden defects of the said listed properties.

Consumers» assessment of present - day conditions was, on the whole, more positive than last month.

Consumers are considerably more positive about current business and labor market conditions than they were at the beginning of the year.

Cushman & Wakefield sees a largely positive labor market that will continue to drive strong absorption in industrial, although less than record levels in 2014 and 2015 leading to a 5.9 % overall vacancy rate, some of the best conditions ever seen in the sector.