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Given these considered assumptions, readers should not be surprised when in these pages they come across articles and arguments that are not ostensibly «religious» in the conventional use of the term.

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A new study puts the figure into stark numerical terms: while as many as 2,070 adults used e-cigs to quit in 2015, another 168,000 young people who used the devices went on to become smokers of conventional cigarettes.

If I was to do it again I would probably use a conventional short - term gilt fund of up to 5 years, e.g. SPRD 1 - 5 Year Gilt ETF (0.15 %), or a directly held bond ladder on a cheaper platform.

The reproduction rate may be reduced by sublethal long - term effects of synthetic pesticides used in conventional agriculture.

The problem, however, arises when this social sphere, which traditionally transcended the boundaries of the public / personal distinction, and which preserved, until the dawn of the modern age social integrity and conventional values, becomes encroached by the intervention of the new social — in the sense in which Arendt used the term.

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To avoid this misconception, the term «complementary medicine» can be used in the sense of being a supplement to conventional medicine («Schulmedizin»).

«Although the term «big data» in the life sciences is not well - defined, it refers to the process of gaining useful, actionable information from multiple large datasets that are not uniform, static and easily analyzed using conventional statistical and computational methods,» she said.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Philip Cowen, MRC Clinical Scientist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, says: «The key observation that might eventually justify the use of a drug like psilocybin in treatment - resistant depression is demonstration of sustained benefit in patients who previously have experienced years of symptoms despite conventional treatments, which makes longer - term outcomes particularly important.

She prefers the term integrative therapy, which describes the use of non-conventional treatments in conjunction with conventional care.

Conventional treatment often consists of long - term use of the birth control pill, but Dr. Brooke shares other more holistic options that actually get to the root cause and eliminate symptoms (rather than just masking them).

1935 Effects of the high carbohydrate - low calorie diet upon carbohydrate tolerance in diabetes mellitus 1955 Low - fat diet and therapeutic doses of insulin in diabetes mellitus 1958 Effect of rice diet on diabetes mellitus associated with vascular disease 1976 Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men 1977 Effect of carbohydrate restriction and high carbohydrates diets on men with chemical diabetes 1979 High - carbohydrate, high - fiber diets for insulin - treated men with diabetes mellitus 1981 High carbohydrate high in fibre diet in diabetes 1982 Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise 1983 Long - term use of a high - complex - carbohydrate, high - fiber, low - fat diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM patients 1994 Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: the need for early emphasis 1999 Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a lowfat, vegetarian diet 2005 The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity 2006 A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes 2006 Effect of short ‐ term Pritikin diet therapy on the metabolic syndrome 2009 A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial

Treatment of Insomnia: An Alternative Approach Alternative Medicine Review 2000 (Jun); 5 (3): 249 — 259 ~ FULL TEXT Conventional medical treatment for insomnia includes psychological and pharmacological approaches; however, long - term use of frequently prescribed medications can lead to habituation and problematic withdrawal symptoms.

Parents concerned about the side effects and long - term use of conventional medications are increasingly seeking alternatives to pharmacologic treatment.

When the term eLearning was first used in a seminar in Los Angeles, little did anyone realize that this would challenge the very roots of conventional education.

One of the primary points of difference between the 570S and 650S in chassis terms is the use of conventional anti-roll bars rather than the complex ProActive Chassis Control system that has featured on all modern McLarens to date.

This arch, which also offers advantages in terms of aerodynamics, is not feasible using conventional construction techniques.

In terms of performance, the new gearbox shares all of the benefits of the dual - clutch PowerShift concept, combining the efficiency, optimized gear ratios and driving enjoyment of a manual gearbox with the smoothness and ease - of - use of a conventional automatic.

This arch, which also offers advantages in terms of aerodynamics, is not possible using conventional construction techniques.

Our Conventional Commercial Financing Solutions program has been created with a focus to provide long - term financing solutions for a full range of asset classes; ranging from: mixed - use, office / retail, industrial, multi-family and hospitality projects.

Additionally, the term «alternative» implies «instead of» and I believe that these methods usually work best in conjunction with other, more conventional therapies rather than used in place of these.

Yet in the difference in conception, composition, and attitude between Papety's allegory and that of Courbet lies the enormous gap between painting which is advanced in subject but conventional in every other way and that which is truly of its time, or even in advance of it (to use the term «avant - garde» in its most literal sense) and hence, a pictorial paradigm of the most adventurous attitudes of its era.

In addition, the term «Primitivism» is also used to describe art created by «primitives» - the name given to certain artists, usually self - taught, whose paintings are usually simplistic in form and colour, and lacking in conventional motifs like chiaroscuro, linear perspective and other types of proportionality.

what sort of near - term scenarios are outputted when short - term (eg 10 year) GWPs are used instead of the conventional 100 year GWPs?

In theory, change can come through a mix of a) increasing public will to shift behavior and priorities for the sake of cutting a long - term risk and b) lowering the cost difference between non-polluting energy choices and conventional use of fossil fuels.

Tar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coal.

The term dumb generation describes the kind of conventional power plants, wind turbines or solar panels that have been used for decades.

When most folks use the term tiny house, they are often referring to a home built using conventional methods but on the scale of an RV travel trailer.

While conventional wisdom says that converting these peatlands for sawit kelapa is the best economic use of the land, our analysis shows that carbon credits could prove a better long - term investment for Indonesian businesses and the government.

Because of temporal variabilities in source, composition and concentration of SHS, conventional exposure assessment using indices of SHS, as measured in the ambient air or in the body fluids of exposed individuals, at certain times has failed to estimate long - term SHS exposure 10.»

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Lets consider what needs happen for Bitcoin to become a success in terms of its claimed intended purpose of enabling economic transactions to be performed over the internet with no additional costs which we would expect when using the more conventional banking options of direct transfer, Paypal, Credit card etc..

This condition is where management practices such as using inertia of conventional power plants to act as short term energy storage can be deployed.

In addition to conventional text searches, users can use tokens to easily find amounts of money, dates and times, defined terms, and more.

The use of Marijuana is just another rating factor on an application along with everything else which is taken into consideration on a conventional life insurance application for low cost term life insurance.

The main concept to remember is if you are applying for life insurance, the application process is a mirrored image of a conventional application that anyone else would be using that is applying for affordable Term life insurance.

No Medical Exam versions of Term insurance used to be about 30 % more that the conventional Term plan designs but now the premium are very close to one another especially when using companies like Lincoln National which offers excellent rates for the No Medical Exam product line.

This type of life insurance is normally lower in cost than conventional Term life insurance but you have to remember that the purpose of this insurance is only going to be used to pay off your mortgage with no money left over for your dependents what so ever.

Many term life policies do allow prorated refunds at some point during the life of the policy, during the insured's lifetime, although such refund is usually «short rated», that is, it is significantly less than the imputed value of the refund if calculated using conventional tables, using the rate of return specified in the insurance contract.

In this chart, for the original rates, I used the Bank of Canada's average five - year posted conventional mortgage rate for the appropriate month and year, and subtracted 1.42 %, which a recent Bank of Canada report indicated is the long - term historical average discount offered on posted rates.

While the changes to terms on the loans were very small, the average size of conventional mortgages used to purchase new homes, well as the price of the new homes purchased with the loans, increased by more than one percent.