Sentences with phrase «effect of time spent»

Most of the literature on psychological interventions is merely descriptive, and the few studies that include a control group usually compare intervention vs waiting list controls.5 - 7 This design does not control the effect of the time spent with the therapist or meeting other patients, which may be therapeutic in itself for some patients, as shown by the increasing popularity of self - help groups for bipolar patients.17

It is all the more interesting that we find a significant positive effect of time spent on lecture, despite the presumably noisy measure of in - class time use.

Researchers have recently begun to learn more about the effects of time spent on learning from natural experiments around the country.

Not exact matches

Even though the planners had, in effect, spent more time thinking about their task, with no progress made on the task itself, as Baumeister and Tierney explain, «their minds had apparently been cleared by the act of writing down a plan.»

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

For example, Warshay worked with a pair of entrepreneurs who spent time in the prenatal vitamin section at Whole Foods, where they discovered women didn't like the large size of vitamin pills and potential side effects of nausea and constipation.

«Having spare time and perceiving control over how to spend that time (i.e. discretionary time) has been shown to have a strong and consistent effect on life satisfaction and happiness, even controlling for the actual amount of free time one has.»

Like the detrimental physical effects of sitting, the mental health consequences of so much time spent on your butt can not be relieved just by joining a gym, according to the study.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

Franklin's team at visual effects studio Double Negative spent a lot of time figuring out how TARS may run, fold his arms, and do various other movements.

• A September study by FierceWireless and P3 found that T - Mobile users consumed more mobile data and spent more time on mobile connections than users of any other carrier, suggesting that Binge On may have had an effect.

Spending most of your time and energy on doing the important things (tasks that give you meaningful results), lets you maximize the effects of the Pareto Principle.

When the amount of time spent in gym class is increased, the effect on Body Mass Index (BMI) is inconsistent.

Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward - looking statements contained in this release because of a variety of factors, including conditions to, or changes in the timing of, proposed real estate and other transactions, prevailing interest rates and non-recurring charges, store closings, competitive pressures from specialty stores, general merchandise stores, off - price and discount stores, manufacturers» outlets, the Internet, mail - order catalogs and television shopping and general consumer spending levels, including the impact of the availability and level of consumer debt, the effect of weather and other factors identified in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Creating a budget can initially take a lot of time and work, but the time you spend planning your budget can have an astronomical effect on how your business operates.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

Because we've spent a good deal of time here discussing the harmful effects of a shame - based purity culture that treats people who have had sex before marriage as «damaged goods» by comparing them to polluted water or chewed - up gum (see «Do Christians Idolize Virginity?»

For items that are going to be in the oven longer than cookies, like muffins or cakes, I also add a little moisture (maybe an extra 2 Tbsp per cup), to counteract the drying effect of the extra time things have to spend in the oven to finish cooking at high altitude (lower boiling point, and all that).

(She is now a normal well - adjusted college student with no lasting ill - effects from so much time spent in Menard's during her developmental years — although she has an amazing knowledge of home improvement terms!)

Inspired initially by her German grandmother's traditional approach to cooking, and a passion for the healing effects of food, Tressa Yellig has spent the last six years building a community around nourishing foods through her retail shop, product line and community supported kitchen, Salt, Fire and Time.

(4) the Groundhog Day effect — the inability to prepare for the inevitable slump that usually comes during or following the heavy holiday schedule in December / January... whether it's injuries or Wenger's disdain for the January transfer window, which makes sense in light of his disdain for spending, his philosophy for handling this situation has failed miserably... my question, once again, is how many times can one person try the same failed strategy before making some sort of fundamental changes... just think to yourself about our recent January dealings, especially in those years where we were still in the race but in desperate need of reinforcements, then try not to throw up a little in your mouth

I don't mean to support someone else I just mean don't spend any of your hard earned cash or time on this club, don't over hype our very limited abilities and don't let our awful performances effect your week or Saturday or Sunday.

If the worst effect of the owners» cash grab were a more boring offseason, it would be a nitpicky complaint from someone who spends too much time following baseball.

Therfore, it will not effect them mentally, but the situation is different for Welbeck and Walcott who has spent eight and ten years playing in the premier league they are now considered verterans in terms of playing time.

Sigurdsson was raving after the final whistle in Split about the prospect of games coming thick and fast, with its knock - on effect of less time spent on the training ground.

It is interesting to hear Wenger state in the last few days that he hoped Cesc will be with us for a good 2 or 3 seasons, just when it coincided with Barcelona declaring that they are making drastic cuts to their wage bill on and off the field.They literally have no cash to spend and though asset rich, the effects of the Spanish economy are taking affect.I think Cesc has accepted that and will show full commitment to Arsenal.He is pivotal to any success we may achieve.His whole body language has changed, he looks generally much more content, and he can put to the back of his mind, at least for the time being any proposed move, and that for us is a good thing.Barca are disguising their troubles by saying yet again they have made no official approach to our club, purely to save face.

• When both parents are depressed and the depressed father spends medium / high amounts of time caring for his infant, his depression has been found to exacerbate the negative effects of mothers» depression (Mezulis et al, 2004).

The younger one is just a year old, and since his very first days, my wife and I have spent a lot of time thinking and talking (and occasionally worrying) about the research on stress and its effect on early brain development.

• Where new mothers are depressed, fathers» positive parenting (self - reported) plus substantial time spent in caring for his infant, was found to moderate the long - term negative effects of the mothers» depression on the child's depressed / anxious mood — but not on their aggression and other «externalising» behaviours (Mezulis et al, 2004).

Even birth centers and hospitals are now encouraging women to spend some time laboring in bath tubs due to the soothing effects the deep water has on some of the pain of contractions.

In other words, 1) the level of the parents» skill seems to have a greater effect on the child's development than anything else, 2) higher quality child care leads to high vocabulary scores and 3) the more time a child spends in childcare, the more likely she is to misbehave or resort to behaviors like biting or hitting.

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Amy Hsin, a sociologist at Queens College, has found that parents who spend the bulk of their time with children under 6 watching TV or doing nothing can actually have a «detrimental» effect on them.

We have spent vast amounts of time as hospital inpatients, and as her voice I quickly learned how to advocate, speak up, protect and cocoon her from the potentially traumatic effects of being a «hospital baby.»

«It's interesting to see that three quarters of parents feel that mobiles, tablets and gaming devices have a negative effect on their child's education, yet half admit that they do not restrict the time that their child spends on the internet.

In effect, I spent 30 - 40 percent of my time watching out for corrupt or indications of corruptible behaviour.

The Advertising Standards Authority has told the Home Office that its television adverts highlighting the government's «policing pledge» that neighbourhood officers can now be expected to spend 80 % of their time on the beat is to be banned with immediate effect.

As long as it's not too busy, the overall effect of ladies having a smaller number of toilets and spending more time on those toilets does not lead to long queues.

A study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young children.

Dinets added that local fish and wildlife authorities, hunters and other people spending a lot of time outdoors should be taught to recognize Eurasian cuckoos in order to mitigate the effects when the cuckoos arrive.

By using pairs of sisters who spent differing amounts of time living with their fathers, the study was able to control for inherited genes and environmental conditions, such as socioeconomic status or religious background, to isolate the effects of fathering quality on daughters.

By looking at the composition of crystals trapped at different times during the evolution of the magma body — and with the apatite crystals in effect acting as «time capsules» — the team was able to show that the magma that eventually erupted had spent most of its lifetime in a bubble - free state, becoming gas - saturated only very shortly before eruption.

Spend a little time in Hawking's world and you, too, will be able to sketch the effects of a black hole on the structure of subatomic space.

Astronauts will use the device to study the effects on rodents of extended periods of time spent in microgravity.

«To use this «momentum effect,» candidates will spend a lot of time in the coming months trying to persuade voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, even though the number of delegates distributed in these contests is actually very small.»

ISA has a positive effect on speeding, i.e. the amount of time spent driving above the ISA speed limit.

The reasons behind this adverse association likely include time spent on screens replacing time spent sleeping; mental stimulation from media content; and the effects of light interrupting sleep cycles, according to the researchers.

The effect is probably smaller in the wild, she says, as the fish spend only about a third of their time in coral reefs, according to her team's field observations.

The later school start time had no effect on the number of hours students spent doing homework, playing sports or engaging in extracurricular activities.