Sentences with phrase «efforts than the quantity»

The new study comes on the heels of another study conducted earlier this year, which reinforced the concept that the time of the day in which food is consumed plays a larger role in weight loss efforts than the quantity of calories consumed.

Not exact matches

If we truly want for our efforts to return maximum results, we should be far more concerned about the quality of our efforts rather than focusing so much on quantity.

These enviable features have made spider silk the frequent target of biomimetic efforts by scientists who hope to produce a synthetic version in large enough quantities for applications in industry, military technology (it's three times tougher than Kevlar), and medicine (as a super-strong, biodegradable suture material, for example).

Another deserving effort in promoting scientific integrity in China is to foster a healthy research environment, which includes making explicit research ethics policies, issuing a practical code of conduct, establishing a credible and authoritative national organization to supervise local units, protecting whistle - blowers, building a rigorous and fair peer review system, revising the criteria for promotion and reward to emphasize research quality rather than quantity by a researcher, and achieving zero tolerance for unethical research behaviors.

Created by Joseph Pilates in the mid-20th century, the repertoire of exercises focuses on quality rather than quantity: integrating breath, mind and muscular effort to achieve an internal sense of correct posture and correct movement sourcing.

Weitzman points out that any quantity - based structure such as Kyoto necessarily multiplies transaction costs: «It is easier to negotiate one price than n quantities — especially when the one price can be interpreted as «fair» in terms of equality of effort,» he writes.

The theory of prices versus quantities for pollution control (Weitzman 1974) shows that such uncertainty will invariably lead the policy to under - or overshoot the optimum: imposing a quantitative target will lead to higher or lower marginal abatement costs than expected, while a given tax rate will lead to greater or lesser abatement effort than expected.

Efforts to regulate existing wells would be more useful if EDF were to also come out against an expansion of fracking: We will, after all, continue to produce natural gas in this country (if nothing else, massive quantities are required to produce fertilizer) and there is no need to leak more methane than we have.