Sentences with phrase «influenced by the relative»

In short, his ability to implement strategies in all five areas — education, prevention, community outreach, helping alcoholics and their families — will be influenced by the relative presence or absence of the therapeutic attitude.

I think a lot of people get influenced by their relatives and friends about when the right time is, but it depends on your child.

In laboratory experiments designed to determine what might have caused the nematode treatment to fail, the effectiveness of the nematodes was strongly influenced by the relative amounts of sand and clay in the soil, and how wet it was.

One's perception of Marking Territory is influenced by their relative position, whether they enter the terrarium boundary or remain outside the P3Studio windows.

One man and four women: new research shows how our «mating strategies» (how we seek partners and what we find attractive) are influenced by the relative numbers of men and women we encounter.

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The police questioning of Cho Hyun - min, a former senior president at Korean Air, comes amid mounting pressure for elite families to scale back their influence over the companies founded by their relatives decades ago.

These metrics are heavily influenced not only by the relative health of public financial markets but also the ability for strategic buyers to acquire private companies.

Take a look at the relative influence of ranking factors, according to correlational studies by Moz and SearchMetrics:

As such, and in contrast to gold, bitcoin's relative value is influenced by — and important to — a number of players outside of traditional financial spheres.

It is instructive to see how deeply Gregory intuited much of the interpersonal analysis that was later to be developed in the modern behaviorist tradition of vector analysis by G. Homans, R. Carson, T. Leary, J. Thibaut, and H. Kelley.17 According to this modern behaviorist analysis, human interaction patterns can be graphed on the vectors of two poles: a horizontal emotive axis that registers resistance versus affection, and a vertical pole that registers superordination and subordination, or relative power or influence in relationships.

All share the implicit assumption that the degree of wholeness that individuals are able to maintain is strongly influenced, if not determined, by the relative wholeness of their need - satisfying interpersonal systems.

Figures reveal Robert Parker's declining influence on Bordeaux wine pricing: Such is Parker's present effect on the Bordeaux market that The Wine Investment Fund uses his scores as one of three pillars by which it measures the relative value of one wine against another...

If I want to really boycott the NFL, to make a statement about the state of the game right now -(bad) and its power and influence in society (also bad) relative to its merits (worse still), I have to stop buying products that sponsor the NFL and stop buying products from companies owned by team owners.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Ethics laws try to curb nepotism by mostly banning officials from hiring, influencing the hiring of or supervising relatives.

In Maxwell's time, most physicists thought that light, like sound, needed some kind of medium for transmission; the mysterious, invisible substance they hypothesized, called the luminiferous ether, would presumably be influenced by the motion of Earth around the sun and the movement of the solar system through the galaxy, a dynamic that stood to alter the speed of light depending on the relative direction from which that light came.

He found persuasive evidence that physics enrollments were strongly influenced by the attractiveness of physics careers relative to competing alternative careers.

However, as the atmospheric CO2 rises — due to the almost exponential increase in emissions from industrial sources — the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate will most likely decrease, and its relative contribution will be far surpassed by «greenhouse» gases.

That mystery was subsequently solved by UCSB chemical engineering professor Scott Shell and his graduate student Jacob Monroe, whose computer simulations revealed the relative arrangement of silanol and siloxane groups on the surface also had an influence on water adhesion.

One example is the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), recently developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to measure an article's influence.

Relative growth rates, carbon, nitrogen, and the C: N ratio in tissue samples were influenced by higher concentrations of NH 4 +.

School of Biological Sciences Professor Michael Skinner will discuss the genesis of disease in an individual influenced by distant relatives for the free, public Washington State University Honors College Distinguished Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in the Honors Hall lounge.

Although the cause is considered to be unknown, it appears to be heavily influenced by estrogen dominance, a state characterized by excess estrogen accumulation within the body (relative to progesterone).

For a person running at a typical casual runner's pace of 2.5 meters per second (9 km / hr, or 5.6 mph) it can be shown, based on data collected by LG Pugh for the study titled «The influence of wind resistance in running and walking and the mechanical efficiency of work against horizontal or vertical forces,» that the energy cost of air resistance while running on solid ground is roughly 0.84 calories per kilometer (this is equivalent to approximately an extra 1.2 % calorie burn relative to a runner on a treadmill).

The opportunity to (re) consider and (re) compare their own and other cultures can help students to situate their own lives, identities, and values relative to other students and to reflect on the ways in which they themselves are shaped, at least in part, by particular cultural influences or expectations.

A relative is defined as: a close member of the family, or member of the same household, who may be expected to influence, or be influenced by, the person.

This analysis by Marguerite Roza published by Education Next in summer 2009 examines ways in which per - pupil spending in high schools varies by subject and course level, and demonstrates how isolating spending on discrete services can 1) identify the relationships between priorities, current spending, and outcomes; 2) clarify both relative spending on discrete services and the organizational practices that influence how resources are deployed; and 3) establish the current cost of providing high school services as a necessary precursor to identifying whether there are better ways to provide some services.

The remaining sections report evidence relevant to each of three questions addressed by the study: the impact of collective leadership on key teacher variables and student learning; the relative influence of different collective leadership sources; the relationship between different patterns of collective leadership and student achievement.

As a boy, he was heavily influenced by older relatives, one of whom boasted of torturing women during the Vietnam War and later killed his wife while Ramirez was present; another was an obsessive Peeping Tom who also introduced a teenaged Ramirez to Satanism.

Keep excuses to one or two sentences (for example, note that poor grades in the one semester were influenced by the death of the relatives).

Interest rates have a strong influence on equity REIT performance, as evidenced by the graphic below, which displays the relationship between the 10 - year Treasury yield and the relative performance of the S&P 500 Banks Index to the S&P 500 Real Estate Investment Trusts REITS Industry Index.

First, passive managers are price takers whereas active managers are not; and second, relative - value managers anchor on price levels influenced by fundamental analysts.

Since the APR you're offered is strongly influenced by your credit score, a «low» interest rate is somewhat relative, and will be based on your credit profile.

Influenced by fly - on - the - wall documentaries of the»70s, Turner Prize - winning artist Gillian Wearing has turned the form on its ear: recording her subjects» confessions, then re-pairing sound and image, mixing the voices of adults, children and relatives.

Those artists» shadows loom large here, albeit refracted by the relative lateness of Zet's encounter with their influences and the way the events of 1989 forced him to revamp his approach to making art.

Inspired by Allan Ramsay's portrait of Hume, some the philosopher's living relatives, many of whom now live in the USA become representations of the Scottish diaspora, their portraits a reflection on the global dissemination and influence of Hume's philosophies.»

And relative to 2008 - 18, the extra 0.1 ppm / yr in the previous decades would be more than cloaked by volcanic influences of the 1980s & 90s.

This was done by subtracting the anomalous pattern of growth that emerges over the past couple centuries in these chronologies relative to other tree - ring chronologies that otherwise exhibit very similar patterns of growth back in time, but which are unlikely to be influenced by the same non-climatic factors.

I suspect that although currently the probability of lethal wet bulb temperatures, or catastrophic rain events are very low, because of the shapes of the curves and «the Statistical parameters are surprisingly predictable, and weather statistics is systematically influenced by the physical conditions present» that their relative increase and risk are much higher than most people appreciate.

Power - sector CO2 emissions are influenced by a number of factors not directly affected by environmental policies, such as macroeconomic growth levels and relative fuel prices.

Introduction of nondimensional variables w ≡ Wρ / β and p = P / (q Oβ) results in the nondimensional equation which depends on two parameters only: The dimensionless net radiative influx r ≡ R · ɛαρ2 / (C pβ2) and a measure for the relative role of latent and advective heat transport Large l corresponds to a strong influence of moisture advection (scaling as Lq Oβp) on the continental heat budget compared with heat advection by large - scale and synoptic processes (scaling as C pβ2 w 2 / (αɛρ2)-RRB-.

Polychemical, and LG Pharmaceutical LG Telecom Network provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. / intent is to protect local production Related issues WTO Relative influence of industry / Global Warming Waste, particularly e-waste, and developing countries Resource constraints, e.g. oil, water Genetically modified products When Studying or Seeking to Understand an Issue / Topic There is an objective reality out there.

All the attempts to divine the relative influences of natural processes, land use changes, and CO2 changes are plagued by this and other problems.

The Matlab code in Mann 2008 is heavily influenced by Fortran and, at times is pretty much equivalent to Fortran in layout — over-subscripted and over do - looped relative to the style that a «native» speaker would use.

The summary related aviation's role relative to all human influence on the climate system: «The best estimate of the radiative forcing in 1992 by aircraft is 0.05 W m — 2 or about 3.5 % of the total radiative forcing by all anthropogenic activities.»

Reich.Eschhaus says: ``... and why Dana is wrong that El Nino / La Nina influence relative energy uptake by the oceans and the atmosphere?»

If sample size is not masking a significant correlation, the greater readability advantage in federal courts may be explained by the factors that depress the summary judgment success rate in state courts: more restrictive state summary judgment standards, the lack of state court resources compared with those in federal court, and state court judges» relative reluctance to grant summary judgment.111 Although greater readability could still influence the outcomes in some state cases, which would be consistent with the slight readability advantage in our sample, on the whole the anti-summary-judgment factors would reduce the potential readability effect on summary judgment outcome.

More recently, and closer to home, there is the influence the Catholic Church had on the province of Quebec (and continues to have in some regions); clergy not only exercised a top - heavy influence on their followers by keeping them in relative ignorance, but also by isolating them from the rest of the world, which contributed to the increasing economic inferiority which came to mark the province and remained severe until the recent past.

Career decisions in most households are largely driven or influenced by parents, relatives, and teachers.

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