Sentences with phrase «lack of activity among»

Because half of private - sector employment and gross domestic product are accounted for by small businesses, lack of activity among small businesses will keep GDP and employment from growing much.

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«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

This emphasis upon the present and the past among the poor may be born of a lack of hope; but in some cases it may be a product of an honest cultural difference indicating a more self - accepting and less acquisitive style of life, a style which should be respected and not automatically deemed inferior to the more ambitious future - oriented activities of the middle classes.

This is not to say that there has been any lack of recent activity, or of relative success, among evangelicals in higher education.

But even the most committed among us face real - world challenges that can make family dinners hard: late hours at the office, sports team practices, extracurricular school activities, «picky» eaters at the table, and / or a lack of confidence in our menu - planning or cooking skills, to name just a few.

According to the NDC scribe, his outfit has a unique way of organizing its activities which the other parties lack, notable among them, he said, was how it elects its youth wing leaders.

Various types of meditation have been shown to improve well - being among different populations such as physicians and the general public.14, 15, 16 Preliminary evidence suggests that meditation - based interventions may slow cellular aging rates by increasing telomerase activity, but many such studies lacked an active control group.17, 18 Recent randomized trials in breast cancer suggest that long - term intensive meditation interventions might have positive effects on telomerase activity.

The capability of albumins to catalyse the Kemp elimination reaction (among several other non-natural reactions) suggests that the scarcity of natural enzyme catalysts for such a simple reaction is simply due to the lack of a selective pressure to generate Kemp elimination activity during evolution.

Australian educators believe insufficient time to prepare for lessons and a lack of skills among teachers are hindering the use of ICT in teaching and learning activities.

A number of factors affect the quality of in - school modeling, including lack of resources available in field placements, lack of experience or expertise with regard to technology integration among field placement teachers, and lack of opportunities for preservice teachers to integrate technology in meaningful ways into the activities they design and implement during their field placements (Niess, 2008; Posner, 1996; Smoot, 2000).

The activity set off by the contest has enabled Schnur's network to press as never before its frontal challenge to the teachers» unions: they argue that a country that spends more per pupil than any other but whose student performance ranks in the bottom third among developed nations isn't failing its children for lack of resources but for lack of trained, motivated, accountable talent at the front of the class.

This service is hard to copy because other retailers lack, among other things, the infrastructure and the bulk purchasing power (part of Costco's activities) to profitably operate at such low margins.

Returning to the issue of future projections of aggregate activity (PDI, as in Fig. 1), while there remains a lack of consensus among various studies on how Atlantic hurricane PDI will change, no model we have analyzed shows a sensitivity of Atlantic hurricane PDI to greenhouse warming as large as that implied by the observed Atlantic PDI / local SST relationship shown in Figures 1 (top panel).

Berman's ambition to move beyond fundraising and into a marketing role — he's finishing up a master's degree in integrated marketing — was frustrated partially by the relative lack of online / real - world marketing activity among the non-profits for which he's worked.

The present article focuses upon two key problems in the operationalization of the monitoring construct to date: (a) poor conceptual specificity in parenting constructs such as monitoring, overprotection, and over-involvement when used to date among youth with chronic conditions and (b) the confounding of existing measures of parental monitoring with items evaluating parental knowledge of youth activities, which has resulted in a lack of data regarding the mechanisms by which parents obtain their information.