Sentences with phrase «less use of»

Security window film was designed with a three-fold purpose: provide UV protection, maintain a more comfortable environment with less use of air conditioning, and containment of dangerous glass shards in the event of a window implosion.

Using mothers» reports of child behaviour and parenting practices, mothers in the SD group reported significantly less child behaviour problems, less use of dysfunctional discipline strategies, and greater parenting competence than mothers in the WL group.

Confirming mother's self - reports, observers also have found that mothers of AD children show greater use of non-supportive parenting (e.g., criticism and talking over the child) and less use of supportive parenting (e.g., warmth) when responding to children's negative emotions than mothers of non-AD children (Hudson et al. 2008).

An inadequate combination of parenting practices, with more use of negative practices and less use of positive practices, is associated with a profile characterized by deficient emotional skills.

Therefore, the results indicate that an adequate combination of parenting practices, with more use of positive practices and less use of negative practices, is associated with a profile of adequate emotional skills in one's offspring.

«For every one dollar invested in high - quality, comprehensive programs supporting children and families from birth,» the platform says, «there is a $ 7 - $ 10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system and better health.»

Parents and children reported significant pretreatment to posttreatment reductions in the use of physical punishment, as well as significantly decreased symptoms of depression among parents, less use of violent parenting strategies and decreased inconsistent parenting.

They also reported reduced parental stress and less use of dysfunctional parenting practices.

Finally, a randomized control study showed significantly less use of alcohol at 6 - month and 1 - year followups of a home visiting program.

Researchers who have evaluated abstinence - only programs have found disturbing results, including increased sexual activity with less use of protection and contraception.

Even taking into account a lag time for the alleviation of depressive symptoms after less use of maladaptive coping, there remains an incomplete explanation as to why more BSA patients in particular remain so distressed.

Regression modeling for the 4 most common disciplinary practices showed (P <.05) that black race, lack of Aid to Families With Dependent Children receipt, more - educated mothers, and female sex of child were associated with higher use of teaching or verbal assertion; a biological father in the home was associated with less use of limit setting; and black race and report for child maltreatment were associated with more use of mild spanking.

Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial for mental health, as well as for sexual and reproductive health in this population.

Effects were more consistent on physical abuse, however, with mothers in the treatment group reporting fewer instances of very serious physical abuse at one year and fewer instances of serious abuse at two years.54 In Alaska, the HFA program was associated with less psychological aggression, but it had no effects for neglect or severe abusive behaviors.55 Similarly, in the San Diego evaluation of HFA, home - visited mothers reported less use of psychological aggression at twenty - four and thirty - six months.56 Early Start also reported small effects in terms of lowering rates of severe physical abuse.57

Likewise, if you are making less use of the add - on features (Running Coach, Assistant - integration, and so on), then you will arguable also see an increased return in battery life.

«While Apple's new OLED form factor looks similar,» Hall writes, «current indications are for less use of curved OLED which may result in a slightly less «infinity» screen form factor.»

In Scotland we have historically made proportionately less use of CVAs for restructuring than in England and Wales.

(Careful readers may have noticed that I've made much less use of «substance» or «essence» in this column than Binnie J. did in the cases noted.

Judges evidenced less use of hindsight than jurors when making their decisions (i.e., less «Monday morning quarterbacking»).

Any realistic way of holding down the budget requires significant pruning of criminal proceedings and much less use of imprisonment — matters which impact the Home Office and major government policy.

Alternatives with lower embodied energy and requiring less use of resources such as limestone, coal and gas are available for most applications.

Much of this reduction is due to far less use of the state's only remaining coal - fired power station, the Northern, which, as of 2013, was being run for only the warmer half of each year.

Research suggests that the most significant effect of a carbon tax on electricity generation technology would be less use of coal and greater use of natural gas.

Less use of fossil fuels, or more carbon capture or other remediation could easily be constructed as the more beneficial cases, in an imagined past, by economic models without unreasonable assumptions.

1) Smaller or falling population leads to more people living in cities, so reduced transport needs, so less use of raw materials.

But clearly smaller population makes plenty of sense in many other ways, for example less use of resources overall, less conflict between peoples globally, and pressure on endangered species.

We must all make a move towards reducing our energy consumption, making less use of fossil fuels, and insist that our energy departments of state make active moves towards allowing our societies to switch to renewable energy sources.

Obviously the better answer is less use of energy, materials, consumption, not more, as we said in the video.

I am all for any change that allows for less use of electricity, gas, etc., that is a given.

So less use of credit scores?

Toyota Prius Eco or C) may score decent due to minimal manufacturing costs and less use of gas.

«For every dollar invested in high - quality, comprehensive programs supporting children... there is a $ 7 - $ 10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system, and better health.»

Secondary schools are much more interested in dedicated payment software than their primary counterparts, but see less use of other digital options like bank transfers or Paypal.

And while scattered projects using computers to help limited - English - proficient students have shown positive results, such students and their teachers typically make far less use of technology than their peers in regular classes, the report concludes.

There are many documented benefits of having a doula, among them a lower rate of C - sections, less use of epidurals and other interventions, and more overall satisfaction and confidence with birth experiences.

Frequent indoor tanning was associated with less use of sunscreen, sun - protective clothing and shade while outdoors, and with several sunburns in the past year.

Both alcohol users and misusers, compared with those who didn't drink at all, reported less use of general medical, mental health and housing services.

It hopes to make less use of coal - burning stations and more of combined - cycle gas - turbine stations.

Less use of prison, an end to the pointless of waste of sentences for drug possession, evidence - based policy making.

Research shows that the active presence of a supportive and educated life partner is associated with many positive benefits during childbirth, including shorter labors, less use of pain medication or epidurals, fewer cesarean sections and more successful breastfeeding.

«The doula's presence decreases labor length, significantly decreases cesarean sections, means less use of pain medicine and gives greater breastfeeding rates.»

When you say Organic products, these are products made from materials that uses natural ways of farming and cultivating such as non-use of chemical pesticides, less use of water, synthetic pesticides that consider the ecosystem and biodiversity.

Nurse - midwives demonstrated with a high grade level of evidence a lower rate of cesarean sections, lower apgar scores, lower labor augmentation, lower episotomy rates, equivalent low birthrates, lower vaginal operative deliveries, less use of labor analgesia and epidurals, and lower rates of third - and fourth - degree perineal lacerations.

Less knowlege and less use of proper english reading, writing, grammar and simple math.

The growth we do want, or at least the growth we should want, is in getting more good living and strong community with less use of resources including sinks, and while allowing more space for the other species with which we share this planet.

As banks subsequently worked to reduce high levels of ES balances, they made less use of this facility.

The stair well I use in the parking structure by my work is the lesser used of the two.

Finally, analysis of week - to - week trajectories of specific regulatory strategies over the course of the compassion training program demonstrated that participants shifted to lesser use of expressive suppression and greater acceptance when experiencing stress / anxiety.

Not exact matches

The Liberals say that certain taxpayers are using corporations to pay less than their «fair share» of taxes.

Or, at least, they're using a lot less water to make it: MillerCoors announced this week that they've reduced their water consumption by 9.2 % over the past two years, saving roughly one billion barrels of water.