Sentences with phrase «life measures by»

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.

In our study, we were able to show that the interventions investigated in MS patients lead to a clinically relevant improvement in the quality of life measured by the Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life questionnaire.

Primary outcome measures are: carer preparedness measured by the Preparedness for Caregiving Scale28 and carer distress measured by the Distress Thermometer (DT).29, 30 Secondary outcome measures are carer anxiety and depression measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), 31 carer quality of life measured by the Caregiver Quality of Life Index — Cancer, 32 carer competence measured by the Carer Competence Scale, 33 carer supportive care needs measured by the «Partner and Caregivers Supportive Care Needs Scale ’34 and «Brain Tumour Specific Supportive Carer Needs for Carers Survey ’35 and health economic cost - consequences measured using a checklist of services used.

Not exact matches

«An audacious company is one that measures its success or failure by the number of people whose lives are improved as a result of its work,» he told me.

«Imagine a world where every one of us has a mission in life, has the courage to reach out to people who can help, has the will to succeed and measure success not in financial terms, but by how many people they help or touch along the way.»

«This social contract between employer and employee basically said, «If you come to work every day, and you work hard, and you give the corporation a measure of loyalty, we in turn will take care of you, often for the rest of your life, by extending healthcare and generous pensions to retirees.»»

The media covers companies that reap billion - dollar valuations, and society measures success by the car you drive and the city in which you live.

As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

That estimate comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.

«We all rely on trust in our daily lives - that when sales tax is added, it actually applies and equals the specified amount; that the meter in a taxi shows the correct amount provided by law and correctly measures the actual distance; that when you order takeout, the price you see online matches the amount you pay in the restaurant.

«Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life; it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.»

«Since 1850 UK living standards, as measured by GDP per head, have risen roughly 20-fold, a huge gain.

Bumble is also making a $ 100,000 donation to March For Our Lives, a national rally on March 24 organized by the Parkland shooting survivors demanding increased gun control and school safety measures.

One way most people measure it is by the results they get in life.

They are reliable, consistent and well - adjusted, and by all measures the majority have good lives.

The results, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, are based on both subjective life - satisfaction surveys and objective measures of quality of life.

By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and poweBy the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and poweby a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and power.

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

«Liquidity is the only real measure,» Gurley said in a live interview at a technology conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal, in Lagunas, California.

«At Barry - Wehmiller, we measure success by the way we touch the lives of people.»

By this measure it is irrefutable that American living standards have improved dramatically even during a period when median incomes have stagnated.

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

If a one year experiment cuts working life from (say) 40 years to 39 years, the effects of a lifetime of basic income will be 40 times bigger than measured by a one year experiment.

Generally, you calculate the hurdle rate by adding together the risk - free interest rate, a measure of inflation expectations over the life of the project and a premium to compensate for the investment's risk.

The fertility rate as measured by the number of live births per woman in Europe has dropped substantially in a number of countries according to The Economist.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

That Canada still has one of the world's largest economies (15th by some measures) and as high a standard of living as almost anywhere is of less interest to the doomsayers.

If it increases the survival probability of the organism (measured by, well more of them live) then it stays in future generations.

How often, in all walks of life, do we judge others by a different standard than we measure our own shortcoming?

That is the danger of consumerism: the measure of life, indeed the consuming of life, by consumption, the discontent bred by the feeling that yesterday's anticipated enough is never enough.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

Whitehead proposed five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life: Truth, Beauty, Art, Adventure, and Peace.14 As we would say in Spanish, Justice shines by its absence.

But it is arrogant to suggest that the only authentic condition of congregational life is one of perpetual — especially artificially engineered — change and to think that one can measure a congregation's faithfulness by its capacity to leave its tradition behind.

The true prupose of Christianity is preparing for eternal life, not winnng by this worlds way of measuring of success.

This always happens when we legalize the commandment, when we isolate it, when we try to obey it to the letter, or conversely when we dismiss it easily by saying that it is outmoded, when we make a summary of it (an ethics), when we bring it into our own circuit of good and evil, when we use it in our own lives to justify ourselves (before God) or to condemn ourselves (in God's place), when we harden it into a reality that has been declared once and for all, when we measure it by our own standards, or when we take possession of it in exposition, discussion, or dissection.

It means that the significance of an individual life is not measured simply by its coming and going in the passing panorama of existence.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

It is this in which we place our trust, upon which we venture our souls, and onto which we project the values by which we measure the meaningfulness of our lives.

It is customary to measure the strength of a congregation's life by how many people attend Sunday worship in proportion to the total membership.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

In the Synoptic Gospels the framework of the narrative is in a measure provided by the movement of the Lord from Galilee to Jerusalem, from life to death.

And not only when we compare it with the setting of the life of Stone Age men, but also when we measure it by the framework within which the Church itself lived in those earlier times which constituted the classical periods of the Church's life and teaching.

The most powerful, self - sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible as God Himself became a man to die for the sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.

This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of culture and the condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures, but asserts his personal dignity by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.

Murray comes up with a very useful measure of community dysfunction: the percentage of «problematic people,» which he arrives at by combining prime - age males not making a living, single mothers raising children, a guesstimate of prime - age adults who are living alone, and those uninvolved in any community activity.

Pixley charges Whitehead's thought with three things: (1) that it is «at the very least... open to appropriation for counterrevolutionary purposes;» (2) that «Justice shines by its absence» from Whitehead's list of five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life; and (3) that Whitehead's philosophy contains within it latent counterrevolutionary tendencies.»

To measure billions of years you need to measure the date by an isotope with a much longer half life.

The oldest living tree thus far found (measured by ring count) was a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine which was 4,862 years old.

Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.

It depends on how they come out when measured by an index of «quality of life.»