Sentences with phrase «major risk behaviors»

Parents are largely ignorant of the extent to which their adolescents are involved in major risk behaviors.

Conclusions Parents are largely ignorant of the extent to which their adolescents are involved in major risk behaviors.

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With no plans to accept Apple Pay, and no set launch date for MCX, it appears Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing out on a major shift in customer behavior: Forrester Research has forecast that mobile payments by U.S. consumers will go from $ 52 billion last year to $ 142 billion by the end of 2019.

With no current plans to accept Apple Pay (though down the line it, and other mobile wallets, could well be a payment option within Walmart Pay), and no set launch date for MCX (never mind that as the product of consortium, that mobile app will not be set up to meet Walmart's specific needs), Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing out on a major shift in customer behavior.

The two types of reasoning are part of Fuzzy Trace Theory, which «has emerged as one of the major alternative paradigms to successfully explain adolescents» and adults» risk taking in domains such as health and sexual behaviors,» according to the authors.

Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.

Major current projects include 1) Evaluating pesticide exposure and risk to wild bees and managed honey bees in different landscapes, 2) Combining empirical data with network modeling to understand pathogen transmission in complex plant - pollinator networks, and 3) Understanding how pesticide and pathogen stress influence bee behavior and delivery of pollination services to agriculturally important crops.

Using the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, we systematically and prospectively investigated the relationships of the 3 main components of the type A behavior pattern — hostile attitudes (hostility), time urgency / impatience (TUI), and achievement striving / competitiveness (ASC)-- and 2 other major psychosocial factors, depression and anxiety, with long - term risk of developing hypertensRisk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, we systematically and prospectively investigated the relationships of the 3 main components of the type A behavior pattern — hostile attitudes (hostility), time urgency / impatience (TUI), and achievement striving / competitiveness (ASC)-- and 2 other major psychosocial factors, depression and anxiety, with long - term risk of developing hypertensrisk of developing hypertension.

This latter portfolio is «designed to hedge the major risks of the liabilities — namely, inflation and interest rates — and utilizes assets which exhibit behavior similar to that of the Plan's liabilities.»

Consumer behavior — and how to protect against risks — is becoming a major concern of many financial services companies.

Because your past driving behavior is indicative of your future behavior on the road, your driving history is a major factor in how your risk is viewed and, in turn, how your premium gets calculated.

The coexistence of major depression with conduct disorder increases the risk of impulsive suicidal behavior.

Children exhibiting elevated levels of disruptive behaviors [oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD)-RSB- and / or the problems from the broadband externalizing spectrum often follow a life - course trajectory of conduct problems (i.e., repetitive and persistent patterns of behavior that violate the rights of the others and major age - appropriate societal norms or rules, respectively) that place them at greater risk of later antisocial behavior during adolescence (Odgers et al., 2008; Hyde et al., 2013).

Analysis of the recent National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 35 a nationally representative sample of school - attending adolescents, indicated that contact between parents and adolescents is a major protective factor for a wide range of risk behaviors, including early sexual initiation.

Major research interests involve the identification of high - risk factors for adolescent substance use and other problem behaviors.