Sentences with phrase «means studying up»

In other words, offering the most nourishing foods to baby means studying up on traditional foods and giving yourself the time to prepare them in your own kitchen for everyone.

Not exact matches

Austin and his team selected a nationwide group of 100 bankruptcy filers meant to represent a cross-section of the U.S. population, studied their paperwork, then followed up with a survey asking filers, basically, «Why?»

Just over a year ago, the company trumpeted a study that said a whopping 92 % of Twitter users took immediate action after seeing tweets related to a TV show, whether that meant tuning into it or looking it up.

Studies have shown that the prefrontal cortex of the brain, the backbone of your willpower, is most active when you wake up — meaning that creative activity is highest during and immediately after sleep.

If the UBC study is any guide, the winner in the new luxury war may end up being the one, not with the best products, but with the most mean girls (and guys) on staff.

A 2009 study found that exposure to extreme cold temperatures activated brown fat in 23 and 24 participants by a 15-fold increase, meaning someone could lose up to nine pounds in a year if they kept this practice up.

For instance, ValuePenguin's 2016 study of premiums in Salt Lake City and New York City found that moving up just one credit tier could mean as much as 14 % to 20 % discount on premiums.

That means studying charts, speaking with management (if applicable), reading trade journals or doing other background work (such as macroeconomic analysis or industry analysis) so the trader is up to speed when the trading session starts.

If you want the answer, that means you are going to have to pick up a Bible and study it, not just «read» it.

This could mean putting an end to the classic youth group model that so many of us grew up with, the model in which teenagers participate in their own worship, their own Bible studies, their own social events, their own outreach activities, their own missions trips, and so on.

Please, if you don't know what is meant here, then own up on your own studies.

Go look up for yourselves secular studies on how much an average (this means typical, as opposed to your very ILLOGICAL use of anecdotal evidence to draw conclusions or simply spouting the same thing you read in a combox somewhere) Christian gives of his own time and treasure to charitable causes versus an average atheist.

Critical thinker, You study a little science and suddenly you feel you have it figured out, Your meaning of life and the after life is based on other men's hypotheses, Yet it makes such good sense to you that you make a life choice based on it, then you stand up and criticize a person whose made a life choice based on A holy Book written 2000 years ago, When it comes down to it how are you any different, Your choices based on science which changes daily and theirs on the prophets.

The study comes from student surveys, which means the number may actually be larger than 36 percent, but it lines up with the numbers universities have independently reported.

A solid friendship at 18 might look like late - night study groups and spending every waking hour together; at 30, married and maybe with kids, it might mean the occasional dinner, text or almost quarterly run - ins where you pick up where you left off (hopefully).

There is a dignified way out: by cloaca Luther did not mean the toilet, but the study up in the tower above it.

The mean (± SD) age was 61 ± 17 y. Two studies consisted of only men, and the other studies combined both men and women; the mean duration of follow - up was 16 ± 7 y.

Going back to those studies into how people look at images, results showed that viewers expressed that a natural way to go into an image was by moving from left to right, this means that a diagonal line originating in the bottom left and moving up and right in the image makes the viewing experience very natural.

But the meaning of hero could be debated of course, I might be overly caught up with logical exactness but hey I study philosophy, just thinking things through....

I still have bad days with Jack where we might as well be from different planets, we just don't click, but my talks with Renee, along with my study means that I don't get caught up in the negativity.

I mean, I don't know the specifics of the study and why they think that, but just from my perception, babies who are breastfeeding wake up more in the middle of the night, because formula keeps formula keeps them satiated longer, and oftentimes and so..., so babies need to wake up in the middle of the night.

For Morgan, he's very aware that a language barrier could mean the difference of a wonderful study abroad experience and one where he ends up in an ER!

But while studies suggest that salad bars can help boost children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, some school districts decline to install salad bars claiming they are unsanitary, especially for small elementary school students with active hands and faces that often come up short of the barriers that are meant to keep coughs and sneezes out of food.

We're not sure if that means that new moms are falling asleep during feedings or if they've read the studies that co-sleeping infants wake up less.

Secondly, the limited time horizon of the study meant that the follow - up of outcomes for both mother and baby did not extend beyond the time period of labour and care immediately after birth, or higher level postnatal or neonatal care when this was received.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

And there was a study that came out on 2010 that showed that one - third of American families experience diaper need, meaning, they have to cut back on basic necessities like food, utilities, and child - care, in order to buy diapers because diapers can cost up to 3000 dollars for each child over the time you are diapering.

Because the two studies can not be considered independent in a meta - analysis, we performed a meta - analysis with and without including this later follow - up study to determine its impact on the overall pooled mean difference.

The Milwaukee Common Council has overridden mayoral vetoes that would have changed how the city pays for a so - called disparity study meant to justify policies giving minority - and women - owned companies a leg up when bidding on public work.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a yeaUp - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a yeaup or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The model of hospital administration in this publication actually has lots of semblance with contemporary models in the US, UK, Republic of Ireland, Australia and Canada where there is a board of directors / governors with a Chairman (does not have to be a Medical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his findings!

Flies are ideal for genetic studies because they have short life spans and are small, which means that researchers can breed and interbreed thousands of them in the laboratory until interesting mutations crop up.

The enamel structure the researchers identified in Pelagiarctos meant the walrus was unlikely to be up to crunching through large bones without cracking its teeth — suggesting that it was a dietary generalist like the modern New Zealand pinnipeds studied, she says.

Dr Webb said: «The results of our latest study open up the possibility of designing new drugs that use the same means to attack E. coli, but in a more effective way.»

The build - up of reproductive isolation between species typically takes very long time but the recent contact zone on Öland means that causes and consequences of hybridization can be studied in real time.

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

And we have done many validation studies where we compared our diet assessments to biochemical measures, say of, tansfat in the fat tissue of a person or the level of beta - carotene in the blood, and we found pretty good correlations — not perfect but they are pretty good — and that means that we are able to pick up meaningful differences in people, among people that we can tell someone who is eating a large amount of transfat from a person eating low amount of transfat.

(This could mean that the studies weren't set up to avoid bias, or that the measures were not reported in the investigator brochures, for instance to keep the packets concise.)

We're heading to the remote village of Veal Roulem, which means «rainy field» in Khmer, one of several sites where a team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok is wrapping up a pilot study of a radical approach to eliminating malaria.

Missing source code can allow bad science to slip through the cracks and means extra headaches for scientists who want to closely follow up on new studies or check for errors

The study examined patients by means of a metabolic chamber before and up to two years after surgery.

«The fact that we have found [deca] in falcon eggs means that it is in their food, is taken up from the gut and is transferred to the eggs,» study co-author Cynthia de Wit of Stockholm University says.

My colleagues (Tara Behrend, Erin Peters Burton and Barbara Means) and I are leading a study that will help illuminate the traits that make STEM high schools successful and provide insights into their potential for scale - up.

It will be up to governments whether to offer such an incentive, says Menon, whose study didn't calculate how much it would cost to make the surfaces more reflective through the various means.

This means that the «waking up» method is very effective for studying the motions of a protein individually and sequentially.

It was one of the first research hubs in the world to build transmitters to track and analyze sharks in their natural habitat; previously, researchers relied on scuba diving or catching the animals as a means to study them up close.

The mean follow - up in the study was 71 months, «a very long time,» Christiani notes.

«When you start to do systematic studies of biological systems and you gather information from different angles — meaning genomics, proteomics, and other approaches — and combine this information, you end up being able to do discoveries which would not be possible under each individual set of information,» says Figeys.

«Previous studies have shown that people who avoided all contact with plastics or other BPA - containing objects for up to a month or more still had BPA in their urine, which means they must have come into contact with BPA in the last 24 to 48 hours, since it clears the body rather quickly,» said Prins, who is director of the UIC andrology laboratory.

Professor Michael Bowker continued: «Up until recently, the production of hydrogen from cellulose by means of photocatalysis has not been extensively studied.