Sentences with phrase «more control over their environment»

Like many others who choose home birth, she liked the idea of being in a familiar and comforting place, and felt it made labour easier because she had more control over the environment.

To support the rights of indigenous communities to assert more control over their environment and resources, SIPPI published a handbook in 2003 to help local peoples understand and identify mechanisms of the current intellectual property regime that might be advantageous or detrimental to the protection of their environments, biological resources, and traditional knowledge.

Scientific research with animals has shown that animals with more control over their environment excel at learning complex behaviors, making decisions, increasing attention, lowering arousal levels and better health.

It gives us a chance to interact with the animals based on their individual behavioral needs, which reduces stress, provides physical and mental stimulation, and allows animals more control over their environment.

The ability to jump in a first - person shooter gives the player more control over the environment, which makes the game feel less linear: jumping out of a window is more satisfying than backtracking to look for stairs.

As children grow older, they gain skills which give them more control over their environment.

This includes separate metering and giving people a lot more control over their environments.»

Not exact matches

Plus, more control over the work environment (a staple of the small business owner) makes people happier to toil away.

«Creating a working environment where people have greater control over their work - life balance is a personal and commercial imperative; it results in more fulfilled people, higher performing teams, better results for our clients and we recruit and retain the best talent.»

As with most flexible work options, employees who feel more in control over their work days and environments often translate that empowerment into improved productivity and higher job satisfaction.

To a good degree, the health benefits of flexible jobs come from having more control over your schedule and your work environment.

On that occasion Australian bond yields rose significantly more than those in the US, reflecting market concerns that Australia would not be able to maintain control over inflation in an environment of strong global expansion.

With Steam Infusion allowing more control over the steam flow rate, we change the operating characteristics of the Vaction ™ Unit from a gentle introduction of steam to a disruptive high shearing process environment.

Getting input from your kids doesn't just help create the ideal environment, it also makes them feel like they have a bit more control over their after school time.

Toddlers want independence and control over their environment — more than they may be capable of handling.

As vision improves and babies gain more control over their movements, they'll interact more and more with their environment.

He also notes that we have more control over the contexts we're in than we tend to think we do, which means that it's very possible to end up in an environment that favors the way our brains work.

«People who make more money may have fewer worries,» Lauderdale suggested, «or they may have more control over their sleep environment.»

«This knowledge could give asthmatics more control over how they are affected by their environment,» Dalton adds.

I wanted to be in a creative environment that I had more control over, but ultimately, I knew I wanted to be my own boss.

While you may still have to take a few leaps outside your comfort zone, you have much more control over how you're perceived and who you interact with, making it a far less stressful dating environment.

Instead of the high - pressure, high - stress environment where she had to be on - hand to respond to everyday crises, Smith says that now she has much more control over the substance of her work, is able to think more about the long - term, and is allowed more time for her personal relationships.

The multi-media features and the degree of control over the e-learning environment has made this medium a more preferred method of accessing learning materials.

Mobile technology frees teachers to re-think the use of learning spaces, allowing students to have more control over their own bodies and be more interactive with their environment.

The light is more natural, without the bluish tinge of the Nook, and the lighting levels are more granular, offering the reader more control over how dim or bright the screen lighting is — the Paperwhite offers 24 different brightness settings for the display, so you can find the perfect level for any environment.

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a really fun game narrative - driven game that doesn't feel too heavy as an RPG, but still provides that tactical experience if you want a little more control over combat environments.

In a press conference held on Tuesday, environment minister José Sarney Filho said the reduction showed Brazil had regained control over deforestation in the Amazon as a result of more effective enforcement of the law.

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

According to a recent article on law.com, a new law firm model is emerging that could be the perfect fit for men and women attorneys who want a more entrepreneurial work environment and more control over their work schedules.

To come to this score, «DxOMark engineers capture and evaluate over 1500 test images and more than 2 hours of video in both controlled lab environments and in natural indoor and outdoor scenes.»

DxOMark Mobile tests involve capturing and evaluating over 1500 test images and more than 2 hours of video in both controlled lab environments and in natural indoor and outdoor scenes.

Thus, although it is true that adults have more control over their current environment, I believe that they are still heavily influenced by both their current environment and by past exposure to environmental factors.

Not only would halting open houses create a safer work environment for all of us, it would also make us feel like we have more control over our business.