Sentences with phrase «significant than environment»

The rest, more significant than environment, are «the things we choose to do, the actions we take in response to the world, not the things imposed upon us.»

Not exact matches

But she also stresses creating the environment for long - term economic growth, which is why a significant increase to the capital - gains tax for investments less than six years in duration is at the center of her plan.

Following more than a century of intensive farming, the sensitive riverine environment was in significant distress with many native species of flora and fauna having all but disappeared from the region.

More than twice as many young people as those aged over 65 agreed that «producing and consuming meat / livestock products has a significant negative impact on the environment» — 46 per cent compared with 20 per cent.

McNeill continues «As an international organisation, Marie Stopes International has significant experience of providing women with the option to take the second pill in an environment other than a clinic, with very positive results, and believe that women everywhere should have an equal ability to choose how they manage their sexual and reproductive health.

After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

But there's more to it than simply repeating something you like over and over — your actions exist in a constantly changing environment that has a significant impact on your actions.

We are 10 times more bacteria than we are human and the bacteria that live in and on us play a significant role in how our body responds to stress, food and our environment.

Especially adamant in refuting the scientist's claims is US Vice-President Becker (Kenneth Welsh), who feels the economy is more significant and fragile than the environment.

So - called «green schools» — which are designed specifically to provide healthier and more productive learning environments — cost just 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent more than conventional schools, but provide significant long - term financial benefits, concludes a study by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative in Westborough.

However, where used for teaching, for example sports lessons, outdoor ambient noise levels have a significant impact on communication in an environment which is already acoustically less favourable than most classrooms.

By visiting these famous houses and London landmarks, children will be walking into the places where history happened, rather than being in a museum setting and simply looking at artefacts, school groups will be standing in the environment where a significant person lived.

Is a Native American, Alaska Native, or native resident of outlying areas and comes from an environment where language other than English has had a significant impact in the individual's level of English language proficiency; or

The fact is Commissioner Stefan Pryor's relationship as a Director with Achievement First was far more significant than Esty's relationship with the Connecticut Fund for the Environment.

A surprising implication of these findings is that, relative to white children, black boys fare worse than their sisters in significant part because black children — both boys and girls — are raised in more disadvantaged family environments.

Significant and minor improvements alike make the app more satisfying a reading environment than ever before.

This is a significant problem and Rob believes that the current low interest rate environment has encouraged Canadians to borrow more than they should, leading to our very high debt levels.

While the game's far more responsive with clickable buttons than its mobile counterparts, the hyper - pixelated graphics, sparse environments and extremely short length prevent it from reaching any significant heights.

«Interestingly, we also found that a shift away from ruminant meats like beef — which have impacts three to 10 times greater than other animal - based foods — towards nutritionally similar foods like pork, poultry or fish would have significant benefits, both for the environment and for human health.

Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, in an interview at a Cambridge hotel Friday after he met with scholars at Harvard and Tufts universities, said significant upheaval related to the warming planet «is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen... that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.»

«Regarded as one of the world's most productive marine environments, the Bering Sea is widely thought to be rapidly warming and losing sea ice... Results show that, rather than declining, mean annual sea ice extent in the Bering Sea has exhibited no significant change over the satellite sea ice record (1979 — 2009).

«The risks associated with the oil sands, the environmental risks, are significantly different than — and probably less significant than — the kind of risks associated with offshore drilling,» said Canada's Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice.

Today's trade agreements, however, are about much more than tariffs and quotas and have significant implications for our environment, public health, and global climate.

«There are likely many more microbes living in carbonate mounds than in sediments, their contributions to methane removal from the environment may be more significant.»

I would have thought this would be more significant than the much less frequent reactions occuring during photosynthesis, especially in oceanic environments.

Yet there have been a range of recent developments both in legislation and in case law which are much too significant to be described as minutiae and at the same time are much more beneficial to the environment than airport expansion.

The major issues on the appeal were the effect of an insurance covenant in a contract made between the plaintiff and one of the defendants (UPS) in a significant claim involving damage to vaccines stored in a temperature - controlled environment, and whether the defendants other than UPS, including Hilly's client, were entitled to take the benefit of the insurance covenant.

even if their mandate is logical and there is potential significant benefit, in practice will it be an underfunded, overworked, and potentially over politicized environment, the net effect of which is to harms compatible or greater than the good it can achieve?

In actuality, the home server has more participants who know the same language, and so the support & participation of other players should be more significant and produce a better environment than moving to a foreign (US) server.

Nevertheless, the MECSH trial showed some significant results and some trends that require replication in larger samples of mothers drawn from a similarly widely defined at - risk group, including older, multiparous mothers, and mothers with higher levels of education than have been reported in other trials.1 14 Mothers of infants and toddlers in the intervention group provided a home environment that was statistically significantly more supportive of their child's development through more verbal and emotional responsivity; however, the effect size was small.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

In Denver, mothers who received home visits had more sensitive mother - infant interactions and higher HOME scores than mothers who did not.80 Home visiting, however, had no significant effects on different aspects of the home environment in Elmira or Memphis.81 One possible explanation for this difference is that the majority of mothers at the Elmira and Memphis sites were adolescents, whereas the Denver mothers were more diverse in age, suggesting stronger effects for older mothers than for younger mothers with respect to the quality of the home environment.

In an adoption study using within - rather than between - family comparisons, Plomin, DeFries, and Fulker (1988) performed hundreds of analyses in a search for significant gene - environment interactions and found only about as many as would be expected by chance.

Citing workplace hypertension and the profound impact that one's work environment has on physical health he noted that the quality of one's manager at work is actually more significant than one's doctor in determining health outcomes.

I also find significant interactions: Children remaining in high conflict environments generally exhibit lower levels of well - being than children who have experienced high levels of parental conflict but whose parents divorce or separate.

High expressed emotion (EE) refers to affective attitudes and behaviors toward patients characterized by critical comments, hostility, and emotional over involvement (EOI).3 The construct has traditionally been applied to the study of familial relationships, and it is well established that levels of familial EE are significant predictors of outcome across a range of psychiatric and physical health conditions.4 A substantial body of this research has been carried out with people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and there is strong evidence that those living in high EE environments have a much higher risk of relapse than those living in low EE environments.5 The success of family intervention studies aiming to reduce high EE and relapses add to the support for a causal relationship.6, 7