Sentences with phrase «small activities such»

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One of the chief gripes of the banks» opponents is that it assists the exporting activities of very large companies such as Boeing, Caterpillar, and General Electric, which they say puts smaller companies at a disadvantage.

WordStream reviewed the PPC activities of 500 small and medium - sized business client accounts and found that many businesses are not maximizing the value of their AdWords campaigns because they do not engage in basic PPC best practices such as actively managing their accounts, improving ad relevancy and engaging in mobile optimization.

The smaller banks in particular, but perhaps also larger ones, will increasingly outsource «non-core» activities such as cheque processing and computing to specialist suppliers who can take advantage of scale economies.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

Such a small scope for a life, so little productive activity — how did she develop her gifts?

This is important for a number of reasons, such as overturning the predominate idea that only a small segment of society in certain urban areas could have been involved in such literary activities, but for believers today my book helps us understand why there was such an emphasis on reading communally in the New Testament (1 Tim 4:13; Col 4:16; 1 Thess 5:27; Rev. 1:3; etc.).

Most of FLUID's activities revolve around those smaller marketing efforts such as sales information, shelving materials and social media messaging.

Each beverage company may undertake additional activities including: introducing and expanding new lower - calorie products and smaller - portion packages; product placement such as end aisle and checkout displays featuring only reduced - calorie beverages; merchandising efforts such as repositioning reduced - calorie beverages on shelves; providing coupons and other incentives promoting no / lower - calorie options; and taste tests / sampling programs in and out of store.

The beverage companies will utilize a range of marketplace activities in these Little Rock neighborhoods in an effort to help people reduce their calories: such as making lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages more available in stores, providing incentives for consumers to try these options and displaying new calorie awareness messages at points of sale.

From small things, such as losing sleep to make treats for your son's baseball team, to large, such as poor job performance because you are checking up on your kids» activities, placing too much of your time and energy into motherhood can negatively impact your life.

With small babies, this can be done gradually — perhaps with Dad carrying baby in a sling when she is happy or massaging while mum holds baby at first and later, doing an activity such as bathing that is solely Dad's domain.

Our unique camps combine morning academic programs in small class settings & afternoon activities such as Arts & Crafts, Science, Adventure, Sports, Cooking, Drama and Carnival.

We sat down with our kids and looked closely at their day - to - day lives and then decided on what we would pay for such as clothing, cell phone plans and after - school activities and sports fees and then gave them a budget for the rest such as entertainment (the price of a movie ticket once a month), gifts (birthdays, holidays, church), their craving for school cafeteria food — which we capped at twice a week — plus a small stipend.

All of the small, precise thumb, finger, hand, and wrist movements involved in new activities — such as building towers of block...

presents activities that will not only delight a small child for hours, but will stimulate his creativity and introduce him to basic laws of nature (such as gravity).

This can be achieved by helping your child with certain play patterns such as grasping small objects, pouring water out of cups, squeezing things like sponges, and doing other activities that force a child to use their hands in creative ways.

Following the revelation, government waged a massive war against such activities and placed a six - month ban on small scale mining.

Government has put a moratorium on galamsey and small scale following a massive pressure on government to stop such activities in the country.

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

Known for small classes and a focus on undergraduate education, most such colleges also require — from their younger, newer faculty members, at least — substantial research activity.

There Voyager had laid bare vast, surprisingly smooth stretches that told of a past marked by intense internal activity and maybe even a liquid - water layer buried below its icy shell — both on a moon seemingly too small for such phenomena.

The potential for such activity in this small ocean world has made Enceladus a prime target for future exploration in search of habitable environments in the solar system beyond Earth.

Krotkov and his team now are able to more accurately detect smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations, including those emitted by human - made sources such as oil - related activities and medium - size power plants.

In this condition, the smallest vessels supplying the retina with oxygen become leaky, causing fluid to swell the central retinal area and impairing the type of vision required for precise activities such as reading.

Our cells rely on RNAi — deploying diminutive RNA molecules such as microRNAs and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)-- to turn down activity of specific genes.

«Our results show that while patients have relatively small deficits in working memory, the activity of the cortical networks that support such a function are predictive of their performance,» says author Vicente Camacho, M.D., and a Masters student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

The robot builds a «vocabulary» of such small parts that it can put together in various ways to recognize a variety of big activities, he explained.

«I think the findings have real - world applications, such as using avatars in video games to «nudge» people to increase physical activity, or getting people more comfortable with small increases in physical activity before taking on more intense physical routines,» said Peña.

Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»

«Using statistical methods, we were able to identify a small number of basic patterns that underlie muscle activities in the legs and control periodic activation or deactivation of muscles to produce cyclical movements, such as those associated with walking.

A typical small - molecule drug derives its activity from such functional groups, which are bound to a relatively simple backbone structure consisting chiefly of carbon atoms.

Mission scientists describe the findings as almost paradoxical, because the two worlds had been thought too small to sustain the internal heat that drives geologic activity on Earth, and they do not experience the tidal heating that drives such activity elsewhere in the outer solar system.

Small molecules that enhance the activity of modern enzymes, such as coenzyme A, have RNA nucleotide tails.

Making it useful at the regional level or smaller, such as the mantle activity beneath Southern California or the earthquake - prone crust of Istanbul, will require additional work.

Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje

However, antioxidants such as vitamins C and E don't seem to improve any type of physical activity, though they're needed in small amounts for overall health.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

As with other smaller rocky worlds such as Pluto, Ceres has had its surprises, showing evidence for more geological activity than had previously been thought.

We sought other postdocs with an interest in sports activities to contribute by taking responsibility for smaller specific tasks, such as making the tournament schedule, or arranging prizes.

Since low - mass stars like GJ 1132 are among the most common in the galaxy and are known to host groups of small planets, the researchers said that they are encouraged by their discovery and the possibility that such worlds could maintain atmospheres despite the high levels of activity in and around such stars.

A hallmark of the Notch pathway is its gene dosage sensitivity, such that small differences in the amount of Notch activity can cause aberrant cell fate choices and T - cell leukemia.

The idea is that small chemical tags, such as acetylation, on chromatin marking active or inactive genes would self - propagate independently of the underlying DNA sequence and direct the activity of the genome.

Unlike more traditional therapeutic modalities such as small molecules or antibodies, Neurona is focused on unique compositions of cells that can be precisely targeted, integrated into damaged neural circuits, and provide activity - dependent regulation.

Even small increases in activity at a population level could have far - reaching positive impacts on chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and several cancers [1 - 4].

The high antioxidant content of blueberries contributes many health benefits, such as boosting the production of cytokines, which are small proteins that interact with other cells and help regulate immune responses, promote anti-inflammatory activity, and strengthen cell membranes, among other important functions.

In addition, it has been reported in EMG studies that the gluteus maximus is substantially more active during other potentially adaptive movements (such as sprinting) than in either running or climbing (Bartlett et al. 2014) and it is clear from cross-sectional analyses of athletes that endurance running develops the gluteus maximus to a much smaller extent that almost any other athletic activity (Niinimäki et al. 2015).

Since we've had so much activity in the comments between active and Small but significant improvements such as getting good conversation starters can noticeably enhance your social life.

There's truth in some of the smaller moments, such as how the presence of a child can impact the nocturnal activities of the parents, but the screenplay feels unfinished.

Following the daily activities of death metal band Dethklok — idiot vocalist Nathan Explosion (voiced by Small), self - loathing bass player William Murderface (Blacha), balding Midwesterner Pickles the Drummer (Small), «the world's fastest guitarist» Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Small), and Norwegian naïf Toki Wartooth (Blacha)-- «Metalocalypse» certainly allows its characters to ramble incoherently, but its premise demands such focus that even the incoherent rambling has to lead somewhere.