Sentences with phrase «strong receptivity»

A national survey that my firm conducted last fall on behalf of the Alliance for Excellent Education confirms the strong receptivity among parents and teachers to personalized learning approaches and showed what messages work best in communicating about what it is, how it works, and its value.

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The Federal Drug Administration has recently authorized use of DES (diethylistilbestrol), a strong estrogen which functions to influence uterine contractability and to diminish the receptivity of the endometrium to implantation of a fertilized ovum.

Female desire need not be mutual or mutually strong or aggressive; at least as far as animals are concerned, female receptivity would be sufficient.

Instead of such sensitivity, receptivity, and responsiveness being signs of weakness, process thought would maintain they are virtues and marks of strength; it takes a very strong person indeed to allow more and wider elements of the world to enter into oneself, to wrestle seriously with new ideas, to penetrate the frames of reference of those different from oneself without being overwhelmed or losing one's sense of integrity.

This is unfortunate, considering that early onset is one of the strongest identified risk factors for substance use problems in later life (Breslau et al. 1993; Chen et al. 2005; De Wit et al. 2000) and these personality predispositions may play a particularly important role in explaining risk behavior and receptivity for substance use during the period of adolescence (e.g., Carver et al. 2009; Malmberg et al. 2010b).

For example, numerous studies have documented strong connections between crime and substance use, and thus the party orientation, while not specifically criminal, may be linked to increased receptivity to routine activities and affiliations that make delinquency and crime more likely.