Sentences with phrase «than a support function»

Until recently, not many law firms considered the billing process to be anything more than a support function.

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an operational risk management framework that worked better on paper than in practice, supported by an immature and under - resourced compliance function;

When family researchers look at how families function, i.e., how competently they handle tasks, challenges, and conflicts, rather than how families are structured, the encouragement and support of individuality and difference emerges as a key factor In other words, what is important is how people treat each other within families rather than who they are or how they appear.

The Growth Lab at Food Matters Live, hosted by The Aurora Ceres Partnership Ltd provides the opportunity for young and growing food companies to connect with the essential support functions, form innovation specialist, product developers and trading standards that can help them achieve their dreams and ensure that those obstacles are nothing more than minor distractions.

But while he is struggling to get a higher conversion rate, is it right to keep playing a system that seems to have the primary function of supporting one or two forwards rather than the more dynamic methods used previously?

The father's functioning as a support person is key, since depressed new mothers are more likely to turn to and receive support from their partner than from any other individual, including medical staff (Holopainen, 2002).

Questions to [email protected] 00:00 Chris's background 04:30 Conception and stress 06:30 The leadup to our pregnancy 07:45 Long term building projects 08:26 Cortisol 09:19 Low sex hormones 10:00 Female cycle 10:30 Progesterone 11:00 Estrogen 11:32 Luteal deficiency of progesterone and PMS 12:34 Julia's experience of PMS and diet change 13:40 Hormone testing is cheaper than IVF and may be more effective 14:00 The Adrenal Stress Profile test 14:50 Supporting adrenal function 15:24 Reducing stress 15:41 Dietary stress 16:00 Stabilizing blood glucose and insulin sensitivity 16:44 Pre-diabetes 17:00 Hypoglycemia, adrenalin and cortisol 18:00 Optimal blood glucose is 80 - 90 mg / dL 18:39 What to do about hyperglycemia 20:00 Empty carbs 20:33 Maximizing nutrient density 22:20 Does anyone really miss refined carbohydrate?

A ray of hope is that the international treaties and institutions Trump might like to withdraw from enjoy sufficient support from other states that the costs of doing so would be too great for the U.S., or they will continue to function despite withdrawal by the U.S. Let's hope that IR's preference for international explanations is warranted this time and that we can conclude that international norms and institutions matter more than we previously thought.

The loyalty clause, which was added in 2002, prohibits the following activities, by a committee member, involving candidates other than the party's endorsed candidate: circulating nominating petitions; appearing in advertising; permitting the committee member's name to be used in advertising or on stationery; directly or indirectly contributing financially to a campaign; and appearing at political functions, meetings or support groups organized by a rival candidate.

Cuomo responded by saying that he is a Democrat and supported a Democratic Senate, but insisted that more important than that is having a «functioning State Senate.»

Rather than encouraging researchers to take on problems that serve the public interest — a basic function of science and the fundamental reason that citizens support funding for science — Edwards believes those «perverse incentives» make researchers cautious and only concerned with their own interests.

«The organization is less relevant than making sure that really important function of support for science continues,» Thomas Burke, the Obama - era head of ORD, told E&E News.

This supports the idea that their theory of mind fades more slowly than their executive functions, and is thus more fundamental.

Both studies support Charles Darwin's 19th - century theories on the evolution of emotion, which hypothesized that our expressions originated for sensory function rather than social communication.

«It's been proposed that Neanderthals depended on visual - spatial abilities and toolmaking, for survival, more so than on the social affiliation and group activities that typify the success of modern humans — and that Neanderthal brains evolved to preferentially support these visuospatial functions,» Berman explained.

Beyond Sea Grant, the cuts would target grants and programs «supporting coastal and marine management, research, and education,» which are a lower priority, the budget request states, than functions maintained in the budget like «surveys, charting, and fisheries management.»

It provides a source of direct rather than transitive assignments of function, designed to support automated annotation pipelines.

Furthermore, these potentials are expanded by the notion that MSCs can exert functions other than those classically attributed to stem or progenitor cells, including establishment and support of the hematopoietic microenvironment in vivo, as observed for bone marrow derived MSCs.

And Perdue's not the only leading recipient of Southern's political support to help spread the questionable scientific talking points the utility has paid for: Rep. Gary Palmer, an Alabama Republican who received $ 18,000 from the company's PAC and employees in the 2014 cycle, last year told WATE that science «says global climate change is more a function of nature and solar activity than it is anything man does.»

Learning how to cope You'll need to cope with added health costs, diabetes burnout (a point when the daily grind of finger pricking, food monitoring, and exercise may get you down), social functions like the office holiday party, and family members who may be less than supportive — or overzealous in their support.

Your trapezius muscle group is more than an impressive - looking body part — it's also a collection of hard working fibers that support your shoulders and limbs, and its functions include keeping the neck and head in position, enabling the movement of the shoulder blades and even assisting breathing.

Turmeric tea is more than tasty... consuming turmeric (whether in tea or in curries, soups, sauces, or other cooking) supports digestion, immune function, liver function, and may even offer protection from some types of cancer.

More than a few studies have shown that apple cider vinegar can help lower cholesterol, including this one study published in the British Journal of Clinical Nutrition which found that consuming one tablespoon of apple cider in the morning can help you increase bile production, support your liver function and naturally lower your bad cholesterol (LDL) and triglyceride levels while boosting your levels of good cholesterol (HDL).

Research supports the advice: One review found that people with lower back pain who were advised to stay active had less pain and better function than people told to take it easy.

As she began researching the foods that would most naturally support her body's functions and support her mitochondria, Dr. Wahls developed a diet that restored her health and vitality — learning from our ancient ancestors, who knew more about health than we appear to.

If you consume more calories than your body needs to support physiological functions and fuel exercise, you'll gain weight.

Your adrenals will need supporting if your hormones are out of balance; rather than focusing on increasing the hormone that appears to be low, it is better to improve the whole systemic function of the body, and detoxification can help you achieve this result.

So rather than undertaking a once - a-year arduous «fast», what's far more conducive to optimal wellness is to eat every day to support daily cleansing (which is how the body was meant to function afterall).

This evidence, combined with a very low trace and toxic mineral content (usually in parts per million), supports the concept that diatomaceous earth works by removing toxins that poison the immune and regulatory functions, rather than by adding trace minerals that support these processes.62

This is a practice we can all do a bit more and that includes sitting up rather than slumping when we eat to help support optimum gut functioning.

Calcium is required for vascular contraction and vasodilation, muscle function, nerve transmission, intracellular signaling and hormonal secretion, though less than 1 % of total body calcium is needed to support these critical metabolic functions [1].

• «The Kids Are All Right,» with major nominations including picture, actress (Annette Bening), supporting actor Mark Ruffalo) and screenplay (Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg), joins «Milk» among top nominees with a homosexual subject, and in a way is more meaningful because it shows a functioning family rather than a single person.

Martin Freeman makes a welcome appearance in the third tale, as a man whose house is invaded by a poltergeist at the same time that his wife is at the hospital giving birth (minus his presence or support), but he ultimately functions more as a hoary plot device than as a terrified witness to vengeful spirits.

Rather than going through a list of rules, this is a way for me to communicate that the way our classroom functions must support all of us.

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In term of user interface, Android 3.0 is efficient although less intuitive, some software features are better than the iPad 2: — the browser supports Flash — the browser user interface is better — the camera application and the photo gallery offer more functions — the maps application packs more features — the widgets are great to get updates about news (CNN widget), calendar and emails instantly from the home screen

By definition (and again excluding phone - function apps), the BlackBerry PlayBook will support more apps than almost any Android tablet or smartphone.

The Archos 70c is more than just an eBook reader, this is multimedia device with features Adobe DRM support for download and read all compatible formats eBooks, integrated with video, music and photo player functions, you can also browse the web, download apps and Bookmarks Manager for manage your library, set bookmarks, and rotate the screen in portrait or landscape mode.

This will change (at least it seems like it will) with 6.5, but until then, I will support that Android, as a whole, will function better than WM with a touchscreen, and especially a resistive touchscreen.

These are software systems that function as decision support tools, rather than decision - makers, and they analyze the market objectively to provide quantitative insight for discretionary trading.

The primary missions of the WATCVM include: promoting the education of TCVM by providing financial support to veterinary students, assisting in the development and functions of TCVM Student Associations at veterinary colleges, funding basic and applied research projects and providing recognition for findings at the annual TCVM conferences, developing TCVM research standards through the International Organization for Standards, and assisting developing countries with a per capita income of less than $ 4,000 USD to develop TCVM programs at veterinary colleges and award scholarships to students.In an effort to support the education, research and practice of TCVM, the WATCVM provides practitioners with the following resources:

That's not to say that we will be able to function exclusively on what we are getting from the council, but having that stable base of support really does enable us to move forward in a more thoughtful and intentional way, rather than constantly having to wonder where funding will come from.

Our results support the hypothesis that dog breed popularity has been primarily determined by fashion rather than function.

There is, of course, a little bit more to it than that, as our recent extensive look inside the PS4 Pro discusses; there is an additional 1 GB of DDR3 RAM specifically for swapping out non-game apps, and 1 GB of RAM dedicated to two functions, one half allowing developers to hit 4K render targets, and the other half dedicated to handling a 4K version of the dashboard; delta compression technology, enhanced 16 - bit half - float support and much more - full details and an interview with system architect Mark Cerny is within the prior link.

If any of the Champion amiibos are also supported, they are not listed on the website, though it is possible other Zelda amiibos function much the way they did in the Wii U game by offering more weapon drops than normal amiibo.

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

Because I wanted to try out a number of different voices, I used the free demo function of Cepstral Text - to - Speech [all platforms supported], rather than buying (at US$ 30 a pop) any particular «speaker» just now.

Led by GC Susan Crichton, her team is seen as an integral part of the bank's business rather than just a support function.