Sentences with phrase «weeks after the task»

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

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There's always someone who's making your life harder, who can't seem to finish his or her part of a project on time, or who constantly asks for help doing the same task, week after week.

After being battered first by Hurricane Irma and then, less than two weeks later, Hurricane Maria, the true toll to the island of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is still being assessed, a task made difficult by the lack of communication.

In the weeks after the massacre in Parkland, Democratic governors in the Northeast have created a gun task force, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and other Republican lawmakers have called for raising the minimum age for purchasing rifles to 21.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces his toughest task this week — to persuade lawmakers and the public that he takes privacy seriously and will implement the steps necessary to restore the public's trust after recent privacy issues has shaken confidence in...

Arsenal's task will be made harder if United's striker Anthony Martial is fit, after missing last week's 5 - 1 Europa League win over FC Midtjylland with a hamstring problem.

It was after I was told that Liverpool «should crush» Swansea City last week that I argued away games are never an easy task and that complacent attitudes towards games against «lesser opponents» are to be avoided at all costs.

After a tough week, Liverpool have the task of travelling to North London on Saturday lunchtime to take on Tottenham Hotspur in a difficult league encounter.

Tasked with hitting the big dramatic notes from the start after two weeks of international -LRB-...)

Nacho Monreal # 454423368 / gettyimages.com The Spanish full back is the second choice left back at the club behind Kieran Gibbs, but with the Englishman currently out injured, Nacho was needed to step up to the task and after making the cross for Oliver Giroud's last minute equaliser against Everton last week, Monreal continued playing well in the week...

Arsenal, who somehow overcame Olympiacos 3 - 0 last week in Greece after a fantastic Olivier Giroud hat - trick, will face Barcelona in the last 16 in what will surely be a daunting task for Wenger and his troops heading into that one.

He did not know we had canceled his reservations and taken his passport after he had put them in an old computer case and told me if I touched them he would let me go with both arms in a cast, he was tasking his fiver weeks of vacation as he saw fit starting with the express.

Premature babies born after 33 weeks gestation may be ready to begin to feed on a nipple within a matter of days while babies born before this time may have a little bit of a journey until they are developmentally ready to begin this task.

The task force supports the recommendations of the AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn, which state that hospitalized preterm infants should be placed in the supine position for sleep by 32 weeks» postmenstrual age to allow them to become accustomed to sleeping in that position before hospital discharge.103 Unfortunately, preterm and very low birth weight infants continue to be more likely to be placed prone for sleep after hospital discharge.104, 105 Preterm infants are placed prone initially to improve respiratory mechanics106, 107; although respiratory parameters are no different in the supine or prone positions in preterm infants who are close to discharge, 108 both infants and their caregivers likely become accustomed to using the prone position, which makes it more difficult to change.

This week, users of a UK parenting website, Netmums, took its founders to task after the site agreed a sponsorship deal with Nestlé, and on Saturday demonstrators will gather outside the company's HQ for a show of strength in favour of a cause that refuses to go away.

After relegating the task of slamming Paladino to his surrogates for several weeks, Cuomo himself is now engaging in verbal battle with his opponent, calling him an «extremist.»

Two weeks after New York Police Department officers fatally shot a mentally disturbed man they thought was armed with a gun, de Blasio launched a task force aimed at improving city responses to emergencies involving the mentally ill.

After one of President Trump's most ruinous weeks in office, the White House sent none of its officials to defend him on Sunday talk shows — leaving the task to Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr..

The call comes after lawmakers in the Assembly's Puerto Rican and Hispanic task force this week called on President Trump to bolster support services for those who are leaving the island amid the rebuilding effort.

There are plenty who say that none of the candidates — Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Mary Creagh, Yvette Cooper, and possibly Tristram Hunt (Chuka Umunna pulled out after less than a week in the field, citing media intrusion)-- appears up to the task of rebuilding a party with shattered morale and no clear sense of how to win again now that Scottish Labour is all but obliterated, the Tories have taken 25 marginals from the Lib Dems, and boundary changes are about to make it all much more difficult.

The draft bill, which is dated May 27, comes weeks after Cuomo convened a task force to examine how to prevent opioid abuse and how to address opioid and heroin addiction.

The last of the federal government's power restoration crews are scheduled to leave Puerto Rico when their contract expires next week, leaving the island's power utility with the task of energizing the last 1.5 percent of customers still waiting eight months after Hurricane Maria.

«Shelly's task in the coming weeks is to show he can continue to lead without this being a distraction,» said one Democrat who asked not to be identified given the shock waves going through state politics the day after Silver's arrest.

Barely one week after the killing of the second in command to Boko Haram leader, Momodu Bama, the joint task force, operation restore order in Borno...

Just two weeks after Spahr's asteroid whizzed by, researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, given the task by the military of spotting enemy spy satellites, unveiled a novel approach for monitoring large areas of the sky using sophisticated software.

After weeks of practice, she was able to complete the task more than 75 % of the time, the scientists report today in Science Translational Medicine.

The researchers found that prisoners after a ten - week yoga course reported improved mood, reduced stress and were better at a task related to behaviour control than those who continued in their normal prison routine.

After letting the mice rest for 6 weeks, the team put them through a battery of cognitive tests, including a task that required the rodents to distinguish between familiar and novel objects, such as toys.

«We found that after 12 weeks of being on a moderate exercise program, study participants improved their neural efficiency — basically they were using fewer neural resources to perform the same memory task,» says Dr. Smith.

By examining the hippocampus — a portion of the brain associated with the process of learning — after the rats learned to associate a sound with a motor response, scientists found that the new brain cells injected with dye a few weeks earlier were still alive in those that had learned the task while the cells in those who had failed did not survive.

On the other hand, one week after real stimulation, the cerebral activation was focused on the essential motor zones, almost identical to a person without stroke - impact although the motor performance was significantly better (enhanced task retention).

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

After a many weeks of failing to complete all the tasks on my list, I noticed myself getting disheartened.

Before and after the four - week study, participants» underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, both while in a state of rest, and in response to an «emotion - recognition task.»

The researchers fed blackberries to aged rats for 8 weeks, after which they tested their ability to perform a series of tasks.

After a few weeks, packing school lunches transitions from a health - inspiring task to a mind - numbing one.

You will need to see a doctor if itching follows these patterns: covers a large area of your body, does not resolve with home remedies after 2 weeks, and is preventing you from sleeping at night or carrying out normal daily tasks.

«The data suggest that after a week of severe carbohydrate restriction, memory performance, particularly on difficult tasks, is impaired,» Taylor explains.

There is so much to look forward to after a week of deadlines and crazy work tasks!

I'm here to tell ya» that playing catch up after a week of Katie being home and then being gone a week has been no small task.

«Then, after about four to five weeks, we'd do a task... and send it to our NAPLAN marker to mark that aspect of the writing to see if we've had significant shift.»

How much time do 15 - year - olds spend per week on homework and other tasks set by teachers after school?

As part of the compromise that ended the state shutdown, the task force was not created until the special session in July 2011, four months after the alternative certification law was passed and weeks before the law was to go into effect.

I've got one more night of work (tonight) this week so today and tomorrow I will focus on doing the less creative tasks (because I simply don't have the brain power for them after a 12-1/2 hour night shift with a 90 minute drive each way).

Even after using the faster Global quad - core version of the Galaxy S III for around a week, I still found the U.S. versions for AT&T and Sprint to be as quick when performing almost any task.

A search - and - rescue task force of firefighters from around San Diego County was on its way back from the Houston area Thursday after helping in following Hurricane Harvey, but the team could potentially be deployed again before the week is over, this time against Hurricane Irma, authorities said.

Every week after that he's taken the industry to task, investigating some of the biggest names in gaming.

Now that Greenpeace has abandoned the field after ineffectively «bearing witness» for a few weeks (belligerently refusing to cooperate with Paul Watson, one of its founders), and now that they have their footage with which to sucker another 10 million dollars in contributions from their slick campaigns, it is left to the poorly funded Sea Shepherd to continue the task of blockading the Nisshin Maru, physically preventing them from carrying out their blatant, murderous massacre.

Two weeks after its D.C. conference, ALEC sent an e-mail to members of its environment task force announcing that in 2014 it would begin monthly conference calls to discuss combatting EPA greenhouse gas regulations, and that the first of these calls was to further discuss the strategy of engaging state AGs.

But after just a week I had it all caught up so then I turned my attention to other tasks.