Sentences with phrase «with periods of activity»

«Unlike computers, humans function best with periods of activity interspersed with regular breaks,» says health consultant and napping advocate Thea O'Connor.

Once we know what's causing the problem, we can develop a rehab program that may include strengthening exercises, stretches and manual therapy, along with a period of activity modification, icing, and anti-inflammatory medication.

Not exact matches

Instead of waiting until their golden years to retire, some Americans are now embracing the concept of mini-retirements: periods of work alternated with shorter periods of reflection, travel or activities otherwise curtailed by full - time work.

Rather, it's only when information on sexual activity is integrated with other measures — such as the date of a woman's last menstrual period — that such tracking becomes useful, experts said.

Pursuant to rules of the Ontario Securities Commission, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers and the Universal Market Integrity Rules for Canadian Marketplaces, the underwriters may not, throughout the period of distribution, bid for or purchase shares of our common stock except in accordance with certain permitted transactions, including market stabilization and passive market making activities.

These decades happened to coincide with The Great Depression and The Great Recession so you can see that in periods of very poor economic activity, bonds can act as stabilizer for your portfolio.

After a long period of being a drag on the economy, the housing market is now providing lift to economic activity, with upward trends evident in housing starts, home sales, and home prices.

During that time period, the company brought in another $ 650 million in cash from its net acquisition activity (with the cash coming from the divestiture of their auto care segment).

By entering the Awards, you agree that during and after the Period, you will participate and co-operate as required with all reasonable marketing activities of you and your business, relating to the Awards, including but not limited to being interviewed, videoed, and photographed.

Engineering construction activity has nearly doubled over the past two years and this upswing is likely to be sustained in the period ahead, with a number of significant road and mining - related projects scheduled for commencement in 2004 (Graph 41).

Most sales took place in the city of Toronto, with areas such as Rosedale and the Kingsway seeing steady activity through the period.

This has now been negative since May, portraying a pace of economic activity that is well below potential and therefore continues to be consistent with both (a) a continuing ultimately deflationary economic Supercycle Bear Market Period, or Winter, and (b) our working model for after - shock, double double - dip business cycle contractions over the next four years.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

«Every week is unique, and pastors are faced with the need to get insight from the Spirit of God to understand the mood and emotional state of the congregants,» said Ríos, citing a rise in depression and marital issues among hurricane victims, as well as concerns over suicide rates and violent criminal activity in the long recovery period.

Many of these visions and experiences have occurred during time - periods where they are, quite literally, dead with no brain activity.

So, yes, I may be paid to potentially become friends with people that I hadn't met yet, but as to my earlier point, I paid for social activities — making friendships was a result from exposing myself to that environment and hanging out with people for extended periods of time.

They don't seem too keen though, or didn't at first, with the option period to sign him expiring with no activity, but the rumours of a possible move persist, the latest rumour involving a swap deal plus cash with Gago.

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

Start off with about ten minutes of physical activity a day — it can be anything walking, gardening, jumping jacks during ad breaks and GRADUALLY work your way up to longer periods of exercise.

During this period, the teacher is involved with preparing the snack, sewing or any number of practical activities with which the children are welcome to help.

I created and trialled hundreds of hands - on character building activities with my own children over a period of nearly four years before writing Playing with Purpose.

They alternate brief periods of moderate - and vigorous - intensity physical activity with brief periods of rest.

We keep a detailed log - book of all your child's activities and can even stay in touch with you throughout our babysitting period with photos and updates where requested.

I snapped at my daughters, we rarely went outside or did any meaningful activities together, I fought with my husband... and I stayed up late at night with insomnia most nights even IF my newborn daughter slept for long periods of time at night.

The fMRI - based findings suggest that breastfeeding and factors associated with breastfeeding, such has high levels of hormones (oxytocin, prolactin), stress, and culture may all play an important role for mothers» brain activity and parenting behaviors during the early postpartum period.

By turning attention to the activities associated with citizens — in this case, as reported by British newspapers in the context of media coverage about migration during a politically crucial time period — I believe we can gain additional insight not only into who counts as citizens, but also what kinds of citizens are valorised and vilified.

With no significant Al - Shabaab activity detected outside of the Kenyan - Somalia area during 2010 - 12, and no seizures of ivory in destination or transit ports traced back to Somalia during that period, it is clear this heady mix of environmental crime and terrorism has been misleading.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

«As a matter a fact, I moved up here for a period of time with my daughter, enrolled her in summer activities.

With Simon Chen, another UC San Diego neurobiologist, the researchers monitored the activity of neurons in the motor cortex over a period of two weeks while mice learned to press a lever in a specific way with their front limbs to receive a rewWith Simon Chen, another UC San Diego neurobiologist, the researchers monitored the activity of neurons in the motor cortex over a period of two weeks while mice learned to press a lever in a specific way with their front limbs to receive a rewwith their front limbs to receive a reward.

For example, Europe's «little ice age» coincided with a period of minimal solar activity between 1640 and 1710.

Notably, this was the first study to link the physical activity of parents and young children by objectively measuring it with accelerometry for an extended period of time.

This association was still observed among patients participating in high levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity, indicating that regular high levels of physical activity do not fully protect against the risks associated with prolonged periods of sedentary behaviors.

«The majority of auto dealer contacts indicated an increase in sales since the beginning of July compared with the same period last year, and many expect the trend to continue through the fourth quarter,» said the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, summarizing business activity in its region in a report published last week.

«The relationship between colour variation and stability was independent of activity period or host plant range, since the more stable species with large variation in colour drawing were not restricted in their activity to a shorter part of the year or to a narrower range of host plants.

After an eight - minute training period, the subjects showed heightened levels of activity in areas known to be part of the brain's reward circuitry, the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), associated with the pictures alone.

«Even among those who fulfill daily recommendations for physical activity, lengthy periods of sedentary behavior have been associated with early morbidity and mortality, leading to the «active couch potato» paradigm.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

The data revealed that, during the period of their measurements, turbulence in deep waters significantly correlated with surface eddy activity.

Elevated exposure to estrogen over a long period is linked with higher breast cancer rates in adulthood and earlier onset of risky sexual activity.

Most scientific literature holds that the Anthropocene, the period of human activities influencing the environment, began with the industrial era in the 1700s, explains Hodder.

«We started with alternating periods of sound and no sound in order to create a map of the brain and find areas that produced the highest activity during the sound phase,» Dr. Sherwood said.

For most of the space age, the sun's activity ebbed and flowed like clockwork in 11 - year cycles, with six - to eight - year lulls in activity, called solar minimum, followed by two - to three - year periods when the sun is more active.

By comparing the small oscillations in cosmic ray rate and temperature with the overall trends in both since 1955, Sloan and Wolfendale found that less than 14 percent of the global warming seen during this period could have been caused by solar activity.

«The exposure of the fruit is synchronised with the lizard's period of greatest activity in the morning,» says Vasconcellos - Neto.

The rock shelter has seen phases of human activity from the Mesolithic to the medieval period, with its prehistoric rock paintings known to be the highest painted representations of animals (quadrupeds) in Europe.

It does not, however, specify when that activity should take place, and as the authors state: «The current study is the first controlled study conducted in free - living adults with T2D that has aimed to determine whether prescribed walking taken for short periods after meals confers longer - term benefits than walking on a single occasion at any time of the day.»

In the first commitment period, the Fund was financed mainly with a share of proceeds from CDM project activities.

«(i) be consistent with any existing nationally appropriate mitigation commitments or actions for the country in which the activity is occurring, taking into consideration the average annual historical deforestation rates of the state or province during a period of at least 5 years, relevant drivers of deforestation, and other factors to ensure additionality;

He suggests that research that compares climactic conditions with periods of high sinkhole activity could provide evidence.