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Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

The amount of training they received.

Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

The helpless ones believe intelligence is a fixed characteristic: you have only a certain amount, and that's that.

Setting a limit on the amount of sugar or salt in their products.

Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.

For example, some drink manufacturers have cut the amount of sugar in their beverages.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

Studies have shown, for instance, that eating in front of the TV ( or a similar distraction) can increase both hunger and the amount of food consumed.

Each interactive textbook is a media-heavy experience built from the ground up, and you can tell that it takes a respectable amount of manpower to put together each one.

They also calculated the cost savings emerging from the amount of disease that would be avoided because of lower blood pressure

The residents are billed by "net metering": they pay for the amount of power they tap off the grid, less the kilowatts (千瓦) they feed into it.

They are only charged for the amount of power they consume on rainy days

they have borrowed too heavily and accumulated too large amounts of debt

The ability to sleep in one chunk (整塊時(shí)間) overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to function well does not change," Dr Drummond told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego.

That's different from person to person, but the amount of sleep we had at 35 is probably the same amount as we need at 75.

That way, you see and hear more: and your mind responds gratefully to the greater amount of wildness in your life.

An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses.

The amount of sleep that each person needs varies.

The amount of sleep for each person is similar

It is easy to study the amounts and kinds of food that people consume

"These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there

A 4-year-old may 27 protest that a sister has more fruit juice when it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the 28 amount of juice.

A different interpretation is possible when the actual amount of information acquired by the user is taken into account.

Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads.

And they target a small amount of money.

Back in June, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million over accusations that the carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of data.

Japanese laws limit the amount of imported potatoes that can be used in Japanese-made products.

On the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down,"of his children's education.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

The birds will be encouraged to clean the park through the use of a small box that delivers a small amount of bird food.

The most recent National Journal poll asked respondents about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goals, and whether or not they felt a significant amount of control over their ability to be successful.

The next largest amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens.

There's an endless amount of scientific data proving that dogs can develop strong bonds with their owners.

They reported bacteria were transferred from the tiles to the cookies within five seconds, but didn't report the specific amount of bacteria that made it from the tiles to the food.

This is 10 times the amount this new microwave oven study estimates for annual emissions for all the microwave ovens in the EU.

While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of "adult" breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s

The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Unfortunately for them , our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier: they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia , and they have a lot of momentum once they are set in motion.

Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste.

The Three-Year Solution Hartwick College, a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York, makes New York, makes this offer to well prepared students: earn your undergraduate degree in three years instead of four, and save about 543,000—the amount of one year's tuition and fees

The average amount of time students now take to complete an undergraduate degree has stretched to six years and seven months as students interrupted by work, inconvenienced by unavailable classes, or lured by one more football season find it hard to graduate

In the meantime, the amount of CO2 in the air is rapidly approaching the limits proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

However, scientists say that the scale of CO2 emissions will require vast amounts of long-term storage.

One of five students arrives at college today with Advanced Placement (AP) credits amounting to a semester or more of college level work.

But we have never built a?spreadsheet?(電子數(shù)據(jù)表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company's founders.

So we have a great amount of time for leisure than in decades past.

It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.

This is the amount of calories you might expect to have in an evening meal, not in a drink.

The London Bank and their agents who had been negotiating with the kidnappers have not said whether any amount of money has been paid.

"Supplying power to trains in this way would offer the shortest distance from well to wheels," he says, "with the least amount of energy lost."

All 67 participants were over 60 years of age, and both groups lost about the same amount of weight.

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

In 2001, for example, the Environmental Protection Agenc restricted the type and amount of lead that could be present in paint and soil to homes and child-care facilities after concerns were raised about lead poisoning.

In the end, the amount paid for premiums is about the same.

It is quite easy for one to take in the recommended amount of protein.

So we make a point of never publicizing of the amount of money we make.

The big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.

The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.

The value of a recovery period rises in proportion to the amount of work required of us.

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

This could reduce the amount of steel needed to make everything from automobiles to buildings and bridges.

This week the Italian government passed legislation that aimed to dramatically reduce the amount of food wasted in the country.

Unfortunately for them and often the taxpayers, our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier : they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia meaning it takes a lot of energy to se

When considering the amount of insurance for the mother with dependent children, substitute child care is a need that should be planned for until the children can care for themselves.

A bar graph has two axes and uses bars to show amounts.

After what seemed like a safe amount of time, I read the poem again and was confused.

Although the job takes a significant amount of time, most students agree that the experience is worth it.

As the number of tourists has grown, so has the amount of traffic on the roads.

At Pullman's signal, each man turned his Jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly.

But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

Coastal areas will be warmer and can expect a fair amount of sunshine in the morning.

Even worse, the amount of fast food that people eat goes up.

He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species - including species they did not directly attack.

It costs a large amount of money.

It exists in milk in great amount.

It starts with saving an amount equaling 1 dollar in week 1, 2 dollars in week 2, 3 dollars in week 3, and continues right through the year until 52 dollars in week 52.

One of the most important factors that influenced their satisfaction as volunteers was the amount of suffering they experienced in their volunteer positions.

Other cultures may use silence in other ways, particularly when dealing with conflicts among people or in relationships of people with different amounts of power.

Project managers evaluate the performance of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects, rather than the amount of time they spend on them.

Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.

Something rare is worth a large amount of money.

The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision.

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.

There is a lot more material available, which means you may be overwhelmed with the amount of information.

These animals consumed large amounts of vegetation, which reduced plant diversity in the park.

Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

To decrease the amount of rubbish and to protect the environment, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials.

To some extent you can control the amount of stress in your life.

Today $8 or $10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens.

Today, scholars have generated large amounts of instructive research about restaurants.

While these are small in significant amounts, at the end of the year, you will have enough for an emergency fund, family celebration or holiday.

This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction.

The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding.

But take a longer view and there is a surprising amount that we can say with considerable assurance.

95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic trail that contains a large amount of personal data.

Neuroscientist Bonnie Augeung found that the hormone oxytocin increased the amount of eye contact from men toward the interviewer during a brief interview when the direction of their gaze was recorded.

The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt.

This is why researchers generally regard so-called moral guilt, in the right amount, to be a good thing.