(1) An injury to one of the small joints of the hand may have a major impact on hand function and thus have major implications for career and avocation.
(2) The level of physical activity was determined according to a scale (score, 0-18) that considered vocational and avocational activities.
(3) These risk elements are present in all parts of our society, including home and occupational, avocational, and medical situations.
(4) Physical activity was determined by a graded questionnaire and varied from sedentary to heavy vocational and avocational activity levels.
(5) Since then, shifts have been noted in the animal transmission cycles, the occupational groups at risk, and an increasing recognition of cases associated with avocational exposure.
(6) The study concludes that elective colostomy may be an appropriate alternative for some SCI patients, particularly those who have failed in self-care or for whom their vocation or avocation is impaired by prolonged bowel routines.
(7) Childhood milk consumption, current dietary calcium intake, level of avocational physical activity and lifestyle variables such as cigarette smoking and coffee consumption, considered separately, did not reach statistically significant levels as determinants of bone density.
(8) Finally, despite similar medical and physical findings, the Japanese low back pain patients were significantly less impaired in psychological, social, vocational, and avocational functioning than the American low back pain patients.
(9) Such insights should be rewarding to anyone who enjoys pictorial art as an avocation--and especially to those whose vocation involves food.
(10) Lead analyses were performed by atomic absorption spectrometry of semen and blood specimens from 21 medical students and technicians (ages 19 to 41 years) who had no occupational or avocational exposure to lead (Pb).
(11) Their capacity for exertion as defined by treadmill test was compared with the physical and social avocational activities they carried out in their daily routine, as reported by them.
(12) A functional upper extremity means that the goal must be to return patients to their preburn vocations and avocations.
(13) The ratings of the 175 respondents who stated that they had changed specialties indicated that time for avocational pursuits and time for family activities were the most important reasons for change.
(14) In addition, a detailed questionnaire was administered to each person to obtain information about his exposure to noise vocationally and avocationally, family history of hearing loss, etc.
(15) Vocational and avocational requirements for active, voluntary ankle motions should be considered preoperatively in selected patients.
(16) Many patients develop a pattern of abnormal illness behavior, manifesting loss of interest in work or avocations, social withdrawal, and disturbance of family roles.
(17) The current study sought to determine whether there were any significant cross-cultural differences in medical-physical findings, or in psychosocial, behavioral, vocational, and avocational functioning, for chronic low back pain patients.
(18) The patterns delineated suggested the need for improved avocational training programs, particularly in the cognitive and social spheres.
(19) Organic pathology, age, socioeconomic class, types of significant relationships, meaning given menses, coitus, childbearing, children, and vocational and avocational involvements are variables affecting every woman's attitudes toward, decision to have, and reactions to a hysterectomy.
(20) In the process of reorganizing her gender identity, other interests (vocational and avocational) and intimate interpersonal relationships will assume new significance.
Hobby
Definition:
(n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.
(n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) Year after year, the government has missed its own targets for teacher recruitment,” Hobby said.
(3) Acceptance of the stoma by family and friends was good and there were no major difficulties in practising sports and other hobbies.
(4) He didn’t just know everybody; he knew their families, he knew their hobbies, he knew their virtues, he knew their vices, he knew what their districts needed, and he really worked that hard and that’s not who Barack Obama is.
(5) A driver of vintage racing cars for a hobby, he believes that only a future United States of Europe can compete in the global race with China, India and the other emerging economies of Asia.
(6) The stress exercised by school sports is similar to that of hobby sports.
(7) Inhalant abusers from drug-involved families experienced more poverty and family disruption, perceived their friends as being more favorable to the use of drugs and inhalants, and were less involved in conventional youth activities (e.g., sports, school, church, hobbies) than were inhalant abusers from drug-free families.
(8) Interests (in work, hobbies and sexual activities) demonstrate an improvement in 20% (group A) and 2% (group B); worsening in 12% (group A) and 4% (group B); no variations in 51% (group A) and 11% (group B) (p < or = 0.005).
(9) Measurements taken in adolescence, such as intelligence, alexithymia (low verbal productivity in projective personality tests), social confidence, hobbies, and the socioeconomic status of the family, showed no consistent associations with neck--shoulder or low-back symptoms in adulthood.
(10) The clinical assessment of a patient is not possible without examination and intensive questions about the circumstances of daily life, holiday activities, hobbies and so on.
(11) The Brief Cognitive Rating Scale and the Dementia of the Alzheimer Type Inventory are the only two instruments capable of distinguishing Alzheimer's from other dementias, and the CDR is the only instrument that assesses hobbies.
(12) For this purpose 90 visitors of a senior citizens centre in Hamburg participating in several hobby and learning groups were interviewed in detail.
(13) The prince has, after all, hardly kept his hobby horses bolted up in the stables over the years.
(14) Oral arguments in the controversial Hobby Lobby case provided no definitive answer as to how the nine judges will eventually rule, but three traditionally-liberal women justices and government lawyer Donald Verrilli all expressed alarm at the prospect that religious exemptions could also eventually extend to vaccination or blood transfusion, or even minimum wage and family leave protections.
(15) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(16) However, the patent default of the legislator causes the protection of hobby and sport practice of hang-gliding to be either wholly inadequate or ruled by ambiguous regulations.
(17) Depending on the profile of the patient, several factors that could be at the source of the contact dermatitis, such as the patient's profession, hobbies, and use of pharmaceutical products and cosmetics, can be considered, thus increasing the efficiency of the allergological examination considerably.
(18) CV Born February 18 1931 Education Forman Christian College, Lahore; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (master's degree in mechanical engineering) Career Worked for Apeejay Surrendra Group in India; 1968, started Natural Gas Tubes in UK; 1978, started Caparo group, where he is chairman Family Wife, Aruna; three sons, Ambar and Akash (twins) and Angad; one daughter, Anjli Hobbies Spending time with his eight grandchildren, visiting London Zoo
(19) 1984: Virgin Atlantic Airways formed; 1986: Virgin Group floats on stock market (bought back two years later); 1987: Branson crosses Atlantic in balloon; 1998: Branson invests in railways; 1999 he launches Virgin Mobile and is knighted; 2000: he fails to win National Lottery bid Family: Wife Joan, children Holly, 21, and Sam, 16 Hobbies: Ballooning, sailing and the occasional publicity stunt.
(20) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.