(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.
Dissuasive
Definition:
(a.) Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice.
(n.) A dissuasive argument or counsel; dissuasion; dehortation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A force of 110 heavily armed officers, led by the elite tactical unit Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion (Raid), launched an assault on a third‑storey flat at 8 rue Corbillon, a few doors down from a primary school and a 15-minute walk from the Stade de France.
(2) The minimum punishment was not sufficient to have the necessary dissuasive effect.
(3) The second ('Hooked') reflected a feeling of inability to give up smoking, and a resentment at other's attempts at dissuasion.
(4) Although to date BRMs have shown only limited activity in restricted subsets of patients which may be viewed as dissuasion to some investigators; nonetheless, it should also be a stimulus to conduct careful, basic, and clinical experimentation aimed at verifying the promise from preclinical studies and to obtain further fundamental information on the BRM mechanism of action that would provide a basis for the ultimate utilization of these agents as well as the identification-development of appropriate analogs predicted on the deficiencies observed to date with the BRM.
(5) "But the idea of the reform isn't to give us fines but to be dissuasive enough so companies have compliance with the rules."
(6) EoN, and indeed other market participants in the generating sector, are hoping for a dissuasive sentencing to discourage similar such incidents in the future."
(7) The report, Drugs: International Comparators, documents in great detail the experience of Portugal, where personal use was decriminalised nearly 11 years ago and those arrested for drugs are given the choice of going before a health “dissuasion commission” or facing a criminal justice process.
(8) The UK chief executive of energy giant E.ON repeatedly lobbied the then-energy secretary Ed Miliband and others over the sentencing of activists disrupting the company's power plants, warning that any failure to issue "dissuasive" sentences could "impact" upon investment decisions in the UK.
(9) That won’t put anyone off.” More confusing was the suggestion that UK Border Force officers would be visiting camps to provide migrants with a “more dissuasive and realistic sense of life” in the UK.
(10) Every Thursday, in the square below the presidential balcony, the "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" demonstrated, despite every dissuasion, that the disappeared would never be forgotten until justice was done.
(11) These actions are having a dissuasive effect on protesters, said the organisation.
(12) It does not cover specific drug therapies for alcoholism (aversion, chemical restraint, dissuasion), nor nonspecific drug therapies (vitamins, magnesium) the interest and limits of which are well known.
(13) Dissuasion and inappropriate advice from doctors significantly delayed diagnosis in 25% of all cases.
(14) During the medical follow up, with the help of specialized functional tests, the physician may detect a state of overtraining and start a dissuasive action against doping habits.
(15) It also provides that such measures must be “effective, proportionate and dissuasive”.
(16) • Piloting a system used in Portugal, where drug use has been decriminalised, which involves “dissuasion commissions” assessing drug users and diverting them from the criminal justice system and into treatment.