(1) Prediction of the final grade in a computer course using the Computer Technology Hassles Scale, a measure of computer-related stress, was investigated.
(2) FS showed higher levels of stress as measured by daily "hassles" than did RA or controls.
(3) Major life events and daily hassles were examined in a sample of 102 university undergraduates.
(4) "I should probably pay for the Wall Street Journal but I don't because it's a hassle," said Mr Page, who is worth billions.
(5) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(6) Using life events and hassles, and hassle clusters added significantly to the sensitivity of the concurrent prediction of undifferentiated and differentiated physical and psychological symptom criteria, and consistently showed better performance as predictors.
(7) The positive impact of hassles on psychiatric symptomatology increased as trait anxiety rose; likewise, the pathogenic effect of trait anxiety increased with greater exposure to hassles.
(8) I only put a password on my computer fairly recently, because ugh it’s such a hassle to type it in every time.
(9) Asked whether he was worried about being hassled on his family vacation, Jagger said: "Depends where I go.
(10) Women and caregivers to socially responsive yet behaviorally inappropriate care recipients reported more behavior and cognitive hassles.
(11) Lowering of mood was associated mainly with "hassle" at work, pressure of time, and domestic dissatisfaction.
(12) This pilot study examined differences in and relationships between parent health-related stressors (child care needs and parental concerns), daily hassles, and coping strategies of 17 mothers and 17 fathers of preschool and school-age children with myelomeningocele (MMC).
(13) He has written, phoned, lobbied, picketed, pleaded, hassled, demonstrated and campaigned so that the case would not be abandoned and the people responsible for killing Daniel in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in March 1987 would never feel that they had got away with murder.
(14) With strict rules about hassling and haggling, it’s by far the most relaxing and tourist-friendly shopping experience in the city.
(15) In order for the green deal to be a success, it is critical that the government addresses the three biggest barriers for consumers – the cost, the hassle and the lack of trust in the energy sector.
(16) A multiple regression analysis showed no association between bleeding frequency and MMPI subgroups, LEI, or the frequency of hassles.
(17) But now Houston are finding space, NY are looking hurried and hassled, and now Henry is dropping deep to give away free-kicks in dangerous areas.
(18) You don’t get any hassle because there isn’t any cash.
(19) "If we want a world where everyone can live hassle-free, then everyday expressions of inequalities need to be confronted – not least as they help ease the big inequalities."
(20) Two innocent teens heading home after a game of football decided they did not want the hassle of being questioned by the cops, and hid in an electricity substation.
Hindrance
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
(v. t.) That which hinders; an impediment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increased hindrance to diffusion of the probing molecules caused by the added solutes is considered as good evidence that the probing molecules diffuse by way of pores filled with water.6.
(2) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(3) The relative reactivities of three o-substituted phenols can be explained in terms of steric hindrance which is minimal for a single o-substituent.
(4) The lower affinity of C8-substituted 7-methyl-1,3-dipropylxanthines can be explained quantitatively with steric hindrance, which C8-substituents experience from the 7-methyl group in these conformations.
(5) A comparison of the antioxidant activities of eight 1,4-naphthoquinones indicated that methyl substitution of C-2, lack of steric hindrance at C-3 or C-5, and (in the case of weak acids) a relatively high pKa are favorable structural features associated with strong antioxidant activity.
(6) However, no steric hindrance can be seen between subunits when the subunits in carbonmonoxy Hb are substituted with the corresponding subunits in deoxy Hb.
(7) This suggests that the one-carbon binding site can accomodate two one-carbon groups simultaneously without serious steric hindrance.
(8) Inter-molecular spread of the conformational change among the molecules of PVX protein was demonstrated in DAS-ELISA, when capture mAb inhibited binding of detecting mAb in the absence of steric hindrance.
(9) 46% of the fatal accidents were caused by crashing against hindrances.
(10) Partial hindrance was observed for the third antibody mAb delta 22.
(11) Intraocular horseradish peroxidase (HRP) accumulated in severed optic axons but was transported with no obvious hindrance in spared axons alongside the lesion.
(12) The molecular areas at which the phase transition occurs under the various experimental conditions, together with a parallel analysis of the hydration states and related molecular areas of the DPPC molecules in multilayers, strongly suggest that the steric hindrance associated with the hydration water of the polar head of DPPC molecules in the monolayer is responsible for the drastic decrease in diffusion coefficient in the liquid-condensed phase.
(13) The spondylodiscites were no hindrance for dorsal lordosing osteotomies and can be treated successfully by means of this static correction and the immobilisation.
(14) At the experiments with the isolated rat hearts, prepared by Langendorff, the anti-arrhythmic dose-effects of the water-soluble antioxidant fenozan from the class of steric-hindrance phenols were studied at condition of regional ischemia and reperfusion, as well as its action on the coronary flow.
(15) Taken together, these results suggest that tonin bound to alpha 1-macroglobulin keeps the active site intact and that inhibition of the enzyme activity is due to a steric hindrance.
(16) Because these inhibitors bind preferentially at the extracellular surface of the transporter, their effects must result from a conformational change rather than from steric hindrance.
(17) We propose that incA, in addition to sequestration, can also restrain replication by causing steric hindrance to the origin function.
(18) Vascular hindrance in muscle, but not hindlimb, was less during nerve stimulation in anemia than at normal Hct.
(19) Intense steric hindrance by introducing an enormously bulky group or complete elimination of the 17 beta-hydroxy group rather decreased the anti-androgenic activity.
(20) Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up.