(1) He recommends not a bland and stimulus-free environment, but one whose elements are unobtrusive and unambiguous.
(2) Key to her survival has been her ability to stay calm and project an air of unobtrusive competence.
(3) Given that in rural Haiti, as in much of the less developed world, few women deliver in clinic or hospital where such data could be systematically obtained, exploitation of the preceding birth method would require identification of a convenient and unobtrusive point of contact between questioner and mothers who have recently delivered.
(4) On the positive side, patients expressed satisfaction with the efficacy, rapid recovery and small unobtrusive scars produced by the procedure.
(5) Occasionally it has been unobtrusive – such as Nationwide's sponsorship of the cash machine in Dev's corner shop in Coronation Street – but elsewhere it's been jarring – such as ITV's deal with Samsung for The X-Factor , which led to scenes of contestants squealing with delight to receive goody bags of Samsung gadgets, and turned every phone call and video diary entry into a mini-plug for the brand.
(6) Its "promoted tweet" service, for example, didn't launch until 2010 (four years after the company's foundation), and the frequency of promoted tweets – and of other new services such as "promoted trends" – has been fairly unobtrusive up to now.
(7) A label for this heart rate either was or was not provided, and subjects' eating behavior was measured unobtrusively.
(8) However, no controlled study has previously been conducted to obtain systematic but unobtrusive data on the actual influences of alcohol upon real-world driving behavior in its natural environment.
(9) When I walk in, he is standing in the queue, on his own, casually dressed, looking as ordinary and unobtrusive as he can.
(10) Obtrusive and unobtrusive observations revealed the cough rate higher when the patient was aware of being observed than when he was unaware of being observed.
(11) Custom-made to blend in with the Victorian wooden benches, it looks like a tea-trolley and is almost as unobtrusive as the small grey cameras perched on the bookshelves.
(12) When one makes practical application of the unobtrusive approach, the most difficult problem is defining which interdisciplinary topics are currently being taught.
(13) The current study used an unobtrusive methodology to describe the social image associated with smokeless tobacco use and with cigarette smoking in three "types" of teenage models--an athlete, a cowboy, and an average teenager.
(14) This study reports on an unobtrusive study of changes in physician referral behavior after a need-oriented continuing medical education program.
(15) Using an unobtrusive eyedrop medication monitor, we measured compliance with topical pilocarpine treatment in a sample of 184 patients.
(16) Bragg, admittedly, was a particularly unobtrusive figure – his silence emanating from a emotionless Blackberry, as the singer songwriter is on tour in Scotland.
(17) Unobtrusive observations of smoking behavior at four hospital areas designated as no-smoking and two designated as smoking revealed almost total compliance to a revised and stringent smoking control policy.
(18) It is reliable and unobtrusive and is particularly resistant to occlusion of the sampling line by secrections.
(19) Therefore it is only reasonably good taste to be as unobtrusive as possible.
(20) To investigate this finding, a survey of reference activity was conducted using measurement techniques unobtrusive to the user.