K.C.: But there is another factor I talk a little bit about in the book that I call anchors. As people get more responsibilities, as they get older, children, spouses and partners. They may have anchors that sort of pull them back from some of those activities, especially the thrill ...
Sure, it affects people’s personal lives to what could be deemed an unhealthy extent, because leisure activities are often seen as a part of life that must be sacrificed to manage work and family demands. However, the way people feel about their work has less to do with whether they’re...
we can’t burn off her energy with a wide variety of different places to go and although the wide range of online activities out there are helpful they don’t hold her attention in the same way that real people would. But we love our kids so we keep ...
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While in passive distractions, children do not participate in activities during procedures; healthcare professionals actively distract them. In pediatric patients, the most commonly used passive distraction techniques are music and television [18]. The effectiveness and benefits of distraction have been ...
As years passed our daughter grew up, and we did everything possible to ensure her a normal life, participating in various activities like other kids her age. After college, she moved to NYC and became involved in the NYC Chapter of JDRF and has cultivated a team each year for the annual...
When Siri or Google Assistant, for example, accurately predicts that you’re about to drive home, text a certain contact, or check a particular stock price, there’s a “fear” factor associated with that. The more we use these predictive products, the spookier they get. But, at the same...
When Siri or Google Assistant, for example, accurately predicts that you’re about to drive home, text a certain contact, or check a particular stock price, there’s a “fear” factor associated with that. The more we use these predictive products, the spookier they get. But, at the same...
Being previously victimized increased by a factor of 3.4 the likelihood that a farmer would declare being fearful, while knowing someone who had been victimized increased by 2.5 such a declara- tion. Similarly, farmers who had a public internet webpage or social media presence were 1.6 times ...
Correcting for that would tend to push up the number of baseline deaths, reduce the estimate of excess deaths and swell the shortfall. A countervailing factor is that there is a pronounced downward trend in Sweden’s mortality rates over time that would have the opposite effect: lowering the ...