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And all things being equal, older people direct their cognitive resources, like attention and memory, to positive information more than negative.
They have some way to interact that's not always direct.
In response, manufacturers argued that they had no direct liability for how their products were used.
So today I'm here to argue that this is not at all an esoteric Ivory Tower activity that we find at our universities, but that broad study across species, tissue types and organ systems can produce insights that have direct implications for human health.
This is because there are more parameters influencing our thermal comfort, which is the sun, the direct sun, the diffuse sun, which is wind, strong wind, mild wind, which is air humidity, which is the radiant temperature of the surroundings where we are in.
Well 200 years, we calculated, is at the end of our direct contact with the world.
I never made any direct threats.
It should, because the top five traits of post-traumatic growth are essentially the direct opposite of the top five regrets of the dying.
Sometimes it's direct.
Usually, dance has a stimulus or stimuli, and I thought I'd take something simple, TED logo, we can all see it, it's quite easy to work with, and I'm going to do something very simply, where you take one idea from a body, and it happens to be my body, and translate that into somebody else's body, so it's a direct transfer, transformation of energy.
And so inside the neighborhood, our library is nestled inside of a park, which has unfortunately garnered a reputation for being a place to find and use drugs, especially heroin, out in the open, putting us and the community in direct contact with the drug trade and use on a daily basis.
I couldn't offer them any direct help.
The town hall and the police department had also suffered direct hits, and so people wanting to help or needing information went to the church.
I'm a woman of super strong opinions, with really deep convictions, direct speech.
Well, we believe the most direct way to save energy with this technology is as an efficiency boost for today's air-conditioning and refrigeration systems.
But of course, mental illnesses can kill in more direct ways as well.
The director, standing behind the set of shelves, is going to direct you to move objects around, but remember, he's not going to ask you to move objects that he can't see.
What percentage of that was accounted for by foreign direct investment?
In Afghanistan, it could have meant instead of concentrating on the big presidential and parliamentary elections, we should have done what was in the Afghan constitution from the very beginning, which is to get direct local elections going at a district level and elect people's provincial governors.
What happened then is a direct reflection of what is happening now.
But why do people want me to direct traffic, when I would much rather go fishing?
But if your goal is no longer to direct the traffic, but maybe to count the cars that go by, then more eyeballs are better.
What are the obvious cues that this animal could use to direct its movement?
And by and large, you'll see that the homeward path is far more direct than the outward path.
An intransitive verb, such as "dine," for example, can't take a direct object.
Well, in both cases, the thing that is construed as being affected is expressed as the direct object, the noun after the verb.
At the same time, this sort of constant mind-wandering is also a direct cause of unhappiness.
It's about interfacing these markets direct into the highest official channels in the land.
I wrote the songs, and eventually we started making enough money that I could quit being a statue, and as we started touring, I really didn't want to lose this sense of direct connection with people, because I loved it.
Another direct result was a young grad student named Ben Novak, who had been obsessed with passenger pigeons since he was 14 and had also learned how to work with ancient DNA, himself sequenced the passenger pigeon, using money from his family and friends.
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