Others include difficulty with technology and new tasks, and personality changes such as becoming more withdrawn and less talkative.
Children also showed improvement in hearing, skeletal rigidity or cardiovascular changes such as decreased arterial stiffness and improved vessel-wall density.
In the second stage, consolidation, structural changes such as the formation and destruction of connections between nerve cells take place.
The company said the move was in response to regulatory changes such as pensions reform and the retail distribution review (RDR).
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Changes such as these have about a snowball's chance, of course.
Changes such as these revamped processes and the advent of 24-hour courts has resulted in a drop in the average daily jail population by 400 prisoners per day, Ray said.
As noted in the paper, the IPCC models also fail to incorporate climate modulating effects of solar changes such as cloud-forming influences of cosmic rays throughout periods of reduced sunspot activity.
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This has been linked to decreased libido, mood alterations and changes in the way we think, as well as physical changes such as decreased muscle strength and a greater risk of osteoporosis.
There are small, incremental lifestyle changes that we can incorporate in our daily lives to make those changes such that we will be there for those generations who will come behind us.
Mr Morrison highlighted changes such as a new unit in Houston focused on monitoring wells being drilled offshore to watch for signs of trouble: a function that he said had no parallel in other companies.
In a statement, Standard Life said regulatory changes such as RDR and auto-enrolment had changed the way customers, advisers and employers engaged with the company, which provided it with a "significant opportunity" in the years ahead.
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The report, Great Expectations, says the key to good customer focus is happy staff and that changes such as easier appointment booking systems, clearer information about treatment and better bedside manner can make all the difference to patient experience.
In her keynote speech, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at HBS, explained the opportunities behind societal changes such as a decline in traditional families, and stressed the importance of understanding the reasons behind the changes.
Yes, she would augment that system with better-educated (and compensated) teachers, a strong core curriculum, a different (curriculum-based) approach to assessment, greater emphasis on behavior and attitudes and a number of collateral "social" changes such as better families and home environments.
In its statement, the group said that changes such as cutting the interest its pays on customer deposits, as well as increasing its standard variable rate on UK mortgages by 1.5 percentage points, had improved margins towards the end of the year.
Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.
The leader of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, has said the law should not be used as a tool to bring about such social changes such as gay marriage, and may turn out to be ahead of majority opinion.
"While many restaurants have had nutritious and healthful offerings as permanent menu items in the past, we think there are several reasons supporting why they may become more popular over the intermediate term, " he wrote, citing various demographic changes such as the increase in obesity as factors.
He said the timing was not right for a royal commission, because it would "cut across" the judicial inquiry and it would be better to wait until after the next election, when changes such as the new elected police commissioners would have been in place for three years.
Unlike Type 1 diabetes, most NCDs (including Type 2 diabetes which is far more common) can be attributed, ironically, to economic development that leads to longer lifespans and lifestyle changes such as smoking, and obesity, which often fall outside the traditional health realm and demand comprehensive and cross-sector strategies.
Much theoretical work has been done to understand and model such changes, but the lesson I draw from chaos theory is that recognizing such changes in hindsight may be simple, but predicting them in advance is and will continue to be extremely difficult.
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Certain diseases, such as cancers, will induce biochemical changes in the body such as changes in the balance of molecules that it produces.
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Professor Burt said their study highlighted the value of long-running datasets from the uplands in order to identify long-term changes in weather patterns, because such changes in rainfall were not recorded at lowland sites, such as Barrow on the west coast, and Durham on the east.
You calculate cash flow from ops, roughly speaking, this way: add to net income any noncash charges (such as for depreciation or an allowance for future tax bills), then add favorable changes in such balance sheet items as accounts payable and accounts receivable.
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Mr Low said other changes, such as introducing family friendly working practices, could also improve the situation.
They also proposed practical changes, such as co-locating project teams that had previously been dispersed throughout the building.
Some exam changes, such as the end of modular GCSEs, have already been brought in and more are planned.
Legal changes, such as a revision to the bankruptcy code that allowed judges to reduce mortgage debt, could help.
Another dimension analyzes trends in stock ownership and anticipated changes in such trends.
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