Participants also felt much less tense and reported greatly increased self esteem after a green walk.

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One of Wysocki's studies showed that when women were exposed to male underarm sweat, they became more relaxed and less tense.

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However, by mid afternoon the BBC's Danny Shaw said police sources believed the mood had changed, with the atmosphere becoming less tense.

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The confirmation process would be less tense and less acidic, because people would know that the candidate would not be on the bench for possibly many decades to come.

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In a less dire yet also tense way, social media experts, from the data analytics teams to the mobile outreach quants, have evolved new ways to reach potential supporters better and faster.

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The watch's screen will be made of plastic and it will run on solar energy, making it less likely to malfunction or run out of power in a tense scenario.

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Beyond Nicosia, the Eastern Mediterranean gas issue has been the subject of increasingly tense interactions about conflicting maritime claims and access to what, in a politically less charged world, could offer energy independence of some sort to much of the region for years to come.

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