Word: affective
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...past month, whether they slept through the night and if they felt drowsy during the day. Then he recorded their levels of cholesterol, insulin, glucose, a clotting agent known as fibrinogen, inflammatory proteins that contribute to heart disease, and insulin resistance (the precursor to diabetes). Since emotional factors can affect sleep as well, he also assessed each subject's levels of depression, hostility and anger, using standard psychological questionnaires...
...have given this discussion of affordable housing not even a percentage of the time that we gave to discussing the affect of leaf blowers in this city,” Councillor Timothy J. Toomey said...
...Iraq War is a complicated issue,” he says, “and debates about whether or not it would have been better to stay out do not affect my task of becoming the best Army Officer that I can—nor do they dissuade me from serving my country...
...It’s kind of a significant change from living in Cambridge, going to school, hanging out at Starbucks, to a year maybe two years later, finding yourself in Iraq in charge of 16 to 40 people and responsible for making decisions that affect their lives,” Gowel says...
...Apart from a handful of Harvard students who have gathered to honor our veterans and to commemorate the dead, the student body has in general managed to ignore these tragic developments. But the war will eventually affect the life of every student, because it is this current generation that will end up paying the $3 trillion bill...