Word: relationship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those who lived close enough to share weekly take-out meals or pick-up basketball games. The best proof that friendship caused the weight gain, says Fowler, is that people were much more likely to pattern their own behavior on the actions of people they considered friends - but the relationship didn't work in the other direction. If you had named another person as a friend, and your friend became obese, than you were more than 50% more likely to get fat too. But if your friend had not named you as a mutual friend, and you became obese...
...study’s lead author, Ashish K. Jha, said that the findings could signal an important change in the relationship between consumers and hospitals. Consumers have not been actively engaged in picking care but instead have relied primarily on word of mouth, he said, adding that he hopes patients will now consider this information and become more involved in the choice...
...translated the C.R. Ramuz-Igor Stravinsky opera The Soldier's Tale into Arabic. He has no plans to return permanently, however, and sees the diaspora as being potentially fruitful for artistic expression. "There's a new [Iraqi] generation involved in [British] culture but related to ours - so this relationship can create something new for the future...
...money race is in a different world this time," he sighed as we headed for a house party in Durham. "You've got Obama raising almost $35 million in the last quarter, God bless him." And Hillary Clinton, nearly as much. "But it has no relationship with what's happening in the states. Here in New Hampshire, nobody's made up their mind. Only [10%] of likely voters say they're definite about their choice ... So we think we're very much in this thing...
Previously published papers had pointed to a possible relationship between urate levels and incidence of Parkinson’s disease, but there had not been solid data on it until this paper, Weisskopf said...