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Many policy measures to control obesity（肥胖癥）assume that people consciously and rationally choose what and how much they eat and therefore focus on providing information and more access to healthier foods," note the two researchers.

The other measures include restricting portion sizes, taxing and prohibiting special price deals for junk foods, and placing warning labels on the products

What do the Rand researchers think of many of the policy measures to control obesity?

Borrowing ideas from alcohol control measures

Measures to create job opportunities.

After taking appropriate measures to contain the RF interference to our test lab, we tested the attack out for ourselves, and were able to verify that it's possible with the right equipment.

Its key objective is to place at the centre of recovery efforts measures that would generate high levels of employment and provide basic social protection for the most vulnerable.

Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures:fantasy proneness and absorption.

similar measures in California's Albany, Oakland, San Francisco and Colorado's Boulder are becoming hot-button issues health advocacy groups have hinted that even more might be coming.

The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success.

Whether measures should be introduced to protect small farmers.

Washington is taking drastic measures to provide more jobs.

Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate (使持久) a free fall

Individuals and companies adopted self-protection measures.

I turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensure that I have time to do nothing at all (which is the only time when I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time).

Eccentric measures are needed to keep one's mind sober

A few sensible federal measures could put the country back on the right path.

Effective measures adopted by the government

That is not surprising: politicians with an eye on the next election will hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit for years, perhaps decades.

most people are against measures that will not bear fruit immediately

There is no easy way to measure racism directly; instead psychologists assess what is known as "implicit bias", using a computer-based test that measures how quickly people associate positive and negative words—such as "love" or "evil"—with photos of black or white faces.

Drop in bias Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who runs a website that measures implicit bias using similar test, has also observed a small drop in bias in the 700,000 visitors to the site since January 2007, which might be explained by Obama's rise to popularity

In fact, every step of the way, as (usually) Democratic leaders have tried to introduce work-family balance measures into the law, business groups have been strongly opposed.

For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.

All these effects held true for measures of happiness, life satisfaction and self-esteem, with the effects stronger in the 8th and l0th-graders.

But around 2012 these measures started to decline.

Current services originate in two key measures.

Experts said that whether or not Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost certainly be able to further limit the government's reach.

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like "acting before thinking" and "persistence in reaching goals".

Scores in various well-being measures began to go downward among young Americans in recent years.

The background to this is that from the 1960s into the early 2000s, measures of average well-being went up in the US.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

They found some evidence that some crude measures, like income inequality, correlated with changes in well-being, but economic measures with a more direct impact, like family income and unemployment rates which put families into difficulties, had no relat

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs

This was found across measures like self-esteem, life satisfaction, happiness and satisfaction with individual domains like job, neighborhood, or friends.

Through the 1970, a number of measures sought to improve matters.

Some immigrant advocates worry that as hard financial times make it more difficult for natives to keep jobs, such measures will become more a vehicle for intolerance than integration.

The label tells you what each axis measures.

There are measures to punish road offences.

They have reduced pollution through effective measures.

This nature of data makes the antitrust measures of the past less useful.

This smart keyboard precisely measures the cadence with which one types and the pressure fingers apply to each key.

Among other weaknesses, the measures cities must employ when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.

By most measures, corporate governance has become a lot tighter and more rigorous since the 1970s.

By most recent measures, the UK's GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

Enhanced security measures since then, combined with a rise in airline travel due to the improving economy and low oil prices, have resulted in long waits at major airports such as Chicago's O'Hare International.

In response to these many unilateral measures, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD is currently working with 131 countries to reach a consensus by the end of 2020 on an international solution.

It measures things that do not matter and misses things that do.

It's not that measures such as London's Ulez are useless.

Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.

Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.

Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country's GDP measures "everything except that which makes life worthwhile."

Some relatively poor European countries have seen huge improvements across measures including civil society, income equality and environment.

Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives.

The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep–and bone-showing.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while waiting for a warrant.

While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing ￡4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then.

Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.