stressful environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstressfulandenvironment
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stressful
adjective
uk/ˈstres.fəl/us/ˈstres.fəl/
making you feel worried ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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(Definition ofstressfulandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And no doubt his illness jeopardized his psychological ability to cope with astressfulenvironment.
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It is possible that a less supportive andstressfulenvironmentinfluences children's patterns of brain activation as well as their behavioral outcomes.
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Thestressfulenvironmentconsisted of a combination of three stresses that substantially reduced fitness, as evidenced by a large reduction in egg-to-adult viability.
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Alternatively, maternal depression may result from a morestressfulenvironmentor the two risk factors co-occur.
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The stress-generation process may explain in part this self-perpetuating cycle, wherein disorder-induced impairment or stable characteristics of depression-prone youth create astressfulenvironmentthat places them at further risk.
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Cell aggregation may facilitate the exchange of nutrients, membrane components and genetic material, thus enabling the organisms to cope and grow in an otherwisestressfulenvironment.
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After privatisation, they may have to use a more unfriendly service which creates a more hostile andstressfulenvironment.
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The company had challenged the union representatives, there was intimidation and an extremelystressfulenvironment.
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In addition, thestressfulenvironmentsuppress species competition and promotes mutualism.
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Practitioners believe the environment of residential, commercial and public buildings can affect the health of the occupants, producing a restful orstressfulenvironment.
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Facilitation among neighboring plants may act by reducing the negative impacts of astressfulenvironment.
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Research has focused on increasing eustress in the workplace, in an effort to promote positive reactions to an inevitablystressfulenvironment.
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Specific violent acts are catalyzed bystressfulenvironmentcircumstances, with less stress required to catalyze violence in individuals with greater violence predisposition.
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They have retained the principle of exceptional training without compromise, based on immersion in a highlystressfulenvironment, close to the conditions of combat operations.
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Such materials should be used as genetic sources for the improvement of cassava productivity under favourable as well as stressful environments.
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The basic idea is that these disorders are responses to stressful environments.
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Because all developmental stages can encounter extremes, we exposed eggs, larvae and adults to the stressful environments.
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Maltreated children grow up in highly stressful environments.
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The group was initially unsatisfied with recording in thestressfulenvironmentof a recording studio, and felt rushed to release albums due to the studio's schedules.
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Results suggest that life-stress research may benefit from the application of transactional models of developmental psychopathology, which consider how children participate in the construction of stressful environments.
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