Did older people work more slowly??

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

When a bow is used, the muscles are able to perform work much more slowly, resulting in greater force and greater work done.

This amount of carbohydrate is contained in about 3-4 ounces ( 100-120 ml ) of orange, apple, or grape juice although fruit juices contain a higher proportion of fructose which is more slowly metabolized than pure dextrose, alternatively, about 4-5 ounces ( 120-150 ml ) of regular ( non-diet ) soda may also work, as will about one slice of bread, about 4 crackers, or about 1 serving of most starchy foods.

This allowed Lanier to keep his three starters ( Nolan Ryan, Bob Knepper, and Mike Scott ) sharp and to slowly work in rookie hurler Jim Deshaies.

This work is slowly permeating the broader nanoscience community and is being critiqued.

Though slowly, Fictions work because it is a well known fact that people will accept a change in the form of a fiction while they would resist it to the end if the fact is out in the open.

Natural selection was expected to work very slowly in forming new species, but given the effectiveness of artificial selection, he could " see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection ".

To show that there had been enough time for natural selection to work slowly, he again cited Principles of Geology and other observations based on sedimentation and erosion, including an estimate that erosion of The Weald had taken 300 million years.

However work on Indri is currently moving slowly by while Cyphesis is being actively developed.

This treatment is combined with the use of a pumice stone, but tends to work very slowly.

Some novice collectors start purchasing items that appeal to them, and then slowly work at acquiring knowledge about how to build a collection.

Added to this the economical surge suddenly has the entire maid culture dwindling which in turn is slowly seeing the emergence of Do IT Yourself tools for various household work. Innovative DIY solutions are slowly emerging in the market, designed by innovative companies.

To circumvent this limitation, many jumping species slowly pre-stretch elastic elements, such as tendons or apodemes, to store work as strain energy.

Under these circumstances, work on the Castle Zagyg project continued even more slowly, although Jeffrey Talanian stepped in to help Gygax.

Look at a white area on the screen, and slowly tilt the head ( a CRT monitor has no polarizer, and will not work for this purpose unless a separate polarizer is used ).

" This work, with its essentially correct exposition, slowly convinced the medical world.

The foundations were laid in 1758, but due to the economic problems in France at this time, work proceeded slowly.

Through years of work and the force of his own unique personality, the slaves ' situation slowly improved.

The first work of modern apocalyptic fiction in English may be Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man, the story of a man living in a future world which is slowly emptied of humanity by a plague.

Critic John Krewson lauded the work of Ida Lupino, and wrote, " As a screenwriter and director, Lupino had an eye for the emotional truth hidden within the taboo or mundane, making a series of B-styled pictures which featured sympathetic, honest portrayals of such controversial subjects as unmarried mothers, bigamy, and rape ... in The Hitch-Hiker, arguably Lupino's best film and the only true noir directed by a woman, two utterly average middle-class American men are held at gunpoint and slowly psychologically broken by a serial killer.

Delta's less-unionized work force and slowly expanding international route network helped lead it through the turbulent period following deregulation in 1978.

The PML slowly took away Zamora ’ s ability to speak, though when then-President Bill Clinton called Zamora to thank him for his work, Zamora expressed elation at the call and was able to respond.

Since this picture was first developed by Ernst Stueckelberg, and acquired its modern form in Feynman's work, it is called the Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation of antiparticles to honor both scientists.

Although this pattern of inheritance could only be observed for a few traits, Mendel's work suggested that heredity was particulate, not acquired, and that the inheritance patterns of many traits could be explained through simple rules and ratios.

The work acquired a considerable reputation for mystery and inaccessibility between the time of its composition and the era of modern recording ; the Vatican, wanting to preserve its aura of mystery, forbade copies, threatening any publication or attempted copy with excommunication.

This is a grammar, and — at least in the case of one's native language — the vast majority of the information in it is acquired not by conscious study or instruction, but by observing other speakers ; much of this work is done during infancy.

The Histories — his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced — is a record of his " inquiry " ( or historía, a word that passed into Latin and acquired its modern meaning of " history "), being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information.

In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.

The clothing of the sitters in Reynolds ' portraits was usually painted either by one his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms James Northcote, his pupil, wrote of this arrangement that " the imitation of particular stuffs is not the work of genius, but is to be acquired easily by practice, and this was what his pupils could do by care and time more than he himself chose to bestow ; but his own slight and masterly work was still the best.

He was educated at the Liverpool City School of Art, where he acquired the nickname Josh, which comes from having his work compared to that of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Although Mr. Fulton loved his work and research, it eventually led to his premature death, as he acquired an unknown disease during one of his surgeries in 1888.

This acquired knowledge about new employees ' future work environment affects the way they are able to apply their skills and abilities to their jobs.

He completed a sequence of three rooms, each with paintings on each wall and often the ceilings too, increasingly leaving the work of painting from his detailed drawings to the large and skilled workshop team he had acquired, who added a fourth room, probably only including some elements designed by Raphael, after his early death in 1520.

After the boom in orders during the First World War, the lack of new work in peacetime caused severe financial problems and in August 1920, 68. 5 % of the company's shares were acquired by nearby Crossley Motors who had an urgent need for more factory space for automotive vehicle body building.

Since this work has no specifications of acquired instruments and is furthermore based on mathematical principles, Laibach has argued that the music can be seen as proto-techno.

Until 1987, when the Musée d ' Orsay acquired this little-known work ( exhibited only once since 1906 ) it had never been recognized as the masterpiece it is, let alone recognized for its relevance to the works leading up to the Demoiselles.

Henry Fillmore Band Hall, the rehearsal hall for many of the University of Miami's performing groups, acquired its name as a tribute to Fillmore's work in the band genre.

There's been much debate over Karzai's alleged consultant work with Unocal ( Union Oil Company of California since acquired by Chevron in 2005 ).

If telerecordings were made of a work and that work was then acquired by another party, then the recording had to be destroyed – this happened in 1955 when 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to Anastasia and the 1953 BBC telerecording of the play had to be destroyed ( although the lostshows. com website states that recordings of both performances still survive ).

For their work Frank M. Burnet and Peter B. Medawar were awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine " for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance ".

SMiLE acquired legendary status as one of the great lost works of Sixties pop, and although fragments were subsequently issued in various forms over the years, the form and exact content of the work as Wilson and Parks had conceived it remained hotly debated.

Land was acquired by purchase from a Mr. Harford, the first block of land being 1, 500 acres, which was added to from time to time as the colonization work progressed.

The Seabees also did the site work for the new dining hall, dugout the archery range and may have partially or completely built the rifle range on the newly acquired Donovan property.