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A Pearson spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that "digital materials are less expensive and a good investment" that offer new features, like audio texts, personalized knowledge checks and expert videos.

A woman encouraged to try knitting and crocheting after developing an autoimmune disease that caused a lot of hand pain reported on the Craft Yam Council site that her hands are now less stiff and painful.

Alexandra Johnstone, professor of appetite research at the University of Aberdeen, argues that it may simply be because breakfast-skippers have been found to be less knowledgeable about nutrition and health?

Americans are less doubtful when it comes to politics: 73% expect to see a female president in their lifetime.

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted living even if her children preferred it than in a nursing home.

An individual's genetics has a big influence on their height but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role.

Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mind-set said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

But she says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with those less than outstanding letters of recommendation.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school d

Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.

Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are increasingly likely to live at home.

Employed young men are much less likely to live at home than young men without a job, and employment among young men has fallen significantly in recent decades.

Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

For example, 10 bacteria or less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severe illness and death in people with compromised immune systems.

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mindset, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

He also says there is less chance of cheating with the in-class variety.

He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed, and less stressed people made more sensible decisions and communicated better.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

Just as it's challenging to smoke while knitting, when hands are holding needles and hooks, there's less snacking and mindless eating out of boredom.

Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious.

Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

My flight leaves in less than two hours.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket, with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

People who sleep less tend to have higher blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes, weight gain and other problems.

PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread.

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

So if you believe you will live longer, then options become more valuable, and early commitment becomes less attractive.

So it rains a lot less in Seattle.

So, I think we're more or less clear what the show will be like.

Some 40% of Americans get less than seven hours of shut-eye on weeknights.

Task timers are happier and more creative, but less productive.

That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

The aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.

The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.

The maker of Mountain Dew and Gatorade has been one of the earlier movers in the industry to offer products with reduced levels of unhealthy ingredients—PepsiCo claims a packet of its chips now contains less salt than a slice of white bread.

The projects included in the study raised $4000 on average, with 30% receiving less than $1000.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people.

Therefore, these new findings should help airplane passengers to feel less vulnerable to catching respiratory infections while traveling by air.

These studies showed that their water did contain microplastics, but far less than the Orb study suggested.

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

Traditionally, a hundred samples would take lab technicians more than two days to examine but for a rat it takes less than 20 minutes.

What has changed, instead, is the relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood, with the decline of romantic coupling pushing living at home to the top of a much less uniform list of living arrangements.

When a carpet was contaminated, less than 1% of the bacteria were transferred.

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.

Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

Alternatively, you may wish to try and surprise your boss with something less common, such as this zinfandel.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

And a lot of interpreters will say one is easier than the other, less stressful.

And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.

As a group, "night owl" types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.

As a result, " Black " people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

As careers and vocations become less available during times of recession, adolescents may be especially hard hit.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

But less than a month before hand, inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and push the opening back again to 2013.

But the most pervasive problem is less obvious: our own behaviour.

But the other half of the name represents another ingredient, less infamous (名声不好的), perhaps, but also strangely potent: the kola nut.

But to build up my own finances, I need around 20% more in personal savings and 50% less debt.

But today, on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, let's take a moment to consider a less obvious advantage: the potential for smartphone technology to revolutionize behavioral science.

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.

Click-through rates have been high so far around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% onlin, but that may be a result of the novelty.

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have.

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have—but they must also get customers engaged in the process.

Consumers are less concerned about safety in high-tech products than categories like fresh and processed food.

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

first of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

For example, in the United States, a family can be considered poor if their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

From a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit.

Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether.

Hogg says that scooping is less of a problem than many think.

If you're moderately exercising for 150 minutes a week, as the Centers for disease Control and Prevention recommends, or less than that, you're probably not an extreme athlete.

It turns out that the less skilled pianist spends more time looking at her fingers than does the expert who, in contrast, is more likely to be looking at the sheet music, or looking ahead at keys he's not yet playing.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

Less inherently interpersonal subjects, such as math, could acquire a social aspect through team problem solving and peer tutoring.

Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

Less time chatting and socializing means more time working and churning.

Maybe students who choose less prestigious universities are bound to succeed because they are determined to.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture form

Mott survey found among the 56 percent of mothers and 34 percent of fathers who discussed parenting on social media, 72 percent of them said sharing made them feel less alone, and nearly as many said sharing helped them worry less and gave them advice fro

New electric engines coupled with artificial intelligence and autonomous systems will contribute to a more efficient, integrated transport system that is less polluting and less noisy.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

On the less cute and more scary side there is Actroid F, which is so human-like that some patients may not know the difference.

Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants, so we're trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

Reducing waste by incorporating med materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.

Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.

simultaneous interpreting, putting someone's words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.

So there could be less protein, more sugar and some additives you wouldn't expect, such as caffeine.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Some fish, too, have had limited success vacationing at the lake as less salty lagoons form on the outer edges from hot springs flowing into Lake Natron.

Still, Liu isn't ready to endorse the habit of sleeping less and making up for it later.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Taking photos actually makes people enjoy what they're doing more, not less.

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong "pay-go" rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

The employees were less likely to leave their jobs, resulting in reduced turnover.

The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.

The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable

The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

The researchers found that extended screen time makes young people less happy.

The second less obvious one is that, in fact, innovation is too slow.

The sun was considerably less bright back then, so Venus was arguably a cozier habitat for life than earth.

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

The Washington Post reported on a recent study by Princeton economists, in which college graduates who applied to the most selective schools in the 12th grade were compared to those who applied to slightly less selective schools.

There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.

They might be more willing to offer career help, because your less famous school denotes that, like them, you are also full of energy and perseverance.

They slept six hours a night or less.

This idea is based on the principle that lions and other predators are far less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched.

This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important 一 not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technolog

This system couldn't care less how often you use it.

Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.

TV might make you less happy, but this is not what seems to be driving the recent declines in young people's average happiness.

We also do less tangible things like understanding what our readers want.

We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

When people imagine themselves as advisers and imagine their own choices as belonging to someone else, they feel less tired and rely less on decision shortcuts to make those choices.

You probably remember that human infants are less developed physically than other mammals of the same age.

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

Anderson believed that the smarter a child is, the less likely he gets addicted to TV.

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

Because there is less light pollution.

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach.

But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.

Corn uses less water than rice and creates less fertilizer (化肥) runoff.

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids.

He thought he would make more money if he gave them less food.

How many languages are spoken by less than 6000 people at present?

However, players could more effectively improve their backhand performance by practicing drills that might be considered less enjoyable.

Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.

I found the pre-holidays a good time to encourage young children to donate less-used things, and it worked.

I guess that can be true in any big city in a new country, but the French do seem to be less friendly than the people back home.

I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid.

If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify those of greater and less importance.

If you find something you love doing outside of the office, you'll be less likely to bring your work home.

In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent on teammates.

In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less.

It is less voluntary than the forced wait.

It makes you less likely to rush through a meal.

It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.

Just as in a game of tug-of-war, whenever a person is added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

Leaving the less important things until tomorrow is often acceptable.

Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers.

People are less satisfied with their lives.

People, in general, are less warm here and it's hard to make friends.

Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.

She chose to sell a few larger objects that were less often used when we promised to put the money into her school fund our kindergarten daughter is serious about becoming a doctor.

Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods.

Studies show that people who volunteer are less likely to develop depression than people who don't.

Teens and younger children are reading a lot less for fun, according to a common sense media report published Monday.

The end result is that we feel like we can't focus or that we're focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

The less a child watches TV, the better he performs at school.

The letter ended with a personal request: "Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done."

The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision.

The team transforms the family's long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.

There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less salt.

There is, however, a second less known type of volcano that doesn't involve mountain building.

They are less strong than plastic bags.

This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

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

Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

Those who had done the most boyhood activities were twice as likely to have warm relations with a wide variety of people, five times as likely to be well paid and 16 times less likely to have been unemployed.

Try to work less, or look for a more stress-free job.

Warm colors like yellow make food appear more appetizing, while cold colors make us less hungry.

We made our final offer, which still was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer's bid.

When involved in deliberate play activities, children are less concerned with the outcome of their behavior whether they win or lose than with the behavior having fun.

When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future.

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

Another approach to getting more done in less time is to rethink how you prioritize your day—in particular how we craft our to-do lists.

But Ashe and others argued that the" threatened" tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservative approaches.

But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive.

But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.

College officials tend to emphasize that the goal of grade forgiveness is less about the grade itself and more about encouraging students to retake courses critical to their degree program and graduation without incurring a big penalty.

Curriculums - from grammar school to college - should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication.

During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.

Even among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe symptoms.

Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.

Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.

For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women.

Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent female.

his paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion.

In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to predict how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to choose to see such an image.

In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule "is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds."

In their recent work, however, some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

It cost less than a fiver but she was overjoyed, and couldn't stop talking about it.

It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television .

It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I love My Children, I Hate My life", is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fu

Many said that unemployment, while extremely painful, had improved them in some ways; they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent; they were more aware of the struggles of others.

Mies' signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot.

Newspapers are less complete as a result.

Obesity is probably less a matter of weight than body fat.

Other birds flying in the up wash experience reduced drag, and spend less energy propelling themselves.

Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm's board.

People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come down with a cold, and the researchers calculated that the stress-reducing effects of hugging explained about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.

Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.

Requiring companies to make gender the primary qualification for board membership will inevitably lead to less experienced private sector boards.

since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape —expend less energy.

since weight loss is not my goal, it is less important for me to track my weight each week.

That kind of activity makes it less likely that the court's decisions will be accepted as impartial judgments.

The "Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts and Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the "less is more" trend.

The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors attribute to "less codified decision making process" and the possible presence of "younger and less experienced managers who are more likely to b

The landscape is rendered less easily burnable.

The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

The survey they asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to workless than full time or because they had no choice.

The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.

The trend toward "less" was not entirely foreign.

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits - fewer heart attacks, strokes and premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.

Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.

They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.

They found that the aircraft consumed as much as 15% less fuel.

They'll get less meaningful, less targeted ads.

Think about how tough it is to get together 15 people, much less 50, who all get along perfectly.

This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.

This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations they often talk less at home.

We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

What Washington does – or doesn't do – to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.