While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate bubble, the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.

The elaborate patterns were believed to offer protection against evil.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

She studied the smoking patterns of adult smokers.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

The tests are designed to detect subtle ( ' , 細微的) changes in mental function, and involve solving puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.

Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior.

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.

It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.

It is important to study our sleep patterns.

Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time.

The reason for these and countless other patterns of social behaviour is that they are controlled by social norms--shared rules or guidelines which prescribe the behavior that is appropriate in a given situation.

Still, in my studies and others I have read, I find the same patterns as in USA WEEKEND's survey.

change the weather patterns throughout the world

The changed patterns of winds and rains in the Amazon area

If you look at who enters college, it now looks like America," says Hilary Pennington, director of postsecondary programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has closely studied enrollment patterns in higher education.

They have bright colors and intricate patterns.

Migration patterns of monarch butterflies

Well, that's a good question, because the basic idea of chaos theory is that there aren't any "models" as such— there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development

A similar but reversed pattern was found for the activities associated with greater well-being.

If humans are generally geared to recall details about one another, this pattern is probably even more powerful among teenagers who are very attentive to social details: who is in, who is out, who likes whom, who is mad at whom.

In part, the authors wrote in HBR, this pattern may have to do with the way work itself has changed over the past several decades.

In weighing the evidence, we can now say with some confidence that pasta does not have an adverse effect on body weight outcomes when it is consumed as part of a healthy dietary pattern.