Difficulty of applying the technique was rated as ambivalent initially but decreased significantly over 9 months until it was rated easy to very easy (p < 0.001).
Difficulty of applying the technique was rated as ambivalent initially, before its use, but decreased significantly over the 9 month period until it was rated as easy to very easy (p = 0.007).
(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).
Some reasons for this include inadequate staff knowledge and training for providing smoking cessation interventions, high smoking prevalence rates among staff, and ambivalent attitudes and beliefs related to tobacco among staff [ 41].
President Obama heads into his second term in office with an overall positive approval rating, but the public remains ambivalent about his handling of the economy.
In contrast, a study analyzing 183 unstructured written accounts of time in the NHSC found that only 20% of participants rated their experience as "positive", while 80% rated it either "negative", "mixed or ambivalent", or "neutral" [ 77].
Investor sentiment was ambivalent in Asia on Tuesday, signaling that rate cutting by the U.S. Federal Reserve may be losing its magic after having been resorted to frequently in recent months.
In explaining its decision to leave rates unchanged, the Fed suggested that it remained ambivalent -- or perhaps divided -- over the potential for inflation to take root.
Hedge fund operators coming off a mediocre year remain ambivalent and Wall Street's pundits fear inflation, surging interest rates and a stall in major corporations' profit margins.
Critics were ambivalent about the film's plot, and it has a 40-percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
That so many of the few millennials who own homes feel ambivalent and anxious about it doesn't bode well, especially since interest rates are rising, and mortgage regulations have been tightening up.
