However, women's involvement herein is often devalued.
Secondly, physician and patient attitudes may also play an important role, as sleep is often devalued as a significant health-related behavior by large segments of the population.
The superstition is so pervasive in Chinese culture that mobile numbers or apartments with addresses that contain the number 4 are often automatically devalued, since the word for four in Chinese sounds like the word for death.
Virtually anyone who has participated in business meetings or conference calls knows that oftentimes participants don't have the opportunity for equal influence or contribution some comments, suggestions, and ideas are taken seriously and drive the team's focus and subsequent decisions while others are often ignored, devalued, or even mocked.
Parties are often motivated to discount and devalue each other's concessions and contributions because doing so relieves them of the obligation to reciprocate.
Although the empirical models seemed significant for spring only, one should not devalue the importance of green vegetation in other seasons because the regulations are often complicated by vegetation, meteorological conditions, and human activities.
Their efforts remain as invisible and devalued as the lives of the people they try to serve, but nevertheless, they are often unsuccessful.
Since governments are often the biggest debtors, this default usually consists of a change in the monetary system; leaving the gold standard or devaluing the currency.
The women in the study reported that "their legitimacy, qualifications, and abilities as attorneys were often questioned or devalued by their employers, co-workers, clients, and the general population".
