Disruption to activities by mobile-phone assessment was minimal, although some individuals did report changing their plans to take into account the sampling procedure (e.g. waiting for the alarm to sound before going out; ID19 (male in his forties)).
For others, intensity and disruption to activities were interconnected: To me that strikes me as always a very serious bout of coughing, because obviously, oxygen wasn't getting where it was supposed to be getting.
For others, frequency and disruption to activities were interconnected: I had one on a job interview, and by the time I was done trying to speak, I sounded like Minnie Mouse on speed.
In one study of men circumcised with the Shang Ring device, men took an average of 1.1 days off work; 80% were back at work by day 2, with only 20% requiring more than 2 days, and little disruption to activities or discomfort was reported for the week the ring was in place [ 121].
It is likely to show that the scale of potential damage and disruption to human activity across the world is enormous.
But as China's earthquake showed, a one-off loss of wealth need not necessarily cause prolonged disruption to economic activity as measured by GDP.
"The earthquake has caused substantial damage to property and buildings, and immense disruption to business activity," the central bank governor, Alan Bollard, said in a statement accompanying the interest rate announcement on Thursday.
In most cases there was serious disruption to business activity; in many cases the buildings had to be demolished or abandoned for long periods until extensive repairs were carried out.
Disruption to its activities and lost business as a result of the strike has cost the carrier around £125m ($200m).Serge Trigano, the former chairman of Club Mé diterranée, filed a $70m lawsuit in New York against Bain & Co, an American consulting firm, alleging that it had used proprietary information to produce a secret report that had contributed to his replacement.
