Sentence examples for prolonged education from inspiring English sources

In the youngest cohorts, prolonged education may directly prevent the early uptake of smoking via better knowledge about potential health hazards [ 29], or indirectly via personality traits like higher self-esteem and internal locus of control [ 30, 31].

This collaborative process of creating shared fictional worlds may be associated with a broader burgeoning "geek" culture in developed societies that is in turn associated with prolonged education, high uptake of information technology and increased leisure time.

As he explained in a recent e-mail message, a "likely cause" of the widespread delay in the onset of maturity today was "more prolonged higher education for ever more people, leading to an increase in the 'unfinished' personalities that are adaptive to learning".

Family planning: generates wealth and reduces hunger (MDG 1); prolongs education (MDG 2); empowers women and girls (MDG 3); saves infants (MDG 4); improves maternal health (MDG 5); prevents pediatric HIV (MDG 6); reduces pressure on the environment (MDG 7); and promotes global partnerships (MDG 8).

A possible explanation for this finding is that after winning an unanticipated windfall young people may decide to prolong their education and finance it with the money they have won.

It seems as if (you know; you've read the articles, too) that we--young society--are delaying becoming adults, and prolonging our education is one of the more effective methods.

Prolonging girls' education could therefore save an estimated 500,000 infant lives between now and the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goal on child mortality.

Schooling protected against sexual risks in several ways, highlighting the potential of interventions to prolong formal education.

In addition, the development of compulsory education prolonged the period during which children were dependent on their parents; later the system of enforced retirement created dependency at the other end of life.

This prolongs the education-to-work transition but optimises the job match at the same time.

It requires sustained, prolonged and pervasive formal education to 'overwrite' animistic thinking with the rationalistic objectivity typical of the modern world.