Members of a second group were placed in a dull, unstimulating environment for a further week.
Walking a cat on a leash strikes a good balance between having an indoor cat that lives to old age but in an unstimulating environment and an outdoor cat that can kill birds or get killed itself.
Commonplace day-care infractions rarely attract the inquiry of prosecutors, but widely accepted research now suggests that an unstimulating environment impedes a child's brain development.
Despite the millions of people who must use child care outside the home, for many of us, day care, unlike the term preschool, conjures up visions of children warehoused all day in an uninviting, unstimulating environment.
For example, the finding that voltage horses, in overall less affected by stereotypies or at least major types of stereotypies, spend more time lying down could be a further indicator that they "relax" more easily in the box [39] and may be less affected by the rather barren and unstimulating environment provided by the box.
Cummings says such unstimulating work environments can impair performance, making it difficult for an operator to jump into action in the rare instances when human input is needed.
Many children younger than 5 years in developing countries are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition, poor health, and unstimulating home environments, which detrimentally affect their cognitive, motor, and social-emotional development.
The search for financing has made the musical the paradigm of American capitalism--the big-risk-and-big-retum crapshoot--but it has also made Broadway a timid, unstimulating theatrical environment.
An unstimulating nursing home environment may be considered as a barrier.
