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Definition: In typical mild, moderate, or severe depressive episodes, the patient suffers from lowering of mood, reduction of energy, and decrease in activity. Capacity for enjoyment, interest, and concentration is reduced, and marked tiredness after even minimum effort is common. Sleep is usually disturbed and appetite diminished. Self-esteem and self-confidence are almost always reduced and, even in the mild form, some ideas of guilt or worthlessness are often present. The lowered mood varies little from day to day, is unresponsive ...[+++]to circumstances and may be accompanied by so-called somatic symptoms, such as loss of interest and pleasurable feelings, waking in the morning several hours before the usual time, depression worst in the morning, marked psychomotor retardation, agitation, loss of appetite, weight loss, and loss of libido. Depending upon the number and severity of the symptoms, a depressive episode may be specified as mild, moderate or severe. | single episodes of:depressive reaction | psychogenic depression | reactive depression

decrease in working time | reduction in working time | reduction of working hours | reduction of working time | shorter hours | shorter working week

wage decrease [ rate cutting | rate cutback | wage cut | pay cut | compensation reduction | reduction in salary | wage reduction | reduction of wages | wage rollback | salary reduction ]

seasonal decline | seasonal depletion | seasonal ozone decline | seasonal ozone depletion | springtime decline | springtime ozone decline

diminution of solar radiation

wearable technology | WT | wearables | wearable electronics | wearable computing

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Definition: A disorder of diminished (stupor) or increased (excitement) psychomotor activity associated with catatonic symptoms. The extremes of psychomotor disturbance may alternate.

Algirdas Šemeta, Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Audit and Anti-Fraud, said: “The decrease in fraud against the EU budget shows that our determined efforts to tackle this problem are starting to pay off.

17. Calls on the Commission to continue supporting China in the process of achieving its strategic development goals, but at the same time to move away from traditional development cooperation and aid, through a gradual reduction in ODA (official development assistance) as of 2013, towards a more balanced, commercially oriented relationship with China in the interests of both sides; stresses in this respect that the new approach must take into consideration the fact that China has become itself an important donor, especially in Africa, and that therefore its development agenda with the EU should rather focus on concrete areas of common ...[+++]interest; emphasises that the EU’s trade relations with China should continuously be complemented with efforts and demands for democratic development;

As one of five headline targets of the Europe 2020 reform strategy, EU countries have pledged to reduce the share of early school leavers with low qualification levels from 14.4% now to less than 10% (this would mean at least 1.7 million fewer early school leavers), and to increase the number of students with a higher education or equivalent degree from 33% to 40% (equivalent to an extra 2.6 million graduates).

17. Supports a further reduction in combinations of funding rates and methods for defining indirect costs across the different instruments and between activities (management, research, demonstration and dissemination) without jeopardising the current level of funding rates; acknowledges, however, that the current differentiation between universities/research centres, industry, non-profit organizations and SMEs should be maintained; calls on the Commission to retain the use of actual costs as one method of combining funding rates and ...[+++] defining indirect costs;