compound stress

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he does not want to compound stress in combat zones by banning smoking.

--The compound stress of bending is a combination of compression and tension.

But it is also in danger of collapsing under the mounting compound stresses of cost, neglect, growth, migration, waste and climate-driven scarcity.

An insecure employment situation, in which women can lose their jobs during production cutbacks or when firms relocate in search for new sources of cheap labour, further compounds stress levels.

Laurie Bauer suggests the following distinction: if the word has the compound stress, it is clipping, if it has a single-word stress, it is blend.

Compounding Stress By suggesting that a mother's career is to blame for problems, a pediatrician can make a mother feel guilty, compounding problems by making home life stressful, Dr. Zigler said.

According to Bauer (1983), the easiest way to draw the distinction is to say that those forms which retain compound stress are clipped compounds, whereas those that take simple word stress are not.

Concussions may compound stress by damaging brain areas that tamp down responses to fear, Richard Bryant, a psychologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, writes in an editorial in the journal.

The imposing structure was designed with help from Inuit elders, and features a prow-like atrium of glass and steel that sets it apart from every other building in town - though some say that signature element may compound stress from a shifting foundation.