Off-time

Day care provides that crucial off-time for the caregiver, and it can be a fun, low-pressure, social experience for the care recipients if the older person enjoys socializing and if the clientele are compatible with the older person.

With the off-time constant, the on-time is increased to maintain the same peak-to-peak ripple current in the inductor.

The primary outcome was the total daily "off-time" of absent or poor motor function as recorded by patients in diaries.

Prior to March of 1952 no set time existed between the off-time of a horse race, information as to which was being broadcast, and the actual broadcasting of the results and other data aforementioned as to such race.

In the literature these "off-time" youngsters have been termed "early" and "late" developers (Petersen and Taylor, 1980).

In addition to role discontinuity and lack of preparation for new roles, it appears that being "off-time" in taking on new roles or disengaging from old ones may make transitions more stressful, and that taking on multiple roles may be more difficult for the individual than a transition to only one new role or role-set.

An off-time transition is difficult to deal with because no norms of behavior or social rituals exist to guide the person experiencing the change.

Better, said he, were “marches with college tunes in the trio [final section] against the original themes” creating an amusing “off-key and off-time” agglomeration of sound (Ives, 1976, p.41).