Sentences with phrase «by studying human»

By studying the human race as it actually looks, Alice Neel prepared the contemporary portrait painter for a world still emerging into the light 30 years after her death.
MR: Much of the research that had been carried out from 1940 - 1960's was done by studying human subjects.
By studying the human biofield, she found that people who lacked vitality or felt ungrounded, were often missing a certain frequency of energy associated with the same frequency as the Root Chakra (Muladhara).
By studying human cancer cells and animal models of cancer in the lab, our researchers have shown that loss of PTEN leads to high levels of PI (3,4) P2, which could result in hyperactivation of AKT.
Artificial intelligence is learning right from wrong by studying human stories and moral principles.
By studying human behavior and lifestyle patterns, researchers are able to determine the optimal practices for achieving maximum innovation.
Such an approach is analogous to trying to draw inferences about human family dynamics by studying humans in refugee camps.

Not exact matches

A 2006 study by the Society for Human Resource Management found that «as many as 40 % of workers have had an office romance.
A recent study by human resource consulting firm Morneau Shepell has found that, when it comes to counselling services, 63.9 % of participants are women.
The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.
This is a guest post by Daniel Davies, a sociology expert who prepares case studies of human behavior for a number of magazines.
One of the most influential works on that list is «Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind,» originally published by a Canadian psychiatrist in 1901.
In a study by the Society for Human Resource Management, 40 % of employees reported having dated co-workers sometime in their career.
Co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, this Google - backed human genome testing service allows users to study their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits.
Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.
Seventy - five percent of HR professionals say employee absences have a large impact on revenue and productivity, a 2014 study of more than 1,000 respondents worldwide by Kronos and the Society for Human Resource Management revealed.
Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.
The study was based on 166 volunteers who were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, where you can make money by completing «Human Intelligence Tasks,» and it looked at their entire Instagram histories, which came out to about 43,950 photos.
«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.
A new study has concluded that processed red meats like bacon, hotdogs and salami are «carcinogenic to humans» — a categorization shared by formaldehyde, asbestos, alcoholic beverages, air pollution and tobacco smoke.
The IARC evaluates substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.
Through problems like the one posed by Clippy, Nass's study of what makes computers and other technologies «easier, more effective, and more pleasant for people to use» led him to explore how to do the same with human relationships.
Take a much - trumpeted 2014 study out of MIT, in which research subjects underwent work trials with both human and robots in charge and found they preferred being managed by the machines.
First, he studies human social gaze behavior by observing human conversations.
«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.
Conducted by The RBL Group and the University of Michigan, the Human Resource Competency Study (HRCS) is the most comprehensive review of the HR profession around the globe, helping to define and shape the role of HR as a strategic contributor to the business.
According to a Harvard Business Review study, women in emerging markets reinvest 90 % of every dollar earned into «human resources» — their families» education, health and nutrition — compared to only 30 to 40 % of every dollar earned by men.2 In other words, Kiva's loans have helped countless families and communities in over 80 countries escape a vicious cycle of poverty.
As such, the current literature on virtual humans» nonverbal cues would greatly benefit from studies that incorporate avatars that are controlled by actual people.
New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.
According to an Oxford study, 47 percent of human jobs will be replaced by robots by 2035.
Their latest offering, the Brody WorkLounge was the outgrowth of an extensive research study conducted by Steelcase on how the human brain functions.
According to a 2007 Mining Labour Market Transition study by the Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR), the Canadian mining industry needs another 92,000 workers by 2017.
With our human commonsence we are recognising the rules & regulations of Universe very easily in generations of observations & studies by humankind.
June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.
Bernard W. Anderson, «Human Dominion Over Nature,» in Biblical Studies in Contemporary Thought, edited by Miriam Ward.
A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.
The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.
Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.
Animals can similarly be represented by human beings who have devoted themselves to studying how animals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their torture.
However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.
In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»
Judaism, by contrast, with its uncompromising insistence on ritual and its requirement that all Jews engage in Torah study at whatever level they are capable of, involves the human being in all his complexity.
One of the most helpful ways a congregation can engage in pastoral care is by studying issues that might create moral dilemmas before they are brought to the church in the form of real, live, human beings.
«It has been predicted from a study of the pattern of church attendance over the past 100 years that if trends continue there will be virtually no Christian institutional presence in Britain by the year 2050 (David Hay, the Biology of the Human Spirit).
To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.
An earlier draft of this essay was discussed at a conference on human rights sponsored by the Center for Process Studies and held in honor of Douglas Sturm.
Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»
He calls it a place for «studying the dynamics of the planet earth and the role fulfilled by humans within the functioning of the universe.»
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.
But by and large those who study religion tend to acknowledge the ambiguity of human action, the complexity of ideals in practice, and the inescapable difficulties in interpreting scripture, history and religious traditions.
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