Sentences with phrase «cultural research in»

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His Azrieli Foundation focuses on Holocaust education and Jewish cultural preservation, and has also begun funding research into neurodevelopmental disorders and health care in general.

Her expertise combines design research, social science and strategic innovation, specializing in turning cultural insights into relevant business strategies.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Lee suggests researching cultural practices in the countries you plan to expand into.

Her independent research documented the impact of political shifts on endangered cultural practices in modern Latin America.

Although expectancy research has focused on U.S. populations, there are substantial cultural differences in the effects drinkers expect / experience, extending even to symptoms of alcohol dependence (Room et al., 1996).

The Rotman School of Management is located in the heart of Canada's commercial and cultural capital and is part of the University of Toronto, one of the world's top 20 research universities.

Meanwhile, Canada's low ranking in the OECD's business enterprise expenditure on research and development rankings is often blamed on the national tendency to «sit on dead money» because of «cultural risk aversion» or «insufficient outward - looking attitudes.»

If the best and the brightest Asian students see Canada as a preferred destination for higher education, chances are that they will in later life also see Canada as a preferred destination for commercial, research, cultural, and diplomatic partnerships.

Businesses that have succeeded with international growth recommend leaving room in your business plan for market research and funding that might be needed to adapt your products or services due to cultural or market differences.

He first joined the C.D. Howe Institute in 1990, producing widely - cited research on international trade, Canada's economic union, climate change policy, and the economics of cultural policy.

The actual archetypical buyer personas that are created serve as an interface and a narrative to social, cultural, and behavioral research of buyers within organizations as well as in individual environments.

After joining the Institute for Research on Public Policy in 2001, Daniel earned the Policy Research Initiative's Outstanding Research Contribution Award for his paper «A Room of Our Own: Cultural Policies and Trade Agreements,» and produced, with co-editors Thomas Courchene and Donald Savoie, a major series of papers on North America after NAFTA.

What we do know today is that traditional methods of structured customer, buyer, and market research that are quantitative based can not address the social and cultural changes taking place in our business society.

TIAA Direct provides a full range of banking services for professionals who work in a wide range of academic, cultural, government and research professions.

Then, even though they may apply cultural references to other scripture, they refuse to acknowledge (or at least look at some unbiased research) that loving committed gay or lesbian relationships today do not resemble the types of homosexuality referenced by Paul in Romans or 1 Corinthians.

Jesuits are known for their work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits, and for their missionary efforts.

The nineteenth century research in Indology reflected different spirit of man, which failed to see the cultural heritage of the non-Western peoples as «an integral part of the history of human spirit».

If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.

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.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

While family scholars acknowledge that studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among same - sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

The Gallup survey concludes that the differences are more likely reflective of regional cultural traditions, but we at LifeWay Research wanted to drill down some more — especially in New England.

She has been research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, chief editor of Schoken Books, executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City, visiting professor at a number of universities, and University Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Rresearch director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, chief editor of Schoken Books, executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City, visiting professor at a number of universities, and University Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social ResearchResearch.

Kenneth Bailey is one of the leading scholars in the world on cultural background studies of, and his books on Jesus and the parables have been extremely helpful in my own research of Scripture.

Adam, My interpretation is based on the best research I know how to do from the original Hebrew text and from the historical / cultural situation in which the text was written.

[The comments were made by Patrick Henry as executive director of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research; they appear in the institute's collection Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers.]

It celebrates not only American society's «spirit of science» but also its «democratic spirit,» confident that the combination of scientific research and democratic methods could overcome any problems — in this case the possibility that «mainline» Protestantism might lose its cultural hegemony in American society.

He is currently employed on the Electronic Culture Research Project, a special initiative of the Uniting Church's Commission in Victoria to explore the impact of electronic media on global cultures and the implications of this cultural change on religious institutions and on the social experience and expression of religious faith.

In a survey the Gurukul research Centre made, it came to light that there were many persons in the city of Madras who had accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour but had chosen to continue in their own religious cultural and caste communities without conversion to the Christian communitIn a survey the Gurukul research Centre made, it came to light that there were many persons in the city of Madras who had accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour but had chosen to continue in their own religious cultural and caste communities without conversion to the Christian communitin the city of Madras who had accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour but had chosen to continue in their own religious cultural and caste communities without conversion to the Christian communitin their own religious cultural and caste communities without conversion to the Christian community.

Most recently, an empirical approach to the study of these myths has been developing in the Cultural Indicators Research Program.

The Cultural Indicators Research Program at Annenberg School of Communications suggests that not only does television oversimplify, but also that it oversimplifies in systematic ways.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

From sustainable farming and organic research to cultural arts and children's educational programs — we believe in supporting folks who are doing good work for their community and the world.

All of these cultural «truths» are in exact opposition to clear and overwhelming research and biographical data on the optimum care and treatment of children.

We did not do this because everything in my mother's instinct, millennia of cultural and biological history, and what little medical research there is argues against it.

As part of her research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope with their «life load,» and how they really parent.

The Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), founded in 1996 in order to deepen and enhance the quality of Waldorf education, engages in sustained dialogue with the wider educational - cultural community and supports research to serve a wide range of educators in their work with children and adolResearch Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), founded in 1996 in order to deepen and enhance the quality of Waldorf education, engages in sustained dialogue with the wider educational - cultural community and supports research to serve a wide range of educators in their work with children and adolresearch to serve a wide range of educators in their work with children and adolescents.

Many elements that are believed to help milk supply are based in cultural lore and not supported through research.

1999 Dept. of Sociology, Abo Akademi University, the Finnish Network for Qualitative Health Research, the Finnish Doctoral Program in Public Health, and the group «Cultural Perspectives on Childbirth and Parenthood» of the Nordic Network of Folklore.

Part of an Australian Research Council funded study titled Being and becoming musical: towards a cultural ecological model of early musical development, the study aims to provide a comprehensive account of how Australian families use music in their parenting practices and make recommendations for policy and practice in childcare and early learning and development.

In the Changing Childbirth in BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BCIn the Changing Childbirth in BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BCin BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BCin British Columbia (BC).

According to research by James Prescott, a developmental neuropsychologist and cross cultural psychologist, «vestibular - cerebellar stimulation (which happens when we carry our babies) is the most important sensory system for the development of «basic trust» in the affectional bonding between mother and infant.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V.

India rubber nipples appeared in the mid-nineteenth century.4Cross - cultural research as well as common sense indicates that the weaning process took place over a period of months or years.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V. Continue Reading >

Continued research is needed to evaluate child and parenting outcomes in a broader variety of cultural and socioeconomic groups.

Global interconnectedness, including in the patient pool faced by clinicians and constituents served by policymakers, also means that more research on the cultural scope of fathering and its impact on children is warranted.

Again, the question that arises reflects the cultural paradigm in which the research is taking place.