Sentences with phrase «life scale of the world»

The Quality of Life scale of the World Health Organisation was also adapted and used for the purposes of the study.

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She envisioned, marketed and scaled a comprehensive suite of programs and content from inception to becoming Canada's largest entrepreneurship education provider with live programs reaching tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and online resources viewed by millions of people around the world.

And failing to scale swiftly can be the difference between life and death of a product or company in a fast - moving world.

Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

In the foreword to the report Dr Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief said: «Despite global commitments to promote and to protect freedom of religion or belief, the scale of violations remains enormous, with almost 80 per cent of the world's population living in countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.»

«With man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative property of thought, she has at last been able to achieve, throughout an entire living group, a total synthesis of which the process is still clearly apparent, if we trouble to look, in the «scaled» structure of the modern human world.

Culturally sustained «life worlds» — traditional ways of living — have long been «colonized» (or invaded, or occupied) by different aspects of «the system:» government bureaucracy, large - scale economic enterprise and powerful media combining to control or lives.

The phenomena of life and mind, though quantitatively infinitesimal on a cosmic scale, attest to the potential for non-conformity that must be present even in the inorganic world in Order that these novel patterns could have emerged in evolution.

The large - scale compilation of data of the nineteenth century and up to World War I has in the twentieth century and particularly since World War II been supplemented by a living encounter — a large - scale face - to - face meeting between persons of diverse faith.

HIV Medicine DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2011.00918.x IBFAN - Asia Position Statement on HIV and Infant Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide, Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding.

Less cynically, the leaders of ISIS may sincerely think that the Western way of life exemplified in rock concerts, large scale commercial banking activity contrary to Islamic law, and government institutions of countries that advance a way of life contrary to Islamic law in the world, is evil and that it is their duty to take action, on behalf of God, to punish this evil in a public way that discourages others.

On a global scale, vulnerability to climate change tends to be greatest in parts of the world where religion is most important in daily life.

Chris McGowan takes his readers on fascinating tours of the animal world, organised not by phylum or location but by biophysical concepts such as energy economy, scales of size and life cycles, and adaptations to the elements of earth, air, fire (or temperature to be more precise) and water.

The Wellcome Genome Campus is home to some of the world's foremost Institutes and organisations in genomics and computational biology, committed to delivering life - changing science with the reach, scale and imagination to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges: www.wellcomegenomecampus.org

An exciting experiment, recently proposed (so - called scaled - up superposition), would furnish the most powerful evidence to date that the biocentric view of the world is correct at the level of living organisms.

An epic of life and death on a scale of billions... The world has never seen anything like the abundance and crash of the passenger pigeon.

So I really would suggest you take it slowly, item by item, and log your reactions to the same thing raw and cooked, and check quantities, and check combos... it IS hard and laborious and sisyphean, and by way of encouragement let me add it took me months of logging everything in a little notebook kept on the kitchen counter alongside a small digital scale, but the effort's worth it because in the end you'll know exactly what's nay and what's aye and that makes living in a world loaded with food so much easier.

Back in the mid-1990s — when the internet was just about to explode onto the world scene and into our lives — the scale of reach and the level of importance that online dating sites have today would have had been unimaginable.

Several featurettes cover every aspect of Peak «s world particularly «A Living Thing» which sees the sets of Allerdale Hall worked and reworked from scale models to the final product over a five month period.

Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), «one of the best and most important directors in the world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent World, Still Life), «one of the best and most important directors in the world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.

Holofcener's last film «Please Give» ended up on many of our year - end lists in 2009, so while we're not expecting «big things» exactly — that's hard to say about small scale dramas about regular people — we are, as usual, excited and grateful that we live in a world where, despite all the tentpole tendencies, there's still a very viable space for Holofcener to make movies.

On the surface A Touch of Sin seems very different from Jia's larger - scale films Platform or The World, or his more intimate films Unknown Pleasures and Still Life.

With Fr Flood having secured her a job in an up - scale department store in Manhattan and a wise old owl of a landlady (a brilliant Julie Walters) watching over her in the boarding house where she has been installed, this Wexford girl's new life in the New World looks secure.

Journey's End This is a small - scale, well - acted film based on a 1928 stage play, focusing on the horror of life in the trenches in World War I.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

Digital technologies have transformed our lives because: • We can store, process and transmit data in digital form faster, and on a larger scale, than any other technology in human history (speaking, writing, or printing) • We can describe a wide range of problems for the data we can collect or create, solve them by manipulating that data, and (sometimes) actuate change in the physical world

Because we live in a world where our decisions and actions affect others on a global scale, we must acknowledge and accept the notion of global citizenship.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Introducing the living world - small scale ecosystems 2 - How change affects ecosystems 3 - Global ecosystems 4 - Rainforests introduction 5 - Causes of deforestation in Malaysia 6 - The impact of deforestation in Malaysia 7 - Managing tropical rainforests (ICT lesson) 8 - Sustainable management in tropical rainforests Hot deserts also on the This is Geography shop to be taught alongside this module.

From ambitious beginnings as the Centre for British Teachers in 1968 to today's Education Development Trust, a major force in education improvement on a global scale — under the leadership of Patrick Brazier, we remain focussed on our mission to transform lives by improving education around the world.

Car makers from all around the world have created vehicles for the Gran Turismo 6 videogame, and several have brought thosevehicles to life in the form of full - scale concepts.

More large - scale emigration of Romanis to the Americas took place in the early 20th century, the majority of them fleeing economic depression and the persecution of the collapsing Austro - Hungarian empire after World War I. Today it is estimated that there are close to 100,000 so called Rom Amerko living in New York.

Like Haruki Murakami in Hard - Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1991), Chabon plays with the conventions of the Chandlerian private - eye novel, but that's only one ingredient in an epic - scale alternate - history saga of Jewish life since World War II.

The testing in the US ensures that the product's flaws have been polished and enough economies of scale have been hit to create a 2nd or 3rd generation version that the rest of the world can live with.

Regardless of the truth to this opinion, the reality is that the political arena is, for the most part, fought on a much larger scale than the individual worlds we live in.

Containing several of the world's major mountain belts, the pear - shaped country comes to life in sweeping landscapes, often completely reimagining what it means to capture scale.

In addition to the print flight, Renaissance Hotels will bring the campaign to life through a full scale digital re-invention of the brand, including a re-launch of the website, enhancements to the brand's social media channels, and a powerful digital advertising campaign; all inspired by unique discoveries from around the world.

In a way it's disappointing to see such a relatively sizable land lacking more feeling of life or interesting things to find off the beaten patch, and indeed there's a lot of convenient rocks and cliffs that stop you going certain ways, but on the other the scale of the world is balanced nicely so that you're never far from a base or from some roving patrols.

DISCOVER REVOLUTIONARY PARIS, BROUGHT TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE: Carve through the stunning full - scale open world city, a feat only made possible through the power of an all - new game engine

Well when we look at Sports in a global scale, we can easily see that soccer (or football, for the purists) is by far the most popular sport around, and one that is regarded as life in some parts of the world.

The worlds of Boundless are brought to life with breathtaking draw distances, advanced level of detail scaling, real - time reflections, HDR lighting, fog, bloom, depth of field, and volumetric lighting.

Seeing a performance problem like this so early in the life of the Switch console isn't promising, though it's not exactly deal - breaking either, when considering the sheer scale and breadth of the world at almost every moment — being inside a building talking to people, then suddenly walking outside, seeing everything still rendered, draw distance and all, with zero slow down, really is something that surprises me each time.

Yes, while some games can be considered technically and / or stylistically superior, like Super Metroid with its screen - filling bosses, Yoshi's Island with its liberal use of scaling and rotating, and Kirby's Dream Land 3 with its mimicry of a child's crayon drawing, when it comes down to a game creating a believable landscape hewn from the living world, DKC3 takes on all comers.

In his devcom developer conference keynote «The Next Generation of Mobile MMO» on Monday, August 21, at 11 am (stage [ddc2] Europasaal 1st Floor CONGRESS CENTRE EAST), Lee will illustrate how MMOs like Royal Blood are currently pushing the boundaries of technology and game design on mobile devices with AAA quality graphics, living worlds and player - interaction on a scale that has never been seen before.

Anteworld is a world - building game and free tech - demo of the Outerra Engine that builds up on real world data to render planet Earth realistically on a true - to - life scale.

This exhibition of large scale solar photograms from her Human Nature series explores the delicate balance between life and death, nature and culture, between turning within and turning attention to the outer world.

Meanwhile Turner Prize nominee Cathy Wilkes also explores imagined worlds, but through the medium of large - scale installations, populated with faceless human beings she describes as «both the living and the dead».

By the latter years of his life, Polke's artistic achievements were being recognised in large - scale exhibitions around the world, with solo shows at Tate Modern in 2003 — 2004, Tokyo's Ueno Royal Museum in 2005 and the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 2007.

By the latter years of his life, Polke's artistic achievements were being recognised in large - scale exhibitions around the world, with solo shows at Tate Modern in 2003 - 2004, Tokyo's Ueno Royal Museum in 2005 and the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 2007.