Environmental militant groups are said to use economic sabotage, which includes destruction of property, to try to change
public attitudes about environmental damage caused by businesses, including harm caused by sprawl.
Public attitudes about the divorce process must keep changing.
The coalition will make arguments about the impact of Justice Camp's behaviour on survivors and on
public attitudes about sexual assault, and about the legal protections for sexual assault complainants that Justice Camp allegedly ignored.
The fateful page was in a routine public opinion poll and proposal for a related campaign of the type that EEI regularly commissioned, this year on
public attitudes about global warming.
Public attitudes about climate change have become increasingly contentious over the past several years.
The new Pew Research survey included two separate measures to gauge
public attitudes about climate change.
«Report Suggests
Some Public Attitudes About Geophysical and Environmental Issues.»
8:30 AM — 9:15 AM Keynote: Dr. Joshua Starr, CEO, PDK International Understanding
Public Attitudes About Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and more.
Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on
public attitudes about education suggest.
The survey examines
public attitudes about the potential use of three emerging technologies that could fundamentally improve people's health, cognitive abilities or physical capacities.
The survey tracks
public attitudes about science in society and maps the contours of opinion on a wide range of issues within the domain of science and technology.
Misinformation often shapes
public attitudes about science.
During a 6 - 10 June training program, the 15 AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute fellows also engaged in interactive sessions on the science of science communication,
public attitudes about climate change, how Americans consume science news, best practices in leveraging social media, and the fundamentals of engaging policymakers in science - based dialogue.
«And it appeared that either relevant data were ignored or that full and careful consideration of cost - benefit analysis best practices were not followed in assessing wetlands values and
public attitudes about water - quality protection.»
The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with
public attitudes about public funding for private schools.
The findings appear to show that
public attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Even in conservative parts of the country, where
public attitude about gay rights differs from more liberal areas of the country, employer actions that allow discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation can lead to a lawsuit that the employer could lose.
Not exact matches
The
Public Religion Research Institute has just released a survey
about American
attitudes toward Christmas.
Only if we can compellingly witness to our religious convictions
about life, suffering and death will we be able to shape
public attitudes toward death.
I've heard or read varying degrees of that same
attitude when it comes to some of the conversations
about «biblical» womanhood as people heap guilt on mothers or fathers for everything from choosing
public school education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family structures.
In contrast, it may not be too helpful to City in terms of shipping him out with this report going
public, as question marks will undoubtedly be raised
about his
attitude.
It would be interesting to see if this fear of the opposite sex is occurring elsewhere, like Europe; I can't find any research on it but it's clear that Europeans generally have much healthier and relaxed
attitudes about sex, and European women are eager to participate in
public life.
I think women are becoming more comfortable in telling others that they are still nursing older babies so hopefully there will be a shift in
attitudes but I have recently «lost» a few facebook followers after posting a status regarding full - term breastfeeding (I think they were most likely from a giveaway I did ages ago and not on the same page re: bf etc) Apart from that, I love telling Mums on the ward (I'm a bf peer supporter) I'm still feeding as it opens their mind to that possibility and I think I look pretty normal so it mostly doesn't freak them out My son is far too busy to nurse out and
about and prefers juice so we've not nursed in
public (apart from support group) since he was 18 mths and that was as I had a blocked duct!
Since 1999, breastfeeding questions have been included to collect information on
public beliefs and
attitudes about breastfeeding.
Some barriers include the negative
attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative),
public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive
attitude and knowledge
about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.
Ms Spence also made a broader point
about the
public's
attitude towards responsibility and how that impacted on policing.
We've become used to hearing
about «modern
attitudes», «barbaric behaviour» and endless
public opinion polls claiming that the majority of people are against repeal of the supposedly iconic Hunting Act.
· Mentality (Bristol) A youth leadership project concerned with challenging negative
attitudes surrounding the issue of mental health, raising awareness
about mental health problems, providing support and advice for young people, and opening up a frank
public discussion.
About 79 % of persons appointed to various positions by our Presidents are people they have no knowledge about their competence, incompetence and general attitude, they are fixed there through manipulations by the various lobbyist groups in our parties, friends, cronies, family members, party executives etc to serve their parochial interests and these are the people who spearhead corruption in our public institut
About 79 % of persons appointed to various positions by our Presidents are people they have no knowledge
about their competence, incompetence and general attitude, they are fixed there through manipulations by the various lobbyist groups in our parties, friends, cronies, family members, party executives etc to serve their parochial interests and these are the people who spearhead corruption in our public institut
about their competence, incompetence and general
attitude, they are fixed there through manipulations by the various lobbyist groups in our parties, friends, cronies, family members, party executives etc to serve their parochial interests and these are the people who spearhead corruption in our
public institutions.
The Conservative's promise of a referendum on Lisbon was always
about something far broader than the Treaty itself; it sought a mandate to go to Brussels to renegotiate the terms of our membership of the EU commensurate with British interests and
public attitudes.
«We'll look down the road at how much money does Live Nation make and does the
public have a different
attitude about whether we should be promoting,» Mahoney said.
The polling is
about public attitudes to tax, an issue firmly back on the political agenda after a rethink by the Conservative Party.
Even as most of them shy from actually endorsing the Governor for a second term, the
public - employee unions»
attitude toward him evokes the old joke
about a less - than - honest roulette game: it may be a crooked wheel, but it's the only wheel in town.
The 72 - question survey asked for demographic information, as well as why respondents had marched and what they thought
about government policies and
public attitudes toward science.
What O'Rahilly finds particularly irksome
about public attitudes, and what he hopes his research will overturn, is our peculiar habit of blaming the victims of these ills for their misfortune.
AAAS CEO Rush Holt, executive publisher of the Science family of journals said: «Sometimes politicians think science issues are limited to simply things like the budget for NASA or NIH, and they fail to realize that a president's
attitude toward and decisions
about science and research affect the
public wellbeing, from the growth of our economy, to education, to
public health.
Tougher UK health warnings
about alcohol are creating fertile territory for a change in
public attitudes to drinking, says Martin McKee
«What's striking
about these findings is that politics sometimes is at the center of the story
about public attitudes and sometimes politics has very little to do with the way people think
about science issues in the
public arena.
Lo says he didn't worry
about negative
public attitudes toward immigrants when he came in 2011 from Hong Kong, China, to work with Fauchet, then at the University of Rochester in New York.
David Konisky of IU's School of
Public and Environmental Affairs analyzed 20 years of survey results from Gallup public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted over
Public and Environmental Affairs analyzed 20 years of survey results from Gallup
public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted over
public opinion polls in one of the first major studies of how
attitudes about the environment by self - identified U.S. Christians have shifted over time.
That what the
public thinks
about energy — what they want, think they want, or think they know — shapes the decisions politicians make
about energy and environmental policy: Personal
attitudes, concerns, and priorities are determined by more than just «the facts.»
In a study, the performance of players in a racecar video game influenced their
attitude about the actual brand of the car they used in the game, said Frank Dardis, associate professor of advertising and
public relations, Penn State.
But government officials also value the information
about long - term trends in
public attitudes that can be gleaned from the current survey.
«The study shows that even though mental health professionals have by and large more favorable views
about mental health patients than the
public, stigmatizing
attitudes still exist,» Stuber said.
In addition to the fun of meeting other scientists and the interested
public and learning more
about recent research, these conferences provided me with an intriguing opportunity to reflect on cultural
attitudes.
Launched in 1999, The Enterprise Challenge (TEC) is a pioneering approach by the Singapore government to «instill in the
Public Service, the power and capacity to innovate, to bring
about a different
attitude to thinking, as well as the self - confidence to explore what must be — by definition — uncharted territory.»
Rather, we sought to learn
about the character of existing
public attitudes and to see what underlying concerns might shape the encounter of the American
public with emerging biotechnologies in the years to come.
In the absence of that premise, the goal of activists and interested parties to the bioethics debates should be to learn how best to educate the
public, rather than to wield essentially meaningless statistics
about existing
attitudes.
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About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the
public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the w
about the issues,
attitudes and trends shaping the world.
Typical of their
attitude were the words of a well - heeled white woman who looks like she has never set foot in the «hood who, without a shred of shame, whines, «We're not going to have him go to a
public school in Harlem» when speaking
about her precious, 3 year - old.