Sentences with phrase «understanding changes in the pattern»

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At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

Sociologists have studied, probed, and measured change in church membership patterns over the last twenty years, trying to understand the precipitous decline in membership.

This simply makes it easier to overlook the point that these factors are in turn linked to broader patterns of change in the global order and that taking these broader patterns into account may give a fuller understanding of what is happening.

Is it possible to see in these changes some broader patterns that conform to — or deviate from — the theories we have at our disposal for understanding modern religion?

Restoration Therapy combines the advantages of Attachment Theory, Emotional Regulation and Mindfulness in an efficient and organized fashion that allows both the therapist and client to clearly understand old destructive patterns of behavior and promote change.

Understanding our own and our children's sequencing patterns can change how we connect in very profound ways.

Analyzing patterns in these incorrect responses can provide educators with useful information about how students» thinking changes as they gain a better understanding of the concept being assessed, according to Project 2061 Research Associate Cari Herrmann Abell.

Droegemeier does not expect Bridenstine to support slashing the agency's budget, especially given that much of NASA's mission can be framed in terms of collecting data that are as applicable to understanding weather patterns as to understanding climate change.

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

Over 389,000 km2 of Borneo remains either completely or partially forested, and the authors hope that understanding forest change patterns may aid in future conservation planning, particularly in selectively logged forests.

In order to better understand how soil microbes respond to the changing atmosphere, the study's authors utilized statistical techniques that compare data to models and test for general patterns across studies.

The three 2017 Fellows will join inaugural SCS Fellow Abbey Paulson, who is using environmental DNA to increase understanding of patterns of biodiversity in Acadia and documenting a new baseline for monitoring of future change.

«Understanding how biodiversity responds to climate change in freshwater rock pools could provide critical information about potential patterns of biodiversity change both locally and globally,» Nadeau said.

Effects from climate change are on the rise, making it more important than ever to understand changes in seasonal flooding patterns.

«There is a huge gulf separating our understanding of what kind of brain injuries develop because of mild blast and how they relate to the neuroimaging changes many research groups have detected,» said Dr. David Cook, VA scientist and UW research associate professor of medicine and pharmacology «The similarities we see in the pattern of neuron injury in the cerebellum of mice, the neuron loss previously seen in boxers, and our neuroimaging findings in veterans is a step toward reducing this knowledge gap.»

In the future, Conrad wants to use this new understanding of mantle flow patterns to predict changes in sea level over geologic timIn the future, Conrad wants to use this new understanding of mantle flow patterns to predict changes in sea level over geologic timin sea level over geologic time.

My colleagues and I set out to study the patterns that appear in local media coverage of wildfires so that we could better understand what policy problems local journalists bring up, how they assign blame or responsibility, and whether these trends change over time.

This has important implications for understanding and predicting changes in rainfall patterns over large populations across the Asia and Oceania regions.

Dr Robert Marchant, Reader in the University's Environment Department, said: «An understanding of the long - term history of faunal change allows us to identify patterns in the interplay of natural and anthropogenic factors that have shaped Zanzibar's ecosystems today.

«Advances in genetic sequencing technologies now allow us to find patterns in large, diverse populations of microorganisms, see how they associate with specific individuals, and understand how they change over time in a way we couldn't just a few years ago,» said Knight, who leads the UC San Diego Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative.

Differences in morphology are, of course, the developmental products of genetic differences between animals, but for a very long time it was not understood how many or what kinds of differences underlie changes in body patterns.

The apparent link between environmental stress and degraded coral health, and the recent information demonstrating the complexity of the cnidarians, highlights the need to now understand the biology of the coral host and host responses in these patterns of change.

The results will ultimately help astronomers understand how the growth patterns of supermassive black holes change over time — a key factor in the development of black holes and the galaxies that host them.

The climate data from these samples are a boon to scientists who aim to understand how the Arctic environment is changing today, and how global climate patterns will continue to shift in the coming century.

Although how it works is not understood, hypnosis may bring about physiological changes in the body such as decreased heart rate, blood pressure, and alpha wave brain patterns, similar to meditation and other types of deep relaxation.

Note that these women did not have PCOS, but this may help understand potential changes in sex hormones from certain dietary patterns.

On today's podcast, Jennifer Scribner, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and author of «From Mac & Cheese to Veggies, Please», helps us understand what makes a picky eater «picky» in the first place and she gives us strategies for helping them change their eating patterns.

However matters, such as the state and importance of young people's mental and physical health and our stewardship of the environment, are changing our understanding of how we are constantly being «values led» and altering our behaviour patterns so as to be more in alignment with what is important to us in life.

Therefore, fundamental objective or purpose of the study is to understand the changing pattern of madrasa and the role of government in Pakistan to «modernise» it.

Changes needed in the SENCO role and in patterns of working with other staff are now better understood and deliver improvements in pupil progress and learning outcomes.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand how educational scaffolding may explain changing patterns of student success in mathematics in the era of developmental education (DE or remediation) reform in Florida College System (FCS) institutions.

You need a cat behaviorist for your cat for the same reasons you might need a human psychologist: to assist you in understanding and overcoming a behavior pattern that you want to change, but haven't been able to.

Ranging from sculpture that inhabits physical space in unusual ways in order to better understand and demonstrate force, motion, energy and matter, to works depicting the patterns of the earth and its cycles of change, the artists in this exhibit explore natural phenomena in ways both literal and conceptual.

As Marshall McLuhan wrote in his seminal book Understanding Media, which Craig - Martin read shortly after it was first published in 1964, «technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of thought and valuation».

If we assume for a moment we are indeed in the midst of a historical warming pattern or cycle, and if we also assume that humanity is not the initiator of climatic change, then it follows how important it is to understand that humanity is fully capable of exacerbating the situation, by accelerating the inevitable cyclical.

As climate patterns continue to change, it is important to understand how chemical processes in peatlands change along with them.

«These findings show that climate change can have dramatic effects on human societies and highlight the necessity to understand the effect of global warming on rainfall patterns in China and all over the world,» the authors write.

The changing phases of Atlantic hurricane activity are not completely understood; but there appears to be a link to fluctuations in the thermohaline circulation, the global pattern of ocean currents which in western Europe appears as the Gulf Stream.

Only through a proper empirical understanding of the pattern of climate equity now, and how it will change in the near future, can signatories of the UNFCCC make meaningful progress toward resolving the inequity in the burden of climate change impacts.

The planet when understood, is in constant change from water loss to space to distance changes from the sun... but a general assessment of areas for decades is possible with watching salt ocean patterns as that dictates evaporation.

The stadium wave holds promise in putting into perspective numerous observations of climate behavior, such as regional patterns of decadal variability in drought and hurricane activity, the researchers say, but a complete understanding of past climate variability and projections of future climate change requires integrating the stadium - wave signal with external climate forcing from the sun, volcanoes and anthropogenic forcing.

However, to understand the large scale patterns in climate and their changes and drivers, climate models are not only useful, but increasingly necessary to make skillful predictions for the future.

Session speakers guided audience members through current research efforts to understand the Arctic's role in the global weather system, to predict changing sea ice patterns, and to perceive both the global and local implications of thawing permafrost and shifting hydrology patterns in the Arctic's terrestrial cryosphere.

The NEX - GDDP dataset is provided to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, and to enhance public understanding of possible future global climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds.»

In simple words, we have to radically change the consumption patterns practiced today, and understand that the paradigm of consuming more and more does not bring welfare and happiness.

• Combine wind data with measurements from scientific instruments in other disciplines to help us better understand the mechanisms of global climate change and weather patterns.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

There is still a lot to understand about how the dramatic changes occurring in the Arctic will affect weather patterns further south — in particular, if and how the jetstream might be affected will be vital.

Also, it may be that a change in the air currents caused by global warming represents a fundamental yet poorly understood shift in climate patterns.

The presentation explored ways to help planners, practitioners and policymakers working in agriculture and forestry understand options available for making different landscapes and food systems more climate - smart — important for smallholder farmers and pastoralists in developing countries who are coping with a degraded natural resource base and are being especially hard hit by changes in weather patterns.