Sentences with phrase «urban influences on»

«Why does the urban influence on our global analysis seem to be so small, in view of the large urban warming that we find at certain locations (section 5)?

It is also worth noting that urbanisation will only produce anomalous trends at a location if the nature of the urban influence on that location is changing over time.

In Jones et al 1990 it is reported that data for the US showed an urban influence of 0.15 C over the period 1901 - 1984 and that «The results for the United States clearly represent an upper limit to the urban influence on hemispheric temperature trends.»

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One study, drawing on national survey data, indicated that evangelicals tend to be relatively isolated from the main sources of secular influence (e.g., higher education, professional careers, urban or suburban residence), thus permitting them to retain their plausibility structures more or less intact — although other modes of cultural accommodation were also evident.15

Add to this impressive list the list given by Victor Lowe: W. M. Urban, D. H. Parker, W. T. Stace, and A. H. Taylor in «The Influence of Bergson, James and Alexander on Whitehead,» 269 - 270, 284.

And many urban pastors have exerted their influence on today's cities.

The influence of medroxyprogesterone on the duration of breast - feeding in mothers in an urban community.

Collaborative urban networks are an important vehicle of formulating goals and implementing power, and lobbying and exercising political influence on the nation state.

She attributes the change to becoming educated by people like Mayor Bloomberg about the influence of illegal guns on urban crime.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

The influence of such socio - demographic factors on registration rates also renders under - registration a far bigger problem in disadvantaged inner - urban areas than in more affluent suburban and rural areas.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

These are some of the insights drawn from research by Michelle Sowden and colleagues of the University of Vermont in the US to determine if living in a rural or urban area influences the impact of cancer diagnosis on employment.

The goal of the «Urban Emotions» project is to discover how dynamic urban processes as yet unidentified can be captured and influenced using information on emotUrban Emotions» project is to discover how dynamic urban processes as yet unidentified can be captured and influenced using information on emoturban processes as yet unidentified can be captured and influenced using information on emotions.

Lindenberg and his coworkers tested the hypothesis in 2008 with a study in Dutch urban settings; their findings suggested that surroundings do have an influence on people's readiness to act unlawfully or antisocially.

By far the greatest influence on premature mortality is poverty followed by geographical location: mortality rates in urban areas are higher than mortality rates in rural ones.

Today's digest features an interesting article on microbial resevoirs in an urban setting, and influence of sequencing depth in chareterising the resistome.

The conclusion is one of several fascinating findings from the first long - term, systematic assessment of the influence of urban land use on thunderstorm development.

Similarly, new local research found that green spaces in urban environments had a positive influence on health.

Qing Li and his colleagues from Nippon Medical School found that visits to the forest (compared with urban trips) can have a long - lasting influence on immune system markers, increasing the activity of antiviral cells and intracellular anti-cancer proteins — and these changes remained significant for a full week after the visit.

Kingsway on Alex FM is a magazine drive time programme with youthful touch music and is influenced by urban culture, fun and edutainment.

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Two childhood friends growing up in poverty in south Boston come under the influence of a local crime boss, only to strike out on their own when he is caught and imprisoned by the F.B.I. Despite the marketing that features explosions and SWAT teams galore (neither of which actually appear in the film) What Doesn't Kill You is a character - driven drama set in the world of petty urban crime.

Thedevelopment planningof cities, the spatial distribution of population and economic activities of the municipality and the territory under its influence should avoid and correct the distortions of urban growth and its negative effects on the environment.

To explore the influence of school choice on district policy and practice, we scoured media sources for evidence of urban public - school districts» responses to charter competition.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

School structural characteristics, student effort, peer associations, and parental involvement: The influence of school - and individual - level factors on academic achievement.Education and Urban Society, 40 (2), 179 - 204.

The federal private school voucher program is an exemplar subject for study because self - selection is assumed to be a major influence on whether or not a low - income urban student attends a private school.

These programs are having a remarkably positive influence on the financial sustainability of urban Catholic schools.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

His research has examined: 1) how school reform intersects with equitable community development, with a focus on school and community leaders and 2) how geography influences educational opportunity for children of color in urban school districts.

Because of the scope and intensity of this commitment, the CLC has the potential to influence urban school leadership development on a national scale.

In Mississippi, the population is less concentrated in urban centers than in other states, largely because of the influence of agriculture on the economy.

It depends on a number of conditions including the abundance of food, amount of available space, urban influences, terrain and the proximity of other predators, including pumas.

Most notably known for her large scale solar activated installations in Fort Greene, Barr is inspired by natural influences on the urban environment around her.

Urban cites his influence for the exhibition as the mass - produced images we find of nature: in posters, on desktops, and online.

Richard Serra is best known for his enormous COR - TEN steel sculptures installed within gallery spaces, urban environments, and landscapes, and his significant work has had an enormous influence on the contemporary art world.

Focused on urban and new contemporary art, Phillips December issue of Under the Influence auction occurred on December 10, 2014 at their London seat.

This new Hatje Cantz publication emphasizes the influence of Arte Povera on Rhode's aesthetic, whose creative dialogue also formed during his meeting with the gallery Tucci Russo and his early collaborative efforts with photographer Paolo Mussat Sartor, in which he transformed urban landscapes and interior spaces into imaginary worlds, as two - dimensional renderings become the subject of three - dimensional interactions by a sole protagonist (usually played by the artist or by an actor inhabiting the role of artist).

«Judd and Adkins have each made an indelible mark on contemporary art that is critical to understanding its evolution, while Bannard's influence on Color Field painting and Alÿs» work addressing issues of geopolitical and social conflict in urban environments both merit renewed attention.

On closer inspection one will notice that Conor Harrington's art is characterized by a certain kind of masculinity mixed with classical elements and urban influences.

A fundamental part of the artist's practice is influenced by the collaborative building process undertaken by dwellers of improvised urban settlements around the world — favelas, barrios, slums, or shanti towns — who rely on recycled and scavenged materials to ingeniously, but often precariously, respond to their rapidly changing living situations.

In this illuminating talk with The Conversation Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist, he touches on the needs of the individual in heterogeneous urban societies, past and future projects, utopia, influences and metaphysics, revealing a wise and deeply - animated humanistic intellect.

As the artist took his place on the global stage, his stylistic vocabulary continued to ricochet around a vast arena of influences — from the historical to the contemporary, from the urban to the academic, from the artistically - motivated to the scientifically - inspired.

Born in Rio de Janeiro and resident in São Paulo since the 1990s, her works have been shaped by the influences of the urban metropolises on the rural environment.

Organized by curator and site95 founder Meaghan Kent, the series focuses on the influence of the urban environment on contemporary practices.

An important influence on modern art painting in the United States, Precisionism was an American movement (also referred to as Cubist Realism) whose focus was modern industry and urban landscapes, characterized by the realistic depiction of objects but in a manner which also highlighted their geometric form.

Having grown up in Mbare, Harare, a place that is considered one of Zimbabwe's most notorious ghettos, Nyaude's work emphasises his youthful exuberance and the influence of the urban environment on artistic practice.

, which looked into Germany's urban colonial history, or... und eine welt noch (2016), which focused on Hanne Darboven's influence on contemporary art.

Focused on fine art which finds its background, heritage and influences deeply rooted in urban subcultures like street art, avantgarde fashion, design, music, architecture and graffiti, Circleculture gallery has developed a large number of innovative exhibition concepts in cooperation with international curators.