Sentences with phrase «value of knowledge by»

Founded in 1994, LifeLearn is a Guelph - based technology company dedicated to helping animal health organizations realize the value of knowledge by building and delivering solutions that advance animal health worldwide.

Oblivious: An Investigation into the Real - Word Value of Knowledge by William Poundstone (Little, Brown)

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Because hyperspecialization entails off - loading the pieces of knowledge workers» jobs that can be done more efficiently by remote specialists, those knowledge workers immediately have time freed up to spend on the higher - value tasks that only they can do.

GrantBook, which increases the net value of grants by curating lightweight and continuously updated technology solutions for grant makers to advance collaboration, grants management and knowledge - sharing.

Real estate investors, who are familiar with underwriting individual properties, assessing value and modeling cash flows, can step into the next layer of real estate investment by leveraging the knowledge of a larger pool of investors or portfolio management group.

Economic Value Management has been selected as a Featured Book Recommendation or «Recommended Read» by numerous publications including, among others, Harvard Business School's HBS Working Knowledge, CEO Refresher, Directors Monthly, Global CEO, The Corporate Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Valuation Issues, On Philanthropy, Accounting Today, Cost Management, and The Journal of Accounting and Finance.

Alibaba, which has been valued at as much as $ 200 billion by analysts, plans to go public in 2014, people with knowledge of the matter said in October.

Hosted by the New England regional member groups of the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the ACA & Angel Resource Institute (ARI) educational workshops are focused on the specific needs of angel groups in New England and purposed to help existing and prospective angel investors improve their investment knowledge and expertise — and add value to their role as business angels — as members of an angel group or as individual investors.

China needs to find or develop a worldview that allows it to recover much of its traditional culture and values in a way that also opens it to the knowledge that has been gained by Western science.

Moltmann's thoughts on the dangers of using the power of scientific knowledge without pondering beauty - and in particular on the dangers of the «economisation» of science in this century, in which scientific thought may only be valued generally in terms of its economic power - would be shared by many researchers in the UK.

One of these is the desire to safeguard the student by demanding of the teacher an illusory objectivity, as if the teacher had no commitment to a certain field of knowledge, to a method of approaching this field, and to a set of attitudes and value assumptions which are embodied in the questions which he raises.

By social systems is meant the sum total of all humanly developed knowledge, cultural patterns, institutions, values, and goals.

The phenomenon of relativity not only denies the absoluteness of time and space; it also undermines the certainty of our knowledge and the absoluteness of the values and purposes by which we live.

The situation I propose to describe is already and painfully well known to the clergy, and if a lecture to them has only an intermural value they are perhaps comforted in their pain by the knowledge that others know of it.

Any such conception as knowledge, value, actuality, truth, goodness, or beauty could, by proper analysis, be shown to imply the others and the necessity of God's existence.

There is a principle, one too often ignored in its philosophical value, which underlies the research of all the sciences, and the interpretation, especially the mathematical interpretation, of all knowledge gathered by the «exact sciences».

Newman's «knowledge» is a substitute for wisdom; it is knowledge of facts devoid of values, of facts that remain uninterpreted, unstructured by meaning, detached from the «big picture,» degraded to an «informational commodity.»

Thus his knowledge of the relationships of particular modes of value Is not added to, or disturbed, by the realization in the actual world of what is already conceptually realized in his ideal world.

Lamin Sanneh reviews a new work by Leslie Newbigin in which Newbigin claims the focus on the dichotomy between «knowledge» of so - called objective facts and «belief» in so - called subjective values is a dichotomy that is rationally indefensible.

It is the difference between pursuing knowledge as power only and pursuing knowledge as power at the service of values and responsible to social and ecological justice and to the people whose welfare is affected by the exercise of that power.

Katz has identified four major functions served by attitudes within the human personality: (1) the utilitarian function, by which certain attitudes enable maximization of rewards and avoidance of pain in adjusting to one's environment; (2) the ego - defensive function, by which specific attitudes protect the ego; (3) the value - expressive function, by which particular attitudes provide satisfaction from personal values and self - concept; and (4) the knowledge function, by which certain attitudes satisfy the need to structure and understand one's universe.

By combining the pastoral and RE teaching, the essential knowledge component of SRE is provided to students but within the school's values.

«The medical faculty never considered it much of value, and the people had not knowledge of it as a medicine, till I introduced it, by making use of it in my practice.»

We provide real added value for our customers by sharing with them our extensive knowledge of packaging trends and developments in retailing.

I see his value now as a leader who is loved by all the players in the club, and has tons of football knowledge and experience to pour into our young defenders Chambers, Holding, and Bielik.

And the knowledge, self - awareness, and problem - solving skills children develop through years of hands - on inquiry is of far greater value to them as learners and as human beings than anything they could have picked up by sitting at a screen.

Divulging past drug use is an individual decision, but having used drugs should not prevent you from talking to your child — in fact, experience may better equip you to communicate with your child by drawing on the value of mistakes made or knowledge gained since then.

He added that provision of basic education to first step in empowerment by the Ministry would helps influence value in the community with the knowledge acquired assist to develop values and morals towards building a better Inner cities and Zongo Development.

Not least, if it has succeeded in its objective of recruiting the best people to manage the submarine enterprise — by importing people from the Private Sector specifically because they possess exceptional negotiating skills, relevant domain knowledge, market awareness, commercial acumen and a proven track record in adding value, not cost.

To harness the energy already generated by the March for Science, «clear, science - based messages must be presented repeatedly to both those making policy and to the broader public, and these messages should focus on the value of scientific knowledge that results from well - funded research,» added Rovito.

This knowledge could play an important role in the design of future vaccination campaigns, but also highlights a deeper evolutionary logic which modern humans sometimes are governed by: as social beings, in the right circumstances, we can afford to take into account a broader societal context, but when we get the chance to invest in the evolutionary «core values» (survival and procreation) the larger context is easily forgotten.

According to Albonetti, the Regional Council has provided resources such as financial and educational support, with the goal of «supporting growth by appealing to our strengths, but also by turning weaknesses into opportunities, for instance by capitalizing on the different forms of creativity, knowledge, and skills within the territory and supporting new, globally competitive value chains for new market opportunities.»

Speaking in Farsi, the president offered cordial remarks that emphasized the universal values of science and the belief that knowledge produced by research should benefit all of humanity.

«Currently, there are many social networks analysis tools, but they are not localized,» says the co-founder of Ubik, which is a technology - based company established in order to pay attention to a niche market with great future and to value the knowledge and technology developed over more than 15 years of work by the research group GEOTEC (Geospatial Technologies Research Group).

Bruno is committed to bringing the value of «Impact Science» by promoting and practicing the skill - based value of scientists, versus the knowledge - based value.

On the good side, our modern knowledge about the nutritional value of food is very extensive, but on the bad side, we often live by stupid myths that block our progress toward better health instead of speeding it up.

With this knowledge, I've added an incredible amount of value to the service I provide as a Personal Fitness Trainer and Pilates Instructor and increased my total income by adding nutrition programs to my services.

Powerful commercial media owners who are sanctioned by the government control the production of knowledge, and set the limits on what gets said and what doesn't get said, and create the contexts in which information is valued or perceived as unimportant.

2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small - scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

You don't encourage a growth mindset by going back to drill and kill methods, rather you encourage students to bring themselves willingly, secure in the knowledge that their contributions and ways of thinking will be valued.

This result does not, in our view, call into question the value of the improvements in crystallized knowledge captured by improvements in test scores.

At the beginning of the course, students were asked to reflect on what they value in life (such as relationships with family / friends, spiritual / religious values, or science / pursuit of knowledge) and to rank those values by personal importance.

And, in fact, a signature value of the Core is its potential to bolster both skills and knowledge by encouraging sequenced, spiraled, content - rich curricula in the classroom.

Ideologically, the knowledge, values, identities, and social relations produced and legitimated in these sites are driven by the imperatives of commodification, privatization, consuming, and deregulation.

Among those lessons learned are operationalizing adult learning / development and adaptive leadership by simultaneously attending to the personal and professional development of the people at all levels of the organization; creating and sustaining conditions and support mechanisms for effective teamwork and collaboration to occur; and redefining community engagement in ways that value families and communities and engage them as true and equal partners who possess funds of knowledge.

Instead, the panel was meant to help students see the value of a interdisciplinary perspective on the complex issues surrounding «knowledge» — not only what is meant by the term, but how those understandings can be enacted and what implications they have moving forward.

A five - year study by the University of Wisconsin's Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools found that structural school reform only works when (1) students are engaged in activities that build on prior knowledge and allow them to apply that knowledge to new situations, (2) students use disciplined inquiry, and (3) school activities have value beyond school.

As individuals acquire knowledge about other cultures» histories, values, communication styles, beliefs and practices, they begin to recognise that their perspectives and behaviours are shaped by many influences, that they are not always fully aware of these influences, and that others have views of the world that are profoundly different from their own.

Of far greater value to educators, however, are «formative» assessments that provide feedback on which skills, concepts, and key knowledge bits have or haven't yet been acquired by which kids, so that something can be done about it while there's time.

The value in illuminating the craft knowledge of the goals of the humanities in relation to the methods and mechanisms by which those goals can be achieved is that then assessment becomes possible via assessment instruments developed organically out of humanists» practices — as opposed to being imposed on them by instruments ill - fitted to the humanities.