Sentences with phrase «among social scientists»

As a non-profit organization, IARR encourages cooperation among social scientists worldwide and supports the application of research findings in bettering individuals» relationships.

Transracial adoption, defined as the adoption of a child from a race that is different from that of the adoptive parent, has attracted interest among social scientists seeking to understand how the public views adoption.

It is common among social scientists to dismiss these associations as being attributable to preexisting risks based in family, socio - economic context, or underlying personality traits (i.e., selection).

Whether the particular program is focused on conflict resolution, character education, bullying prevention, or another version of social skills instruction, the development of SEL programs is based on the consensus among social scientists, educators, and health care professionals that social and emotional skills matter.

Toward a framework for delivery of parent training to prevent child abuse For some time, the idea of universal parent training programs to prevent abuse and neglect has generated interest but not much traction among social scientists.

There is now ample consensus among social scientists that certain risks (such as academic failure, early psychiatric problems, and language delays) are highly correlated with poor outcomes.

The court reconsidered its reasoning in Baures, noting that «the vigorous scholarly debate among social scientists who have studied the impact of relocation on children following divorce reveals that relocation may affect children in many different ways.»

Among some social scientists, there is this term of art: wicked problems.

Breyer «unquestioningly» relied upon «certain social science research to support propositions that are hotly disputed among social scientists.»

For the open - minded among the social scientists, Girard's work can serve as a gateway for the introduction of Kierkegaardian insights into social scientific thinking, which will always remain woefully incomplete as long as it functions without reference to religious transcendence.

Not exact matches

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

Perhaps the key attraction of world - system theory, overall, is that it sensitizes social scientists to the growing global interdependence that now exists among nation - states.

In the May 2007 issue of the University of California Press journal, Social Problems, the sociologists Elaine Ecklund (University at Buffalo) and Christopher Scheitle (Pennsylvania State University) have presented their findings on «Religion among Academic Scientists.»

The continuing sense of social concern among the atomic scientists was a striking feature of the postwar years.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

From Christ as workingman Faludi proceeds to a hasty and confused foray among authorities ranging from the twelfth - century churchman Bernard of Clairvaux to various feminists and social scientists in an effort to discover the psychological purposes served by the various images of Christ.

They themselves are usually future - oriented — a tendency evidenced in the futurism fad among today's social scientists, and the ahistorical approach if not downright antihistoricism seen in many aspects of social science.

But I've been reading «Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families,» a compilation of intriguing essays authored by social scientists and family law experts and edited by Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth S. Scott (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and among the many issues discussed is polygamy.

Among the signatories are Dame Julie Mellor, former Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, as well as some of Britain's top social scientists in this field — Dr Ann Buchanan (Oxford University), Professor Michael Lamb (Cambridge University), Joan Hunt (Oxford University), Professor Judy Dunn (Institute of Psychiatry), Professor Brid Featherstone (Bradford University), Dr Christine Skinner (York University).

The continued exploration of the meaning and implications of the right to science among scientists will inform the official interpretation of the right to science that the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is currently developing, Wyndham said.

Knowledge brokering is different in that it creates «an ongoing dialogue and exchange» between researchers and stakeholders, explains Christine Knight, a policy research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United KiSocial Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Kisocial scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Kisocial scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Kingdom.

M. F. Fox and S. Mohapatra, Social - Organizational Characteristics of Work and Publication Productivity Among Academic Scientists in Doctoral - Granting Departments.

And because the scientist - only social network claims 5 million users, with eminent research institutions boasting thousands of members each, many readers of this article may already be among the initiated.

As «embedded» social scientists, we routinely witness fascinating, nuanced discussions among synthetic biologists that acknowledge the complexities and uncertainties involved in their research.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

The event that grew from social media conversations among scientists into a global movement is now scheduled to unfold in Washington and at least 608 satellite locations around the world.

I find myself among academic scientists frequently — at my wife's social events, at professional meetings, at the institutions I often visit.

It's likely that adolescents of both sexes found mates in communities other than their own, fostering social ties among groups that might otherwise avoid or fight each other, the scientists conclude online October 5 in Science.

The idea is to make scientists look more human, says science writer Chris Mooney, co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future, which bemoaned, among other things, the poor social status of scientists.

According to a new study by social scientists at Cornell University, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Facebook, emotions can spread among users of online social networks.

With the arrival of H1N1 flu last year, social scientists Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University and James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, realized they had an unusual opportunity to use their knowledge of social networks to forecast a flu outbreak among undergraduates.

«But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same» concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings» or «The varying importance of particular dimensions of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst pluralism, and universality to coexist with cultural distinctiveness».

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same» concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings.

The SBP Science Network (SBP - SN) is the association of postdoctoral scientists and graduate students at SBP that fosters social and scientific networking among young researchers at SBP and other institutes on the Torrey Pines Research Mesa and nationwide.

«I was struck by the exceptional magnitude of similarity among friends,» Carolyn Parkinson, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said, adding, «our results suggest that friends might be similar in how they pay attention to and process the world around them... that shared processing could make people click more easily and have the sort of seamless social interaction that can feel so rewarding.»

Among the interviewees are comedian / actress Tammy Pescatelli, singer - songwriter Elza, comedian / filmmaker Luca Palanca, political scientist and author Andrew Hacker PhD, research expert and author Stephanie Coontz, social scientist and author Christine Whelan PhD and entrepreneur / author Mitch Thrower.

They feature a varied set of artistic figures, such as German - American Social Scientist Kurt Lewin, Vietnamese filmmaker Trinh T. Minh - ha, conceptual artist Lee Lozano, Colombian mathematician Antanas Mockus, Chilean video artist Juan Downey, and Italian - born Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi, among others.

«But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same» concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings» or «The varying importance of particular dimensions of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst pluralism, and universality to coexist with cultural distinctiveness».

As the paper referenced by Pielke Jnr points out, «[The] emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same» concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings.»

But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows «the same» concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings.

But the reaction was dismay among the small international community of social scientists trying to figure out how to make sure climate forecasts are useful to, say, an agriculture department in Ethiopia, or trying to figure out how supposed climate fixes like biofuels might create food shortages.

This first Bren School Environmental Research Initiative — SERI Fire — will facilitate collaboration among natural and social scientists, with the intention of filling this knowledge gap and developing new management strategies to prepare for and respond to wildfires in a changing climate.

What would the results of such polling be if people were asked similar questions about the immunity from the influence of self - interest or ideology among priests or plumbers or «skeptics» or politicians or ditch diggers or social scientists or lawyers or engineers, etc..?

You can not analyze social interactions among scientists unless you take into account their motivations.

You don't have to consult social scientists to know that sex before marriage is the norm among young Americans.

Responding to the alarming increase in psycho - social and developmental problems among children whose parents are living apart, 26 leading research scientists, family professionals and representatives of civil society from 11 countries gathered in Bonn, Germany, on 21 - 23 February 2014 to found a new international organization focused on the feasibility of shared parenting as a viable and beneficial solution for children.