Sentences with phrase «as academic problems»

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As Biselli said, «Without dramatic change, we are trending towards a $ 5 trillion problem, and I believe policy - makers, academics, clinicians and innovators all need to have a seat at the table.

Harvey Mudd describes its core curriculum as «an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines — math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering — as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry» that it says «gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines.»

Michael Palmieri: Professor Hudson, would you agree that as economies have been more financialized and creditors have gained political power they're also able to kind of disable any realistic academic discussion of the debt problem that we're having here right now with you?

But as economies have been financialized, creditors have gained political power — and also the power to disable realistic academic discussion of the debt problem.

This government has consistently touted the Investor Court System in CETA as a progressive alternative to ISDS, but both academics and civl society activists have noted that it does little to address the problems with ISDS.

Insofar as Crisis on Campus identifies pressing problems» the financial plight of universities and the difficulties graduate students have in finding permanent academic jobs» it can be useful.

The ideology of the «free market» plugged by the media and academics as the panacea for the problems of economy and society may help the spread of such elements of a mono - culture.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

Rather, the problem is that of sheer knowledge, of how to accede linguistically to the aesthetic value in the sheer relationality and facticity before one's eyes.20 To regard such a poem as a proposition is to make it a banality; and for the Western, scientifically - minded, academic intellectual that is no trick at all.

Teenage pregnancy is being cited as one of — if not the leading cause — of delinquency and crime, and it has been proven to have a direct bearing on behavior problems in school and academic performance.

Academic problems are common among abused children, as are difficulties with concentration and social interactions.

For left «wing academics and intellectuals, the problem isn't anger itself so much as its object.

Binge drinking hampers academic excellence insofar as heavy drinkers are more likely to skip class, fall behind in classwork, and have alcohol - related health problems that hamper academic success.

As a teacher Holmer was alert to the danger of theology becoming an academic technique in his students, and he called their attention to the problem both indirectly and bluntly.

Even if one identified every academic discipline that touches on the problem humanity now faces and added together such contributions to understanding and response as one can find within them, one would not have much help toward an appropriate response.

Thus the problem of nature and purpose is not merely an academic one; it flows from our deepest and most personal concerns as to whether we really belong to the universe, or rather must awaken to our utter solitude, our «fundamental isolation.

A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by Emrys Westacott Princeton, 304 pages, $ 26.95 In The Virtues of Our Vices, Emrys Westacott eschews academic theorizing about hypothetical life - and - death moral dilemmas (such as the «trolley problem»)....

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

At the academic level form criticism is the single most important development in the history of the discussion of our problem, for it provides what must be regarded as the only satisfactory understanding of the nature of the synoptic gospel material — satisfactory, that is, from the viewpoint of being able to explain the phenomena demonstrably present in the texts themselves.

When left unchecked, aggression in childhood, such as fighting and teasing, has been linked to academic problems, peer rejections, and poor mental health in adulthood.

Bad parenting can cause a lot of problems such as academic challenges, delinquency, depression and so on.

Parents need to take the long view of social problems and to map out a plan to solve them quite as carefully and thoughtfully as they would consider academic or health problems.

It is absolutely wonderful and valuable to expose kids to all kinds of learning environments and academic opportunities from birth on, but assuring you're there to provide guidance (not control) as they learn to socially interact, problem solve and resolve conflict is paramount.

Your teen's academic downturn might have a root problem that's a bit more serious, such as a learning disorder.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

They tend to have better academic results, fewer emotional and behavioral problems, and lower rates of incarceration as they mature.

If your child does have a learning disability, it's important to seek help for him as soon as possible before the disability or disorder has the opportunity to stymie his academic advancement and create psychosocial problems.

Children with learning challenges, attention problems, academic weaknesses, constant agitation, irritability or defiance have behaviors that place greater demands on you as the coaching and teaching parent.

The good news is that with early intervention, special education, and tutoring, the risk of cognitive and academic problems can be reduced, as can the severity of a learning disability.

It serves as a way to explore a real world problem in an interdisciplinary way, involving other academic areas as well as creative problem solving.

Academic work has analyzed (irregular) migration to Europe as a longstanding structural phenomenon (Sciortino 2010) and this has examined how outsourcing immigration controls has potentially been storing up problems.

As the Romanian Academy, an academic forum, stressed, the mining project is «not a solution for sustainable development and does not solve the economic and social problems in the region».

The city school district is setting up programs as early as pre-kindergarten to try to ensure fewer students have the academic problems that lead to academic failure and dropping out.

China's universities will have to overcome a host of problems, such as inconsistent standards and academic culture, to continue improving.

As for Pierron, he plans to return to France after his postdoc, where he hopes the newly elected government will implement policies to address the problems in the academic sector.

The fact that Israeli scientists must spend time abroad before successfully launching an academic career at home provides a particularly stark illustration of a problem that appears to exist in the United States as well, if less obviously: Women with husbands and children often find it far harder than comparable men to move in pursuit of career opportunities.

The result is a commentary article in the May 2015 issue of the journal Academic Medicine, where Holleman and two colleagues present MD Anderson as a case study illustrative of a broader national trend and encourage other institutions to address what the authors identify as the faculty morale problem.

This made it easy to solve our looming two - body problem: I was ready and willing to give up the academic career track as soon as the opportunity presented itself.

As well as the core tasks of overseeing copyediting, proofreading, and putting issues together, a great deal of my time is spent communicating with authors, freelancers, typesetters, printers, academic editors, and internal colleagues: answering their queries, dealing with any problems that arise, supplying feedback, reporting on progresAs well as the core tasks of overseeing copyediting, proofreading, and putting issues together, a great deal of my time is spent communicating with authors, freelancers, typesetters, printers, academic editors, and internal colleagues: answering their queries, dealing with any problems that arise, supplying feedback, reporting on progresas the core tasks of overseeing copyediting, proofreading, and putting issues together, a great deal of my time is spent communicating with authors, freelancers, typesetters, printers, academic editors, and internal colleagues: answering their queries, dealing with any problems that arise, supplying feedback, reporting on progress.

The problem, as he saw it, was that the explosion of scientific knowledge had coincided with the implosion of academic medicine under the ecocomic pressures of a costly health - care system.

I admire... the extraordinary imagination and courage that led Einstein, as a 26 - year - old without an academic position, to understand that a problem that everybody else thought was about electrodynamics actually stemmed from a misunderstanding of the nature of time.

As for the challenges I face through my job, they often have to do with the discrepancy between the interests of industrialists and academics, the first being preoccupied with short - term issues while the others are turned on by longer - term problems.

Both groups face academic stress, relationship issues, financial problems, and social transitions, as friends frequently graduate and move away.

Co-author Professor Angus Kirkland, from the Department of Materials at Oxford University and Science Director at the new electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, described the breakthrough as an exemplar of how Oxford is able to respond to key academic and industrial problems by using interdisciplinary resources and expertise.

One respondent encapsulated this: «I believe the problem has worsened as research has become driven by more outside forces than by true academic need - to - know.

Although children with these conditions are at higher risk for reduced school performance and academic attainment, there are other problems that they can encounter as a result.

A national school - based mental health program that is now reaching almost one quarter of all elementary school students in Chile appears to have produced significant improvements in both behavioral and academic outcomes, such as attention problems and school attendance, among participating students.

Sher and McNeil identify the cultural reluctance of academic institutions to hire couples — either simultaneously or in tandem — as one of the primary problems.

While Gladstone sees the move as a way to tap into venture philanthropy to advance projects too risky for pharmas and too early for VCs, other academic organizations see more problems than solutions in taking the for - profit route.

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