Sentences with phrase «assumptions about these characteristics»

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

In 1980, Knowles made 4 assumptions about the characteristics of adult learners (andragogy) that are different from the assumptions about child learners (pedagogy).

Not exact matches

Thanks for talking about assumptions, Anna, as many marketers are building buyer personas around these obvious characteristics of their buyers... attributes that anyone could guess and therefore have little value.

Moreover, many Americans have become concerned about the indifference toward values and behavior that was so characteristic of the Great Society thrust, the aversion to holding persons responsible for those actions that precipitated their own dependence, the assumption that «society» is to blame for all the misfortune in the world.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

«Our findings caution us to challenge assumptions about the murder of children and encourage us to pay close attention to specific deficits, characteristics and situations that put children at risk.»

The data, they say, will help them assess how people perceive and react to dogs based on preconceptions about breed characteristics — for example, the assumption that German shepherds are strong and brave, that golden retrievers are always good with kids, or that Jack Russell terriers have a Napoleon complex.

The best mainstream research — studies that reflect the consensus of experts in such fields as child development, education, and neuroscience — shows that most longstanding difficulties in defining and treating LD stem from inaccurate assumptions about their causes and characteristics.

All the other characteristics of a PLC flow directly from this epic shift in assumptions about the purpose of the school.

Both studies infer that it's impossible to make assumptions about a dog based solely on one or two characteristics alone.

She also draws attention to two other factors that can, at times, govern the interpretation of a female artist's work by the academe: the «assumption that women's work is going to be about themselves» and the fact that, in art historical literature, «technical or formal characteristics of certain types of works are assumed to be feminine: smallness of scale; lightweight; delicacy; sewing; craft.»

Is this point only about the radiative characteristics of the H2O vapour, and the assumption that relative and / or specific humidity should rise thanks to CO2 - induced increased evaporation, which in turn would increase downwelling heat radiation — or just the part that slightly hotter surface (due to CO2) also emits more heat to be trapped by the vater vapour?

This is an important point to make, given the unfortunate assumptions that are made by the establishment about these various characteristics.