Sentences with phrase «basis for human development»

They do not substantively put in question the stability of the Earth system as a basis for human development — see Will Steffen's response.

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Rankings are based on four criteria: employment growth (25 %), median compensation (based on a 40 - hour workweek) in 2013 (40 %), the change in median compensation from 2007 — 08 to 2012 — 13 (10 %), and projected demand for those jobs using data from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (25 %).

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

after clarifying the validity of this evolving faith based on the material process, the big challenge now is for us humans a coresponding development in the spiritual aspect of our existence, though we are confident of His guidance through evolution, we with our limited insights and intellegence will be able to develop and come up with guide lines in our moral lives.

In Chapter Two, we considered the nature of consciousness in order to gain the basis for an understanding of the major stages of human development.

This is not to say that human beings are automatic machines, nor that cybernetics affords a complete model of man, but only that the development of computers provides a basis for the unprecedented exploration of the structure of the human mind and spirit in their universal aspects.

globalisation with a human face, global citizenship, sustainable development, good governance, consensus - building, global ethic, cultural diversity, cultural liberty, dialogue among civilizations, quality of life, quality education, education for all, right to choose, informed choice, informed consent, gender, equal opportunity, empowerment, NGOs, civil society, partnerships, transparency, bottom - up participation, accountability, holism, broad - based consultation, facilitation, inclusion, awareness - raising, clarification of values, capacity - building, women's rights, children's rights, reproductive rights, sexual orientation, safe abortion, safe motherhood, enabling environment, equal access, life skills education, peer education, bodily integrity, internalisation, ownership, bestpractices, indicators of progress, culturally sensitive approaches, secular spirituality, Youth Parliament, peace education, the rights of future generations, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, human security, precautionary principle, prevention...

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

This tells us that our human development in loving has for its basis the fact of our being physiologically and psychologically sexual creatures.

She found that the natural age for modern humans based on our size, development, and life span is between 2.5 years and 7 years.

Unlike parenting how - to manuals based on behavior modification, the Blueprint for Action is the most comprehensive document ever written on what is required for parents and society to create conditions that foster optimal human development from preconception through early childhood.

The second thing I found was from Brian Palmer DDS, who carried out pioneering dental research demonstrating the importance of breastfeeding for the proper development of the human species It is evidence - based research on why breastfeeding does not cause dental caries.

Community - based parent support programs differ from traditional human services parenting programs in both form and function1 For the purposes of this review, parent support programs are defined as community - based initiatives designed to promote the flow of resources and supports to parents that strengthen functioning and enhance the growth and development of young children.

This has included assessment of a nipple shield for PMTCT, introduction of mobile phone devices for supporting home - based perinatal care by midwives, and development of a safety monitoring system for low - tech human milk banks.

The IWD otherwise known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women's Rights and International Peace has since gained international recognition and celebrated world wide in different forms and even gained the status of a holiday in some countries such as Ukraine The day has also been marked under various themes encompassing peace and security, human rights, gender based violence, conflicts and hunger, education, gender equality, empowerment and affirmative actions, inclusion of woman in decision making, the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and many more.

We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»

In view of this, and also as part of government's strategy for the long - term development of a local human capital base fit for a changing world, we will grant relief from corporate income tax paid by privately - owned and managed universities to the extent that profits are ploughed back to expand or maintain facilities.

The organization has also assembled some 1,000 scientists, engineers and medical professionals at the ready to work on pro-bono basis to help non-profits and human rights organizations on issues as varied as studying the potential for oil development in Kenya by examining unique geological conditions and assessing the potential for detrimental effects on local water quality.

Through the Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity and with the support of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation officer's grant awarded in February 2005, AAAS has offered STEM human resource development consulting (on a cost - sharing basis).

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Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

For now, it embodies many of the issues that the Arab Human Development Report blamed for the region's intellectual malaise, among them lack of freedom and dysfunctional, authoritarian governments whose security services have too much say; the triumph of who - you - know advancement over merit - based promotion; and poor communication between researchers within the regiFor now, it embodies many of the issues that the Arab Human Development Report blamed for the region's intellectual malaise, among them lack of freedom and dysfunctional, authoritarian governments whose security services have too much say; the triumph of who - you - know advancement over merit - based promotion; and poor communication between researchers within the regifor the region's intellectual malaise, among them lack of freedom and dysfunctional, authoritarian governments whose security services have too much say; the triumph of who - you - know advancement over merit - based promotion; and poor communication between researchers within the region.

Mardinoglu says the team's network modeling approach, which relied on data from the Sweden - based Human Protein Atlas project and The Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) project consortia, can be used in the identification of drug targets and eventually in the development of efficient strategies for treating a number of chronic liver diseases.

«Our results are important because they support development of novel, oxytocin - based therapeutics for methamphetamine abuse in humans.»

«The existence of a motif means our predictive model can be based on a relatively simple mathematical formula rather than on more complex econometrics that try to account for all the different types of human behavior,» says González, the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).

The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.

«This study shows how translational research using basic science techniques in animal models can elucidate the underlying basis of human emotions and reasons for mental disorders, thereby pointing the way for treatment development,» says Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at CUIMC.

Ultimately, this knowledge will be useful for understanding the very early events in human development, which are reflected in the naïve and primed stem cell states, and could also lead to improved methods to reprogram human cells for stem cell - based therapies.

These findings could have implications for understanding the genetic basis of methamphetamine addiction in humans and the development of novel therapeutics for prevention and treatment of substance abuse and possibly other psychiatric disorders.

IDMIT will contribute 1) To the development and validation of assays based on flow cytometry and mass cytometry for the evaluation of immune responses in humans and animal models; these tools will be particularly relevant for the identification of signatures of vaccine efficacy; 2) To the animal model platform, in particularly by providing access to NHP models and to new technologies for in vivo imaging infections and host responses; 3) To networking activities, in particular by organising a workshop on in vivo imaging.

The Center, which collaborates with CiRA, is creating human, iPS - based disease models needed to accelerate drug development for a host of devastating for cardiovascular, viral and neurological illnesses.

Caribou recently cofounded Intellia Therapeutics for the development of human gene and cell therapies based on their proprietary CRISPR - Cas9 technology platform.

A full realisation of the medical potential of stem cells for human health will likely depend on a reinforcement of, and development of a whole continuum of studies ranging from those in vivo using model organisms, to cell - based therapies in the clinic.

Our Human Emulation System sets a new standard for recreating true - to - life human biology and is being used to advance product innovation, design, and safety across a range of applications including drug development, agriculture, cosmetics, chemical - based consumer products, and personalized heHuman Emulation System sets a new standard for recreating true - to - life human biology and is being used to advance product innovation, design, and safety across a range of applications including drug development, agriculture, cosmetics, chemical - based consumer products, and personalized hehuman biology and is being used to advance product innovation, design, and safety across a range of applications including drug development, agriculture, cosmetics, chemical - based consumer products, and personalized health.

In «normal» «base» low - levels (sufficiently low, but not extinguished either) IGF is very important for brain development, sexual development, growth development, reproductive development, neuronal maturation and survival... too many things - in humans.

We have completed the active phase of a Phase 1 trial of a Vaxwave ® - based vaccine against cytomegalovirus (CMV) and are finalizing clinical development plans for TheraT ® in Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)- related head and neck cancers.

LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.

The development of high - throughput screening methods such as array - based comparative genome hybridization (array CGH) allows screening of the human genome for copy - number changes.

ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are exprehuman autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expreHuman METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expressed.

There are a number of challenges inherent in the development of astrocyte - based treatments for human disease.

Reprogramming human somatic cells to pluripotency represents a valuable resource for the development of in vitro based models for human disease and holds tremendous potential for deriving patient - specific pluripotent stem cells.

Our Human Emulation System ™ sets a new standard for re-creating true - to - life human biology and is being used to advance product innovation, design, and safety across a range of applications including drug development, agriculture, cosmetics, food, and chemical - based consumer prodHuman Emulation System ™ sets a new standard for re-creating true - to - life human biology and is being used to advance product innovation, design, and safety across a range of applications including drug development, agriculture, cosmetics, food, and chemical - based consumer prodhuman biology and is being used to advance product innovation, design, and safety across a range of applications including drug development, agriculture, cosmetics, food, and chemical - based consumer products.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

Based on these advances in stem cell technology, Novocell has begun a development program to prepare its stem cell products for human clinical therapy.

Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., an associate director of CRI's Scientific Advisory Council based at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri, developed a new model of breast cancer that more closely resembles the progression of hormone receptor - positive disease in humans, overcoming a major obstacle in the study of breast cancer and the development of new immune - based therapies for the disease.

Catherine Priest, PhD, VP of Preclinical Development at Neurona, filed the first successful IND application for a human pluripotent stem cell - based therapeutic as a former Senior Director at Geron Corporation.

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«With the UK's expertise together with Newton Fund, both parties will enjoy the much - sought after cooperative tools for radio astronomy development in Thailand through matching funds, paired human resources or even equivalent coordinating contributions from both parties on an equal footing basis.»

«Tostan's mission is to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights,» Grossman says.

It's the reason I support African Initiatives, a small international development charity based in Bristol, which brings education, hope and human rights to remote rural communities — the kind of communities in which a girl is often seen as an extra mouth to feed until she is married off in exchange for cattle.»