Sentences with phrase «basis of being human»

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Meanwhile, human resources is an area of business which is filled with core duties that must be handled on a daily basis, but can prove a huge burden if an employee is trying to juggle these tasks with their other work commitments.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

To segment humans into potential customers, create a profile of who your target customer base is.

But shortly afterward, two individuals — Abadi Gebremeskel and Legesse Berh — joined the endless stream of refugees arriving at Tigray, Ethiopia, and were subsequently interviewed by London - based Human Rights Concern Eritrea.

«Ultimately, we'll be able to develop machines that are based on the principles of operation of the human brain and that have the complexity of human intelligence,» he says.

«Tomes of studies show human beings typically make decisions based on emotions first (Pathos); then, we look for the facts and figures to justify it (Logos).

LinkedIn and Workday, the cloud - based human resources company, are among a growing roster of companies using Pure's flash storage.

«Oftentimes the company will just have an answering machine in human resources with a dedicated phone number, but 90 percent of the time it's ineffective and employees don't use it,» says George Ramos, a managing partner and senior executive investigator at Diversified Risk Management (DRM), a Downey, California - based firm that handles corporate security and investigations.

When university - based researchers conduct any kind of research on human beings, they are required to adhere to pretty strict standards for research ethics.

«I think it's real tough for anybody to go out and start a business in a world he knows nothing about,» says Tom Golisano, the founder and CEO of Paychex Inc., an $ 870 - million payroll - processing and human - resource - services company based in Rochester, N.Y. «My advice to Mike would be to find a job in a dynamic industry and then to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities within that industry.

The idea, which was primarily based on the research of psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey, quickly took off — and went on to greatly influence the way we think about emotions and human behavior.

But refusal to accommodate this particular disability wouldn't need to be based in a repressive Victorian view of human sexuality.

It's human nature that we estimate our longevity based on the longevity of our parents, or grandparents.

And of those 3 billion base pairs, only a tiny amount are unique to us, making us about 99.9 % genetically similar to the next human.

But if the workplace is the definite cause, then employees are entitled to protection under the Canadian Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.

«This is a case of pandering to the very basest of human curiosity,» he told Reuters, expecting a favorable verdict to demonstrate «there is still privacy in the modern world.»

The focus of the objects is sharpened based on where you, the human, is looking.

One of the big limiting factors in plaguing future space missions is lifting off from Earth with all the supplies, fuel, spacecraft and equipment humans would need to establish a permanent lunar base or field a Mars mission.

«The legal issues of technology are and probably will always be in flux,» Chicago - based human - resources attorney and counselor Charles Krugel tells me via email.

«Especially during tough economic periods, it's important to give people face time and basic human appreciation on a regular basis,» says Debra Condren, a business psychologist and founder of Manhattan Business Coaching in New York City.

Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

The latter approach yields remarkable results, according to Calgary - based entrepreneur Suzanne West, who runs Imaginea Energy and pals around with the likes of Richard Branson: «Service - based leaders — people who value diversity, inclusion, kindness, compassion, collaboration, integration, intuition, personal development, all the beautiful parts of being a human — are more powerful than those who use command - and - control,» she says.

Depeche Mode was particularly pivotal in blurring the line between what we know as «synth» music and rock — processing guitars through giant, modular synths so it was hard to tell the difference between what was human - made and what was a computer, and perhaps more important, bringing the blues - based, brooding, masculine energy of»60s and»70s rock into the mix.

Jolie's film is based on the memoirs of human rights activist Loung Ung, who fled her childhood home in Cambodia during a deadly four - year Communist regime, known as the Khmer Rouge years.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British - based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed including some fighters of various nationalities, a reference to Iranian - backed Shiite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.

The amount of Cook's contribution to the Washington - based Human Rights Campaign wasn't disclosed, but the advocacy organization called it «substantial.»

In a terrific 1985 book, To Engineer is Human — The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski argues that every structure that engineers build is a hypothesis — an educated guess to the effect that «yes, indeed, this bridge is strong enough to bear the weight of all that traffic on a daily basis.»

Unfortunately, clearly and logically explaining the basis of any behavior, emotion, or sensation is never simple, no matter how primal the human experience in question may seem.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

The collection of that data — the genetic sequences of 160,000 citizens, along with their medical and genealogical records — was made possible by the Icelandic government, and the storage and analysis of that data was overseen by deCode, a Reykjavík - based human genetics outfit that, since its founding in 1996, had struggled to stay afloat financially.

«The human is wrong so freaking often, it's a massacre,» said the co-founder of Athenahealth, which sells cloud - based electronic health records software to hospitals and doctors» offices.

PERTH - based Genesis Biomedical Ltd and German biotechnology group co.don are investigating the feasibility of establishing an Asia Pacific joint venture company to supply human tissue engineering and transplantation products and services for musculo - s...

Hired is essentially a job matchmaker, which sources top software engineers in a region, and matches the candidates and companies on its platform using a mixture of algorithm and human curation based on each party's needs.

If you look at some of the most profound accomplishments in human history, many of them are based on faith: someone took a step towards their goal without being able to clearly see the entire path ahead of them.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

The health care sector consists of drug companies, medical supply companies, and other scientific - based operations that are concerned with improving and healing human life.

ROWE is the brainchild of Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, two former Best Buy employees, who later founded CultureRx, a Minneapolis - based human resources consulting firm.

Using advances in genomic sequencing, the human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies, HLI is building the world's most comprehensive database of human genotypes and phenotypes as a basis for a variety of commercialization opportunities to help solve aging related disease and human biological decline.

Managers of these funds, which are based on a relatively new approach, believe that human behavior leads to certain market inefficiencies that they can take advantage of to get a superior return.

«I'm impressed at the human capital in the room,» said Erich Reinhardt, vice president of advisor relations for Loring Ward, a San Jose, Calif., - based all - DFA RIA with $ 700 million in AUM.

«Any such decision is based on the activities and recommendations of all involved personnel, and on the applicable human resources policies and practices.

A robo advisor is an online wealth management service that provides automated, algorithm - based portfolio management advice without the use of human financial planners.

Suicide is such an intensely personal act that it seems, from a human perspective, impossible to make such accurate predictions based on a crude set of data.

Ethiopia, which has been accused of human rights violations, previously acquired surveillance systems from Germany - based Gamma International's FinFisher and Italy - based Hacking Team's Remote Control System.

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

We WANT to believe we're logical human beings making decisions about others based off of their past actions and other things «more important» than looks.

Also available is HR Tools that offers a variety of human resource management tools including a web - based time clock, employee records, employee onboarding, and E-Sign and E-Verify options.

In determining the recently released annual Best Workplaces in Canada list, «the judging panel is the employees, and the rest of the results are based on a company's human resource practices,» says Jose Tolovi Neto, director of the Great Place to Work Institute Canada.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.