Sentences with phrase «behavior of large systems»

Using terms more easily understood by our technological - industrialized generation, Illich speaks of the «counter intuitive behavior of large systems» and the «self - reinforcing loop of negative feedback.»

Not exact matches

Our entire system of food and drink is, to a large extent, the product of unexamined consumer behavior — unexamined by the consumer, that is.

Social morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political systems.

«They are making a mockery of the system,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who sponsored the bill as part of a larger push for legislation to close loopholes that he argues reward bad behavior.

Adds senior author Mark Ilgen, Ph.D., «These results highlight the importance of addressing provider behaviors in our efforts to address the opioid epidemic, and the need for large health systems to develop and implement systematic approaches that are flexible enough to allow clinicians to make individual decisions while still reducing the overall prevalence of potentially risky prescribing.»

Drawing insights from the behavior of other complex systems, the trio has created a novel simulator that can mimic the largest blackouts that a power grid is likely to experience.

The swimming bio-bot project is part of a larger National Science Foundation - supported Science and Technology Center on Emergent Behaviors in Integrated Cellular Systems, which also produced the walking bio-bots developed at Illinois in 2012.

Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions.

The idea is that small variations in the initial conditions of a dynamical system produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.

A study of how a monetary system can change behavior finds that filthy lucre may have been crucial for the evolution of large human populations.

But the new transcripts are just the tip of the iceberg, according to supporters, part of a larger movement to do away with a system where kids can progress through grades or courses without really understanding material and be promoted for seat time and good behavior.

MDRC invites providers of training in multi-tiered systems of supports for behavior (MTSS - B) to submit proposals to participate in a large - scale, random assignment evaluation.

All of Tom's experiences ground his understanding of behavior issues within schools as well as the systems - level challenges of implementing a large initiative and framework.

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

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At that facility, I established obedience and dog behavior training classes and developed a comprehensive dog - behavior evaluation system to socialize and integrate large groups of dogs appropriately and with minimal stress.

This behavior usually warrants no reason for concern, but there are situations where a large mass of hair can not be passed through the cat's digestive system, inevitably causing a life - threatening blockage.

Accordingly, the book is very wide ranging topically, covering issues from the discovery of the puzzling roots of cholera's epidemiology, to the effects of large storms on the behavior of the insurance industry, to the social disruptions arising from hurricanes and warfare, to the roots of the problems with the global economic system — and much in between.

Again, there is no solid evidence for any weirdness, special sensitivity of climate to the sun, or large solar variations, but instead a generally good match to expected behavior of the climate system.

Since you elected not to address the issue of models capability to represent critically - important glaciation - deglaciation episodes, now I have developed an impression that certain climate scentists have to learn a lot more about possibilities that are hidden in behavior of a large and complex dynamical system.

The actual chaotic behavior of Earth's climate system is much closer to the behavior of a Rayleigh - Beynard cell, which can be seen in the rather highly structured Hadley, Ferrel, and Polar cells that usually govern the large - scale circulation in the troposphere.

So if you want to understand the average behavior of that system you need to sample at a much larger spatial scale over larger time intervals than was previously appreciated.

We could, of course, hit some bifurcation in the system where we lose all the summer Arctic sea ice or the Amazon forest, which is bad enough, and could possibly transition the climate to a different «solution» on a hysteresis diagram... this to me would represent more of a step-wise jump (akin to a larger bifurcation that you get in a snowball Earth as you gradually reduce CO2 or the solar constant); but ultimately these represent different behavior than «the interannual variability of the large scale dynamics will increase» or that for some reason the climate should be susceptible to more «flip flops» (as in the glacial Heinrich / D - O events), of which I am aware of no observational or theoretical support.

Rather, large complex systems may be better understood, and perhaps only understood, in terms of observed, emergent behavior.

No falsifications of earth - shaking news - worthy large scale physical theories, but of at - the - time guiding theories for the behavior of certain systems within Inorganic Biochemistry.

Mandelbrot argues that stochastic behavior often arises in systems where large numbers of input variables affect the output and where small perturbations in some of the input variables can lead to large changes in the output.

I always try to keep in mind that whomever I'm working with, whether an individual or couple, is part of a larger system, and that this context defines and shapes their behaviors.

The Oregon Model of Behavior Family Therapy: From Intervention Design to Promoting Large - Scale System Change.

The Oregon model of behavior family therapy: From intervention design to promoting large - scale system change.

Preschool settings, Headstart, and other early childhood organizations use systems change research in order to expand the implementation of positive behavior support across a larger number of settings.

In Part 1 of this 2 - part article, I explained some of the basics of family systems: how they are powerful sources of support, how they seek stability above all else, how family roles are created, how they enforce behavior and secrets, how they are influenced by larger social systems (extended family members and society) and how they resist change — even positive change.

The values, rules and behaviors of these larger social systems strongly influence smaller family social systems.

My belief is that a symptom or behavior is often just a small part of a larger system with many interacting pieces.

Both levels of society, large community and close family group, give their own values to kids during their individual development, that gradually structure their system of belief and behavior, based on these teachings.