Sentences with phrase «between living systems»

It requires interaction between living systems and living persons.

Not exact matches

Funding going toward companies related to the microbiome — the trillions of bacteria that live primarily in our digestive system — increased more than 400 % between 2011 and 2015 and was up this year despite overall venture funding being down.

Search traffic also increased between the November 2016 election and the January 2017 inauguration for two additional countries: France, which has the best overall healthcare system in the world, according to the World Health Organization, and Belize, which offers one of the lowest costs of living in the Caribbean.

The intelligence services recognized the threat to Marxist regimes that John Paul represented because, as John Gaddis pointed out, he exposed «the disparities between what people believed and the systems under which the Cold War obliged them to live.»

We live today with the new realities of the twentieth century, a century that has separated procreation from sexual activity, stretched the time between puberty and marriage to ten years or more, removed the chaperon system, and to a large degree taken away the fear of infection.

There is, of course, a significant difference between the life of the Church and the structure of our economic system.

That we should be considered lucky that we live in a government that has a systems of checks and balances between having a democracy while also have means of staving off certain democratic factions against certain minorities.

Given the continuous nature of the natural hierarchy, any effort to demarcate between living natural systems (those above a specific level of complexity) and nonliving systems (those below that level) is a totally arbitrary procedure.

Certainly other factors are at play here, from low levels of education to strong kinship systems, but it's likely that Christian and Muslim teachings celebrating the generation of life and customs and rituals honoring the sacrifices of fathers and mothers play a role in accounting for the close connection between fertility and faith around the globe.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

Another is a key distinction between the economic system under which we live, and the economic theory which seeks to explain it.

But once the totalitarian system fell to pieces, solidarity — as well as the Solidarity movement — began to collapse, and divisions between dissidents began to determine political life.

He points out that in between the material on the one hand and the mental on the other «there lie the concepts of life, organism, function, instantaneous reality, interaction, order of nature, which collectively form the Achilles» heel of the whole system» (84).

His duty is to so direct his own affairs and so to have regard for all other creatures as to develop a future in which there is peace not only between man and man but between man and animal and between man and the whole delicate system of relations that makes the earth a cradle of life.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

Are we prepared to undertake the rigorous examination of parish, family and personal life styles called for in a world of scarcity, and as a Christian community to make a serious effort to understand and confront the systems which perpetuate the problem of separation between the rich and the poor?

For Piaget, as for his predecessors, the living organism was the prototype of a holistic structure and the connecting link between, on the one hand, physical - chemical systems and, on the other hand, the thinking subject (S 40).

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

As Whitehead allowed cognition to be grounded in real prehensions, which occur between a subject and its object world, so also it was for Piaget: the «epistemic» subject, as an organism, previously an «open system» which simply lives in interaction with its environment, acts — and finally, thinks (BC 477).

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

Yet there was a contrast between those mainly oriented to political action (still, in a way, oriented to means rather than ends, though it was the means to overthrow the existing system) and those mainly concerned with the actual creation of alternative patterns of living.

Among those who shared this general analysis there was a division between those who placed emphasis on overthrowing the present system as a necessary precondition for the realization of a more human society and those who emphasized the present embodiment of a new style of life «in the pores,» so to speak, of the old society.

In subsequent passage, however, he adds that it is possible to conceive «an infinite number of degrees» between matter and fully developed spirit: «Each of these successive degrees, which measures a growing intensity of life, corresponds to a higher tension of duration and is made manifest externally by a greater development of the sensory - motor system» (MM 296, Cf. also MM 332).

It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop - lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on.

With our technology, we can help farmers build a complete system, capable of working in a variety of environments, where a balance can be struck between the life of the pen and the cost of it.»

The Good Food Festival educates the public about sustainable agriculture and Good Food systems, fosters lasting connections between farmers, food producers, and consumers, and inspires everyone to incorporate Good Food into their lives!

This comparison looks at how the two systems impact on five factors: • the positive or negative involvement of fathers in children's and women's lives • wider attitudes about the roles and responsibilities of fathers • equality between women and men and their human rights • the child's right to know his or her natural parents • practicability

The AAP says each formula - fed infant costs the healthcare system between $ 331 and $ 475 more than a breastfed baby in its first year of life.

The study's participants included 640 babies who were between 4 and 11 months old, since peanut allergy usually begins very early in life and 4 - 11 months is a significant age for the development of the immune system.

Waring is critical throughout the book (not just in relation to breastfeeding) of the fact that the international economic system «makes no distinction between creative (or life - enhancing) and destructive production and consumption.

These additional health care services cost the managed care health system between $ 331 and $ 475 per never - breastfed infant during the first year of life... In addition to having more illnesses, formula - fed infants cost the health care system money.

An effective bus system can help overcome the mismatch between the places where lower skilled people live and where the jobs they seek are located.

As much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming it.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«I think if you look at the debate last night, there is just a gulf between what David Cameron stands for and what I stand for — in terms of values, in terms of internationalism, in terms of fairness, in terms of progressive tax reform, in terms of political reform, in terms of simply living in denial, as does Labour, about a major problem of their creation in the immigration system.»

Unfortunately, this would reverse improvements made by Uber and others to our transportation system and most notably, stand between New Yorkers looking for work and their opportunity to make a better living.»

The Earth's climate system is characterised by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).

In Buddhist Biology, David Barash highlights parallels between these empirical systems of thought, and suggests that together they can show us how to live

In combination with a second, DNA - based method, the system can even distinguish between dead and living Legionella pathogens.

The distinction between far - from - equilibrium dissipative systems and near - equilibrium features is clearer than the traditional boundaries that people put on life and non-life.

Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef system in Curaçao, Smithsonian explorers defined a new ocean - life zone, the rariphotic, between 130 and 309 meters (about 400 to 1,000 feet) below the surface.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

Participants also underwent testing of their ability to suppress a response and their cognitive flexibility that allows them to switch back and forth between different tasks — both crucial capabilities in everyday life (employing the Delis - Kaplan Executive Function System Color - Word Interference Test).

A core component of the system is a secure, web - based video platform that facilitates live, interactive consultations and follow - up visits between patients and sleep medicine clinicians.

«In the gut, you have a barrier between the immune system and the bacteria that live there.

«We believe this new field of «living» materials and devices will find important applications at the interface between engineering and biological systems.»

The living mulch system uses a perennial plant between rows of crops.

«This finding makes a deep connection between the physics of inert granular matter such as sand and the geometry of multicellular living systems,» said lead author Lior Atia, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at Harvard Chan School.

Many organic molecules needed for life could even have formed below the ocean floor from interactions between minerals and circulating hot water driven these hydrothermal ven systems.

«When we eat fatty foods, our body's response is coordinated between our digestive organs, our nervous system, and the microbes living in our gut,» explained Farber.