Sentences with phrase «by social factors»

This research indicates that the use of mobile phone is a personal matter which is strongly affected by social factors and processes.

The finding bolsters the idea that desire for a partner is more influenced by social factors, van Anders said, while solitary desire is more innate.

In the context of his multi-modal biopsychosocial paradigm, which distinguishes the motivational states of threat vs. challenge, he shed new light on a broad range of issues in social and health psychology by combining cardiac measures with measures of thoracic resistance, allowing him to illuminate the physiological underpinnings of threat and challenge and their modulation by social factors.

That is to say that we can't understand climate change in terms of pure material science: it's impacts are determined primarily by social factors, and only then by the material nature of the phenomenon.

The effects of climate on human society, and our ability to mitigate and adapt to them, are mediated by social factors, including gender.

USC education professor Morgan Polikoff also acknowledged that growing performance disparities could be caused by social factors.

Thus physical dependence on caffeine is less complicated by the social factors that reinforce nicotine and other drug habits.

As with so many issues related to the sexes, cause of death is determined much more by social factors than by biology (small graphs).

Thus the higher levels of stress hormones in alpha males, the team contends, are probably due to the stress of expending the energy necessary to stay competitive and on top of the hierarchy, whereas low - ranking males are stressed out by social factors such as being the targets of aggression by alpha males.

We know heart disease and diabetes can be influenced, but we don't often recognize how much rates of infectious disease can be influenced by social factors.»

Not exact matches

Parrot measures popularity by looking at Demand Expressions, a measure which (lacking ratings from Netflix, which doesn't release them) combines data on file sharing, social chatter, Wiki activity, fan ratings, and other factors.

A society is most productive when all its talent is unleashed by a combination of two factors: equal opportunity (for example through free quality higher education) and social mobility.

It is leading the way by integrating environmental, social and governance factors into its investment decisions.

Although they will not be displayed on your website or social media platforms, they will be read by search engines, which will factor them in when computing your search rankings.

«The search history, social network, personal preferences, geography and a number of other factors influence the information found by the searcher,» study author Harald Holone wrote in a summary of his findings.

In Michigan, the Michigan Pathways to Better Health (MPBH) program, implemented by the Michigan Public Health Institute and the Michigan Department of Community Health, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of health.

Social media assets can be qualitatively included on the balance sheet via the asset category, or also by the goodwill category, but regardless, these approaches require healthy skepticism that factors in disengagement or overlap.

Other search engines continue to have a difficult time matching the relevancy algorithm Google has created by examining a number of factors such as social media, inbound links, fresh content, etc..

One of the most important factors driven by social media is brand awareness.

The iShares MSCI USA ESG Select Social Index Fund tracks an index of 250 companies with high environmental, social and governance (ESG) factor scores as calculated bySocial Index Fund tracks an index of 250 companies with high environmental, social and governance (ESG) factor scores as calculated bysocial and governance (ESG) factor scores as calculated by MSCI.

It's well known that hunger isn't only driven by physical needs but cognitive factors and social factors as weel.

Overall, our work suggests that stability in financial markets might be improved by considering how social, environmental and procedural factors such as the release of important financial information may impact the hormone levels of traders participating in those markets, and therefore could be of benefit to policymakers intent on developing more efficient institutions.

Step 2: Listen to the 241st episode of Social Zoom Factor podcast for step by step directions for how to use the 2018 content calendar template.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

Research into how se - xual orientation in males may be determined by genetic or other prenatal factors plays a role in political and social debates about ho - mose - xuality, and also raises concerns about genetic profiling and prenatal testing.»

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

Meanwhile his social usefulness can best be measured by the degree to which he is capable of using the liberating factors in the media and bringing them to fruition.

This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.

For it is caused by inevitable historical development as well as by intellectual, theological and social factors.

Social scientific interest in the «religion factor» has increased greatly in the last quarter century, and we have assiduous monitoring by such as George Gallup and his Princeton Religion Research Center.

Instead of being left to rely on deductive theoretical formulations about the economic or political interests served by ideologies, we are offered attempts to spell out a credible set of social factors that relate the actual producers and disseminators of ideas with their social environment, with interested audiences, and with sequences of action that put ideas into effect.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

In any case, we can largely understand prophetic man in terms of two factors: the total physical, social, and historical context in which he lived and his personal will as that by which he transcended that context and determined the form his life would take within it.

Both groups were assessed by social workers every six months on various factors to do with personality and social adjustment.

Such a concern that social justice receive equal billing in the church's missionary task is motivated by two factors - the Biblical and the pragmatic.

One of the «four factors which decisively govern the fate of social groups» according to his analysis, is «the iron compulsion of nature that the bodily necessities of food, clothing and shelter be provided».20 Whitehead continues: «The rigid limits which are thereby set to modes of social existence can only be mitigated by the growth of an understanding by which the interplay between man and the rest of nature can be adjusted.»

It does not help to undermine the expereince of men who have suffered such by describe it as «occasional» or to claim that such does not carry as much weight due to hisorical and social factors.

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

But by far the greater factor in the transmission of sin is our embeddedness within a ready - made social system.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

Factors in the struggle of a people to exist as a corporate body are set forth in the four - function paradigm of Talcott Parsons.10 Although the adequacy of his analysis is challenged by other theories, especially those focused upon social change, 11 Parsons's model provides a useful delineation of the actions implicated in a group's toil to perpetuate itself.

Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors.

So, while it is too simple to simply claim people are «born that way» (sexuality doesn't emerge until adolescence), of the potential factors — genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences — the first three are going to be determined before birth by the genetic and chemical characteristics of the individual.

Pushed out of the argument because it is so impossibly incorrect is The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which argued that IQ and other factors crucial to social success are genetically determined and are unequally distributed among racial groups.

Many of my students insisted that their political attitudes were informed by an untainted reading of Scripture and unsusceptible to bias — that is, social factors that influence our attitudes beyond our awareness.

-- The growth drive is diminished in many persons by a variety of factors including emotional malnutrition, toxic relationships, economic deprivation, social oppression, and their own fear of and resistance to growth.

Horwitz is surely correct that the bringing of the case, the decision, and the ferocity of discussion both before and after, have been influenced by at least two social factors.

The growth of the French packaging industry will be heavily influenced by changing demographics and social factors such as a high employment rate and a large aging population, which have a clear impact on consumer spending power and purchasing habits...

Results from studies that only assess consumer preferences for different labelling systems, may be affected by other factors, including people's familiarity with a particular system and social desirability associated with particular responses, such as choosing the system that is seen to portray the most information.