Sentences with phrase «change at an individual level»

The initiative was devised by environmental group WildAid as part of its 5 To Do Today campaign, which, like Meat Free Monday, is trying to effect environmental change by encouraging people to make changes at an individual level.

The BES has two main elements: one is a large online panel element, using the same respondents in multiple waves so that they can track change at an individual level.

The authors caution that they used several sets of data, involving different people, so were not able to track changes at the individual level, nor were they able to account for physical activity levels.

So, how do we effect change at an individual level and which direction should we move towards?

To give female leaders the skills to push for these changes at an individual level, Columbia's programme coaches them on the power of strategic networking and on the importance of storytelling, or how to communicate and pitch ideas in a compelling way.

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It's efficiencies like these that make Rose think he and the 100,000 other individuals who compose Canada's plastics business — 400 of whom work at Layfield — are effecting real change in a sector not always known for boasting high levels of innovation.

The study looked at the level of well - being in the workplace for 3,113 individuals worldwide and found that the overall level of workplace satisfaction changes by region.

Senator Cory Booker introduced a new bill on Tuesday that would legalize marijuana at the federal level while encouraging individual states to change their marijuana laws, or else be deprived of federal funds.

Dreams have the power to change the world, at both an individual and societal level.

However true that may be at an individual level, it does not change the fact that the America described by Tocqueville is well and truly dead.

Currently, individuals have no ownership over their future Social Security benefits, and the level of benefits can be changed by Congress at any time.

There is one system which must be replaced, but there are also various different levels of change and varying times at which changes need to be implemented, not to mention the very many different places in which the changes will take place and the individuals in each of those places who will be working together to achieve that goal.

As cultures and circumstances change, roles tend to change along with them — both at the societal level and the individual level.

Thought # 2 — The church must always make as part of it's regular «ritual» (for lack of a better word) reflection of where it was at on a individual level before they were changed.

The cultural changes that Fuchs and Reklis have in mind are increasing individualism, growing preoccupation with individual fulfillment, wider tolerance for divorce as a solution to marital problems, and more general acceptance at all social levels of the high rates of out - of - wedlock births and single parenthood.

NP's criticism does that and allows folk like me (and you, judging from your statement about involvement at many levels in Vineyard) time and space to ponder a third step: how to help the individuals WE know who realise that change is necessary, to affect that change.

The modest aggregate changes masked more noteworthy shifts at the individual company level.

«Some of the changes that are needed lie within the remit of individual business owners — at both farm and processing levels — while other challenges must be dealt with at industry level,» comments Dr Mike Johnston, NI director of Dairy UK.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.

As individuals, by working in our communities, and by supporting climate policy, we can effect dramatic positive change at the community level.

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This approach allows us to implement environmental change at the appropriate level and means that rather than forcing our will on individuals and communities, we empower them to take ownership, and thus responsibility for the work, thus creating sustainable change.

Celia Weaver, research and policy director at New York Communities for Change (NYCC), a progressive organization that frequently critiques de Blasio on housing, homelessness and other issues, told Observer the mayor is measuring the poverty level of individuals who make $ 32,000 a year or below but that his housing plan does not account for that.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

He also looked at the impact of behavioral changes that individuals would willingly adopt in the event of an epidemic — such as avoiding public spaces, limiting leisure activities and working at home — in connection with varying levels of intervention.

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

In addition, the community's experience with the recent decrease in the rate at which NIH can pay individual's salaries, from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($ 199,700) in FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary support.

Glen Hood, a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame and lead author of the paper, said, «Our study has impacted our understanding of evolution by suggesting that change in individual lineages can reverberate through different trophic levels of an ecosystem and increase community - level biodiversity.»

While the overall amount of plant cover at various levels was stable over the period, the distribution of individual species changed markedly.

Snazzy online calculators and mapping tools that accompany the new model enable users to tweak a number of variables, including gas prices and environmental costs, and see how the nation's energy future might change, at the level of individual counties.

«While several lipid families are well - characterized at the molecular level, the total diversity and number of unique lipids in cells, how they change during cellular activation, and how they differ in individuals is unknown,» said Darley - Usmar.

Unfortunately, the premier model for diversification at the university level has, in general, not been based on an institutional model for change, but rather on the individual.

Researchers here are cataloguing what makes cancer cells dangerous down at the level of individual genetic changes, how and why pathogens like malaria evolve to be more (or less) harmful and how humans adapt to those changes.

By utilizing paired genome - wide high - throughput DNA sequencing (DNA - seq) with RNA - seq, we found that gene dosage, at the level of individual genes or chromosomal «somy» (a general term covering disomy, trisomy, tetrasomy, etc.), accounted for greater than 85 % of total gene expression variation in genes with a 2-fold or greater change in expression.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

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Honest, thought - provoking and practical, these posts are intended to inspire change and growth at both the individual and organizational level.

In the world of schooling, the majority of highly successful turnaround cases seem to be those where an individual educator had not only the right idea about instruction, but also the tenacity to bend or break those rules that would have prevented meaningful changes at the school level.

It's reassuring to hear that you're using Teacher content to inform your teaching practice and to initiate change at an individual and whole school level.

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»

The course, which includes metrics to assess progress at both the individual and collective levels (for those participating as part of a group), will help participants apply Kegan and Lahey's psychological theory about personal change to improvement goals of their own.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

Because the federal government can't simply mandate a focus on knowledge, change will need to occur piecemeal, at the state, school district or individual school level.

But successful and sustained implementation of any curriculum can be challenging at times because it involves change at both the individual and organizational level.

The report says that moderation is applied at the level of individual exam units - but the need for a change emerged later, at the level of the full qualification.

Better resources, better development, better leadership at the school level, better instructional collaboration, better school culture... I am not a teacher basher so please don't put me in that light, I was a teacher, I was school principal and all the teachers I know want their profession to be elevated to a more respected level (which I agree should be at a more prestigious level within our society) but those individuals understand in order to grow as a individual and profession things must change for them.

The program targets system - wide change at the individual, classroom, school, and community levels, reaching out to parents and community members for involvement and support.

This focus served to further direct the districts» teachers toward implementing change at the level of individual classroom practice, rather than in contexts beyond the classroom.

In her comprehensive and detailed examination of the complex and dynamic nature of the African continent, Professor Maathai offers both «hard - headed hope» and «realistic options» for change and improvement, and analyses the most egregious «bottlenecks to development in Africa» occurring at the international, national, and individual levels — cultural upheaval, environmental degradation, and enduring poverty, among others.