Sentences with phrase «complex social systems»

Introduction to major theories of human development and application of these theories to understanding and improving the well being of children, adults, couples, and families within complex social systems.

Similarly to other large - brained members of the crow family with complex social systems, magpies are capable of sophisticated mental feats, such as mirror self - recognition, retrieval of hidden objects and remembering where and when they have hoarded what food item.

At issue is the usefulness of a 50 - year - old theory about the role of relatedness in the evolution of complex social systems like those of ants, bees, and humans.

-- that it's really hard to measure quality in complex social systems and that employing simplistic quantitative measures can backfire.

Both parts are needed to express the complex social system necessary to human liberty and flourishing.

A group of Columbia researchers, however, has just added to that knowledge base, publishing a new study that sheds light on how the complex social system evolved in the sea.

Sharpe and Emery's study focuses on Aguateca, Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan, capitals during the late Classic period (A.D 500 to 900) and indicates that the Maya had a complex social system regulating trade, food distribution and access to animal species.

While wolves» complex social system may have set them up for domestication, we can say very little about how they actually made the leap from wild predator to fireside friend.

Island foxes differ substantially from wolves, the species perhaps best known for its complex social system, strong pair bonds, and solicitous parental care.

A complex communication system is a sign of a complex social system, and scientists are just discovering that dolphins - intensely social creatures - use diplomacy when talking with one another.

Whenever you want to understand what's going on in a complex social system, these principles can help.

Not exact matches

This work yielded a number of different «clusters» of jobs, such as those that work intimately with other people (psychologists, social workers) and those that handle bugs in complex systems (epidemiologists).

«Fundamentally, we must abandon the idea that there is a specific standard to which we can control nature and instead understand that we are creating complex and increasingly difficult - to - control systems that are part social, part ecological and part technological.

While realizing it's literally impossible for an advisor or client to learn and retain all the rules and nuances of a system as complex as the Social Security retirement system, Cheryl was passionate about developing a training course and providing the ongoing support and expertise advisors need in order to solve even the most complex of Social Security claiming riddles.

With those resources, they have built a complex and comprehensive social safety net and emergency response system.

The progression from each stage to the next involves a process «of increasing differentiation and complexity of organization that endows the organism, social system, or whatever the unit in question may be with greater capacity to adapt to its environment than... its less complex ancestors.

each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

Though a seductive idea, it was finally killed off in the 1960s by the American social scientist Herbert Simon, who studied complex systems and concluded that it is in fact the simplest that tend to survive.

«Spin models are not only used in physics, but also to model other complex systems, such as neural networks, proteins or social networks.

«This work helps us understand the evolutionary history of eusocial and communally breeding social systems, which are socially more complex than pair - forming,» he added.

For example, management and political barriers often make it complex to build and share expensive, pan-European research facilities, and a patchwork of vastly different pension and social security systems can make moving across borders very impractical or financially unattractive.

In a synthesis of social science and natural science, Ball examines the evolution of complex human systems — markets, cultures, governments, and the like — using principles of physics.

In particular, he is interested in studying complex systems arising from emerging applications, such as brain networks, social behaviors, health and quantum mechanical systems.

«First, there is no single road map to eusociality — the complex, cooperative social system in which animals behave more like superorganisms than individuals fending for themselves,» said Gene Robinson, a lead on the study who is a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.

«The results indicated that changes in social relationships are dependent not only on two individuals, but significantly on third parties, which underscores the importance of structural balance theory in explaining the evolution of complex natural social systems,» Ilany said, who was a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University when the research was begun.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communsocial and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communSocial Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

Dynamics of social networks, Complex Adaptive Systems, Part I (8) 2, 24 - 27.

As the first people with HIV grow old, a new study from St. Michael's Hospital questions whether the health care system and other government policies are prepared to meet their complex medical and social needs.

«As it passes down a chain of individuals, social information that is initially random complex and very difficult to remember becomes a simple system of category stereotypes that can be learned easily.»

Hard systems engineering worked well for rocket science, but not for more complex social problems, Gu says: «We realized we needed to change our approach.»

And she wants to know how complex systems stay robust in the face of shocks, like the macaques with their own police force that acts as social glue.

NECSI's unified mathematically - based approach transcends the boundaries of physical, biological and social sciences, as well as engineering, management, and medicine (see Complex Systems Resources).

linking probabilistic simple climate models, complex Earth system models, and econometric analyses of historical weathering and climate impacts to project future risks associated with climate change and improve estimates of the social cost of carbon.

Our new tools overcome the limitations of classical approximations for the scientific study of complex systems, such as social organizations, biological organisms and ecological communities.

There's a multi-tiered leveling up system that focuses on using experience points for upgrading special moves called «Talent Arts,» and a complex social linking system that grants bonus perks depending on how well you get along with your selected teammates.

Friends on benefits: Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner offers a complex drama about the injustice of the U.K.'s social welfare system

Yance Ford's debut feature is a deeply moving, complex film about a family murder, memory, injustice and the institutional racism that continues to pervade America's legal, social and economic systems.

The court concluded that an adequate education requires among other things «sufficient oral and written communication skills» for functioning «in a complex and rapidly changing civilization,» «sufficient knowledge of economic, social and political systems to enable the student to make informed choices,» and a «sufficient grounding in the arts to enable each student to appreciate his or her cultural and historical heritage.»

In their approach, large changes in external conditions (what Baumgartner and Jones term an «exogenous shock») are often needed to produce change in complex social and political systems.

In Spain, I think we are behind the social reality of what this country is, because we have a very parceled out, compartmentalized, with 17 different educational realities, complex educational system, and not having a uniqueness in the educational aspect causes that each part does what they think they have to do.

Endophenotypes of ASD at the neural systems level may offer insight into the pathophysiology and psychopathology of ASD by indicating components of complex social behaviors that lie closer to specific genetic factors that confer ASD risk.

How does education move from dialogue to action in the context of complex systems and multiple political, economic, and social imperatives?

The late, great economist Kenneth Boulding once remarked that if physical systems were as complex as social systems, we would creep hesitantly out of bed each morning, not knowing whether we were about to crash to the floor or float to the ceiling.

Social issues in particular, fall into this category — they are cross system, cross sector, and complex.

Understanding the ever - changing landscape of our government's Social Security system has grown more complex over time.

His playful work addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

Organized in seven sections, Chaos and Awe begins with «No Place,» a meditation on complex technological systems that have enhanced the connectedness of people and cultures around the world, but also led to a heightened vulnerability in our social, political, and technical infrastructures.

This talk will explore the history and place of printmaking and the printed image in the development of the city as a social centre and the way that we have evolved cognitive mechanisms to deal with complex visual systems that guide and inform our everyday lives.

While blurring the traditional distinction between fiction and reality — and revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life — Huyghe's playful work often addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

The fragility of the medium mirrors the prisoners» circumstances, and draws attention to contemporary correctional systems and the complex social and political inequalities of South Africa.