Sentences with phrase «complex time of changes»

Just as the cultural transformation we are experiencing in the last part of the twentieth century is extremely complex, the period of the Protestant reformation was a complex time of changes for Christianity.

Not exact matches

Complex and interconnected crises in the political, environmental, and social spheres are taking hold of our world — and it is time change - makers with a shared vision for a sustainable future seize the moment.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

The fossil record does nt support it, what we know of the nature of genetic mutations (which virtually all the time do not result in favorable change), and what we know of the complex inter-related nature of genetic changes that are required.

Just as personality tests offer us an unrealistic image of ourselves as a single whole, overlooking the fact that we are not only many different things in many different situations but also changing over time, so Western theology has all too often reduced the beautifully varied and complex descriptions of God found in the Bible to a singular reading that does violence to its vibrant nature.»

During this time, our specialized team of skilled clinicians works with individuals and their families to better understand the complex nature of digital media use, the inherent developmental challenges being faced, and the underlying medical and mental health conditions which complicate a desire to change.

Running display ads (static banners or more complex Flash / video / interactive pieces) is much more difficult than it should be, in part because different publications can have vastly different standards (I can remember one time doing three different versions each of four online ads, one set for the NY Times site, one set for Washington Post properties and one at standard 468 × 60 banner size for National Journal) and in part because ads can't be ordered from a single central broker (a situation that AOL's Advertising.com for one is trying to change).

At an SXSW panel on the «Digital Tsunami» that brews up around breaking news events, GM's Christopher Barger demonstrated a complex understanding of how the explosion of voices and channels on the internet has changed the way corporations need to communicate, particularly at a time when GM's very survival depends on developments in the political world.

De Blasio said he «does not see» Rikers Island being closed ahead of the 10 - year time frame he proposed in his recently unveiled plan to shut down the sprawling detention complex, though he would be «surprised pleasantly that changes are happening quicker.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio asserted yesterday that he «does not see» Rikers Island being closed ahead of the 10 - year time frame he proposed in his recently unveiled plan to shut down the sprawling detention complex — though he said he'd be «surprised pleasantly that changes are happening quicker.»

Willems explores human rights education today in the United States and how, in a time of changing international power dynamics, a comparative approach to complex human rights stories can facilitate meaningful learning.

Two unique clinical features of heart failure in children, say the guidelines» authors, are the possible coexistence of structural congenital heart lesions, with simultaneous over-circulation to the lungs, and under - perfusion to the body (when the two circulations are linked in parallel by an intracardiac shunt or a patent arterial duct); and a change in symptom complexes over time from infancy through adolescence.

And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»

As a result, most changes in the DNA of complex organisms over time are due to drift rather than selection, which is why biologists focus on sequences that are similar, or conserved, when they compare genomes.

«The findings of the study indicate that simple causal relationships between the evolution of brain size, tool use and tooth size are unlikely to hold true when considering the complex scenarios of hominin evolution and the extended time periods during which evolutionary change has occurred,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at GW's CASHP.

Andrew Kroll argues that during this apparently stagnant time, monumental changes were afoot, setting the stage for the geyser of evolutionary change that followed, and the complex world we see today.

Constantly changing and often inconsistent regulations, chaotic reimbursement policies, lack of insurance coverage of routine care associated with clinical trials, increasing demands on physician time, and scientific advances demonstrating the complex differences between individual patients, all complicate clinical research in both benign and malignant hematology.

The climate sensitivity is an output of complex models (it is not decided ahead of time) and it doesn't help as much with the details of the response (i.e. regional patterns or changes in variance), but it's still quite useful for many broad brush responses.

«Drug resistance is the result of a complex evolutionary process, and we need to build resources that will ultimately allow malaria control programmes to monitor and respond to these changes in near real - time.»

An assessment of climate effects on Montana agriculture is complex because of uncertainties inherent in the timing and manifestation of climate change, and because of complexity in how natural systems, agricultural producers, and market processes will react.

The net result of these complex, interacting effects is likely to vary from place, and change over time.

«They not only provide unprecedented insights into molecular and materials behavior — they do so in an especially satisfying fashion by allowing direct observation of complex structural changes in real space and real time.

Although the cause of anxiety can sometimes be neurologically complex, other times it can be as simple as making some changes to your diet and lifestyle.

Against the backdrop of Woodstock, and with Lane's complex, yet compelling, sexuality, Goldwyn's storytelling avoids the era's easy cliches to offer a memorable and satisfying look back at the time when change was in the air.

The time travel comedy from creators Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter of Sausage Party fame followed the hapless janitor, Josh Futturman (Josh Hutcherson), as he attempted to fulfull his destiny as the savior of the future in a surprisingly complex mission that involves changing the past.

At a time when Donald Trump has tempted the Republican party and conservatism towards an embrace of statism, strong central leadership, and bellicose certainty, charter schooling represents a textbook case of the opposite: how individual empowerment, an enlivened civil society, and a modest skepticism about complex, centralized solutions can change lives for the better.

Changing or integrating new academic standards is a complex process that requires significant investments of time, money, and human resources.

As a construct, «whiteness» has a long and complex history beyond simply noting a cluster of a few, vaguely - shared physical attributes, and Dr. Irvin Painter documents how the concept has changed over time:

From straightforward oil changes and brake repairs to complex transmission issues our staff delivers the highest caliber of execution each and every time.

From Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the New York Times bestseller Sarah's Key, A Secret Kept plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present.

The drivers of these decisions are complex and often change over time.

So pouring over financial statements or attempting to identify buy and sell opportunities with complex technical analysis may work a great deal of the time, but if the world is changing against your company, sooner or later you will lose.

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

In that time span, I've learned a ton about investing but none of it has made me want to change my investment strategy and make it more complex.

And although shelter medicine can sometimes be incredibly complex, at the same time, small changes can often make enormous differences in the health and welfare of the shelter animals.

This time traveling and cause and effect stuff might seem complex in writing, but in practice The Last Day of June doesn't tax the mind, opting for a straightforward series of simple puzzles where reactions to your changes are clear and obvious.

While using the arcade controls immediately provides for some fun quick matches amongst friends, the real change behind this year's iteration is in the pro setup, which takes a considerable amount of time to adjust to but allows for much more complex and realistic gameplay.

The development of such complex project takes a lot of time and the industry changes every now and then.

Of course, each time the game level changes, the design grows more complex.

Early in the game the puzzles involve actions such as flicking a switch or pulling an object, but the more you progress the more complex they become and change the environment around you - for instance, the turn of a cog will turn your whole world upside down and timing is very much of the essence!

During the time of its development, the gaming industry was undergoing a huge change, as consoles began to target older audiences and game consoles had advanced to a point where complex games traditionally limited to a PC release could be produced for a console.

Arriving back to the UAE after five or six weeks away, we'd look out of the window of the car on the way home from the airport and point out all of the things that had changed in the time we'd been gone; a new skyscraper would've started construction on what used to be an empty sandlot, or a complex of villas had been flattened to make way for a hotel, or what used to be small roundabout was now on its way to becoming a spaghetti junction,» says British photojournalist Alex Atack, the man behind this series, Under Construction.

Part of the Barbican's 2018 season The Art of Change, which reflects on the dialogue between art, society and politics, the show directly — and at times poetically — addresses difficult questions about what it means to exist in the margins, the role artists have played in portraying subcultures and the complex intermingling between artistic and mainstream depictions of the outsider.

«The artists in each of these exhibitions told the complex story of the South during that time of radical change.»

Popular culture changes rapidly and occurs uniquely in place and time and represents a complex number of mutually interdependent values that influence society and its institutions.

Being drawn to their uneasy balance of modernity and nostalgia, these paintings reflected a complex and contradictory attitude toward urban society and fashionable resort life, keenly depicting the social changes that made the sea - bathing fad possible, while, at the same time, reaching longingly back to classical themes of the nude in an idyllic landscape.

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

What we need are real - time mechanisms for rationally interacting with these complex systems, understanding that fundamental (unpredictable) change is the order of the day, not an exception that can be brushed away.

The climate sensitivity is an output of complex models (it is not decided ahead of time) and it doesn't help as much with the details of the response (i.e. regional patterns or changes in variance), but it's still quite useful for many broad brush responses.

Living things live in a narrow range of ph. Recent oceans and ancient oceans that allowed complex life had a ph that varied approximately from 7.5 to 8.5 and any change in ph occurred over extended time periods.