Sentences with phrase «contexts of uncertainty»

He showed how teachers can choose to empower students, even amid contexts of uncertainty.

In a context of uncertainty and instability, pastors and lay people have joined forces to form new churches in all social groups and in all regions of the country.

It emerged that teenagers were more ready to accept ambiguity and also searched for less information in the context of uncertainty.

Drs Leonard Smith and Nicholas Stern wrote poignantly about how policy is nearly always set in the context of uncertainty, and that even incomplete scientific assessments can be of great value («Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy», http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2011/460/presentations/Smith.pdf).

So decision making needs to be conducted in the context of uncertainty, this is not an unusual situation and the military and financial sectors are highly accustomed to such a decision making environment.

I look at these questions as being asked in the context of uncertainty that runs both ways.

This section critically evaluates the IPCC's attribution argument in the context of uncertainty.

Not exact matches

Given the downward revision to the growth profile and the later closing of the output gap, the Bank considers the risks around its updated inflation outlook to be roughly balanced, albeit in a context of heightened uncertainty.

In the context of increasing complexity, competitiveness and uncertainty, experienced professionals are recognizing the need to enrich their skills and deepen their professional networks.

In a context of continued weak investment at the global level, any additional uncertainty has the potential to keep businesses on the sidelines longer.

However, we identified a number of significant uncertainties in the current context that are serving to widen the zone of balance within our risk - management framework.

«Taking due account of the uncertainties and limits of its policy tools, the Federal Reserve will provide additional policy accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability.»

We must learn to live, to think, and to love in the context of this ultimate insecurity of uncertainty.

So I'll add to your list «Uncertainty» of leaving this vocation (specifically, ordained Word and sacrament ministry in a specific context) behind.

Perhaps it also indicates how absorbed we are in our immediate context, which causes us to think in terms of decline and uncertainty rather than growth.

A new report has estimated that 82 % of articles about climate change are framed in the context of «disaster» and «uncertainty».

Unlike adolescents» choices in the context of full information, their behavior under ambiguity and uncertainty also correlated with their self - reported risk - taking in the real world.

In the first post in this series, I critiqued the «naked ape hypothesis of optimal serum 25 (OH) D,» which I believe influences many researchers to interpret uncertainties in the scientific literature in a way that is biased towards recommendations for high intakes of vitamin D that could be harmful to some people, especially without appropriate attention to the nutrient density and balance of the diet, and to the overall context of a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Andrew T. Fiore, a data scientist at Facebook and a former visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University, said that unlike laboratory studies, «online dating provides an ecologically valid or true - to - life context for examining the risks, uncertainties and rewards of initiating real relationships with real people at an unprecedented scale.»

The authors explore the theoretical implications of these findings for our understanding of uncertainty reduction, warranting, and self - disclosure processes in online contexts.

«Online dating provides an ecologically valid or true - to - life context for examining the risks, uncertainties and rewards of initiating real relationships with real people at an unprecedented scale,» he told the Times.

How can integration models evolve to better equip refugee children for productive futures in a context of deep uncertainty?

In this context of budget uncertainty, going cashless can help schools save money by streamlining their payment processes — whether it is to pay for school meals, school trips or any other transaction between the school and parents.

Far from it, in fact, as,,, asked of its artists to experiment, embrace uncertainty and trust the potential of their work in the context of a multi-dimensional group exhibition that could never speak fully to each artist's complex and rigorous practice.

The book — which questions the uncertainties of the art world; offers solutions to the challenges of transmission of Culture at the beginning of the 21st century; and It's a witness of the artistic potential in European, Anglo - American and Latin - American countries — will be presented in September in the context of an individual exhibition, also entitled Hexágonos, at the art gallery Maus Contemporary in the USA.

Launched during our Diversity and Inclusion Week, this exhibition appraised works in the collection in the context of environmental, financial and political uncertainty, and formed the subject of talks and tours as part of that programme.

It is at this juncture that Martín & Sicilia address, from a closeathand, familiar context, the difficulties the presentday subject stumbles across when negotiating the obstacles thrown his way by this world of uncertainty and confusion in which we are all caught up.

09 May 2015 (4.00 — 6.30 pm) RSVP: [email protected] This public conversation will address the possibilities and uncertainties faced by societies within and beyond the boundaries of Southeast Asia, focusing on the notion of national representation and its challenges: How are geopolitical boundaries configured and rewritten in the specific context of the Biennale di Venezia, -LSB-...]

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Getting people to understand the context of the slow march of the scientific process, getting them to understand scientific uncertainty, and getting them to understand exactly what is known and not known are all difficult things to accomplish.

It also means, as Abhas Jha of the World Bank has put it in the context of disaster planning, we need to manage risk for «graceful failure» — soft landings amid uncertainty and imperfection.

In the context of the complexity of this issue, the uncertainties in the data and natural variability, this difference is not significant.

Sometimes on Realclimate we discuss important scientific uncertainties, and sometimes we try and clarify some subtle point or context, but at other times, we have a little fun in pointing out some of the absurdities that occasionally pass for serious «science» on the web and in the media.

By putting the local climate into the context of the larger picture, analyzing the uncertainties, and evaluating the methods in terms of past changes, I think that local climate projections can provide useful information.

Seriously, I just checked in on this thread, and I'm glad to see that the authors recognize the implications of «precautionary policy» in the context of this kind of uncertainty.

This could actually be the wording of a standard skeptic position... 3) Mann et al's claim that the ’90 and 1998 are record - breaking decade and year in the context of the past millennium are dismissed, given the uncertainties.

Ravetz argues that there is a new class of epistemic problems that are dominated by uncertainty in the context of social and ethical concerns.

The dynamic interplay of an increasing number of users and uses, in a context of political and regulatory uncertainty and global environmental changes, has catalysed stories of hope, hype and horror about the future of the Arctic.

But what I would like to do in the forthcoming series on decision making under climate uncertainty is to explore how we might approach reframing the strategy for identifying robust policy options for dealing with climate change in the context of the broader challenges to sustainability.

This paragraph...: «But what I would like to do in the forthcoming series on decision making under climate uncertainty is to explore how we might approach reframing the strategy for identifying robust policy options for dealing with climate change in the context of the broader challenges to sustainability.»

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

This technical document contributes to frame the challenge of dealing with extreme weather and climate events as an issue in decision - making under uncertainty, analyzing response in the context of risk management.

This analytical report has been produced to support policymakers and stakeholders in the context of increasingly evident resource constraints and growing economic and environmental risk and uncertainty that threaten the continued stability and prosperity of the Asia - Pacific region.

This document contributes to frame the challenge of dealing with extreme weather and climate events as an issue in decision - making under uncertainty, analyzing response in the context of risk management.

Scientists who reviewed the article found that while it accurately described recent research on these processes, it should have provided more accurate context on the timescale of these sea level rise scenarios and the scientific uncertainty about how likely these scenarios are to come to pass.

In this context even models whose predictors are far outside of the observational range can be valuable for clarifying the slope and uncertainty of the predictive relationship.

The wide range of possible futures that the Economist article complains about do not represent uncertainty in a meaningful sense in the context of decision making.

In the context of my statement on greater uncertainty, this includes too little account of natural variability, but it also allows for the possibility that we have not adequately characterized the worst case scenario.

Each contribution was reviewed externally and within the editorial structure of Climatic Change for accuracy in its portrayal of historical context and underlying science, but every author has been allowed to express his or her own opinion about how well the IPCC in general and the uncertainty guidance documents in particular have served IPCC's various clients — readers of the full assessments, readers of the technical summaries, and readers who have confined their attention to the overarching summaries for policymakers and synthesis reports.

Lets frame belief, disbelief, and doubt in the context of the Italian flag, that was introduced previously on the hurricane thread in which evidence for a hypothesis is represented as green, evidence against is represented as red, and the white area reflecting uncommitted belief that can be associated with uncertainty in evidence or unknowns.