Sentences with phrase «cultural environment as»

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Whereas once it seemed like Facebook could ride out any bad publicity on the strength of its inexorable growth as a business and cultural force, it's increasingly operating in an environment where billionaire technology moguls like Michael Bloomberg and Pierre Omidyar are publicly criticizing it and even calling for it to be regulated.

Lee described how XiaoIce's success in China led to Microsoft wanting to see whether a similar project would be «just as captivating in a radically different cultural environment.»

In addition to the «subtle influences» of our genes on our behavior, our environment (or surrounding cultural norms and conditions) as well as our nurturing (i.e. upbringing, whom we choose to surround ourselves with and what we think about) is what really makes us who we are.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

The actual archetypical buyer personas that are created serve as an interface and a narrative to social, cultural, and behavioral research of buyers within organizations as well as in individual environments.

While evangelical Christianity in growing rapidly in mainland China, some statistics indicate that Catholicism is not doing nearly as well in a cultural environment in which many people are seeking answers to life's questions that go beyond consumerism.

«Because globalization as a culturally homogenizing and environment - devouring force is coming on so fast, there is a real danger that in just a few decades it could wipe out the ecological and cultural diversity that took millions of years of human and biological evolution to produce.»

Irrespective of profound differences in general and special environment, cultural level and religious level, the rites conducted in the «homes» of the American Indian, the Egyptian, the Chinese, or the German or Englishman of the sixteenth century have certain features in common, as compared with public, congregational ceremonies.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

Portray human society and its cultural environment in such a way as to enhance understanding of the family of man in its richness and variety.

His experience is one that questions and pushes against what is affirmed by the environment he was raised in and studied in and confirmed in.I'm not denying that David's cartoons represent his experience in his «church» I'm turning up (best I can) the limitation of that experience and how his version (Zombie pastor preaching re-chewing of the mind as transformational) is 1) a sad and pathetic reduction of the cultural tradition and 2) is evidence of his own ongoing entrapment.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

But that's not really the issue here, as it is a cultural issue, about how we as a society interpret how we interact both with each other and with our environment.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Infant Mental Health, sometimes referred to as Infant Brain Health, has been defined as the developing capacity of the child from birth through age five to: experience, regulate, and express emotions; form close, secure and interpersonal relationships; and explore his / her environment and learn - all within the context of family, community, and cultural expectations.

On a global as well as a regional level, Medela supports initiatives to enhance social and cultural environments.

Several crucial aspects then weigh in our conduct, actions and propensity to act morally or immorally, of which the environment (such as education, or social and cultural context) and exogenous conditions are crucial.

But the older sites» current cultural and technological irrelevance hints at the ephemeral nature of internet domination: in an environment as tumultuous as this one and as driven by the fickle human desire for the new and shiny, no hegemony is eternal.

ECCRAB will advise Erie County government through the County Executive as to the effective and equitable distribution of County funds to cultural organizations with the purpose of fostering a vibrant, diverse cultural environment in Erie County.

AHRC Associate Director of Programmes Gary Grubb said: «I welcome the Panel's affirmation of the international standing and leadership of UK historical and cultural geography which is also reflected in their important contributions to AHRC's themes and programmes such as «Landscape and the Environment» and «Connected Communities».»

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

In a new take on an old polemic, Ridley acts as mediator between biological and cultural determinists, arguing that genes and the environment play equally important roles in shaping human destiny.

As destinations succumb to overcrowding and cultural dilution, «geotourism» can be a positive force that benefits travelers as well as local environments and economiAs destinations succumb to overcrowding and cultural dilution, «geotourism» can be a positive force that benefits travelers as well as local environments and economias well as local environments and economias local environments and economies

So I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it.

The early human techno - tradition, known as Howiesons Poort (HP), associated with Homo sapiens who lived in southern Africa about 66,000 to 59,000 years ago indicates that during this period of pronounced aridification they developed cultural innovations that allowed them to significantly enlarge the range of environments they occupied.

In a 2005 article in the Journal of Biosocial Science, the scientists attributed Ashkenazis» intellectual distinction to a religious and cultural environment that blocked them from working as farm laborers in central and northern Europe for almost a millennium, starting around A.D. 800.

More than a prescription, this collective body of research raises awareness around the power of inherited epigenetic adaptation as a concert of our environment, physiology, and cultural practice.

But it should come as no surprise thatin today's education and cultural environment, teens are flockingto a show that delivers straight talk about the pleasures andthe risks of sex — direct to their iPods.

Getting girls to school is especially hard; with few female teachers and cultural barriers, school is seen as a male - dominated environment.

For this reason, Shakespeare studies — especially at senior student level — can become a subject area where teachers are left feeling even more constrained, as they must work against this perceived cultural distance to create a safe environment for creative exploration and interpretation of the text.

As used in our study, cultural mismatch theory refers specifically to incompatibilities in the ways that language is used and expectations are communicated at home versus in the school environment.

The DERS is an Environment Rating Scale analogous to the ECERS or the CLASS, but designed for environments such as Montessori (and others) which support the development of executive function, linguistic and cultural fluency, and social fluency and emotional flexibility.

As for cultural diversity, research has shown that schools that do the best job of educating low - income students tend to favor a traditional curriculum, strict discipline, and a paternalistic environment, whereas typical middle - class schools tend to be less structured and more child - centric.

Under his leadership, the organization solidified its position in a rapidly changing media environment as Knell leveragedNPR's network of member stations, drove cross-platform journalism and cultural programming, and grew philanthropic and corporate underwriting support.

«Every school board member, superintendent, principal, teacher, custodian, secretary, coach, and counselor, has an important role to play in creating a welcoming school environment where parents and families from diverse cultural backgrounds are acknowledged and treated as viable stakeholders in their children's schools.»

As such, we hope you'll join us in fostering an environment that enhances awareness, aids in innovation, contributes to personal development, and promotes increased cultural understanding.

As part of North Carolina's thriving Research Triangle, Raleigh offers healthy growth and a lively cultural and recreational environment.

Personally, as a traveler who will continue to travel, I think tourism can have a positive impact if each person is more conscious of his or her influence on the cultural environment he or she visits.

«We are happy to welcome you into our home and to introduce you to the local environment, or to visit the popular cultural locations in Amsterdam such as the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh museum, the world famous Concertgebouw, and the night life.»

While these biologically diverse and rich cultural environments have long met the criteria to be set aside as a national park, it wasn't until March 5, 1980 that President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96 - 199, establishing Channel Islands National Park as the fortieth national park thus protecting the nationally significant natural, cultural, scenic and scientific values of the Channel Islands.

Conveniently located just off of Interstate 40 and only five miles from Kirtland AFB, this Albuquerque discount hotel gives you easy access to the University of New Mexico and such nearby attractions as: Sandia Peak Tramway ABQ Uptown Isotopes Park Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Albuquerque Biological Park — ABQ BioPark While you are searching for Albuquerque hotels, look no further than this discount hotel in Albuquerque, which cares about the environment and has taken active steps to support green hotel practices.

Situated in the heart of Zululand near Hluhluwe, Gooderson DumaZulu Lodge & Traditional Village is as much a living cultural museum as it is a natural and therapeutic outdoors environment for guests to reconnect wit...

Situated in the heart of Zululand near Hluhluwe, Gooderson DumaZulu Lodge & Traditional Village is as much a living cultural museum as it is a natural and therapeutic outdoors environment for guests to reconnect with nature.

The proposed action (Alternative # 5 — Beaver Pond Terrace) called for a reorientation of management and use to more adequately preserve and interpret the area's globally significant Alaskan brown bear viewing opportunities and prime brown bear habitat, and to manage these elements as integral parts of an evolving environment that also contains nationally significant cultural resources, scenic values, and world - class sport fishing opportunities.

Furthermore, we have residents» programmes such as city tours and cultural workshops to help expatriates and business travellers assimilate quickly into their new environment.

«We understand the 2013 summit will include a diverse and profound programme as well as numerous opportunities for people to interact in an environment that transcends disciplinary, cultural and national barriers.»

In a recent study on Low and Medium Density Development, Landscape Architects Wes Michaels and Ebru Ozer found that, «Mid-sized resorts offer more opportunities to balance the demands of resort tourism with the environment and the cultural needs of the local population... The environmental savings are also beneficial for the economic vitality of the individual resorts as well as the long term sustainability of the entire region in relationship to tourism.»

Guests are nurtured in a warm and refined environment with attention to detail, culinary and cultural adventure, including cooking classes, wine tastings, vineyards treks and sightseeing, as well as simple relaxation, are the hallmark of the property.

Studying their sustainability in the natural environment, these artists take the location and materials of their work into careful consideration using cultural, political and environmental histories to create art as a catalyst for change.

Her intertwining of classical genres with cutting edge technologies, such as the combination of live drawing with video environments, offer both lyrical readings and cultural commentary on today's world.