Workshops and
cultural research with participating artists have resulted in a visual, musical, theatrical and politically critical public demonstration.
Not exact matches
As part of her
research she visited the Japanese Consulate and chatted
with the Trade Commissioner, attended a function at a local Japanese
Cultural Center, and met
with visiting Japanese executives who were part of an incoming delegation.
Businesses that have succeeded
with international growth recommend leaving room in your business plan for market
research and funding that might be needed to adapt your products or services due to
cultural or market differences.
The type of
research needed to uncover deep behavioral and
cultural percepts are those closely associated
with participant - observation methods aligned
with anthropology and the ethnographic
research techniques commonly utilized by this social science.
Ottawa, ON — Today at the Saudi Arabian
Cultural Bureau, Mitacs announced two new agreements
with Saudi Arabia to expand
research opportunities for Canadian and...
After joining the Institute for
Research on Public Policy in 2001, Daniel earned the Policy
Research Initiative's Outstanding
Research Contribution Award for his paper «A Room of Our Own:
Cultural Policies and Trade Agreements,» and produced,
with co-editors Thomas Courchene and Donald Savoie, a major series of papers on North America after NAFTA.
If I was alone on a desert island
with nothing but the Bible, and no
research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the
cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating
with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the
cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of
research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.
(a) Philosophical preoccupation
with the various types of
cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological
research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.
Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment, 178 - 79, takes issue
with research that construes belief primarily from the credal statements of a church: «Theological doctrines are always filtered through people's social and
cultural experiences.
A prerequisite of historical
research of this kind is constant wrestling
with, and reference to, the literature, idioms and categories of the social,
cultural and historical context of the subject.
«(W) hen we bring
research on divorce into conversation
with rich, emerging bodies of work on social contagion and
cultural trauma, we see that bystander effects, while indirect and diffuse, may be no less real or consequential, and that they beckon us to individual and collective reflection on the broader effects of the «divorce revolution.»»
As part of her
research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their
cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope
with their «life load,» and how they really parent.
The
Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), founded in 1996 in order to deepen and enhance the quality of Waldorf education, engages in sustained dialogue with the wider educational - cultural community and supports research to serve a wide range of educators in their work with children and adol
Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), founded in 1996 in order to deepen and enhance the quality of Waldorf education, engages in sustained dialogue
with the wider educational -
cultural community and supports
research to serve a wide range of educators in their work with children and adol
research to serve a wide range of educators in their work
with children and adolescents.
In the Changing Childbirth in BC
research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different
cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences
with maternity care in British Columbia (BC).
Dr. Cecilia Tomori, anthropologist
with postdoctoral training in public health,
Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and author of Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American
Cultural Dilemma is an expert on breastsleeping.
As GOLD Lactation enters its 12th year, we're excited to continue our work of exploring the latest
research, trends, new ideas and hot topics in the world of human lactation, along
with bringing you
cultural perspectives of breastfeeding around the world and updates from advocacy groups and non-profit organizations dedicated to breastfeeding support and promotion.
With factual information based on scientific
research and personal experience, the author explains the difference between «ecological» and «
cultural» breastfeeding and how each method affects fertility.
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Furthermore, a certain amount of socializing,
cultural competence in dealing
with post-war societies, empathy, and stamina on the part of the researcher are sine qua non to compensate for deficits, special conditions, and restrictions in conflict zones that may hinder the
research process.
Speaking at an advocacy dialogue
with traditional leaders in the region for the elimination of harmful social and
cultural practices, Ms Amidu said
research showed that quality education, improved sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, and access to water supply also recorded low rates.
Debra A. Reed voted
with her boss on Wednesday at African - American
Research Library and
Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale.
WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation
with Roger Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA - CREF, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic,
research, medical, and
cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization.
This international organization, established in 1999 by Rafael Capurro and now managed by the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, provides an international
cultural and intercultural platform
with more than 280 members) for exchanging information about
research and teaching in information ethics and news about IE activities.
Research administration is developing into a more sophisticated field — research management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opport
Research administration is developing into a more sophisticated field —
research management — with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opport
research management —
with a focus on assisting faculty in managing the fiscal side of their
research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opport
research endeavours, preparing high - quality applications, and translating
research results into social, cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opport
research results into social,
cultural, and economic impact, as well as new funding opportunities.
On Feb. 22, 2017, Wyndham along
with Vitullo presented the findings of their
research during a briefing of the U.N. Committee on Economic,
Cultural and Social Rights, the body responsible for undertaking the «General Comment» process and for monitoring implementation of the treaty containing the right to science.
«The next stage of my
research is to conduct interviews
with women from different ethnic and
cultural backgrounds, and also recruit more GPs from rural and urban settings to take part in the
research,» Ms Young said.
No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year - old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber
cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations
research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics
with computer science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking better opportunities.
Pétriz clarifies that there is a
cultural divide between the public
research agencies, universities, and the business sector and believes «we must improve the relationship between these agents of R&D»
with two priority outcomes.
Kidder's
research, co-authored
with Liu Haiwang, senior researcher at China's Henan Provincial Institute of
Cultural Relics and Archaeology, relies on a sophisticated analysis of sedimentary soils deposited along the Yellow River over thousands of years.
Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral
research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use
with other important
cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»
«Bache actively promoted scientific
research, not as an end in itself, but as an intellectual and
cultural pursuit closely linked to social, economic and moral improvement... His particular career choice and the zeal
with which he pursued that choice embodied values sanctioned by patrician - republican, Protestant culture, specifically the pervasive allegiance to progress that characterised this culture.»
«Poverty and the many stresses that come
with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and
cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for
Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.
With just days to go before the Executive Board of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) considers the fate of the controversial Obiang prize for life science research, an internal document has emerged that says that there are legal problems with implementing the honor in its current f
With just days to go before the Executive Board of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) considers the fate of the controversial Obiang prize for life science
research, an internal document has emerged that says that there are legal problems
with implementing the honor in its current f
with implementing the honor in its current form.
Further
research on citizen journalism is underway
with indigenous peoples in the Arctic region and finding out how their blogging could drive change on major environmental and
cultural issues.
The team became interested in curiosity because of its ongoing collaborative
research project to improve public engagement
with science documentaries involving the
Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The discovery could help scientists understand how social,
cultural, and environmental factors interact
with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the biomedical
research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization
with genetic tests to determine ancestry.
In addition to the fun of meeting other scientists and the interested public and learning more about recent
research, these conferences provided me
with an intriguing opportunity to reflect on
cultural attitudes.
«Our faculty members have been very successful in obtaining support from the National Science Foundation, including major
research equipment grants and grants for cooperative training and instructional projects such as projects for training graduate students in biological and
cultural evolution together
with the WSU Department of Anthropology, and for training undergraduates in mathematical biology together
with the Department of Mathematics.»
You meet others from very different
cultural and ethnic backgrounds,
with whom you click right away, and as you converse
with them and get to know more about their
research, you realise just how international science is.
His current
research interests are sleep / wake disorders after acquired brain injury and issues of
cultural diversity that impact rehabilitation outcomes
with a strong motivation to improve neuropsychological testing and cognitive rehabilitation interventions for Spanish - speakers and other underserved populations.
Since its inception the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health (CGGH) has maintained a strong focus on creating ethical frameworks for undertaking genomics
research, often working
with international networks including researchers in the developed and developing world who are in turn working
with communities in diverse political and
cultural landscapes.
In this role, the
research center provides the public and decision makers
with relevant scientific information about the status and trends of natural,
cultural, and recreational resources found in those portions of Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area affected by Glen Canyon Dam operations.
In fact, my
research has shown that just five minutes of human connection
with someone close to you can reduce
cultural stress levels.
The focus of his academic
research included a
cultural exploration of sustainable agriculture practices, and work
with native peoples in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
-- Excerpted from the introduction (pages 1 - 3) Way back in 1941, Professor Melville J. Herskovits published The Myth of the Negro Past, an exhaustive, anthropological
research study which debunked the prevailing notion that Africans brought to America in chains were savages
with no
cultural traditions worth preserving.
In a February 2007 op - ed piece in the Dallas Morning News, Gigi Antoni, president and CEO of Big Thought, the nonprofit partnership working
with the district, the Wallace Foundation, and more than sixty local arts and
cultural institutions, explained the rationale behind what was then called the Dallas Arts Learning Initiative: «DALI was created on one unabashedly idealistic, yet meticulously
researched, premise — that students flourish when creativity drives learning.»
Shakespeare's Globe will work
with leading disability organisations and suppliers to
research, develop and pioneer the use of digital technologies in a
cultural setting as well as to train staff in best practice.
At the session «How People Learn,» panelists shed light on new
research with the greatest potential to influence practice, particularly around
cultural differences and similarities in learning.
Along
with training in field
research, public speaking, sociology, and psychology, the curriculum includes courses on Hawaiian
cultural heritage and modern politics to deepen students» sense of place.