Sentences with phrase «cultural variations in»

To run an effective afterschool program for adolescent urban youth, for example, teachers and mentors need to understand the specific challenges of adolescent development as well as cultural variations in child - adult relationships.

Although the reasons behind societal differences in marital and health patterns remain obscure, cultural variation in gender roles within households may provide insights into the gender differences found in Korea (Jang et al., 2009).

Cultural variation in parental influence on mate choice.

Not exact matches

I think the show depicts real people who debate their own cultural expectations and show that there are wide variations in any cultural group.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

Very great geographical, ethnic, and cultural variations and some important religious divisions (Sunnites; Shiites and their subdivisions, the four Madhabs; traditionalism; and Sufism) separate Muslims from each other; yet, they all join in the consciousness of belonging to a great brotherhood.

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

To postulate an essential structure is to urge that commonality in diversity and change requires that, permeating or underlying all the varieties and changes, there must be some one pattern or structure that itself transcends the cultural variations and historical changes and «explains» the commonality.

• For these and other reasons, although children in mother - stepfather families tend to experience better financial support than children in lone mother households, and their stepfathers tend to be of higher «quality» than their biological fathers in terms of education, employment, psychopathology etc. (McLanahan et al, 2006) their outcomes and adjustment are not superior to children in lone mother households, although there may be cultural variations.

They include issues about the importance of breastfeeding and about women in the workplace; issues, which we had all hoped would become legacy issues, about prejudice and discrimination; and important issues about geographic variation and inequality, including the importance of cultural leadership in changing attitudes.

In fact, cultural diversity in the US has led to variations in names and naming traditions, with names being used to express creativity, personality, cultural identity, and valueIn fact, cultural diversity in the US has led to variations in names and naming traditions, with names being used to express creativity, personality, cultural identity, and valuein the US has led to variations in names and naming traditions, with names being used to express creativity, personality, cultural identity, and valuein names and naming traditions, with names being used to express creativity, personality, cultural identity, and values.

Recognize the effect of cultural diversity on breastfeeding attitudes and practices and encourage variations, if appropriate, that effectively promote and support breastfeeding in different cultures.

«This highlights the need for a greater understanding of the cultural and regional variations in the effect of age at menarche on age at marriage both within and between countries.»

He was interested in the statistics of human genetic and cultural variation — why different people in different parts of the world behave differently, have different rules in their societies and were genetically different from one another.

Morgan and Sanz documented more than 20 «cultural variations,» or behaviors not seen in other chimp populations.

After practicing research in Egypt and the United States, I can say that different countries manage collaboration differently due to many factors, including cultural variations and differences in working environment.

«I wrote an article in 1973 saying that the big challenge now, the most important thing, is to learn about cultural variation.»

The finding supports a case made by Jared Diamond and others that migration along the same lines of latitude in Eurasia promoted the sharing of crops, animals and technology, but that wide variations in climate found in the New World's north - to - south orientation hindered cultural exchanges

The impressive geographic variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) behavior is thought to be cultural in that it results from the transmission of socially acquired habits.

In a new study published in the March issue of the journal Animal Behaviour, Luncz and her colleagues investigated whether these cultural variations are equally efficient, or whether some come at a cosIn a new study published in the March issue of the journal Animal Behaviour, Luncz and her colleagues investigated whether these cultural variations are equally efficient, or whether some come at a cosin the March issue of the journal Animal Behaviour, Luncz and her colleagues investigated whether these cultural variations are equally efficient, or whether some come at a cost.

South Asian genetic landscape, bearing in mind its geographic, linguistic, socio - cultural and skin color diversity, offers an excellent model system to decipher the genetic underpinnings of human skin color variation and for a better understanding of it's evolutionary history.

Due to tremendous variations in climate, indigenous food supplies, environmental conditions and the principles of evolution, adaptation, and heredity, different cultural and ethnic groups, over a period of many centuries, developed distinctly different kinds of dietary requirements...»

Alas, his variation on the theme — entitled A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop — is not itself great, or even good, though difficult cultural translation may play a substantial role in this.

The tradeoffs are variations on the fundamental fissure Godwin and Kemerer identify in liberal political philosophy: individual autonomy versus public accountability; religious freedom versus separation of church and state; cultural diversity versus coherent national values.

We could reasonably believe that a large portion of the variation in cultural capital among twins was due to chance and not differences in their upbringing or ability.

The Harvard Gazette reports on Professor Nancy Hill's presentation, «Cultural Worldviews and Belief Systems as Lenses to Understand Ethnic Variations in Parenting and Children ’ s Development.»

Limited Reliability: Many factors can influence standardized test scores, including variations in test makeup, whether a student «tests well,» language and cultural factors and how a student happens to feel on testing day.

Adopting the role of a cultural Charles Darwin, Hughes heads off, with his brother in tow, across the Midwest to observe firsthand the natural history of ideas - the patterns of their variation, inheritance, and selection in the cultural landscape.

While many emerging market companies are well - managed, there can be risks associated with distance, cultural differences and variations in legal and political systems that may not affect Australian - operated companies.

The explicit variations on classical pastoral themes, the citations from and pastiches of Rembrandt, Goya, Velázquez, Manet, are external products of a constant revision, a «seeing again» in the light of technical and cultural shifts.

The diversity of the folksong Arirang, with its many regional variations and flavors across Korea, was well matched by the eclectic artwork featured in Arirang: 17 Women Artists, which opened at the Korean Cultural Center Washington DC in May 2012.

Delving into the 400 - page publication that takes on the politics, gender roles, and cultural variations of Pop, the organizers will talk about how they created an exhibition that attempts to recast this pivotal time in the history of art and culture, and what Pop foreshadowed of our current media - infused moment.

2011 Wander, Labyrinthine Variations, Centre Pompidou - Metz, Metz, France Terrible Beauty - Art, Crisis, Change and The Office of Non Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Ireland 9/11, MoMA PS1, New York, USA I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, MoMA, New York, USA All that Glisters, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England Dislocación: Cultural Location and Identity in Times of Globalization, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland French Window, Mori Musuem, Tokyo, Japan Of Bridges and Borders, Fundacio Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain ILLUMinations Venice Biennale, 54th International art exhibition, Venice, Italy Declining Democracy, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy The Uncanny Familiar, Images of Terror, C / O Berlin, International Forum for Visual Dialogues, Berlin, Germany

Imagining the Political Subject», Secession, Wien 2013 «I knOw yoU», IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2013 «The Butterfly Image», Mudam, Luxembourg 2013 «Only here», Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 2012 «Reactivation», 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai 2012 «CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito», MAMbo, Bologna 2012 «Storytelling as Craft», Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville 2012 «Ephemeropterae», TBA21 Augarten, Vienna (performance) 2012 «Swans, Amputees», Fondation Cartier, Paris (performance) 2012 «Searching for the fountain», Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2012 «Soundworks», ICA, London 2012 «Setting the Scene», Tate Modern, London 2012 «OEI / Letterism», Moderna Museet, Stockholm (performance) 2012 «Descriptive Acts», San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco 2012 «enfolds: books I & II», Mount Analogue, Stockholm 2012 «Never odd or even», Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (performance) 2011 «Balustrade: endless tapes», Milliken Gallery, Stockholm 2011 Fotofestival 4, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg 2011 «Folk Variations», Radar, Loughborough (performance) 2011 «The Other Tradition», Wiels, Brussels 2011 «La Casa Encendida», Madrid (performance) 2011 «Subtext Part II», Un Projects, Melbourne 2011 «British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet», touring; Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and Plymouth Arts Centre 2010 «New Frankfurt Internationals», Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt 2010 FRAC Champagne - Ardenne, Troyes 2010 «Fun Palace», Centre Pompidou, Paris 2010 «Manifesta 8», Murcia, Spain 2010 «Exhibition, Exhibition», Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli 2010 «Performance», Museo Marino Marini, Florence (performance) 2010 «Balustrade», Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf (performance) 2010 «Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance», Guggenheim Museum, New York (performance) 2010 «Finding Chopin», performance Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (performance) 2010 «NineteenEightyFour», Austrian Cultural Forum, New York 2010 «ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables», Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2010 «Leipzig Calendar Works», Project Kaufhaus Joske, Leipzig (performance) 2010 «A Performance Cycle», Nomas Foundation, Rome (performance) 2009 «Lecture Performance», Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne (performance) 2009 «Accecare l'ascolto / Aveugler l'ecoute / Blinding the ears», Artissima, Turin (performance) 2009 «5 × 5 Castello 09», Espai d'art contemporani de Castello EACC, Valencia 2009 «This World & Nearer Ones», Creative Time, New York (performance) 2009 «Ars viva 08/09.

For example, the works in her interdisciplinary project Whistling and Language Transfiguration (WaLT)-- a vinyl record edition of a translation of Zapotec into whistling, sheet music of the transcription of the whistles into musical notes, and a linguistic abacus to help mark verbal variations in the recorded translation — represent Porras - Kim's effort to maintain the viability of the Zapotec language by pointing out its unique qualities, and contribute to the preservation of a language that was and is the cultural heritage of the Zapotec people.

Imagining the Political Subject», Secession, Vienna 2013 «I knOw yoU», IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublino 2013 «The Butterfly Image», Mudam, Luxembourg 2013 «Only here», Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 2012 «Reactivation», 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai 2012 «CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito», MAMbo, Bologna 2012 «Storytelling as Craft», Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville 2012 «Ephemeropterae ~», TBA21 Augarten, Vienna (performance) 2012 «Swans, Amputees», Fondation Cartier, Parigi (performance) 2012 «Searching for the fountain», Moderna Museet, Stoccolma 2012 «Soundworks», ICA, Londra 2012 «Setting the Scene», Tate Modern, Londra 2012 «OEI / Letterism», Moderna Museet, Stoccolma (performance) 2012 «Descriptive Acts», San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco 2012 «enfolds: books I & II», Mount Analogue, Stoccolma 2012 «Never odd or even», Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (performance) 2011 «Balustrade: endless tapes», Milliken Gallery, Stoccolma 2011 Fotofestival 4, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg 2011 «Folk Variations», Radar, Loughborough (performance) 2011 «The Other Tradition», Wiels, Bruxelles 2011 La Casa Encendida, Madrid (performance) 2011 «Subtext Part II», Un Projects, Melbourne 2011 «British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet», touring; Nottingham Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and Plymouth Arts Centre 2010 «New Frankfurt Internationals», Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francoforte 2010 FRAC Champagne - Ardenne, Troyes 2010 «Fun Palace», Centre Pompidou, Parigi 2010 «Manifesta 8», Murcia, Spagna 2010 «Exhibition, Exhibition», Catello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli 2010 «Performance», Museo Marino Marini, Firenze (performance) 2010 «Balustrade», Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf (performance) 2010 «Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance», Guggenheim Museum, New York (performance) 2010 «Finding Chopin», performance Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (performance) 2010 «NineteenEightyFour», Austrian Cultural Forum, New York 2010 «ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables», Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2010 «Leipzig Calendar Works», Project Kaufhaus Joske, Leipzig (performance) 2010 «A Performance Cycle», Nomas Foundation, Roma (performance) 2009 «Lecture Performance», Cologne Kunstverein, Colonia (performance) 2009 «Accecare l'ascolto / Aveugler l'ecoute / Blinding the ears», Artissima, Torino (performance) 2009 «5 × 5 Castello 09», Espai d'art contemporani de Castello EACC, Valencia 2009 «This World & Nearer Ones», Creative Time, New York (performance) 2009 «Ars viva 08/09.

In this exhibition, New Peace takes form through the imagined - trappings of a cult that worships matter and believes that reality and its cosmic, biological, and cultural evolutions exist to create the greatest variation of form possible in the universe, and for matter to experience all variations of itselIn this exhibition, New Peace takes form through the imagined - trappings of a cult that worships matter and believes that reality and its cosmic, biological, and cultural evolutions exist to create the greatest variation of form possible in the universe, and for matter to experience all variations of itselin the universe, and for matter to experience all variations of itself.

In addition to finding seasonal and geographic variations in the urban heat island effect, Wang et al also found a substantial decrease in the urban effect during the periods of the «Great Leap Forward» (1958 - 61) and the «Cultural Revolution» (1966 - 71) and an increasing trend in the urban effect afterwardIn addition to finding seasonal and geographic variations in the urban heat island effect, Wang et al also found a substantial decrease in the urban effect during the periods of the «Great Leap Forward» (1958 - 61) and the «Cultural Revolution» (1966 - 71) and an increasing trend in the urban effect afterwardin the urban heat island effect, Wang et al also found a substantial decrease in the urban effect during the periods of the «Great Leap Forward» (1958 - 61) and the «Cultural Revolution» (1966 - 71) and an increasing trend in the urban effect afterwardin the urban effect during the periods of the «Great Leap Forward» (1958 - 61) and the «Cultural Revolution» (1966 - 71) and an increasing trend in the urban effect afterwardin the urban effect afterwards.

Geographical variations can happen because of differences in demographics, cultural and ideological factors, and because people with similar characteristics «tend to cluster together», according to the authors of the US study.

Much like cultural diversity and age diversity, variation in learning styles brings some challenges into the workplace along with the benefits.

Spent six weeks in Europe documenting cultural variations as Euro was introduced throughout Western Europe

There would be considerable variation, depending upon the perceived need (or threat), past experience or unresolved issues in the parent, and cultural influences upon emotional expression.

Regardless of racial, cultural, linguistic, geographic, and other such variations, parental acceptance has consistently been associated with psychological adjustment, whereas rejection tends to be associated with difficulties in maintaining future relationships, depression, and substance abuse.

The campaign is also national because while there are some regional differences in attitudes towards different racial and cultural groups — as the Challenging Racism project has found — there is little variation in attitudes between urban and rural areas.

These differences may be explained in part by differences in questionnaire administration methods (eg, personal interviews vs self administration), questionnaire content, target populations, or definitions and severity of the violence assessed; however, such differences may also reflect true variation and cultural differences in violence perpetration.1 4 Standardised methodologies for assessing intimate partner violence (IPV) may help to enhance the reliability of results obtained from such studies and aid in comparing prevalence rates from diverse settings.

Hence it is especially refreshing to encounter members of the discipline who are comfortable with both biologically influenced behavior patterns and the remarkable range of human cultural diversity, and who have the wit and wisdom to combine the two — consistencies in pair - bonding and adolescent sexual development and variations in the desirability of mates worldwide — rather than argue vociferously that either precludes the other.

AASECT opposes the application of labels such as «normal» and «abnormal» to these variations in the healthy sexual expression of adults, and AASECT believes that all sexual and cultural minorities should enjoy sexual freedom, equal civil rights, and parity of social opportunities and privileges.

Variations in children's emotional expression may also be influenced by specific family or cultural values and by differences in children's temperaments.

Hence, culture variation in the epidemiological prevalence of anxiety and depression is likely due to geographical variation in the cultural adoption of collectivistic social norms.