Sentences with phrase «ecological model as»

The Child Public Health program uses the ecological model as a framework to explore contemporary child health issues, including:

«Using the socio - ecological model as a guiding framework, this study explores the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy factors that impede and facilitate the transition from residential substance abuse treatment from the perspectives of individuals with SUDs who are anticipating discharge from treatment.»

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I also think that the ecological model of Birch and Cobb is superior in explanatory power to any present mechanical model because the ecological model accepts human feelings as primary givens.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

This trust in life and the actual experiences which it entails are part of human existence that can be far better explained, as Birch and Cobb affirm, by an ecological model rather than an older mechanical one.

As the ecological model itself is clarified and made more nearly into a good model, its potential for actual mechanization is enhanced.

But what is the evidence in favor of the ecological model, of entities as subjects and of entities as dependent in their constitution upon their environment?

When the events at the molecular level attain the kind of stable structure they may have in a stone, the relevance of the ecological model to the stone as a whole becomes trivial.

The ecological crisis as a complex issue includes various problems such as poor technology, economic and developmental model.

The ecological model, in contrast, pictures local communities as self - sufficient.

The ecological model, when abstracted from possible negative uses, provides us a way of thinking of e pluribus unum that avoids taking one extant culture as normative or just leaving the many as many.

The ecological model of nature is put forward as a credible alternative to materialism and mechanism.

The contrast of the mechanistic and the ecological model of life can now be restated at the level of molecules and beyond to entities such as electrons.

The ecological model makes sense only in so far as these qualitative elements of environment are given a reality as real as the material objects around us.

In the ecological model the elements in the cell relate to one another and to the cell as a whole, more like the way an animal as a whole relates to its environment.

In the ecological model of nature all molecules and cells are recognized as subjects.

They reached out to Jordan Price, an undergraduate studying ecological population models who worked as a math tutor.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

The second - year course is more specialized and emphasizes topics such as ecotoxicology, epidemiology, individual - based models, or spatial analysis of ecological systems.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

As in previous studies, the beetles were used to model ecological and evolutionary conditions because of their small size and their more rapid progression through subsequent generations.

The authors concluded that this research reinforces the sunflower as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies and climate change adaptation, and will accelerate breeding programs.

The findings may have important implications, says Joana Falcao Salles: «As microbial ecology and general ecology seem to follow the same rules, it may be possible to use microorganisms as a model in ecological experiments.&raquAs microbial ecology and general ecology seem to follow the same rules, it may be possible to use microorganisms as a model in ecological experiments.&raquas a model in ecological experiments.»

«Scientists have developed indicators for biodiversity, such as land cover type, and modern ecological models that can digest satellite data and information on species occurrence are now offering near - real time monitoring of the land management impacts on biodiversity.

The volume, which grew out of an August 1998 symposium in Crested Butte, Colorado, provides a good overview of how butterflies can serve as model systems for understanding ecological and evolu - tionary patterns and processes.

He collaborated on the article «Maximum Entropy - Based Ecological Niche Model and Bio-Climatic Determinants of Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Niche» with faculty from Kansas State University's entomology and geography departments as well as other experts in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Hence, models of speciation which can act in the absence of complete geographical isolation, such as ecological speciation, have likely played an important role in the evolution of marine biodiversity.

This paleo climatic data and the distribution of archaeological sites associated with the HP, as well of that of the Still Bay tradition, which existed in the same environments about 5,000 years before (76,000 to 71,000 years ago), enabled the researchers to model the emergence of these traditions with two predictive algorithms that permitted them to reconstruct the ecological niche associated with each tradition and determine whether these niches differed significantly through time.

Hummingbirds and their nectar plants have long served as model system for examining ecological and evolutionary processes because of their strong mutual dependencies.

«Model predictions, however, show that the rates we detected in the field are likely high enough to drive ecological change, such as reducing populations,» she said.

The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling.

They don't have a model for how «externalities», such as an ecological collapse, can lead to an economic collapse, because the basic factors are left out of the econometric models.

Inclusion of paleontological data into the modeling of ecological niches of living species might show that many of them could live under very different conditions than today, that their ecological niche is much bigger as assumed.

His research work includes topics such as Baltic Sea food webs, ecological modeling, bioaccumulation of harmful substances, assessment of populations of aquatic species with several methods including hydro - acoustics — and recently, underwater soundscapes and impacts of underwater noise on marine life.

The aim of the new study, then, was to combine ecological and economic models into one, to get a better sense of the potential costs and benefits of grasses as biofuels.

Examining Teacher — Child Relationships and Achievement as Part of an Ecological Model of Development

Combined with ideas stemming from the social sphere such as ecological protests and utopian scientific experiments, this project takes an approach that links to current theoretical developments in the areas of cultural identity, models for communities and social and political activism.

Paintings, prints and architectural models are joined by interactive elements, such as wild furniture designs and such ecological experiments such as a grove of fruit trees under heat lamps.

Given no better models or reasoning, we can only assume that the new ecological niche will create new biomass opportunities (which as I've said earlier, is only a one - time reduction in CO2) at the expense of the biomass currently exploiting the current niche.

More accurate and reliable precipitation data would be invaluable, not only for the study of climate trends and variability, but also as inputs to hydrological and ecological models and for model validation, characterization of extreme events, and flood and drought forecasting.

While it's one thing, he says, to employ ecological models to generate hypothesis for further testing, it's another matter entirely to present the results of these modeling exercises as predictions that policy makers and the public then interpret as forecasts.

Climate modelling results have pointed to high - latitude regions as areas of particular importance and ecological vulnerability to global climate change.

Future coupling of demography with existing global land model predictions could enable assessment of these potentially important die - off responses [44], as well as implementation of more realistic reductions in tree loss to drive scenarios (i.e., enabling assessments of ecological changes less drastic or occurring on shorter time - scales than conversion from forest to grassland biomes).

Imagined as a hybrid between boats and bits of land mass broken off and headed out to sea, the vessels are ecological models powered by biofuels.

«Most Americans, including most New Yorkers, think of New York City as an ecological nightmare, a wasteland of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams, but in comparison with the rest of America it's a model of environmental responsibility.

Thus, the ecological systems are «fed» into the models as a set of geophysical parameters, e.g., albedo, evaporation rate, surface roughness, amount of stored carbon etc..

The model specifies three categories of risk factors: (1) disease and disability parameters (e.g., severity of handicap); (2) functional independence; and (3) psychosocial stressors (e.g., daily hassles), as well as three categories of resistance factors: (1) intrapersonal (e.g., problem - solving ability); (2) social - ecological factors (e.g., social support); and (3) stress processing (e.g., coping strategies).

From an ecological perspective, availability of comprehensive primary care is strongly associated with improved population health.2, 9 The FCMH was initially conceived in pediatrics in the 1960s and 1970s as a model for providing comprehensive pediatric care.10 Over the past 3 decades the medical home model has been further refined, defining the medical home as accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family - centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective.11, 12 The central goal of the FCMH is to facilitate partnerships between patients, families, clinicians, and community resources to improve children's health, and the joint principles for the FCMH have been widely endorsed.7

The KidsMatter framework adopts a socio - ecological model, which views children as active participants in their own development, both shaping and being shaped by their environment.