Sentences with phrase «environmental context of»

Hartley's research interests are related to the determinants of maternal / child health; the social and environmental context of unintended pregnancy and family planning, health disparities and life course influences in reproductive health.

As an integral part of these works, Smithson made films that reveal the spatial and environmental context of the work.

Indie travelers do... - Pack light and keep things simple - Adapt as they go rather than micromanage in advance - Practice caution, but not paranoia - Know how to slow down and enjoy an experience - Seek pleasure in simple moments and details - Make meaningful connections and informed decisions - Learn the economic, political and environmental context of their host culture - Emphasize listening more than talking - Practice courtesy, patience, humility, and good humor - Seek to understand — not judge or romanticize — other cultures - Give back to the local economy - Share what they've learned with others

This study was conducted within the specific environmental context of schools undergoing an intensive schoolwide technology intervention.

My research addresses the chemical development of the early oceans and atmosphere, the environmental context of early animal evolution, and the geologic factors that regulate sedimentary basins.

Paper co-author Eric Roberts of James Cook University in Australia studied the paleo - environmental context of the new discovery.

But Scholasticism conceived such, in its universality and its intelligibility, as clear - cut and static, somehow transcending the specific, concrete, dynamic environmental context of the various individual things which it in - forms.

Not exact matches

Every client has a unique set of priorities to consider when making investment decisions to align specific choices with a larger social or environmental context.

The concerns over labour and environmental standards that dominated the NAFTA debate are largely irrelevant in the context of the EU, where such standards are generally as high as — if not higher than — those in North America.

The environmental and economic potential is great in the context of the many uses of hemp.

Very complex open systems, however, are capable of recording and reordering the impress of experience, thereby generating alternate programs of action in response to, and often in spite of, environmental stimuli.6 Such imaginatively envisioned goals or purposes may then provide the impetus even to alter the prevailing context to favor their realization (ISP 266).

The aim is to understand moral action in the total context of human existence, that is, in light of all the individual, social and environmental factors affecting it.

It consists of environmental conditions, institutional contexts, and action sequences.

All observed causal patterns and structures, however detailed and complex, have further environmental contexts, still, to some extent, to be unveiled by the development of time and of human understanding.

And it is in this context that I seek, trusting in the grace of God and in the power of the Holy Spirit, to examine three passages from the New Testament in order to frame my own principles for the environmental movement.

Developments in the «new biology,» which deals with wholes of increasing complexity in the organization of interrelated parts rather than with discrete and isolated segments, especially in molecular biology and the growing field of ecology, with its discoveries about the basic interdependence of living organisms with other living organisms and with its larger environmental context, have further undermined these traditions assumptions.

And, since laws of nature are abstractions from environmental order, the inference provides a context for inferring predictions about entities in the environment E as well.

Although the work is done in the context of a more general problem — the effect of environmental electromagnetic fields upon cellular functions — Adey is also concerned with the question of how brain waves might play a role in normal brain function.

Such an assertion of human specialness may well contribute to a policy demeaning the environmental context over against which our «specialness» shows up by contrast.

Nevertheless, the symbolic expression of concern embodied in this side - agreement, and the existence of a new type of institution may provide a context from bringing environmental issues into trade considerations in new ways.

The form as a principle of material being is not universal; it is in fact (as you say) fundamentally related to «environmental context».

«We seek to incorporate social and environmental principles in our sourcing and manufacturing practices within the context of the varying government, consumer, regulatory and infrastructure dynamics that exist around the world.»

Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Macquarie River Valley 2017 - 18 sets intentions for 2017 — 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 — 18 intentions for demands in Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Macquarie River Valley 2017 - 18 sets intentions for 2017 — 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 — 18 intentions for demands in environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 — 18 intentions for demands in future years.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Lachlan River 2017 - 18 sets intentions for 2017 - 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 - 18 intentions for demands in Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Lachlan River 2017 - 18 sets intentions for 2017 - 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 - 18 intentions for demands in environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 - 18 intentions for demands in future years.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Northern Unregulated Rivers 2017 - 18 identifies intentions for use in 2017 ‑ 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in previous years and considering the implications of 2017 ‑ 18 intentions for demands in Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Northern Unregulated Rivers 2017 - 18 identifies intentions for use in 2017 ‑ 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in previous years and considering the implications of 2017 ‑ 18 intentions for demands in environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in previous years and considering the implications of 2017 ‑ 18 intentions for demands in future years.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

The format of the initiatives meant that they not only learnt about the science of environmental problems such as climate change, but were also engaged in considering solutions and how to bring them about, both in terms of their own lives and community and the wider political context.

But the geographical and environmental position and context of nation states is crucial for their political and economic security.

«NYSTA's knowledge of highway use and regulation and traffic impacts, while important, is highly limited within the context of a complex environmental review covering surface and groundwater, soils, bedrock and geology, storm water, air quality, habitat, and climate, among other areas of specialized knowledge and expertise,» they wrote.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

«As expected, we found that the vulnerability of migratory animals varied depending on the regional, environmental, behavioral and taxonomic context of the species,» explained lead author Molly Hardesty - Moore, a graduate student in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

The exposures of sedimentary strata there allow us to place these activities in a detailed environmental context, and to tightly constrain their age» notes geologist Craig Feibel of Rutgers University, a co-author on the study.

Marshall suggests that it also emphasizes the importance of considering broader environmental contexts, such as predation risk, as well as the perceptual abilities of natural observers like predators in studies of animal behavior.

Prof Carlos Peres, also from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Our analysis shows that the sustainability of protein acquisition in tropical forests is primarily governed by the spatial context of mortality sinks, human population density, and availability of alternative protein.»

The researchers call for a need to move beyond a sole focus on mitigating the effects of climate change to reach solutions that consider global carbon reduction targets as well as local energy and environmental contexts.

He adds, «Until now, no one has investigated the sperm epigenome in the context of environmental exposures.

«We can use the lightning jump as a nowcasting tool for supercells if the jump is set in the context of that storm's environmental data,» said Dr. Larry Carey, a UAH associate professor in atmospheric science.

A coalition of 16 science and environmental groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a joint statement praising the assessment, while others said it provided much - needed context for sticky debates on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across the land.

At the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, primary author Ulrich Rabl measured the volume of the test subjects» hippocampi using computer - assisted techniques and analysed the results in the context of the genetic and environmental data.

«If we know better how environmental variability affects the ability of animals to tolerate future environmental change, then we can think about it in a restoration and conservation context,» says Rivest.

This is the conclusion of a report that reviews the results obtained from the implementation of the forest simulation model GOTILWA +, a tool to simulate forest growth processes under several environmental conditions and to optimize Mediterranean forests management strategies in the context of climate change.

Although an evolutionary innovation can open up new ecological niches, traits which are essentially beneficial can put species at a disadvantage in the context of rapid environmental changes.

«Another lesson is that idealism matters,» said Weitz, continuing, «A small group of cooperating individuals can, over time, change the social and environmental context for all and for the better.»

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

I develop quantitative methods to elucidate recent population histories, and interpret these histories in the context of demographic, cultural, and environmental pressures.

Objectives: We propose to develop best - practice guidelines and minimal reporting standards specifically in the context of several regulatory toxicology case studies; e.g. (a) chemical grouping and read - across to supplement ECHA's Read - Across Assessment Framework, (b) discovery of mode of action / molecular key events (within the AOP framework), (c) derivation of Benchmark Doses from concentration - response relationships, and (d) cross-species extrapolation within environmental toxicology.

We analyze and model the flux of terrestrial materials from land to sea — the origins, pathways, processes, and food web consequences — in the context of long - term environmental change.

Much of her work has examined this environmental justice question in the context of ambient air pollution and indoor chemical exposures, prenatal exposures and effects on birth outcomes and children's health, often using community - based participatory research approaches for data collection and risk communication.

In this context, it has to be emphasized that psychosocial risk factors and stress consist of economic, environmental, and behavioral components.

Some of the most fascinating catalysts in nature display complex inorganic cofactors and perform chemical transformations (water reduction and oxidation, carbon dioxide reduction, dinitrogen reduction, dioxygen reduction) that are arguably prerequisites for the advance of society in the current context of limiting energy resources and environmental concerns.