Sentences with phrase «findings call attention to»

These findings call attention to privacy concerns in a surveillance society, the value of financial literacy, and the importance of early childhood intervention to promote healthy aging.

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Those calling attention to the disparity in reactions have also highlighted the work of the Dream Defenders, a Florida - based group founded after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012, arguing that it helped pave the way for the current student movement for gun control.
We find that as long as the negative information about a product is minor, your pitch [to a consumer] might be more persuasive when it calls attention to that negative, especially if consumers have already learned some positive things,» — Baba Shiv
Smith called attention to some interesting studies, such as one that found that the youth of today respond with more feeling, and wind up having greater memory of, songs from the 80s and 60s, than those of today.
Gordon Kaufman (1925 — 2011) has called attention to an overemphasis on «God's tyrannical omnipotence» that offended many sensitive and thoughtful humanists who found it impossible to worship or believe in such a deity.
In his first encyclical, issued while the Council was still finding its way, Paul VI called for a Church in dialogue with other churches, with other religions, and with secular humanists, but called attention to the virtual impossibility of dialogue with atheistic communism.
The purpose rather is to call up Paul Ricoeur's reflection on why we pay attention when certain people speak and why we find what they say convincing: «The term testimony should be applied to words, works, actions, and to lives which attest to an intention, an inspiration, an idea at the heart of experience and history which nonetheless transcend experience and history.»
In the ancient world there were gods in plenty who competed for the attention of men, but here was a man, a true man, who called for attention, and men found themselves giving him the attention and allegiance that they had previously given only to the gods.
Because I've often used Alexis de Tocqueville, Pierre Manent, Chantal Delsol, and other French, Catholic political thinkers to call attention to the limitations of the theory of the American founding, I've been accused of being anti-American.
To call attention to the «womb» of God is not to lead us in the direction of a matriarchal replacement; it is rather to challenge us to find all the helpful female symbology for characterizing God that overcomes the previous patriarchal one - sidednesTo call attention to the «womb» of God is not to lead us in the direction of a matriarchal replacement; it is rather to challenge us to find all the helpful female symbology for characterizing God that overcomes the previous patriarchal one - sidednesto the «womb» of God is not to lead us in the direction of a matriarchal replacement; it is rather to challenge us to find all the helpful female symbology for characterizing God that overcomes the previous patriarchal one - sidednesto lead us in the direction of a matriarchal replacement; it is rather to challenge us to find all the helpful female symbology for characterizing God that overcomes the previous patriarchal one - sidednesto challenge us to find all the helpful female symbology for characterizing God that overcomes the previous patriarchal one - sidednesto find all the helpful female symbology for characterizing God that overcomes the previous patriarchal one - sidedness.
As anyone who paid attention now knows, there turned out to be no need for external manipulation, because irregularities in internal procedures — what some have said amounted to «rigging» the process — led to the publication of an interim report that included highly controversial proposals on Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried, and passages that seemed to call for the Church to find value in same - sex relationships — perhaps even in homosexuality as such.
In the call of Abraham to leave the home of his ancestors, in Moses» leading his people away from acquiescence in Egyptian slavery, in the prophetic protests against any localizing or naturalizing domestication of Yahweh's presence, in the apocalyptic rebellions against the status quo, in Jesus» idealizing of homelessness, in the Evangelists» turning our attention toward the Risen Lord and in St. Paul's relentless call to freedom from the slavery of legalism, we have a constant chorus of discontent at the idea that we can find our fulfillment in what nature apart from history has given us.
The past two terms he has battled manfully to get Rafa's attention and now the Spaniard will find it hard to not call upon Yossi even when there are no injury problems.
Even if your child seems okay after swallowing something potentially poisonous, call the hotline to find out if your child needs medical attention.
After being called to the bar in 1958, Paul found his attention increasingly turned to national politics.
A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.
The summit in Abuja was organised to call attention and find solutions to many lingering security challenges in the country.
The Executive Chairman of CACOL, Mr Debo Adeniran, while responding to the strike said, «We had found it pertinent and expedient to call the attention of the authorities to the issues at the background of the industrial crisis and its impact on the recent Executive order on «Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria» signed by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo,»
According to American Crossroads, which was founded by former presidential adviser Karl Rove and former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, it has seen healthy online contributions since the president's has called attention to it.
It also manifested in instruction styles that required the kids to pay attention in class — such as randomly calling on students to respond to other students» answers during a lesson — rather than just hoping they absorbed the information and then testing them to find out.
The Labour leadership will hope the findings will give the party a better hearing for its summer campaign which is designed to focus the attention of voters on The Choice between what it is calling the «Labour future» versus the «Tory theat».
The group said they called attention to the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus, which was founded last year to promote a nonpartisan approach to addressing climate change and urged offices to get involved.
While many of us remain oblivious to the scale of our collective daily consumption and waste, a growing number of artists are finding ways to call attention to this problem.
Porter says the results call for closer attention to effects on humans of pesticides at low levels found widely in the environment.
A drug used to treat Parkinson's called amantadine has also been found to help minimally conscious patients recover — possibly by increasing dopamine levels in brain networks vital to awareness and attention.
In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.
NOAA released these findings on the first day of National Lightning Safety Awareness Week to call attention to the danger of outdoor activities during a thunderstorm.
In 1980, however, Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez and others called attention to a thin layer of iridium — possible material from an asteroid — found all over the world in rocks from the time of the dinosaur extinctions.
If they would like to call the science team's attention to an object they found, they can submit a report to the researchers or share their insights on a public forum.
These findings support a continuous model of attentioncalled the «selective entrainment hypothesis» — in which the brain tracks and becomes increasingly selective to a particular voice.
In a statement, NIH Director Francis Collins commended Ruffin for his «extraordinary service» and called him «a tireless champion» who «has done everything in his power to bring attention to and find solutions for the unequal burden of illness affecting minority, rural, and poor populations in this country.»
The finding also calls attention to the special medical needs of older drug users — a group that, until now, hasn't garnered much notice.
Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.
The finding, the authors said, should call more attention to considering gender as a potential factor in assessing mindfulness efficacy.
Phytonutrients found in soy called soyasaponins have drawn considerable attention from researchers because of their link to cardiovascular benefits.
I have very lean muscular arms and love wearing tank tops but when it comes to putting a bathing suit on and showing my arse and thighs I'm mortified... I found out about the foam roller at the new gym I joined and it caught my attention when one woman called it her «cellulite smasher»... which is what I continue to refer to it as.
He's not an iconoclast, he just calls attention by finding a way to counter anything and everything.
I found out about the foam roller at the new gym I joined and it caught my attention when one woman called it her «cellulite smasher»... which is how I continue to refer to it as.
You can send out greetings or «winks» as they are sometimes called to get the attention of someone that you find interesting.
For those singles who are not wishing to confide their doom tp anybody, but wish to participate on thier own in finding new interesting acquaintances, we want to call attention to another way of dating in Russia.
Hanks finds the right degree of gravity for Bradlee as well, although both occasionally slip up due to a script that too often calls attention to itself.
It is here that he finds unbelievably cruel treatment by the staff of the defenseless patients and he spends years attempting to call public attention to what is going on inside the institution.
Some may find this kind of stylistic device off - putting, arguing that (500) Days of Summer is doing nothing but calling attention to itself.
Having turned his attention primarily to moody Joel McCrea westerns and adventure pulpers in the Fifties, Tourneur, by the time the Sixties rolled around, unfortunately found himself outside his black - and - white comfort zone (his last great work is probably an episode of the original «The Twilight Zone», «Night Call») and at the helm of productions starring people like Steve Reeves and Vincent Price.
In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear 30 million fewer words, on average, and have less than half the vocabulary of upper - income peers by age three.
In the wake of a 1995 study that found a dramatic gap in the number of words heard by high - and low - income children — the so - called 30 million word gap — much attention has been given to efforts to enrich kids» language exposure.
For students like seventh grader Huber, who found himself the object of media scrutiny when he participated in a protest to call attention to the plight of children in Iraq, it means asking questions, exploring opinions and ideas, and finding his own voice.
One day, we called his parent into school to find out what was going on and why this student couldn't pay attention.
In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear...
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