Sentences with phrase «for area studies»

By applying systems engineering to challenges such as maintaining social stability, the Chinese government aims to «not just understand reality or predict reality, but to control reality,» says Rogier Creemers, a scholar of Chinese law at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands.

Suffixes aside, while identification with a particular area may have offered an aura of specialism in political geography, a disdain for area studies and «area studies specialists» is emerging.

This caricature of a system that doles out unique scores to 1.4 billion people could not work technically nor politically, says Rogier Creemers, a scholar of Chinese law at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands.

Not exact matches

A 2015 study found that women who applied for professorships in STEM areas (excluding economics) were more likely to be hired than similarly qualified male candidates.

Scanadu will also have anonymized access to all of its users» health data, which can be used for epidemiology — the study of the patterns of health and disease in defined geographic areas.

However, we would not expect all studies to exactly agree, because, for example, the drilling practices, underlying health conditions and other factors likely differ in different study areas.

Last year, in a review published in the journal Nature, Beebe and coauthors wrote that hematology, the study of blood, was one of the leading areas of use for microfluidic technology, though «a «killer application'that propels microfluidics into the mainstream has yet to emerge.»

Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

Several years of experience in any of those areas of study will qualify you for a director role.

One study showed that narcissism is the number one predictor of success among West Point cadets, for example, while another meta - analysis of research in the area showed that being a touch narcissistic was a great way to climb the career ladder.

For example, rivalries — particularly between friends — can be a great boost in areas like personal health and fitness, or other activities that require effort and dedication, such as studying for an exFor example, rivalries — particularly between friends — can be a great boost in areas like personal health and fitness, or other activities that require effort and dedication, such as studying for an exfor an exam.

«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain areas.

Studypool specializes in on - demand Microtutoring, a concept which allows you to narrow in on a specific area of studies with no set price point or time interval so you don't have to shell out $ 100 for an hour of unnecessary tutoring.

From brain - imaging studies, we also know the visual cortex becomes more active while the area [in the brain] responsible for empathy becomes less active.

A recent study found that it's not possible to target specific areas of the body for fat loss.

Students should also have flexibility to study in the areas they're most interested in, she said, and to opt for the degrees with lower tuition, especially given that the average student will graduate university with $ 28,000 in debt.

Uranus moves to your area of communication and creative zone for a seven to eight - year stay and indicates that you can take on extra studies during this time to advance your career.

Their most recent job outlook study states that there will be a combined 77,000 job postings between 2011 and 2020 for psychologists, social workers, counsellors, clergy and probation officers, and just 69,000 job seekers in these areas in total.

Additionally, important areas for further study include employment for older workers and individuals with disabilities.

It also explores some areas of controversy: for example, while supporting localism is central to green ethics, there are industries and products where thats not possible Green marketing is becoming mainstream; Horowitz cites studies showing that 76 % of consumers would switch to green goods, if they had parity of price and quality.

You'll be able to get a jumpstart on preparing for your residence visa and you'll have had a chance to study each of the geographic areas, along with property examples and budgets for different lifestyles.

Our study shows which areas have the cheapest and most expensive rates using quotes for a sample property (a rental property with roughly 1,000 square feet of living space and $ 100,000 in liability coverage).

Methodology Our study aims to find the areas with the most tax - friendly policies for retirees.

It's an area that lends itself to quiet discussion, moments of thought and study - but also serves spectacularly for meeting, socializing and entertaining, whether intimately or on a grand scale.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

The goal of this study is to provide information to decision makers on the emerging market for lunar activity by analyzing customers, market size, trends, and areas of uncertainty in eight distinct potential markets.

Since each bank tends to keep its rates similar for the whole state, it's likely that Bank of America also provides the best mortgage rates for New Yorkers who live in areas other than the cities we studied.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

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And while it can sometimes be helpful to people studying history or archeology or sociology with respect to a certain period in a small region of the Near East, it is hardly the place we would look for a summation of the current knowledge in these areas.

Another useful reflection — this time on study — by Fr Joseph Evans, chaplain to Netherhall House in London, highlights the importance of developing talents and areas of expertise for the betterment of society.

The areas of study, that if people focused on these areas, they may have more opportunities for greater jobs.

In studies concentrating on the Hebrew Bible, several areas have proven fruitful for analysis.

It is worth revisiting this site, however, for what we can learn about the status of «communication» and «art» in the study of preaching and how performance studies promises conceptual replenishment in these areas.

One big area of study for me right now is related to Jewish backgrounds and Israelite history.

The Bay Area study which asked questions about personal meaning, for example, suggested that the content of different meaning systems was a good predictor of propensities to become involved in or to abstain from various social reform activities and alternative lifestyles.

During a period of study as the Area Coordinator for South America of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), I decided to write about Latin American Pentecostalism for readers in the United States.

Budget problems faced by small churches, and even larger ones, could be alleviated if a new passion for tithing were to catch hold in church life, said Anthony Pappas, an American Baptist area minister in southeastern Massachusetts who commented in the study on Lummis's findings.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Since then the situation has greatly evolved, and the new orders and communities springing up throughout the Catholic world are now not only vital to the new evangelisation but an essential area of study for pastoral theology.

Knowing Greek and Hebrew is one of those areas of study where no matter how much you know, it is never enough for those who know more than you.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

When we study the Islamic economy as a way which Islam prescribes for individual and social behavior in the economic field and examine Islam's rules in this area, we can conclude that its most important attribute is social justice.

For several years Ellingson closely studied nine Lutheran congregations in the San Francisco Bay area.

A study by Action for Children, which has links to the Methodist Church, has found 60 % of local authorities in England do not know the true extent of child neglect in their areas.

For when I began to lecture on the Book of Psalms and I was sitting in the refectory after we had sung matins, studying and writing my notes, the Devil came and thudded three times in the storage chamber [the area behind the stove] as if dragging a bushel away.

«In different areas, you'll see different factors, but a lot of the growth is through birth,» said Bert Hickman, senior research associate at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.