Sentences with phrase «for societal»

As with welfare reform, rhetoric supporting this law places considerable blame for societal woes on the parent who is raising children single - handedly, and in poverty.

Willingness to pay for a quality - adjusted life year: implications for societal health care resource allocation

You could end up resenting each other for societal pressures placed on either or both of you.

The study underlines the importance of acknowledging immigrant parents» need for societal information in parent support programmes and the importance of delivering these programmes in a culturally sensitive manner.

Our study highlights the importance of acknowledging immigrant parents» need for societal information in parent support programmes and that these programmes must be delivered in a culturally sensitive way.

Martin Tan, the Executive Director of the Institute for Societal Leadership at SMU, worries for those who are going to graduate as young people don't read labour news and think that jobs will always be available.

The Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria discusses bitcoin from the point of view of history of money and the currencies» potential for societal innovation during its MOOC Money and Society.

The initial idea behind the summit was to create a place where human to human discussions could be held in the spirit of the «Homebrew Computer Club (HCC)» (albeit a little higher end, and with kitesurfing between sessions) to advance the community's thinking on the required infrastructure and applications to allow Blockchain to be used for societal good — and to actively do something about it, in the same way that the early attendees of HCC were builders, not just «talkers».

If the purpose of a token is for societal transformation, and all proceeds go to the support and development of the token, it need not register.

Underlying this story is the inventive use of government data as a tool for both societal good and profit.

Existing legislation and policies already have created the foundation for societal change.

Transforming climate information through services for societal and commercial success is of top importance.

Views differ on what, exactly, is the best way for scientists to advocate for societal action against climate change.

«I like to emphasize that for societal purposes, the big deal is the increase in the frequency of the high category events,» explains Emanuel.

In part, this is because we often assume that a rational actor approach with fairly narrowly defined costs and benefits is the model being used for societal decision - making.

The objective of improving climate models for societal needs is based upon three dubious premises: • climate models are fit for this purpose • climate models are useful for this purpose • climate models are the best choice for this purpose

The objective of improving climate models for societal needs is based upon three dubious premises:

Rather than selling this as a policy agenda — they attempt to appropriate the socially valued imprimatur of science as a stalking horse for societal and economic transformation.

In turn, a change in these key beliefs is subsequently expected to lead to a change in respondents» support for societal action on climate change (H2).

We are currently planning the Festival, and the Festival will enable discussions of the advantages and challenges that climate services face within 2 or 3 specific sectors, focusing on how to transform climate information through services for societal and commercial success.

Modelling the impacts of long power outages during extreme weather conditions is important for societal preparedness.

I recently attended a climate change conference where the attendees were sharing policies for societal climate solutions - and agriculture was an especially difficult problem to discuss policies for adaptation..

Secondly, deterministically formulated climate models are incapable of predicting the uncertainty in their predictions; and yet this is a crucially important prognostic variable for societal applications.

The chief reality this movement ignores is that access to reliable and abundant sources of energy is the linchpin for societal progress.

Clarify Consequences: May I encourage challenging all those in the climate / energy debate to clearly lay out the consequences of each and every policy option with sufficient detail for societal consequences to be quantified — both human and economic.

However, all the events were pushing for societal rejection of fossil fuel power with aggressive pursuit toward renewable and clean energy.

Scientists from the United States were less convinced of the skills of the models than their German counterparts and, as would be expected under such circumstances, North American scientists perceived the need for societal and political responses to be less urgent than their German counterparts.

500ppm — 750ppm still seems like a recipe for societal collapse, even if it pushes back the threat of species extinction.

That infrastructure's ability to meet 21st - century needs is compromised by its near - invisibility to the general public... the lack of a national strategic plan for developing and sustaining the infrastructure and putting it to work for societal benefit... and the limitations of the public - private partnership that has been cobbled together over decades to keep it going.

At the heart of the issue, it would seem to me, is a fundamental market failure in the energy market concerning the pricing of electricity, namely that it fails completely to account for the societal cost of global warming brought about through emissions.

The widely accepted Royal Society definition speaks of the «Intentional» alteration of the atmosphere «For societal benefit» — which not even the US fossil lobby yet claims for its pollution.

However, evidence for societal impacts are tied to drought on ancient civilisations is much stronger — the ancient «Curse of Akkad» describing the droughts affecting the Akkadian Empire; the Mayan collapse etc. — and this is well brought out in the text.

In light of recent events in which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timely.

Loos's buildings, such as The Looshaus (1911), in Vienna, illustrate his distaste for ornament, which he blamed for societal ills and decried as wasteful.

[3] As the press release states the work «embodies the tension at the core of Metzger's practice: the use value of science, technology and politics as tools for societal progression, versus their criminal disintegration of the natural world and ethical tendencies.»

teamLab's work explores new values that govern individual behaviors in the information era, while also revealing possible futures for societal development.

He urged his students to rethink the possibilities of these practices and to envision how they could become vehicles for societal change.

At birth, she was given various names in preparation for societal collapse and variant potential futures, a Chinese name, an American name and an Indonesian name given by her parents, as well as a Catholic name by the local priest.

Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko, the collective bases its practice on a distinctly Japanese sense of spatial recognition and human behavior in the information era, proposing innovative models for societal development.

This flagrant disregard for societal conventions played perfectly to both angsty suburban teens and a wild arcade game about driving people to the brand - name retail chain of their choice.

Quebec libraries leery of Islamic group's books blaming feminism for societal ills (Yahoo Daily Brew)

The revelation was a shock to the family because Conley had a girlfriend in high school; a relationship that he admits was comforting for its societal acceptance, but also a lie because he knew his true feelings.

I'd like to say that my IROC ownership was a defiant statement of disdain for societal snobbery, but the truth is that I was blissfully ignorant of the connotations of Camaro.

Darling - Hammond and Ravitch are simply amazed that the reform movement is managing to convince legislators that this is the way to go... which includes blaming teachers for societal ills and ignoring poverty.

If you want to reform the schools so that kids are held accountable, teachers aren't blamed for societal ills, schools get back to educating rather than feeding, clothing, and raising the students, the whole one size fits all mentality... then I'm with you.

That's not to say we might not, for societal purposes, and I believe it, that we should worry about the income levels of the poor people.

That isn't just stupid, it's a recipe for societal disaster.

This perspective has made the exclusion of religion from the public schools seem not a matter of political convenience or respect for societal diversity, but essential to the mission of education.

The extent to which human - driven phenomena, including technology and culture, can affect human nature itself raises an interesting philosophical question: Should our goals for societal development include mindfulness of how Homo sapiens evolve in response?

Modelling the impacts of long power outages during extreme weather conditions is important for societal preparedness.