Sentences with phrase «for societal benefits»

For the study, MAbs were rapidly produced in tobacco plants in as little as ten days, giving promise to change the image of scourged product that causes lung cancer into a manufacturing system for societal benefits against infectious diseases.

And yet when it comes down to the final moments, when it gets real, when we have no more need for the societal benefits of religious posturing, we learn what is really most important, and the answer (given the real purpose of life, see above) is what we should reasonably expect: family.

The EU Horizon 2020 project AtlantOS, which is coordinated by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, just finalized a video to explain the value of integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing for societal benefit.

«Ms. Kapustij has the poise and leadership to provide sound policy analyses and develop policy options to promote the use of genomic information for societal benefit.»

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.

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.

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There are even some pressure points for patient advocates who think Cures» passage is a net societal benefit.

In fact, it's taxing the nation's future entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists, who are increasingly focused on societal benefits but can't afford to pay for their education out of pocket.

Notwithstanding its potential environmental burdens, the JRP ultimately concluded that the NGP is in the public interest, citing various societal benefits including primarily jobs and job - training for Aboriginal communities but also «research, monitoring, and planning initiatives and techniques with relevance beyond the project» and economic benefits, first and foremost the importance of «opening Pacific Basin markets» (NGP Report, Volume II, Chapter 2, s. 2.4.3 and 2.4.4.).

Overall, I believe that a modern workplace should address the needs of today's workforce, and that utilizing workplace technology to support telecommuting and flexible work will achieve societal, environmental, and economic benefits for both employees and employers.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

What is the relative value of individuals, groups, and the societal totality when it comes to apportioning the sacrifices and benefits that are the condition for temporal and historical achievement?

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

All of which means that before we tout the presumptive benefits of marriage for everyone, we should be willing to explore what's working for those who are happily living alternatively and whether what doesn't work for them is the actual arrangement or the societal expectation that committed couples marry and live together as well as the judgment they face if they don't follow the romantic script.

And if every mother, like mothers in other advanced democracies, could have the security — emotional and financial — that her child could attend a program like my son's with government subsidies, I think there would be huge societal as well as personal benefits for women and women's lives.

By correctly stating that breast milk is the superior food, we are aiming to change these societal myths and normalize breastfeeding for the benefit of everyone.

The second major task for Labour is to secure the backing of business for a model of inclusive capitalism that restores public confidence in the moral virtue of wealth creation where doing well, and properly paying all taxes due, is seen as a societal as well as private, benefit.

There are no straightforward answers to such questions, but the potential benefits will fuel future discussions, which could hopefully lead to societal agreement about data for policy.

The idea that individual freedom would allow for harmony and mutual societal benefit, by the way - which is tempting to interpret as everyone acting in their own self - interest - is quite reminiscent of Adam Smith's invisible hand, although I'm reluctant to make any close connections.

To help bring the science and government interplay to the public, he helped launch the «science policy» topic for the magazine and wrote a four - part series on some of the most important societal issues where government and scientists can come together for public benefit

«Even when accounting for the broader societal benefits of energy efficiency investments, the costs still substantially outweigh the benefits,» the report concluded.

The Irish minister for research and innovation, Sean Sherlock, says that research will deliver jobs and major economic and societal benefits: «Today we are sending out a major positive signal that, despite our status as an E.U. / IMF program country, we are still investing smartly and significantly in research talent.»

Although both approaches to eliminating discarding satisfy the societal demand for reductions in waste of natural resources, the conservation benefits are quite different, the study authors found.

By modeling indirect savings of the individual returning to the work force after surgery, researchers found that the lifetime societal net benefit for patients undergoing knee replacement averages between $ 10,000 and $ 30,000.

As part of the decadal conferences series, OceanObs»19 will galvanize ocean observing communities to improve coordination of regional and national efforts to better observe the global ocean, to better respond to the joint scientific and societal needs of a fit - for - purpose ocean observing system, and maximize the overall benefit of more integrated observing.

The Swedish Biodiversity Program: For projects with the aim to understand genetic variation in nature and which will give novel biological insights and a societal benefit for the environmeFor projects with the aim to understand genetic variation in nature and which will give novel biological insights and a societal benefit for the environmefor the environment.

After winning a Starting or Consolidator Grant, group leaders will be eligible to apply for Proof of Concept Grants, which provide a further $ 150,000 over 18 months to pursue promising commercial or societal benefits emerging from an ERC project.

«Earth observations provide societal and economic benefits, for example, for agriculture, fishing, and shipping.

Less segregated communities have a number of societal benefits — a migrant marrying a local has a higher chance of finding employment, for example.

@Pearl I think there both forms of prostitution, but then again, I think (in our society) so is marriage (womben get married usually to be more financially secure & receive societal benefits in exchange for being a «wife»).

Evaluations of school - reform measures typically focus on the outcomes that are most easily quantified, namely, test scores, as a proxy for long - term societal benefit.

Readers feeling unsure of themselves or frustrated by societal pressures regarding what they should look like, act like and / or focus on would benefit from reading Davis» story, which offers plenty of inspiration for becoming a better «me.»

In 2009, Kogan and Stewart initiated a discussion within the veterinary medical community bringing forth the concept of veterinary professional associates, midtier professionals similar to physician's assistants (PAs).1 The article evaluated the need for such a role through discussion of societal needs for more veterinarians and described the motivations, developmental history, intended role, responsibilities, limitations, benefits, and certification process of PAs.

Those expenditures will, however, create economic benefits (albeit for a different group of people than the ones who currently control the industry...) and the economic and societal savings from health care and (dare I say it) wars may in fact balance it out.

For this purpose, the analysis first makes a comparison of fossil fuel and NRETs on the basis of the levelized costs of electricity (LCOEs), and then proceeds to identify and quantify potential societal benefits of NRET deployment in LAC.

Climate change driven disruptions to ecosystems have direct and indirect human impacts, including reduced water supply and quality, the loss of iconic species and landscapes, effects on food chains and the timing and success of species migrations, and the potential for extreme weather and climate events to destroy or degrade the ability of ecosystems to provide societal benefits.11

In addition, when EV owners are encouraged to charge their vehicles overnight (such as with the Ontario government's recently - announced program to provide free overnight charging) the overnight surplus base - load power capacity offers a way to marry broad public policy and societal benefits to the more narrow interests of the individual, in the form of «free fuel» alternatives for making this environmentally beneficial choice.

For instance, the benefits of burning gas leaking from landfills — something waste management companies would be selling anyway — are not on par with the societal benefits from building new sources of clean energy and displacing older, dirtier sources.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

As human beings, we must take seriously our need to care for each other, whether at the specific level of provision of universal healthcare benefits and international aid, or in the more abstract sense of societal cohesiveness.

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.

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resources.

As part of the decadal conferences series, OceanObs»19 will galvanize ocean observing communities to improve coordination of regional and national efforts to better observe the global ocean, to better respond to the joint scientific and societal needs of a fit - for - purpose ocean observing system, and maximize the overall benefit of more integrated observing.

The case was then presented for advanced geostationary sounding capabilities as a contribution to GEOSS societal benefit areas, atmospheric ECVs, Numerical Weather Prediction capabilities improved by four - dimensional data assimilation, nowcasting capability, and sensor intercalibration.29 The value of nonclimate applications of such measurements was emphasized.

The proper calculation for the Pigovian fee on carbon emissions is; C (total societal cost of emissions)- B (total societal benefit of emissions) = optimal fee for emitting.

Jan. 13: After the first conference held by the Future of Life Institute on the «future of artificial intelligence» in Puerto Rico on Jan. 2 - 4, prominent scientists and researchers from industry and academia issue an open letter calling for AI and smart machine research that is «robust and beneficial» to humanity and linking to a document outlining «research directions that can help maximize the societal benefit of AI» including numerous questions on «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

Employers need to recognise the commercial and societal benefits of a more gender diverse workforce and prioritise actions that will improve gender diversity, not just for their own advantage but for the benefit of their community and country going forward.

Advocacy regarding neglect may be at several levels as outlined in the following examples: 1) at the child's level, for example, explaining to a parent that responding to a crying infant does not risk spoiling him / her is a form of advocacy on behalf of a preverbal child; 2) at the parental level, helping a depressed mother access mental health care or encouraging a father to be more involved in his child's life; 3) at the community level, supporting efforts to develop community family resources; and 4) at the societal level, supporting government policies and programs such as those that reduce access to health care, food benefits, and subsidized child care.

Much like our state, our executive leadership at CHMC is also politically divided, yet we unite on essential marriage and societal issues, including the fundamental importance of a healthy family and its benefits for children, couples, and society.»

Identifies the long - term societal benefits of investing early (from conception to age five) in effective programs for children.