Sentences with phrase «fragmentation as»

One concern is that harvesting massive amounts of naturally occurring seaweed for bioenergy could have comparable effects on atmospheric carbon dioxide and habitat loss or fragmentation as large - scale deforestation.

Land use changes: logging, habitat fragmentation as the suburbs move further out from city cores and new roads are built, wetlands drying up, drought / excess rain.

In the late 1940s, Fine drew extensively from Cubist fragmentation as well as from the ideas of Hans Hofmann on the harmonics and formal tensions of color and shape.

Just turning on AMPK by itself gives you as much fragmentation as a mitochondrial poison,» says Shaw.

Today, primary threats are habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human development.

Some species of sea star (known commonly but erroneously as «starfish») use asexual reproduction via fragmentation as their main reproductive mode.

One way to improve your baby's sleep health is to work to consolidate sleep with as few wakings and fragmentation as possible throughout the night (once the child is old enough to consolidate calories during the day, meaning they don't need to be fed every few hours).

Indeed, it seems to threaten us with an increase in that fragmentation as more adequate attention is given in the theological course of study to more and more of the diverse ways in which the Christian thing is concretely actual.

1We chose the control group, because securities in the test groups have seen a substantial increase in fragmentation as market makers seek to improve their queue position when providing liquidity.

The report, reviewed by Reuters, warns of dangers for the global internet, including intrusive surveillance, rising cybercrime and fragmentation as governments exert control of online content.

Not exact matches

«We expect further fragmentation of the political landscape, and, as a result, difficulties in forming a new government coalition,» economists at Rabobank told CNBC via email.

Industry insiders see this trend as a reaction to fragmentation within the beer category.

Uncertainty shock = lower US GDP estimates; markets will price in EU fragmentation; Fed likely to pass in Dec; ultimate growth impact of Trump will depend on whether his protectionism or Keynesianism triumphs; either way Trump will boost inflation / stagflation expectations as electorates say end wage deflation via immigration controls, trade protectionism, fiscal spending.

Frankly, as unemployment deteriorates in the coming years, the fragmentation of society is going to become our single biggest issue

In early 2013, the leadership team determined that as a result of the fragmentation in the market there were a number of opportunities for us to capture market share, either through acquisition or strategic acceleration.

Why is Apple not experiencing the same fragmentation problem as Google?

As a result, deepened fragmentation on economic policies — particularly fiscal policy — will feed the European agenda with tension in the coming year.

Predictions For Local Search In 2012 — Year of the Dragon — Over at Search Engine Land, Chris Silver Smith lays out his predictions for 2012 as far as local search is concerned (hint: more fragmentation).

While consumer access fragmentation is a challenge to business as usual, there's a huge opportunity to leverage data analytics technology to transform TV.»

«She considers factors that directly affect advisor workload, such as asset fragmentation,» the report found.

However off exchange fragmentation, as represented by TRF market share, is higher in these same less liquid securities.

What at an earlier stage could be regarded as fruitful tension now appears as destructive fragmentation.

Thus, congregation members perform the healing function of pastoral care as they come together in the midst of chaos, offering hope and wholeness in the midst of fragmentation and despair.

It looks as though the bases on which fragmentation of the course of study might be overcome all explicitly or implicitly deny the reality or importance of «apparent» pluralism in the Christian thing.

It has been seen more as the cause of fragmentation and incoherence than as the source from which the restoration of integrity might flow.

Nevertheless, our special interest is to carry forward Whitehead's work as a cosmologist, that is, as one who tried to bring some measure of coherence out of the fragmentation of the physical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

As such, it becomes an ally of fragmentation and moral anarchy only to the extent that we leave its defense to the fragmenters and moral anarchists.

(I interpret «life and death» here to refer to the impermanence spoken of above, also to the fragmentation of values as scattered about, a little in me, some in you, some in other higher animals, indeed as Buddhists assert some even in lower animals, all of these perishable.)

«Pluralism» will endorse moral fragmentation only so far as we allow it to do so.

a necessary disposition toward separation from the causes of fragmentation; especially: advocacy of withdrawal from all parasitic groups (as a church), for the purpose of gynophilic / biophilic communication.

Weak or malfunctioning marriages often experience further fragmentation and perhaps termination, partly as a result of the crises precipitated by the «adolescing» of the children.

What I hope does not happen is a further fragmentation of the evangelical community as a result of its new minority position in American politics.

And yet almost as a counter-movement to the continuing fragmentation of many societies in our world today, there seems to be a quest for community in different and sometimes also contradictory ways.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and liveAs the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and liveas to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

Chapters in this section are also devoted to a consideration of recent scholarship of importance to theological education, such as that of Robert Schreiter (Constructing Local Theologies), George Lindbeck (The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age) and Edward Farley (Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education)

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

A consideration of the difference between a hologram and an image made from a lens camera can play a significant part in the perception of undivided wholeness, as contrasted with fragmentation.

[xxiv] This further lead to modern specialization, fragmentation, and particularization that Heidegger saw as a powerful force within the same cultural milieu.

As the Church advanced through the centuries and missionary efforts grew, there came a need to rectify this fragmentation.

This appears to be what happens, however unintentionally, when issues raised by pluralism and by fragmentation are dealt with by construing theological schooling as a movement from «source of wisdom» to «wise living,» or from «basis - of - theory» to «application - of - theory,» or from a mode of «inwardness» or «subjectivity» to «outward manifestation and expression.»

This picture that God is understood by way of the affections tends to have much the same cultural location as does the view that God is understood by way of discursive reasoning or scientia: It is a culture marked by the high differentiation and specialization of social roles characteristic of urban societies and their economics, considerable pluralism of subcultures and worldviews, social fragmentation, personal anonymity, and rootlessness.

Postmodern hermeneutics, left to itself, devolves into relativism, fragmentation, and subjective perspectivism, a trajectory that challenges the historic Christian understanding of language as a reliable medium of truth.

However, I guess one might then anticipate greater support for the three current major parties to counter that, and the effect might be somewhat countered by using AV + and STV systems which can tend to reward more pluralist parties with broader support who can win transfers, as against non-preferential PR systems (like those in Scotland and Wales) which may be more prone to fragmentation.

She also warned that efforts to devolve responsibilities within the railway industry has «caused fragmentation at a time when we need to be more integrated» and may act as a barrier to the sharing of information, ideas and data.

Rather, their focus upon American domestic politics, the economy, immigration and perceived cultural fragmentation mean that, if anything, they appear to be a force encouraging a return to previous US policies of isolationism, a strategy of retreat from the world in order to preserve America as they want it to be.

The state - building fetish unconsciously emptied Libya of a complex historical trajectory that has led to today's fragmentation, as well as of the will of its people.

As ever, privatising a public service raises two serious problems: fragmentation and perverse incentives.

Participation in a centre - left coalition will lose us credibility as we would spend most of the time helping to undo the Tory policies that we helped implement (academy schools, NHS fragmentation, bedroom tax, etc. etc.) and continuation with the Tories would be unpalatable as we have lost hope of dragging them in a progressive direction, or even anywhere near the «centre» as Nick Clegg imagines (just watch this year's Tory conference).