Sentences with phrase «general problem of»

Proportionality shifts attention from the general problem of high - volume, prohibitively expensive productions to -LSB-...]

The second issue is what evidence is relevant to whether there is a general problem of substance abuse in the workplace.

Special safety risks could include a general problem of substance abuse within a workplace, not just within the bargaining unit.

The specific case of building an e-commerce website is worth exploring; here, the general problem of being sued by clients in the course of ordinary business was discussed, but e-commerce opens up an additional risks.

This is not so much a comment on the hurricane aspect of this thread, but on the general problem of trying to explain the weather and climate to the public (or reporters).

For example, first work on preventing catastrophic climate change, and use the research from that to address the more general problem of getting shaved monkeys to worry about threats they can't see that will kill them in the impossibly far distant future (viz, later than next fiscal quarter).

Beyond the specific issue of climate sensitivity, it raises the more general problem of optimal model complexity.

We're not facing a general problem of population growth but one of poverty and backwardness in certain countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East.

Then there is the generally degrading quality of U.S. infrastructure, which could easily lead to more outbreaks similar to the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidium epidemic — as well as the more general problem of not having enough water to meet basic needs, let alone any economic expansion.

This is the same ugly face of the general problem of turbulence — continuous spectrum of scales, so any artificial limit on the length of averages will always miss something, and the simplfied equations can not form a closed solvable set (someone here was confused about importance and relevance of this problem).

# 19 I think the 11 yr modulation you mention is just a particular aspect of the general problem of GCR / cloud cover correlations.

It doesn't seem like it will solve the general problem of carriers and manufacturers slowing down major Android updates.

Instead I would see both as symptoms of the more general problem of things wearing out.

This also reinforces the general problem of comparing teacher performance in different instructional contexts.

Indeed, in physics, the general problem of exactly determining the relative motion of three bodies has not yet been solved (Wolfram, 2002).

Then they will look into whether it is a general problem of a specific one to that hospital.

Finally, I would like to mention some implications of the neurophysiological and cosmological theories for a most general problem of philosophy — the problem of the one and the many.

As I noted before, each alternative has its own problems, and so this shortcoming of the brain wave model originates in the more general problem of time.

The impact of Principia Mathematica on Whitehead's later thought centers on the issue that its method applied to a very general problem of deducing the whole of mathematics from a handful of elementary formal notions and axioms.

It is only» one case of the more general problem of the «rectification of the circular arc,» which, of course, meets us in metrical geometry itself, independently of any application to the estimation of temporal intervals.

But whether one agrees with Professor Buchler or not about his characterization, he has certainly raised a general problem of quite basic import in metaphysical thinking.

«Process» addresses the general problem of reconciling flux and permanence in the temporal world.

And as I suggested recently with regard to the Ray Rice scandal, cases involving famous men doing awful things don't necessarily help us understand the ethical subtlety of the more general problem of whether to fire employees who do bad things off the job.

But also quite general problems of human society, such as marriage rules and incest, or even the organization of nature and the universe, may be the subject of [myths];... it is only philosophical interest, both ancient and modern, that tends to isolate the myths of origin and cosmogony, which in their proper setting usually have some practical reference to the institutions of a city or a clan.

Here are some of the general problems of people experiencing «carb flu», described by people like Vollek and Phinney, as well as Eric Westman, and the solution:

The symptoms are heard about and people start taking them on board and attributing often problems that they've had for a long, long time like sleep problems or blood pressure or just general problems of ageing to exposure to windfarms.

And the general problems of research funded by drug companies are real enough.

Not exact matches

The problem with a lot of these fads, and offices in general, is that many are made at the behest of the big boss making assumptions about what their people need to work their hardest.

Rodney Schutt, SVP and general manager of HyperSound business at Turtle Beach, says the problem today is that just 20 % to 25 % of adults who have hearing loss actually buy hearing aids.

I read the stories of our general contractors and I remember that we're solving a real problem and people are grateful for our service.

As I wrote back in 2013, the findings of the Guelph study (and now the findings of the New York attorney general) suggest a quality control problem at best, and outright fraud at worst.

As Steve Blank recently pointed out in an article in Harvard Business Review, it was the failure to deal with this issue that led to many of General Electric's current problems.

The Justice Department has serious and pervasive problems with how it addresses sexual misconduct complaints made by its own employees, the department's inspector general found in a recent report obtained by The Washington Post through Freedom of Information Act requests.

Last Friday, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley presumptuously said that if «diplomacy» failed, «I have no problem kicking it to General Mattis because I think he has plenty of options.»

They're general, of course — otherwise the problems you could address would be too limited.

They hope to be able to amass enough data about women's menstrual cycles, sexual behavior, mood, and diet that they can help any woman know exactly when to conceive, warn her about early problems like potential endometriosis, and over time, promote better health care for women in general by collecting large amounts of information that hasn't been collected before.

«Considering that «histrionic personality disorder» is still in the DSM - 5, and that women in general are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some other mental illnesses by clinicians, I'd say he's stoking the flames of a much larger problem about how our society seems to view women — as having excessive emotional needs that need to nearly constantly be managed or controlled rather than taken seriously.

The lack of action when General Motors found out about a series of ignition problems in their vehicles is just the latest example.

Valukas exonerated Barra and two other top executives, Mark Reuss, chief of global product development, and general counsel Michael Millikin, saying there is no evidence they knew about the problems any earlier than last December.

Valukas also portrayed a corporate culture in which there was heavy pressure to keep costs down, a reluctance to report problems up the chain of command, a skittishness about putting safety concerns on paper, and general bureaucratic resistance to change.

But while those suffering severe memory problems are obviously the first contenders for treatment with devices of this type, Science Alert also notes that these findings are part of a more general push toward performance - boosting brain implants that may soon be used by the healthy as well as the impaired.

Part of the problem was that Caplan was appalled at the general tenor of fashion reality shows.

The recent military takeover of the capital — which generals insist is not a coup — has made made the problem even worse.

Many of the problems in the economy and job markets we see today are a direct result of large corporate failures to invest in the future and create long - term value for all stakeholders, including employees and the public in general.

These more general biases and hurdles, along with the issue of male confusion at women's needs and problems, help explain why femaleentrepreneurs take home a pathetically small share of venture capital — less than 5 percent.

In a larger context, the conflict between General Fusion's vision and the criticism it generates illustrates the problem of the orthodox and the heretical in the science world, says Turchi.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.

«The biggest problem,» a Southwest executive told Bloomberg, «is a general lack of interest in folks pursuing this as a career anymore.»

In both the Evanston program and the Miami program, core and advanced courses help students to grasp the tools of general management, providing techniques for solving managerial problems.

While I generally consider this advice to be wise, especially for inexperienced investors who should probably opt for something like an index fund, working with a qualified advisor or, if they are wealthy enough, an asset management group, the problem comes from the fact that if you find a truly outstanding business — one that you have conviction will continue to compound for decades at rates many times that of the general market, even a high price can be a bargain.