Sentences with phrase «homes and living environments»

It engages our relationship to smells inherent to our daily surroundings that encompass our bodies, homes and living environments.

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We need to revise our economies «to reduce wealth inequality and ensure that prices, taxation, and incentive systems take into account the real costs which consumption patterns impose on our environment,» the scientists said, adding: «We must recognize, in our day - to - day lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home.»

It's a dramatic U-turn in the quest for the perfect work environment — a migration back to the cubicle from the often - idealized home office, but a cubicle reimagined for a time when the line between domestic and professional life has never been more blurred.

Cities which are home to world - class schools and universities, as well as offering a high quality of life and safe environment, stand to benefit in the long - run, says the report.

Homeownership has been the most effective step on the ladder into the middle class and to create wealth for most Americans since the 1950s, and continues to fill that role It also fulfills the promise of the Housing Act of 1949 of a «decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.»

«Cars are an environment, alongside the home and the office, where individuals spend a significant amount of time, and which through connectivity can become an important part of life,» said Lijuan Chen, head of Alibaba A.I. Labs, which created the Genie.

«In a hostile environment, we're going to do everything we can do within the parameters of the law to ensure our freedom to continue to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, protect and defend the sanctity of life, help couples with their marriages, help parents raise their children, and find forever homes for orphaned children,» he said.

Most moderately retarded people (I.Q. 40 to 54) can live in a home environment and work successfully in a sheltered workshop (many corporations subcontract routine, repetitious jobs to such workshops).

Plus at their home office in Iowa, Vi Bella employs several women who have been referred by local agencies to provide them with steady work and a supportive environment to assist in creating stability in their lives.

Morals come from your home and your community and the environment you live in.

This encourages all the company's employees to make a sustainable difference by considering and acting upon the impact of their home and working lives on the future of the planet and environment.

When questioned about their role and importance in a military environment, many contend correctly that they are absolutely vital to the daily lives and welfare of their diners, a high percentage of whom are away from home and family for the first time.

This four - week e-course is a powerful opportunity to make a change in your life for the better; gain space, time, and clarity in your home; and delve deeply into the emotional reasons behind the clutter you keep in a safe and supportive environment.

Instead, they live in a home environment where contribution and appreciation is freely given among family members of all ages, both within the family and within the bigger community.

The early childhood teacher's goal is to create a harmonious environment that is nurturing, ordered, and beautiful and to provide a comfortable transition from home life to school life.

A evening packed with solid practical advice for parents of children from toddlers to teenagers, that shows how to utilize the very stuff of family life — chores, mealtime, sibling rivalry, toilet training, bedtime, allowances and more — to create a home environment in which children can become self - disciplined, compassionate, responsible, resourceful, resilient human beings who can act in their own best interest, stand up for themselves and exercise their own rights while respecting the rights and legitimate needs of others.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Another reason we decided to join the community is to minimize our footprint and impact on the environment — driving less, sharing resources, and living in a home that reduces heating costs by 90 %.

Recognizing that working long hours in a new and intensely challenging environment can also pose challenges to balancing work and home life, a number of programs are in place at Floating Hospital to help ease the transition from student to pediatric specialist.

See, e. g., Utley v. Utley, 364 A. 2d 1167, 1170 (D.C.App.1976)(«A happy and normal family life is often impossible of accomplishment when a child of tender years is subjected to the frustrating experience of divided custody especially when in the process he is shifted from home to home, from city to city, or from one family environment to another.»)

And as the study demonstrated, babies 9 months and under do especially well in play - based language sessions with a live tutor just as well as they would be learning the language in a natural environment at hoAnd as the study demonstrated, babies 9 months and under do especially well in play - based language sessions with a live tutor just as well as they would be learning the language in a natural environment at hoand under do especially well in play - based language sessions with a live tutor just as well as they would be learning the language in a natural environment at home.

Living up to its urban appeal, the Mountain Buggy Black Nano Stroller is the perfect choice for any urban and city parents who wants to raise their baby in an active environment as opposed to being left all the time at home.

An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

Home visiting reaches families where they live by delivering parent support and child development services directly in the home environmHome visiting reaches families where they live by delivering parent support and child development services directly in the home environmhome environment.

A broad range of studies have confirmed better health and development in children and more positive environments in home - visit households, and give us reason to hope that home visiting is a strategy that can improve the lives of children at risk.

My family lives in an urban environment and our home is small.

We personally interview each potential Surrogate in her home so we can ensure she lives in a safe and healthy environment.

The court awards custody in the following order of preference unless in a particular case the best interest of the child requires otherwise: to both parents jointly or to either parent; to a person or persons in whose home the child has been living and where the child has had a wholesome and stable environment; to any person related within the third degree of consanguinity; to any other person or persons whom the court finds suitable and able to provide proper care.

Michigan: Custody is awarded based on the best interests of the child, based on the following factors: moral character and prudence of the parents; physical, emotional, mental, religious and social needs of the child; capability and desire of each parent to meet the child's emotional, educational, and other needs; preference of the child, if the child is of sufficient age and maturity; the love and affection and other emotional ties existing between the child and each parent; the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity; the desire and ability of each parent to allow an open and loving frequent relationship between the child and other parent; the child's adjustment to his / her home, school, and community; the mental and physical health of all parties; permanence of the family unit of the proposed custodial home; any evidence of domestic violence; and other factors.

We, as a society, still struggle to see how the parent - child relationship and the home environment it creates translates not only to that child's happiness as a child but also as an adult, as well as the lives that person will touch, especially his or her own children.

«I think what's important about that bill it's a bill to recognize peoples» differences and children of special education have special needs and what this says their backgorund and home life and best environment for them to learn should be taken into consideration,» the speaker said.

This country set in 1949 as a goal, a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.

Through the Hazardous Waste Drop - Off event, residents are able to rid their home of unsafe materials and take the proper steps to dispose of them and protect the environment in which we live,» Legislator Rath said.

«Bearing down on unsustainable rents and helping more Londoners own their own home; continuing to improve and grow our transport system to cut delays and deliver value for money for commuters, promoting a healthier living environment for London families.»

We, concerned Ghanaians and Pan-Africanists at home and in the Diaspora, have read and watched with concern reports on the damaging effect of illegal mining on human lives, animals and the Ghanaian environment.

Individuals living in low - income homes experience greater chaos in their daily lives, including more moves, school changes, family turmoil, and crowded and noisy environments, and fewer structured routines and rituals.

For seniors living in high - risk environments of nursing homes and hospitals, there were nine less hip fractures per 1,000 older adults per year.

Take a closer look, and you'll find that these living environments are home to tiny hand - painted figurines that bring each landscape to life.

In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than $ 500 million each year in services that make urban environments cleaner, more affordable and more pleasant places to live.

Smart Living focuses on developing processes and technology to turn home, workplace, transportation and energy systems into «smart» environments.

Shwetak Patel, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life.

Olson and co-authors Nicholas Eaton at Stony Brook University and Aidan Key of Gender Diversity, a Seattle organization that provides training and runs support groups for families of gender - nonconforming children, specifically focused their study on transgender children who were living as their identified gender in all aspects of their lives, who came from supportive home environments, and who had not yet reached puberty.

«The global nature of Enceladus» ocean and the inference that hydrothermal systems might exist at the ocean's base strengthen the case that this small moon of Saturn may have environments similar to those at the bottom of our own ocean,» said Jonathan Lunine, an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. «It is therefore very tempting to imagine that life could exist in such a habitable realm, a billion miles from our home.»

Thankfully, we can lower the amount of plastic - related chemicals in our bodies, our homes, and the environment — as well as the risks they pose — by simply using fewer plastics in our daily lives.

To assess the participants» early home environment, the researchers examined data collected when the participants were adolescents, including self - reported home life history, interviews with the participants» parents, and developmental histories recorded by a social worker.

The study adds to previous research showing that the quality of people's early home environments can have «far - reaching effects on wellbeing, life achievement, and relationship functioning throughout the lifespan,» says Waldinger.

The secret behind Threelac effectiveness is the micro-encapsulation process that gets the live bacteria safely past the acidic environment of the stomach and target Candida yeast in its home base, the intestines.

But it's easy to forget that we live in a microbial environment as well and our home environment influences our health too.

No matter how small your living space is and no matter how strapped for cash you are, small changes can be made that will make your home the perfect environment for getting your sweat on.

I believe that like all living things, they respond to the mental atmosphere they live in, and are more potent when appreciated and cared for in a loving home environment.