Sentences with phrase «how people assess»

The point of origin in this discussion was the article that illustrates an influence of «solution aversion» to how people assess the science related to climate change.

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In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

«Now that we know which traits to look for, we can begin to make progress on how to best assess them in high - stakes settings such as hiring and promotion, where people are more inclined to hide the darker sides of their character,» she told The Huffington Post.

This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

As the health of our organizations becomes increasingly dependent on the engagement of our workforce, it's clear we need more reliable ways to assess how managers impact the day - to - day working conditions of our people.

Identify that critical need, determine how you measure success in the position, assess the common attributes of your top performers, determine what qualities mesh with your culture... and tailor everything to finding the perfect person to solve that critical business need.

«Russia must assess carefully as to how its actions are in the best interests of the Russian people and of the world more broadly.

It could be anything from learning how to meet new people or assess new situations.

The trick is to assess how the person behaves ordinarily.

This gave him a no - strings way to experience, in very practical terms, how each system might really work within his company and to assess whether people would actually use it.

2) Assess your needs: As always, good workforce planning is critical to determine how many people you need to hire in the next three, six or 12 months.

Successful people review their calendars to assess if anything needs changing or rearranging with how their day is planned, and to see if there's any preparatory work that might need scheduling in before a call or meeting.

Finally, as leaders assess how to design work space, it really comes down to listening to and taking the pulse of your people.

Projective tests, such as the famous Rorschach, are more controversial, and are used to assess how people handle ambiguity.

Plenty of time for people to assess how successful the process will have been to that point.

Nendo says the next step of the quiz will involve expanding the «question bank,» translating it to French and Portuguese, assessing how people are interacting with it, and spreading it across Africa through various digital platforms.

Globalization has affected how people perceive financial markets; technological developments in the field of communication and information systems have enabled individuals to assess and access international and local financial markets.

If you don't have discernment be careful how you assess someone who is seeing into the spiritual realm and things about a persons character that you can not see.

More importantly, theological study must attend to those disciplines by which to assess the truth of old and new claims about how persons» identities and societies» power arrangements are shaped and changed.

«The online assessment provides Australians with a simple and trusted way of self - assessing the quality of their diet and how they compare to others of the same age, gender, generation, profession as well as people from the same State and across the country,» Professor Noakes said.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

Inspectors will look for evidence of how children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (or both) are identified, how their needs are assessed and met, and how they are supported to move on to their next stage of education, the world of work and wider preparation for adulthood.

So we have looked mainly at how people view government as a way of assessing this quality.

But these community orders shouldn't be assessed by their value as a deterrent — that is, how much potential offenders are scared by them — but rather, by their ability to restore a person's ability to lead a productive life in their community.

Understandably, many people are looking to business people to assess what the impact of Britain's membership of the EU has been on jobs, trade and growth, and how they would be personally affected by bringing back powers from the EU.

We also asked people how many problems they had encountered in their own lives using the same questions, to assess their personal level of discontent.

This is a 30 - point test of arithmetic, language and basic motor skills that is typically used to assess how fast people with dementia are declining.

Despite teenagers» ability to assess content, the study emphasizes that adults still have a crucial role to play in supporting young people, and helping them to understand how harmful health - related information might reach them.

By replicating how people behave when concealing a weapon or other item, researchers assessed detection accuracy and recorded behavioral cues that study participants used to make their decisions.

At the time of the September 11 attacks, the accepted protocol for handling large - scale traumatic events was to perform so - called critical incident stress debriefing, like that Dass - Brailsford led in New York, to discuss events and assess how people are reacting psychologically.

Nyunt, a malariologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMD) in Baltimore, is visiting Sa - ka - pin to assess the extent of one of the biggest problems facing an ambitious campaign to wipe out malaria from the Mekong region (see feature story on How drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region): the number of people infected with malaria who have no symptoms.

The data, they say, will help them assess how people perceive and react to dogs based on preconceptions about breed characteristics — for example, the assumption that German shepherds are strong and brave, that golden retrievers are always good with kids, or that Jack Russell terriers have a Napoleon complex.

Scientists are partly to blame for that misconception, it adds, because the metrics they typically use to assess literacy «are only weakly correlated» with how people behave.

The expert is the author of a study published in the «International Journal of Cancer», which reveals the importance of assessing how the circadian system works in order to prevent chronodisruption and to implement measures to strengthen the biological clock in people whose system is damaged.

Finally, Obradovich and Guenther ran survey experiments with a different group of 451 people, also recruited through MTurk, asking them to assess how they might change their future climate - related behaviors.

This Dutch cross-sectional study of 8,904 people assessed how the number of diseases an individual has impacts on their total health care cost, and which combinations of diseases have the greater impact on cost.

Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management in the Department of Civil Engineering, said: «The Office of Nuclear Regulation and other national bodies clearly have a problem with how they should assess the right level of expenditure to protect people from nuclear and other accidents.

This inventory then allows Duhig to assess how many people were present in the site, give a basic description of each one according to «the big four» — race, sex, age, and stature — and tell of any family relations between them.

«This guideline is essential because it provides advice on how to diagnose the condition and then how to assess the disease and determine what type of treatment will be most suitable, whether people have common manifestations such as skin rashes and arthritis, or less common but potentially more serious problems such as kidney disease.»

A new study assesses a town - gown relationship as if it were a marriage: asking community members just how much comfort they felt with people from the campus community and how much effort they put into getting along.

Bone loss and the risk of fracture is also a serious concern for the 54 million people in the United States who have low bone density or osteoporosis.1 The three-fold difference observed in bone mechanical strength versus density in the current study should prompt additional review of how physicians assess risk and treat patients with this condition.

However, it had been unclear how this ability evolves over a person's lifetime, nor had it been possible to assess the ways in which humans may behave randomly beyond simple statistical tests.

To better understand how age impacts random behavior, Nicolas Gauvrit and colleagues at the Algorithmic Nature Group, LABORES for the Natural and Digital Sciences, Paris, assessed more than 3,400 people aged 4 to 91 years old.

But as far as the question of accountability and liability goes, we might already be homing in on an answer, one that points to a shift in how the root cause of damage is assessed: When a computerized driver replaces a human one, experts say the companies behind the software and hardware sit in the legal liability chain — not the car owner or the person's insurance company.

To better understand how age impacts random behavior, researchers assessed more than 3,400 people aged 4 to 91 years old.

Patient registries are effective tools to collect data from people with a rare disease to assess their condition, how it develops and how it responds to treatments.

Bradt's job is to assess the health needs of people in disaster - stricken areas and to advise authorities on how to respond.

«That is surprising, because the way we measure compassion is to assess how much people are concerned by the suffering of others.»

With this in mind, LSE researchers set out to study the nature and extent of the «intangible» impact of the Olympic Games by using measures of subjective wellbeing that have been developed and tested by economists and psychologists for around 20 years in order to assess how people think and feel about their lives.

They then used the standard UK measurement of Quality - Adjusted Life Years (QALYs)-- a combined measure of quantity and quality of life — to assess how sick measles made people feel.