Sentences with phrase «human social systems»

As such, the GCRA (Section 106) mandated that the CCSP prepare, not less frequently than every four years, a scientific assessment report, or National Assessment, of global climate change research that, among other things, analyzes the effects of global change on eight specific areas, including: «the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity.»

I see the lessons in that paper as powerfully applicable to human social systems.

«The information flow among ant colonies is just insane compared with human social systems.»

This glowingly successful model can be expanded further to establish predictions about the future evolution of humans and human social systems.

An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes in behaviors can significantly affect climate projections.

Not exact matches

«The repercussions of this cruel and shortsighted approach are wasted human potential and incredible costs incurred in adulthood in the courts, the medical system and in social services.»

In Canada, human rights remain an embedded principle of Canadian law and governance, embracing both civil / political dimensions and economic / social / cultural dimensions of human rights as indispensable to the operation of our political and legal systems.

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security, and human health are likely to occur.

We humans are social beings, having a sense of community and a support system brings about happiness, as well as other factors.

If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

Routine is the god of every social system, as Whitehead puts it in Adventures of Ideas, and this includes the human soul.

Neither system is invoked by name, but in their complete violation, the novel presents not a world in which evil has triumphed, but one in which the basic obligations of humans as social beings — to establish civil society and recourse for its governance — are ignored.

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

The ideal the French Revolution set before it was not merely a change in the French social system but nothing short of a regeneration of the whole human race.

I use the word «named religions» because there are countless moral and social belief systems private to every human which does not have a name...

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

It is generally believed that the laws, customs, and rituals by which the particular system is defined are written into the nature of things, and that the social structure is but a true reflection of the innate qualities of human nature in its several kinds.

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

Nothing gets «proven» as it does in the hard sciences (and there is good reason to say that science doesn't actually «prove» nor does it claim to), but in more complicated systems, such as social, human ones, proof is very difficult (why should we not expect it to be so in theology also?).

Indeed, as Whitehead is convinced, all ecological systems and by extension all naturally occurring social groups of whatever type, human included, are fostered upon the principle of cooperation, and not competition or antagonism.

Using family systems as illustrative, let's look at the dynamics of social systems and how they nurture or negate human growth.

Both parts are needed to express the complex social system necessary to human liberty and flourishing.

Other social systems had treated human beings as social entities, not biological machines.

But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.

Pessimists maintain that, after a certain point, the necessities of integrating the whole network of machine and social systems will box in and choke off human freedom.

In this respect, the Islamic economy resembles all other systems that claim to be serving the human being and realizing his social aspirations, but it differs from them in the details of its conception of social justice.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

We shall examine also the nature of human consciousness and moral values in order to determine if they have any unique characteristics that could assist us in distinguishing between causal and contingent features of an evolving biological or social system.

His immediate dream is of a transformation of human values and social organization which would bring into being by about 2018 what he calls a «compassionate - systems revolution.»

This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.

Paul recognized those social systems which violated human dignity; yet he believed that in Christ slavery was transcended.

each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

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For example, Hofer (1987, 1994) examined physiological regulation in rat babies (who are much less social than humans) and has demonstrated that separation from mother causes dysregulation in multiple physiological systems like breathing, heart rate, hormones.

The Obama campaign used the internet as well as they did not because they employed tools that were particularly new (database - driven field organizing, email fundraising, online video and social networking have all been around for years) but because they worked out human systems to put those tools to work effectively.

The letter read in part: «To monitor Nigerians» access to social media solely on the basis that it may be used to express views critical of the government or the political social system espoused by the government is entirely incompatible and inconsistent with constitutional guarantees and Nigeria's international human rights obligations and commitments.»

is AFFIRMING that a more democratic, equitable and collaborative system is possible where local schools supported by the entire community provide excellent education and the wrap around services needed to meet each child's right to reach his / her full human potential and their community's right for social and economic development,

We are fighting to build a mass movement of the working class, which seeks the abolition of capitalism and its replacement by a social system based on human need, not private profit — i.e., socialism.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge, psychiatric investigators with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»

In order for small, roving bands of nomadic humans to evolve into the organised societies we see today, social institutions such as government, a justice system and formal education needed to develop.

Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modelling of many natural systems in physics, chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of those systems.

Bowers worked with the US Central Command's human terrain analysis branch, which is separate from the army's Human Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds social scientists within the milihuman terrain analysis branch, which is separate from the army's Human Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds social scientists within the miliHuman Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds social scientists within the military.

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.

Like other social psychologists, Clinton - Sherrod is an expert in human social behavior and on how culture affects behavior in social systems.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

In 1996, SHRP and the Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS)- a global network of organizations concerned with information handling and documentation of human rights violations, began a three - year project to develop a «violations approach» to monitoring economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) as enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICEHuman Rights Information and Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS)- a global network of organizations concerned with information handling and documentation of human rights violations, began a three - year project to develop a «violations approach» to monitoring economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) as enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICEhuman rights violations, began a three - year project to develop a «violations approach» to monitoring economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) as enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICsocial, and cultural rights (ESCR) as enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICSocial, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

But a simulation system that gives computer - controlled agents a sense of social propriety could change that, leading to more realistic interactions between humans and characters in games.

The researchers, who present their findings at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, suggested that social media developers may want to explore new ways to make content ownership more effective and transparent, as well as consider current collaborative privacy management models and tools.

To study the sex ratio in humans is more challenging, especially if your goal is to determine how the sex ratio affects social systems.