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Women tended to anticipate greater negative impacts on society from human enhancements, and were more wary than men of embracing the three technologies proposed by the survey.

And here are the prime points in the section projecting impacts on societies from greenhouse heating in coming decades:

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The overhaul came in response to increasing pressure Facebook endures over its potentially negative impact on society, from sharing violent videos to letting fake news run unchecked to its late acknowledgement that Russian operatives had used to platform to target U.S. voters.

There are so many lessons we can take from his legendary life and impact on society.

If people would spend more time worrying about now, instead of where they come from, why they are here or where they might end up, we could tackle the issues that have a negative impact on society.

For years to come, the lessons from Dover will continue to have a profound impact on how science is viewed in our society and how it is taught in the classroom

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

They drew their definition of religion from the point of view of its impact on society.

Nearly three - quarters of practicing Protestants (72 %) said the Bible should have a larger impact on society, down from 74 percent last year.

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

The evaluation, by the Institute of Health & Society at the University of Worcester, examined the impact of a Fatherhood Institute training package on 134 health visitors and community practitioners, drawn from 12 sites across eight English NHS Trusts in 2012 - 14.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

From Two Angry Moms» Facebook page, here's a good essay on the horrible food - stamps - versus - lunch conundrum and the ways in which individual hunger impacts our entire society.

The Scottish Government reduced its limit to 50mg / 100 ml in 2014, but similar measures in the rest of the UK have been resisted because of fears of their impact on pubs About the Institute of Alcohol Studies The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote an informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

This means seeing the net not as a purely private domain of sociability and consumption, to be kept free from state snooping; but rather as a terrain of political struggle with a profound impact on the character of society at large.

It's little wonder that the UK is currently facing a legal challenge from the Children's Society over the impact of the legal aid cuts on unaccompanied or separated children.

In an evening conference call, Cuomo sought to clarify his remarks, this time responding to a question from Jamie Swinnerton of the Ithaca Times in part about his limited powers to impact society as a whole on the sexual harassment issue.

Currently, Alison is PI on the ESRC funded project «International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance» (September 2015 - September 2018) with CIs George Christou (Warwick) and Seamus Simpson (Salford) and an ESRC Senior Fellow on the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe programme with the project «The impact of a proposed UK Brexit from the EU: the UK communications industries».

A new report from the Electoral Reform Society shows that 68 % of votes had no impact on the result.

The Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote an informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

Speaking on the GMI voting process, Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Alliance Group, Mr. Ernest Boateng urged the general public to get involved and vote for individuals who are performing excellently in their fields and positively impacting society from all parts of the country.

«Don't just look at it as an opportunity to raise revenue from a tax perspective; look at the impacts on society both now and long - term.»

Notes to Editors The report, «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai and Elisabete Weiderpass, will be published online in Drug and Alcohol Review at 22:00 6 September 2017 The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote and informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

National Public Works Week is observed from May 20 — 26, 2018 and allows communities an opportunity to celebrate the many impacts that public works have on modern society as well as the contributions that public Works» professionals make every day to communities across the country.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement puts future generations at risk and leaves the nation without a plan to mitigate the impact of climate change on society, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, on June...

«Reports from leading scientific societies can get considerable media attention, and if they do, they can have an impact on what the public and policy makers think, and do,» Maibach wrote in an email.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B — a journal from the Royal Society whose motto is «Take nobody's word for it» — wades into these treacherous waters this week with a special issue, «The Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow's World.»

In Striking a Balance: National Security and Scientific Freedom, the committee explored the impact of national security controls on scientific research and communications, a science and society issue that AAAS has monitored from at least the 1940s to the present.

Royal Society Open Science, which is slated for launch later this year, will «provide a scalable publishing service, allowing the Society to publish all the high quality work it receives without the restrictions on scope, length or impact imposed by traditional journals,» according to a statement from the Royal Society.

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

Science and technology have an enormous impact on society, and many citizens seek guidance on these issues from trusted religious leaders.

Why It Matters: «Changes in fertility levels have a dramatic impact on society,» Bachrach says, affecting everything from couples» happiness to the solvency of Social Security.

For the new study, investigators led by Helmneh Sineshaw, M.D., MPH, at the American Cancer Society with collaborators from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, focused on the impact of access to care on black - white survival disparity.

Our beliefs about differences between the sexes have an impact on society vastly out of proportion to the magnitude of those differences, from female scientists defending their mathematical and technical expertise to boys accused of lacking the communication and emotional skills to succeed at school.

As a materials chemist, however, I think some of the scientific discoveries with the potential for the greatest impact on society will come from the development of new materials.

The new location will be in the same building as Brown's Data Science Initiative and directly across the street from the new home of Brown's Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, stimulating opportunities for collective work that will support discoveries and their impact on society.

30 October 2017 — Due to the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Puerto Rico, the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA), with full agreement from the Puerto Rican members of the Program Committee, have decided to move the 2018 joint conference,... Continue Reading»

30 October 2017 — Due to the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Puerto Rico, the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA), with full agreement from the Puerto Rican members of the Program Committee, have decided to move the 2018 joint conference, Seismology of the Americas, from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida to be held 14 - 17 May 2018.

Hubble has something for everybody, from atmospheres of extra-solar planets to the most distant galaxies, and therefore has had an immeasurable impact on society's scientific imagination and curiosity.

The road from a discovery to its impact on society is rarely straight.

A two - day public meeting at the Royal Society, London on 4 - 5 June, 2015 will discuss the latest scientific findings arising from the UK Ocean Acidification (UKOA) research programme and the German partnership programme, Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification (BIOACID).

With help from world - renowned biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher from Rutgers University, findings revealed common myths about both married people and singles and explained the misconceptions of singles» choices, all while taking into consideration the rise of technology in society and its impact on the dating world.

OC REGISTER - July 18 - In January, Mark Brooks, a national consultant to Internet dating sites, asked executives from many dating sites to talk about the impact they were having on society.

Mark Brooks, a consultant who has studied the industry from its infancy, says the online and mobile dating industry is more than just a business: «Going from where it is now and where it's going to be in the next 20 or 30 years time, I'd be hard - pressed to think of a business — outside of the medical industry — that will have more impact on society.»

She then starts to break audience's hearts when she recalls her forced downsizing experience and its impact on her life and how she'd always hoped to meet that Norwegian doctor who, seeing how her downsizing had reduced her pain due to her lost leg — realized it's the first time he'd never been so proud of his downsizing efforts when he heard her story and realized she was relieved from unbearable pain only to find herself on the margin of a downsized society that, even though became smaller in size, its ego and indifference are bigger than ever.

It also paints a rare picture of the complexities of the HIV / AIDS crisis from a personal perspective — a disease which has been largely ignored in Hollywood, despite its devastating impact on societies around the world.

A very interesting story from NY Times» Arts Beat blog today about one of the year's breakout documentaries and the impact it's already having on our society.

A real impact of civic and intercultural education implies «moving away from a focus on individual (identity) difference / s towards a focus on finding, through principled intercultural discourse, consensus for social action to redress injustice and inequality in the multicultural society» (Ohana & Otten, 2012).

With all these data obtained from our job and gathering information from the multitude of studies on this issue nowadays, we can expect that in the future the emotional education will be part of our lives, so daily common as sport, reading or calculation; and it will generate a positive impact in the future society, building from the human personalities.

In his now - classic 1961 study The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education (excerpts), Coleman identified a series of problems that resulted from the separate society that high school had created for teeSociety: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education (excerpts), Coleman identified a series of problems that resulted from the separate society that high school had created for teesociety that high school had created for teenagers.