Sentences with phrase «important societal problems»

AAU places equal emphasis on the three primary university value streams: highly qualified graduates for the labour market of the future; new cognition, knowledge, technology and innovation that address important societal problems; and effective dissemination of knowledge through cooperation with the community and wider society.

He also promoted an approach, dubbed One NSF, that has tried to prod NSF's seven directorates and various program offices to cooperate in jointly funding proposals that span disciplines and tackle important societal problems.

Not exact matches

The benefits to the dog FAR outweigh simply not having puppies, though as pet over-populations looms as a societal problem it is important to be «part of the solution» rather than «part of the problem.»

Ashes joins other works in the ICA / Boston collection that deal with the complex matrix of globalism, economy, and deeply entrenched societal problems with formal innovation, including recently acquired works by Mika Rottenberg and Kara Walker, and a group of important sculptures by Doris Salcedo.

In a scientific problem as potentially complicated as climate, there is another modeling practice that is increasingly important: AOS models are open - ended in their scope for including and dynamically coupling different physical, chemical, biological, and even societal processes.

Other «societal» problems also associated recently with children's BMI status (such as minority status, 38 social disadvantage, 39,40 and high birth weight41) may be even more important.

A focus on early nutrition is important, as diet is a targetable risk factor; improving maternal and / or childhood diet may help lower the prevalence of early - onset conduct problems, thus lowering substantial societal and economic costs associated with childhood CP and related adjustment problems (Hsia and Belfer 2008).