Sentences with phrase «in complex societies for»

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

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For example, in March, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States sold Growers Square, a 191,000 - sf, three - building office complex in Walnut Creek, California, to Invesco Realty Advisors for $ 41 milliFor example, in March, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States sold Growers Square, a 191,000 - sf, three - building office complex in Walnut Creek, California, to Invesco Realty Advisors for $ 41 millifor $ 41 million.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

Secondly, however, and more importantly for the purposes of this article, Ford's stipulation that natural compounds are larger or more complex actual entities rather than structured societies implicitly confirms the entitative or substantialist understanding of actual occasions criticized in the opening paragraphs of this article.

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

Indeed, in a complex society where no one can grasp more than a few of the details, some of the most important practical theology will have to be done by specialists in medicine, law or business, or by theologians and ethicists whose training equips them for specialized roles in those institutions.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

These, he discovered, could also provide a framework for understanding complex processes in any domain of experience, including human societies.

The great problem for democracy in a complex society is to make the voice of each citizen count in the determination of public policy.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

However, if he remains true to his Divine Will as reflected in the Law, it will not be sufficient for him to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».

Its hard - won freedom to express and advocate competing and conflicting ideologies and class, group, and political party interests was supposed to sustain the political diversity necessary for self - government in a complex society.

Curiously, however, the demand for the term «social justice» did not arise until modern times, in which more complex societies operate by impersonal rules applied with equal force to all under «the rule of law.»

But in the complex society in which we live, such intervention often is the only way for citizens to make their moral and ethical concerns matter.

Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical» society, a basic member of a hierarchy of societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»

Finally, the church must understand that there is a place for government family supports in complex postindustrial societies.

Thus a complex structured society provides the requisite environment for heightened satisfaction by some members of the society; and in turn the emergence of novelty enables that society to make thoughtful adjustments of its social structure to meet novel situations.

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

«Explaining complex brain science in a clear - cut manner, Steinberg offers parents and educators practical advice, as well as innovative ideas about how society can better support its youth and adapt to the times... This is a convincing and eloquent call for change.»

Above all Nurture is a call to humanity to act in supporting something that is pure but that in our society has become a complex issue for many.

The surprising roots of the alpha complex will be examined, opening the doors for lasting change in the family, classroom, and society.

We believe that it is critical for parents to have this information in order to make informed decisions for their children in our increasingly complex society.

In the words of Anthony Appiah, they were one of the means in a pre-literate society for «supporting the transmission of a complex and nuanced body of practice and belief»In the words of Anthony Appiah, they were one of the means in a pre-literate society for «supporting the transmission of a complex and nuanced body of practice and belief»in a pre-literate society for «supporting the transmission of a complex and nuanced body of practice and belief».

I utterly reject the view of higher education as for purely personal benefit: as a complex society we need those skilled in abstract problem - solving and with specialist knowledge.

Hunter - gatherers were replaced in many places by sedentary farmers, and there were large increases in population size that laid the foundation for larger towns and eventually complex societies.

The new findings appear in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and represent an important step toward the development of molecular components for the assembly of nanomachines: For the greater the degree of control available, the more complex are the functions that can be performed by such structurfor the assembly of nanomachines: For the greater the degree of control available, the more complex are the functions that can be performed by such structurFor the greater the degree of control available, the more complex are the functions that can be performed by such structures.

Alcohol has been around for at least 10,000 years, but recent advances in chemical analysis of old pots reveal that other psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies some 5000 years ago in the ancient Middle East.

Heckenberger, who spent so much time with the Kuikuro that the chief adopted him and gave him the name Maikejamna, believes that the complex, managed landscapes of this ancient society could serve as a model for sustainable development in the Amazon.

The burial complex at the Brochtorff site was in use for about 1,500 years, a period spanning several stages in the evolution of Maltese religion and society.

Norbert Wiener, a mathematician who worked for the U.S. Army in WWII, realized that war — and society itself — was growing too complex to be analyzed purely under these rules.

«Even in the least complex human societies, the scale of collective action is greater and presumably more critical for survival and reproduction than in most other mammalian societies,» Smith said.

Jeffrey Sosa - Calvo, for example, studies complex societies of fungus - growing ants in Guyana and Brazil.

The intense competition for funding presents a growing challenge for scientific researchers — those who receive financial support are in a better position to bolster their early research efforts and are more likely to identify solutions to the most complex scientific questions and to some of society's most pressing problems.

Some of the most fascinating catalysts in nature display complex inorganic cofactors and perform chemical transformations (water reduction and oxidation, carbon dioxide reduction, dinitrogen reduction, dioxygen reduction) that are arguably prerequisites for the advance of society in the current context of limiting energy resources and environmental concerns.

The scientific community can provide little counterweight to these storylines because the narratives imply failures inherent in our larger society — ethical failures, failures to anticipate, and failures to develop adequate controls for complex technological systems.

Distinguished guest speaker, Dr. Aravinda Chakravarti, Director of the Center for Complex Genomics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the current President of the American Society of Human Genetics reiterated the importance of genetics in the future of healthcare.

For Durek, too, positioning himself in today's society proved complex.

Modern society has come a long way in how it treats interracial couples, but it's still a complex and racially charged subject for many people.

After nearly four years and an investment of $ 41 million, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's new theater complex, the group's most significant undertaking in years and one that could prove a boon for lovers and distributors of art house films, now has an opening date.

With a complex plot exploring debated themes such as multi-ethnic society, the best writing in the series, improvements for both stealth and shooting mechanics, meaningful sidequests and a lot of care in creating a detailed (albeit small) game world, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a more than worthy sequel to one of the best role - playing games of recent times.

The growing complexity of modern living, for individual, communities and societies, also suggests that the solutions to our problems will be also be complex: in a structurally imbalanced world, the imperative of reconciling diverse perspectives and interests, in local settings with sometimes global implications, will require young people to become adept in handling tensions, dilemmas and trade - offs.

The letter below written by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, professor of global education at the University of Oulu, exemplifies the urgency for education to enlarge possibilities for thinking and relating to each other in complex, uncertain, plural and deeply unequal societies.

The TD education seems to be the solution the mankind was looking for in order to solve the complex crisis which the 21st century society is confronted with.As the author of TD — Jean Piaget — claimed, «only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual».

Standard 9 of the Common Core State Standards underscores the importance of students reading and writing about complex literary and informational texts, skills critical for «college and career readiness in a twenty - first - century, globally competitive society.»

The reasons are myriad, meaningful, complex and fiscal says Lesley Butterworth of the National Society for Education in Art and Design.

The symposium, sponsored by the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Mass., and hosted by Senator Edward Kennedy at the Hart Senate Office Building, addressed issues pertaining to arts education and the development of essential skills and capacities for learning and working in today's complex global society.

The Education Redesign Lab launched the By All Means initiative in May 2016 and convened a national audience in support of a more effective systems for educating all children so that they are prepared to be successful in a complex, 21st century society.

Those «four C's» are essential to preparing students for life in a complex and technically oriented world, according to the participants in the survey, sponsored by the Society for Visual Education Inc. in cooperation with the Association for Childhood Education.

Their learning should lead them to a greater understanding of themselves, their lives in a complex society and their ability to influence the world in which they live for the mutual benefit of all.

In order for prospective teachers to become effective teachers in our multicultural society, they must first understand their own identities as complex multidimensional people in a multicultural societIn order for prospective teachers to become effective teachers in our multicultural society, they must first understand their own identities as complex multidimensional people in a multicultural societin our multicultural society, they must first understand their own identities as complex multidimensional people in a multicultural societin a multicultural society.