Sentences with phrase «individual human agency»

The reduced attention to politics mutes the most important way in which individual human agency drives human experience.

The belief that individual human agency should be factored out of history was, he feared, a self - fulfilling dictum, since the factored - out would come to believe it themselves.

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More importantly, it awaits the emergence of a dynamic, responsive agency capable of coordinating the activities of a human society as a whole, within which human individuals might find themselves to be the willing, freely responsive instrumentalities of a higher will.

In previous chapters the case has been made for a crucial role for purpose as a causal agency in human life, in the rest of the living world and in all individual entities to the farthest reaches of the universe.

America's exceptional history as the only nation in the world with two centuries of political continuity stems from its people's love for individual rights, which they hold to be inalienable because they are granted by a power that no human agency dare oppose.

How are we supposed to derive human consciousness — our rationality and intentionality, our richly variegated qualitative experiences, our sense of free choice, our complex and highly developed agency — from the aboriginal mentality of the simple individuals, presumably the basic particles, that constitute us?

The roles of routines and automatisms in social life and the human psyche have most been relegated from the domain of politics, a field abstractly reserved to institutions and individuals that assumingly value the virtues of agency and rationality.

Requests and referrals for crisis care can come from anyone: individuals, families, police departments, community agencies, community residences, adult homes, health and human service providers, the Rockland County Department of Social Services, the Rockland County Department of Health and other local mental health providers.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurHuman Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurhuman brain's 100 billion neurons).

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the integration of 10 individual organs - on - a-chip to create a miniature model of the human body.

«OPM plays no immediate role in the suitability determination and does not review individual agency determinations,» says Judith Sunley, head of NSF's Division of Human Resource Management.

The study is commissioned by the U.S. National Geospatial Agency to help U.S. Department of Defense agencies understand and model the interaction of complex adaptive systems such as natural ecosystems, individual organisms, and human communities, organizations and families.

As discussed previously, critical pedagogy encourages students to move toward human agency (Ball, 2000; Freire, 1990) by exercising agency through critical thinking, through individual social action, and through group social action.

Critical pedagogy works on a continuum and encourages students to move toward action and human agency (Ball, 2000; Freire, 1990) by applying agency through critical thinking in the classroom, then through individual social action, and finally through group social action.

Job Description: • Represents the Kansas City Pet Project in a professional, polite and enthusiastic manner • Assists the veterinarians on a daily basis with preparing surgery patients, health assessments, and treatments of animals • Assist in medical rounds with Shelter Veterinarians or identifying animals that need to be seen by a Shelter Veterinarian • Administer medications to both cats and dogs in accordance with veterinarian's prescribed doses and ensure all treatment protocols prescribed for sick / injured animals are performed timely, safely, and humanely • Responsible for following best practices for sanitation protocols in all veterinary clinic and isolation areas to reduce / eliminate disease transmission • Input all medical notes, health assessments, vaccinations, surgeries, treatments, etc., into PetPoint • Provides support for other departments, such as Intake, Foster, Placement & Transport, or Adoptions by assisting as needed for vaccinations, deworming, blood draws, etc. • Prepares and sanitizes surgical instruments / packs each day to ensure packs are ready for use the following day • Assists with discharging animals to the public post-surgery or following up with sick pet appointments, explaining any medical issues, medications, after care instructions, etc. • Ensures adequate medical supplies and medications are available and reports any shortages to Vet Clinic Manager • Enforces and maintain KCPP safety and cleanliness, and all health and security rules and procedures • Follows disease prevention procedures and completes cleaning of veterinary clinic areas daily and ongoing throughout the day to decrease biological risks to humans and other animals • Care, feed, and safely handle animals to avoid injury to persons / animals • Properly store and maintain inventory of medical supplies, including Schedule II narcotics • Performs laboratory analysis techniques to assist Shelter Veterinarians • Reads, understand, interpret, and apply department policies and procedures • Prepares reports and other written materials in a logical, concise, and accurate manner • Functions calmly in situations that require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy • Communicates effectively with a variety of individuals representing diverse cultures and backgrounds and function calmly in all situations which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact and diplomacy • Treats employees, representatives of outside agencies, volunteers, and members of the public with courtesy and respect • Provides prompt, efficient and responsive service for all phone calls forwarded to the Vet Clinic.

- Engaging Audiences: Denis Dyack Deconstructs The Industry»... this «wide - ranging interview» with Silicon Knights» Dyack (Eternal Darkness, Too Human) includes a whole bunch of interesting points, and we split two of them out into individual news stories - Dyack: Game Industry Should Shun Movie Biz «Free Agency»», and Dyack: Will Wii Hold Public's Attention In Long - Term?.»

Magdalen Chua curates and makes work that focus on questions of human agency and the way individuals negotiate with the structures that constrain yet provide meaning to their lives.

But his implementation of a series of temporary, makeshift, and multifunctional architectural pavilions on the grounds of Forest Houses, an aging housing project in the South Bronx, nevertheless opened itself up to examinations of human experience against the backdrop of depredations of power and individual social agency.

And always we have the agency to ask questions: Can one's dream as a creative individual be connected to one's deeper feeling of connection with the great masses of humans now living?

Our lawyers spend a significant amount of time in labor and employment litigation, which includes the defense of employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases in federal and state courts, arbitration proceedings, the defense of individual employment contract actions, and proceedings before various state and federal administrative agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, United States, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Departments of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and OSHA.

Post-adoption services in West Virginia are administered by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Services, Bureau for Children and Families and contracted through private agencies or individuals who have completed post adoptive training.