Sentences with phrase «influence over human»

A talisman is essentially any object whose presence exercises a remarkable or powerful influence over human feelings or actions.

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Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory of the human race.

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes flesh of his flesh.

If the human stream of occasions of dominating awareness is to be influenced by many regions of the brain at once, and is in turn to exercise control over many such regions, it must be directly in touch (both spatially and temporally) with large portions of the brain.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

In humans, the influence of fathers over mothers» psychological and physical state is increasingly recognized.

A study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in the US looked at the influence of both child care and the home environment on over 1,000 typically - developing children They found that parent and family characteristics were more strongly linked to child development than were child care features.»

The deficits are not necessarily caused by the cow milk products; rather, it appears to be the interruption of human milk influences, as studies reveal that breastfed infants also show slightly higher intellectual skills over those who receive soy formula.

Bacteria living in the human gut have strange influence over mood, depression and more, but it has been unclear exactly how belly - dwelling bacteria exercise remote control of the brain (SN: 4/2/16, p. 23).

Other scientists, led by Thomas Knutson, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, looked at 2012's hot spring temperatures over the eastern United States and also found that human influences contributed about 35 percent to late spring heat that year.

Over the past few years, several US states and local school boards have introduced measures that would mean teachers must include the views of those who are sceptical of a human influence on climate change in science lessons.

Zinke acknowledged climate is changing and humans have had an influence, but claimed there is a lot of «debate» over how much of a role humans have played and what can or should be done to combat climate change.

According to the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the UB, «the data from these trees that grow in heights over 2,000 metres represents the global changes, since their growth is not influenced by the effects of the local human activity (wood cutting, industry).»

In 2005, Rep. Joe Barton, R - Texas, called Mann before Congress to testify about his now ubiquitous «hockey - stick» graph, showing temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past millennia, with an abrupt spike upward at the end showing human influence on the climate.

Humans have influenced nature since as early as the Ice Age, and over the past century our impact has become even greater with our many new technologies and a growing world population.

The researchers are testing bacterial signatures of human cadavers over time to learn more about the process of human decomposition and how it is influenced by weather, seasons, animal scavenging and insect infestations.

An increased risk of intense, short - duration rainfall events in mid-latitude regions has been predicted consistently for well over a decade as part of the pattern of human influence on precipitation.

It's also sensitive to the atmospheric composition of gases, and humans have influenced that by burning fossil fuels for over a century.

However, like many other such researchers, he has become convinced by the compelling weight of evidence indicating human influence on climate that has unfolded over the past decade, remarking that «with each passing year the evidence has gotten stronger — and is getting stronger still.

Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia.

In fact, without human influences, Earth's climate actually would have cooled slightly over the... Continue reading →

To be able to do this world we made use of over 100,000 weather@home simulation of possible weather in January 204 in both the current climate and one in which there was no human influence on the atmosphere.

The tiny roundworm C. elegans shares over 40 % of its genetic information with humans and its short lifespan makes it especially well - suited for defining genes that influence healthy lifespan.

«We show that at the present - day warming of 0.85 °C about 18 % of the moderate daily precipitation extremes over land are attributable to the observed temperature increase since pre-industrial times, which in turn primarily results from human influence,» the research team said.

The way we think, talk, act, remember, believe and function within a social society are all heavily influenced by the secretion of hormones from glands in the brain and body, which have been designed and refined over the course of human evolution to kick in when we need them, and deliver the beneficial effects that we all know so well.

Jimena's perspective of the human body is greatly influenced by her experiences as a cyclist, and by the healing she has undergone with yoga from several different injuries over the years.

January 17, 2017 • Rep. Ryan Zinke testified that humans influence climate, although there is a debate over how much.

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Michael Feuer, dean of The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, suggested the dip in confidence among PDK / Gallup poll respondents might reflect the influence of recent public debates over whether college is worth the money.

For a very long time, the psychologists have been debating the influence of nature versus nurture over human characteristics.

Researchers noted all behaviors of both cats and humans, and also assessed their personalities as well as their influence over one another.

A retrospective shows plenty of influences and evolution, but the same puzzlement over human and divine light.

Over the weekend, I posted and alerted senior members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Friday.

Singer is getting in a stew over Santer et al 1996 «A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere,» (Santer et al 1995b in SAR).

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

This is how it goes, and it's a warning to environmentalists and others focused on avoiding losses as humans head toward a population of 9 billion in the next several decades, exerting an ever greater influence over the sheath of life enriching lands and seas.

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., the always provocative University of Colorado political scientist, proposes that scientists who have concluded that humans are crossing perilous «planetary boundaries» are expecting too much influence over societal decisions related to energy and ressource use:

For those out there seeing any talk of a human warming influence as a hoax, it's also useful to note that this intellectual tussle over climate sensitivity is over how much human - produced greenhouse gases will warm the world, not if they can do so.

Until recently, on issues like the growing human influence on climate, many people have had a tendency to echo, perhaps silently, the comment made in 2006 by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia when he was politely corrected for mixing up the stratosphere and troposphere during arguments over the Clean Air Act and carbon dioxide:

One of the toughest realities attending debates over what to do, or not do, about the growing human influence on the climate system is that more science does not necessarily clarify society's, or individual's, responses.

However, like many other such researchers, he has become convinced by the compelling weight of evidence indicating human influence on climate that has unfolded over the past decade, remarking that «with each passing year the evidence has gotten stronger — and is getting stronger still.

Dr. Koonin suggests that «the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, how will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Carter, from Washington, D.C., wrote about the utter certainty of a growing human climate impact (which is a separate issue from certainty over a signal of such influence, the focus of Tuesday's post):

A station too close to a parking lot would be expected to read warmer than a station situated over grass far from any human influence other natural obstructions.

However, the main contributor to warming over the last 150 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

«Differences over extent of any human influence is the essence of the climate debate.

Not because climate scientists — over 97 percent of whom believe that human activities influence the climate — have found new data rebutting the science, but because polls show climate change dropping off the list of voters» priorities.

You can, perhaps, gain some measure of control over the influence of motivated reasoning, but that won't happen if you elevate yourself above the basic underlying, human principles, that create motivated reasoning.