Sentences with phrase «kind of systems thinking»

All sustainability skills need to be rooted in this kind of systems thinking, which evaluates synergies and trade - offs.»

Not exact matches

If the ethics course you take during your MBA is a good one, it may do something to enrich and deepen the way you think about ethics, and to help you design and manage the kinds of systems that will help your employees act ethically.

«I think the challenge with a Siri, or Cortana, or Google Now right now is that they're kind of baked into the operating systems,» says Yeager.

It did, however, make some decisions in favor of usability that some security experts thought compromised the system to a few kinds of attack that other researchers believed were unlikely.

«I didn't even think these kinds of systems existed,» she says.

«A stress test that claims that if the Dow falls by 60 %, the unemployment rate rises to 12 %, housing prices decline substantially more than they did during the 2008 recession, GDP declines by 6 - 7 % — and that all of that can happen and no bank will be in serious financial trouble or have any problem of being undercapitalized or illiquid — I kind of think says more about itself than it says about the health of the banking system.»

If you're the kind of person whose only financial education has come from the limited curriculum of our public education system, this book can really change the way you think about finances.

When asked if it would like to see other sites adopt a policy feedback system, Schnitt said «Absolutely, we think users should demand this kind of thing, and they deserve it too.»

I think the kinds of suggestions on how to change the tax system like Mr. Gates suggests really come from that concern.

And I wrote with using a very simple plain language because a personal pet peeve of mine is that finances intentionally kept kind of opaque and confusing because I think it's meant to keep most people ignorant of how the system actually works.

I left so shaken that I was willing to tear apart my whole belief system, my whole history, to get the heck away from that kind of thinking.

I said changed all your products that is already contaminated because you can not make wise the Lord for reasoning the food you intake so that all of you will be dead in times of Delubyo or the Last Judgement Day of the Prophet of the Lord as an Stupid Cupid the original or Saint Marilou in the Philippines a Holy Family alive and kicking for you can not used this kinds of monkey wise system but this is all about greedy in money and foods but you forget about the chemicals that think you make wise in your businesses and now look at your physical features a radiationd foods you intake inside and outside including of course the athmosphere not an original faces already a big boom inside your body.

It has been argued, I think convincingly, that we can not sensibly ask that kind of question of natural non-living systems.

That's kind of how I came to see Christianity, a really well thought out interesting system that a lot of smart people had worked on but I didn't think it was actually a true system.»

Whatever the provocation, it becomes a tragedy when the very institutions designed to rectify the errors of the mental hospital system move into the kind of business - as - usual attitude originally thought to be the worst aspect of mental hospitals.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

«When you look at the number of loans that happen here and there, the whole system has to be thought about again because we have two kinds of solution in there.»

In addition, I think a lot of our players are better suited to playing in this kind of system, as we have seen Rob Holding, Gabriel and wing - back Oxlade - Chamberlain all excel in their roles under the new formation.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

It is thought that this kind of fruit juice can enhance babies» digestion system.

TANIKA PARNELL: Yeah, I mean we definitely met a lot of obstacles and I think, which Jenna just said but having the same goal in mind and I think it's something... the most in my experience with my friends and mom groups and patients that I take care of, most moms I think start off wanting to try to breastfeed and then it is kind of trusting those around you and your wants and your needs and I guess kind of your support system to help you be able to obtain those goals.

We might thus think of the republic as a system of political and economic regulation aimed at the generation of a certain kind of political and economic subject.

Unfortunately, I think that's kind of inevitable - any system that requires a centrally planned economy over multiple communities is going to favor a very rigid top - down form of government, which lends itself to authoritarian rule.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

I think in retrospect we have to accept that we got it wrong when we set up the assembly with a two - tier electoral system that has two kinds of AM, and it should now be changed.

This is the very kind of thinking required to make changes to a broken system!

People think, «why bother,» said Griffin, the co-author of «Washington & Napoleon: Leadership in the Age of Revolution,» who said that kind of disengagement was also what permitted an ultimately despotic figure like Napoleon to emerge from a plebiscitary democracy rather than the electoral system that produced Washington.

It's just not the kind we're used to, because, until only a few years ago, the thought that a commercial company (not the government, not nasa) would lay claim to the business of sending stuff into the solar system — well, it seemed nearly impossible.

He told Press Association: «I have always liked Mark Reckless, but if he thinks he can just leave after being elected on a list system that is very dishonourable behaviour... He is clearly close to Douglas Carswell, I guess some kind of pressure's been put on him.»

«I think what makes this project so important is it's really kind of the skeleton of the state's trail system.»

«Now people removed all that I said about the poor management of the economy and then made it look like I started by talking about the resource locations of this thing and put it forward and changed certain things to make me look like I was being a tribalist and it was bad, this is where I find people very mischievous;... You take the whole thing out of context and make it look very tribalistic, so, I think, yes, it happened, newspapers reported something wrong and I think people should be ashamed of themselves when they do this kind of «cut and paste» to create that wrong impression in the system...» Mr Osafo Marfo clarified.

«I think a major challenge is the way and manner in which our democracy and the political system works within a presidential system, wherein we really do not have the kind of culture, temperament and attitude to actually run a presidential system of government.

«If we had a reform - minded board with Jim Sampson along with Jay McCarthy, I think you wouldn't have seen that kind of undermining of an effective system.»»

Nightfall was sci - fi, but we now know the kinds of multistar planetary systems it describes are real — and more common than once thought.

In Maxwell's time, most physicists thought that light, like sound, needed some kind of medium for transmission; the mysterious, invisible substance they hypothesized, called the luminiferous ether, would presumably be influenced by the motion of Earth around the sun and the movement of the solar system through the galaxy, a dynamic that stood to alter the speed of light depending on the relative direction from which that light came.

I think one of the interesting things about approaching this problem — they are actually trying to a build system — is that you come across all kinds of unexpected interesting phenomena.

Steve: This is really interesting material, I think, because perhaps many of the listeners are familiar with older research, for example, that found that the aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme is not available for certain people, and that for them, drinking in excess is really uncomfortable, so they tend not to, but that's more of a direct genetic biochemical kind of a system related to the alcohol molecule ultimately as it gets metabolized.

Implicit in my assertion that computers will eventually be capable of the same kind of perception, cognition and thought as humans is the idea that a sufciently advanced and sophisticated articial system — for example, an electronic one — can be made and programmed to do the same thing as the human nervous system, including the brain.

I think that's the kind of system we're dealing with.

«We think our system will spark a new kind of medicine, where a gastroenterologist can quickly see where and when a part of the GI tract is showing abnormal rhythms and as a result make more accurate, faster and personalized diagnoses,» said Armen Gharibans, the paper's first author and a bioengineering postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego.

Astronomers have long searched for oxygen in the kinds of interstellar clouds where we think solar systems are born, but without much luck.

«Any kind of system you can think of, if it doesn't violate the laws of nature, it probably exists somewhere out there.

So it could be RNA or DNA like we have in modern biology or it could be some related kind of material; and we are also thinking about some kind of cell envelope or cell membrane — not that that's necessarily the very first way Darwinian systems began, but at some point they had to transition into a system more related to modern biology where cells are all bounded by membranes — so we're thinking about how to assemble these two components and get them to interact with each other.

«The computational system of language is actually telling us how to do certain kinds of thinking,» Wexler suggests.

The new paper «Extinction Reverses Olfactory Fear Conditioned Increases in Neuron Number and Glomerular Size» highlights the results of a first of its kind study in which researchers reveal that the olfactory system in the brain is biologically and structurally more sensitive to trauma cues than previously thought, and that it's possible for fear behaviors associated with emotional learning to be reversed through exposure - based talk therapy.

Scientists think the solar system started out as a kind of giant pancake, Worthey said.

I think we can agree that the current grid would not support the kind of huge power draws we're talking about here but we should also be able to agree that, if the demand was there, the electirc utilities would find a way to make it work, even if the electric system in houses will never have the capability of handling 100K watts.

I find this way of thinking as a much kinder one that can offer some relief to women grieving a miscarriage, especially if she is open to other religious or philosophical systems.

I tend to think that, probably most cases of depression and anxiety have some kind of inflammation present, especially when we consider that just chronic, turned on, sympathetic nervous system and high levels of cortisol is going to contribute to a cortisol resistance in the brain and increase neuroinflammation, especially in the hypothalamus.

And think of the Lymphatic system as — It's the interplay between the blood and the tissue so, as things die, we kind of have to get them into the — you know — if we — they go into the blood.