Sentences with phrase «knowledge systems»

Important elements of study in this field include the definition, education, practices, identities, and knowledge systems of midwives.

But first, it is important to take a broader look at the differences between open and closed knowledge systems.

So valuable they spend billions mapping it into social graphs and deep knowledge systems.

Loss of traditional knowledge will result in a decline of Indigenous identity and a severe reduction in the recognition and understanding of an invaluable sustainable knowledge system.

Documentation and Dissemination of Farmer Developed / Adapted Technologies (FDATs) refers to the reaffirmation, systematization and practical application of local knowledge systems in agriculture, giving members additional farm management options.

But western science itself is undergoing a profound paradigm change towards an organic perspective that has deep affinities with indigenous knowledge systems around the world.

In order to facilitate the freedom of mobility of capital, a control over communication service, industries and knowledge systems by the movers of transnational capital became imperative.

The UNU TKI will investigate the threats to traditional knowledge, methods to maintain traditional knowledge, and the resilience of traditional knowledge systems.

The mandate to make every Indian a Christian in a fixed period of time, working in collaboration with Christian communal or Christian international networks and involving colossal financial and social resources (including knowledge systems and technological capacities), arises from the same unitary, exclusive, and hegemonic paradigm of cultural and religious monopoly advocated by Indian and Hindu nationalism.

A historical examination of what was taught and learnt at school and the legitimation of the school knowledge system shows that school performs fundamental social tasks, i.e. it is a function of society.

By Ron Friedmann, May 2001Published in the Litigation Management & Economics Subcommittee Newsletter of the ABA Section on Litigation, Summer 2001; it also appeared in the conference materials prepared for the Practical Legal Knowledge Systems Workshop of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (March 2002, IIT Kent School of Law, Chicago)

Her fellow international keynote Sir Mason Durie, one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most highly respected academics, will speak about the potential for great innovation at the interface of different knowledge systems.

EPIC investigates and documents effective practices from award - winning schools that are then housed on a comprehensive online Knowledge System.

Part of the «strength» of the denialistas is that the alternative knowledge system they have concocted is does not have to be correct.

She has considerable experience assisting the legal teams within corporate clients with knowledge and information services, including knowledge audits, helping to create a knowledge strategy, developing knowledge systems, improving intranets and developing taxonomy for the business.

James Pilgrim is Knowledge Systems Manager at Linklaters LLP.

In fact, the list even includes some contributors from this side of the pond, such as Ryan McClead, manager of knowledge systems at Norton Rose Fulbright and contributor to 3 Geeks and a Law Blog.

This is the Knowledge Economy, and as a result, the ability to recruit and train employees with proprietary knowledge systems or company workflows is essential.

Almost no one is targeting the predominant, reductionist knowledge system of the west, that has provided the intellectual impetus for globalisation as well as the instruments of destruction and oppression.

The wars that the nations fought each other, the interactive knowledge systems of the world, and particularly the religious wisdom that traveled across boundaries and found space for itself in other land, the trade practices, and all such engagements that brought them into contact with a different space of their own are the signs of globalization.

Within each, he traces how Reformation battles over the criteria for determining the true meaning of Scripture and the proper definition of doctrines shifted authority to natural science, politically ordered confessional institutions, privatized choice, material aggrandizement, and a social - knowledge system finally untethered to religious categories and rationales.

According to Pettit, the first task to avoid private domination is «to firm up the infrastructure of nondomination, providing as far as possible for a resilient economy, a reliable rule of law, an inclusive knowledge system, a sound health system, and a sustainable environment».

Core knowledge systems, Spelke says, are neuronal «modules» that are in place at birth for building mental representations of objects, persons, spatial relationships and numerosity.

Otherwise, with the passing of the older generation, these remnants of ancient Sumerian knowledge systems and traditional ways of life will soon be lost.

«It's a great example of how UNSW, like many of the world's leading research universities, is today at the heart of a sophisticated global knowledge system that is shaping our future.»

Outdated knowledge systems have exacerbated recent disasters and contributed to growing financial losses from extreme weather.

Because Ayurveda has changed my life in countless ways, and made me into a passionate student, teacher, and practitioner of this great knowledge system, I am delighted to share my three favorite Ayurvedic morning rituals to truly rock your mornings.

Ancestral Computing for sustainability is an ecosystems approach to solving complex problems by interweaving Ancestral Knowledge Systems and computer science.

The EPIC Knowledge System is a powerful web - based professional development resource documenting the real - life practices of urban district and charter schools driving significant achievement gains.

During the ensuing years, Dr. Garner also set up offices in England just north of London in a town called Milton Keynes where he partnered with Europe's largest pharmaceutical company, Intervet, to bring VetPlan (Called Safari Knowledge Systems) to the United Kingdom.

Instead, he continued to work on paintings and drawings that synthesized the many knowledge systems — ancient and modern, scientific and spiritual — that captivated his imagination.

She recently started her PhD at the Royal College of Art in London on the subject of contemporary art and the representation and production of alternative art knowledge systems.

Working across video, sculpture, and drawing, Henrot's restless inquiry into knowledge systems, technological development, human interaction and museology has brought her international acclaim.

The MPC seeks to offer an integrated approach in interdisciplinary initiatives and lifelong learning by addressing cultural diversity, developing creative modes of pedagogy, and broadening the understanding of various knowledge systems in the contemporary world.

[1] The exhibition might also be understood as an invitation to consider how concepts of truth are defined according to Oglala Lakota knowledge systems.

Whether it was his early realist works, or the later classic forms such as the «Legacy Mantle» and the «Made in China» his works have sought out problems and paths to their resolution from within China's native knowledge systems and cultural threads.

Artists like Mark Dion and Claire Pentecost have both employed soil or plant ecosystems in their practices to explore knowledge systems or alternative value systems; Rojas, by placing it amongst his fragmenting clay and found objects, juxtaposes a persevering, fragile life with inevitable death.

Unlike Dropbox, zero knowledge systems do not actually possess the password key to your data.

The second talk, held October 20, 2010, was given by Jennifer McNenly, Knowledge Systems Product Architect of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.

What might KM learn from further developments in evolutionary psychology and how our brains are wired to create greater engagement and adoption of our internal knowledge systems?

I was also an investor in Zero Knowledge Systems, a privacy software company, which was founded by Austin Hill.

The Assistant feature will also work with the rumored Find My Friends feature and also integrate with Wolfram Alpha, which is an online computational knowledge system.