Sentences with phrase «lack of participation on»

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Well, if you've had these moments in your relationship, that won't change without active participation to address their lack of empathy on their part.

On the other hand, factors that do NOT contribute to breast ptosis include: breastfeeding and lack of participation in regular upper body exercise.

This decision, coupled with lack of active participation by another Sunni Non-Arab power Turkey in the alliance against Shias, caused huge outrage in Gulf countries who saw it as Pakistanis and Turks abandoning them in front of Iranian advances as Gulf nations have long relied on the military muscle of these two Sunni majority countries.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

According to the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and to experts, disability is the combination of: 1) the individual's impairment; 2) the barriers in the environment (lack of physical and communications accessibility, negative attitudes, absence of laws and specific policies); and 3) the individual's social role (sex, financial situation, access to political participation, etc).

While their economies are relatively strong, these 12 states have very low state legitimacy (which includes democracy, corruption, political participation, and government effectiveness), fail to protect human rights and the rule of law (including press freedom, civil liberties, and political freedoms), lack a monopoly on the legitimate use of force (including internal conflict, military coups, riots, and protests), and have highly factionalized elites (including power struggles, flawed elections, and defectors).

«All those mechanical issues leave you arguing that there is a significant depressing effect of the current technology or lack of it on participation and turnout.»

Many individuals and groups propose improvements in voting access such as early voting period, same day registration, and even Election Day held on weekend as remedies for the lack of voting participation.

In 1997, 95 senators voted for a resolution condemning the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, which the Copenhagen meeting was meant to broker a replacement for, in part because of the lack of participation by developing countries.

Many blame the lack of minority S&E professors on what the Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) February 2004 report, A Bridge for All: Higher Education Design Principles to Broaden Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, calls an «ivory tower» mentality: the tendency of colleges to pursue developed excellence instead of seeking out and nurturing talent.

They maintain that cognitive tests done over time actually indicate small or no differences in performance among these populations and that studies on risk factors have produced useful, yet insufficient, explanations of the disparities - largely due to the lack of African American participation in research studies.

Research into how social media websites define us socially and the influence that social media has on our personal welfare suggests that a lack of social participation on Facebook leads to people feeling less meaningful.

Besides the lack of deleted scenes, MTV's promos, this MTV Movie Awards short, and any Alicia Silverstone participation, it's also unfortunate that Paramount couldn't include an episode or two of the «Clueless» TV series, which has never appeared on DVD.

Not surprisingly, Betty became disappointed in the lack of participation from her fellow first - year teachers and eventually ranked the tool least likely to encourage meaningful reflection on her teaching.

All student teachers spoke about students» participation, or lack thereof, and reported no difference in the levels of student engagement in their online or on - campus courses.

As a traditionally published author, you owe your publisher your presence on the book promotion trail, and «I'm too busy,» «I have a headache,» or «I don't like to do interviews» will not be accepted as excuses for your lack of participation.

Citing a disturbing (and unfortunately expected) lack of public transparency on the part of ExxonMobil in the aftermath of the Yellowstone River oil spill, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer has withdrawn state participation from the command team

There are many other failures in the document related to women's reproduction health, missed opportunities to start new global treaties on civil society participation and on sustainability reporting, the extraordinary lack of any reference to armed conflicts, nuclear energy (especially in light of the fukushima disaster), and many others.

Citing a disturbing (and unfortunately expected) lack of public transparency on the part of ExxonMobil in the aftermath of the Yellowstone River oil spill, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer has withdrawn state participation from the command team directing cleanup of the 40,000 gallon pipeline rupture.

The fundamental problem with the lack of participation by practicing attorneys, Elefant points out, is «those who will be making recommendations on proposed rules to govern practicing lawyers have never set up a Facebook page, never participated on Twitter, never run a practice and used tools like DropBox or BaseCamp or RocketMatter or Clio to keep in touch with clients without added administrative costs, never endorsed a colleague on Linked - In or Avvo.»

Be mindful and active about women's participation — question the lack of women's participation, for example on speaking panels and for promotion opportunities.

My primary concerns relate to policy development that is not evidence based and lacking Indigenous input; and that where lessons are identified, they are not being addressed through the new arrangements (such as on the importance of regional engagement processes to facilitate Indigenous participation).

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

Although research shows that fathers matter for child development, there is a lack of father participation in home visiting programs and limited research on why and how fathers participate in the programs.

Limitations include the 54.5 % participation rate, the reliance on a formal psychiatric diagnosis of ODD / CD in the child as the outcome measure, and the lack of follow - up with the untreated control group sample.

Limitations include data should have been analyzed as a group randomized trial using random effects multi-level models since randomization occurred at the site level, did not compare the effects of different discount amounts on parent participation, and lack of follow - up.

The elements of this principle include the lack of coercion, intimidation and manipulative actions; that consent has been sought in advance and consultation processes have been respected; information is provided on the scope of the activity; and that consultation and participation are undertaken in good faith.

In addition, our emphasis on trajectories of change across the weekly assessments (the BPC and the TPA) as primary outcome measures of the study required that we exclude some youths who had been randomly assigned but whose lack of participation in treatment made it impossible to calculate a trajectory.

In total, the rate of participation was 80 % due to a lack of parental consent or absence on the day of testing for the remaining 20 % of students.

Nevertheless, the mentioned studies have limitations such as small sample size (8 — 10), reliance on retrospective memory, low participation rate and attrition (7, 11), oversimplification in CHD severity grading (7, 11), use of self - reports, lack of clinical assessment of parental mental health problems (8, 11), and lack of data on possible confounding factors (11).

Another, from a fellow traveler, said: «I, too write a column in the local newspaper, and did a spleen - venting piece on the lack of participation in the election.

There are three major reasons, in my opinion, that contribute to the lack of voter participation in elections, and they are these; 1) Eligible voters believe that their votes count for nothing, that their votes will not have any effect on the outcome, 2) That many, if not most, politicians are sadly the same (in it for their own personal gain, be it fame, a stepping - stone toward future appointments, or simply to satisfy their uber egos).