Sentences with phrase «less diversity of»

Election of At Large members arose from recommendations of the Task Force on Council Composition (2009) that a smaller Council may mean less diversity of backgrounds, views and experience around the Council table.

Obese people tend to have less diversity of bacteria in their guts than thinner people; they also have an increased risk of inflammatory disorders such as heart disease, and abnormalities in metabolism like insulin resistance and diabetes.

Previous studies have shown that obese people tend to have less diversity of bacteria living it the gut.

There is such diversity of belief — theologically, socially, politically — among Protestants (and even among Methodists, Baptists, etc.) it seems like less diversity of belief is tolerated in the RCC.

Not exact matches

However, Google found that teams with psychologically safe environments had employees who were less likely to leave, more likely to harness the power of diversity, and ultimately, who were more successful.

«There was no doubt that had we had more diversity of thought, perspective, education, gender, color, the crisis would have been less severe.»

Indeed, the diversity of media out there has effectively caused all of the media to be less influential than it used to be.

Recent research in the high tech entrepreneurship world finds companies that are most inclusive of women in top governing positions traditionally outperform other companies with less diversity, demonstrating 35 % higher return on equity and 34 % better total returns.

However, the evidence we are aware of for the importance of board diversity on organizational performance specifically is less strong.71 GFI's board includes members of some relevant occupational backgrounds, but we are concerned that two of its five board members are leadership staff at the same external organization.

First Solar's less - efficient panels have been completely shut out of the residential and commercial markets, limiting the diversity of its business.

This composition can be greater or less only insofar as what it includes is greater or less, so that the value for the whole depends upon the unity - in - diversity realized in the fragmentary occasions of the world.

So, Gary, you see your progressive Christianity as more «valid», less «black - and - white» than those who have fallen out of the «veritable potpourri of colorful diversity» into dismal «atheistic mechanism»?

The great irony of American higher education is that in pursuing diversity, colleges and universities have come to look more or less alike.

The cheetah is a nice example of the consequences of low genetic diversity; however, it should be noted that a founding pair of two would invariably produce far less genetic diversity than we see in modern cheetah populations.

It is hardly less evident that the diversity and sophistication of this movement in theology has increased too.

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

Hartshorne's position on abortion is also influenced by his theory of aesthetic value, which emphasizes that a diversity of experiences balanced by an aesthetically pleasing amount of complexity and orderliness contributes to life and to God, more fully than do less balanced experiences.

As most professors will tell you, today's student culture is fixated on identity politics and is terrified of anything less than an «A.» In sum: diversity and academic achievement, with «merit» defined as the maximization of both.

CT has covered the growth of AG, its increasing diversity (less than 60 % of US adherents are white), and its decrease of speaking in tongues and «spirit baptisms.»

There is some evidence that the deregulated, competitive broadcast systems of West European countries reflect less diversity in contents than the formerly regulated, public monopolies.

Houlden goes on to tell us that there is diversity in the reporting of how this impact occurred: yet he rejects the claim, sometimes made by highly skeptical scholars, «that no intelligible picture can emerge and no statement, of greater or lesser probability, concerning the Jesus whose impact those who gave the early witness experienced, can be made» (p. 134).

Selective breeding of humans for specific attributes would ultimately lead to less diversity and leave the population more susceptible to epidemics for example.

It should be noted, however, that Whitehead does allow great diversity in the ways in which his fundamental categories are applied to different levels of being; he does not, for instance, ascribe consciousness to lower - level organisms, much less to inanimate objects.

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

Various typical agricultural practices (e.g. ban of synthetic pesticides, organic fertilization, and habitat diversity) on organic farms are less detrimental for arthropod species compared with conventional agriculture.

This is important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we mean the full diversity of men with a significant caring role in children's lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more important as parents (and by extension, less important in other contexts, eg the workplace).

I bring this up not only because I've been thinking a lot about talking to kids about diversity and privilege in the context of the current election but also because I have heard a number of friends talk recently about not saving for college because it means their kids will get less financial aid.

A 2013 Swedish study found that C - section babies had less gut diversity during the first two years of life than babies delivered vaginally.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

If historical market concentration creates inter-company homogeneity, layoffs have deepened a kind of intra-newsroom homogeneity: fewer people, less diversity, fewer incentives for reporters to disagree with editors» orders and for editors to resist top - down control.

The lack of attention to the diversity and particularity of thinkers in the republican tradition impoverishes it and so makes it less useful and attractive to us as a source from which we can draw contemporary political inspiration.

For extra bonus, «Testimony from Rosemary Jenks to the House Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Subcommittee» contains a detailed history of diversity visas (caveat: this is a testimony from a source lobbying for lowering immigration); and a far more cited and less speechifying version from the same organization is here.

Rightly so: In an environment where standards of governance and the economy increasingly converge, there seems to be less and less room for diversity.

Families moving into the town because of the award winning school district, district wide Universal Pre-Kindergarten, organic diversity, a mix of urban and suburban life, coupled with a big inventory of affordable homes has flooded the schools and left the district scrambling to make ends meet with less money.

Stage two was to widen diversity of supply to create new incentives for better local performance and more choice for patients - a success story in achieving the shortest ever waiting times including meeting our commitment to less than eighteen weeks from doctor's appointment to hospital treatment, and improving the management of NHS resources through foundation hospitals and the use of the private sector.

They analyzed stool samples collected from children in the urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and determined that children with more severe infections had less diversity in their gut microbiome.

This lack of diversity threatens the potential of commercial chickpea stock as the conditions in which farmers attempt to grow it — hotter, with a changing palette of pests, diseases, and weather patterns — become less and less like the conditions in which it was originally domesticated.

But when racial considerations are based on the pedagogical value of diversity, a deadline makes less sense.

They found that pups of mice on the low - fiber diet showed less and less microbial diversity with each generation.

Caribou in western North America will also be affected, although to a lesser extent, and have a better chance of retaining what remains of genetic diversity and therefore adaptability to change.

The latter are near the southern limits of their natural range and, in addition to being less abundant, they show less DNA diversity than the central population.

The study shows that there's an imbalance, with less species diversity in smaller and less conserved areas,» said another author of the study, Mauro Marrelli, associate professor at FSP - USP and Medeiros - Sousa's PhD supervisor.

Paleontologists know of 527 types of dinosaurs, yet this tally may represent less than one - third of the total diversity, according to Swarthmore statistician Steve Wang and University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Peter Dodson.

His conclusion is supported by prior findings that about 30 percent of Malagasy have the same mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child — far less diversity than in typical human populations, which share less than 2 percent.

«It suggests there was an immense amount of diversity in the intermediary land and aquatic animals,» Shubin says, «which tells us evolution was less a stepwise progression than a lot of false starts.»

Research shows that hiring diversity managers and launching diversity task forces also increase the effectiveness of other programs, such as employee network groups that help people from underrepresented groups to feel less isolated and diversity councils that address specific issues, such as the retention and development of employees from underrepresented groups.

«You get this compounding effect where you have a lower diversity of herbivores per tree but then you also are getting more similar species as you move between trees species and among sites, so you end up with even less diverse communities than you would expect,» said Burghardt.

This suggested to the team that the first Americans migrated down the west coast of the Americas; only later did smaller bands — with less genetic diversity — move inland.

Humans are all so closely related that our entire population shows less genetic diversity than that of a small group of chimpanzees.

It also notes that white males «view diversity as less critical to MIT's core value of excellence» than their African - American and Hispanic colleagues.