Sentences with phrase «less social environment»

If you prefer a less social environment, there are also townhouse and condominium communities where you can rent a one bedroom, two bedroom or three bedroom room.

Not exact matches

The progression from each stage to the next involves a process «of increasing differentiation and complexity of organization that endows the organism, social system, or whatever the unit in question may be with greater capacity to adapt to its environment than... its less complex ancestors.

James Clark, founder of Room 214, explained that consumers are becoming more connected to each other by social media, yet less connected to the environment.

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.

This particular populist revolt doesn't seem to have much of an online component, but it's also more of an issue for the older and less - wired (I'd argue that kids these days grow up in a much more multi-cultural social and media environment and are much less likely to oppose immigration as a result).

A new governor will appoint people who are more attuned to the needs of the state — more interested in preserving the environment rather than selling it to developers, more interested in finding alternatives to the ever - expanding road building, more interested in serving the little guy rather than big business, and less interested in legislating social policy than planning economic development.

«The ironic finding is that in more diverse environments, we find less diverse friendships,» says social psychologist Angela Bahns of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, lead author of the study.

Based on previous research, the scientists expected the orphaned juveniles to play less frequently and smoothly than the mother - reared chimpanzees: After all, the orphans had missed their most important caretaker throughout a sensitive socialisation period, and continued to lack a safe and facilitating social environment provided by their mothers.

Pearce theorized that «smaller social groups might have made Neanderthals less able to cope with the difficulties of their harsh Eurasian environments because they would have had fewer friends to help them out in times of need.»

Choosing sustainable palm oil for food and personal care applications means that less land needs to be used, and if the palm is grown using sustainable practices (100 percent organic, regenerative agriculture, third - party certifications, and social programs), it is extremely beneficial for local communities and the environment.

The anxiety of waiting to be approached when in a social environment, or being rejected if you do make an advance has far less sting when it is reduced to an internet transaction.

The increasing amounts of time we as a society are spending working is leaving less time to spend in social environments outside of the office, which means less opportunity to meet new people.

CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.

Yet the decision by a small number of children to opt out of neighborhood schools may adversely affect the academic and social environment in those schools, as the remaining children are likely to have less - involved families on average.

Perhaps most importantly, Rogers says the one consistency she has found among K — 8 schools is that «kids tend to say they feel safer, so there is less of a Lord of the Flies environment» at a critical stage when they are «navigating through social currents.

«The question of whether character can be learned is unambiguously yes,» Yeager says, and kids absorb lessons from their social environment all the time, «but intentional efforts are far less successful than unintentional ones.»

Is increased tolerance of devices that allow kids to text, post to social media and watch funny videos while they're supposed to be focused on their lessons creating a less effective learning environment?

With students» social needs met, the result is a classroom environment in which students and teachers feel less stressed and teachers have more energy to focus on meeting the academic needs of their students.

Your communication may exhibit less curiosity and interest in others, and be more focused on book sales — not to mention you'll be entering social environments where you're a stranger in a strange land, unaware of the local «language», etiquette or history.

Still others are less social with people, but thrive in outdoor environments.

The degree of social behavior and the ability of an individual to adapt to a changing social environment varies with species (certainly cats are less social than dogs),... [Read More]

Cats that have feline company while you are away at work are less likely to misbehave out of boredom, suffer from separation anxiety or depression and if they are raised with other cats, can be more adaptable to physical or social changes in their environment.

This suggests that something, such as social experience during the juvenile period, might have been missing in the captive environment, something that apparently is less important to other canid species.

Following on from his earlier work but less focused on his immediate social environment, these new works which were to an extent also done during his travels, combine urban and rural life in a world that appears as globalized and dominated by technology.

Following the fourth IPCC assessment, in the context of a broader political / social environment in which the dangers of climate change are now more or less universally acknowledged, all eyes are on the question of what to do about it.

These science / environment stories compete for attention with stories not just in science but across other political and social issues: the Holland / Webster study came out at comparatively less crowded time for climate issues than the Vecchi / Soden study.

Dave, your «alternative world» would be one in which Homo Sapiens had evolved differently with less self - gratification in short term thinking and more in long term thinking which quite likely would have inhibited the ability to survive the environment present during that time when the «higher» brain functions and complex social interactions were themselves emerging.

As such, the GCRA (Section 106) mandated that the CCSP prepare, not less frequently than every four years, a scientific assessment report, or National Assessment, of global climate change research that, among other things, analyzes the effects of global change on eight specific areas, including: «the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity.»

Kids told us that the primary reason they want to use social media and messaging platforms is to have fun, which means that an environment that emphasizes safety at the expense of joy and laughter will fail the customer satisfaction test — and potentially leave kids vulnerable to less controlled and more risky social environments.

Furthermore, low income is strongly associated with poor parental mental and physical health.40, 42 Parental irritability and depressive symptoms have been associated with fewer interactions and more conflictual interactions with older children, leading to less satisfactory emotional, social, and cognitive development.43 Specifically, the parents» emotional state and parenting has been shown to greatly affect their children's social adjustment, self - esteem, social competence, and externalizing as well as internalizing behaviors.10, 13 As noted by the Institute of Medicine, there is an intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms.17 Whether this relationship is due to poverty, home environment, family structure, family resources, social support, or other factors warrants further research.

Factors promoting social and emotional wellbeing based on this cross sectional analysis appear to include a more stable home environment (fewer moves or carers) and less psychosocial distress in the carer.

Young children's emotion expression and emotion regulation are less well - developed, requiring more support and reinforcement from the social environment.

One possible reason why social support has these benefits is that people who experience their environments as socially supportive may react to stress with less biological reactivity.

When children can learn to self regulate, possess social skills that relate to the environments they are asked to function in, and learn appropriate and meaningful relationship connection, they are less likely to have behavioral issues and more likely to function in their day - to - day environment successfully.

We ran into trouble with one particular social event (Christmas lunch, no less) at which our children really struggled to relax and enjoy themselves in a new environment.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.

Behavioral Rehabilitative Services Handbook (PDF - 314 KB) Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Children's Administration (2015) Provides information on an intensive support and treatment program designed to assist children with behavioral and emotional disturbances as well as developmental disabilities in transitioning to a less restrictive environment.