In its narrowest or most basic meaning, it refers only to those things that
make human labor more productive, such as building, machinery, and infrastructure for industrial production.
Not exact matches
Last year, Huajian found itself entangled in
labor and
human rights controversies that
made global headlines but attracted little attention in China's official media.
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Social rules and poverty
make their children vulnerable to
human - trafficking in
labor and sex.
Such a plan could enable businesses to
make their own plans knowing what the relative costs of fossil fuels, solar energy, and
human labor are likely to be over time.
This
makes Harris a consequentialist and places him squarely in the utilitarian tradition of John Stuart Mill who
labored to give a qualitative account of the kinds of goods at play in the maximization of
human happiness.
Perhaps even more significant than this replacement of
human labor is the extension, classification, and perfection of the
human powers of thought
made possible by automatic machines.
The conditions that
make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected
labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.
These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the
human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to
labor (such as
making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier
labors and births, not having to
make a decision about when to go to the hospital during
labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are
making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.
Note that this isn't some metric I'm
making up out of whole cloth; I think back in 2007 or so the New York Times ran a series of articles on class differences in modern America, and they said that one of the best indicators of someone's economic class is whether they have goods and services that took a lot of
labor to
make, or whether their daily life doesn't command a lot of
human resources.
Earlier this year David Van Essen, president of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), strongly urged the US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees on
labor, health and
human services as well as on education to increase NIH funding by 6.7 percent per year for each of the next three fiscal years, stating that this is needed «to ensure that our best and brightest young people will enter the field and continue to
make neuroscience research advances.»
Today, as in Newton's time, «it is the free flow of information that
makes such a vantage point possible,» said Patricia Davis, director of the Office of Global Programs at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights and
Labor.
In Europe laws that limit the use of agricultural chemicals and the exposure of
human workers to such chemicals have already
made lettuce - weeding robots competitive with
human labor.
Mapping the structure of the
human brain is a daunting task: Billions of cells
make vast numbers of connections, and tracing these tangled fibers is so
labor - intensive that analyzing just one square millimeter of tissue takes years.
Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Labor, Health and
Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies lambasted the president's proposal to eliminate funding for long - standing programs such as Upward Bound and vocational education to
make room for a high school improvement initiative and new mathematics and science programs.
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Labor and
Human Resources Committee last week unanimously approved a bill that would
make the Pell Grant an entitlement.
Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending bill and seeking to
make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion bill for the departments of
Labor, Health and
Human Services and Education.
The amount of
labor involved is huge, and the places where you can
make mistakes are many; computers are literal - minded, and a missing space or semi-colon that the
human eye would fix without our even being aware of it will break an ebook.
As the intelligence of technology incrementally increased over the years, many jobs for the
human race had been
made redundant, forcing Earth's citizens to head out into the suburbs seeking
labor, aided by exoskeletons to improve their efficiency.
He
made a name for himself on the Turkish and international contemporary art scene by creating videos that raise fundamental questions about the meaning and significance of
human activity and
labor as well as the authentic experiences of people while they are working on the real projects.
We have so much, too much that we can buy, yet the basic
labor of doing, the
making with our own hands is what enlivens us,
makes us feel
human....
What «
human laborers» almost always provide is (at least partial) management of their own
labor,
making it worth more than a simple horse pulling through a collar.
The use of fossil fuels has
made the physical lives of many in these countries much easier, as
human labor is either aided or replaced by mechanical work fueled largely by fossil fuels.
Apple needs to put the corporate grievances aside and only do what's best for the customers — use Samsung batteries
made by robots instead of cheap Chinese knock offs
made by
human labor (prone to errors and hence shorter life span) Come on Apple you
make so much money you don't need to shave costs by using shoddy Chinese batteries when a better alternative exists.
Career guides can help you
make the most of education, and
human resources in the
labor market.
These professionals usually collaborate with organizations which outsource their
human resource operations and complete duties such as recruiting staff, developing
human resources procedures,
making sure the company complies with
labor law, and maintaining
human resources information confidentiality.
A task that can take hours or days, and a lot of
labor by a
human item checker can be
made much more efficient by an automated drone programmed to read RFID tags, says Joe Dunlap, a managing director who heads the supply chain services division at CBRE.