Sentences with phrase «of socioeconomic development»

As the late Ghanian energy expert Abeeku Brew - Hammond observed, «There is an emerging consensus, based on the evidence from many energy access interventions around the world, that too narrow a focus on expanding energy delivery without adequate attention to productive uses for income generation yields little by way of socioeconomic development.»

Changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, governance, and many other aspects of socioeconomic development will have an impact on the supply and demand of economic goods and services that is large relative to the impact of climate change.

So for these and any number of reasons, one would expect that there could be correlations between temperature trends and measures of socioeconomic development.

Chinese scientists who studied abroad are flocking to both cities to contribute to China's scientific effort, a key pillar of its socioeconomic development.

By drawing on the World Bank's projections of socioeconomic development over the next quarter century, researchers at the World Health Organization set out to forecast global trends in death and disease.

In the case of RCPs, the initial idea was to posit just an emission trajectory, which could potentially be produced by a variety of socioeconomic developments (higher or lower pop growth, higher or lower GDP growth, different combinations of energy sources).

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The socioeconomic consequences of offshore wind development are also being evaluated including space use conflicts, visual impacts, and associated economic effects.

One movement is the development of a dynamic, community - creating religion among lower socioeconomic classes or other marginalized groups.

To support his argument, Tough describes how the private Riverdale Country School and KIPP Public Charter School — two New York schools at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum — developed this new approach to character development and are now integrating into their school cultures.

Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

Being breastfed exclusively for at least four months has been shown to have a positive effect on the intellectual development of children even when controlled for the demographic variables, especially socioeconomic status (SES) and education of the mother.14 - 22 The nutrient advantages of human milk coupled with the mother - infant relationship provide the matrix for the child to reach his / her full intellectual potential.

In this study of a population of relatively high socioeconomic status, we found a positive association between duration of breast feeding and mental development, even after adjusting for maternal age, maternal education, maternal intelligence (Raven score), and smoking at the time of conception.

The results of this study support the hypothesis that, for full - term children, breast - feeding allows better development of stereoacuity than does formula feeding, independent of the family's socioeconomic status and the maternal diet in pregnancy.

This is because socioeconomic infrastructure is the foundation of every development.»

«Considering totality of circumstances, meaningful progress and socioeconomic development of the Nigerian nation» states is unattainable without restructuring the exact largely unitarian geopolitical rearrangement.

If Ghanaians will make savings and enjoy socioeconomic development and prosperous Country through the collapse of NDC and NPP so be it.

This will not only guarantee our socioeconomic development but will also curtail the intrusion of foreign agents in our democratic space.

Several socio - ecological factors — including more frequent disasters, less prevalent infectious disease, and less climatic stress in poorer countries — were linked with individualism, but increased socioeconomic development was the strongest predictor of increased individualism over time.

«The fact that most of the countries that did not show an increase in individualist values were among the lowest in socioeconomic development over the time period examined is consistent with the observation that socioeconomic development drove the rise in individualism,» the researchers explain in their paper.

The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, show that increasing socioeconomic development is an especially strong predictor of increasing individualistic practices and values in a country over time.

There is a tendency to highlight the importance of cognitive achievements and the family's socioeconomic background for people's success in the future, but this study shows that children's self - regulation, which comprises children's social skills and processing of emotions, directs the future development in a profound way in different domains of life.

In a study of relationships between socioeconomic variables and opioid - related drug overdoses, researchers found several correlations that are often not discussed in the current conversation about the nation's deaths of despair, which includes opioid overdoses, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

Session 3: Socioeconomic Drivers and Consumer Demand Intro: Catherine Workman, AAAS S&T Policy Fellow, U.S. Agency for International Development Keynote: Grace Gabriel, International Fund for Animal Welfare Discussants: Mary Blair, American Museum of Natural History & Valerie Hickey, World Bank

«The act of striving for socioeconomic attainment is itself stressful for youth already experiencing stressful life events,» said Wickrama, the Athletic Association Professor in Human Development and Family Science.

People with fewer socioeconomic resources — less education, lower income — have less healthy diets, may be less physically active and have poorer quality sleep, all of which lead to the early development of heart disease risk factors.

They found that increasing maternal C - reactive protein levels were significantly associated with development of schizophrenia in offspring and remained significant after adjusting for potential confounders such as parental history of psychiatric disorders, twin / singleton birth, location of birth, and maternal socioeconomic status.

These socioeconomic developments laid a good foundation for the improvement of children's health status.»

Losses from extreme floods in Europe could more than double by 2050, because of climate change and socioeconomic development.

«The fact the cohorts used to determine this study's conclusions (BMJ published meta analysis) failed to consider incredibly relevant diabetes confounders like family history of diabetes, socioeconomic status, and dietary consumption patterns, including the dietary consumption of other categories of refined grains, makes quantifying the effect on diabetes development due to white rice consumption from this data set impossible.

Any developmental toxicity capable of affecting optimal development can have life - long consequences; minimal dysfunction can negatively impact quality of life by increasing the risk of health problems and socioeconomic achievements.

As late as April and May of their senior year of high school ~ there is a lack of knowledge among students about how they will pay for college There are substantial gender and socioeconomic differences evident in choosing STEM majors Parents and friends are key sources of support for postsecondary transition planning that need to be fully utilized On average ~ students do nt see college and career readiness counseling services as being as frequent or helpful as do their counselors and principals in terms of social and emotional development ~ financial planning ~ college and career planning and scheduling.

Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with language impairments.

The report, «Tomorrow's Schools: Principles for the Design of Professional Development Schools,» outlines a comprehensive set of principles intended to guide the creation of such schools, in which prospective teachers can learn their craft, university faculty can conduct research, and practicing teachers and university instructors can collaborate in the development of strategies for teaching children from diverse cultural and socioeconomic bDevelopment Schools,» outlines a comprehensive set of principles intended to guide the creation of such schools, in which prospective teachers can learn their craft, university faculty can conduct research, and practicing teachers and university instructors can collaborate in the development of strategies for teaching children from diverse cultural and socioeconomic bdevelopment of strategies for teaching children from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Once the right mix was found, each mother was interviewed by the researchers, covering a range of topics like socioeconomic and educational backgrounds; the schooling of their parents, husbands, and siblings; reproductive and health behavior; knowledge of child development; and attitudes toward their children.

«I want to explore the role of socioeconomic status in Colombian identity development, and to understand what implications there might be for our domestic work,» said Umaña - Taylor.

On June 8, the Departments of Education (ED), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Transportation (DOT) held a half - day convening and released a joint Dear Colleague Letter calling for cross-agency collaboration to promote racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools and communities.

For instance, socioeconomic differences among students in various countries were not considered, said Adam Still, a co-author of the report and an education finance and development specialist for GEMS, in a phone interview.

Intensive community education and input to the development of socioeconomic integration plans is one of the biggest hurdles school integration efforts face.

An essential part of the joint statement is that it defines a quality education as one that focuses on the whole child — the social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive development of each student regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or geographic location.

The specificity of environmental influence: Socioeconomic status affects early vocabulary development via maternal speech.

Based on Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family — School Partnerships, a publication of the American Institutes for Research's Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, this session will help you to build and enhance the capacity of school staff and teachers use equity to engage all families, regardless of their racial or ethnic identity, educational background, gender, disability, or socioeconomic status.

Socioeconomic Disadvantage, School Attendance, and Early Cognitive Development: The Differential Effects of School Exposure

Cultural competency development is now a large component of the Oregon Leadership Network's mission to strengthen education leadership to improve student success and eliminate the performance gap between different ethnic and socioeconomic student groups.

For example, Comer's School Development Project demonstrates that strengthening the connections between urban school professionals and parents of low socioeconomic status can improve their children's academic achievement (Comer, Haynes, Joyner, & Ben - Avie, 1996).

First, it was found that both fourth - and eighth - grade rural and urban students of lower socioeconomic status (SES) had fewer teachers with recent professional development in computers and mathematics education and had less access to home computers than did suburban students.

As an institution of access and excellence, UTSA embraces multicultural traditions, serving as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development for Texas, the nation and the world.

The exhibition highlights the political dialogue inherent in the artist's artistic interventions — from his concern for the extreme plight of the homeless, his interest in direct community engagement, his belief that we should expand our lived experience of a city into its underground and other inaccessible spaces, and his commentary on development and socioeconomic stratification.

Development challenges, such as gender inequality and low levels of education, and other differences among communities in age, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and governance can influence vulnerability to climate change impacts in complex ways.

Socioeconomic Democracy provides a comprehensive, just, realizable, freedom - enhancing, environment - respecting, democratic means of accomplishing not only the modest, though presently doubtful, Millennium Development Goals, but also simultaneously resolving or reducing a large number of other very real and crucial planetary problems, any of which could easily preclude realization of all well - intentioned MDGs.

ERA4CS DustClim (DUST storms assessment for the development of user - oriented CLIMate services in Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe)(2017 - 2020) will provide high - resolution baseline and trend information on sand and dust storms over Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East, and will develop dust - related climate services tailored to key socioeconomic sectors.