Sentences with phrase «of systems perspective»

«This allows us to have more of a systems perspective of cancer development,» he noted.

This type of systems perspective is critical to better understanding the interaction of aerosols and clouds and incorporating these processes into climate modeling frameworks.

Not exact matches

Well, just to sort of put things in perspective, this is what, this is an actual scale of what the solar system looks like.

This animated map shows the scale of the Mississippi River and its drainage system in perspective.

«From a values perspective, we're trying to understand the way the world works — that's what our business is — and so we're really interested in people that have a sort of deep curiosity, people that have the patience to understand deep and complex systems,» Kreiter said.

The Reward Plan Advantage, by Jerry McAdams (Jossey - Bass, 800-956-7739, 1996, $ 30.95), is particularly comprehensive and, for those interested, offers a historical perspective of pay - for - performance systems.

«We need to make sure that this does not translate into misguided policies that could make the situation much worse, not only from the perspective of trade but also for job creation and economic growth and development which are so closely linked to an open trading system,» the report quoted him as saying.

«Some of the most important things are to modernize the tax system, both from a rate perspective and a territorial system.»

That's just too narrow a perspective and far too limited an approach to succeed in the new world of global competitors — many of whom aren't saddled with your legacy systems or the need to support the old enterprise offerings while the customers want tomorrow's technologies.

From a systems perspective, this is clearly because the interplay of factors involved have shaped his input into an unlikely output — in this case, the rush to «repeal and replace» led to a bill that polarized Trump's caucus.

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Moreover, and perhaps more importantly from a central banker's perspective, these Internet payment methods remain tied to existing payments systems involving the transfer of balances among accounts at financial institutions.

But there's a noticeable difference in the value systems, principles, and perspectives of transportation engineers.

From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?

Central banks contribute importantly to the promotion of financial stability given their sys - tem - wide macro-financial perspective and existing roles as lender of last resort and overseer of systemic payment systems.

From the perspective of users, the Bitcoin system is similar to an online banking system that supports only deposits and transfers.

From the perspective of miners, the Bitcoin system is a source of rewards from adding new blocks to the blockchain (the only source of new Bitcoins) and from transaction validation fees within their blocks.

What each of the blockchain startups catering to enterprises have in common, according to Hu Liang, founder of another leader in the space, venture - backed blockchain operating system, Omniex, is some rather unusual positioning, from a historical perspective.

It's imperative that you try everything out, try to break the system, and try to see it from the perspective of the person who will be trying to place an order.

Used by companies such as UniCredit, UBS and Santander, Ripple has been increasingly adopted by banks and payment networks as settlement infrastructure technology, with American Banker explaining that «from banks» perspective, distributed ledgers like the Ripple system have a number of advantages over cryptocurrencies like bitcoin,» including price and security.

They did a terrific job of setting up an electronic gold - trading / payment platform, because the system, although simple from a customer's perspective, is complex.

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Secondly, although it is easy from our perspective to identify, in isolation, certain «free choices» which we believe should have been vetoed by a Plantingan God, what must actually be demonstrated to make Griffin's contention a strong one is that the entire world system (the different possible world) of which such a violation would be a part would in fact result in a significant increase in the net amount of good in comparison to the actual world.

From this perspective, the time has come for the affirmation of value systems of other worlds, such as pre-Colombian America, Islam, or Asian mysticism.

One of the values in Glasser's approach from a holistic growth perspective is his commitment to applying reality therapy's philosophy and principles to institutional - societal systems.

Most theological formulations take as their starting point statements that have been sanctioned by the community in which the theologian's perspective has been nurtured, statements such as creeds, confessions, scriptures, or the fully articulated systems of past theologians.

As Roof points out, their religion affirms: (a) the centrality of ethical principles in their meaning systems; (b) a parsimony of beliefs, few attributions of numinosity; (c) breadth of perspective; (d) piety defined as a personal search for meaning; and (e) license to doubt.

The colleges argue that students, including LGBT students, have a wide range of institutions from which to choose, and that a pluralistic system in education should not disfavor an institution that follows a distinctive religious - moral perspective, or the students who choose it.

Wayne has an interesting perspective and I agree with the concerns of how we as Christians identify the function of our life based on a system of man, the institution.

This perspective reminds one that persons are the organizing center of their interpersonal network; that who they are is an expression of the quality of their most significant relationships, past and present; that they still carry within them hurts from past relationships; that their present relational system sustains and reinforces their diminished growth; that their hurt will be healed only if they can establish more growthful relationships as they move into the future.

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

It assumes that from the perspectives that come to expression in cultural - linguistic systems and are shaped by them, something of reality is seen.

I desire to understand not only the religious experience or the time - bound perspectives of the writers but also the system of truth deposited by the Spirit in this text.

This sweeping vista of cosmic systems within systems is the common perspective of Whitehead and Laszlo.

Because the Scriptures are richly textured and inexhaustible, it is important to leave the system loosely drawn in order to allow for new insights and changes of perspective which can always come.

The subject needs to be reshaped by the unique perspective of the system, like the pianist who insists that somehow, somewhere, her own unique interpretation must shine through.

By analyzing the Marxist system, he offered the philosophical basis for his cautionary stance toward liberation theology - a position prefigured in his discussion of alienation in Anthropology in 7heological Perspective (Westminster, 1985).

Back in the «70s, when evangelicals were debating Reformed - versus - Anabaptist perspectives on faith and politics, I participated in a forum in which a self - proclaimed «radical Christian» urged all of us to «stand over against everything this American political system stands for.»

Despite difficulties in conceptualizing and measuring the idea of broad meaning systems or broad explanatory frameworks, the studies seemed to demonstrate the importance of such cognitive perspectives.

The theoretical tradition initiated by Max Weber nearly a century ago has remained a popular perspective from which to examine religion, ideology, and, in general, the processes of change in these cultural systems.

There has been some work by notable heavyweights in the field of NT scholarship on what is called «The New Perspective on Paul» prompted by evidence that revealed first century Judaism was not the legalistic system that traditional interpreters believed.

Yet they would feel not justified in regarding their result as the last word of wisdom but would very definitely expect an appreciation and evaluation which puts these results in the proper perspective of a unified system of knowledge, philosophy, or theology; and it is irrelevant whether the latter task is performed in personal union with that of description so long as the integrity of the latter is guaranteed.

8 Michael Moffatt strengthens and reinforces a similar perspective in his interpretation of religion and culture of the Pbraiyars He claims that the cultural and religious system of the Untouchables is «not detached or alienated from the «rationalization» of the system... [Thus, it] does not distinctively question or revalue the dominant social order.»

A third perspective — which, for lack of a common term already in use, I will call «structural contingency» — can be identified in a variety of work that has arisen over the past decade or so in criticism of both the modernization and world - system perspectives.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

At the other extreme, many variants of world - system theory and some variants of the other perspectives regard economic development as inherently productive of conflict, oppression, and exploitation.

The former, the implied author, is «a system of perspectives designed to transmit the individuality of the author's vision».

From a strictly sociological perspective, the growth of South Africa's new evangelical churches is striking; their theological belief system and concomitant social endeavors, fascinating.

In discovering that the «sick» member of the family could be more clearly understood and sometimes better helped in the context of the purposive role played in the family, a system with much mutual inheritance, these pioneers went far afield from their origins, yet in just the direction that a Whiteheadian perspective would anticipate.

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5