Sentences with phrase «on human development»

Scientists increasingly think population size and density have had a big impact on human development at certain pivotal points.

Her work offers a new perspective on human development, parenting, family life and being a healthy, happy, whole human being.

And remember, what we learn from dogs will inform studies on human development and disease processes.

Found this gem while working on a human development project.

The first is a huge emphasis on human development theory.

Wow I have to say that these people have obviously not read anything on human development.

Those of us working in the field of developmental science are seeing results that suggest the prenatal environment and prenatal conditions have meaningful, long - term effects on human development.

Whether that could have had an impact on human development remains an open question.

Other researchers are looking specifically into the effects of prenatal pesticide exposure on human development and are finding that it can have an impact on neurological development.

Her perspective on human development is a systems approach that encourages schools, families and communities to create healthy environments in which children can grow and learn.

The impacts on human development are presented by climate change models as uncertain.

Professor Paul Harris won the 2009 William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development this week from the European Society for Developmental Psychology at the Mykolas Romeris University Vilnius in Lithuania.

Vanessa's approach to counseling focuses on human development in relational, social and cultural contexts.

Today, Iceland ranks high on the Human Development Index, and its citizens enjoy a comfortable standard of living.

She worked on multiple research studies as a post graduate at the University of Washington's Institute of Brain and Learning Sciences and Center on Human Development and Disability.

It's in the forefront of all our minds as teachers, but we don't just focus on the outcome; we focus on the human development of the child.»

Participants were all part of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods.

A recent post, «Growth on a Finite Planet — So Far, So Good,» describing an upbeat report on human development from the United Nations, has elicited a notable response from Lou Gold, an American living near Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, the Brazilian state in the western reaches of the Amazon rain forest where I spent several months back in 1989 reporting on the life and murder of Chico Mendes.

Even among wealthy countries, most of which rank high or very high on the human development index (HDI), fighting global warming barely notches above the 10th most concerning issue.

William Bryant Logan is the author of Oak: The Frame of Civilization, which traces the influence of the oak tree on human development, about which he spoke at the second of Wave Hill's 2009 Horticultural Lectures in mid-February.

Both nations are considering highly developed on the Human Development Index, though the US does rank closer to the top.

«Since the early 1990s, Malawi, a landlocked and predominantly agricultural and rural nation, has ranked amongst the world's 20 least developed countries on the Human Development Index....

Although further refinement and testing is needed, Dr. Burgess said the new techniques have the potential to speed the production of many different types of transgenic animal models that will shed new light on human development and disease.

17:16 - Ali Brivanlou of Rockefeller University is an expert on human development.

It looks at comparing lives of different children around the world, mapping development, the study of Ghana and focus on human development goals and whether they have been met.

However, he's certainly left an impression on the Human Development and Psychology (HDP) Program.

I spoke with Hawking about the contest while visiting the school recently to do an onstage conversation on humanity's prospects in this century with Brad Allenby, a longtime contact of mine on human development.

The Future Climate For Africa Programme presents two major opportunities to: Generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and Ensure that this science has an impact on human development across the continent.

And yet, to this day, putting limits on human development continues to appeal to those who have been wealthy for so long that they have forgotten the material foundation of their affluence and are delusional about their ability to live without it.

This theory seems to support the study made by Dr. Yoo Rha Hong and Dr. Jae Sun Park on the «Impact of Attachment, Temperament and Parenting on Human Development.»

n At the same time, the last 50 years have seen the accumulation of studies supporting an alternative view: the idea that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment experience is perhaps the single most important influence on human development.

The Effects of Early Intervention on Human Development and Social Outcomes: Provisional Evidence from ABC and Care, published in Pediatrics in April 2013, details the experiment and results.

«We're beginning to understand that genetics is really about vulnerability,» says neuroscientist Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

This findings compare 21 children who underwent ESDM to 18 children who received community early intervention during the two years they received these early intervention services and then for four years as they were followed by Principal Investigator Annette Mercer Estes, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Research Affiliate, in the Center on Human Development and Disability at University of Washington.

Last year he published his magnum opus, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (University of Chicago Press, 2012), based on his research as scientific director of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods.

Although many common goals are to obtain money or fame, according to the study — the longest ever study on human development to date, it is good relationships that keep us happier and healthier.

The originality of the book is that this thesis, which could be argued anecdotally from many cases, is based on statistics, relying primarily on survey data collected by the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods — on detailed observational data collected by the project, block by block, of the state of order or disorder on the block — and on crime data, at the police - beat level.

In Japan, though, «the program continues 10 more minutes,» writes psychologist and scholar Hiroshi Azuma in Japanese frames of mind: cultural perspectives on human development.

«Research using human fetal tissue is invaluable to scientific and medical communities worldwide that study and work on human development and disease,» said Hans Clevers, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and a stem cell researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in a statement released 14 July.

This article focuses on the findings of the Human Development Report (2010 and 2011), with emphasis on the Human Development Index, focusing on the context of Nicaragua.

, which traces the influence of the oak tree on human development, about which he spoke at the second of Wave Hill's 2009 Horticultural Lectures in mid-February.

She chose the Ed School and developed an individualized course of study focusing on human development and international education.

Sierra Leone is one of the world's least developed countries (ranked 179 out of 188 on the Human Development Index).

On a scale from 1 - 10, where 1 is not at all important and 10 is of the highest importance, where would you rank global climate change in terms of its likely impact on human development?

There is no reason that the internalization approaches of humanistic education can not be replaced by forms of teaching consistent with the best contemporary research on human development and learning.

As she guides parents through this, Weiss combines current research on human development and neuroscience with age - old practices such as meditation.

Joseph Chilton Pearce, father of five and grandfather of eleven, now in his early seventies, has devoted the past twenty five years of his life to putting together and sharing the best research on human development, from the most brilliant minds from all over the world.

They have been examining what influence dietary strategies could have had on human development.