Sentences with phrase «on scales of problem»

An alternative is to use age - specific cut - points on scales of problem behavior.

A comprehensive nutrition response has been stalled by a lack of data on the scale of the problem and ongoing political crises in Colombia that are dominating that government's agenda.22 days ago

The wait for more information on the scale of the problem continues - with Labour expected to publish its first national guess at the damage the transition is causing shortly.

Nevertheless, Allen's prescription does succeed in focussing the mind on the scale of the problem that we face in mitigating climate change.

The FSB research, «Treating Smaller Businesses Like Consumers — Unfair Contract Terms», sheds light on the scale of the problem, suggesting 2.8 million small firms have suffered because of unfair contract terms.

Not exact matches

Or, as Christian Busch, CEO of German Accelerator Tech NY, sums it up, «Lack of focus on solving a specific problem / need, (poor) timing (too early / too late), and scaling too fast.»

As many of Silicon Valley's largest companies were wreaking havoc, others worked on important causes and large - scale problems, NYT reports.

Moreover, if Afghanistan really is a problem requiring the application of «all the elements of national power,» then it is a problem that exists on a nation - building scale, making killing more out of place.

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Spillover effects on other countries, as reflected in bond yields, were more limited than in previous episodes of turmoil, reflecting the relatively small scale of Cyprus's problem, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington.

The problem that most often resulted was that people could understand the small parts just fine, but like western science, lost sight of the whole and couldn't understand how it all was supposed to work together on the grand scale.

The churches which have been active in family counseling have produced family education programs on a large scale; often these are based on clinical experience obtained in the counseling centers, thus relating to real problems in the lives of people.

When one begins to apply this procedure to the problems of allocating scarce food resources on a global scale, the size differential — and accordingly, the lack of control of the situation) the unpredictability of the results, and the resulting uncertainty of the final outcome — render inaccurate any comparisons of this with the medical situation.

I fear that in China today many of the problems that beset the West, and especially the United States, are being repeated on a large scale.

One of the problem people sometimes have with this sort of definition, however, is that we think that there are degrees of faith, or (to put it another way), faith is on a sliding scale, where one end is «wishful - hope - so - thinking» and on the other end is «absolute certainty.»

If so, the reconstruction of philosophy undertaken by Whitehead in terms of the «needs Process and Reality was intended to meet» (WEP 134) was on a far more sweeping scale than the solution of the problem of repeatability and unrepeatability.

It is sufficient for me to recall the general condition which is necessary for the solution of the problem: it must be posed on an international scale.

As Leslie Newbigin pointed out, the problems posed for missions by the rise of the younger churches, the end of colonialism, and the development of inter-church aid on a massive scale were questions about the forms and patterns of missionary action.

Thus every attempt to situate Man and the Earth in the framework of the Universe comes inevitably upon the heavy problem of death, not of the individual but on the planetary scale — a death which, if we seriously contemplate it, must paralyze all the vital forces of the Earth.

However, on a limited scale, there's no denying that there's something appealingly rogue about how Mrs. Cox went about solving her problem — by purchasing every single shirt she found offensive in the entire store so nobody else could, and planning to return them all one day shy of the 60 - day return policy limit.

There is widespread agreement among futurist writers with respect to the most crucial world problems — issues of such magnitude that failure to resolve them will result in enormous destruction, conflict, and misery on a global scale.

A freedom of information request found the majority of authorities do not have systems in place to measure the scale of the problem, other than collecting statistics on the number of children already receiving help from social services.

«We have a massive problem with obesity but on the other end of the scale we have a serious problem with malnutrition.

The problem is the likelihood of overshoot and collapse of human population on a world scale.

As a design engineer, Fuller sees the basic problem of mankind in terms of the necessity to integrate the production and distribution of the world's material necessities of food, housing, etc. on a global scale.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change on our community.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

Corporate officials at Procter & Gamble attacked the problem on a grand scale, according to court documents, assigning the formidable task of designing the perfect diaper to Kenneth Barclay Buell, a mechanical engineer who had worked on the Gemini space program in the 1960s.

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Last year, Shedd Aquarium announced its commitment to helping reduce the public's use of single - use plastics as a founder of the Aquarium Conservation Project, a coalition made up of 19 accredited aquariums across the United States banning together to tackle the problem on a national scale.

The purpose of the Commission on Sex in Prison was to understand the nature and scale of sex in prisons, investigate the key issues and problems and make recommendations with a view to make prisons safer.

Having said this, AYD is of the view that the recent public outcry that has greeted the activities of small - scale mining in the country, and the subsequent knee - jerk and fire - fighting war on small scale mining has only reinforced the age - old problem of successive governments.

But as was pointed out in last summer's Labour pamphlet on living standards, the scale of the problem to be tackled is huge.

The Republicans have a problem in that without throwing a bone to their own base upstate that regards Skelos only a step or two behind Cuomo on the «personification of evil» scale, they risk that base vote staying home in close races next year or, even worse, primaries against the senators who voted for Flanagan last week.

He said as many as 150 new units are currently being discussed, but that he understands why the New York City advocates, where the homeless problem is on a much larger scale, might be more concerned with the lack of a full five - year agreement.

At the town level, Mr. Russell called the plan premature, saying the county is taking action on an issue when it hasn't yet «identified the scope, scale or causes of the problem or solutions.»

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said at the time: «It's fair to say that in the Bank's 300 year history we have not seen measures of this kind enacted on this scale, but remember we haven't either seen the scale of the problems to which we've had to respond.»

«David Cameron tries to strike Olympic gold before heading off on holiday Main The scale of the Conservatives» boundary problem»

Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has launched a blistering attack on the Welsh Labour Government's refusal to acknowledge the scale of the problems that face the NHS in Wales.

5.30 pm Iain Murray on CentreRight picks out the highlights of the sobering reading that is the IFS's latest report on the scale of the UK's fiscal problems

If he is successful we will be see the proportion of people associating the Conservative party with things like understanding people's problems and being caring increasing, and people's perceptions of the Conservative party on the left - right scale moving closer the the centre of gravity.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

A problem on the scale of climate change needs multiple solutions, Bunje says.

But clean - coal technologies have yet to be demonstrated on a large scale commercially, and by the admission of even the president's own climate - technology task force, clean coal doesn't have any prospect of making a big dent in the climate problem in the next 15 to 20 years.

But now we're in the era of big data, which harnesses the computing power of massive databases with bytes measured in teras (trillions) and petas (quadrillions), combined with sophisticated algorithms that can grapple with problems on a once - unimaginable scale.

On atomic or subatomic scales, gravity is so weak compared with the other forces that most physicists see no problem with leaving it out of the picture.

The meeting was the first large - scale attempt to bridge the gap between scientists and policymakers on a wide range of atmospheric problems, including not just the greenhouse effect but also acid rain and the depletion of the protective layer of ozone in the stratosphere.