Amazon's AI consolidates data from all departments to see the larger
trends — and relate them to
socioeconomic data, customer - service inquiries, satellite images of competitors» parking lots, predictions from The Weather Company, and
other factors.
She and Dr. Pielke both say that the unreliable data and a confounding mix of simultaneous
socioeconomic, climatic and
other trends make it nearly impossible to isolate any contribution from human - induced climate change to mortality from disasters and related threats to human communities.
During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of
socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or
other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower
socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This
trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.