Sentences with phrase «patterns over individual»

Our eyes and brains are built for rapidly processing complex data, but they prefer to analyze images and patterns over individual letters and text.

Not exact matches

This joy in being is a possibility ever hovering over individuals and communities who can discern in the pattern of events the working of a universal purpose within the very nature of things.

In both cases individual members may exercise some dominance over others, in particular by altering the patterns guiding further growth and development, but the social coordination stems from basic patterns embodied in the genetic makeup of the plant cells and in the laws and traditions of human culture.

The legislation states that «any formal or informal association... of two or more individuals identified by a common name, sign, dress, symbols, tattoos, or other mark or markings» and «a pattern of criminal street gang activity,» subjects a person to increased penalties after two or more offenses are committed over a period of years.

And this time the researchers took the technique one step further: They analyzed not just the diffraction patterns, but also how the scattering signals were distributed inside individual diffraction rings and how their distribution changed over time.

Next, they categorized the action patterns the macaques used during the hammering, including hand use, posture, and striking motion, for over 600 tool - uses across 90 individuals.

Hu's experiments, for example, show everything from the thickness of ice as it flows over a wing, the heat transfer of individual water droplets as they freeze, the irregular speed of freezing droplets on a wing or blade and the finger - like patterns of ice formation.

In collaboration with Prof. Eli Nelken of Hebrew University and Dr. Michael Slutsky of Mantis Vision, Slomowitz found that the network returned to its original firing rate over the course of two days despite the continued presence of the drug — and even though the firing rates and patterns of individual neurons did not reflect homeostatic tendencies.

To overcome this disparity in how employees chose to work, researchers recommend that employers give individuals control over their working patterns and actively involve them in any decisions or policies about technology use so employees can reap the benefits of modern technologies without being enslaved by them.

With the advent of more and more sophisticated ways to measure genetic variation and relatedness using molecular markers, such as allozyme polymorphisms and DNA - based markers, not only can individuals be tracked as to their parentage, but changes in allele patterns over time and thus the effects of evolution on populations can be «seen» in the genetic information.

Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals» daily commutes — or the very large scale, such as using air - travel patterns to track the spread of epidemics over time.

«Advances in genetic sequencing technologies now allow us to find patterns in large, diverse populations of microorganisms, see how they associate with specific individuals, and understand how they change over time in a way we couldn't just a few years ago,» said Knight, who leads the UC San Diego Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative.

While individuals show slight variations over the years, such as being more or less excitable on a given day or week, overall patterns were clear.

The third and most convincing type of evidence that long - term sleep habits are associated with the development of numerous diseases comes from tracking the sleep habits and disease patterns over long periods of time in individuals who are initially healthy (i.e., longitudinal epidemiological studies).

7 days is sufficient to determine an individuals basic patterns as the gut microbiome doesn't change dramatically over weeks and months so long as someone doesn't make a radical shift in diet.

The 10 percent cap was derived from modeling different kinds of healthy diet patterns — American, Mediterranean and vegetarian — and determining how many discretionary calories are left over for sugar after an individual ge the nutrients he or she needs, said Dr. Susan Krebs - Smith,, the chief of the risk factors assessment branch at the National Cancer Institute.

She has seen the same patterns of behavior crop up again and again over the years and understands what fixes to make for an individual's problems.

When an individual retires under a DB plan, she is entitled to a stream of payments that has a lump - sum value that we calculate using standard actuarial methods (which take into account expected mortality patterns and adjust the sum of payments to reflect the fact that they are received over many years rather than at a single point in time).

But meanwhile, in most of tenure cases so far under the new law, the arguments have been over typically either individual incidents of alleged misconduct or longer patterns of teachers failing to improve their practices.

Whether schools are analyzing patterns of specific behaviors over time, checking in on class or individual behavior goals, or watching the health of the school using the positivity ratio, Kickboard provides the data to inform where adjustment or support is needed along the way to ensure the success of whichever program they've employed.

But since DeVos took over the Department of Education, the OCR has reversed course on school discipline complaints, instructing regional OCR offices to no longer consider systemic and historic patterns in addressing individual complaints.

Trended credit data reflects patterns in borrower behavior, such as shifts in the number of balance decreases over time, or increases in the rate of a borrower's utilization — the portion of the individual's credit limit represented by their outstanding balances.

These aren't just stories of individuals — there really is a pattern that's unfolded over a prolonged period, a pattern which has some disturbing implications going forward.»

While the grid and optical illusions are present in Livingston's paintings, the relatively smaller individual forms create more of an all - over pattern.

Centered within the dramatic Josef Albers - inspired floor pattern in the atrium — the hallowed ground that gave birth to Information Theory — the artist positioned the workers at individual workstations, and filmed the men over the course of several days.

The works in Test Patterns offer an affectionate exploration of individual and collective agency claimed over technology, while exposing the limitations inherent in «universal» calibration techniques.

An enduring feature of Kusama's unique art is the intricate lattice of paint that covers the surface of her Infinity Net canvases, the negative spaces between the individual loops of these all - over patterns emerging as delicate polka dots.

Of course, large scale patterns are made up of individual stations, but they average over a lot of the noise.

His specific research interests include: processes that cause population abundances to fluctuate over time; predicting the extinction risk of rare species; patterns of individual growth in fluctuating environments and how they affect population growth rates; and the effects of current - driven dispersal on marine fish species.

If the longest wave pattern indicative of a composite wave pattern is used as the key for the demodulation of the packets of individual periods of oscillation patterns, then the over lapping of several periods of these patterns should give an indication of the reproducibility of the original signals.

The new study tracked individuals over a 10 - year period between 2002 and 2012, looking specifically at how their flight patterns are affected by El Niño and its colder sibling, La Niña.

Neuroscience professors at the University of Minnesota used MEG to evaluate brain activity patterns in over 70 vets with post traumatic stress disorder and 250 individuals that do not have the disorder.

In the near - term, Fitbit thinks it can help users at least spot individual patterns over time.

A pricing analyst is an individual or an employee of a company who is responsible for conducting analysis over the pricing patterns in the market and determines the fair and optimal prices of the products which the company produces or manufacturers.

Individuals and couples usually have characteristics of all four patterns, but one pattern remains consistent over time.

«I have been practicing Individual Therapy for over 30 years, helping people to heal old wounds, change self - defeating patterns, build a positive sense of self, and shift their life in the direction that they desire.»

The study used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to describe patterns of co-parenting over six years following the end of a nonmarital relationship, to identify individual and interpersonal characteristics associated with better co-parenting, and to examine whether co-parenting is associated with lower behavioral problems among children aged three through nine.

Using two different samples (one that included daily measures of individuals» attachment to parents and partners over a period of 30 days and another that included weekly assessments over a period of 45 weeks), Chris Fraley and his colleagues examined whether Camp P or Camp R could better account for the pattern of findings across both samples.

However, since over 30 percent of young adults are not in committed romantic relationships (Scott, Steward - Streng, Manlove, Schelar, & Cui, 2011), addressing individuals» general romantic relationship patterns might both improve current relationship satisfaction for partnered individuals and enhance the formation and maintenance of future relationships for single individuals.

Adopting a «personality perspective» on children's traits has yielded important insights into the patterns of individual lives over time and should prove helpful in future work bridging the gap between early childhood temperament and adult personality.

Mr. Breunlin is co-author (with Schwartz and MacKune - Karrer) of Metaframeworks: Transcending the Models of Family Therapy; co-author of Integrative Systemic Therapy: Metaframeworks for Problem Solving with Individual, Couples and Families; co-editor (with Lebow and Chambers) of The Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy; editor of Stages: Patterns of Change Over Time; and co-editor of the Handbook of Family Therapy Training and Supervision (with co-editors Liddle and Schwartz).

First, rather than relying on short term reports of family or parental functioning in determining targets for intervention, clinicians would be wise to evaluate patterns of parent — child interaction over time with repeated assessments, as individual or family functioning at any one point in time may not be reflective of enduring patterns of behavioral or relational functioning.

Our study also has key strengths: 1) analyses were based on a community sample and we were able to estimate the burden of behavioural problems associated with food insecurity among children in the general population, while most prior studies focused on high - risk families; 2) longitudinal follow - up of children's mental health allowed us to distinguish different types of symptoms and their developmental patterns over up to 7 years of follow - up; 3) statistical adjustment for multiple individual and family factors potentially associated with children's outcomes.

With over 43 individual prints set over 86 pages this gift ensures hours of fun for those who love pattern and colour.