Sentences with phrase «physical environments»

Hanging from ceilings and walls but also from freestanding objects like sawhorses, Gilliam's «drapes» left the wall behind to create physical environments that redefined the conceptual and aesthetic boundaries of abstract painting.

Three main dive sites provide totally different physical environments.

Those genes respond to the social, emotional and physical environments the dog finds herself in while growing and maturing.

Create learning practices, human support and physical environments that will support the teaching and learning of 21st century skill outcomes

Anne stresses that digital environments are not separate from physical environments.

Promoting Student Achievement through Improved Health Policy is a quick primer of the CDC's «Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child» model, which highlights 10 important areas for connecting health and learning: health education; physical education and physical activity; nutrition; school health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; employee wellness; safe physical environments, social and emotional school climate; family engagement; and community involvement.

Advocates of citizenship education cross the political spectrum, but they are bound by a common belief that our democratic republic will not sustain unless students are aware of their changing cultural and physical environments; know their past; read, write, and think deeply; and act in ways that promote the common good.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer technology that utilizes virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments, sometimes in conjunction with props or physical environments, in order to create realistic sounds, images and other sensations that promote a user's physical presence in an imaginary or virtual environment.

The company has also developed «cards» that can be sold in bookstores or used by distance students that marry physical environments with digital content.

Be aware of physical environments and their effects on creating comfort zones.

Our physical environments, preferred methodology and school vision all go towards creating differentiated learning environments.

He then took a temporary job as head custodian of a school to get a better firsthand sense of the physical environments of schools.

Physically Distributed Learning: Adapting and Re-interpreting Physical Environments in the Development of Fraction Concepts (PDF).

In both virtual and physical environments, it's sometimes easy to get sidetracked by other topics that do not precisely follow the syllabus.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

Violence against children takes a variety of forms and is influenced by a wide range of factors, from the personal characteristics of the victim and perpetrator to their cultural and physical environments.

Prue has also been involved in the development of public policy documents, most significantly the Best Practice Guidelines in Early Childhood Physical Environments.

«There are innovations through an NFC reader and with any «card» filled with the content you need, that help us join environments of digital content with physical environments that can be sold, and not just online, but in any bookstore, in malls, etc».

The episodic nature of the film, the various physical environments in which Babydoll and her fellow warrior - inmates find themselves, as well as the sexualized nature of these characters, bear all the earmarks of a videogame, but the real world filled with real danger that intrudes at crucial moments raises the stakes, engaging the audience in a way that the female - centric, video - game - turned - film Aeon Flux (2005), which I also like, never quite achieves.

This is particularly beneficial for those who are naturally shy and might have problems with dating other people in some physical environments.

One also needs to be able to think on one?s feet, adapt to different social and physical environments, and to like slotting into new teams.

To assess how facial colors are related to physical environments, the researchers analyzed environmental variables such as geographic location, canopy density, rainfall and temperature.

«Systems that can work in unstructured physical environments, such as this carpentry system, are notoriously difficult to make.

Important questions yet to be resolved include the details of obtaining and confirming a target warhead during the zero - knowledge measurement; specifics of establishing and maintaining the pre-loaded detectors in a way that ensures inspecting party confidence without revealing any data considered sensitive by the inspected party; and feasibility questions associated with safely deploying active interrogation measurement techniques on actual nuclear warheads in sensitive physical environments, in a way that provides confidence to both the inspected and inspecting parties.

Every day, a mother's interest and efforts to breastfeed are influenced by public perception, culture, social norms, policies, and physical environments.

We introduce them in order to discuss, explain and modify human behaviour; and since human behaviour occurs and gets discussed only in societies, which have different histories, institutions and physical environments, the psychological vocabulary of one society mustnot be expected to match that of another.

«Greening» your company, via any number of means, obviously brings multiple benefits to the physical environment.

But we are physical beings, occupying a space, and we will always be more comfortable with the physical environment.

Using technology originally developed by a company called The Void, players strap on armor - like backpacks and visors and walk around in a real physical environment, but what they see through their headsets is the futuristic surroundings of the Star Warsfilms.

Creativity may be partly innate aptitude, but science has shown it's influenced by a host of other factors, including your physical environment and how many new experiences you expose yourself to.

But often a company's physical environment does little to promote health and productivity.

It goes beyond the core skill work we do on Khan Academy, tying it into monthly challenges that are intended to be done in a physical environment, in your math class with your teacher.

As Cooper sees it, «You can work out of your garage until the cows come home, but if you want to start meeting with clients and portray yourself and your image through your physical environment, it's more effective than a shared space.»

VR can be a way to save money in terms of trying to visualize what a new product or physical environment might look like, without having to actually build something out in the real world.

A University of Calgary study published in the journal Environment and Behavior found that people who moved from a traditional office to an open - office layout reported decreased satisfaction with the physical environment and co-worker relations, and increased physical stress.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

As Despina Katsikakis, a globally renowned workplace expert, pointed out: «Corporates are realising that the physical environment is a significant tool to attract talented staff.»

By helping clients align their values, their culture, and the nature of their work itself with the physical environment, Jenya is able to positively affect the company's bottom line.

Our fairly constant and active consciousness of our physical environment furnishes the foundational experience of what such mind and matter are.

It fills out, often through mathematics, the patterns of the physical environment in which all human being live and perceive.

Pregnancy, however, falls comfortably into none of the usual definitions of disease: it is not a state inimical to the way one is supposed to feel; it is not a condition in which body components and systems are acting inharmoniously (to the contrary, infertility would more likely fall within that definition); it is not a state of abnormality — for the pregnant woman functions satisfactorily within society, and the social and physical environment tolerates the pregnant woman perfectly.

«And yet evidently something has given us power over the physical environment, power to work out the laws of nature themselves and control them for our own ends, power even to destroy Nature itself with our technology if we are foolish enough.

We transcend control by our physical environment and our biological instincts.

But in the past this contemplation of a personal future normally took place with the idea that the cultural and physical environment had some permanence.

Some are alarmed by what human beings are doing to their physical environment and concerned about the role of theology in distracting attention from this.

From geology we have come to understand that, in geological time, the earth is continually changing its surface and the physical environment within which life is to be lived.

It was in this period that our culture started developing as an evolutionary «fast track» that loosens our ties with the physical environment in the sense that we become able to shape the environment to our wishes.

The same is true of the efforts to protect the physical environment from pollution.

It makes no sense because the very primitive actual occasions constitutive of the piano and of its immediate physical environment have a capacity for novel adjustment of feeling which is virtually nil, which is, for all practical purposes, nil.

In Adventures of Ideas Whitehead says: But physiologist and physicist are equally agreed that the body inherits conditions from the physical environment according to the physical laws.