Sentences with phrase «point social systems»

As incremental change has not taken hold in time, nations are now exposed to sudden change at the point social systems catch up with climate physics.

Not exact matches

After that comment raised eyebrows, FICO — creator of the most widely used credit - scoring system — clarified that «at this point, social media data is not part of any FICO score.»

In return for offering $ 40,000 to startups, Start - Up Chile entrepreneurs are required to participate in a social - capital system, where they need to achieve 4,000 points throughout the program.

Owners can use the app to book lots online, update their menu and send out social media blasts, and there's a Point of Sale system built in specifically for food trucks.

In its 2017 fourth quarter earnings call, the brand had laid out a new year plan of action that involved a focus on digital initiatives with a delivery - integrated point of sale system and a social media marketing strategy.

After a year of campus protests, none of us in the seminar — except perhaps the international students — could avoid guilt when someone quoted François's statement that «it may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.»

It is out of the synergy of these two points that social struggles emerge to construct another system of production and collective organisation of humanity.

In exploring what he terms «the culture of questing,» Roof points to the decline of traditional theism and the appeal of other meaning systems, «such as mystical, social scientific, and secular - individualistic perspectives.»

Pessimists maintain that, after a certain point, the necessities of integrating the whole network of machine and social systems will box in and choke off human freedom.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

Vandana Shiva makes, this point in more detail with regard to the social systems of developing countries — the Green Revolution, she writes, has in fact impoverished most of the people it sought to help, and the Gene Revolution now following on its heels will only increase the damage.

As social and dining memberships continue to climb, clubs must match their needs to the right point - of - sale system.

Dreambox Creations also leads the way with end - to - end fully integrated corporate intranets; social media strategies, execution and integration; Google analytics; integration with point of sales (POS) systems and guest loyalty programs allowing for total customer interaction; Open Table and Rezbook integration for convenient online reservations systems using multiple platforms; e-commerce using backend fulfillment and tracking, reporting and inventory management; and much more

The one point that I want to make — using the example of Emily, you say that this one minute time out occurs for the reason of negating the ADULT... I am not so sure the ADULT is the one being negated, but rather a value of our whole social system.

Social Democratic Party (SPD) The Social Democratic Party is in favour of a points - based system, similar to that of Canada.

For example, the LA Dodgers have set up a rewards system whereby one can earn points just by checking in at the games on social media.

Emotive and emotional, his address at one point saw him tell the conference hall «I have never been clearer about anything else in my life than this» on what he described as a «malnourished» social care system.

In an accompanying editorial, Michael Davis, CRNP and Jeffrey Kopp, MD (National Institutes of Health) noted that the study also pointed to various factors — such as having access to alternate dialysis in an integrated system, getting access to transportation, and having a stable social situation — that could be important for avoiding missed dialysis treatments.

But there are also tipping points in social, economic and political systems.

Mathematically, it turns out, the shift from a healthy state to a depressed state resembles other so - called tipping points — moments of critical mass where a system, such as changes to Earth's climate or a social trend — shift rapidly from one state to another.

The point being that it isn't inertia in the climate system that makes warming inevitable — it is inertia in the social system.

They're creating «a system that allows you to pick a point on one image and look at the same point at another resolution», says Janine Simmons, who heads the NIMH's Affect, Social Behavior and Social Cognition Program, which partially funds Korenberg's project.

There's a multi-tiered leveling up system that focuses on using experience points for upgrading special moves called «Talent Arts,» and a complex social linking system that grants bonus perks depending on how well you get along with your selected teammates.

Evidence gathered indicates that learners want a simple single point of destination for this interaction, so integrating a social learning element with an existing Learning Management System (LMS) is the optimum solution.

The many holes in the safety net were closed to the point that a system of social services gave relief and support to single - parent families throughout the child - raising years.

Though some observers, including multiple - intelligences guru Howard Gardner, point to schools as the «conservators» of our culture, and therefore instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school system has evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets of pressures — political, parental, social, organizational, supervisory, and financial — that any technological change is bound to disrupt.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Social Studies: Create a play, a power point presentation, or display for a State (as in Michigan,) a country, a political system (socialism, capitalism, republic, etc.) or a political point of view.

This policy enhancement could effectuate (a) a broader accountability system for both academic performance and social - emotional development, and (b) a greater system of care for child mental health with schools as the focal point.

SB 1458 encourages giving more weight to social science and science tests in response to the widely shared criticism that a math - and English - heavy point system had discouraged K - 8 teachers from making time for other subjects.

Another librarian pointed out that while the local library system publicized its e-book collection on the library's website and social media accounts, these methods were best at reaching patrons who were already «plugged in» to the library's services:

Running on the next generation of BlackBerry smartphones as well as on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and in embedded systems, BBX pulls together all of RIM's platforms into a single point, consisting of BBS - OS along with the BBM Social Platform and the company's famed always - on push services..

The point is that there is a global demographic shift of massive proportions happening where there will be huge social pressures on retirement / eldercare systems, because the ratio of workers to retirees will fall globally.

On top of all that we've got «social points» which is in speech marks to indicate it should be said in the most degrading, weasley voice imaginable because what sounds innocent on the surface is actually a very unwanted round of Kancho trying to hide those smelly fingers behind a facade of another progression system.

You also can spend bond points on certain characters, which is very much like the social links system found within Persona.

He detailed the system in five key points: a revolutionary control system, location - based entertainment, social connection, augmented reality features and PS Suite compatibility.

Installations such as «A New System Every Monday» and «All that is Solid Melts into Air» mix print media, sculpture, painting, drawing and video to point out architectural, institutional, historical, and social spaces.

Taking the city as a starting point for thinking about socioeconomic systems and injustice, he incorporates the natural environment, botany, and ecology to enable greater social awareness and inspire responsibility.

Hybrids of invention and documentation, renderings and diagrams, his work depicts processes and events, historical and futuristic narratives pointing to propositions and effects of urban economics, planning, architecture, ecology, transportation systems, politics, and social relations.

Unlike VanDerBeek's social videos, Haacke created kinetic art systems, objects that set in motion an action that had no end point.

The three artists underscore the limited ability of rational systems such as those promoted by Internationalist artists and architects to undo entrenched social and racial biases, pointing to how such methods may instead reinforce discrimination by cloaking it in objectivity.

The starting point for the artists featured in You Don't Need a Weatherman are investigations aimed at revealing social dynamics, economic systems, and political relations within an increasingly complex world of virtual representation, infinite sources of information, and invisible data flows.

DiAngelo correctly points out that racial discrimination is maintained through social systems rather than individual actions.

There are many points of detail where those wishing to preserve the competitive system and those wishing to super-cede it by something different will disagree on the details of such schemes; and it is possible under the name of social insurance to introduce measures which tend to make competition more or less ineffective.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

If we allow global warming to spiral out of control, at what point could disaster fatigue completely overwhelm financial and social systems?

The second entry point is by directly addressing climate change impacts through incremental adjustments to institutions, social systems, and physical structures.

In a broad sense this arises both from the social uncertainty about whether and when mitigation efforts will be agreed and achieved, as well as from the scientific uncertainty about how the many feedbacks in the Earth system operate, arising from imperfect climate modelling, the role of tipping points [9] and other limits to our understanding of the system.

But there are also tipping points in social, economic and political systems.

As I approach the point where I am exhausting the alternatives I can conjure up, I realize that the root causes of the justice system's inadequacies might just lie in the dysfunctional way that we as a society handle family breakdown; exploring alternatives to how we restructure families is the point of this post, whether we're prepared to contemplate social change of this magnitude or not.