Sentences with phrase «produce societal change»

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In recent years, rapid societal transitions that are producing increases in wealth, urbanisation, changing lifestyle and eating habits, more sedentary work practices and aging populations across sub-Saharan African countries have led to increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Already GMOs, which have so far been produced by genetic engineering with minor changes in their genomes, have been subject to extensive societal debate and political and economic pressures.

In contrast, researchers who are on permanent contracts and are therefore not worried about securing their next job «are «freer» to produce more societal type outcomes,» such as promoting policy changes.

For the study, MAbs were rapidly produced in tobacco plants in as little as ten days, giving promise to change the image of scourged product that causes lung cancer into a manufacturing system for societal benefits against infectious diseases.

Efforts to slow the population growth rate, meanwhile, work within existing societal contexts and seek to produce voluntary change.

Also noteworthy is the near - simultaneous emergence on the center - left of two separate education - reform alliances: the Education Equality Project, which argues that the schools we have can produce stronger results, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, which contends that bigger societal changes must precede any major gains in school effectiveness.

The researchers asked 1,215 Audubon Society members to write a short essay on (a) The extent to which they personally engage in behaviors that produce greenhouse gases; (b) How climate change is exacerbated on a societal level, such as through the pervasiveness of fossil fuels; or (c) Their daily routines.

Such changes, while producing great concern to the general populace, will be extremely threatening to those that have succeeded under the current societal arrangements.