Not exact matches
In his seminal work, Über Sinn and Bedeutung, Frege distinguished
between a
level of sense (Sinn) and reference or
significance (Bedeutung).
Whilst the concept is certainly not primary at the
level of spiritual communion
between persons, actual and potential usefulness, in the sense of functional relationality, is, in the light of modern physics, chemistry and biology at the heart of the very being and metaphysical
significance of physical things.
One is reminded more of the progress of Hegel's Encyclopedia than of Whitehead's own system, which does not appear to recognize any essential ontological
significance between these
levels or orders of being.
On the political
level the most important change in the Communist world is the split
between Russia and China, but perhaps on the cultural
level the fact of Poland has greater
significance.
In
between the whirlwind of organising events, meeting Heads of States, finalising speeches, attending conferences, writing press statements and the many other last minute issues that come up on such a high
level event, I never forgot the
significance of the occasion.
The China phenomenon is frequently depicted at official and unofficial
levels as having put European - US ties under strain, mostly arising from a confluence of the growing
significance of Asia in US economic and strategic policy; Europe's political and economic malaise; and China's more confident and assertive external policies that include the prospect of enhanced financial and economic ties
between major European countries and China.
... It is worthy of note that the highest coefficients at a 29 - month lag were found in the relationships both
between SSN [sunspot number] and PDO [Pacific Decadal Oscillation], and SSN and CP El Niño with statistical
significance at the 99 % confidence
level, respectively.
Almost all of the factors and smart beta strategies exhibit a negative relationship
between starting valuation and subsequent performance whether we use the aggregate measure or P / B to define relative valuation.9 Out of 192 tests shown here, not a single test has the «wrong» sign: in every case, the cheaper the factor or strategy gets, relative to its historical average, the more likely it is to deliver positive performance.10 For most factors and strategies (two - thirds of the 192 tests) the relationship holds with statistical
significance for horizons ranging from one month to five years and using both valuation measures (44 % of these results are significant at the 1 %
level).
... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships
between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea
level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection
between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the
significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.
For example, chapter ten, «Ice melts, sea
level rises,» discusses the disappearance of tropical mountain glaciers, estimates of sea
level rise in the present century, estimates of its costs — the EPA estimated in 1991 that a one - meter rise would cost the US alone
between $ 270 billion and $ 475 billion — evidence of past oceanic high - water marks and glacial extents, the dynamics of ice sheet disintegration, the thermal expansion of seawater, icequakes and meltponds, ice mass loss and gain in Greenland and Antarctica, the ozone hole, and the existence and
significance of «marine ice sheets.»
The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual
levels, and to therefore identify culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and safe systems of care; the
significance of cultural diversity
between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health services to remote communities in often harsh environments.
We estimated that a sample size of 28 in each group would have 80 % power to detect a difference of 1.2 or more
between the groups in the change (before and after treatment) of the number of positive symptoms, with a common SD of 1.5 and the conventional 5 %
significance level.
A sample of 190 women would allow estimation of the prevalence of smoking with 95 % confidence intervals within ± 7 % and have 80 % power, using a 5 %
significance level, to detect differences in characteristics
between smokers and non-smokers of 20 %, assuming a smoking prevalence of 50 %.
The relationship
between NCS and depressive symptoms approached
level of
significance in middle to late adolescent boys, but only in the presence of many stressors, supporting a cognitive vulnerability - stress model in middle to late adolescent boys.
The CARES module was designed to be delivered to children
between the ages of 3.5 and 8 years with non-normative
levels of CU traits immediately after completion of parent management training, and when CP have been reduced to below clinical
significance.
Based on this more conservative 33 % target reduction in the numbers of self harm episodes
between developmental group psychotherapy intervention and control, 312 cases (a 370 target allowing for 15 % case attrition) were estimated to be necessary to achieve 80 % power to detect this difference at the 5 %
level of
significance with a Mann - Whitney (two sided) test for categorical data.