Sentences with phrase «social distance in»

The panelists will discuss how their work is creating a more just foodscape and how urban agriculture can be used as a means to bridge spatial and social distances in the food system.

Not exact matches

Social media became such a hit because not only did it provide entertainment value to its members and communication to alleviate the pits of long distance friendships and relationships, for its popularity became so helpful in many businesses.

If your golden years are far off in the distance, you might not give a second thought to Social Security and what the program means for you.

While Jobs and friend Steve Wozniak were busy hacking into AT&T's long - distance phone lines from a Berkeley dorm room in the 1970s, the culture was awash in New Age experimentation and social unrest.

Lazarus, in an earlier time, was also part of the social landscape for this rich man, and below the notice of one who had the wherewithal to inhabit a home where the poor could be «gated» outside and kept at a distance.

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

In spite of strained efforts to promote «friendliness,» the social distance separating individuals within the group is large.

Did the bad blood between Judeans and Galileans have roots in the ancient conflict between Judah, that bastion of orthodoxy, and Israel, whose distance from the Temple was felt to be religious as well as social and geographic?

In this case personal suffering or social alienation has already provided distance from normative cultural interpretations (the state of fusion).

Indeed, in its attempt to keep the church from identifying itself with the Nazis it distanced itself equally from all social theories and political systems.

One possible disguise of the real situation is to persuade ourselves that we really do love the other in his place and at the social distance we prescribe.

Where distance from a nation's hub cities — London, Paris, New York — had represented a proportional loss in news, information and power, now «the provinces» in Europe and North America rapidly increased in economic, social and political power.

This disparity — the moral, cultural, and social distance that's opened up between the most successful people in America and everybody else — makes solidarity more difficult.

In practice social - scientific approaches necessarily emphasize the historical and social distance between first - century Jesus group members and Christians of today.

Like social - scientific exegesis, however, social history describes people who would seem strange in today's world, since they lived at some distance from us and in differing social circumstances.

These helped conquer «the tyranny of distance,» as John C. Calhoun called it, and played a role in stimulating the great social changes of the time, including the advances in America's wealth and living standards, the spread of opportunity, the leveling of class distinctions, and the increase in popular suffrage.

In a similar fashion, we can distance ourselves psychically from the obstacles, personal, political, economic, social, cultural, that impede our living relationally and creatively.

Yes, they make it easier to bridge distances, and they offer the gift of time in that you can be social at your convenience (if you can't offer a response immediately, you can delay it without dropping the conversation).

Because I was ten years younger than I was now, I was still interested in having a social life and the fact that having a baby distanced me from some of my friends was hurtful.

She offers a social smile that makes the mom happy and the mom talks to her in return; the baby looks at an object in the distance and the father points and names the object; with a little encouragement from the baby, the grandpa excites her to screeching with silly play but quiets down when the baby crosses the threshold to being disorganized or upset.

Changes in the structure of the nuclear family, long distances between extended family members and overall social isolation along with short postpartum hospital stays can leave new parents feeling adrift - stressed and unsure.

According to an article on EFT in Social Work Today, any perceived distance or separation in our close relationships is interpreted as danger.

Charles Kennedy, the keeper of the social democratic flame, who died a few weeks after losing his Highlands seat, was keen to keep his distance from Clegg: a suggestion that Clegg might visit Kennedy's constituency in Scotland was met with a curt two - word reply.

In his victory speech, Paddy Ashdown's successor distanced himself from New Labour, pledging to fight for a «fairer Britain» and saying he wanted his party to stand above all for social justice.

In a separate development, the party moved to distance itself from a series of pro-Corbyn social media groups after an investigation by The Sunday Times found they contained hundreds of violent and abusive messages.

A January study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggests negotiations are smoother when the parties are separated by distance.

The crucial point was that participants were told that the person asking for help was either similar to them in status (small status distance), very dissimilar (large status distance) or neither similar nor dissimilar (moderate social distance).

She adds a caveat, however: «My only worry is that social distance is strongly correlated with familiarity — you might get similar results if the brain just encodes people you see more often in more detail.»

«We found that children with disabilities are often kept apart from the local community in restricted environments — contributing to the social distance between them.

Nevertheless, orienting ourselves in time using hours, days and months appears as fundamental to our mental and social lives as orienting ourselves in space using landmarks, routes and distances.

The conventional thinking is based on a theory in social psychology based on psychological distance.

«The fact that eyewitnesses have experienced the past themselves makes them so credible that the students who interact with them in person find it hard to build up the distance needed for a critical approach to their accounts,» explains Christiane Bertram, who is first author of the study and who meanwhile teaches teaching didactics in the social sciences at the University of Konstanz.

Please note that because similarities have been normalized across dyads for each brain region, values depicted in this figure should be compared across social distance levels for each brain region, rather than across brain regions within or across social distances.

In order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region within each social distance categorIn order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region within each social distance categorin each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region within each social distance category.

As described in the main text, ordered logistic regression analyses were carried out for each brain region in which social network distances were modeled as a function of local neural response similarities and dyadic dissimilarities in control variables (gender, ethnicity, nationality, age, and handedness).

To gain insight into what brain regions may be driving the relationship between social distance and overall neural similarity, we performed ordered logistic regression analyses analogous to those described above independently for each of the 80 ROIs, again using cluster - robust standard errors to account for dyadic dependencies in the data.

In order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region and overlaying results on an inflated model of the cortical surface for each social distance categorIn order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region and overlaying results on an inflated model of the cortical surface for each social distance categorin each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region and overlaying results on an inflated model of the cortical surface for each social distance category.

The camp will explore the theme of the cosmic distance ladder in the Universe via several astronomical sessions, including lectures, hands - on activities and night - time observations with the telescopes of the Observatory, alongside various social activities, winter sports and excursions.

No social referrals shall be furnished where you and the referral live at a distance greater than the distance specified in the contract.

No social referral shall be furnished by the seller to the buyer if either the buyer or the social referral reside at a distance further than the distance specified in either the buyer's or social referral's contracts.

Social media has completely changed the way couples in long - distance relationships (LDRs) communicate with each other.

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK — July 17 — Social networks such as Facebook are helping to inspire a boom in long distance relationships.

The distance thing was a concern for me, but I did not have many local matches and those I did get locally were already in my social circle.

Some are bustling between meetings with a brief smile to share with employees like the warm Byrne, while others are what The Social Network would call «plugged in,» using headphones to distances themselves from the rest of the world.

Real people are killed as casually as pixels in an Xbox game, and that distancing, yet another manifestation of the social media - enabled detachment that characterizes the amorality of modern life, arrives with an obvious, staggering price tag attached.

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In addition to helping boost social experience of distance learners, robots have also been found to be useful in helping with courses that teach hands - on skillIn addition to helping boost social experience of distance learners, robots have also been found to be useful in helping with courses that teach hands - on skillin helping with courses that teach hands - on skills.

His current research interests are topics related to digital books, interactive e-books, gamification, game - based learning, research trends in distance education, online social networks, online interaction, online learning spaces, online learning communities, online community formation and online learning.

This article describes research on field trips, hybrid distance learning models, and virtual field trips in the social studies and other areas, as well as a critical case study of one of the most prominent and long lasting virtual field trips, Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trip program.

Following a discussion of the challenges of providing clinical experiences, the authors describe the outcomes of a study involving remote partnerships in learning between candidates enrolled in a distance education social studies methods course and mentor teachers employed in middle and secondary schools.