Sentences with phrase «social environments such»

They also looked at changes in the social environment such as the aging population, decreasing alcohol and crack use, legalization of abortion, and even the decreased use of lead in gasoline.

Wallander, Varni, Babani, DeHaan, et al. (1989) found that features of the social environment such as family support, marital satisfaction, and social support network were more important to maternal social — emotional functioning than disability status of the child.

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In concept, the fund is not that different form others that have been around for decades, such as the Gabelli social index funds, which invest in socially responsible companies committed to diversity, the environment, or good corporate governance.

All of the aforementioned video experiences could and should be offered within existing online environments such as corporate portals, blogs, wikis, content - management systems, learning - management systems and social - business platforms.

Weaned on mobile technology, fluent in social media and networking and immersed in issues such as climate change and sustainability, Millennials seek work environments that reflect their ideals.

«The top three weighted criteria are political and social environment, medical and health considerations, and public services and transport,» explains Griffiths, adding that criteria cover factors such as ease of entry and exit, air pollution, and risk of disease.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

In an increasingly pay - to - play social media market, joining a competitive advertising environment such as Facebook's can be quite daunting.

The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.

Buyer Behavior: the behaviors exhibited by buyers are directly affected by the changes related to context such as their environments, current situation, frameworks, goals, and the introduction of new social technology.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Nevertheless, making such neighborhoods today is very hard, not only because we have largely lost the requisite cultural and social habits, but also because in most places zoning laws (which mandate segregated uses) and street design regulations (which are crafted exclusively to make streets efficient for cars rather than also safe for pedestrians) make it literally illegal to build such environments.

Moving toward more modern social arrangements is presumed to entail a displacement or devaluation of traditional religious institutions, or at least some concessions on the part of such institutions to the secular environment.

A second approach has been what she calls values integration, one version of which «seeks to incorporate various themes such as social justice, peace, the environment, etc, into the total life of the school so that the student may incorporate the Catholic values demonstrated in the way the school lives the theme».

He learned from the social sciences how to «read» the environment of Faith Church, all the way from discovering the social networks and patterns in downtown Metro City to learning how such configurations connect with the wars, poverty, political oppression, and inflationary economies that mark the globe.

Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in terms of its effects first on the broader symbolic environment that is needed for constructive social life, rather than just on isolated and selected individual actions.

Thus, the Basque Culinary World Prize aims to recognize chefs with a transformative vocation whose work brings about relevant changes in areas such as education, health, nutrition, environment, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, industry, social or economic development, among others.

It honours chefs who have a positive impact on society as a whole, showing how gastronomy can be a driver for change in spheres such as innovation, education, the environment, social and economic development and health.

Anyone with a professional culinary career — regardless of their culinary culture and nationality — can win this award, based on their work in fields such as culinary innovation, health, nutrition, education, the environment, the food industry, social or economic development, among others.

This prize celebrates a chef of any nationality who demonstrates how gastronomy can have a positive impact in fields such as culinary innovation, health, nutrition, education, the environment, the food industry, social or economic development, among others.

An interdisciplinary group of experts analyzes the candidate profiles and chooses 10 finalists based on their work in areas such as culinary innovation, health, nutrition, education, the environment, the food industry, social or economic development, among others.

Our intent is to provide a fun, safe learning environment for young people interested in volleyball and inspire them to enjoy this great game while they learn valuable social skills such as patience, courtesy, honesty and fairness.

Their intent is to provide a fun, safe learning environment for children interested in volleyball and inspire them to enjoy this great game while they learn valuable social skills such as patience, courtesy, honesty and fairness.

Any new environment, such as nursery or baby class, can help your baby learn about new social settings and they can benefit from learning to trust and accept help from other adults and new social situations.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Children will have the opportunity for live practice in a supportive group environment as they work on age - appropriate social skills such as:

Indeed, if a baby dies in what is defined as an «unsafe sleep environment,» such as all non-crib sleeping deaths, those babies are no longer regarded as SIDS deaths, when in fact, they could be.9 More problematic is the fact that the SUID diagnosis is being applied abundantly in cases where an infant is found dead sleeping next to a parent on the same surface, no matter what the social or physical circumstances.26

Several crucial aspects then weigh in our conduct, actions and propensity to act morally or immorally, of which the environment (such as education, or social and cultural context) and exogenous conditions are crucial.

Placement opportunities are available to a number of Northumbria's undergraduate Social Sciences students in challenging environments such as prisons, youth offending teams, homeless charities and parliamentary offices.

«I want to see a Europe that is about protecting our environment and ensuring we have sustainable industries across Europe such as the steel industry and high levels of jobs and social protection across Europe.

«Those data, taken as a whole, may provide very precise information on the private lives of the persons whose data are retained, such as the habits of everyday life, permanent or temporary places of residence, daily or other movements, activities carried out, social relationships and the social environments frequented.»

Out of the traditions and organizational culture established during the late 1940s and 1950s came AAAS's activism of subsequent decades on social issues such as racial justice, the environment, and the war in Vietnam.

Our cover story, «The Ultimate Social Network,» by Jennifer Ackerman, describes the efforts to map our human microbiome — no easy feat when certain critters, such as the gut bacteria that prosper in an oxygen - free environment, are challenging to grow in petri dishes in a laboratory.

These factors, in addition to a student social life that emphasizes drinking — such as fraternity and sorority life, and spectator rather than participatory collegiate athletics — create an environment where binge drinking is a normative and expected part of college life.»

Rather, social scientists Kelly Musick and Ann Meier found, they stemmed from other factors in the family environment that facilitated regular meals, such as sufficient income, strong family relationships and authoritative parents.

The 193 signatories to the convention agreed to outlaw such geoengineering projects «until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities and appropriate consideration of the associated risks for the environment and biodiversity and associated social, economic and cultural impacts».

With their unusually large brains relative to their body size and advanced cognition, parrots live in a complex social environment — not merely in a large population of cooperating creatures, such as bees or ants, but in a dynamic setting of alliances and competitors.

Cranney spent a year in the rural areas of Himachal Pradesh meeting and talking with women from several villages and investigating the success of specific income - generating projects, such as social forestry, in initiating positive transformation of gender roles, as well as examining the benefits to the environment.

Such work could ultimately aid people affected by future disasters, by identifying factors — such as lack of a social - support network and unstable environments for children — that seem to increase risk of mental - health traSuch work could ultimately aid people affected by future disasters, by identifying factors — such as lack of a social - support network and unstable environments for children — that seem to increase risk of mental - health trasuch as lack of a social - support network and unstable environments for children — that seem to increase risk of mental - health trauma.

This work builds on Anderson's research from 2013, which demonstrated that human facial expressions, such as raising one's eyebrows, arose from universal, adaptive reactions to one's environment and did not originally signal social communication.

The researchers also suggest their study may shed light on how fear disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develop in humans, which research shows can be influenced by social environment; PTSD symptoms can be acquired from friends or family who have suffered trauma, for example.

«But before gene - drive modified organisms are put into the environment, our committee urges caution — a lot more research is needed to understand the scientific, ethical, regulatory, and social consequences of releasing such organisms.»

«The catalogue of genes involved in immune defence responses is well conserved among different bee species regardless of their level of social organisation,» explained Dr. Robert Waterhouse from the University of Geneva and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, «but it is much smaller than in solitary insects such as flies and mosquitoes that often live in more pathogen - rich environments.»

Working with governments, academia and industry across sectors such as forestry, fisheries, agriculture, environment, bioenergy, mining and human health, the goal of the organization is to generate social and economic benefits for British Columbia and Canada.

Social organisms such as ants can collectively mitigate the adverse effects of the environment

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

To keep my health and fitness on track in the colder months I enjoy joining a class such as yoga or kickboxing, which gives me a social environment and also a scheduled date and time to be there.

The study includes some preliminary data around the relationship between social environment, social contact, bacterial transmission and hormonal changes, such as stress.

These include poor diet; substance abuse; too little sleep and rest; too many social, emotional or physical pressures; serious or repeated injury; chronic illness; repeated infections such as bronchitis or pneumonia; allergies; exposure to a toxic environment; and a mother with Adrenal Fatigue during gestation and birth.