Sentences with phrase «social impact study»

He asked the gaming commissioners to do a comprehensive statewide social impact study to better gauge the extent of the problem.

Not exact matches

«This is one of the first pieces of evidence that social media use really can impact your sleep,» commented lead author Jessica C. Levenson, though the researchers acknowledged further study is definitely needed.

The study, which examined social media's impact on American spending habits, found that nearly 90 percent of millennial respondents say social media creates a tendency to compare their own wealth or lifestyle to that of their peers.

He also posted testimony apologizing for Facebook's role in false news, data privacy leaks and foreign interference in elections, as his company announced that it would form an independent commission of academic researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

In a separate post on Facebook on Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg addressed how the social network was misused by Russians in the 2016 presidential election and said that Facebook would create the commission of researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

Moreover, other studies have found that social media use has a positive impact on well - being through increased social support and reinforcement of real world relationships.

«A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions,» Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the social impact of technology, said of a recent post on Facebook.

The Danforth Study of Campus Ministries, published ten years ago under the audaciously inclusive title The Church, the University, and Social Policy, has probably had little measurable impact on any of the three communities addressed — which focus respectively on goodness, truth and power — much less on strengthening their linkage with one another.

In the heyday of the liberal social gospel which occurred at the same time that form criticism and other important New Testament studies were making a fresh impact on Christian thought, the kingdom was considerably explored.

Rayna Rapp's book on «the social impact of amniocentesis in America» has won prizes in gender studies, ethnography and anthropology.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

As noted above in connection with the inroads and impact of Maslowan humanism, human / social studies peaked in the twentieth century and have had a profound impact on Christian education as well as American education in general.

It is when we come to study the basic conceptions of God, the relationship between man and God, the impact of belief upon social conduct and the view of life after death, that we realize how wide and deep are the gulfs between the leading religions.

With the use of case studies, Fair Trade USAand West Africa Trade Hub will explain how sustainable production can generate positive impacts on social communities.

Jim is a Venture Partner at Reach Capital, an edtech social impact venture fund, and co-founded Teachers» Curriculum Institute, widely regarded as the nation's most innovative publisher of K - 12 social studies curriculum.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Finally, employers are investing in their future work force by supporting breastfeeding; some studies have indicated that breastfed babies have potentially higher IQ's and better academic accomplishments than bottle - fed babies.Because of the far - reaching positive ecological, health, and social impact breastfeeding can make on our planet, it is imperative for anyone interested in protecting our children and our environment to do whatever possible to support, protect, and promote breastfeeding.

[211] In coordination with institutional organisms, researchers are also studying the social impact of brestfeeding throughout history.

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.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

These findings are all consistent with the growing body of literature on the impact of adverse childhood experiences on neurological, cognitive, emotional and social development, as well as physical health.38 Although some studies have found no relation between physical punishment and negative outcomes, 35 and others have found the relation to be moderated by other factors, 12 no study has found physical punishment to have a long - term positive effect, and most studies have found negative effects.17

One study found that social support in the time leading up to and following birth had an important positive impact on a mother's postpartum mental health.

It featured contributions from Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR), Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp — American Politics and Policy), Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger with the group blog Crooked Timber), William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy (Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation).

A 2012 paper by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex studied the minimum wage and «found almost no evidence of significant adverse impacts on employment».

However, it is very difficult to outline this impact in a large - N study where we establish a negative relationship between IMF programmes and social spending.

Secondly, qualitative studies of the impact of IMF programmes on social spending can yield more refined theories and nuanced empirical evidence.

The study will compare the engineering, environmental, social, and economic impact of the tunnel to the other options - the community street grid or a new elevated highway to replace the existing viaduct.

The team carried out a wide range of research including surveys and field - based intervention studies investigating the impact of social identity on various outcomes, including performance, stress, health and wellbeing.

But with two months» breathing space since 6 May, a refreshingly thorough report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism illustrates just how much impact social media had on the election, and particularly how the engagement of younger voters may have influenced the outcome.

As public sector prisons move towards the thin staffing level model of profit - making institutions, with their high turnover of personnel who are less connected to their occupation, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) warns of a potentially detrimental impact on prison quality.

A research study «Changing Lives and Times» funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) at Cardiff University has explored the impact of the financial crisis on the daily lives and future plans of new fathers, finding that several men were making significant life changes.

I've examined environmental and social impacts of cellphones, pondered hummingbird flight mechanics, broken solar panels, and assisted with cadaver studies of biomedical devices.

Michael Meaney, who studies the impact of nurturing, likewise wonders what the implications of epigenetics are for social policy.

For this study the researchers targeted very specific types of GABA receptors to improve social behaviors with clonazepam, but the team also found that by using a different drug, they could target other GABA receptors and actually reduce the ability to socially interact in normal mice — underscoring that future medications would need to target very specific receptors so as not to diminish the drug's impacts.

Few studies have been conducted that examine SCP and its consequences, but it can be drawn from research on parental corporal punishment that SCP likely has negative impacts on children's social, behavioral and mental well - being, say the researchers.

«Human societies are hugely complex, and factors such as culture and access to healthcare make it hard to study the impact of a single factor like social relationships on survival.»

Rozelle's earlier experiments on health interventions in China had «a real impact on the lives of poor people,» says Howard White, a developmental economist with the Oslo - based Campbell Collaboration, which reviews economic and social studies.

The latest round of worry was sparked by a study of the impact of social media use on 8 - to 12 - year - olds published last week by Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England.

«We know that workplace violence disproportionately impacts health care and social service providers,» said Bride, who is director of the School of Social Work in the university's Andrew Young School of Policy Stsocial service providers,» said Bride, who is director of the School of Social Work in the university's Andrew Young School of Policy StSocial Work in the university's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

Since 2008, MIT economist Tavneet Suri has studied the financial and social impacts of Kenyan mobile - money services, which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone.

«Our findings suggest that stressful social environments experienced by a mother impact her offspring... and that this is already detectable in the first weeks after birth,» the study said.

This study compared social and non-dependent problem drinkers on the impact of alcohol - related changes in the body's immune response to stress, alcohol - cue induced craving and anxiety, motivation to drink, and alcohol consumption.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

Then he came to realize that the storm ripped apart communities as well as schools and hospitals and that social scientists are working to study the impact and help residents recover.

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

Studying each product's carbon footprint is a way to assess its social, environmental and economic impact — in other words how sustainable it is — which Ankathi says is «defined as helping current generations without compromising their needs or the needs of future generations.»

In the spirit of Lombardy's open innovation model, the Forum will feature professionals from diverse areas: responsible research and innovation; science and technology studies; public communication of science; participative and deliberative methods; public engagement; social innovation; social impact and its assessment; sociology of risk; sociology of science; technology assessment and governance; open innovation, science, and data; data ethics; and bioethics.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

That's because people with poor social skills tend to experience more stress and loneliness, both of which can negatively impact health, said study author Chris Segrin, head of the UA Department of Communication.

The study, published in July, showed that half had genetic variants linked to social anxiety, epilepsy and other signs and symptoms of the disorder, which impacts social interaction, language and behavior.