Sentences with phrase «social mechanisms by»
Economics describes the variety of social mechanisms by which the production and distribution of scarce goods and services may be regulated.
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«The Happiness Foundation focuses on social enterprises, an innovative model that addresses social problems by tapping into corporate mechanisms, and supports the creation of a social enterprise ecosystem,» said Chey Kee - won, President, The Happiness Foundation.
Online marketers who disregard customer satisfaction will be put out of business by these very customers, either indirectly through social proof mechanisms like Google + or Yelp, or directly through outright bans on major marketing channels like eBay, Amazon, and AdWords.
Sociology is more concerned with the various societal structures and mechanisms by which man's social existence is maintained and modified.
The primary social question in regard to occupation is whether work is determined by the requirements of a sovereign economic mechanism or by deliberate social planning guided by an integral concept of human nature.
Interactive strategic alliances (ISAS) form the heart of making collaboration a social habit by institutionalizing collaborative mechanisms.
While Sartre attempts to explain the mechanisms of dialectical reasoning in its social context, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag sets a limit to dialectical thought by demonstrating its ultimate moral failure.
These variables help greatly to specify the intervening mechanisms by which larger social - structural conditions affect ideologies.
What emerged was a deistic philosophy in which the ideas of sin and God receded in favor of new social control mechanisms provided by law and legitimated by conceptions of the lawfulness of nature.
More importantly, issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism.
Issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism in which the social objectives of the peoples are destroyed for the sake of economic growth.
However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.
The Murray Darling Basin Plan's (the Basin Plan) Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) adjustment mechanism enables the Basin - wide SDL for surface water (10,873 GL per year) to be changed up or down by no more than 5 %, as long as environmental, social and economic outcomes are not compromised.
«Wage inequality, educational inequality and social immobility are all inter-related and are all affected by education, and the rising wage returns to education seem to be a likely mechanism in generating or at least exacerbating these inequalities.»
In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.
«Autism's social deficits are reversed by an anti-cancer drug: Using an epigenetic mechanism, romidepsin restored gene expression and alleviated social deficits in animal models of autism.»
That suggests the savings which simple awareness can provoke can be magnified by using more «social» mechanisms to deliver advice.
Could the destiny of social insects and human cells be controlled by the same mechanisms, ask Seirian Sumner and Solenn Patalano
«In contrast to a traditional soil decomposition model, our model can elucidate mechanisms that depend on social dynamics that emerge on the microbial community level, but are driven by individual interactions among microbes competing for food and space at the smallest scale.»
This research suggests that the bearded dragon is capable of social learning that can not be explained by simple mechanisms — such as an individual being drawn to a certain location because they observed another in that location or through observational learning.
The study thereby introduces a new possible control mechanism — enabled by social interactions among individual microbes — that may help to explain the massive reservoir of carbon and other nutrients in soil.
«It will be interesting to learn whether oxytocin has a direct effect on the rewarding effects of methamphetamine or whether these effects are modulated by this hormone's effects on natural rewards, particularly social activity,» said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry, referring to the mechanism behind the effects that remains to be determined.
By genetically modifying the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, the microbiologists from UNIGE are able to conduct all sorts of experiments on the mechanisms of the innate immune system.
By modeling its structure, articulating the architectural principles that have fueled its phenomenal growth, and discovering how social conventions drive online human interactions, Web science hopes to find mechanisms that will ensure the network continues to grow productively and in ways that support the basic social values of trustworthiness and privacy.
We know a great deal about the genomic mechanisms through which androgens and estrogens influence behavior; by turning genes on and off and thus affecting levels of proteins in cells, they slowly sculpt the brain circuits and peripheral structures required to produce social output.
By using advanced social mechanisms, it offers an interactive environment for sharing, acknowledging and recognizing people's on the job expertise.
If slots in oversubscribed schools were systematically allocated to the highest - risk students, the social cost of crime would fall by an additional 27 percent relative to the actual CMS assignment mechanism.
«Fundamentally, social capital refers to the mechanisms by which social norms are enforced.»
Principals» Conceptions of Instructional Leadership and Their Informal Social Networks: An Exploration of the Mechanisms of the Mesolevel by Jessica G. Rigby
Rising expectations, increased life events, separations, and loss of attachment bonds are all risk factors of depression that have been suggested as mechanisms by which social change can be psychic stressors.
By carefully selecting random situations from both his personal and professional life, Fischl intersects certain social mechanisms and creates narratives filled with humor, sensuality, and intrigue.
The show explores the use of the profound mechanisms of comedy as tools for unmasking, analysis and critique of the ideological, social, economic, cultural and political systems by a series of artists from the national and international scope.
By constructing the history of masturbation through art, the curatorial intervention attempts to unveil the wide array of social and political mechanisms which have proclaimed this pleasurable act as immoral or unhealthy.
The mural «San Diego Women in Resistance» by Arzu Ozkal will be a visual statement against authority, patriarchy, and other social mechanisms that govern our rights and resources.
Her films are marked by a unique sense of timelessness though they are underscored by a strong political concern, commenting on both social control as well as the innermost mechanisms of oral and visual language.
Exploring how our internal mechanisms materialize externally, the visions produced by these artists utilize multiple technologies to augment the lessons we learn by internalizing social and environmental issues.
Be Dammed is a research - based project by artist Carolina Caycedo that explores concepts of flow and containment, investigating correlations between the mechanisms of social control and the unethical aspects of public works infrastructural projects including large water dams and reservoirs.
What separates us — a group exhibition by four crucial contemporary Brazilian artists, Tonico Lemos Auad, Adriano Costa, Rodrigo Matheus and Matheus Rocha Pitta - examines value systems and exchange mechanisms from a cultural, social and economic perspective.
Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have passed from a state of actual scarcity into the present status of potential abundance in which we are now held to an artificial scarcity forced upon us in order to continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by means of a medium of exchange.
The precise mechanisms by which climate change affects Native communities are poorly understood, especially in the context of rapid social, economic, and cultural change.
It is odd that political parties talk very little about the TPP's investor - state dispute settlement mechanism, which could enable global business enterprises to supersede decisions taken by Japanese central and local governments regarding environmental protection and social policy.
Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);
The Court was quite explicit in paragraph 77 of its Brey judgment that a mechanism that automatically bars economically inactive Union citizens from receiving a particular social security benefit would not enable the competent authorities to carry out «an overall assessment of the specific burden which granting that benefit would place on the social assistance system as a whole by reference to the personal circumstances characterising the individual situation of the person concerned».
The legislature has primarily considered the simplification of legal mechanisms, mainly in terms of collective labour relations, by regulating social dialogue with workers» representative institutions.
The traditional «huge but bounded» closed contractual universe of credit card companies, banks and merchants is not easily replicable for competing and technologically incompatible payment mechanisms launched by telecoms, device manufacturers, social media giants, innovative merchants and garage - based startups.
The mechanism is the «summer associate» program — an extended, summer - long trial employment period after the second year of law school, which blends some actual legal work with lots of parties and social events, including the infamous «summer lunch» (long, expensive, sometimes boozy lunches paid for by the firm, which happen several times a week).
This is about understanding that we now have through internet protocols the ability to redesign the mechanisms of social organisation, to create systems that are egalitarian, that provide autonomy, independence, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression and empowerment for millions and billions of individuals around the world, simply by changing the shape, simply by choosing decentralisation.»
Good governance structures and processes are a key to community - wide economic and social development and require: unified and visionary leadership; strong links between traditional law and governance structures; internal dispute resolution and effective group decision making mechanisms; and options for governance structures beyond the Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs) required by the Native Title Act.
The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10
As evidence accumulates about parent - child connectedness being a protective factor for the prevention of a variety of health and social problems (e.g. drug use, violence, unintended pregnancy), attention naturally turns to the specific mechanisms by which this connectedness works, so that it can be promoted more deliberately, systematically, and proactively.2 Download details of the clinical benefits of Hand in Hand Parenting here.