Sentences with phrase «social systems at»

«We can create behavioural profiles for every player in the game,» says Jeff Lin, lead designer of social systems at Riot Games, which manages LoL.

The circular causality is fueled by the contradiction between the individual and social levels, which means that the failure to obtain peace, represented by the triggering of the physical or emotional conflicts, is, in reality, the general resultant of the failure of the personal relationships within the social system at a given time.1

The failure to obtain peace, represented by the triggering of the physical or emotional conflicts, is, in reality, the general resultant of the failure of the personal relationships within the social system at a given time.

Conceptual artist Hans Haacke's two most notorious works took unsavory Manhattan real - estate dealing as their subject, which triggered the cancellation of his exhibition Real Time Social System at the Guggenheim Museum in 1971.

Not exact matches

I took the knowledge that I had been learning about how people hack websites, and how to go about creating defensive systems, and looked at how it could be applied to online social interactions.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

After that comment raised eyebrows, FICO — creator of the most widely used credit - scoring system — clarified that «at this point, social media data is not part of any FICO score.»

Everything on the site looks like it could be sold at a mall but is designed independently and ethically; many brand partners have a «corporate social involvement» component, such as Madrid's Ananda Pascual, which employs people disenfranchised by India's caste system.

T.A. McCann had been vice president in charge of all social networks at BlackBerry and Marc Gingras was in charge of retooling the calendar and contact applications for the BlackBerry 10 operating system.

In Rongcheng, at least, the social credit system has been embraced.

Only 7 % of those surveyed are very confident that the Social Security system will continue to provide benefits of at least equal value to the benefits received by retirees today.

At the same time, we faced a progressive tax system where we had to pay a 39.6 % Federal tax rate plus a 3.8 % Net Investment Income tax plus a 0.9 % Medicare tax plus an Alternative Minimum tax plus a 13 % State tax plus Social Security tax plus Sales tax plus retroactive State taxes to pay for government overspending.

For instance, we can (and assuredly will) radically change social security benefits to future retirees and stop limiting the income level at which taxes are paid into the system.

In the tech world, misconduct allegations have resulted in the ouster of CEOs at BetterWorks Systems Inc. and Social Finance Inc., as well as several venture capitalists, including Justin Caldbeck and Steve Jurvetson.

The California Public Employees Retirement Systems (Calpers) at $ 342.5 bln AUM is the largest public pension fund in the USA (as social security is not funded, opting for a «pay as you go» approach).

But the Social Security system is expected to slip back into the black — at least temporarily — when the economy recovers.

The movement's objective is to look at the entire financial and social system, not just at women.»

Before joining Glass Lewis, Courteney worked on corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues at the California Public Employees» Retirement System and the Colorado Public Employees» Retirement Association.

One manifestation of Finance's power has been the increasing tendency to use the tax system to deliver social and industrial policy — a quick glance at the Department of Finance's annual, ever - expanding Tax Expenditures report (first introduced under the short - lived Joe Clark government) tells the tale.

But after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the Obama administration tried to add some people to the background check system, by requiring the Social Security Administration to submit records of some beneficiaries with severe mental illness.

We're grateful for the opportunity to be immersed in social media marketing here at Buffer, developing our best processes and systems for building a social media marketing machine.

Dr.King was a social conservative and would be «disgusted» at the decay of morals of the Black community and family thanks to the Federal Gov welfare hand - out system now and everyone» as a baby daddy...

Most significant, the imminence of the final coming of the Kingdom of God dominated the thinking of many in the early church and lowered the priority accorded to worldly goods, economic systems and attempts at social transformation.

Faced with these plans to pursue liberal globalisation, which does not concern the people at all, we must independently develop our own proposals for alternatives, based on social struggle which only the victims of the system can lead.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Every student should be strongly encouraged, if not required, to take at least one quarter of clinical pastoral training and another in an urban internship; the first would help equip him to be a change agent in individual relationship, and the second would help equip him to be a change agent in organizations, structures, and social systems.

I am opposed to social reconstruction which demands that I use my taxes to pay a massive overhead of running social systems which have already demonstrated themselves to have failed, when my gifts could do 10x's as much on a local level, with no overhead, and allows me to make the choice at this local level — who can, and who can not benefit.

the colonization of the Dalits, which began with their defeat at the hands of the Aryans, was internalized through religious myths and stories and finally by introducing a fixed social order based on a caste system dependent on one's birth.

To repeat: a cursory look at the nations of the world makes it clear that the important differences in social responsibility and freedom are between the democratic types (of both capitalist and socialist economic system) and the despotic types, not between capitalism and socialism as such.

A fourth feature of American schools aimed at the minimizing of social stratification is the system of guidance counseling.

By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.

The traditional Hindu caste system was the most perfect form of ascribed ranking: An individual's place in the social hierarchy was fixed at birth and, at least in principle, remained immutable throughout his life (at any rate, in this life» the Hindu idea that social mobility could occur in future incarnations is, alas, beyond the scope of sociology).

When we are told that «communism and Christianity are in actual fact two competing systems offering to reconstruct China... they are two antithetic and contrasted systems, either of which will affect the whole political, social and spiritual life of the people,» the question at once arises: What are the Christian correlates to the communist economic system and social practice?

The inclusive character of God's reign is revelation's response to our quest for individual significance at the same time that, in principle, it wrecks our normal social systems of heroics.

The third category of systemic approaches includes all those which aim at making the emotional climate of larger face - to - face systems (such as churches, schools, industries, and social agencies) more growth - enabling.

At the same time, there are religions, and some of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the ritual: aspect of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems of ethics, and some of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.

Using family systems as illustrative, let's look at the dynamics of social systems and how they nurture or negate human growth.

But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

The reluctance of some people to separate themselves from their social system and this crisis at the Seminary influenced missionary goals by making missionaries more determined to remove caste distinctions as a prerequisite for becoming Christian.

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

Look at countries that have less people identifying themselves with religion and you will find higher acheiving education systems, better social services and lower crime rates.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»

Many of the adherents of Christian fundamentalism are themselves older people, but they and their leaders remain silent in the face of the chipping away at the Social Security system.

It may fairly be said that leaving accommodation [of religion] to the political process will place at a relative disadvantage those religious practices that are not widely engaged in; but that unavoidable consequence of democratic government must be preferred to a system in which each conscience is a law unto itself or in which judges weigh the social importance of all laws against the centrality of all religious beliefs.

Any public dissent becomes explosive, because it threatens the legitimacy of our current social system, which is characterized by an increasing concentration of wealth and power among just a few at the tippy - top.

In this I believe I am not far from Pound's interest... [in his effort] to understand how a system of law comes to embody and perpetuate a general way of looking at social life - a special system of values.

By providing a unifying concept that articulates a common structure of a great number of spiritual quests, the process paradigm I have adumbrated should illuminate and give coherence to the varieties of women's and men's experiences at three levels: the interpersonal; social systems, and institutional structures; and the all - encompassing natural world.