Sentences with phrase «social systems scientist»

She is an award - winning agricultural social systems scientist, and has been Professor of Value Chains at the University of Southern Queensland since February 2015.

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This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

Perhaps the key attraction of world - system theory, overall, is that it sensitizes social scientists to the growing global interdependence that now exists among nation - states.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating function in the wider society.

Though a seductive idea, it was finally killed off in the 1960s by the American social scientist Herbert Simon, who studied complex systems and concluded that it is in fact the simplest that tend to survive.

The research team, led by Joshua Cinner, a social scientist who studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 reefs.

Bowers worked with the US Central Command's human terrain analysis branch, which is separate from the army's Human Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds social scientists within the military.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

The life scientists then studied how the complexity scores of primate faces were related to primates» social systems.

Although I am annoyed that the majority of the posts seem to celebrate a very narrow representation of femininity, my real bitterness comes from the systemic challenges that these posts are working to address, and from seeing so many young female scientists compelled to turn to their personal social media pages to try to correct the system's failures.

To maximise productivity in S&T development, we will need to establish national systems of innovation that incorporate highly motivated scientists, adequately funded and functioning S&T institutions, and organisations and policies that will blend together in a constructive fashion with the aim of meeting common social and economic goals.

«These scientists have demonstrated a strong link between social and natural systems,» says Betsy von Holle, an NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program disystems,» says Betsy von Holle, an NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program diSystems (CNH) program director.

Last year Facebook rolled out a new «social authentication» system designed to block suspicious logins, but computer scientist Hyoungshick Kim and colleagues at the University of Cambridge have discovered some flaws.

Although this isn't necessarily a social network, the National Lab Network initiative uses a powerful matching system to connect teachers to any local scientists and engineers that are interested in volunteering.

Taking into consideration broad, economic, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors — all leading social scientists in their fields — suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver.

In 1993, political scientists Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones introduced this theory to the study of public policy, and it has since become a common lens through which to view change in social systems.

Most modern early - warning systems evolved out of the work of Robert Balfanz, the co-director of the Everyone Graduates Center and a research scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.

Although social scientists often have found a link between housing segregation and school segregation, few school systems around the country have been willing, as Palm Beach County has, to attack both problems at once, desegregation experts said last week.

As social scientist Yuval Levin has argued, this enables the system to «channel social knowledge from the bottom up rather than... impose technical knowledge from the top down.»

A big chunk of that money is financing research by dozens of social scientists and thousands of teachers to develop a better system for evaluating classroom instruction.

The symposia series is aimed at introducing systems science to behavioral and social scientists for applications in health.

Organized by scientists, planners, urbanists and (social) engineers, these spaces tend towards systems of verbal signs.

But behavioral and social scientists keep telling me they find little evidence that the public will can shift sufficiently — without an extraordinary signal from the climate system, perhaps — to get the politicians into high gear on an energy transformation.

Imagine a mapping system that meshes the properties of Google Earth Tours with explosively expanding social networks, instant translation and the match - making power of Scientists Without Borders.

A complex communication system is a sign of a complex social system, and scientists are just discovering that dolphins - intensely social creatures - use diplomacy when talking with one another.

Problem - oriented basic research will evaluate the possible effects of CE on natural and social systems and international relations, study the challenges in research and governance strategies and communication between scientists and the public, and analyze the possible impact on climate policy in the context of CO2 reduction and adaptation.

This would take us precariously close to the much - dreaded 2 °C increase that scientists warn would have severe climate impacts on social and natural systems.

The myth that until very recently we used to think that the climate was constant is also propagated by the CRU climate scientists, who write on their history page:» Hubert Lamb's determination and vision can only be appreciated in the context of the view, generally prevailing within the scientific establishment in the 1960s, that the climate for all practical purposes could be treated as constant on timescales that are of relevance to humanity and its social and economic systems.»

At a minimum, participation should be sought from key stakeholders and decision - makers; physical climate scientists, as well as natural and social scientists who understand the systems at risk; and experts in risk and decision sciences, public participation, and communication.

In a study recently published in Nature Communications, researchers have found that sperm whales not only have such a language system, but that they seem to have distinct dialects, suggesting that these whales use cultural learning to form multilevel, social structures, where individual whales with the same behaviours seem to band together in what the scientists are calling «clans.»

The importance and imminence of sustainability problems at local and global scales, the dominant role that the Human System plays in the Earth System, and the key functions and services the Earth System provides for the Human System (as well as for other species), all call for strong collaboration of earth scientists, social scientists, and engineers in multidisciplinary research, modeling, technology development, and policymaking.

Join our amazing team of scientists, organizers, and advocates to lead food system research at the intersection of natural and social science.

Coordinate research between institutions and universities, and between social scientists, economists, system users, and legal institutions to better understanding the issues

In that capacity, Kyle leads a team of social scientists and public health analysts in implementing a portfolio of performance measurement, evaluation, and research for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Program (ECCS).