Sentences with phrase «social utility of»

The University of Chicago Law School article examines the potential bases of liability, and considers the relative social utility of this kind of litigation, as well as the practical implications for corporate boards and their organizations.

The social utility of futures markets is considered to be mainly in the transfer of risk, and increased liquidity between traders with different risk and time preferences, from a hedger to a speculator, for example.

It means taking account of the severity and likelihood of harm posed by some hazard, and weighing up the cost and difficulty of controlling it and, importantly, any other effects on the benefits or social utility of the hazard or hazardous activity.

Clearly then, we need to think about how we might address this issue of inequity: to develop the role of Deputy Prime Minister so that it can be more fulfilling, raising public awareness and recognition of the social utility of what they do, promoting the holder's sense of self - worth, and harnessing their full creative potential...

The real dominant theme here is of the social utility of religion: ask not what this government can do for you, but what you can do for your government!

Emphasis on the social utility of science also tends to lead to the neglect of pure science.

Not exact matches

Having helped build more than a hundred apps from categories ranging from social networking, utility, entertainment and lifestyle, I get asked a lot of questions by entrepreneurs and businesses on the entire process of building and marketing apps.

«When the daily habits of nearly 17,000 utility workers in France were monitored throughout the 1990s, researchers discovered that their degree of social involvement was a good way to predict who would still be alive at the end of the decade,» she claims, for example.

And a plethora of smaller social utilities are regularly popping up.

The misconception of social's utility discussed in the intro aims to capture the high degree of attention garnered by a post in the first few hours of posting, but this is a high - competition space.

It is such an integral part of so many people's social lives and patterns of communication, and it has so few real competitors, that I think it is in some ways more like a public utility than like a private company.

And that doesn't include social selling vendors or all of the ancillary utilities required to run an employee advocacy program, such as tools related to influencer analysis.

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ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomic European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

Today's technology services, like email and social media networks, provide utility to users free of charge and generate income for owners.

Clifford Christians mentions that two ethical imperatives of social justice are particularly relevant to home information utilities: «to each according to his essential needs and similar treatment for similar cases.

They include: the command of the sovereign; the majority of the voters; the principle of utility; the Supreme Court's varying interpretations of the Constitution's great but ambiguous phrases; the subtle implications of platitudinous shared values like «equality» or «autonomy»; and even a hypothetical social contract that abstract persons might adopt in the imaginary «original position» described by John Rawls.

Usually a corporate seller of commodities, the advertiser can also be a political party, a government, a public utility, a religion, a social movement, a charity.

It can be a social science, for instance, most immediately concerning things about money, and extending to the calculus of social and cultural exchanges where notions of benefit and utility operate.

This process of secularization is deeply connected to the rise of a neo-liberal economic and social consensus, one not based on traditional norms but united by a search for ever - greater utility.

This generalization, however, depends as much on the nature of all the social conditions which could obtain as it does on the principle of utility.

By undercutting the moral basis of representativeness in religious programming on television, the paid - time religious broadcasters have removed one of the major contributions that religious groups could have made in influencing television in America: that of acting as agents in challenging the television industry to act within its moral responsibility as a utility for genuine social communication.

«50 So pervasive were these Societies that in 1850 a Unitarian minister, but by no means an enemy to evangelical sentiments, complained that «the minister is often expected to be, for the most part, a manager of social utilities, a wire - puller of beneficient agencies,» and his character is often judged «by the amount of visible grinding that it can accomplish in the mill of social reform... «51

Eight sub-sectors reported growth in employment in the month of December in the order: public administration; agriculture; utilities; transportation & warehousing; health care & social assistance; accommodation & food services; retail trade and educational services.

However, the issue with using Marx for this is that Marx discovered empirically that not all labour hours are treated the same, and that the level of capitalisation (unit productivity per labour hour), personal productivity (length of the working day, fatigue), and social utility produced an «average» social labourer.

Of the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors, fourteen recorded decline in May 2016 in the following order: professional, scientific, & technical services; public administration; management of companies; construction; real estate, rental & leasing; information & communication; utilities; finance & insurance; agriculture; wholesale trade; accommodation & food services; health care & social assistance; repair, maintenance / washing of motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplOf the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors, fourteen recorded decline in May 2016 in the following order: professional, scientific, & technical services; public administration; management of companies; construction; real estate, rental & leasing; information & communication; utilities; finance & insurance; agriculture; wholesale trade; accommodation & food services; health care & social assistance; repair, maintenance / washing of motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplof companies; construction; real estate, rental & leasing; information & communication; utilities; finance & insurance; agriculture; wholesale trade; accommodation & food services; health care & social assistance; repair, maintenance / washing of motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supplof motor vehicles and electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supply.

Chair: Dr Philip Smith, Chairman, Global Utilities Ltd, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and Chair of Milton Keynes Leaders» Forum Speakers: Keith Clarke CBE, former CEO of Atkins Global and Chairman of Forum for the Future Evan Davis, broadcaster and Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and takes place from 2 - 9 November 2013.

We stand for the Monarchy; traditional marriage; family and community duties; proper pride in our nation's distinctive qualities; quality of life over soulless utility; social responsibility over personal selfishness; social justice as civic duty, not state dependency; compassion for those in need; reducing government waste; lower taxation and deregulation; our ancient liberties against politically correct censorship and a commitment to our democratically elected parliament.»

«Poor healthcare, collapsed education, lack of public utilities, decayed social services, are all products of corruption, as those entrusted with public resources put them in their private pockets.

Social democracy, by contrast, was democratic western Europe's postwar response to communism, with public ownership of the utilities and sectors of manufacturing, the establishment of welfare states, the sustaining of full employment by state economic management and redistributive taxation on an unprecedented scale.

He also recognised the emerging potential of online social utility networks by joining MySpace and Facebook, two of the biggest.

Applicants must bring the following documentation to the outreach: 1) Proof of gross income received within the last 30 days for all household members a) Wages: If paid weekly, last four (4) paystubs b) Wages: If paid bi-weekly, last two (2) paystubs c) Award letters, if applicable (Social Security, Pension, Unemployment, Workers Comp, Disability, etc.) d) Yearly statement of interest received (savings, checking, CDs, money market account, etc.) e) Dividend proof (stocks, bonds securities, etc.) 2) Social Security numbers for all household members 3) One (1) form of ID for all household members (birth certificate or Social Security card or driver's license or school ID, etc.) 4) Proof of residency (utility bill, Rent / lease information or mortgage statement) 5) Current heat and / or electric bill.

The Chairman explained how the additional budgetary provision would be expended to include salaries and Social Insurance contributions, recurrent expenses such as utilities, maintenance and others for 867 offices and residencies nationwide, including staff welfare, provision of core electoral expenses like the conduct of voter education, legal services and for renovation of office and residential buildings.

Applicants must bring a copy of a recent utility bill as well as documentation verifying income, rent, and the date - of - birth and social security number of each household member.

Applicants must provide proof of identity, such as a passport, visa or Social Security card, and show proof of New York City residency, such as a utility bill.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

Such an earthquake will cause widespread damage to structures, transportation and utilities, as well as economic and social disruption in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay).

Utilities can substantially reduce their disruption costs, as well as social costs, by continuing to supply at least a small amount of electricity to serve HP demands during outages.

Last week Fortune magazine named the Southern Company a top utility for the sixth year in a row, citing its «wise use of corporate assets» and «social responsibility.»

Patient - specific stem cells may offer an alternative to embryonic stem cells that will skirt the need for immunosuppressive therapy as well as the social and political ramifications of embryonic stem cell research, but their utility extends far beyond such groundbreaking advances and will assist future clinical practice and patient care.

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11:00 AM - Social Utilities and Smartphones - The Evolution of the sMobile Experience Balaji Gopalan, (Product Manager), RIM - Research in Motion

It seems as though any attempt to escape arbitrary social rules via utilitarianism eventually runs smack into a set of somewhat biased and arbitrary social rules that must be implemented in order to measure and compare the utility of different groups of people.

In the field of the interaction between the levels of Reality of the relationship, i.e. the individual level, the social level and the special level of relationship, the circular causality lacking included third manifests under the form of utility or meaning crisis.

Failing to appreciate the salience of social infrastructure and the irrationality of the organizational environment, both liberals and conservatives have spent a lot of time pursuing questions of limited utility... In hindsight, we would have done better had we given more attention to trying to figure out how to implement anything under such inauspicious circumstances.»

This study examines whether group - level variability in the utility of parent social capital can help explain the recent finding that parent income and education confer greater benefits among White youth, relative to similar Hispanic youth, when it comes to 4 - year college enrollment.

The by - product of the theory should be to change our schools from places that serve «social utilities» to places where boredom is reduced, living enhanced,...

A large scale study of the assessment of the social environment of middle and secondary schools: the validity and utility of teachers» ratings of school climate, cultural pluralism, and safety problems for understanding school effects and school improvement.

«Other sites had the experience of starting out as a utility and then trying to go social, so we have the benefit of starting out as a social platform from the beginning.»

-- A utility that would allow you to upload all of your purchases and / or downloaded books to a social reading site such as Shelfari.