Sentences with phrase «societal concern»

Societal concern about antisocial behaviours of children and adolescents has increased over the years, in part due to the enormous financial costs of youth crime.1 Conduct problems (especially among boys) are the most frequent childhood behavioural problems to be referred to mental health professionals.2 Aggressive and disruptive behaviour is one of the most enduring dysfunctions in children and, if left untreated, frequently results in high personal and emotional costs to children, their families and to society in general.

Maternal depression is demonstrated to contribute to multiple early child developmental problems, including impaired cognitive, social and academic functioning.3 - 6 Children of depressed mothers are at least two to three times more likely to develop adjustment problems, including mood disorders.3 Even in infancy, children of depressed mothers are more fussy, less responsive to facial and vocal expressions, more inactive and have elevated stress hormones compared to infants of non-depressed mothers.7, 8 Accordingly, the study of child development in the context of maternal depression is a great societal concern and has been a major research direction for early childhood developmental researchers for the past several decades.

The emerging societal concern for how enterprises treat our personal information - whether it is a gigantic, blue - chip tech power like Facebook, or a little - known data operation operating in small - town British Columbia - makes this an all too relevant story to recount.

This findings contradicts the finding in Rodriguez that «societal concern with preserving life and protecting the vulnerable [against abuse] rendered the blanket prohibition preferable to a law that might not adequately prevent abuse».

The Carter majority thus concluded at para. 315 that the Rodriguez court's articulation of the legislative objective of the existing law was not restricted to the narrow purpose of only protecting the «vulnerable», but also with the «societal concern with preserving life» in general, and therefore that concerns over the fundamental shift in societal values that would arise if the state permits some citizens to kill others in certain circumstances, can not be simply brushed aside.

Depending on the answers to these questions, long - term climate change may be a more pressing or lower priority societal concern.

To imagine that some kinds of geoengineering research can be quarantined from societal concern and demands for regulation, as Parson and Keith do, requires a belief that pure research can somehow be precipitated out of a social solution using the power of «objectivity» as the precipitant.

Ubisoft's tagline for the game was presented as: «The city is your weapon,» and the fact that the game derives its gameplay from the excessive information overload which is becoming a growing societal concern is simply delicious.

Economic security is a societal concern dating as far back as ancient Greece and medieval Europe, with the ever present threats of unemployment, illness, disability, death, and old age.

Reducing the amount of dietary related diseases is utterly paramount and a huge (western) societal concern, with physical, social, economic, and environmental implications.

We can no longer ignore the influence of climate change on a wide range of issues of societal concern, including peace and security.

SPARC themes and activities address areas of societal concern such as:

«There is growing societal concern over pediatric disorders that have a basis in the fetal period and which may be more common in one sex or another, such as autism, attention deficit disorder, obesity, asthma and infertility.

«The possibility of a continued decay in the strength of the magnetic field is a societal concern that merits continued study and monitoring.»

As a result, courts have found that parental conflict related to divorce is a societal concern because children suffer potential short - term and long - term detrimental economic, emotional, and educational effects during times of family transition due to divorce.

But along with that suffering is a societal concern to alleviate childhood suffering — a concern that did not exist years ago.

It's a bona fide technological challenge that addresses environmental, industrial and societal concerns without compromising safety standards.

The Moho Nord oil exploration and production project addresses environmental, industrial and societal concerns without compromising safety.

This generational change will percolate through the economy as companies that do not effectively address societal concerns will struggle to remain relevant in the long - term.

That is why the issue of Abortion runs much deeper and hinges upon strong societal concerns for humanity and its core values.

Entitled Social science and epigenetics: opportunities and challenges, the symposium will seek to examine how multidisciplinary research into epigenetics — the science of the lasting marks that modify the expression of the genes encoded in our DNA — might help provide answers to societal concerns including why deprivation has such a marked impact on child development and on health outcomes.

Some believe their work's most important goal is advancing knowledge for its own sake, while others prioritize societal concerns such as contributing to social justice, helping fight climate change, seeking to cure disease, or educating the next generation.

The research fits squarely into WSU's Grand Challenges, initiatives aimed at particularly pressing societal concerns.

Social psychologists focus on societal concerns that have a powerful influence on individual wellbeing as well as the health of society as a whole, including problems such as substance use, crime, prejudice, domestic abuse, public health, bullying, and aggression.

In one scene, she chastises Lady Bird for leaving her school uniform on the floor and then proceeds to explain exactly what financial and societal concerns have led her to stress this request so strongly.

Mitchell combines the ultraviolent imagery he lifts from the movie with a theatrical composition in order to address class, race, and other societal concerns.

In this way, abstraction is not pure, but informed by personal and societal concerns.

And to further contextualize these innovative new practices, Cassel Oliver will turn to the often overlooked, with the two - part show «Black in the Abstract,» focusing on the disintegration of figuration by black painters since the late 1960s in a salubrious introduction of societal concerns to the formal.

Lee's early work focused on depicting societal concerns through realism, such as his first major project in the United States in which he painted portraits of San Francisco's homeless community on found boxes.

Beginning as a dominant part of the East Village Art scene during the 80's, Bickerton resolutely stood as an opponent of consumerism and mechanization of the contemporary world, often making references to the societal concerns.

These performances show Pope.L working in a space between community organization and an artistic practice — mobilizing individuals while attempting to address societal concerns through an abstraction of imposing themes such as labor, identity politics, and basic civil and fundamental rights.

This is particularly true given the «super wicked» nature of this issue, which is complicated by competing societal concerns, embedded special interests, huge gaps between human energy needs and clean - energy menus and other impediments to swift change.

The online climate wars — which seem so momentous to those deeply dug in on various fronts — are taking place on the sharp end of a needle buried in a haystack of other societal concerns.

My favorite quote from that paper is: «Because ENSO is the dominant mode of climate variability at interannual time scales, the lack of consistency in the model predictions of the response of ENSO to global warming currently limits our confidence in using these predictions to address adaptive societal concerns, such as regional impacts or extremes (Joseph and Nigam 2006; Power et al. 2006).»

In Section 1983 Damages — Part II, Pattis writes about the personal challenges and societal concerns he has experienced when involved with cases that assess damages insurance companies end up paying — not defendants.

In this case, the Court was faced with reconciling fundamental societal concerns: freedom of the press and effective law enforcement.

The objective must relate to societal concerns that are pressing and substantial in a free and democratic society before it can be characterized as sufficiently important.

Ambassador Jean - Hugues Simon - Michel of France is chairing the CCW meeting of experts and has recruited Brazil and Germany to serve as «friends of the chair» to chair respectively the sessions on ethical and societal concerns and technical issues.

The decision is an important acknowledgement of the legal, technical, ethical, operational, and societal concerns that have been raised.

Perhaps most famous for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Hayes is equally passionate about social justice and societal concerns and his hope that psychology can leave the protocols behind and focus on the competencies.

Not exact matches

Private and foreign investors could be forgiven for having concerns over investing in the country at a time of economic and societal change.

News of the planned expansion of the Amazon Go concept is sure to set off fresh concerns about the great societal challenges that come with the type of automation that Amazon is inventing.

The study was sponsored by the global insurer and health services company Cigna, which is concerned about loneliness as a societal problem but also because it's not just making us sad: It can literally make us sick.

While regional differences reveal a mix of threats that concern CEOs, they share a common increasing worry about broader societal developments — geopolitical uncertainty, terrorism, and climate change — rather than direct business risks such as changing consumer behaviour or new market entrants.

We tend to assume that business leaders are concerned only with short - term profits and not with societal well - being.

Standard Life Investments cited a recent poll of UK residents that showed that only 39 percent of 18 - to -24-year-olds and 35 percent of 25 - to -34-year-olds were «more concerned in investing in a company that provides high returns on investment than societal / environmental issues».

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

Sociology is more concerned with the various societal structures and mechanisms by which man's social existence is maintained and modified.

Still other theologies are far more concerned with a theological response to societal struggles for justice.

It treats all modes of human speaking as potentially aesthetic while holding to a concern with the historical, societal, and political forces that shape the preaching event.