Sentences with phrase «studying human relationships»

Her interactions with people and studying human relationships informs her work.

The first time I knowingly shared the water with one was in Fiji, when I was around 21 and traveling the South Pacific on a fellowship studying the human relationship to the sea.

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Available epidemiologic studies in humans have «not shown clear evidence of a relationship between cell phone use and cancer,» according to the National Cancer Institute, although this remains a topic of debate among researchers.

Through problems like the one posed by Clippy, Nass's study of what makes computers and other technologies «easier, more effective, and more pleasant for people to use» led him to explore how to do the same with human relationships.

Thousands of studies have concluded that most human beings thrive when they have strong, positive relationships with other human beings.

Take a listen to the 115th episode of the Social Zoom Factor podcast for a deep dive into this topic and hear case studies about brands that are putting up barriers and brands that are tearing them down and making the decision to be human, own their mistakes and put relationships and long term customer value and loyalty first.

Preparation for preaching, therefore, should include time spent studying the human and social implications of their pastoral and community relationships; reading papers and magazines; listening to radio; watching television; attending the theater and movies in order that the church's preaching may engage the meanings that influence people with the meanings of the gospel.

Performance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech and gesture.

In a later study of the well - being of coronary patients, Holden (1981) reported that ownership of a pet among ninety - three patients was the strongest predictor of survival, stronger even than human relationships.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

The Penguin History of Economics defines economics as «a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means with alternative uses».

«Love» exists and has been studied by scientists, but there is a huge difference between actually having a relationship with another human being, or even an animal that you can characterize as «loving» and thinking there is some all - powerful unseen being out there that loves you.

Before dismissing Augustine as being ancient, his dilemma as being archaic and his solutions as being irrelevant, it is well that we take a close look at what has been happening in secular education and also at the relationship between human / social studies in secular institutions on the one hand and Christian institutions on the other.

1, 1977, and available from the Center for Process Studies, David Ray Griffin, Executive Director, School of Theology at Claremont, 1325 N. College Ave., Claremont, Calif. 91711 Valerie C. Salving, «Androgynous Life: A Feminist Appropriation of Process Thought»; Marjorie Suchocki, «Feminism in Process»; Penelope Washbourn, «The Dynamics of Female Experience: Process Models and Human Values»; and John Cobb, «Feminism and Process Thought: A Two - Way Relationship.»

CNN: My Take: 5 reasons Christians should love «Twighlight» Jane Wells, author of Glitter in the Sun: A Bible Study Searching for Truth in the Twighlight Saga, writes that the Twilight Saga has launched a firestorm of debate as to whether the vampire - human love story represents eternal love at its finest or glorifies misogynistic and abusive relationships.

Within this framework, the starting point of theology is the study of the relationship between human beings and a superhuman reality we call God.

The only animals Rozin found during the course of his studies who exhibited true, laboratory - proven preference for chile, were two chimpanzees and a dog, all of which had strong relationships with humans.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement an interim final or final rule regarding nutrition programs under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) that --(1) requires crediting of tomato paste and puree based on volume; (2) implements a sodium reduction target beyond Target I, the 2 - year target, specified in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, «Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs» (FNS — 2007 — 0038, RIN 0584 — AD59) until the Secretary certifies that the Department has reviewed and evaluated relevant scientific studies and data relevant to the relationship of sodium reductions to human health; and (3) establishes any whole grain requirement without defining «whole grain.»

The study failed to consider how maternal - infant relationships have survived and thrived throughout human history.

However, in malnourished populations motor development may be a useful predictor of subsequent human function.5 A study conducted in Denmark6 found a positive relationship between breastfeeding duration and an earlier ability to crawl and perform the «pincer grip» after adjusting for potential confounding variables.

If the finding is correct, it indicates that the relationship between humans and Neandertals goes further back and is more complicated than scientists supposed, says Sarah Tishkoff, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study.

Alison Lennox, a principal investigator scientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Human Nutrition Research (HNR) in Cambridge, U.K., studies the relationship between diet and health outcomes.

«Human societies are hugely complex, and factors such as culture and access to healthcare make it hard to study the impact of a single factor like social relationships on survival.»

The origins of this dog - human relationship were subject of a study by behavioural scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna and the Wolf Science Center.

Wathan and McComb plan to continue to explore facial features related to the expression of emotion in their horses, noting that horses» rich social lives and close relationship to humans make them particularly interesting as study subjects.

Vitamin D — and other nutritional factors — are known to influence the severity of TB in humans but its relationship with cattle and other mammals has not been studied until now.

A study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development has investigated the relationship between the availability of nature near city dwellers» homes and their brain health.

The results offer a new way to think about how status affects workplace relationships, said Robert Lount, co-author of the study and an associate professor of management and human resources at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.

For instance, she sees the amoeba — bacteria relationship as an interesting model for studying the complex interactions humans have with bacteria.

«When we, as researchers, study organizations, or even when we study how managers look at employees, we see that businesses often assume that the relationship terminates when a person leaves the organization,» said Sumita Raghuram, associate professor, human resource management, Penn State.

That's one of several conclusions reached by University of Nebraska - Lincoln ecologist John DeLong, who has co-authored the first study to quantify the relationship between human population growth and energy use on an international scale.

«Humans organize their knowledge of social relationships into a hierarchical structure, and they also make use of hierarchical structures when deducing relationships between words in language,» notes study co-author Robert Seyfarth.

«This study shows the importance for a company to communicate in a human - like way for establishing the best relationships with consumers.

Kahn and his colleagues plan to continue to study the relationship between the microbiome and CCM formation, particularly as it relates to human disease.

Based on a 2002 study, this illustration maps the relationships between 18 human populations, using the neighbor - joining method to create an evolutionary tree built on genetic data.

A study of the effect of alcohol on long - term relationships finds that when a male prairie vole has access to alcohol, but his female partner doesn't, the relationship suffers — similar to what has been observed in human couples.

«We know relationships are key,» says Brian Ogolsky, associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at U of I. «We spend all of our time in these relationships.

«All animals can be social with people to some extent, but dogs are uniquely good at being with us,» says University of Alberta archaeologist Robert Losey, who studies the human - dog relationship in prehistory.

The human papillomavirus (HPV) spreads surprisingly quickly between two people in a new relationship, a new study finds.

«This is by far the largest twin study of gene expression ever published, enabling us to make a roadmap of genes versus environment,» Sullivan says, adding that the study measured relationships with disease more precisely than had been previously possible, and uncovered important connections to recent human evolution and genetic influence in disease.

Daniel Hollern is an MSU doctoral student who co-authored a study that analyzed the relationship between mice and human breast cancer.

«Teeth are usually really well - preserved and can tell you so much about diet and health, in addition to genetic relationships and social structure,» says Marin Pilloud of the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies the size and shape of teeth as part of her work in Çatalhöyük's human remains lab.

In The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, Sheila Jasanoff — legal scholar and revered matriarch in the field of science and technology studies — invites us to consider technology not as a mere tool but as a constellation of norms, machines, and regimes that form interlocking and evolving new relationships.

In a new study in this month's Cognition, scientists show that Alex correctly inferred the relationship between cardinal and ordinal numbers, an ability that has not previously been found in any species other than humans.

MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor James A. Coffman, Ph.D., is studying the regenerative capacity of sea urchins in hopes that a deeper understanding of the process of regeneration, which governs the regeneration of aging tissues as well as lost or damaged body parts, will lead to a deeper understanding of the aging process in humans, with whom sea urchins share a close genetic relationship.

Finding this connection was no accident: Along with being the senior administrator of a regional campus in a small metropolitan area of 50,000 residents, Gavazzi is a professor of human sciences at Ohio State and has long studied marriage and family relationships.

Zooarchaeology is a discipline that studies the relationship between human beings and animals throughout history.

«The fact that this relationship was established in a large - scale, clinical human study is very important,» Przybelski says, «but there's still a lot we don't know.»

According to the NASA article, early studies on the impact humans had on global climate referred to the relationship as «inadvertent climate modification.»