Sentences with phrase «theory of change from»

While consortia must detail a theory of action in their proposals, the overall theory of change from the administration's standpoint is still incomplete.

Not exact matches

In theory, there could be appetite in a number of liberal - dominated states, from New Jersey to Connecticut to Hawaii to New York (where Republicans control the State Senate, but only with the consent of a dissident faction of Democrats who might back this change).

The theory ABOUT evolution most widely accepted is an updating of Charles Darwin's hypothesis that all of today's species descended from common ancestors due to natural selection based on best current fitness for constantly changing environmental circmmstances.

This is backwards from the evolutionary theory of natural selection, which states that birds adapt and change in order to survive better in their environment.

Here's the rest of it:»... Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.

The timing of what you post today goes with the section talking about «he will come again to judge the living and the dead» which is where I would guess that there'd be that change in the axis on your theory from things understood of Jesus to things understood of the Holy Spirit.

- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

Yet since, on the other hand, the single step separating case two from the older theory involves the entire difference between admitting and not admitting real change, growth, possibility of profit.

Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.

What sort of «proof» would be needed to change evolution from a theory to a fact?

In still other cases certain catchwords and theories of the church - growth people appear in a denomination's literature, but they are either so poorly integrated into the total approach or so changed from what movement theorists Win Arn and Donald McGavran write about that one wonders why the terminology is even used.

Climbing Mount Improbable, Dawkins» most recent popular work, 9 is mainly a refutation of arguments put forward over many years by a number of distinguished physical scientists who have claimed that biological evolutionary change by natural selection is intrinsically unreasonable, using arguments from probability theory.

This quotation, coming from the field of literary studies and theory has something to say to those of us who are concerned about the rediscovery of the relevance of the Bible in a rapidly changing world.

Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.»

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

Evolutionary cosmologies may begin simply as rival evolutionist theories — alternative causal explanations for these observed phenomena of development, change, and transformation.3 An evolutionist theory becomes an evolutionary cosmology whenever the favored evolutionist theory is extrapolated from its original context as an account of geological or biological change, and made to serve as an overarching cosmological category, such that «evolution» in some idiosyncratic sense becomes the basis for a systematic and unified interpretation of a wide array of diverse phenomena beyond the domains of biology and geology.

Under Child's theory there is complete continuity from the reaction of the cell with its environment, which constitutes the primary metabolic gradient, and from the later reactions, by which the pattern of the developing embryo is laid down in accordance with the changing gradient pattern, to the intellectual processes by which the adult organism adjusts its relations to the outside world.

This fundamental change in the basic structure of his theory occurs from 1914 to 1916 and is documented above all in the important essays «Space, Time, and Relativity» (OT 191 - 228) and «The Organization of Thought» (OT 105 - 33).

This profound change from our previous order of government is often hidden by political and judicial rhetoric that gives honor to and even cites the written Constitution; yet, in contemporary theory and in practice, the document is really an authoritative occasion for, rather than a norm of, judicial interpretation.

The difficulty that stems from just assembling therapeutic components from different sources is that this approach usually produces a kind of hash eclecticism — a theory from here, a technique from there — with no integrating structure, no internally consistent core of assumptions about the nature, process, and goals of therapeutic change.

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

You say that Science has disproved stories from the Bible, well Scientists once said that there was an edge of the world and you would fall off of it if you went to the edge... they said that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the sun revolved around us... You are all so quick to throw out Christianity because you think 1 story doesn't make sense to you and couldn't have happened how it says in the Bible, yet so willing to follow scientists that constantly revise their theories and change what you inevitably believe.

In our interdependent world we have to change our theory of success from a zero - sum game, where one team has to win while the other must lose.

Under the changes, mothers will be able to transfer maternity leave to fathers from 2 weeks after the birth of the child (rather than 20 weeks as now), in theory encouraging both parents to take a full role from the start — with all the benefits that brings.

Coming from a tradition of Contextual Family Therapy, Attachment Theory and Neuropsychology, the RT model keeps both therapist and clients organized to make sound systemic changes in individuals and relationships.

Because of the particular situation, I don't know that it is totally about life being «easier» with his bmom but more the sudden change from not being in his life to being in his life and possibly going from thinking «she doesn't care» to «she does care» (because even though we as adults can understand why she might not have made contact in theory, it is different in practice).

Active as a member since the 1960s, he has survived numerous changes of leader up to Miliband, and the ideological divisions and fanciful theories, from Militant Tendency to the Third Way.

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

There is still time for Corbyn's supporters to pull back from the edge, reject the seductive embrace of false consciousness paranoia and conspiracy theory, and focus on changing the minds of real people in the country at large.

The organization's theory of change is anchored on its belief that «if West African election managers are able to learn from the experiences of one another, continuously develop their capacities through training, pool their resources and support each other, then their ability to deliver fair and credible polls will be increased and the quality of elections in West Africa will be improved.»

In his book, Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives, Professor David Sloan Wilson of Binghamton University in New York state cites an example, from the Lest culture of Micronesia in the 1930s, that shows how gossip can be a first line of defense against social aberration.

The evaluation stems in part from the AAAS logic model and theory of change for public engagement with science, which describes short -, medium -, and long - term outcomes for individuals and for society more broadly.

Physical work — the realm from which traditional management theory emerged — is often characterized by high costs of experimentation: of changing work processes and of trying unsuccessful work processes.

Turin says the strongest tests of his theory so far come from studies in which researchers replace an odorant atom with an isotope of that atom, which has a slightly different weight and changes the molecule's frequency of vibration.

Some theories, including string theory, predict that they should drift, and there are some tentative hints of such changes from astronomical measurements.

As greenhouse gases have piled up in the atmosphere, climate change has shifted from being a theory about a future threat to a hazardous fact of modern life.

The appeal of a fourth kind of neutrino is that it would help bridge a gap in theory that predicts that some neutrinos from a beam of one type of neutrino emanating from a given source — be it a nuclear reactor, the sun or the atmosphere — would change from one kind of neutrino to another as they travel to a distant detector.

An article from our July 1959 issue examined climate change: «A current theory postulates that carbon dioxide regulates the temperature of the earth.

The theory of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from water vapor and phenomena such as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning.

Yet I changed my tools from brushes, oil paints, and canvas to pencil, paper, and computing power for years and finished physics with a diploma on the topic of many - particle theory, under the supervision of Prof. Nolting at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

The Theory That Changed Everything: «On the Origin of Species» as a Work in Progress By Philip Lieberman Browne's compendium of quotes from Darwin's books and letters, arranged by theme, provide insight into his research, personality and dry sense of humor.

But there is still the chance that deviations from Einstein's theory only show up at higher levels of precision — such changes could point towards new physics.

The insight from weather modification's old guard — that tiny changes can engender profound atmospheric shifts — has been embraced by more recent, cutting - edge investigators, those conceiving weather - changing satellites and using physics theories to invent a climate of choice.

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

They also plan to keep monitoring the steady radio emission from the vicinity of the Spitler burst to see if its properties change in time, as expected based on that theory.

However, there's some evidence for very gradual evolution interspersed with crises, so in theory there may be plenty of time to intervene before the disease changes from being relatively benign into something dangerously aggressive.»

In theory there may be plenty of time to intervene before the disease changes from being relatively benign into something dangerously aggressive.

RICE uses a number of impact pathways and theories of change to achieve development impacts from its research and development efforts.

More than 20 years ago, scientists found a connection between music and enhancement of performance or changing of neuropsychological activity involving Mozart's music from which the theory of «The Mozart Effect» was derived.