Sentences with phrase «traditional centers of»

Ahmady and her guests examine the effects of these sweeping transformations on art practice as attention is directed away from traditional centers of gravity in Europe and the US toward regions that were previously dismissed as peripheral.

Describing the exhibition, FRONT Artistic Director Jens Hoffmann said, «Over the course of the year leading up to the opening, FRONT will work to examine the local, regional and global influences that have shaped a 21st century American city located outside the traditional centers of cultural power and production in the United States.»

Iovino argues that «the dissolution of traditional centers of power announced at the advent of postmodernism has finally been realized, but this is just the beginning: despite their versatility and poetics, this work reflects an approach to mark making in which the present is a moment in transition — a precursor to powerful forms of expression yet to be.»

«The biggest problem,» he adds, «may be in convincing top postdocs from the West to go to Dresden,» which is relatively isolated from Western Europe's traditional centers of cell biology research.

These are chaotic and anxious days inside the National Security Council, the traditional center of management for a president's dealings with an uncertain world.

This traditional center of finance and business just barely squeaks onto our list.

Not exact matches

Remaining true to the brand meant avoiding some of the most notoriously unlikable elements of traditional outsourcing: massive and depressing call centers, slavish working conditions, and resulting work that is less than stellar.

The findings appear to show that public attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

In fact, my sense is that with the lightning pace of ecommerce solutions, virtual call - center support and other technological advances, customer expectations of the large, traditional brick - and - mortar businesses with a receptionist and tons of staff are dwindling.

At the end of the day, though, even though the company experiments with films and design sets centered around popular franchises, traditional LEGO bricks are still the main focus.

Regency Centers, which operates a portfolio of strip centers anchored by Kroger, among other traditional chains, saw its stock falling more than 5 percent at one point Friday afternoon.

Vasilis Fthenakis, director of the Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University, and Ken Zweibel, former director of the Solar Institute at George Washington University, concluded it was «not only technically and economically feasible, it might even be more practical than a traditional wall.»

If you imagine the world of traditional television as a fortress on a mountaintop, one whose walls are crumbling due to heavy fire from players like Netflix (NFLX) and HBO and Amazon Prime, then the seemingly impregnable tower at the center of the fortress would have to be ESPN.

That technology combo aligns closely with traditional data center configurations but was (and still is) less applicable to the massive scale of something like AWS that must support lots of different users on shared infrastructure.

According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, more than four in ten white seniors say that a growing population of immigrants is a «change for the worse;» half of white boomers believe immigration is «a threat to traditional American customs and values.»

But, Smullen specifically noted that as companies embrace chatbots for customer support, driving down the cost of traditional call centers, it's important that the focus remains on opening up and improving direct dialog with customers.

Looking towards an autonomous future, transportation will no longer be centered on the traditional concept of individual car ownership in favor of a new era of «smart» transportation and on - demand mobility services.

A contact center is a technologically sophisticated version of the traditional call center.

Perhaps traditional grocery stores will be forced to confront the challenge posed by big box stores and delivery companies like FreshDirect by playing up the community aspect of the shopping experience — just as some of the most successful bookstores have become more like coffee shops and community centers in order to stay in business.

Heed advice from Shourya Ray, co-founder of SkyChildCare, a management solution for childcare centers: «While our business is all about optimizing technology to help childcare centers operate more efficiently, we still believe in traditional modes of communication as well.

Haider: By bridging materials science, mechanical design, and advanced sterilization techniques to pre-attach spinal implants onto disposable delivery instruments, we've developed a technology that outperforms traditional systems in mechanical consistency and the risk of pathogen transmission, and that fundamentally changes the internal logistics of both hospitals and outpatient surgery centers.

Amazon's hiring spree at its growing number of fulfillment and distribution centers could absorb some traditional retail workers.

As we learned from ex-Regus employee Susan Smith, the global business center giant has decided to shift its traditional Senior Client Service Representative role to one of a Community Manager.

The center of small business lending, their passion is fueling the American Dream by uniting the small business loan industry and bringing all options together in one place — from short - term specialty financing to long - term low - interest traditional loans.

Enterprises are not only inundated with increasing amounts of data but also struggle with managing more types of data that are less easily managed by traditional data center architectures.

«These guns are much more deadly than traditional bolt - action rifles or traditional shotguns, but they are regulated the same way» in most of the country, said Adam Skaggs, chief counsel of the Giffords center.

By scavenging these wasted resources, Storj can provide unlimited cloud storage at a fraction of the cost of a traditional data - center.

Using a modular office framework centered around a 10 × 10 block system, FOX created a space with all of the expected elements — open offices, traditional offices, mixed - use areas, collaboration spaces, meeting rooms and more — but did so using a track - mounted moveable wall system coupled with flexible furnishings.

Traffic has been brought to a halt, pollution has suddenly dipped, and a sense of traditional community has invaded the core of one of the planet's top financial centers.

This is from February 2016, where he single - handedly, he says... I'll just read the quote: «No one may have contributed more to the decline of traditional TV stocks this past summer and fall and to the rise of the new tech - centered TV industry, especially his most passionate cause, than this analyst.»

Those traditional ledgers are under the complete control of each company, stored on one computer system, in one data center, with perhaps a couple of backups in other locations.

Yet the center cause behind this misfortune is that they had depended on the utilization of the traditional strategies for exchanging, which don't end up being productive in the current world.

The system is part of the agency's UAS Data Exchange umbrella, which aims to facilitate drone registration and help speed integration of the unmanned aircraft into the airspace used by traditional commercial and private manned aircraft.Last November, the FAA began testing the system at eight air route control centers, with the goal of ultimately covering 300 air traffic control facilities nationwide that monitor approximately 500 airports.

The liberal has taken away the basic traditional family structure through feminism forced children into Soviet like day care centers and made a mockery of traditional family life.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply, almost obsessively devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

While the two presidential tickets this year reflect a religious pluralism, it remains centered only on Christian denominations - setting aside the question of whether Mormonism fits a traditional definition of Christian.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

Unlike the traditional sitcoms based in New York and centering around the love lives of 20 - somethings, this new show explores the afterglow of settling down in your 40s... and still living in an affluent city.

The traditional family is the center and building block of civilization: The modern environmental movement is not known for its commitment to the family.

You're framing «belonging before believing» as a center vs. boundary issue, but I think it could (maybe should) be reframed as a center * focus * that forces a redrawing of the traditional boundary.

In Galileo's day, support for the traditional paradigm of an earth - centered universe was adamantly espoused by the Church.

Those who are doubtful point to the deepening misery of the poor, the loss of traditional values and community relationships, the looming ecological crises, and the structural dependence of prosperity on decisions made in financial centers in other parts of the world.

If, however, the rejection of war in toto — which apparently is how McElroy understands the words of Paul VI — is at the very center of Catholic teaching, it would seem that the Church's traditional just - war doctrine has not been developed but repudiated.

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

«Yet Buddhism and Shintoism, Japan's traditional faiths, have long lost their credibility,» said Martin Repp, a German Lutheran theologian who is the deputy director of the NCC's Center for the Study of Japanese Religions in Kyoto.

Bishop David Konderla of Tulsa was the director of campus ministry at Texas A&M for eleven years, where St. Mary's Catholic Center has set the gold standard in traditional campus ministry and created a model for others to emulate.

And in this, finally, it would appear, he found the proof of the reality and the goodness of the Person whom his traditional faith postulated as the center and meaning of the physical universe It is apparent that the question of the validity of such thinking comes into consideration.

That extension was not mainly from Roman Catholicism, although the latter had a very large and active share in it, but from Protestantism, whose part in the pre-nineteenth century expansion of Christianity had been relatively minor, and Protestantism spread chiefly not from the traditional centers in which it had had its inception and in which had arisen its greatest theologies, but from the British Isles and the United States.

The traditional mental picture associated with the belief in the resurrection of Jesus has been so centered on the story of the empty tomb, that we must now examine it and discuss its origin and historical value.