Sentences with phrase «traditional knowledge systems»

The UNU TKI will investigate the threats to traditional knowledge, methods to maintain traditional knowledge, and the resilience of traditional knowledge systems.

His involvement in contemplative practice began more than twenty years ago as a student of the late Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, a master of Ashtanga Yoga and its related traditional knowledge systems, including grammar, healing, and metaphysics.

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This research investigates their strategic articulation of the discrepant knowledge systems with which they are confronted: their traditional system, the biomedical system, and the new professional midwifery system.

What is more, «we are investigating Semantic Web technologies because traditional approaches for data integration, knowledge management and decision support will not scale to what is needed for personalized medicine,» says John Glaser, chief information officer at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.

The same work will enhance the traditional computerized clinical decision support (CDS) systems that medical professionals use — knowledge bases that contain the latest wisdom on therapeutic treatments.

«Increasing the objectivity and automating the grape quality monitoring tasks would be a technological breakthrough with regard to the traditional evaluation system of the grape, based on the knowledge of an expert, and it would have a great impact on the wine industry,» adds Sánchez.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

The traditional healing system of India, Ayurveda is believed to be the oldest surviving complete system of knowledge in the world.

Naturopathic Medicine is a distinct primary health care system that blends modern scientific knowledge with traditional and natural forms of medicine.

Naturopathic medicine is a distinct primary health care system that blends modern scientific knowledge with traditional and natural forms of medicine.

I think it's fine to suggest that students consider bodywork or traditional medical systems, such as Ayurveda, if you think it could be a good complement to their yoga therapy, but encourage them to do this with the knowledge of their regular doctors.

And yet, despite the dire state of today's higher education system, there is hope on the horizon: By favoring knowledge and skill acquisition over seat time, online options and competency - based learning are disrupting the traditional higher education market and perhaps have laid the foundation for a revitalization of American education.

Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic, authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»

Today NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has an editorial in the Daily News in which she defends «public education» — and, more specifically, the City's traditional school system — from alleged accusations that «they are violent, dysfunctional and that their students leave school without any knowledge.»

Instead of relying on traditional models with low recollection rates, social learning encourages learning in working environments and allows learners to pull knowledge from experts within the organizations instead of having knowledge pushed on them (like a formal learning system would).

In the traditional system, content area knowledge is developed and assessed separately.

While traditional grades will still be required by the university, an electronic performance - based portfolio system will be established to allow students a venue to reflect on and demonstrate growth, to develop a working knowledge of pedagogy, (Carroll, Potthoff, & Huber, 1996), and to hone a professional voice (McKinney, 1998).

Throughout my first years of teaching, I was often bothered by the thought that my traditional grading system didn't accurately communicate the level of knowledge my students possessed.

Why does the traditional point system used for scoring often lead to incorrect conclusions about a student's actual knowledge?

In her work Frei Njootli synthesizes Indigenous land - based systems of knowledge and traditional practices through sculptural works, residue, printed images, and sound - based performance.

He says: «The impacts on the Arctic ocean and land systems are transformational, creating huge problems for the circum - Arctic peoples who, on the basis of their traditional knowledge, confirm that the high latitude climate system has already shifted well outside the bounds they have previously experienced.

This is bog - standard, traditional well known tried and tested and used in industries everyday knowledge physics, that's how weather systems work — you «warmists» who say that carbon dioxide warms the Earth are spouting junk physics, you're describing an imaginary world, not this one.

Between training sessions with us, they would return to their villages, with specific tasks: To teach village members about the regulations that applied to the timber companies; to map their communities» traditional land use and boundaries; to learn about their village's indigenous knowledge and management of wildlife; to help organize a system for monitoring the timber companies; to develop a series of wildlife management scenarios acceptable to their communities; etc..

Small - scale agriculture and traditional ecological knowledge of farmers and indigenous people are as — if not more — important to a future food system than genetic engineering and capital - intensive forms of agriculture.

However, for the general public, investing without a solid knowledge of the virtual asset itself, an understanding of decentralized systems which do not operate in the same way as traditional financial systems, and being aware that coins are often purchased at your own risk, can lead to disaster.

Skills • Strong strategic and critical thinking skills • Extensive knowledge of customer relationship management software • Facility with database software, including AdRelevance and Microsoft suite • Expert knowledge of digital and traditional marketing strategies • Broad background, including experience with startups and nonprofits • Strong systems evaluation skills, able to identify and improve weaknesses in account strategies

Such a system will require mechanisms firstly, that do not assume that Indigenous traditional knowledge is freely and absolutely available for appropriation, and secondly, in light of emerging climate change policy, affords the right to share equitably in the benefits derived from the uses of this knowledge.

Underlying this is an acknowledgement that both traditional and Western science - based knowledge systems are important for land management.

establishing a royalty payments system from commercial development of products resulting, at least in part, from the use of traditional knowledge.

Loss of traditional knowledge will result in a decline of Indigenous identity and a severe reduction in the recognition and understanding of an invaluable sustainable knowledge system.

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, addiction and mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about alternative programs for women offenders with co-occurring disorders who are diverted from the traditional criminal justice system.

For example, traditional practices have important fire management techniques that can be supported by satellite fire mapping, while science - based knowledge systems may deal better with invasive weeds and feral animals.36

Indigenous Australians possess a wealth of both traditional and applied knowledge of Australia's marine systems, which should bolster existing research and management initiatives and spark novel lines of inquiry.

Provision for cultural water would support Indigenous peoples of the Murray - Darling to use their traditional knowledge to care for the ailing river system and the surrounding ecosystems.

Indigenous knowledge of customary and traditional water use are identified (such as the high value cultural and ecological water systems and areas)

The applicants sought the Federal Court to consider whether communal title in traditional ritual knowledge, as expressed through artwork, could be recognised and protected by the Australian legal system as an incidence of native title, and alternatively whether a fiduciary obligation could be found to be owed by the artist back to the community and whether the common law is capable of recognising some form of traditional community ownership of copyright in equity.

Now traditional knowledge consists of stories relating to marine species and knowledge of specific locations including reef and mangrove systems as well as relating to the outer barrier reef itself.

This acknowledgment of Indigenous knowledge systems may include traditional law and customs such as kinship protocols, respect for Elders, Traditional Owners and use otraditional law and customs such as kinship protocols, respect for Elders, Traditional Owners and use oTraditional Owners and use of ceremony.

To properly carry out these roles and responsibilities, traditional owners needed to develop their capacity to understand the native title system; understand their roles as family representatives and; have the skills, knowledge and confidence to represent their families in dealing with the NTRB, government and industry.