Sentences with phrase «understand cultural behaviors»

Her blog talks about how food bridges the gap between exploring the unknown and understanding cultural behaviors.

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But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

Studies in cultural anthropology have, become most useful to us in understanding ritual behavior, and theologians in the past decade have been discussing these studies more than ever before.

Cultural studies seek to understand human behavior and to interpret its significance, to look at TV, for example, and to diagnose its human meanings.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

It promotes cultural rights by facilitating proenvironmental behaviors and by understanding the contingencies of domestic violence.

«It is essential to understand the dynamics of cultural inheritance at different temporal and spatial scales, to uncover the underlying mechanisms that drive these dynamics, and to shed light on their implications for our current theory of evolution as well as for our interpretation and predictions regarding human behavior.»

Visualization is courtesy of TheVisualMD.com More to diet and exercise Getting kids to eat healthfully and get more exercise might sound simple, but the long list of genetic, cultural and environmental factors that lead children to these behaviors are complicated and interconnected, and scientists have just started to understand them in the past few years.

In the paper «Having their say: Patients» Perspectives and the Clinical Management of Diabetes,» Dr. Leonard Jack, Jr., Ph.D., M.Sc., Director of the Division of Community Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, and his co-authors Dr. Leandris C. Liburd, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A. and Dr. Pattie Tucker, Dr.P.H., M.P.H. and R.N., propose that healthcare providers can offer more effective diabetes support to their patients by understanding the cultural perspectives that explain their health behavior, to promote adherence and improve health outcomes.

Student NET # 5: Digital Citizenship Students understand human, cultural and societal issues related to technology, and practice legal and ethical behavior.

These personal accounts of Michie's awakening as a teacher will inspire you to face the challenges of reaching, managing the behavior, and building the cultural competence and critical consciousness of students, while the contribution of student voice will serve as a powerful reminder of critical importance and value in hearing, knowing and seeking to understand the lives, perspectives and culture of your students.

Digital citizenship - Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

Areas of professional development addressing how a student's cultural background may influence behavior, the typical and atypical language and literacy characteristics of English learner students, or how best to communicate and interact with parents can all aid in improving teacher understanding, according to the study.

Now more than ever it is crucial to study Chinese gamer behavior, build relationships with publishing partners, and invest in localization that reflects cultural understanding beyond the requirements for all games to include only Chinese text.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

Someone who is culturally competent is aware of their own cultural background; recognizes that culture influences the business attitudes and behaviors of others; and is motivated to understand and adapt to other cultures in order to facilitate communication, management, and successful business results.

Rather than assuming that American customs and behaviors predominate, cultural competence entails seeking to understand and show respect for other cultures.

It's absolutely vital to speak these legal consumers» language and understand their distinct cultural behaviors.

Combine these cameras with faster processors and machine - learning algorithms, and it's now possible to create function - specific robots pre-loaded with gesture recognition, knowledge of common navigational challenges and cultural behaviors (not getting onto a crowded elevator, for example) and the ability to routinely update that understanding.

Our HR Business Insights group is using Workplace Analytics across a variety of initiatives — from understanding the behaviors driving increased employee engagement, to identifying the qualities of top - performing managers who are leading Microsoft's cultural transformation from within.

Core Competencies Evaluate / Diagnose Children / Services • Eligibility Determination • Early Intervention Program • Developmental Evaluations Medically Fragile Children • Establish Positive Relations • Organization / Time Management • Understand Cultural Differences • Therapeutic Services • Poised Managing Challenging Behavior • Conduct Educational Evaluations

This webinar will look at culture from a research based perspective in order to help directors understand the influence of culture - the child's, the educator's, and the center's (school's)- on behavior because a cultural conflict, visible or invisible, can cause or contribute to challenging behavior.Full Description

From our example of social inhibition or reticence, one can begin to understand that behaviors, when exhibited across cultural settings may take the same form; however, the function of these behaviors varies from culture - to - culture.

Thus, policy makers and practitioners must be educated to understand the significance of cultural norms when interpreting the meanings of social behavior.

If consultants are aware of their own cultural views, they interact more effectively with families because they have a better understanding of their attitudes, feelings, and behavior toward the diverse families supported through an ECMHC.

This webinar will look at culture from a research based perspective in order to help directors understand the influence of culture — the child's, the educator's, and the center's (school's)-- on behavior because a cultural conflict, visible or invisible, can cause or contribute to challenging behavior.

This is a problem as it assumes that attachment behavior has the same meaning in all cultures, when in fact cultural perception and understanding of behavior differ greatly.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary

Further, because AIDS is a worldwide pandemic, cultural and policy level influences [i.e., Bronfenbrenner's (1977) macrosystem] may also be critical in understanding how families can help prevent sexual risk behavior among adolescents.