Sentences with phrase «understand cultural systems»

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«Healthcare activities are social responses organized to face diseases and can be understood as a cultural system,» write two itinerary trackers from Brazil.

When properly understood in it's historical, cultural, grammatical, and contextual contexts, Ephesians 2 is a chapter which does not defend the Calvinistic system of theology, but disproves it at every turn.

Clifford Geertz, in his paper «Ideology as a Cultural System» offers a less negative understanding.

Revelation is not something that can be understood simply by learning to parse the cultural - linguistic system of Western Christendom.

Food sense is a concept that helps us recognize the diversity of food choices, perceive the complete food system and understand the social, cultural and everyday significance of food.

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 is critical for understanding the ecological and cultural basis of coastal fisheries and designing sustainable management systems today,» says Ken Lertzman, another SFU co-author.

Annalise Whittaker, Behavioural and Cultural Systems Team, Dstl said: «Comparisons of brain activity in real - world versus synthetic environments are important because they allow us to better understand the relationship between synthetic environments and training transfer.

South Asian genetic landscape, bearing in mind its geographic, linguistic, socio - cultural and skin color diversity, offers an excellent model system to decipher the genetic underpinnings of human skin color variation and for a better understanding of it's evolutionary history.

The Harvard Gazette reports on Professor Nancy Hill's presentation, «Cultural Worldviews and Belief Systems as Lenses to Understand Ethnic Variations in Parenting and Children ’ s Development.»

The fact that teachers and artists both felt enriched on multiple levels and believed that they were encouraging cultural growth and understanding in their students demonstrate the importance of creating cultural partnerships in school systems and the community.

Education Northwest takes the time to understand your community and cultural environment before identifying disparities and helping improve programs, practices, and systems.

Counselling for families and students to help them integrate into the school system, socialize with the community, understand Canadian laws and value systems and encourage communication and cultural diversity.

Making use of humour, play, «cut and paste» techniques and a variety of mediums, Victoria's work operates around systems of functioning and understanding that exist within societies or different cultural contexts.

Because of how photographic images are understood to function, as a system of pointers with indexical qualities that suggest things outside the frame, Linwood's use of the grid format points to parallel events, skewed timelines, cultural constructs, his own orchestration, and, other images which are simultaneously presented, albeit in amusingly slippery states of action and focus.

The exhibition will explore the recurrent themes in his work: authenticity, cultural history and the transformation of value systems throughout different eras, while calling the viewers» understanding of these things into question.

They depend on systems of meanings and cultural behaviours; they derive from personal experiences, understandings, and opinions.

The group exhibition aims to complicate and implicate conversations around the theme by co-opting Anderson's own way of contextualizing Nationalism, ``... nationalism has to be understood by aligning it, not with self - consciously held political ideologies, but with the large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which - as well as against which - it came into being».

Here within the gallery space, audiences can enjoy these contemporary visual reinterpretations of mythical themed works, while familiarizing themselves with tales that inform our understanding of constructed belief systems and help facilitate a greater appreciation of our cultural differences.

«The trainees at Stephenson Harwood who enjoy an international seat develop important additional skills: their cultural awareness increases, and they better understand how the legal systems of other jurisdictions operate.»

Counsel in international litigation will require the use of interpreters for depositions, translators for documents, communicating with witnesses who do not understand the U.S. legal system and who have different cultural viewpoints.

Legal claims brought against a Sovereign State or its instrumentalities by a foreign investor under a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty, or a contract or a domestic investment law, require a legal team of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions of the world.

These sophisticated sets of understandings, interpretations and means are part and parcel of a cultural complex that encompasses language, naming and classification systems, resource use practices, ritual, spirituality and worldview.

The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual levels, and to therefore identify culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and safe systems of care; the significance of cultural diversity between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health services to remote communities in often harsh environments.

Likewise, the leadership of organisations such as NACCHO, the Lowitja Institute and the Close the Gap Campaign in developing the understanding of cultural safety more broadly across the health system is making a real difference.

LMFTs can work with an individual, a couple, and an entire family while holding the lens of understanding the broader socio - cultural systems.

Law, Justice and Cultural Rights: Facilitate access to flora, fauna, land and sea for all Aboriginal communities and endure Aboriginal rights, increase awareness of and understand within the law and justice system and reduce incarceration rates for Aboriginal people.

«From an Aboriginal perspective, the experience of family violence must be understood in the historical context of white settlement and colonisation and their resulting (and continuing) impacts: cultural dispossession, breakdown of community kinship systems and Aboriginal law, systemic racism and vilification, social and economic exclusion, entrenched poverty, problematic substance use, inherited grief and trauma, and loss of traditional roles and status (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria 2008).»

Brach & Fraser [10], also suggest that culturally safe and competent services will translate into better health via the impact they have on improved communication, increased trust in the health system, greater knowledge about health and services in the local community and expanded cultural understanding within the health system.

This understanding of customary law does not take into account the reality that like all legal and political systems, Aboriginal law and customs are a product of specific historical, social and cultural processes.

Resources to help workers, agencies, and systems better understand and enhance their cultural competence.

Hope to have more availability soon ** I have a warm, collaborative working style that integrates a systemic theoretical orientation (understanding people's lives in the context of biology, relationships, work, and larger social / cultural systems) with highly individualized, evidence - based treatment.