Sentences with phrase «understanding of the continent»

He said China's main activities in Antarctica are environmental protection and enhancing its understanding of the continent.

The pictures he took for Life magazine helped reshape Americans» understanding of the continent.

Both for primary and secondary school students, the resources aim: • To deepen students» understanding of the continent of Africa • To experience African school culture • To be aware of the work of Jesuit Missions in Africa The resource contains: • A Scheme of Work and Lesson plan • A PowerPoint • A PDF with example African playground games NB: This resource has been designed for Jesuit (and Catholic) schools in particular, however, it is perfectly adaptable to suit the needs of any school.

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The radical secularization that has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half - continent on the planet has at least as much to do with the craven surrender of ministers of the gospel to theological and political fads, and their consequent loss of faith, as it does with the impact of urbanization, mass education, and the industrial revolution on Europeans» understanding of themselves.

World - system theorists maintain that in today's world the contours of societal change on virtually every continent must be understood in terms of the dynamics of this larger system.

The focus of the discussion was the use of social sciences in theology, the rereading of the Bible from the perspective of the poor, the Christian communities in the struggle of liberation and the assumption of some elements of critical and Marxist analysis for a better and deeper understanding of the conflictual reality of the continent.

Charles» unique perspective includes European history in Australia, Indigenous history and practice, and the various pressures on today's farmers that are leading to transformational change in farming practice and in farmers» understanding of themselves and the Australian continent.

Yes — I don't really understand AFCON — not only is it held at least twice as often as other big international sporting events, and sometimes more, if they decide they want to change the schedule, to not interfere with something else (not the players club obligations, who pay their wages, perish the thought), but it is always held at the peak of the league season, as they say it maybe raining in summer, which I also don't get, as it rains here all the time — I'm sure there are parts of Africa which have reasonable weather during the summer — it's a big continent — South Africa must be fairly clement at that time.

Known as one of the continent's assist kings, Kevin De Bruyne arrived at City with a huge reputation but after just one full season with the Blues, it was easy to understand why the Club were so keen to secure his services.

It was data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica that led me to understanding Robert Mercer's role in all this; in the great disruption of the political landscape on two continents; his strategic and coordinated attack on the mainstream media and its replacement with an alternative online network.

«I hate to compare, but given the innovations he has carried out at IITA and how he has taken it a notch higher the development ladder, I must say that Dr. Sanginga understands the critical role of agriculture research institutes in our continent's grim battle against the scourge of hunger and poverty, more than any of his predecessors.

He added that, «Africa has to understand that the process of leapfrogging must be homegrown and implemented in full... In the next five years, Africa will become the fastest growing continent.»

Currently there is a continent - wide project mapping the Australian upper mantle using the same electromagnetic technique, and the researchers believe applying this data to their new model will bring improved understanding of volcanic and earthquake activity along the southeastern and eastern coast of Australia.

Understanding what happened when rivers of ice later filled the valley could solve certain climate and geologic puzzles about the southernmost continent.

The authors say the findings from a collaboration that spans four continents improve our understanding of hydropower and will benefit fish around the globe.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

Information that could help advance scientific understanding of Earth's earliest continents — as well as, Platt points out, the geology of exoplanets.

«Understanding how the continent works, being able to find the information, being able to figure out how mineral and oil deposits are formed, being able to understand risk - aspects of earthquakes... generally requires a pretty committed staff who've got a good history of what's going on.»

«We're still only scratching the surface of understanding the diversity of organisms, and the environments in which they lived, on the African continent during the Late Cretaceous,» said O'Connor.

The team, which includes Professor Baldwin, will lead innovative new research, which aims to advance current understanding of three key conditions that influence seasonal weather across the continent — the North Atlantic upper - ocean heat content, Arctic sea - ice, and the stratosphere.

More under - ice AUV surveys could calibrate satellite measurements of ice thickness, allowing researchers a better understanding of what is really going on around the frozen continent.

After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.

What is emerging from the research is that Antarctica is a far more dynamic place than anyone could have imagined a century ago — and that what happens there can have dramatic consequences for millions of people around the world.Now, instead of mapping new geographical discoveries, scientists are seeking to map the inner workings of the strange forces at play in Antarctica, from the biological mechanisms that allow tiny organisms to seemingly awake from the dead, to the little - understood forces that are gnawing away at the continent's ice — with increasing vigor.

«It is a fundamental way of understanding more about our planet, the configuration of continents and oceans, climate change, mountain building, the location of precious resources, biology, etc..

Filmed on three continents — and at altitudes ranging from sea level to 16,500 feet — the film features breathtaking views of Chile's remote Atacama Desert, and demonstrates the lengths to which humans will go to understand the universe they call home.

Focus of Study I am interested in understanding deep processes inside the Earth that have formed and continue to modify the Antarctic continent.

Founded in Rouen, France, Interactive Biosoftware is present on the 5 continents, in more than 35 countries to play an active role in the process of understanding and finding solutions to society's most devastating diseases.

But the shape of the bedrock underneath is as important as the temperatures above to understanding what comes next for the seventh continent.

When bonds between people who are close to one another — husband and wife, father and daughter, brother and brother — break down, what hope is there for the rest of us to understand one another, who live on different continents and speaking different languages, filtered through a media culture that frequently get the facts wrong, or jumps to unfounded conclusions based on pre-existing stereotypes?

The program, which describes itself as one that helps educators and students «explore the structure and evolution of the North American continent and understand processes controlling earthquakes and volcanoes,» runs its own education and outreach initiative.

Follow three groups of high school students from three continents on a quest to understand the nature of lasting happiness.

This means that the Mayan people who took over the civilization of time from the Mu continent, understood such a universal and solar structure already from the ancient times.

to understand differences between countries, continents and oceans THE ENTIRE SCHEME OF WORK IS AVAILABLE FOR ONLU # 9 8 skills over 16 lessons (two 50 minute lessons per skill).

Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks's dazzling new novel journeys across continents and centuries not only to entertain with superb old - fashioned storytelling but to show that occasions of understanding between humans are the one thing that defines us - and that those moments, however fluid, are the one thing that endures.

Together with our affiliates, we serve investors across six continents, and understand the complexity and changing nature of their investment needs.

She is visiting Honolulu as part of the first Honolulu Biennial, a new arts festival from March 8 to May 8 that celebrates contemporary art from the Americas, Pacific and Asian continent to foster greater intercultural exchange, cultural diplomacy and understanding through art.

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Making Painting explores the concept that, though working on different continents in different centuries, JMW Turner and Helen Frankenthaler share fundamental qualities in their use of paint and colour, form and narrative, and in their understanding of landscape.

Covering the Fondation's entire top floor, complementing the two temporary exhibitions, is a selection of African works from the Collection which, through various media, explore the history and identity of the African continent and cultures, which today are essential to understanding the world's artistic landscape.

«As the first exhibition to present a vision of Pop on the American continent as a whole, Pop América makes a critical contribution to understanding this artistic period and Latin America's rich artistic heritage.

His work mixes media and crosses continents, combining video, photography, and sculpture with text, live music, and even plants to trace the ways that people understand and influence cultural production in other parts of the world.

I would like visitors to go away with some amazing paintings or memories of the range of sophistication and expertise and an understanding of the huge and explosive range of contemporary reality and possibilities emanating from within the continent and from the diaspora.

I had understood that all these ideas expanded to many other continents, and that kind of expansion struck me mightily, between the eyes, when I saw Chris Marker's Sans Soleil (1983) for the first time.

By alluding to both the detritus of colonialism and the powerful spirits that have supposedly brought bad fortune upon the continent, Mutu addresses the persistent lack of understanding of African history, cultures, and religions.

I've travelled over 5 continents in the last 15 years and while I might be much poorer for it financially, it has given me an ability to relate to other people and afforded me a greater understanding of what people need in life.

I understand the issue — that when considered as a whole, the data on the Nature cover may better capture the trends over time than any other method of determining the average trend over the continent — but that said, it is not accurate on the fine spatial scale that it is presented.

The Year of the Maritime Continent (YMC)(April 2017 - October 2018) is an international framework for international collaboration on field observations and modeling to better understand the role of the Maritime Continent on the global weather - climate continuum.

This is a very good job.The study is interesting to the readers, and will be useful for further understanding and selecting reference climate stations for evaluating the potential urban bias in the surface air temperature data in some regions of the continents.

quote — we have a rough, certainly inaccurate, but still very significant understanding on the movements of carbon in atmosphere, biosphere, oceans and continents.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.