Sentences with phrase «viewed as a pattern»

According to Garbarino et al., psychological maltreatment can be viewed as a pattern of adult behavior which is psychologically destructive to the child, sabotaging the child's normal development of self and social competence (15).

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More than speculate, Johnson in fact tracked the major human advancements over several centuries to verify this pattern of one small idea linking to a web of other small ideas, and only appear as a single big idea in the rear view.

In this year's letter to shareholders, Buffett writes that, «Charlie [Munger] and I view the marketable common stocks that Berkshire owns as interests in businesses, not as ticker symbols to be bought or sold based on their «chart» patterns, the «target» prices of analysts or the opinions of media pundits.

By itself this finding is consistent with a materialist view of mind (if, as materialism requires, the brain enables the mind, then abnormal patterns of brain activity are likely to be correlated with dysfunctional mental states).

In a familiar pattern, she comes to see the inadequacies of her hyper - intellectualized view of life and begins to experience the emotions she never acknowledged in herself, as well as gaining sympathy for others.

All of this may be viewed as corrective to the Reformation and something of a reversion to Catholic patterns of thought.

Because the canonic and gnostic sides function both conceptually and statistically» as opposites, as do the charismatic and empiric sides, it is possible to display the world view pattern of a congregation in graphic form according to the x and y axes of a coordinate system.

A similar pattern appeared in response to an extreme anti-Otherworldly view: «It is not as important to worry about life after death as about what one can do in this life.»

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

Looked at from the point of view of its immediate pattern of self - enjoyment, an actual entity can be regarded as self - creative.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

The tail relations of the clause can be viewed as a possible pattern of prehensions; namely, those prehensions which are necessary for the head relation possibility to be felt as true in the actual world of some concrescing subject.

But a description of Israel's life - style is nonetheless instructive, for it models in a culturally specific way a more general pattern that views play as an important component of life.

At the Interdenominational Theological Center — a cluster of seven predominantly black seminaries in Atlanta — we feel that While such a pattern will not be rigid or doctrinaire or even «classic,» it seems to have several aspects which, viewed together, could be called the objectives of the seminary inasmuch as they serve to integrate...

[16] Although he thinks that his view is like Aquinas» of the soul as the form of the body, Aquinas did not think that this pattern is dissolved with the death of the body as Polkinghorne does.

In contrast to the aesthetic order implicit in Kukai's view of nature and contemporary science and process thought, the «logical order» of mainline Christianity characterized by Ames assumes: (1) preassigned patterns of relatedness, a blueprint» wherein unity is prior to plurality, and plurality is a «fall» from unity; (2) values concrete particularity only to the degree it mirrors this preassigned pattern of relatedness; (3) reduces particulars to only those aspects needed to illustrate the given pattern, which necessarily entails moving away from concrete particulars toward the universal; (4) interprets nature as a closed system of predetermined specifications, and therefore reducible to quantitative description; (5) characterizes being as necessity, creativity as conformity, and novelty as defect; and (6) views «rightness» as the degree of conformity to preassigned patterns (NAT 116).

The real reason why Birch and Cobb object to viewing DNA as a machine is that they understand it to have «patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

The pattern is very different for the other leading GOP candidates; virtually all Republicans who think Cruz, Rubio and Carson would be successful presidents (and who express a view about their religiousness) also say they view those candidates as at least somewhat religious.

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

Whitehead is prepared to have a view of the passage of nature as an actively patterning process, not simple as succession in time, which is why the analysis of it as sliced into events by itself is insufficient as leaving out this active patterning aspect.

The basic institutional pattern of modern societies was laid down, in his view, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries with the emergence of a relatively autonomous political system which was accompanied by increasingly autonomous systems in other realms as well, such as science, law, education, and art.

Unspecialized societies are better at adapting to their environments because they are more flexible, but they are «apt to be deficient in structural pattern, when viewed as a whole» (PR 100/153).

The repetitive, ritualistic patterns of viewing provide a structure to life which may be considered as fulfilling a similar function to cultic / religious affirmations of a theistic divine order.

A view of the world which regards it as a finished product has little relation to the world as the Bible sees it; while a world that is nothing but a complicated mechanism, like a machine which grinds along engaged in nothing but repeating standard patterns of behavior, is not the world of movement and change of which the Scriptures speak.

Certainly the religious broadcaster has access to the much larger body of general communication research on associated topics such as audience patterns and viewing behavior, attitude and value change, and communication uses and effects.

From this point of view, we can see how personal identity consists primarily of habitual patterns of behavior and, tightly related to this, self - knowledge is concerned with both perceptual, behavioral spontaneity as well as bodily habits.

(6) Assuming that there is a similar viewing pattern among viewers of other programs, this duplication could drop the total number of individuals who watch syndicated programs by as much as 50 percent, or down to as low as 15 million.

Her own sympathies, at least with respect to causation, focus upon Whitehead's early philosophy of nature: «I now find myself distanced from his later writings, but increasingly sympathetic to the middle ones [e.g. SMW], especially as he was working towards a generalized notion of «organism,» and when his «passage of nature» could be seen not as one datum after another, but as a pattern - forming and pattern - sustaining process which could support a dynamic view of a causation underlying more restricted kinds» (CE vii).

I'm reading a book right now called To Be Told by Dan Allender and it has really helped me view my life as a coherent whole that is going someplace (I don't exactly know where) rather than just a string of events while I'm in a holding pattern for heaven.

The CRC may adopt the gradualist pattern of the RCA, or it may be forced to follow the more authentically Reformed tradition of viewing the three offices as a unity that can not be broken.

At what point can we call that a pattern and not blow if off as just trying to get views / selling etc..

Maybe the problem is with parents who repeat the patterns their own parents set or with societies who view normal stages of development as somehow abnormal.

In other words, our society's eating patterns have changed so dramatically in the past three or four decades that I just can't view any one treat given to my children in a vacuum anymore, as much as I'd like to.

I would also count Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, and Claire McCaskill as examples of Democrats with heterodox views or at least voting patterns.

«While we know that migrant voters do not form a voting bloc, voting patterns suggest that migrant voters are likely to prefer parties that they view as positive about race equality and immigration issues.»

In a statement Thursday, the head of the South Carolina GOP took issue with Sheheen's views on illegal immigration as just one example of what the state party says is a larger pattern with the candidate.

Some patterns of opinion have not changed — older people are more likely to view it as a problem — but since the dawn of the economic crisis, 18 to 24 - year - olds have started responding negatively.

Peter Ditlevsen's calculations show that you can view the climate as fractals, that is, patterns or structures that repeat in smaller and smaller versions indefinitely.

Computer vision is the way computers perceive the world; that view is then converted into digital information, such as patterns and images.

«We are trying to shape the view of diastolic dysfunction to include flow patterns as a mechanism that modulates the chamber's resistance to filling — in addition to the wall's own stiffness,» said del Alamo.

These patterns can be viewed as a type of barcode for each subclass.

To be visible to these birds, the patterns would have to produce virtually perfect contrasts and be viewed against a scene with low colour variation but a high ultraviolet content, such as a clear blue sky.

Most neuroscientists adhere to the pixel view of neurons, arguing that individual cells can't possibly be clever enough to make sense of a concept as subtle as Rocky; after all, the world's fastest supercomputers have difficulty performing that pattern - recognition feat.

Taking inspiration from linguists, who view spoken words as syllables that can be infinitely recombined, we seek to discover the «syllables» of behavior — and the patterns of brain activity that generate them.

They also felt that the «official» view of the future — the business - as - usual outlook — both reflects an optimism bias and is based on the human tendency to see familiar patterns and be blind to the unexpected.

A thought pattern that is frequently associated with depression, moodiness, and anxiety is viewing much of life as beyond your control or influence.

Yes I've looked on this site for intermittent fasting and other sites, it seemingly works even on different schedules (some people seem to fast at the night time, some early mornings, some evenings...) I tried to view my month fasting in a similar way, but then I am confused as to how to come back to regular eating patterns.

Things are difficult, and it's derailing your eating patterns, but viewing this as a personal failure is optional.

Fertile Focus is an accurate, easy - to - use ovulation microscope that allows you to predict fertility by viewing changes in your saliva patterns as you approach your most fertile time of the month.

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