Sentences with phrase «which advances the understanding»

The British Election Study is committed to providing expertise which advances understanding of the British electorate to any interested party, as part of its broad commitment to public engagement and impact.

This is a study which advances understanding of this important area of work, and is recommended reading for all social workers, managers, policy advisers, contact centre staff, mediators and other practitioners who arrange or support contact for children living in family and friends care.

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Susan LaMotte, principal consultant and founder of exaqueo in Alexandria, Va., finds that baby boomers and traditionalists aren't accustomed to seeing women advance in the workplace and often don't understand their personal needs, which stifles their professional growth.

In our view, the current market environment begs for investors to honestly assess their tolerance for loss, to align the duration of their investment portfolio with the horizon over which they expect to spend their assets; to consider their tolerance for missing returns should even this obscenely overvalued market continue to advance for a while; to understand historical precedents; to consider whether they care about such precedents; and to decide the extent to which they truly believe this time is different.

That analysis in itself is fodder for a more advanced post, which we discuss here, but at the very least, marketers should understand that many prospects and leads will likely engage with your content in more ways than one.

Now understand, as a liturgical Mainline Protestant congregation, First Presbyterian Church follows the Revised Common Lectionary, which means the Scriptural passages for the service and sermon are determined years in advance.

But we understand and judge Whitehead to be a realist, and so he must have an analysis of creative advance which gets around the problems that arise when time and space are allowed to be isomorphic with the mathematical continuum, the problem with which is that its series are dense rather than discrete.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The Church's renewed understanding of herself and of the world makes it possible for her henceforth to enter into dialogue with everybody, without abandoning her «claim to exclusiveness»,... which previously seemed to make sincere dialogue virtually impossible in advance both for the world and for the Church.2

This means that the philosopher's penchant for systematicity (which is characteristic of the rule of reason) must be understood, not as a means for advancing our understanding of the world as a whole, but rather as a self - generated illusion of mind as conditioned by the natural world.

The degree of decisiveness with which our grasp of these conditions permeates our understanding, and the manner in which we deal with them, define and shape the limits of our creative advance.

It is a beautiful thing and very accessible to anyone who studies it (unlike the Big Bang which requires advanced mathematics and physics to really understand).

As we then said, such moments have their «importance» in that they illuminate what has gone before, are in themselves a kind of concentration of what is actually present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty in concrete experience (which guarantees «objectivity») which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its way.

I am just saying that usually, these sorts of disasters and catastrophes help spur the human race on toward a new level of understanding and unity, which make further advances easier.

Meanwhile, naturalists will continue to advance our understanding of the ways in which the universe works and apply that understanding to improvements in technology that add to our quality of life.

Philosophy is understood as the self - correction of consciousness, which tries to integrate those elements of experience which consciousness, as it is developing itself and advancing selectively, leaves largely unconsidered in its focusing on a pragmatically arranged reality consisting of a world of things.

Not only was this a period of fundamental change like that in which we are living, but it was one in which the thinkers advancing the new conceptions particularly well understood the problems at issue.

While I highly suggest making this Honey Toddy with a cold brew, I understand it takes some thinking in advance, which I don't always do.

«The study advances our understanding of how the gut microbiome develops early in life,» Thompson said, «which is clearly a really important time period for a person's current and future health.»

Computational social science (CSS) is an new interdisciplinary research trend in social science, which tries to transform advances in big data and data science into research methodologies for understanding, explaining and predicting underlying social phenomena.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has advanced the elusive memorandum of understanding, which would allow for the release of $ 2 billion in funding to create 100,000 units of affordable and supportive housing over the next five years.

Cognitive research has advanced understanding of children's scientific thinking, which informs how to teach science from preschool to middle school.

In this review, we summarize some of the latest findings underlying the neurobiology of resilience, which we hope will advance the understanding and treatment of stress - related psychiatric disorders.»

- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Supports collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, which are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders and have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

The CRG scientists Marina Marcet - Houben and Toni Gabaldón used advanced computational methods to study the origins of the whole genome duplication in yeast to gain a more thorough understanding of this phenomenon, which is thought to have played a key role the evolution and adaption of the species.

Advances in our understanding of the biological pathways and mechanisms involved will help uncover new targets for treatment, which could one day translate into better, more personalised care for people living with schizophrenia.»

They can be extended to the measurement of the Coulomb energy in other superconducting materials, to other phenomena such as magnetism, to other methods, and provide directions for the development of experiments which will further advance the understanding of superconductivity and other quantum phenomena.

«This not only advances our understanding of how the body responds to cold, but could lead to new ways to control the amount of brown fat in the body, which has links to obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease,» says senior author Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and holder of Salk's March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology.

He explains the extent to which physicists» understanding of the mechanisms governing turbulent transport in such high - temperature plasmas has been critical in improving the advances towards harvesting fusion energy.

«SYK should advance our understanding of strange metals, which can, in turn, guide the development of high - temperature superconductors and help us pick the best ingredients for these materials,» he says.

«We now have a way to study this process in real time at the scale it's occurring, which will help scientists better understand the process and possibly optimize it,» says David Shapiro, a physicist with the Advanced Light Source who helped Chueh develop the technique at the facility.

In conclusion, Chen and colleagues have significantly advanced our understanding of the diversity and biogeography of the rare parasitoids, amongst which there might be some that will eventually prove to be helpful in pest management.

The technology is advancing to the point in which we can have a much better understanding of how the brain works comprehensively, rather than just focusing on neurons because their electrical signals make them appear brighter when imaging the brain.»

This advance in understanding was, says Lukas, due to the volume of information they collected and the availability of genetic information that allowed the researchers to determine the sequence in which different traits evolved.

It is a two - way barrier: Midcareer clinicians today are unable to understand even the basic vocabulary of molecular biology and genetics, and biomedical investigators (even those with M.D. degrees) are increasingly losing track of rapid advances in clinical medicine, which is always increasing in technologic complexity.

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.

In the past few years, important advances have been made in understanding the so - called «susceptibility» genes, which contribute to different autoimmune diseases.

The researchers also hope that by advancing the understanding of which genes play a role in DLB, their results will aid in the development of targeted therapies.

Researchers from LSU, Fudan University, the University of Florida and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures in Nanjing, China, conducted research on materials that separate into different regions through a process called electronic phase separation, which is poorly understood.

Survey results (which included the canopy and not just the forest floor) will advance the understanding of this little - explored rainforest and contribute to its future nomination as a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) biosphere reserve.

Faced with an aging population and rising rates of chronic diseases, Singapore has been forced to revisit how best to finance health services for the Pioneer Generation and is interested to understand the perspective of those most at risk, which includes older adults and patients with life - limiting illnesses, such as advanced cancer.

They were rather aimed at an advanced understanding of the glass formation process in general, which is a traditional research topic in the JGU Condensed Matter Physics group.

This work, which has been done in collaboration with the group of Dr Carmen Guaza of the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, and Dr X. Montalban and Dr M. Comabella of the Val d'Hebron Institut de Recerca in Barcelona, constitutes a significant advance in the understanding of the biology of the ANKRD55 gene and of the proteins it expresses, given that a new player has been discovered in the neuro - inflammation process that takes place in Multiple Sclerosis.

Advances in child psychology and educational research are helping adults these days to better fine - tune their message to meet children's developmental level — which is not only crucial in helping children understand what happened, but also for handling fears and anxieties that are likely to arise.

The bottom line is all this knowledge can advance scientific understanding, which is a noble goal.

These discoveries and conceptual advances were the beginning of an understanding of synapses, which has now become generally recognized.

«Because gestures and words very probably form a single «communication system», which ultimately serves to enhance expression intended as the ability to make oneself understood,» explains Marina Nespor, a neuroscientist at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste.

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Human Stem Cell Core Facility, which supports multiple research projects using stem cells to advance the understanding and ultimately the treatment of disease and injury, will receive a $ 2.8 million Shared Research Laboratory Grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).

Dr. Duvall is being honored for his pioneering efforts in the development and application of helioseismic techniques which have advanced our understanding of 3 - D structures and flows in the solar interior as well as those of surface phenomena such as sunspots and supergranules.

Collectively, these will advance the understanding of the role ChrX plays in the etiology of age - related diseases, which will also have an important positive impact on our understanding of sex differences in aging processes.