Sentences with phrase «which social factors»

Does the peer - review process reject claims about the consequences of climate change which don't give consideration to the degree to which social factors — i.e. poverty — determine the human outcome far more than weather?

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You can estimate your longevity using online calculators, such as the ones from the Social Security Administration (which simply asks your gender and date of birth), Living to 100 and financial services firm Blueprint Income (which factors in other details including your weight and how much you exercise and drink alcohol).

Parrot measures popularity by looking at Demand Expressions, a measure which (lacking ratings from Netflix, which doesn't release them) combines data on file sharing, social chatter, Wiki activity, fan ratings, and other factors.

Although they will not be displayed on your website or social media platforms, they will be read by search engines, which will factor them in when computing your search rankings.

December 1 was World AIDS Day, and a new social - hashtag campaign was launched, #TreatmentForAll, which calls on everyone around the world to demand that governments find a way to provide the resources to allow treatment for all those infected and offer the resources to stop the factors that are contributing to the spread of HIV and AIDS - related illnesses.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

But his standing also reflects Novo Nordisk's deep engagement with social and environmental issues, which now factor in to our calculations.

«Many companies are taking a holistic approach to improving what some call the triple bottom line — comprised of social, environmental and financial factors — or the three Ps, which is people, planet and profits,» said Kate Vasiloff, GBTA research director.

Social media is a great way to get more brand exposure which can result in branded searches and inbound links, which certainly is a ranking factor.

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

Our paramount goal is to provide our students with a working knowledge of the myriad of factors that play a role in determining how retirees can achieve the maximum benefit available to them from Social Security and, in so doing, provide a solid foundation upon which an overall retirement income plan can be built.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

Definition «PEST analysis — an analysis of the political, economic, social and technological factors in the external environment of an organization, which can affect its activities and performance.»

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Meanwhile his social usefulness can best be measured by the degree to which he is capable of using the liberating factors in the media and bringing them to fruition.

We observe the influencing factors from history and today, educate ourselves on current knowledge about health and various other issues to help form our opinions, which then may become part of collective, social opinion if we allow ourselves to be represented.

Another factor in the greater success of this approach is the eclectic spirit (as distinguished from the exclusivistic spirit of the mission) in which the resources of social work, psychiatry, medicine, and AA have been integrated with their basic evangelism.

A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive influence of ghetto culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.

Here the church may lend its official public support; supply monies; provide clerical and lay leadership, volunteers, and facilities to programs aimed at redressing social problems in the community which are contributory factors in producing mental illness.

Wood is clear and explicit about ways in which social and cultural factors ideologically distort both Christian witness and theological inquiry.

These qualities, while not necessarily categoreal, are indisputable factors in human feelings, either accounting for or contributing to the ambiguous impulses which both individual solitude and social solidarity manifest.

But these explanations focus on psychological factors rather than providing insight into the institutional contexts in which ideas are actually produced, paid for, brought into contact with an interested audience, enacted in collective rituals, used to mobilize resources against competing ideologies, and embedded in social arrangements.

The virtue of Zaret's approach is that it demonstrates the relevance of broad social conditions as effects on religious ideas, but instead of pinning these effects on hidden psychological states or vague generalities about interests and legitimation, it traces the factors actually involved in the specific contexts in which ideas were produced, modified, and disseminated.

The important factors are the personal attitudes and social meanings of which the manners are the outward signs.

In any case, we can largely understand prophetic man in terms of two factors: the total physical, social, and historical context in which he lived and his personal will as that by which he transcended that context and determined the form his life would take within it.

One of the «four factors which decisively govern the fate of social groups» according to his analysis, is «the iron compulsion of nature that the bodily necessities of food, clothing and shelter be provided».20 Whitehead continues: «The rigid limits which are thereby set to modes of social existence can only be mitigated by the growth of an understanding by which the interplay between man and the rest of nature can be adjusted.»

There is a need now more than ever to develop a means for doing religious social ethics which emphasizes the goal - orientation aspect of politics as a corrective to stress on the coercive - power factor in determining social policy.

The factor in human social experience which Whitehead identifies as responsible for generating this correlative kind of «continuity» is routine, namely, the repetitive activity of daily social intercourse.

The problem of causal agency, i.e., the question of whether it is the larger social whole or the individual constituent which is the primary efficacious factor in society, is also relevant metaphysically.

The third factor which is both obstacle to and reason for giving new emphasis to the neglected function of the church as critic grows out of the fact that the churches reflect the assumptions and attitudes of particular communities, often of a particular social class or residential area.

But it is a distortion of the Christian experience to neglect the factor of social process, in which the cumulative historical consequence of the work of freedom is given its place.

Institutions, principally governments, determined to achieve certain social goals require knowledge, both of the factors which are most likely to shape the future and of the mechanisms which will be required to direct these interacting forces into desirable patterns toward chosen ends.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

A very important factor is the manner in which social attitudes determine the desirability or attractiveness of using alcohol as a means of personality adjustment.

In all of this it was understood that religion was an activity in process, as social groups sought to achieve more productive adjustment to the factors of the natural and social environment which carry their culture through historical development.

«He thought like a Jew, he understood as a Jew understood; and surely deep in his psychology were those factors, inherited and social, which determined the limits in which his thinking and understanding were carried on» (CR 36).

But with the widespread failure of the field to come to any agreement about the Bible's own categories of discourse, its special modes of literary expression and intentionality, and especially those social and religious factors that handed the Old Testament over to us, we have simply been thrown back on ourselves and the deeply felt convictions with which we began the process of interpretation.

Pushed out of the argument because it is so impossibly incorrect is The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which argued that IQ and other factors crucial to social success are genetically determined and are unequally distributed among racial groups.

What are the cultural, social, religious, and theological factors which contributed to these changes?

The growth of the French packaging industry will be heavily influenced by changing demographics and social factors such as a high employment rate and a large aging population, which have a clear impact on consumer spending power and purchasing habits...

Gastronomy can be understood as another link in the food chain, and as a change factor that offers a different perspective to the conventional outlook, and seeks solutions to social problems which, after all, affect all of us.»

We used the SEIFA Index of Relative Social Deprivation (IRSD) which takes into account factors from a range socioeconomic measures including income and education [22].

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

Genetic factors drive this early overproduction of neurons, Schore explains, but the brain awaits direction from the social environment, or epigenetic processes, to determine which synapses or connections are to be pruned, which should be maintained, and which genes are turned on or off.

The book points out the extent to which, when it comes to overall maternal and child health, the psychiatric community has had a tendency to ignore social inequality and poverty as contributing factors to psychological disorders.

Grantees implement programs which teach parents and early education providers about ways to strengthen families and build protective factors (such as parenting skills and resilience in times of stress; building social connections and a support network; and knowledge of child development) in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect before it begins.

Excessive infant crying in this setting may be only a «red flag» of distress, and as such reflects key co-existent elements of the context in which it occurs, such as the role of the father, social and economic factors and the community context.

The fatherhood wage premium — which is when fathers, especially new ones, earn higher wages based on a variety of factors — provides an example of how fatherhood continues to be an important and valued social role, which is rewarded in the workplace.

Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.