Sentences with phrase «with environmental context»

The wall - mounted, loosely slung steel and brass tubes of Untitled, secured by thin blue rope, frame the artist's ongoing engagement with environmental context at the more modest scale of a room.

«Waggle can help us with environmental context and give us the ability to create an automated sensing grid,» said Gilbert.

Not exact matches

Every client has a unique set of priorities to consider when making investment decisions to align specific choices with a larger social or environmental context.

Developments in the «new biology,» which deals with wholes of increasing complexity in the organization of interrelated parts rather than with discrete and isolated segments, especially in molecular biology and the growing field of ecology, with its discoveries about the basic interdependence of living organisms with other living organisms and with its larger environmental context, have further undermined these traditions assumptions.

Although the work is done in the context of a more general problem — the effect of environmental electromagnetic fields upon cellular functions — Adey is also concerned with the question of how brain waves might play a role in normal brain function.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

But change — or growth in the context of learning — they argued, is about recognizing when environmental triggers influence a fixed mindset — and to then take deliberate, necessary steps to encourage an environment with a growth mindset.

The $ 10,000 cash award, intended to be used for college, is funded by the Municipal Art Society and the Rockefeller Foundation and given to two exceptional NYC public high school seniors who demonsrate academic and extracurricular commitment to environmental stewardship with the urban context.

The message was extremely well - received by the environmental activists we spoke with, and quite a few people expressed gratitude that the issue was being brought up in this context.

We work with animals in the context of the humans with whom they interact, their home environments / habitats, or both — so it's apparent to us that human, animal, and environmental health are all parts of a whole.

Indie travelers do... - Pack light and keep things simple - Adapt as they go rather than micromanage in advance - Practice caution, but not paranoia - Know how to slow down and enjoy an experience - Seek pleasure in simple moments and details - Make meaningful connections and informed decisions - Learn the economic, political and environmental context of their host culture - Emphasize listening more than talking - Practice courtesy, patience, humility, and good humor - Seek to understand — not judge or romanticize — other cultures - Give back to the local economy - Share what they've learned with others

In this context, Brits appear to have become slightly less aware of the issues while away — 79 % said they consider environmental issues during their holiday compared with 81 % last time.

Transporting the player into the body of an intelligent ape allows FoxNext VR Studio to utilize motion controls and environmental narrative in unexpected ways, teasing the player with hints of larger events that they may not have context to understand.

The action was brutal, with context - sensitive, environmental takedowns that made you wince.

With a commitment to diversity and collaboration, The Cooper Union educates students in the ethical, cultural, and environmental contexts and consequences of their technical and creative disciplines.

The works on view in the Whitney exhibition continue to push further in this direction, introducing varied skin tones and more experimentation with bright color and background imagery giving environmental context.

Alongside this exposure to contemporary and international art, artists and curators from all over the world are invited to come to Limerick to make new work, engaging with the city, and building bridges to other personal, social, political and environmental contexts.»

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

He uses various languages in his work, often bringing them into dialogue with one another, creating site - specific performances and installations, and always seeking out interaction with the context, both human (the visitors) and environmental (the surrounding space).

The show is placed in the context of Kenswil's ongoing interest in queerness and the varying degrees of death; a recurrent theme linking catastrophe post-HIV with looming environmental disaster.

The exhibition will examine the historical context of the artist's characteristic imagery, linking Bontecou's use of the circle and the void with her political and environmental concerns.

These decisions and trade - offs should be guided by robust evidence, with global - change science investigating the connections and tradeoffs between the state of the environment and human well - being in the context of the local setting, rather than by framing and reframing environmental challenges in terms of untestable assumptions about the virtues of past environments.

We've designed this archive to put human affairs in the larger context of ecology and now seek to connect our project with students and faculty at other schools, the media, and the global community focused on improving environmental and social quality.

Therefore, the cost - benefit analyses regarding the mitigation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases need to be considered along with the other human climate forcings in a broader environmental context, as well as with respect to their role in the climate system.»

While the challenge of achieving a zero environmental footprint seems enormous, a Chinese proverb says that «a journey of a thousand miles, starts with a single step», and in that context, Sony has already taken significant steps to materialize this long - term vision.

This study draws attention to new «hotspots» that could emerge from the synergies between different sectors and the interplay of economic activity with political and social developments in the context of climate change and cumulative environmental impacts.

This manual outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

This is the power of reflexive law, something I wrote extensively about when I was in law school with respect to corporate environmental disclosure, and would be equally applicable in the national climate change context.

Given the current socio - economic, political and environmental context, the countries with more risks of losses and damages due to extreme weather events and slow onset events are developing countries, those which have contributed the least to climate change and those less capable of adapting to its impacts.

[3] In this sense, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term climate change has become synonymous with anthropogenic global warming.

We will be reviewing the proposal in context with the other pending environmental regulations,» he said.

A collaboration of several energy and environmental organizations with experience in distributed solar provided some badly needed context for the contested values of solar.

In the case of GGR, we have started to see a shift, e.g., with a major programme funded by the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) that «will undertake research to improve our knowledge of the options for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a climatically - relevant scale, giving interdisciplinary attention to the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects of such approaches on a national level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/ggr/).

The CEED workshop on the Clean Power Plan provided community members with a deeper understanding of what this rule means for power plants in environmental justice communities.This toolkit describes key elements of the CPP within the context of the power system, pathways for implementation, and challenges to maximize environmental justice for locally impacted communities.

While leaders and institutions wrestle with ways to remain relevant in a contemporary context, a new consumption driven environmental movement is steadily resonating with consumers.

So it's in this context that a new report from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) should be evaluated, claiming that Minnesota could meet 100 % of its energy needs with solar, wind and energy efficiency:

WHO is continuing these studies in collaboration with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), in the context of the «Stockholm Convention», an international agreement to reduce emissions of certain persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including dioxins.

Jaime, neither DL nor you have demonstrated anything wrong with the «employment of grad students and environmental activists as authors, lead authors and coordinating lead authors of vital IPCC chapters» (nor which chapters you consider «vital» — in the context of this discussion I'd say those of WG1).

Issue 8: The Discussion Paper identifies several measures for reform that may enhance engagement with First Nations and other Aboriginal groups in the context of environmental assessment and licensing.

129 Furthermore, the fact that, in the context of applying European Union environmental legislation, certain matters contributing to the pollution of the air, sea or land territory of the Member States originate in an event which occurs partly outside that territory is not such as to call into question, in the light of the principles of customary international law capable of being relied upon in the main proceedings, the full applicability of European Union law in that territory (see to this effect, with regard to the application of competition law, Ahlström Osakeyhtiö and Others v Commission, paragraphs 15 to 18, and, with regard to hydrocarbons accidentally spilled beyond a Member State's territorial sea, Case C ‑ 188 / 07 Commune de Mesquer [2008] ECR I ‑ 4501, paragraphs 60 to 62).

In this case, the Court found that ClientEarth could not rely on the Aarhus Convention to challenge the Public Access to Documents Regulation (Regulation 1049/2001) in order to obtain commissioned studies on compliance by Member States with EU environmental law in the context of infringement procedures.

In this context, the Court's ruling that the Commission should make a specific and individual examination of every document not contained in an infringement file is a positive, but only modest step in ensuring compliance with the EU environmental acquis.

Presentation (with D. Hunter), «Environmental Considerations in the Context of a Friendly Take - Over», May 19, 1989, Anatomy of a Friendly Takeover — Insight Information (Toronto).

But first, a little context: In 2012, the federal government weakened a number of Canada's oldest and most important environmental laws, including by replacing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act with the weaker CEAA 2012 and giving the NEB greater authority to permit environmental harms and impose barriers to public penvironmental laws, including by replacing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act with the weaker CEAA 2012 and giving the NEB greater authority to permit environmental harms and impose barriers to public pEnvironmental Assessment Act with the weaker CEAA 2012 and giving the NEB greater authority to permit environmental harms and impose barriers to public penvironmental harms and impose barriers to public participation.

Our lawyers have a wealth of experience dealing with these and other coverages in connection with a wide range of complex contexts, including those relating to products liability, environmental and complex torts, privacy breaches and other technology failures, subprime mortgage disputes and bond transactions.

When asked by one member of parliament about the «speculation» that «Facebook can, through the Facebook app on your smartphone, listen in to what people are talking about and discussing and using that to prioritize the advertising as well,» Wylie said the audio apps can capture data from the microphone in mobile devices and are able to be used «for environmental context,» adding, «So if, for example, you have a television playing versus if you're in a busy place with a lot of people talking versus a work environment.»

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andenvironmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andEnvironmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

Thus, for the past decade, research into the effects of early child care for infants and toddlers has been based on an ecological model of development that addresses environmental influences in family and child care contexts in conjunction with child characteristics and how experiences in one setting may shape the effects of experiences in the other.