Societal structure

By establishing farmer groups linking to the market this will influence societal structures as well as generates additional income to reduce poverty. 

As a second example consider societal structures/govemments. At the extremes are autocracy and anarchy - complete order and complete disorder. In autocracy, the individuals in the state are all the same in that they all obey the rulings of the leader. In anarchy, each individual makes his/her own rules and each is unique. As social structures go, however, both autocracy and anarchy can be regarded as simple - and indeed characterize less civilized societies. Intermediate structures such as democracy, communism, and socialism are more complex - entities within them are incomparable. Indeed one of the most significant aspects of democracy in the US is the separation of powers into judicial, executive and legislative - three incomparable branches of government. 

Changing regulatory and public views of safety In today s complex and interrelated societal structure, responsibility for safety is shifting from the... 

However, with respect to population development there are striking diifer-ences between the northern and the southern hemisphere. In the developed countries located in the northern hemisphere, population growth is generally slow or even stagnant in some countries, resulting in a fundamental change in societal structure. The development in Spain between 1995 and 2005 may serve as a typical example ... 

From the pluralist perspective, also the debate on whether chemistry is reducible to physics appears misleading. Terms like chemistry and physics nowadays refer to mega-disciplines, which each comprises not only a single theory but a plurality of conceptual and methodological knowledge traditions as well as the societal structures that bear the social identity of disciplines. 

Authors like Pelling (2003) defend that urban vulnerabilities are developed in consequence of interdependencies that occur between economic activity, transportation and residential areas. In this paper we present a vulnerability analysis that incorporates the interdependencies between environmental and societal structures. 

Professional eompetenee basie and specialised knowledge in the field of gender studies, foremost about soeio-cultural constmctions of gender and their impact on societal structures, institutions and individuals, as well as about the development of gendered disciplinary cultures (dimension of gender knowledge). 

Water scarcity is a structural, persistent drought affecting resources and aquatic ecosystems, with implications in water quality and societal needs. Scarcity results in repeated drought episodes. While drought is a temporary (and often normally associated to climatic patterns) decrease in water resources, water scarcity occurs when water demand exceeds the water resources exploitable under sustainable conditions. 

According to Erich Jantsch, self-organisation is the dynamic principle behind the emergence of the rich world of biological, ecological, societal and cultural structures (Jantsch, 1980). As can be seen from the definition, self-organisation processes are highly complex. They can include ... 

Lowry, the holder of the new chair in physical chemistry at Cambridge University, spoke in Paris in March 1924 on aspects of the theory of valence, including the electronic theory of valence, and in December 1925 on optical methods of verifying structural chemistry and his own hypothesis of semipolar double bonds in organic compounds. The occasions were meetings of the Societe de Chimique de France and the Societe de Chimie Physique. 62... 

GEN.172. I. Prigogine, Irreversibilite et structure de I espace-temps (Irreversibility and the structure of space-time), in L espace et le temps, XXII-e Congres De I Association des Societe de Philosophic de Langue Erangaise, Dijon, 1991. 

Figure 6.2-15 Wormlike nanostructures in Ge(l 11) can be obtained by partial oxidation they heal in a complex process comprising electrodeposition/electrodissolution and periphery diffusion. Ring-like defects transform to points as predicted by Grayson s theorem (vertical arrow, a 0 min, b 8 min, c 20 min - time with reference to a), electrodeposition of clusters occurs (horizontal arrows). Furthermore, the clusters can also dissolve (arrows in d-f) and pinch-off phenomena are observed (manually surrounded structures, d 0 min, e 12 min, f 52 min - time with reference to d) (picture from [60] - with permission of the Peep owner societes.

I would bring in women I knew who already had successful careers, and they discussed how they do it. I think we have got to look at the issue of what structural changes could be made so that a family can be both a parenting family and a working family with both parents committed to very demanding careers. There are many careers where you work nine to five and then you leave. You can fit children into that, but it is much harder when you want to be a chemist or a physicist, because the intellectual commitment goes on all the time. I am sure you all know it, and I think we have got to think of societal changes. 

The early world of materials discovery consisted solely of empirical observations, without an understanding of the relationship between material structure and properties. Each civilization had specific needs e.g., materials for shelter, clothing, warfare), and adapted whatever materials were available at the time to address these desires. Although this suitably addressed whatever issues were of societal concern at the time, such a trial-and-error manner of materials design resulted in slow growth. 

Social values, that is, the collective societal beliefs about the nature of the human being and the structure of a society, play a strong role in the development of national policies. Political and economic decisions rest in large measure on the prevailing values held in a society. Hence, if a predominant social value rests on the notion that all societal members have a right to health care, political and economic policy developments will follow suit. One way of examining these contexts is to look at a spectrum of social values. 

Bottom right quadrant. When value is transferred from shareholders to stakeholders, the company incurs a fiduciary liability to its shareholders. Actions intended to create stakeholder value that destroys shareholder value put into question the company s ability to create societal value over time. Avoiding offshore sourcing to protect American jobs is an example of actions that could create value for some stakeholders while destroying value for shareholders. Bringing back offshore jobs and union strikes to Keep Jobs in America may create job security for American workers in the short term, but can hurt companies whose operating cost structures become uncompetitive. 

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