"I strive to design environments that encourage presence — in one's self, in one's life, in a place, in a moment".
Workers take a nine-week course and learn how to step back from their engineering work and focus on the big picture through meditation and mindfulness (a practice that involves quieting the mind to encourage presence and awareness).
When developing interventions to encourage presence of stair gates, one should particularly focus on family situation, response efficacy and descriptive norm.
The conditions have thus not been in place to meet the standards of the United Nations Children's Convention [ 13] and the Nordic Association for Sick Children in Hospital [ 14], which stress that staff should encourage presence and active participation by parents in the care of their child both day and night.
The presence of this vegetation will also encourage the presence of birds and insects within the miniature gardens.
Djibouti and Somalia did not attend, despite earlier efforts by ALBO seeking to encourage their presence, said Ajami. 3. (C) No companies were removed from the list during this most recent meeting.
Police officers, but not civilian police employees, may use the cards on or off duty "to encourage police presence on mass transit beyond the 2,500 officers assigned there," said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman.
But an important goal of feminist science studies is to encourage the presence of women and men who differ by race, class, nation, sexuality, disability, etc. and who can bring to science and science studies a multifaceted awareness of difference, power relations, domination, language and of the need for innovative methodologies.
Some plants encourage the presence of natural enemies of herbivores, which in turn protect the plant.
The decision not to require or encourage the presence of armed guards in schools follows a heated national debate over that question after last week's news that Vice President Joe Biden's gun control task force was considering funding them.
Reportedly invited by Mars himself (though it's hard to imagine that the NFL didn't encourage their presence), the long-running L.A. rockers crashed the stage Sunday for a stale "Give It Away" that added zero to the proceedings — unless you count the disheartening sight of a bunch of white guys crowding out a bunch of black guys from their own gig.
