In particular, all our analyses are based on the simplifying assumptions that individuals act rationally, have perfect information and foresight while they do not engage in projecting the epidemic, and that the details of population structure play a minor role.
By the early 21st century many Native groups in Northern America were engaged in projects promoting cultural revitalization, political empowerment, and economic development.
If Wolf is right, it has to feel worthwhile and, beyond that, has to be engaged in projects that are objectively worthwhile.
Last year, an Oxfam America report warned that it treated farmers as "passive recipients" engaged in projects only after decisions are made.
He said the state would consider investing in companies when they were engaged in projects that, while not immediately profitable, could eventually yield major payoffs, or when the survival of a "strategic" enterprise was at stake.
"SciGirls," hoping to right the vexing science-and-technology imbalance that has left women chronically underrepresented in those fields, shows tweener girls engaged in projects that make physics, math, biology and other subjects seem fun.
The shift would create a greatly expanded corps of diplomats and aid workers that, in the vision of the incoming Obama administration, would be engaged in projects around the world aimed at preventing conflicts and rebuilding failed states.
Rem Koolhaas is engaged in projects across the Middle East, including a vast library and foundation headquarters currently nearing completion in Qatar, yet the condition of his construction workers is never the focus of the story.
At the local level, members of the Jewish community are taking part in interracial socialaction coalitions engaged in projects that foster literacy, youth mentoring, low- and moderate-income housing, and economic development.
"Students attending the centers will be engaged in project-based learning and receive requisite credit-bearing instruction in literacy and numeracy," Mr. Tucker told a joint hearing of the City Council's Education and Public Safety Committees.
