For at least 50 years, it has been well known among academics specialized in risk research that the essence of any DRR policy needs to be oriented substantively towards reducing social vulnerability.
The 77-year-old Pope, looking tired and at times speaking with a weak voice, said, "The process of globalization under way in the world needs to be oriented in the direction of equity and solidarity to avoid the marginalization of people and groups". It was the first time the Pope included the globalization issue in his yearly peace message.
While the essence of any DRR policy needs to be oriented towards reducing social vulnerability, "the larger academic community still dedicates greater resources to a highly specialized understanding of individual natural hazards, with a greater interest on the natural process than on their social impact" (Briceño 2015, p. 3).
The reader dwells in the episodes, but she needs to be oriented to them, and that is the function of the transitions.
It's hard to think long term, even though it's a fact that startups will need to be oriented long-term to succeed.
Nomad farmers need to be oriented and educated about the organic standards and how to overcome the risks they might face in adoption of organic livestock standards.
But risk reduction policies and measures need to be oriented towards resilience building and vulnerability reduction, that is, understanding what in our behavior makes us stronger or weaker in the effort to resist and reduce the impact of natural hazards.
Development performance indicators need to be oriented more towards social outcomes, not economic.
All clinicians and health extension workers need to be oriented on the need to screen people with chronic cough with sputum examination, and know the appropriate referral procedures.
Consider two biallelic, neutrally evolving SNPs x and y, and for each SNP call one allele '0' and the other '1' (this assignment is arbitrary; '0' and '1' do not need to be oriented with regard to ancestral state via an outgroup).
In M phase, the chromosomes need to be properly aligned and the spindles need to be oriented towards the daughter cell (M-metaphase checkpoint), and the cell should be correctly divided into two, before the end of mitosis (M-telophase checkpoint).
