In choosing these priorities, Bell says, the committee looked for topics with compelling science, high potential for societal impact, and high "partnership potential" both within NSF, between NSF and other agencies, and with international partners.
The answer is negative: none of the interaction terms in Model 3 are significant (and they are very small compared to their standard error), indicating that societal rejection of one's partnership status does not make people unhappier.
Additional analyses (results not shown) revealed that the impact of societal disapproval of non-traditional partnership statuses does not affect older singles (35 years or older) more than younger singles (under age 35).
Lo and behold: "You release all of the societal demands, and yet these partnerships become extremely stable," said neurobiologist and love expert Dr. Helen Fisher via telephone.
Five decades later, CCT leaders are releasing a response that elaborates on specific passages of King's letter, calling for partnerships to confront societal inequities in the nation's neighborhoods, schools and prisons.
Did the company and its executives, who were internally pursuing a strategy of "societal alignment," suddenly embrace a true partnership on public health?
The ultimate aim is to develop societal relationships based on a restorative, "partnership" paradigm and mutual respect, rather than a retributive, fear-based, "domination" paradigm.
Public health bodies must ensure that harms caused by others' drinking are fully reflected in measures of the societal costs of alcohol, and through partnership with other public sector bodies, that legislation is effectively communicated and enforced.
In a previous heterogeneous collaboration project our research group was involved in, 18 partnerships between arthritis researchers and societal partners (patients) were monitored, of just three survived at the two-year mark (Elberse 2012).
However, while concurrency is a particularly important parameter to measure for STI epidemiology, measurement is problematic because of the difficulties of remembering accurately and the social undesirability of reporting such partnerships in the context of a societal norm against "unfaithfulness".
