The final, focusing on the characteristics of different natural environments, seemed to be lifted straight from the book that had been so important to me in my adolescence.
But Samalionis argues that it is by sending its cohorts into the field to observe customers in their natural environments that IDEO gains the real insights and results.
You used the word "brittle" to describe your condition, and it is a very accurate descriptor of how vulnerable people with bipolar disorder can be to changes in their human or natural environments.
Improvements in yield reduced the need to convert forests and other natural environments to farmland, which typically involves burning of trees and other plants, and which in turn produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
"There is a lot of work on the beneficial effects of visiting natural environments, but our findings suggest it is time to move beyond a simple urban versus rural debate and start looking at the effect that different natural environments have on people's health and well-being, " said Dr White.
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It illsutrates teacher-centred and student-centred approaches which can play a part in helping students relate the curriculum to the real world - both the natural and technological environments in which they live.
Of course, tech of this kind isn't necessarily intended for households -- not yet, anyway -- it makes for a more natural fit in commercial environments (think: airports, car dealerships or wireless retailers).
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Environmental - captures incidents where individuals and groups have an impact on their surroundings, including natural, built and social environments.
Mr Fraser said that given 2013 was the Year of Natural Scotland, protecting fragile environments and endangered wildlife should be a priority.
Marine Protected Areas help recover marine environments in order to provide natural solutions to critical environmental challenges.
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High levels of antibiotic resistance in remote environments would imply the existence of vast natural reservoirs of the genes for such resistance.
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Even though the expansive environments you will explore are dotted with buildings and natural effects such as trees, lakes and rocks, the overall feel is somewhat sparse.
Bats prefer to roost in natural features like trees and caves, but as development has made those environments scarcer, some species have adapted to urban areas.
In an effort to identify plants that can filter air in sealed environments, NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America tested common plants to determine the best natural filters.
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