The Dialog Center International ( DCI ) a major Christian counter-cult organization founded in 1973 by a Danish professor of missiology and ecumenical theology, Dr. Johannes Aagaard rejects deprogramming, believing that it is counterproductive, ineffective, and can harm the relationship between a cult member and concerned family members.

Finally, the psychology of cognitive development is concerned with individual differences in the organization of cognitive processes and abilities, in their rate of change, and in their mechanisms of change.

A particular organization of hackers that was concerned with sharing computers with the general public was a group called Community Memory.

Autonomists are less concerned with party political organization than other Marxists, focusing instead on self-organized action outside of traditional organizational structures.

For them, philosophy is concerned with the organization of thoughts, rather than having distinct topics of its own.

Historically, mineralogy was heavily concerned with taxonomy of the rock-forming minerals ; to this end, the International Mineralogical Association is an organization whose members represent mineralogists in individual countries.

Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

More recently, Lass ( 1998 ) writes that phonology refers broadly to the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language, while in more narrow terms, " phonology proper is concerned with the function, behaviour and organization of sounds as linguistic items ".

The Charter is concerned mainly with the aims of the Palestine Liberation Organization, while the Fundamental Law is more concerned with the structure and procedures of the organization.

They are distinguished from organizations concerned only with removing nuclear weapons from war, though those organization may call for suspension of hostilities as well.

Whistleblowers may make their allegations internally ( for example, to other people within the accused organization ) or externally ( to regulators, law enforcement agencies, to the media or to groups concerned with the issues ).

Banks are quite concerned about defaults, so a business plan for a bank loan will build a convincing case for the organization ’ s ability to repay the loan.

Data bank may also refer to an organization primarily concerned with the construction and maintenance of a database.

The CMS is an international treaty organization concerned with conserving migratory species and habitats on a global scale.

Antony ’ s “ obsessive language concerned with structure, organization, and maintenance for the self and empire in repeated references to ‘ measure ,’ ‘ property ,’ and ‘ rule ’ express unconscious anxieties about boundary integrity and violation .” ( Hooks 38 ) Furthermore, Antony struggles with his infatuation with Cleopatra and this paired with Cleopatra ’ s desire for power over him causes his eventual downfall.

* Society of Vacuum Coaters, a professional organization concerned with vacuum coating technology

In the mid-1990s, Jibril held conferences with these groups in Tehran and Damascus in order to achieve tighter coordination of activities, though his organization remained small and its own actions were more concerned with aiding Hezbollah and achieving an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.

In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltration by communists, she provoked a highly-publicized row: concerned about reports of Stalinist atrocities, de Havilland removed pro-Communist material from speeches prepared for her by the Independent Citizens ' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, a group later identified as a communist front organization.

Lubbers was appointed 1 January 2001 to head an organization which was concerned with an estimated 21 million refugees and internally displaced in over 120 countries world wide.

While other theories emphasize the exploitation of one individual by an organization ( or vice versa ), the Marxist theory is primarily concerned with the exploitation of an entire segment or class of society by another.

The Monroe Township Historical Society was formed as a volunteer organization on October 16, 1974, by Mayor John W. Sharp ( of the Canning Company Sharps ), to be composed of volunteer citizens concerned with preserving items that reflect the history of Monroe Township.

* Upper Moreland Historical Association-" The Upper Moreland Historical Association is a non-profit organization founded by a group of citizens concerned that the community's significant and colorful history not be forgotten.

: It is concerned with that body of knowledge relating to the origination, collection, organization, storage, retrieval, interpretation, transmission, transformation, and utilization of information.

These assumptions lead to an organization with one man at the top, six directly under him, six under each of these, and so on until there are six levels of personnel.

But while the corporation has all the disadvantages of the socialist form of organization ( so cumbersome it cannot constructively do much of anything not compatible with its need to perpetuate itself and maintain its status quo ), unluckily it does not have the desirable aspect of socialism, the motivation to operate for the benefit of society as a whole.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

I disagree with Mr. Burnham's position on the Common Market ( Nov. 18 ) as a desirable organization for us to join.

To meet this urgent need for skilled manpower we are proposing the establishment of a Peace Corps -- an organization which will recruit and train American volunteers, sending them abroad to work with the people of other nations.

In this organization, about half of the engineers with 15 or more years of employment are in supervision, engineering or elsewhere.

If no specific organization plan exists limiting the number of scientists at each salary level, the result is a department top-heavy with high-level, high-salaried personnel ''.

The husband is usually a well-educated professional, preoccupied with his job -- often an organization man whose motto for getting ahead is: `` Don't rock the boat ''.

One is that whatever is ecumenical has to do with some over-all organization at `` the top '' and needs only to be understood at the so-called `` lower levels ''.

If we add to these contacts with friendly members the `` contacts with an organization of the church '' ( 11.2 per cent of the cases ), then a substantial two thirds of all recruitment is through friendly contact.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

Along with a director, the city should provide a CD headquarters so that pertinent information about the local organization would be centralized.

Talking of the rapid population growth ( upwards of 12,000 babies born daily ) with an immigrant entering the United States every 1-1/2 minutes, he said `` our organization has not been keeping pace with this challenge ''.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

Because it is so large a state, with marked contrasts in population density, the organization of the New York co-operative offers a cross-section of how the plan works.

administrative organization and delicate diplomatic relations with Top Brass -- British, American and Chinese ; ;

But under the direction of Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, and performed altogether professionally.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

Amphibian Ark is an organization that was formed to implement the ex-situ conservation recommendations of this plan, and they have been working with zoos and aquaria around the world encouraging them to create assurance colonies of threatened amphibians.

Kindreds are usually grassroots groups which may or may not be affiliated with a national organization such as the Ásatrú Alliance, or The Troth, rather than the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly or the Odinic Rite.

It is a part of the public law, which deals with the organization, the tasks and the acting of the public administration.

This may be considered a desirable outcome in cases where the party to the lawsuit is an organization with a transient membership and political perspective.