Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Although the impact of these increases on our industry's shipments will be gradual, on balance I look for another good increase in shipments in the coming year, to at least $6 billion.

As a result of these changed conditions, the impact of the organizational effort on agricultural labor-management relations has been much greater than in the past.

-- The results of microanalysis of tektites ( natural glasses of unknown origin ) for gallium and germanium have shown that these glasses are probably produced from terrestrial ( or less likely from lunar ) matter by impact of a celestial body.

Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal.

While ideas about altruism from one field can have an impact on the other fields, the different methods and focuses of these fields always lead to different perspectives on altruism.

Researchers study the impact of these changes on food production.

The government has undertaken regulatory reforms in some areas, including substantial opening of trade policy, but inefficient public administration in which commercial and regulatory interests are co-mingled limit the impact of these reforms.

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

The standard for these progress reports is in 2: 46 – 47, where Luke describes the impact of the gospel on the new church in Jerusalem.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

Although these effects may be either beneficial or detrimental, the location of the area is crucial in determining the extent of the impact that abiotic stress will have.

Albeit that these factors did play a large role in increasing home run thus scoring totals during this time, others that directly impact ballplayers have an equally important role.

The impact Roman law had decreased sharply after the age of Bracton, but the Roman divisions of actions into in rem ( typically, actions against a thing or property for the purpose of gaining title to that property ; must be filed in a court where the property is located ) and in personam ( typically, actions directed against a person ; these can affect a person's rights and, since a person often owns things, his property too ) used by Bracton had a lasting effect and laid the groundwork for a return of Roman law structural concepts in the 18th and 19th centuries.

These anthropologists continue to concern themselves with the distinct ways people in different locales experience and understand their lives, but they often argue that one cannot understand these particular ways of life solely from a local perspective ; they instead combine a focus on the local with an effort to grasp larger political, economic, and cultural frameworks that impact local lived realities.

However, even Walter Alvarez has acknowledged that there were other major changes on Earth even before the impact, such as a drop in sea level and massive volcanic eruptions that produced the Indian Deccan Traps, and these may have contributed to the extinctions.

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

The theory of electronic colonialism extends the issue to global cultural issues and the impact of major multi-media conglomerates, ranging from Viacom, Time-Warner, Disney, News Corp, Sony, to Google and Microsoft with the focus on the hegemonic power of these mainly United States-based communication giants.

One of these systems, which is operated by Cornell University and began operation in 2000, was controversial during the planning and building states for potential negative environmental impact.

Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering.

The cause of these emissions was difficult to establish due to a lack of knowledge of Jupiter's internal magnetic field and of the geometry of the impact sites.

Traditionally these have been interpreted as examples of government hostility toward commerce, but more recent studies, which use source material such as magistrate diaries and genealogical records, suggest that merchants in fact had a powerful impact on government policies and that the division between the world of the merchant and the world of the official was far more porous than traditionally believed.

Acceleration of these free electrons in a strong electric field causes them to gain energy, and when they impact other atoms, the energy causes release of new free electrons and ions ( ionization ), which fuels the same process.

Moreover, these unconventional troops created a psychological impact over the enemy, which was not used to dealing with horse troops, having no training or strategy to face them.

However, few of these had a significant impact on the advance of the industry.

Electric and hybrid cars can help decrease energy use and pollution, with local no pollution at all being generated by electric vehicles, and may someday use only renewable resources, but the choice that would have the lowest negative environmental impact would be a lifestyle change in favor of walking, biking, use of public transit or telecommuting.

Press, Brooks Brothers, and Ralph Lauren, reflecting the impact of East Coast culture on preppy lifestyle.

The tropical atmosphere and unpressured lifestyle had an impact, and one of the frustrating and endearing aspects of Ayers ' career is that every time he seemed on the point of success, he would take off for some sunny spot where good wine and food were easily found.

The sickle had a profound impact on the Agricultural Revolution by assisting in the transition to farming and crop based lifestyle.

However, these highly specialized fishing communities made little impact on the Sami lifestyle, and in the late Middle Ages, the two communities could exist alongside each other with little contact except occasional trading.

There is direct impact of lifestyle drugs on society particularly in developing world.

His success had little impact on Paul Reichmann's lifestyle.

Military brats have been studied extensively, both from the perspective of social psychology and as a distinct and unique American subculture, although less so in terms of long-term impact of the lifestyle.

These guidelines lead to the choice of local products ( in order to minimize the environmental impact of the transport ), fair-trade goods ( in order to respect disadvantaged producers by promoting their human rights, in particular those of women, children and indigenous people ) and reusable or eco-compatible goods ( to promote a sustainable lifestyle ).

In February 2009, he told a Senate hearing that he believed divorce added to the impact of global warming because it resulted in people switching to a " resource-inefficient lifestyle ".

However many of the environment impact properties cannot be measured on a scale e. g. landscape quality, lifestyle quality, social acceptance etc.

A central feature is the avoidance of moralising about the impact of 1990s dance lifestyle ; instead the film concentrates on recreating the " vibe, the venues and the mood " of the dance movement from the 1991 " summer of love " to the film's release in 1999.

Valuing a human life or the economic impact of an Arctic oil spill involves making subjective choices with ethical implications.

; Insignificance: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern often feel as if they are unable to make any choices that will actually have an impact on their lives.

SNCF developed an interactive website to help travellers calculate the environmental impact of their travel choices.

Andrei Oişteanu, who proposed that Eliade's critics were divided into a " maximalist " and a " minimalist " camp ( trying to, respectively, enhance or shadow the impact Legionary ideas had on Eliade ), argued in favor of moderation, and indicated that Eliade's fascism needed to be correlated to the political choices of his generation.

* " Consumers may not realize the full impact of their choices "," Hidden Health and Environmental Costs Of Energy Production and Consumption In U. S ."

Its asserted aim was assisting students to make informed consumer product choices, and to educate then in the environmental impact of their choices:

The authors say minor choices such as choosing between paper or plastic bags do not have that much overall impact.

Senior fellow Mark N. Katz contributes a weekly series The War on Terror in Perspective where he addresses " the nature of the ' War on Terror ', the regional impact of American withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, U. S. policy choices after withdrawing from these conflicts, and the larger geopolitical context in which this ' war ' is taking place.

This report ( which builds on the first report ’ s finding that " climate change, national security, and energy dependence are a related set of global challenges ”) explores the impact of America's energy choices on our national security policies, and considers: the security risks inherent in our current energy posture ; the energy choices America can make to enhance national security ; and the role the Department of Defense can play in the nation ’ s approach to energy security and climate change.

' He concludes: ’ Only someone who is totally blind to the impact of changing power relations, of declining choices, of the profound impact of cultural disintegration and recurring violence and abuse, let alone the simple imperatives of survival, could cite the unfolding tragedy at Bruny Island in this period as evidence for the sexual mores and domestic relations of pre-invasion Aboriginal society .’

Although agriculture would be preferable, military exercises seemed less harmful in their impact on the environment than its use for the recreational choices of a predominantly urban population.

Radiant Historia takes it much further by giving players the freedom to travel backwards and forwards through a timeline to alter the course of history, with each of their choices and actions having a major impact on the timeline.

A 2006 study of the 2004 and 2002 campaigns by political scientists Mayer, Werner, and Williams of the University of Wisconsin — Madison argued that the GAO " understate the reforms ' impact, in part by making some unusual methodological choices and jettisoning valuable data.

) Athena software tools are especially useful early in the design process when material choices have far-reaching implications for overall environmental impact.

Psychological factors can impact health directly ( such as stress causing the release of hormones such as cortisol which damage the body over time ) and indirectly via a person's own behavior choices which can harm or protect health ( such as smoking or taking exercise ).

That is, part of the point of describing a human extinction scenario as ' omnicidal ' is to note that, if it were to happen, it would result not just from natural, uncontrollable evolutionary forces, or from some random catastrophe like an asteroid impact, but from deliberate choices made by human beings.

After the " untwinable " event of having " carnal " relations with Laurel Wilson (" Sabotage "), a philosophy professor with whom he regularly took hikes, Larry begins to wonder about his life choices, missed ( romantic ) opportunities, and the impact of children ( or wormholes in Larry's view ) on people's lives.

Many efforts to inform decision-makers of current versus future costs and benefits now involve organizing and translating scientific knowledge to economics, which articulate the consequences of our choices in comparable units of impact on human well-being.

An official evaluation of the program completed in September 2004 concluded that the program had fallen far short of its aims ( e. g. 1. 7 million young people using the card in a steady state ) and there was no clear evidence of a direct impact on attitudes to attendance, learning or career choices.

More recently, many games have begun offering multiple endings to increase the dramatic impact of moral choices within the game, although early examples also exist.