Sentences with phrase «nao does»

Approximately 25 per cent of the PCTs surveyed by the NAO did not adequately evaluate the impact of alcohol - related problems in their areas, even though it is their duty to establish local health priorities.

Not exact matches

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer named Nao.

Dats y we won all dose games nao... and dat besiktas match, he had several chances to play d final pass wch he just cudnt...... and he called him our best player against city, spurs and manure cos he was tryin to do everytin and dat was y we ddnt win...... he ddnt even start away to villa and we won convincingly

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

NAO research revealed a fundamental lack of understanding about alcohol measurements - many people did understand how much is meant by a «unit» of alcohol (10 millilitres of ethanol).

NAO chief Amyas Morse said: «The continuing problems highlighted in my report show that, if it is to make the most of the money available, the department has more to do to address its longstanding issues on project performance.»

It did make a change to local government but local government has changed itself and it's time to move on... it's time to pass the baton to the NAO.»

• Key quotes from the NAO report: o «The source of many problems has been the absence of a detailed view of how Universal Credit is meant to work» [page 33] o «The Department is unable to explain to us why it originally decided to aim for national roll - out from October 2013» [Para 3.7] o «In early 2013, it (DWP) did not have a convincing strategic plan in place» [3.35] o «It is unlikely that UC will be as simple or cheap to administer as originally intended» [15, summary] o «the Department has not achieved value for money... wider concerns about the Department's ability to deal with weak programme management, over-optimistic timescales and a lack of openness about progress.»

Mr Pickles replied by praising the «rigour» of the NAO and added: «What the coalition government is doing is bringing accountability to this House.»

The NAO figures show that also last year, HMRC wrote off # 397 million in overpayments it made that it did not expect to recoup, and make provisions for a further # 409 million in which repayment was doubtful.

Research by the National Audit Office (NAO) finds while increasing take - up of pensions credit by ten per cent would lift up to 107,000 people out of poverty, doing the same for housing and council tax benefits would improve the lives of 130,000 people.

In a sense, you have the NAO (National Audit Office) who do the work.

The NAO reportedly told HMRC it did not need the full data records, including bank details and addresses.

The NAO report said the re-targeting meant the department had to do more to combat corruption and fraud and use financial professionals to a greater extent, especially to provide better forecasting.

Ministers have been substantially blamed for the failings of the consultant contract, negotiated in 2003, with the NAO claiming the Department of Health (DoH) under - estimated the work consultants do.

More should be done to secure value - for - money when private finance initiative (PFI) projects undergo changes, the National Audit Office (NAO) believes.

What function will this perform that the NAO or the Public Accounts Committee does nt?

Accenture, IBM and HP were hired to provide IT and management systems but, warns the NAO, officials have not kept a close enough eye on how they are doing.

From mid-2012 it became «increasingly clear» that the DWP was failing to do anything about the problems identified in a series of internal reports, says the NAO.

The researchers highlight that the exceptionally wet UK summers of 2007 and 2012 had notably negative readings of the NAO, as did the cold, snowy winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011, while the exceptionally mild, wet, stormy winters experienced in 2013/2014 and 2015/2016 showed pronounced positive spikes.

«This research indicates that although sea - ice loss does intensify the negative NAO, bringing more days of cold easterly winds, it also causes those same winds to be warmer than they used to be.

According to the NAO survey of school leaders, schools filled only half of their vacancies with teachers with the experience and expertise required, and in around a tenth of cases, schools did not fill the vacancy at all.

Forty per cent of authorities responding to an NAO survey do not believe they have sufficient resources to provide effective support to schools and almost half of those authorities are planning to reduce the amount of staff time spent on support.

«Not only will funding be misdirected, but the National Audit Office (NAO) found that it costs far more to create a place in a free school that it does a mainstream school.»

The NAO robot has pre-programmed responses to a range of questions and commands but students can also program it to do specific things such as dance moves, and sync them in time to music.

However, the NAO argues that, while this protects the total budget from forecast inflation, it doesn't account for the estimated rise in pupil numbers, meaning that schools will need to find considerable savings.

Mark — the NAO (Oct 2014) found struggling schools which received formal intervention (eg academy conversion) were less likely to improve than those which didn't receive formal intervention.

In February, the NAO's training new teachers report warned the department was not doing enough to train new teachers after vacancy numbers almost increased ten-fold between 2010 and 2014.

He may be right in saying that they have appointed more teachers since coming to power, but it's nowhere near enough, and this NAO report highlights the ineptitude of the DfE in addressing this problem in damning fashion.In all of the «thousands of classes» he has seen in the 400 schools he has visited, he doesn't seem to have picked up on this problem which is exercising head teachers across the country.

It is therefore of concern that the NAO report highlighted that the DfE «does not yet know why some academy sponsors are more successful than others».

The government «does not currently know with certainty how the condition of the estate is changing over time», the NAO says.

They could do with changing the culture in the Department itself, of a) wasting money on pet projects like Free Schools that don't materialise or need vast debts written off, b) failing to assess risks of funding reforms and provide enough funding for pupil number increases and cost pressures (NAO report) and c) inability to reconcile accounts for academies and LA schools even when challenged formally by Parliamentary Committees.

Title: Honey So Sweet Author: Amu Meguro Publisher: Viz Media (Shojo Beat) Volume: Volume 1, $ 9.99 Vintage: 2012 by Shueisha, January 2016 by Viz Media Genre: School romance Nao Kogure doesn't like delinquents.

Either way it's a good deal, but if you're seeing this on Sunday, May 5, don't waste any time: Nao Yazawa, the creator of Wedding Peach and Moon and Blood, is offering her 77 - page manga Go Go Nao - p!

Little did Nao Kogure realize back in middle school that when she left an umbrella and a box of bandages in the rain for injured delinquent Taiga Onise that she would meet him again years later in high school.

Nao wants nothing to do with the gruff and frightening Taiga, but he suddenly presents her with a huge bouquet of flowers and asks her to date him — with marriage in mind!

I don't recommend games too often on this board, but if you haven't had a chance to play this, then git it nao!!!

Does the center of action of the Icelandic Low of the NAO move north as well?

I did find a statistically significant relationship between the winter NAO / AO and NH winter snow cover extent, which was great but still had the chicken and egg problem.

The response to the model to varied snow cover did not resemble the PNA pattern but instead was much closer an atmospheric pattern associated with the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) or AO / NAM (Arctic Oscillation or Northern Annular Mode).

However, when I look at the Arctic melt record, though greater for both the PDO and NAO, it does not seem to favor one pattern over the other.

I think that Keigwin does a very good job of showing the changes in the Sargasso Sea but also the problems in the interpretation of this data (e.g. salinity) and the possible effects of changes in the NAO.

Though again, you do seem to be changing the subject; now it's not ice so much, nor submarines, but «freezing winds», the NAO and the PDO.

There is still a lot of work being done on this, but I wouldn't anticipate much of a significant change in NAO over 2005 - 2007 since there is a lot of noise and a lot of other influences — not least greenhouse gases, which with either mechanism, provide an opposing tendency.

NAO and NAM can do this all by itself.

Yet, if we look at the Air Pressure records, (http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:9091/ncep/NCEP) at the various altitudes there does not seem to be a increase in these values, though the occurrence of where the Air Pressure zones occur seem to be related to the ENSO, PDO and NAO interaction.

I did have one question though, you seem to mention the apparent oceanic oscillations such as the NAO or the ENSO or PDO.

Look, I do not claim that climate models are perfect — far from it — but their matches to observed data at the large scale are impressive — Pinatubo, last 30 years, response to ENSO, NAO response, sea ice response, ozone hole response etc..

There are several natural components (PDO, NAO, AO, AMO etc.) that comprise Arctic warming / cooling processes, and we don't understand very much of them.

Does the current winter season detract from your conclusions, given the opposite nature of the AO and NAO in comparison to 09/10 and 10/11 (or any winter in the last 60 years)?