Sentences with phrase «other open standards»

Other open standards, like HPub and Zhook show a lot of promise and tend to be easier to implement than ePub, but they lack broad, cross-platform e-reader support.

Not exact matches

However, unlike other Apple products, the Type - C cable isn't proprietary to Apple and an open standard that any third - party company and accessory manufacturer can build to and incorporate into their device.

That's useful if you want to register a domain name in Chinese or Arabic script, or even just correctly spelled French or German - anything that can be represented with the Unicode standard can be registered, even emoji - but it's also opened up a whole new avenue of misdirection for malicious actors to take advantage of, by finding characters in other alphabets which look similar to Latin ones.

Signal's technology sets the standard for other messaging services, with its protocol being an open - source system that other companies can freely use.

Some of these agreements have resulted in significant market opening; others have been of lower standard and have dodged the tough issues necessary to maximize income gains from trade; still others have resulted in trade diversion rather than trade creation and have created a so - called «noodle bowl» of overlapping and sometimes contradictory agreements that have become a thicket of regulations that businesses often find difficult to understand.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

You can import existing employee information in from your HRIS, add boomerangs to job opening candidate pools, track interactions, request performance feedback from managers, compare boomerangs with other promising job applicants and more — all without shifting precious resources away from your standard recruiting operations.

To assess the opening auction's performance, we analyzed price discovery on the most volatile days in Q1 2018 (Feb. 5 & 6, March 1 & 2, March 26 - 28) relative to price discovery on other «standard» days.

Since television and radio programs, on the other hand, are open to everyone without limitation, it is necessary to maintain a more broadly applicable standard of public propriety than applies to the other forms of mass communication.

Other sanitary features of the next gen systems will be standard open frame design for easy access, inspection and maintenance, sloped surfaces for easy runoff and 4 levels of sanitary design.

I pledge to: - Clean my hands at all the appropriate times, especially before and after patient care - Be open to a patient or visitor asking if I have cleaned my hands - Encourage my colleagues and patients to clean their hands - Use gloves and other personal protective equipment the right way - Get an annual flu shot and other necessary vaccines and encourage my patients to do the same - Stay home if I feel sick - Help prevent antibiotic resistance by understanding when antibiotics are needed and when they are not - Know and follow standard and isolation precaution guidelines - Identify the infection preventionists in my facility and ask how I can assist them in preventing infections - Keep both my patients» environment and my attire clean - Practice safe injection practices: One needle, one syringe, only one time Source: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology http://professionals.site.apic.org/get-social/preventing-infections-starts-with-me/ Derek Butler Chair, MRSA Action UK Email: [email protected] Website: http://mrsaactionuk.net/pottedhistoryMRSA.html Telephone: [phone]

Ranzenhofer says he hopes the proposals open the door to other conversations about how to improve the Common Core learning standards.

Cuomo's Public Service Commission last summer passed a clean energy standard that, among other things, calls for a charge on customer bills that would help pay for the plan to keep three upstate nuclear plants open.

Beside one is an open Bible; beside the other is a standard paleontology textbook — the message being, as it will be explained to me many times before I leave, that everyone's view of reality is inescapably colored and distorted by that person's «starting assumptions.»

On the organization's Web site it says: «The Brain Observatory is committed to maintaining the highest standards in open science, sharing all the images and data that are created in our laboratories with other researchers and the public.»

People who are open - minded are beginning to realise that the results of our paper are beautiful: simple mathematical models based on standard natural selection are sufficient to explain the evolution of eusociality or other phenomena in social evolution.

The New York Genome Center has many other open positions, in other research groups and e.g. in the bioinformatics team outside of the standard academic track.

Because Java applets have the same capabilities as standard applications in other languages, they can open windows on the user's virtual desktop.

Bypass surgery, the standard treatment to open an artery, isn't an option for many patients because of other medical problems, Lookstein said.

The initial sign - up and opening account at EliteSingles is free, and standard members can easily browse the site, check out profiles of other members, and make simple searches.

And while you shouldn't lower your standards or feel like you're settling, you should open your mind and give other people a chance — even though they don't necessarily fall into your usual dating category.

Worldwide About Blog The IPSO Alliance is a global forum comprising a diverse international membership focused on enabling IoT devices to communicate, understand and trust each other with global interoperability based on open standards.

Adult dating can be a lot more fun than standard dating, especially if you are open about sexuality and the possibility of meeting other similar people.

Mulan is housed in a standard - width black dual keepcase, and housed in a cardboard slipcover which doesn't open up or serve any purpose other than decoratively duplicating all of the artwork and text from the case.

For all its posturing about keeping an open mind and remaining non-judgmental, «I, Tonya» strikes me as condescending to its characters; they're treated flippantly as a string of grotesques who remain unexamined in any particular detail other than a fairly rote and fairly standard dark - comic lens.

It opened on Memorial Day weekend as counterprogramming to X-Men: Days of Future Past and other big summer season action fare, but even on a budget significantly scaled back from Sandler's usual standards, it fell short of expectations, opening in third place and ultimately finishing with $ 46 million and change domestically.

The other two sections are by their very basic premises — power struggles between drug lords and overmatched law enforcement, teen substance abuse — darker and hence less open to offering more standard genre satisfactions, but the performances make them instantly absorbing.

The opening has all the makings of a standard boy - meets - girl, boy - and - girl - can «t - stand - each - other, boy - and - girl - need - each - other romantic comedy and while this path is taken to a large degree, the movie opts for fewer laughs and more warmth and sentimentality.

Three schools participated in the Opening Minds through the Arts curriculum, which incorporated music, opera, dance, theater, and visual arts into reading, writing, math, and science, while the other two schools used standard teaching methodology.

IMS or SCORM (educational standards used to publish interactive contents in platforms or eLearning tools as Moodle or any other OER (Open Educational Resources) repositories)

Public charter schools are open - enrollment, tuition - free, and held to the same accountability standards as all other public schools.

Captivate is a complete end - to - end authoring tool that makes it relatively quick and easy to make animated and interactive online courses that automatically plug in to any standards - compliant Learning Management System, open website, and any number of other distribution methods.

When Indiana joined the 45 other states that have adopted the new standards, it opened up new possibilities for shared textbooks, curriculum materials and tests.

Either we will have low - standards tests driving curriculum and instruction (as in Texas) or we can attempt other means to ensure high - quality curriculum and instruction than through traditional standardized tests (including most of the current ones with open - ended questions)[see also Neill, «States Flunk»].

And my answer, though not scientific (and I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative session.

EdReports, a group that reviews curriculum materials for alignment to Common Core and other state standards, reviewed and awarded high grades for two programs: Carnegie Learning's blended math program for grades 6 — 8 math, and Open Up Resources» ELA curriculum for grades K — 5.

As we explore how creativity connects with arts learning, Common Core standards, and other curricular areas, we acknowledge the value of arts learning both as courses of study as defined by our state Ed Code, but also as vital subjects that connect across the curriculum — opening up many interdisciplinary opportunities for connections, relationships, and applications.

Florida charter school laws include testing requirements and digital protocols, curriculum standards, open records laws and hundreds of other regulations.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

SIA protects and advances its members» interests by advocating pro-industry policies and legislation at the federal and state levels; creating open industry standards that enable integration; advancing industry professionalism through education and training; opening global market opportunities; and collaboration with other like - minded organizations.

Concerns around the standards, testing, and related issues have spurred some states to «rebrand» the standards or modify them slightly to address local priorities.34 35 Other states have gone further, opening the Common Core up for review by task forces, rewriting the standards, or repealing them outright.36

We can not comment on the extent to which SEAs may have drawn on each other's resources before the CCSS, but it does seem to us that the context of shared standards, the rise of open educational resources, and the ubiquity of technology enables the sharing of information and instructional resources between and across SEAs.

(b - 4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a school district or open - enrollment charter school may not be required to offer any aspect of a common core state standards curriculum.

Eliminating Standard 6 will also open the door for a re-examination of the many additional tests and other evaluations that have been piled on North Carolina students and teachers in recent years — particularly the North Carolina Final Exams, the Analysis of Student Work endeavor and numerous tests in grades K - 2, where standardized testing is particularly intrusive and inaccurate.

But while I think an argument could be made for such a system (so long as it included the other caveats in my previous comment about educational standards, religious and other bias, and open enrollment), it still wouldn't be charter schools.

Enter stage right — on the same day — Think Tank Policy Exchange published a report claiming that free schools are driving up standards of others schools in the areas they've opened in — so vindicating the policy's twin rationales of greater choice and competition.

Prop open the bonnet and there's little to see other than a huge, moulded plastic shroud that covers practically everything apart from the regular inspection points for oil, coolant and windshield washer water, which are located in a familiar, standard fashion.

To mark it out from the pack, the Soul EV comes with a blanked - out front grille that opens to reveal a pair of charging ports - one for a standard charger and the other for a fast charger.

In other words, customers shopping for slow - selling vehicles that are still worth checking out can count on the Eos for an open - air option, complete with a standard power - operated sunroof built right into the car's hardtop.

Other standard equipment included 8,000 - rpm tachometer, 105 - mph (160 - kmh) speedometer, engine - coolant - temperature gauge, plastic stowage trays under the front seats, folding winders for the center windows (which open several inches only for ventilation), manually adjustable remote - control outside mirrors, tilt steering column.