Sentences with phrase «working group models»

Out of that exercise, in January 2017 the Coalition moved from a Working Group model to a project - based model, in order to increase flexibility, efficiency, and impact.

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By the end of the film, Ziff forms the Model Alliance, a New York City — based not - for - profit advocacy group dedicated to ensuring safe, fair and healthy working conditions for girls (and they often are girls).

The Digital Currency Group team is working hard to create a new model for innovation.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners» working group discussed its controversial annuity transaction model law today with little agreement.

Zero - based budgeting works well with the private - equity business model, since it requires a management team dedicated to this thorough and time - consuming process and a small investor group that supports such a financial transition.

«BMW Group is working to shift from a traditional luxury auto manufacturer and service provider to a technology company, with automated driving, digital connectivity, mobility services and electrification as some of the central pillars of our new strategy,» said Joseph Zheng, vice president of digital services and business models at BMW China.

Pre-mortems work best in groups, he adds, because «other people will have different mental models of what could go wrong.»

In late July 2013, the industry group Committee for the Establishment of the Digital Asset Transfer Authority began to form to set best practices and standards, to work with regulators and policymakers to adapt existing currency requirements to digital currency technology and business models and develop risk management standards.

A conference call today to jump start discussion aimed at finalizing a new best - interest model law confirmed how difficult the task will be for the Annuity Suitability Working Group.

The NAIC Annuity Suitability Working Group held a conference call this week and had difficulty agreeing on anything more than minor aspects of its annuity transactions model law.

The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

OO is similar to Alcoholics Anonymous and similar groups, as it uses a «12 step» model of treatment and is based on attending regular group meetings and working a spiritual program.

We wanted to retain some elements of the previous model: the work in small groups, the participation by the entire faculty, and the collaboration between faculty and people active in parish and other forms of ministry.

One model that deeply embodies Christian values is a group of families pooling resources so as to reduce expenses and to free some of the adults to work as full - time volunteers for social and environmental causes.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

^ 3: The traditional Foreign Mission model doesn't appear to work here, because it starts with the expectation that one will have one convert after ten to fifteen years, of weekly Bible study with a group of ten to twenty people per week.

This group, whose major goal is to help provide tools, concepts and practical suggestions for creating caring congregations, is also working toward models of ministry with handicapped persons and creating access to professional theological education for them.

The Working Group on Small Scale Organic Certification has drafted two organic certification models that aim to be attainable for a small - scale producer focusing mainly on direct sales (farm-gate, CSA, farmer's market, etc.): the Peer Certification Model and the Organic Affidavit mModel and the Organic Affidavit modelmodel.

Councils, Committees and Working Groups — led by representatives of our member organizations — determine how to fulfill consumers» needs, help shape the association's policy positions, identify industry - wide model practices, direct scientific research and ensure strong and frequent collaboration among members and with retail trading partners.

«Through our work with The Climate Group, our industry is proud to have supported comprehensive recycling programs that address all recyclables in these model cities,» Neely said.

Narula Group President Arvind Narula, added, «I have spent the last 30 years developing a for - profit business model based on organic products that gives back to the economically disadvantaged and culturally indigenous groups who work with us to grow our crops.

Arvind Narula, President of the Narula Group, commented: «I have spent the last 30 years developing a for - profit business model based on organic products that gives back to the economically disadvantaged and culturally indigenous groups who work with us to grow our crops.

Other: 105 ILCS 5/2 -3.137 (2005) requires the State Board of Education, the Department of Health, and the Department of Human Services to convene an interagency working group to publish model wellness policies and programs.

There is also, behind the scenes, a group of dedicated parents who are endlessly committed to supporting the work of Peaceful Parent Institute, who help promote the groups and support parents who are new to the model.

After an extensive content validation process, including expert panel review by all Steering Committee members and all work group members, the final instrument included 130 core items that collected information on demographics, access to maternity care, preferences for model of care, maternal and newborn outcomes, knowledge of midwifery care, and experience of care including the process of decision - making.

Through her work at Thriving Minds, Katelyn specializes in treating children with Selective Mutism via traditional weekly therapy, intensive therapy (i.e., 15 - 20 hours of treatment in one week), and group therapy models.

Using a world café model, groups discussed four questions: what are the common points of toxic stress within our region, how can we prevent the pile up of chronic and toxic stress on babies, how do we currently build the skills of adults in our region, and how can we work smarter and how can our policies better support our families and communities.

One of STEAMLabs» super-cool tech - meets - design programs is this camp where kids work together in groups of three to four to make a miniature robotic model theme park with working carousel, roller coaster, or whatever they dream up!

Models were developed using the following possible predictors of breastfeeding duration: maternal race, maternal education, paternal education, maternal age, socioeconomic status, 22 marital status, parity, mode of delivery, previous breastfeeding experience, timing of feeding method selection, problems with pregnancy / labor / delivery, breastfeeding goal (weeks), family preference for breastfeeding, paternal preference for breastfeeding, having friends who breastfed, randomization group, 16 plans to return to work, infant's 5 - minute Apgar score, and infant's age in minutes when first breastfed (first successful latch and feeding).

How this model works: As with my analyses of opinion poll figures in Ireland, constituency support estimates for different parties and groupings form the basis of the general approach taken with this analysis.

The Working Families Party (WFP) model of working as a pressure group inside the Democratic Party is clearly the wrong Working Families Party (WFP) model of working as a pressure group inside the Democratic Party is clearly the wrong working as a pressure group inside the Democratic Party is clearly the wrong choice.

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

Working with NASA on its Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, due to launch sometime after 2020 (see «Mapping the Dark,» page 47), Perlmutter will help choose between the different models by studying groups of supernovae that lie farther out in space than any yet studied, following the universe's expansion history back in time.

What would an alternate model look like, in which these groups worked on immediate strategies for dealing with daily sexism as well as long - term solutions for the issues facing women working in the sciences?

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

Negotiation can be the «traditional» model of hard bargaining where the interests of a group far outweigh the working relationships concerned.

In 2007, he won a 2 - year research - fellow position within István Hargittai's Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at BME, which has allowed him to continue his doctoral work without worrying about funding.

In an article published in the scientific journal Science Advances, the research group shows the phenomenon in action in three specially built molecules, and proposes a model for how it works.

In 2010, Radovitzky's group, working in concert with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, a part of the U.S. military health system, developed a highly sophisticated, image - based computational model of the human head that illustrates the ways in which pressurized air moves through its soft tissues.

Both manuscripts detail the role of the same AP2 - G transcriptional regulator with remarkably similar findings — despite the different groups» having worked with two highly diverged malaria parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, which causes the most severe form of human malaria and Plasmodium berghei, a commonly used model parasite infecting rodents.

Master teachers — an elite group of teachers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields — would mentor other teachers, serve as role models to draw talented students into the profession, and work with community leaders to improve science and math education.

Building upon previous work on fluid and viscous sheet simulation also done at Columbia Computer Graphics Group, Zheng has developed a new viscous sheet simulation method to model the color film stretch during the hydrographic printing process.

The current study is based on fundamental work on the modeling of the seafloor, which was conducted in the group of Professor Lars Rüpke within the framework of the Kiel Cluster of Excellence «The Future Ocean.»

Her work focuses on supporting the efforts of law enforcement groups and nonprofit organizations by using statistical models to monitor human trafficking.

As a result, an industry trade group, the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, worked with government to create a standardized model for environmental classification of pharmaceuticals.

Recent work by the same group of researchers showed that such disruptions in sleep were also a hallmark of fetal alcohol syndrome, both in animal models and in people.

The mathematical model developed for the latest work determines how termite mounds affect plant growth by applying various tools from physics and mathematical and numerical analysis to understand a biological phenomenon, said first author Juan Bonachela, a former postdoctoral researcher in the research group of co-author Simon Levin, Princeton's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology.

Ickovics and colleagues are currently working with United Health Foundation and UnitedHealth Group, and collaborators at Vanderbilt University and the Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University to address many of these issues and to identify factors that could impact efforts to scale up and sustainability with a new model of group prenatal care, called Expect WitGroup, and collaborators at Vanderbilt University and the Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University to address many of these issues and to identify factors that could impact efforts to scale up and sustainability with a new model of group prenatal care, called Expect Witgroup prenatal care, called Expect With Me.

Raul says his group has begun to verify its computer model with experimental data, but this work hasn't been published yet.

In terms of applications for the group's work, the micrometeorology of the transitional forest can be modeled via a three - variable mathematical approach — possibly including noise.