Sentences with phrase «about promising approaches»

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This Wolbachia approach is promising because it doesn't require genetically engineering or modifying the bugs — a strategy that has triggered opposition from people concerned about releasing modified genes into the wild.

Altify is about altitude, and is our promise to elevate your revenue team to a better - equipped go - to - market approach by helping you put your customers at the center.»

Dr. Nkpah said: «After a study of the approach, loud pronouncements and long delays adopted by the government on the globally celebrated implementation, the Ogoni people are not persuaded about the sincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government whose earlier promises were designed to score cheap political points.»

Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government, Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon attempt to answer a basic question about these processes of constant change and reinvention: did the changes, reshuffles and new approaches do what they promised, and produce a cheaper yet more effective machine?

The debate about which approach holds most promise for turning around Buffalo's schools has drawn unprecedented interest and involvement in this year's election.

While we know less about nicotine reduction than the other more traditional policies, the evidence to date indicates that this approach also holds promise, especially if smokers are encouraged to switch to e-cigarettes.»

A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

One promising approach here would be to look at people's intuitions about the mental states of robots.

CRI asked Dr. June about his pioneering therapy, and learned how this promising new approach could revolutionize how cancer is treated, not only in pancreas cancer, but also in many other types of cancer.

In the summer of 2010, we posted an entry about a significant advance in basic mitochondrial biology that held within it a tantalizing promise: a potentially new approach to obviating the problem of age - related accumulation of mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which are widely suspected to play an important role in the age - related rise in oxidative stress, Parkinson's disease, and age - related muscle degeneration.

Come learn about the basics of cancer immunotherapy, a highly promising new approach to cancer treatment.

It's easy to say that not everyday do you get to work with a dazzle of Zebras, so when Caroline of Woodnote Photography approached me about styling a shoot that promised just that, there was just no turning it down.

With equal parts gravity and levity (and, we promise, not a single cliché about your «comfort zone»), these observations encourage us to approach getting dressed in the morning as an art form.

I reminisced about the wayThe Voice promised to write up our date, but then never followed through (and the way my approach changed when I thought the date was being written up!).

I reminisced about the way The Voice promised to write up our date, but then never followed through (and the way my approach changed when I thought the date was being written up!).

The former promises tons of doom and gloom (as befits a movie about the lower - case - A apocalypse being waged by a capital - A Apocalypse), whereas the latter takes a much more irreverent, NSFW approach.

In a review of his book Teach Like a Champion for Education Next, I noted Lemov's approach promised to change the conversation about classroom practice from «teacher quality» to «quality teaching.»

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

On the EdNext podcast, researcher Robert Balfanz spoke with Paul Peterson about the causes of chronic absenteeism nationwide and some promising approaches for fighting it.

The approach that appears most promising provides teachers with extensive background in child development and focused, regular, individualized feedback about their classroom interactions with children.

Over the last three years, faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Education have brought together 30 national educational leaders from different corners of the field, representing diverse backgrounds and perspectives, with the goal of thinking broadly about what ideas and approaches are likely to lead to a more promising future.

«The district approached us about supporting Grape Street, and the promise there is as great as the need, so we are excited to get involved,» said Partnership CEO Joan Sullivan.

Through monthly virtual sessions and semi-annual in - person meetings, district and school staff members learn about innovative and promising approaches to improving schools; share resources and experiences; and provide each other with professional feedback and support.

Public policies that educate people about and otherwise facilitate these relationships provide the most promising approach to developing safer and more humane communities.

«Our approach promises environmental progress in reducing harmful global warming, economic progress by creating new high - tech jobs to meet emissions goals, and international progress by showing our allies that we're serious about this global problem.»

The promise of a new approach to domestic energy efficiency is also welcome, and while the detail and level of ambition is currently too low it will require the next government to answer questions about how it plans to improve energy - saving grant schemes.

Some state bars are more specific about this, and recommend that the genesis of that discussion derives from inside the fee agreement — the Massachusetts Bar Association has done so — and, I think that is the better approach; every lawyer knows or should know that her first obligation is to follow - through on promises made to clients.

Main findings from the review of caselaw on WSIB adjudication (see also Chart) point to the regular disregard of the treating health professional's medical opinion about whether return to work is safe; the reversal of benefits promised to the most vulnerable injured workers (those with permanent disabilities approaching «lock - in» of benefits); wrongful denial of compensation based on «little or no evidence» of pre-existing conditions; and undue targeting of workers with psychological injuries for denial of claims and for surveillance.

Instead of trying to rush out big promises about the future, Google's relentless machine is taking a surprisingly measured approach to building the Assistant, betting that AI will slowly overtake everything over time instead of falling into place all at once.

Hundreds of mobile apps promise to boost students» grades and help them prep for tests, but StudyBlue has managed to rise about the crowd with an approach that sources content straight from the people studying it.

All Things D also reported on the project, with an interesting nugget that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) approached Flipboard last year about potentially buying the company and promised to build such an app after Flipboard declined Google's advances.

The therapy outcome research and my own experience have made me a skeptic about whether any clinical approach is good at getting clients consistently to the promised land of transformation.

Annually, about 1 million abused children — 15 of every 1000 children — are identified in the United States.1 Home visitation has been widely promoted in recent years as a promising approach to preventing health and developmental problems among children, and thousands of home visitation programs have been started during the past decade.2 The role of visitation in preventing child abuse and neglect perhaps has received the most attention.