Sentences with phrase «advance global understanding»

Despite the important implications of IPV reduction for policy and programming, evidence of this relationship is scarce.We hope this research will advance our global understanding of this potential.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation seeks to further the artist's philanthropic and educational initiatives, and aims to preserve and advance global understanding of the legacy of Robert Rauschenberg's life and artwork.

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This is important knowledge to advance our understanding of the reef functioning, and another step towards quantifying the role of cold - water coral reefs in the global carbon cycle,» explains Lorenzo Rovelli.

«Recent advances in understanding coral resilience are essential to safeguard coral reefs: A review of the literature points to the importance of reducing global carbon dioxide emissions in addition to protecting or augmenting resilience mechanisms in the face of increased frequency of climate change impacts..»

Our Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform is positioning Australia to play a role in one of the fastest growing areas of modern science so that we can understand global developments and contribute to advances in areas including manufacturing, industrial biotechnology, environmental remediation, biosecurity, agriculture, and healthcare research.

«The global scientific community is just beginning to understand the significant promise of modified mRNA technology to advance science and improve human health.

This study advances understanding of the ice nucleation processes, especially under the presence of pollution emissions, which ultimately will contribute to knowledge about global changes in precipitation.

Mission The mission of PNNL's Aerosol Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aerosols.

29 June 2017 — Scientific research in Earth and space sciences advances our understanding of our world and contributes to strong global economies, security, and public health and safety.

«Advancing our understanding of Alzheimer's disease and identifying potential new treatment strategies are critical to addressing the escalating global health crisis,» said Elizabeth Edgerly, PhD, executive director of the Alzheimer's Association, Northern California and Northern Nevada chapter.

She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program between six leading marine science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the global ocean systems across the natural and social sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to fisheries economics and impacts on coastal communities.

Elani McDonald will also address the demands to incorporate IT into advancing teaching of maths and science as a process of bettering understanding of STEM subjects.Middlesborough College's Richard Spencer, finalist of the secondary Global Teacher Prize, provides his top tips to get students interested in science, while there will also be a seminar exploring what «outstanding» levels of science looks like and how you can replicate this for students — from primary to A levels.

In response, the Council of International Schools (CIS) developed International Certification to help schools better understand, advance and measure the development of global citizens.

The person who grows up to be an empowered global citizen benefited from educational experiences which helped them understand the world and discover their own capacity to improve it, from experiences that gradually built the mindsets and dispositions that produce agency, was taught to reason ethically and to have compassion for others in ways which lead to taking responsibility to advancing not just their individual interests, but the common good.

Her research draws on cognitive and social psychology and curriculum studies to examine the conditions that enable individuals to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of problems of contemporary global significance to develop intercultural competence.

She brings together theories and methods in cognitive psychology, epistemology, pedagogy and sociology of knowledge to explore how experts, teachers and K - 16 students advance interdisciplinary understanding of topics of global significance from globalization to climate change and migration.

The curriculum concentrates on: best practices in business and management; understanding and utilizing the latest advances in technology; implementing innovative strategies for discoverability, audience development, and brand extension; ways to increase revenue in a global economy in which print and digital publishing co-exist profitably; managing organizational change and finding new sources of revenue.

This acquisition of select Bowker products underscores Nielsen's desire to advance the holistic understanding and supply chain efficiency of the global book industry.

The Global Fund doesn't currently hold big technology companies like Facebook or Amazon on account of them being too expensive, but the team does a lot of research to understand how advances are changing industries.

DAVID ADJAYE, «Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye» @ The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago «Making Place» is the first comprehensive museum survey of global architect David Adjaye «s portfolio of more than 50 built projects, which includes the forthcoming National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. His approach to design is unique: «Rather than advancing a signature architectural style, Adjaye's structures address local concerns and conditions through both a historical understanding of context and a global understanding of modernism.»

The collaboration will ensure a cohesive presentation of the artist's legacy to a global audience by mounting innovative exhibitions, promoting scholarly research, and producing publications that will advance a deepened understanding of the artist's contribution to the art historical canon.

Rather than advancing a signature architectural style, Adjaye's structures address local concerns and conditions through both a historical understanding of context and a global understanding of modernism.

This paper reviews advances made during the last decade to better understand the impact of global SST variability on West African rainfall at interannual to decadal time scales.

Cohen received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Columbia University in 1994 and has since focused on conducting numerical experiments with global climate models and advanced statistical techniques to better understand climate variability and to improve climate prediction.

(1) advance understanding of climate variability and change at the global, national, regional, and local levels;

At the workshop, advances in understanding the ocean's water cycle, made possible by innovations in the salinity observing system that recently began providing near - instantaneous snapshots of the global salinity field, were reported.

The polar - orbiting Nimbus 5 satellite, launched in 1972, yielded the earliest all - weather, all - season imagery of global sea ice, using microwave instruments (Parkinson et al., 1987), and enabled a major advance in the scientific understanding of the dynamics of the cryosphere.

Kadyszewski presented ACR's Climate Leadership award to Dr. Sandra Brown, Winrock senior scientist and former director of Winrock's Ecosystem Services Group, for four decades of work advancing the understanding of the role forests play in the global carbon cycle.

Here, in the wake of the first presidential debate, the media skewered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for denying his prior Twitter claim that «the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese» — even as Trump's surrogates continued to bluntly advance positions contrary to modern scientific understanding on the subject.

To conduct innovative research that advances our understanding of the global, regional, and local environments and the human relationship with those environments, for the benefit of society.

At the link it says; «The GEWEX SSG provides scientific guidance in formulating the program for GEWEX and advises the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program of progress achieved in the implementation of GEWEX, and scientific advances in the understanding of the global energy and water cycle.

Santer, who has made a global reputation by «mining» historical climate data to advance scientific understanding, says that in the wake of the email thefts, a different kind of mining is currently underway - a form that isn't interested in advancing science in the least.

Our purpose is to advance understanding of all factors responsible for the recent anomalous increase in global temperatures.

«Reducing the wide range of uncertainty inherent in current model predictions of global climate change will require major advances in understanding and modeling of both (1) the factors that determine atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and (2) the so - called «feedbacks» that determine the sensitivity of the climate system to a prescribed increase in greenhouse gases.»

From my experience watching the climate science issue advance over the years, what I continually see is people, like yourself who have clear expertise in a specific area, believing that they understand the entire breadth of the climate change issue when, in actuality, they understand very little of the other broader elements of the global climate system that come into play.

Objective 1.2 aims to advance use - inspired science (defined as science necessary to improve fundamental understanding in areas important to society) to assess the vulnerabilities to global change, understand the societal and ecological characteristics that confer resilience in the face of these changes, and support the adaptation and mitigation responses to the risks these changes pose.

Goal 4: Advance communication and education to broaden public understanding of global change and develop the scientific workforce of the future

Called the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Iso2k Project (PAGES Iso2k), the project brings together records that will advance the community's understanding of how hydroclimate varied over the past 2,000 years, also referred to as the Common Era.

The more people understand from an early age that science advances in stutter steps through testing, failure, and argument, the less likely they'll be to interpret some of the persistent disputes over important facets of global warming to mean society can simply sit back and wait for a magical solution...

An important objective of PRIMAVERA is to produce new, more robust and trustworthy projections of European climate for the next few decades, based on improved global models and advances in climate process understanding.

Our understanding of zero order results such as climate sensitivity, mean global surface temperature haven't advanced much from the relatively simply models Hansen was using then.

I want to pay tribute to the important work which the United Nations has done to advance our understanding of climate change, and in particular the risks of global warming..

I've travelled around the world in order to progress and advance my skillset; starting out in the United Kingdom before moving to live in Australia, Japan and now China — although I understand that I'm fortunate to work for a global enterprise like Hays and not everyone has such extensive global mobility options.

To put into use my advanced education in business to compliment my three years of global product development, market research and strategy experience in B2B and B2C businesses, and my deep understanding of all areas of the product life cycle and innovation management.

The MacArthur Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

April 7, 2011 OSCRE & CoreNet Global collaborate to advance technology adoption OSCRE (the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate), today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CoreNet Global.