Sentences with phrase «aimed at gathering»

These missions were aimed at gathering data and answering questions about the red planet and its past that may yield further insight into Earth's past, present, and future.

The Tenth Workshop on Food Allergen Methodologies aims at gathering scientists, chemists, analysts and other representatives from government agencies, university, industry and consumer associations, to discuss issues related to detection, identification, characterization, and control of allergen residues in foods.

The Summit, organised by the Chamber of Digital Commerce, aims at gathering industry players and government representatives to discuss challenges that blockchain can present to policymakers in the sphere of compliance and regulation.

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WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to rescind rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, as protesters gathered to oppose the change.

James's pitch is, ultimately, aimed at big institutional money managers like Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, which could gather the assets of mom - and - pop investors into a pool big enough to buy in to private equity.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Euro - area finance ministers are gathering Wednesday in Brussels to prepare the ground for a European Union summit aimed at striking a deal with Greece on financial aid.

Over the weekend, in response to the Liberal gathering in Montreal, the Transport Minister had apparently convened his own conference aimed at deciding on the absolute right joke to deliver Monday afternoon.

Insight gathering respective to the buyer's practices and processes for renewal consideration can yield establishing buyer experience strategies aimed at customer retention and customer loyalty.

City officials had prepared for the biggest march since about a half - million women gathered on the day after Mr. Trump's inauguration, declaring a new political movement aimed at resisting the president and his policies.

This fraternity was part of a special project of Cardinal Mercier who wanted to gather his priests in small groups aimed at sustaining their spiritual and sacerdotal lives.

A national prayer gathering, aimed at inspiring Southern Baptists to evangelize, will be simulcast from the meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday.

MFM will have its own stand at this year's London festival in October, where people can come to learn about the aims of the campaign and join a global movement that is gathering speed and supporters by the day.

The SCrAP project aims to gather information regarding the quantity of waste generated in school cafeterias, and to gain an understanding of how this waste is managed both at the school and after it is hauled away.

By gathering this information, EREF aims to obtain a better understanding of how this waste is managed at school and offsite.

The project aims to gather information regarding quantity of waste generated, and obtain an understanding of how waste is managed both at school, and after it is hauled away.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, along with other state and local officials, gathered at Buffalo's Outer Harbor Monday to announce federal legislation aimed at preventing invasive species from entering the Great Lakes.

Addressing a gathering of NDC members at Somanya after the party's 6th unity walk aimed at reorganizing the party ahead of the 2020 elections, the...

The First Lady indicated that children have dreams to go to school, and to realize their full potential, but they need a helping hand to achieve those dreams and that was the reason for the gathering which aims to raise funds to put up a six classroom block at Ayaakomase, near Nsoatre in the BrongAhafo Region to supplement governments efforts.

Last week, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stood before a crowd of New Yorkers gathered at Federal Hall and announced the introduction of a comprehensive reform bill aimed at expanding voting rights in New York.

In his first appearance at the annual gathering of world leaders, the president used a 41 - minute speech to take aim also at Iran's nuclear ambitions and regional influence, Venezuela's collapsing democracy and the threat of Islamist extremists.

When pressed by media, where he is readily accessible, Faso makes no bones about what he considers highly partisan, well - organized gatherings aimed at vilifying him and his fellow Republicans counterproductive.

Addressing the gathering of party sympathizers and youths at a short ceremony at the palace, Dr. Edward Nasigire Mahama told the youth about his «New Force» programmed aimed transforming their future.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

Thus, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions took direct aim at «sanctuary cities» this past Mon., Mar. 27th, just as dozens of representatives from such municipalities gathered in New York City to discuss methods to protect immigrant populations.

Indeed, the reason for gathering reporters on Tuesday was not to discuss children's services, but to unveil a multiyear plan aimed at spurring economic growth and thousands of new jobs in the biotech field.»

Catholics Count, a different PAC whose aims include helping Catholic schools, was announced at a gathering attended by Dolan earlier that year.

UK Brexit campaign gathers force as government makes obviously false claims aimed at scaring voters.

City, state and community leaders gathered in Buffalo's Fruit Belt neighborhood on Friday to announce an agreement aimed at protecting residents of the Fruit Belt neighborhood from infringement on parking spaces by employees of the constantly growing Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

The row is expected to continue at a meeting of Mrs May's Brexit «war cabinet» on Wednesday, when senior ministers will gather to hammer out the Government's negotiating aims on trade.

She sees AAAS as offering many avenues for encouraging multidisciplinary approaches, including raising the visibility of such approaches through the Science family of journals and through meetings, making discoveries accessible to AAAS members from all disciplines through expanded highlights and previews of journal articles aimed at non-specialists, and gathering investigators from different fields around particular challenges or topics.

Our group gathers multi-disciplinary expertise aiming at developing methods and algorithms for extracting, analysing, and modeling spatial data from biological images.

A symposium at Washington University in St. Louis this week aims to be a gathering place for people struggling to find balance and dignity among the chaos of dementia.

Many of our glorious hairstyle galleries on Styles Weekly are aimed at women, and we thought it was about time we catered to our younger audience and gathered a gallery of stunning hairstyles which are just perfect for teenage girls.

We hope that during this gathering valuable information and experiences will be shared that will enrich the process aimed at finding durable solution to the Rwandan refugee problem.

Now AF aims «to go after a new school design entirely,» Toll told board members gathered in a community room inside Amistad Academy Elementary School at 130 Edgewood Ave.

Aimed at providing charter leaders opportunities for training and collaboration, these local and statewide gatherings are prime opportunities to share best practices and gain key learnings.

The organization made up of elected trustees throughout the state is gathering its members for news conferences and launching a media campaign aimed at building public pressure to remove the cap, which they fear could prevent districts from saving enough money to stave off cuts in the future, when another recession hits.

Secretary LaHood also announced federal legislation aimed at strengthening oversight on pipeline safety, as well as plans to convene a Pipeline Safety Forum on April 18th in Washington, DC, to gather state officials, industry leaders, and other pipeline safety stakeholders in order to discuss steps for improving the safety and efficiency of the nation's pipeline infrastructure.

Hundreds of items aimed at doing just that were introduced in the New Products Showcase during the 2011 SEMA Show, and we've gathered them here to give you a quick look at the innovations and trends that are bringing sparkle to the marketplace.

According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to the user's device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code to it without the user's knowledge.»

First it was the bowsprit, parting the mist, carried high on the running sea and aimed directly at the port quarter, and then, far above, the enormous reefed yards that seemed to reach out like arms to gather in everything in their path.

The problem is, the so - called grump has spent years collecting and gathering data on the subjects he disparages on his blog, and can fairly - well back up his accusations of less - than - honorable business practices aimed at taking money from scholars at institutions of higher education.

Note: The following article is aimed mainly at poets, though I gather that some companies are now offering short story writers the chance to see their work anthologised.

As part of the Green Belt Movement International - Europe's activities in advocating for Climate Change, we gather views and experiences about current strategies hoping to make some clearance in the intricate jungle of the mechanisms aimed at addressing climate change.

- Iizuka has received a ton of requests from fans to have their own original characters appear in Sonic games - while that couldn't happen, Sonic Forces» custom character recognizes that fan desire - the avatar was created with the idea of «making straight high - speed action» - this time the concept is that all three styles (Modern, Classic, Avatar) would be high - speed based - make selections for the face, mouth, body color, and gender of custom characters - each species will also have their own unique skills, such as wolves being able to pull nearby rings - you can't change custom characters in the middle of the game - there is some sort of feature that's unlocked after you've cleared the game once related to this - the new avatar style will have a speedy and rhythmic style like Modern Sonic, but also different vectors from Sonic - this includes differences in timing for pressing buttons, or the Wisps giving the avatar trickier movements - the story aims to depict heroes that would feel like Sonic - by controlling different characters, the devs hope to show a story that extends to explaining the world setting as well - the story concept has been «Hero Army vs. Eggman's Army» from the start - when wondering who should be made playable among the heroes, the idea came up for Classic Sonic - the character setting for the avatar is a civilian in an area occupied by Eggman who stands up and fights together with Sonic - during stages, you'll hear radio contact from partners like Tails and Amy - Sonic and the rest of the gang form a resistance to stand against Eggman's army, so they relay information from headquarters - boss characters like Chaos and Metal Sonic will appear in Eggman's army - details on the new character (Infinite) are being kept secret - the main part of the storyline is that Eggman gathers strong enemies in the past to form an all mighty army - some people might be wondering why Shadow is on the enemy's side, but they can find out more by experiencing the story - the team thinks Japanese fans are taking a liking to the serious story and character customization features - there were some struggles with the new engine in early stages, but now they've moved to a smooth development process - the team knew they wanted to bring the game to Nintendo's new console before they even knew it was the Switch - the Switch info came to them during the middle of the game's development - SEGA knew Nintendo fans would want to play Sonic's new game, which is why they personally worked to bring it to Switch - SEGA plans to show the game in Japan at Tokyo Game Show 2017 in September - the team is also working on providing new information, including news that would be unique to Japan

These articles are aimed at any indie developers out there who want to know what is out there, to gather some inspiration or just to simply use them to reflect on their own game design.

I sure hope something productive comes out of yet another gathering of high officials aimed at talk, talk, talking about renewable energy resources.

They'll gather again on Thursday on the sidelines of the summit in L'Aquila,, trying to come up with commitments aimed at smoothing the path toward global action on global warming.

The report was published on Monday as diplomats and environmentalists gathered in Bonn, Germany, to keep working on the rules governing the 2015 Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement aimed at combating climate change.