Sentences with phrase «as a buffer with»

Counseling consisted of making the parents aware of a variety of options and acting as a buffer with administrators to ensure his appropriate progression through the system.

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Alternately, Antonopoulos suggests thinking of the «Bitcoin blockchain as having an API» (application programming interface) that makes its data usable by third parties, in the same way that second - layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present and interact with Twitter data in slightly modified or reorganized forms.

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Such single day losses are always tough to swallow, but these drops come after an almost continuous stream of losses since the start of the year, with barely a whiff of a positive market response to act as a buffer.

It's also very useful for brands that post content more than once throughout the year (which we find very successful here at Buffer with our Rebuffer tool) as it helps to avoid duplicating poor - performing content.

Latin American countries with less of a buffer against a global downturn, such as Mexico and Brazil, have also been a drag on exchange traded fund (ETF) flows.

Moody's rates Saudi Arabia as A1 stable, with a strong fiscal position and significant liquidity buffers While a new Moody's Investors Services says that Saudi Arabia's credit outlook is stable Continue Reading

Index - linked variable annuities, known as buffered variable annuities, wrapped up 2017 with $ 9.2 billion in sales, up 25 percent from 2016.

Why shouldn't they prefer a path with more demand, inflation at target sooner, more stimulus as recession insurance, and a small margin of extra inflation as a buffer against the next recession?

With this in place, you can then use an IFTTT recipe that calls for every article in Feedly that you mark as Save for Later to be added to your Buffer queue.

Long - term treasuries will likely still work as ballast when it matters most (global risk - off events), but we see short - term U.S. debt now offering compelling income, along with a healthy buffer against the risk of further interest rate rises.

The equities will provide our portfolio (and thus our future spending opportunities) with growth and the bonds will both provide today's retirement income and serve as a buffer from the volatile returns of a long - term growth portfolio.

To overcome this mismatch between daily spending and financing, the Treasury keeps cash balances with the Reserve Bank that act as a buffer.

This includes most prominently Basel III and structural banking reforms, such as the «ringfencing» of domestic operations and «subsidiarisation», which requires banks to operate as subsidiaries overseas, with their own capital and liquidity buffers, and funding dedicated to different entities.

Investors must also take into account where we are in a current economic cycle, as there are many companies that whether downturns in the economy with a cash buffer but maintain the same cashflow nonetheless.

As such, it pays to run with tight stops on all trades right now (unless you are holding an intermediate - term position with a large profit buffer and do not mind giving back some gains).

In Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between them.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

Sustainable agricultural practices, such as those we promote through the Sustainable Agriculture Network standard, offer simple, practical solutions, such as maintaining big buffer zones, preferably planted with native trees, between farm fields and waterways.

they are buffered with fillers and are not the same as the same brand sold bulk in a jar.

Best results were achieved with Jungbunzlauer: highly bioavailable organic tricalcium citrate M2090 as such or particularly in combination with Jungbunzlauer tripotassium citrate as buffering agent.

As proposed in point 3, the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» must exclude small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, and any buffers should be developed in collaboration with the local community on a case - by - case basis.

Plants were maintained on this solution until flowering (≈ 3.5 mo after planting) in a greenhouse in Houston, TX; the nutrient solution was topped off, as needed, with a refill solution containing the same nutrients as above, but without additional MES buffer or K2SiO4.

Either JJJ or Bamba getting a year (at least) of a solid starter mentor in Lopez as a buffer, with no real heavy inital expectations, seems like an ideal scenario to me.

Without changes to the CBs, I do feel that could see us buffer the def a LOT more than using Xhaka as the DM while allowing the midfield to provide opportunities for the attackers... along with attackers providing opportunities for attackers

AS says Real Madrid's bid to sign Modric has hit the buffers with Nuri Sahin refusing to go to Tottenham...

With the transfer window on the verge of closing, a bid to sign prolific Roma striker Edin Dzeko appears to have hit the buffers as the 31 - year - old Bosnia international's demands for a two - and - a-half-year contract have so far been resisted by Chelsea, who are only willing to offer the player an 18 - month deal.

His son James, a cloned version of his father complete with push - it - and - I - talk anti-BBC phrases, is slowly coming into the scandal spotlight, as the buffer zone between him and calamity, sometimes referred to as Rebekah Brooks, disintegrates away.

Standard precautionary savings theory says that a country dependent on a resource with a volatile price needs a form of insurance as a buffer.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

That conflict ended with North Korea as a sort of human buffer zone between US forces and the Chinese mainland.

Progressives have long accused Cuomo of disingenuously propping up the Senate Republican majority so he can use it as a convenient excuse — a buffer against having both legislative houses controlled by left - of - center Democrats — pointing to maneuvers like his 2012 deal with Skelos on a redistricting plan that gerrymandered districts in favor of the GOP.

Yes, lots of initiatives reduce infrastructure on the border, such as sharing customs intelligence and buffer enforcement zones, but each lorry with goods is stopped and many are checked.

The Senate remains narrowly divided, with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference acting as a potential buffer zone for the Senate Republicans.

In keeping with past years, the city has set aside «strong reserves that serve as a buffer to the unexpected,» Hartzog said.

Cara Benson with Save East Greenbush: «As this parcel is a zoned residential buffer, we think the developers are finally realizing that getting this project through the required planning, zoning and required environmental review processes just isn't going to be possible.»

Forests not only store carbon that will be emitted with deforestation, they also act as an important carbon sink, which have a key role in further buffering climate change.

There were at least five other undergraduates in the lab, so we all took turns with the daily responsibilities such as washing glassware, archiving journal articles, and preparing buffers for the column resin.

Local varieties, such as green ash and catalpa, were added to the mix to test their cleanup capabilities, along with Nebraska wildflowers for diversity and a wetland to buffer and further beautify the woods.

In brief, STZ (Sigma - Aldrich) was diluted in sodium citrate buffer (10 mM, pH 4.5) and injected i.p. at 110 mg / kg per day for a consecutive 2 d. 1 mo after treatment, pancreas from fasted animals with a blood glucose level > 500 mg / dL was collected and used as inoculum for i.p. injections.

As a control, a group of age - and gender - matched Tg - hIAPP mice were i.p inoculated with buffer (PBS).

Samples for histology were collected as for microbial analysis (see above), with the same sample number of samples however, they were preserved in 5 % paraformaldehyde made up with Phosphate Buffer Saline (PBS).

Ten - microliter aliquots of the nested PCR products were subjected to RFLP analysis by digestion with 2 U of either HinfI or MseI, and digested fragments were resolved by agarose gel electrophoresis in TBE buffer, as described elsewhere [19, 28].

For reblotting with another antibody, blots were stripped using a Restore Western Blot Stripping Buffer (Thermo Scientific) and then washed and re-blocked and used as indicated above.

The chewed and digested plant matter is regurgitated into the mouth, where the saliva has a high concentration of bicarbonate, which acts as a buffer to the stomach acid coming into the mouth with the cud (McDougall 1948).

This has nothing to do with thermal inertia, except that the response would have been even stronger on a planet with no buffering capability, as occurs with Martian dust storms for example.

After three washing steps with TBS - T, a horseradish peroxidase antibody (diluted 1 ∶ 10,000 in blocking buffer) was used as secondary antibody.

B) In situ determination of kahweol effects on HT - 1080 gelatinases, as determined by gelatin zymography with the presence of kahweol in the incubation substrate buffer.

Lysates were mixed with LDS loading buffer as described above, and ran on 10 % SDS - PAGE gels.