Sentences with phrase «as a laboratory of»

«If oceanic islands have been traditionally considered as laboratories of evolution and species - producing machines, Laparocerus will become the ideal guinea - pig for broadening studies in dispersal and speciation processes of all kinds,» say the authors.

States should be able to continue to serve as laboratories of experimentation and innovation that decide how best to provide the right to education.

Several innovative programs emerged through the middle of this century, such as the Laboratory of Human Development (now the Human Development and Psychology program), which began exploring the psychological development of children in 1949, the Administrative Career Program (now the Administration, Planning and Social Policy program) in 1952, and Project Zero, founded to study and improve education in the arts.

If Success can help chart a course back to the original vision of charters as laboratories of innovation and reform, that would be an even more amazing success story than the one already being written.

Other high - performing charters were seen as laboratories of educational practices as they competed with neighborhood schools.

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

Charter schools can serve as laboratories of discover, and develop new education techniques that can improve the entire public school system.

Intended as laboratories of innovation and excellence, they are growing rapidly and have powerful advocates in President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

The first charter school in the nation opened in Minnesota in 1992 as a laboratory of innovation for the public sector, and since then thousands of these «schools of choice» have materialized across the nation.

The inquiry comes as charter schools, once celebrated as laboratories of urban educational achievement and innovation, increasingly face a backlash from teachers» unions and political figures ranging from the mayor of New York City to a third - party candidate for governor of Connecticut.

Since our beginning in 1969, the Foundation has served as a laboratory of learning, offering funding and other resources to public school educators, their schools, and districts to solve complex teaching and learning challenges.

«CEA would never underestimate the value of charter schools as laboratories of innovation.

When first established in the 1990s, the schools were billed as laboratories of innovation, where best practices could be developed and shared with local public school systems.

Pace conceived of Artpace as a laboratory of dreams, providing artists from all over the world with an environment that would encourage experimentation and growth.

Serving as a laboratory of sorts, in which new ideas are tested before migrating to another medium to be further developed, printmaking has revealed new angles of consideration and nudged the artist in new directions.

In the spirit of Harald Szeemann's «Agentur für geistige Gastarbeit» (Agency for Spiritual Migrant Work), Savvy Contemporary sees itself as a laboratory of intellectual, artistic, and cultural development and exchange.

The museum draws on the intellectual resources of a great research university and serves as a laboratory of the arts dedicated to multidisciplinary approaches to learning.

It's my hope, along with my co-teacher Carla Fernández's, that this long - term residency, encompassing both our course and my own research and experimentation, can serve as a laboratory of sorts that will give feedback to MIT as much as it will impact my own practice.

But states often serve as laboratories of democracy, and a successful carbon tax in Massachusetts could help to broaden support for a national or even global carbon pricing system — if powerful fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil get out of the way.

With an economy that rivals many other nations, California functions as a laboratory of democracy and has been a climate leader for decades.

Not exact matches

As part of this partnership, a joint research and development laboratory will be set up in France.

Zymeworks would use its knowledge of computing to develop and license platforms: the software engines with which other companies could test their compounds virtually so as to stand a better chance of success in the laboratory.

In a court ruling authorizing the arrests, Brazilian federal judge André Duszczak said «Faria and other BRF officers sought to cover up claims of possible food contamination, as shown in certain laboratory tests, made by a former employee in a labor lawsuit.»

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«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

As San Francisco bureau chief Jeff Bercovici relates in our cover feature, Memphis Meats co-founder Uma Valeti left a comfortable career in cardiology to pursue the idea of growing real meat in the laboratory.

Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

Wasson had long wanted to improve the retail part of Walgreens stores (two - thirds of sales came from the pharmacy), and he saw Boots, which did more than half its business in retail, as the ideal laboratory.

Widely known as «Cal,» the campus is renowned for the size and quality of its libraries and laboratories, the scope of its research and publications, and the distinction of its faculty and students.

As Michael Crosby, a marine scientist and the president of Mote Laboratory and Aquarium, told Business Insider for a recent feature on reef restoration, loss of reefs could have potentially terrifying consequences.

«The 20th century's Thomas Edison has stepped from the stage... the scope of the technologies that sprang from or were transformed by Jobs's Apple laboratories — the Mac, the mouse, the laptop, Pixar, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad — is awesome, as was that from Edison's Menlo Park.»

«We're really trying to find ways to use the resources of the university to improve quality of life,» he explained, adding that, as he sees it, «It's really a unique laboratory in America.

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Defense Department's Supercomputing Resource Center at the Wright - Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH will receive four HPE SGI 8600 supercomputers, as part of the deal.

As GOOD puts it with more than a touch of understatement, that's «not bad for just fooling around in the laboratory.»

Get a behind the scenes look a the tension, anticipation and exhilaration experienced by scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. during the Curiosity rover's harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere — known as «Seven Minutes of Terror.»

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

Using the streets of Paris as their laboratory, the social scientists tested how environmental cues affect people's generosity.

The machine - learning - based model by Medial EarlySign used data found in EHRs, such as laboratory tests results, demographics, medication, and diagnostic codes, to predict a patient's risk of experiencing renal dysfunction.

Just as Silicon Valley companies are laboratories for new technologies and business models, so Toms is becoming a kind of Darpa for the social - venture set.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

As I started thinking about how to change that, I became very focused on the laboratory space and the context of the power of laboratory data — which drives, some say, 80 % of clinical decisions — and the ability to help make access to that information more available to people, and to try to create actionable information that would be accessible to people at the time that it really matters.

As Don Braid wrote in the Calgary Herald, «Alberta has become a kind of social laboratory, unique in North America, to test whether a near - majority of women in a government caucus makes a change in style and substance.

Clean Harbors understands these challenges and provides a host of services to overcome them, including disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous chemicals (such as mercury), laboratory chemical packing, on - site environmental cleaning services and emergency response.

Mike enjoys volunteering in his community and has volunteered for the Boy Scouts of America as well as contributed to the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory as a research associate.

Founded in 1881 as the Newark Technical School, NJIT is now home to nearly 50 laboratories and centers and over 120 business incubators, where hundreds of research breakthroughs have been achieved.

As of 12/31/14, Oracle represented 3.9 %, CVS Health 2.7 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 2.6 %, TE Connectivity, Ltd. 2.5 %, MasterCard 2.2 %, National Oilwell Varco 2.1 %, Ultra Petroleum 0.4 %, Dover Corp. 2.7 %, Glencore PLC 1.2 %, Baker Hughes, Inc. 1.2 %, General Motors Co. 3.2 %, Diageo ADR 2.3 %, General Dynamics Corp. 0 %, Union Pacific Corp. 2.1 %, Rowan Companies plc 0.1 %, Flowserve 0.2 %, WESCO International 0.4 %, Southern Copper 0.1 %, Laboratory Corporation of America 0 %, Varian Medical Systems 0 %, and HNI 0 % of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets.

As of 9/30/13, Rockwell Automation Inc. represented 2.9 %, Cimarex Energy Co. 1.2 %, Dover Corp. 3.5 %, FedEx Corp. 2.7 %, General Dynamics Corp. 3.0 %, Foot Locker, Inc. 1.3 %, Ultra Petroleum Corp. 0.4 %, Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings 1.3 %, Range Resources Corp. 0 %, Staples, Inc. 0.4 %, Walter Energy, Inc. 0 %, Cenovus Energy, Inc. 1.0 %, Encana Corp. 1.3 %, Blount International, Inc. 0.1 %, Apache Corp. 0 %, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 3.2 %, MasterCard, Inc., Class A 1.8 %, Flowserve Corp. 0 %, Devon Energy Corp. 1.6 %, Kaydon Corp. 0 %, SKF AB 0 %, Northrop Grumman Corp. 0 %, and Teledyne Technologies, Inc. 0 % of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund's total net assets.

Simo Tchokni of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and her colleagues used various metrics such as number of followers and Klout score to determine the traits of influential social media sharers — and emoticons were a common factor.

Echelon operates as an official laboratory and software tester of FSTEC and Russia's FSB spy agency, according to Russian government registries of testing laboratories and software certifications reviewed by Reuters.

As of 6/30/11, Mastercard, Inc., Class A represented 2.6 %, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. 1.7 %, Intel Corp. 2.8 %, Snap - On Inc. 5.0 %, Sara Lee Corp. 2.0 %, Applied Materials, Inc. 2.0 %, Equifax Inc. 2.7 %, ROHM Ltd. 2.6 %, Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. 3.0 %, Credit Suisse Group 3.0 %, Oracle Corp. 4.4 %, Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings 4.2 %, Bulgari SpA 0 %, Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. 3.8 %, Cisco Systems, Inc. 0 %, Texas Instruments Inc. 3.0 %, National Semiconductor Corp 0 %, Tenet Healthcare Corp 1.6 %, Conifer Health Solutions 0 %, Nestlé SA 1.1 %, and Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA 0 % of the Oakmark Global Fund's total net assets.