Sentences with phrase «as significant advance»

Judicial approval of Charter violations hardly qualifies as a significant advance when it comes to national security review.

They are learning the lessons of the foreign manufacturers who hype every insignificant as well as significant advance, over time giving the impression of superiority.

Bastiaan Rutjens, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, praises the work as a significant advance.

His expectations for the meeting - being attended by almost 11.000 participants - included the launch of the Adaptation Fund, as well as significant advances on technology transfer, the CDM and the issue of deforestation.

Not exact matches

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Hodjat also cited energy management as one of the industries for which A.I. will make significant advances in the near future.

«As a part of the Nohla team, I look forward to advancing the development of its cell therapy programs for patients with significant unmet needs.»

«As we advance in our careers, behavioural changes are often the only significant changes we can make», says renowned leadership coach and author, Marshal Goldsmith.

Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA), a multinational Spanish banking group, has officially become the first global bank to issue a loan using Bitcoin's underlying technology, the distributed ledger — hailing the event as a «significant advance in the exploitation» of the technology.

Although there has been progress in some areas, significant gaps remain and seem likely to widen as technological advances stretch the capacity of regulators to respond effectively.

During the market's recent move higher, the homebuilder sector has shown significant strength, as it has led the advance by rallying to fresh 52 - week highs.

Considered as «the most advanced hardware portfolio on the market today,» the Ledger Blue brings a significant difference with the thumbdrive style of Ledger's previous products, it is a portable touch screen device that can run a number of different applications.

There are no doubt many significant reasons as to why this is the case but one aspect which needs to be considered is the extent to which some lobbying groups have advanced their views to influence thinking in public life.

Significant convergences on doctrinal issues have not ceased, as in, for example, the Lutheran — Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (1999), but these convergences tend to be the outcome of discussions already well advanced in earlier decades and are to be attributed more to institutional inertia than to continuing enthusiasm.

The product of research must be relevant to both, significant to both, and cogent in both... (The) thesis should be recognizable in both traditions as a constructive advance.»

As an alternative to such a disreputable point of view, however, we might understand purpose in the universe in terms of what has sometimes been called a «loose» teleology.7 By this I mean that the cosmos may be a significant, value - laden process without needing to be strictly directional in its advance through time.

Chobani recently brought in significant resources and continues to work with internal as well as outside experts to assemble one of the most advanced food safety and quality systems in the industry.

Liverpool's need for reinforcements out wide could be even greater than United's as well, with reports today from the Daily Mirror suggesting that star player Raheem Sterling is in advanced talks over an exit from the club after Manchester City made significant progress with a # 45m bid.

Beijing Guoan are seemingly doing their best to try and prise the Colombian international away to join the star - studded Chinese Super League, but for the time being it looks as though their advances are being rejected despite the significant money on offer.

It is difficult to find fault with this phone though, just as with all modern smartphones running so many apps, battery life is an issue and will remain so until significant advances are made in battery technology.

And all this is due to the significant changes that happen to you as your pregnancy advances from one stage to the next... Luckily, you can now restore your happiness, enjoy peaceful night again, eliminate back aches, etc.,... Read more

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

Notwithstanding significant medical advances, the fading attention given to ulcers as the Koch era faded suggests a clear conclusion: maybe Ed Koch really did cause all the ulcers.

We science journalists can be a cranky lot, eternally skeptical as to whether a touted advance is really significant enough to warrant coverage.

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have made a significant advance in the understanding of the complex and fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

In revealing neural entrainment as a generalized strategy for improving sensitivity to informational peaks, this study takes significant steps toward advancing the understanding of human language and perception.

With regards to the implementation of EGS technology, the authors recognise that there are still significant problems that must be researched, such as the appropriate perforation technique, the best way of fracturing the rock or how to operate advanced thermodynamic cycles.

And Life magazine recently cited the filtration of drinking water and use of chlorine as «probably the most significant public health advance of the millennium.»

This capability is a significant advance for genetics research and provides a new way to study both the normal brain and brain disorders such as epilepsy and autism.

Significant human alteration of the biosphere began more than 15,000 years ago as Palaeolithic tribes evolved social learning, advanced hunting and foraging technologies, and the use of fire, and used them to open up forested landscapes and kill off megafauna.

Although it only worked 20 % of the time, base editing, also known as chemical surgery, could present a «significant technical advance,» The Guardian reports.

They see vaccines as particularly helpful in the «short - and medium - terms until significant and sustained advances in infrastructure for sanitation and delivery of potable water are achieved.»

With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate.

Using newly discovered information, the researchers made significant advances in developing a family of drug candidates that target a receptor known as peroxisome proliferator - activated receptors gamma (PPARγ), a key regulator of stem cells controlling bone formation and bone resorption and a master regulator of fat.

This is a significant advance over previous methods, and as a result BinoX yields substantially better accuracy.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the new work a «significant advance,» noting in a statement that it «opens the way to producing [monoclonal antibodies] that potentially could be used diagnostically or therapeutically» for the flu as well as other infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to full - blown AIDS.

This could enable research leading to significant advances in electronics, they say, as well as a better understanding of natural energy - transfer processes, such as photosynthesis.

Make sure you are current on the trends and significant advances, as this could potentially influence your decision to pursue a career in this field.

Cameron's journey to the Challenger Deep is a significant feat, but it is unlikely that technology as advanced as the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER can be made widely available at this time, Jaspars acknowledges.

AIMS has applied for a patent on the WetPC, which it says is a significant advance on existing underwater computers, such as a waterproof word processor (not designed for diving) recently developed by Fujitsu in Japan.

The recent paper, published August 30 in Science Advances, found that without significant changes, Jordan could face lower rainfall, much higher temperatures and as much as a 75 percent decline in water flowing into the country from Syria.

Like next - generation robotics, improved AI will lead to significant productivity advances as machines take over — and even perform better — certain human tasks.

Furthermore, as part of this study the team demonstrated the ability to position gold nanoparticles into prescribed 2D architectures less than two nanometers apart from each other along the crystal structure — a critical feature for future quantum devices and a significant technical advance for their scalable production, said co-lead author Wei Sun, Ph.D., Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

These carbon nanotube quantum light emitters may be important for optically - based quantum information processing and information security, while also being of significant interest for ultrasensitive sensing, metrology and imaging needs and as photon sources for fundamental advances in quantum optics studies.

Many of these novel cancer immunotherapy approaches, which originated from basic science research in CCIR laboratories, are now being explored as new treatment modalities in patients, with a significant number advancing through clinical trials towards FDA approval.

The proteomic data must advance the field in a significant way and not just serve as an archive of large data sets.

In their paper, Gantz and his colleagues argue that «significant advances in regulatory structures and ethical models of community engagement are as important as the further scientific development of these technologies.»

Dr. Turaga has significant experience in the management of melanoma, and complex sarcomas and has pioneered the approaches of isolated limb infusion for advanced malignancies for limb preservation so as to avoid amputation.

As the third Dean of the Watson School, Leemor has advanced the education of graduate students at Cold Spring Harbor in many significant ways.

Established in France in 1967, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science provides a forum for collaborating as well as evaluating significant scientific advances.