Sentences with phrase «at higher diversity»

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Intel found that its diverse hires were leaving the company at a higher rate than others, which of course had a negative impact on the overall diversity numbers.

In Canada, the report notes, unlike in the U.S., there have been strong efforts to emphasize diversity at the highest levels of government and society, most notably that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed 15 men and 15 women to cabinet positions.

For now, James says she is excited that the efforts are finally getting a voice — even if it is at CES (normally a launchpad for high - end refrigerators and new smartwatches, not for initiatives that hope to improve the lack of diversity in tech).

At the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at InteAt the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at Inteat Intel.

Xerox has long assigned numbers to its employment objectives, which is perhaps why the company is setting its sights even higher: It is aiming for 34 % of the executive leadership team to be female within the next five years (up from 28 % currently), according to Damika Arnold, global diversity and inclusion leader at Xerox.

Looking at the company's overall gender diversity (42 % women, 58 % men), Pinterest scored well; only LinkedIn has a higher percentage of women.

This increased diversity of jobs helps lead to significantly higher student engagement in the recruiting process: engagement is up as much as 2x at many schools.

High profile edge cases, like the sexual harassment allegations at Uber, have the unfortunate effect of making ongoing diversity and gender equality issues seem insignificant in comparison.

This conference offers high - quality education, discussion and collaboration aimed to improve leadership potential, enhance skill sets, inform decision - making and encourage gender diversity at the corporate level.

That diversity is on display in a major way at the Los Angeles Times» second annual L.A. Food Bowl festival, which runs for the full month of May and includes hundreds of different meal events from high - profile chefs like Nancy Silverton (Mozza), Curtis Stone (Gwen) and Yoshihiro Narisawa whose eponymous Tokyo restaurant Gold said made him «shudder with pleasure» in his review this past month.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González and civil - rights activist and organized - labor icon Dolores Huerta are among those being celebrated at the annual Diversity Honors on Friday, April 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...

At the historically African - American college in the south they discovered higher religious participation but lower diversity, with only a nod to the concept of pluralism.

In this sense an atom is more complex than an electron, a molecule more complex than an atom, and a living cell more complex than the highest chemical nuclei of which it is composed, the difference depending (on this I insist) not only on the number and diversity of the elements included in each case, but at least as much on the number and correlative variety of the links formed between these elements.

The Tasting Zone presents an opportunity to explore the broad diversity of premium wines on exhibit that retail at over $ 14 and demonstrate high QPR (Quality / Price Ratio).

It was unbelievably disciplined and required a rare diversity in skills, all at a high enough level not to get waylaid in an instant by a guy who's pretty damn good at such things.

Because of the presence of diversity at my high school, the opportunities to be involved in a variety of unique clubs and organizations seemed endless.

The Independent Democratic Conference on Wednesday released a platform designed to increase student diversity at specialized high schools in New York City.

However, Theresa May missed her chance to make a lasting impact on diversity at the highest echelons of British government.

At 11:30 a.m., state Sens. Jamaal Bailey and Toby Ann Stavisky announce legislation to increase diversity in specialized high schools, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The event was at Lafayette High School, where leaders reaffirmed safety, acceptance and diversity.

I think it brings different ideas to the table, ideas people maybe have not thought of... I think now is the time for a bit of political manoeuvring and for them to start thinking a little bit differently and allowing diversity at the higher end of the FA.

The Building Trades Council came under fire after Investigative Post reported last fall that the diversity goal for the workers building the SolarCity factory at Riverbend had been lowered from the 25 percent originally proposed by the city to 15 percent, after union leaders and developer LPCiminelli said the higher number was unachievable.

Former U.S. attorney general and Queens native Eric Holder sat down with Errol Louis for a wide - ranging interview that touched on race relations, his political ambitions, diversity concerns at his alma mater Stuyvesant High School and much more.

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FINANCIAL DISTRICT — The teachers union and state lawmakers are pushing to overhaul admissions at the city's top public high schools, calling the lack of racial diversity at the schools «an embarrassment.»

«As a national model, we must maintain our upward momentum to end gender and racial inequality through public policy that celebrates our diversity,» Council Member Cumbo said at the rally, pointing to other city and state efforts like the municipal identification card program and a higher minimum wage.

Geneticists usually consider that due to the small size of social groups, these are at high risk of losing diversity and becoming inbred.

The first government - funded human genomics research study performed on African soil — aimed at unlocking the unique genetic character of southern African populations — has revealed a high level of genetic diversity.

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

«It is unknown what the physiological effects of the parasites are on the bats, but the high diversity of parasites as well as the high proportion of individuals that are infected with the parasites suggest that this may be yet another example of the unusually high tolerance of these flying mammals for pathogens,» said co-author Juliane Schaer, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.

Looking at 250 samples in the lab (116 from cotton swabs of the conjunctiva, 114 from cotton swabs of skin under the eye, and 20 contact lenses), researchers found a higher diversity of bacteria on the ocular surface than on the skin under the eye or on the contact lenses, which was a surprising result, Dominguez - Bello said.

«These results show that the high insect damage diversity at Mexican Hat represents an influx of novel insect herbivores during the early Paleocene and not a refugium for Cretaceous leaf miners,» said Wilf.

The researchers were unsure whether the high diversity of leaf miners at Mexican Hat compared to other early Paleocene sites, where there is little or no leaf mining, was caused by insects that survived the extinction event in refugia — areas where organisms persist during adverse conditions — or were due to range expansions of insects from somewhere else during the early Paleocene.

The low - diversity flora at Mexican Hat is typical for the area in the early Paleocene, so what caused the high insect damage diversity?

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice in France, show that high genetic diversity can prime new mutations that cause drug resistance.

«The unique species composition, high diversity and relatively intact forest structure underscore the importance of strengthening ongoing and future conservation measures at Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary, as a key element of wider conservation efforts in southern Thailand,» adds Dr. Strijk.

New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.

John Healey, Professor of Forest Sciences at Bangor University, explained: «Over the past 24 years the severity of this invasion was associated with a decline in the diversity of native tree species, including those species that are found only in Jamaica, which are the highest conservation priority.

The results validated a previous group's discovery that measurement of the genetic diversity between Barrett's cells in any given lesion is a good predictor of which patients are at high risk of developing cancer.

To arrive at a more certain answer, marine ecologist Camilo Mora examined life's diversity at higher levels of taxonomy (genus, family, order, et cetera).

Liliana Garces, assistant professor of higher education at Pennsylvania State University, said racial diversity has fallen significantly at schools that are barred from considering race as a factor in admissions.

The high court had just ruled that race is a legitimate factor in admissions policies aimed at fostering campus diversity (Science, 27 June, p. 2012), a stance that many took as a vote of confidence in their efforts, too.

«Greater diversity of bacteria in the gut microbiome is associated with both a higher response rate to treatment and longer progression - free survival,» said study leader Jennifer Wargo, M.D., associate professor of Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson.

Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, says she has seen many high - achieving African American undergraduates suffer from a lack of guidance; she has led diversity - increasing programs at Harvard and at MIT.

Professor Ian Owens, Director of Science at the Natural History Museum, says this research is a great example of how natural history collections support high - impact scientific research that addresses challenging questions such as the diversity of life.

«A stable and healthy reef includes a high abundance and diversity of predatory fish and a relatively low number of herbivorous and small prey fish,» says study lead author April Boaden, a PhD student at the Coral CoE.

«The research results reveal that diversity enables the functionality of the ecosystems to be stabilized at a high level in the course of time and in different environments,» concludes Schmid.

Most conservation planning in Madagascar prioritizes areas containing the highest species diversity or the greatest number of unique species, not habitats those species might move to in the future under climate change, said Brown, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke at the time of the study.

And models of evolutionary search, starting with the «genetic algorithms» of John Holland, also at Michigan, suggest higher diversity per se makes it easier to find paths to new fitness peaks.

Arizona State University (ASU) President Michael Crow recently expressed his views on the state of diversity in higher education at a diversity symposium at the University of Texas.