Sentences with phrase «at multiple scales of»

As international and national REDD + frameworks evolve, these subnational activities will need to be brought under broader accounting frameworks to ensure that any carbon credits issued to projects or programs «add up» — maintaining environmental integrity while catalyzing action at multiple scales of implementation.

Not exact matches

Achieving a sustainable healthcare system requires innovation at multiple scales and levels of care.

Our national manufacturing and distribution platform allows us to produce nearly all of our products at multiple facilities and to efficiently serve the needs of customers on a local, regional and national scale.

I saved this unto a recipe program, and made the one with the TABLESPOON, instead of the TSP, scaled by 10 at work in a kitchen, and thanks to that I have multiple cakes ruined, wtf??

«With citizen - science programs, we are able to collect a lot of data at multiple spatial and temporal scales, which you can't necessarily do in a university - led research program.

«It would be good to define planetary boundaries at multiple scales — local, regional and global,» adds ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the planetary boundaries concept.

Audio engineers have painstakingly recorded professional vocalists singing combinations of 2,500 phonemes, the core sounds that make up a language, and sampled those combinations at multiple points in the musical scale.

The paper titled «First Circumpolar Assessment of Southern Hemisphere Humpback Whale Mitochondrial Genetic Variation at Multiple Scales and Implications for Management» now appears in the online version of Endangered Species Research.

The researchers then correlated scores on the hidden depression scale with individual trends in internet usage, grouped into three categories: «aggregate,» which indicated how much information was being sent and received over a network, «application,» which indicated the broad category of program that was being used (e.g., email, surfing the web, downloading media), and «entropy,» which indicated the degree of randomness in information flow (essentially, the extent to which someone was sending and receiving information to multiple net - based resources at once).

For each prime, as the exponent grows, the formulas recur in ways that are reminiscent of fractals — structures in which patterns or shapes repeat identically at multiple different scales.

Cross-cutting relationships are observed at the valley - scale, indicating multiple episodes of water level fall and rise, each well over 50 meters, a similar scale to eustatic sea level changes on Earth.

At the one - Gt scale, multiple technologies will be needed, and ultimately energy consumers will bear the costs of construction and operation.

«The coexistence of multiple patterns at these scales makes ecosystems more robust and less prone to collapse, and that is the significance of this study,» Huisman said.

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.

PhD student Clara Hedegaard, leading author of the paper, added: «This method enables the possibility to build 3D structures by printing multiple types of biomolecules capable of assembling into well defined structures at multiple scales.

The study incorporates multiple environmental drivers — notably climate and fire — at large spatial scales for a significant number of species and populations.

Ho said this novel printing technique provided a cost - effective way to test multiple fractal designs at a small scale and could be used in the future to print entire sections of larger solar receivers.

Finally, the study provides an example of a highly integrative approach to understanding brain function at multiple scales, «linking genes and gene networks to the properties of single neurons and populations of neuron subtypes, all the way up to the level of animal behaviors,» said Okaty.

But if string theory is correct, then the interaction of all those strings can lead to phenomena at very large scales, including multiple universes — a separate theoretical reason to think our universe is not the only one.

«With any new technology, it takes multiple iterations and economies of scale before you can make it affordable,» Musk at the event at the firm's design studio in Hawthorne, Calif..

Research will examine phenomena at multiple scales to address the emergence of collective behaviors that arise from individual elements or parts of a system working together.

«A subgroup analysis that combines data from children in both the single - and multiple - dose studies demonstrated a mean 5 point increase in muscle function score in children who received at least 9 mg of ISIS - SMNRx between the ages of two and 10 who did not have severe scoliosis or baseline HFMSE scores at the extreme low or high ends of the scale.

High - end microscopes, high - speed cameras and other advanced imaging systems give members of the RISD community access to living and non-living specimens at multiple scales and provide an engaging platform for examining myriad connections between artistic and scientific study.

We use a combination of systems biology, protein functional characterization, and biophysics to explore polysaccharide biosynthesis at multiple scales.

To simulate a supercell of about 1,300 atoms from strongly magnetic regions of the 23,000 - atom nanoparticle, they used the Linear Scaling Multiple Scattering (LSMS) code, a first - principles density functional theory code developed at ORNL.

The researchers are now working on scaling up the number of electrodes so they can record from multiple neurons at a time, potentially allowing them to determine how different parts of the brain are connected.

To address this uncertainty, the science, education, computing and engineering communities provided input to NEON's design, with the shared goal of creating a long - term ecological observatory that collects and provides a diverse suite of comparable and consistent ecological data at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

In less than 5 years since the company was funded, EnerVault has developed its unique technology, advanced its low cost chemistry to practical use, established pilot manufacturing, and installed multiple systems of increasing scale at its headquarters.

Moderators screen images at scale, and within just a few minutes of posting an image, RTFM sends the results based on the input of multiple moderators.

The lack of information on numbers experiencing blended learning has created challenges at multiple levels — from understanding if the phenomenon is actually scaling to contextualizing if bumps on the road, like the recent demise of Amplify, are mere blips or catastrophic events, and from understanding where policymakers and philanthropists can make the most impact to knowing whether the blended learning that is occurring is a good or bad thing for students.

In November 2012, Grand Challenges Canada launched an RFP that sought to develop multiple sites in developing countries that are capable of innovating at scale to protect the brain development.

And finally, large charter management organizations (CMOs) may attempt to leverage economies of scale by replicating a single model at multiple schools.

The difference the [Final Report] estimates comparing the teacher at the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the average teacher (50th percentile) is -22 scaled score points on the 5th grade PSSA Reading test... [referring] to the 2010 PSSA Technical Manual raw score table... for the 8th grade Reading test, that would be a difference of approximately 2 raw score points, or the equivalent of 2 multiple choice (MC) questions (1 point apiece) or half credit on one OE [open - ended] question.

One of the strengths of SGP is that it can provide information at multiple levels, showing comparative performance of the student, school, and district, and predicting the amount of growth needed by the individual student, in terms of a specific scale score, to achieve proficiency by the target year.

It's no surprise that we have large and diverse range of Coalition members in Memphis, which has been the epicenter of education reform, with multiple large - scale efforts at innovation over the past decade.

«Going program by program and — often at great expense — conducting large - scale evaluations involving multiple measures of teaching and learning has not, to date, resulted in an accretion of credible, usable knowledge within the professional development and practitioner community,» the researchers assert in a new Educational Researcher article.

Thus far, in relation to content published by large - scale publishers, DRM - free files of this content have mostly only been available directly from a few publishers and not at large online stores that sell content by multiple publishers.

Research shows that young, male, small breed puppies (or dogs) who receive multiple vaccinations are at the top end of the scale when it comes to risk.

As I often point out, multiple large - scale surveys [4 — 6] have found that only about one - third of these cats are allowed outdoors at all — and most of them only for a few hours each day.

Finally hired as a Nintendo employee in 2000 at the age of 41, he was initially made head of the corporate planning division and thrown into managing multiple large - scale projects that required global co-ordination.

The designs, which are viewable with or without custom 3 - D glasses, showcase vivid layers that engage the eye over multiple planes and explore new techniques that manipulate surface at the scale of the body, the wall, and the room.

In the same manner when looking at the nature of the paintings worked surface, the imagery's style of rendering, or the scale and impact of the works one must consider multiple traditions.

And over the years, as her fame grew and major contracts poured in, all of them at a scale and with budgets many multiples of ours, she invited us to every single opening celebration around the world.

Fleshed out by the addition of multiple small - scale models and twenty - four new works (six of which, including the title piece, Take your time, 2008, were newly conceived for the show), the result was mounted in simultaneous presentations at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, both in New York.

A handful of artists have exhibitions at multiple venues in the city at the moment, notably Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy, who both often work on a monumental scale.

On each visit, he took hundreds of black - and - white photographs of the pyramids, shrines, and sanctuaries at these sites, often grouping multiple images printed at various scales onto 8 by 10 inch sheets.

Together, these items represented multiple chronologies and scales, from the history of the universe to the universe of the artist's studio, creating an environment that was at once chaotic and meditative, defined by order and disorder.

Concerted and coordinated action is needed on multiple fronts at a scale and intensity far in excess of what has been attempted to date.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a unique large - scale power converter that can swiftly switch between multiple energy sources to help

To suggest that because near surface temperatures have flattened at or near the highest on record requires «abandoning» a sinking ship is to be grossly underinformed about the full scope and scale of the multiple changes going on and the confidence that anthropogenic climate continues unabated as it will so long as humans continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations.