Sentences with phrase «at national scales»

Historically two obstacles have slowed accurate carbon inventories at national scales.

The ultimate goal of research is to develop indicators that can be obtained at national scales and used for pan-European comparison of structural properties of forests.

«I'm fairly confident that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, we're going to see some version of this at a national scale,» wrote Y Combinator president Sam Altman in January.

Except against countries from which we import oil or certain rare earths we can impose trade sanctions with impunity at the national scale.

So, although renewable energy output might be intermittent on a regional scale, it would have a more constant flow at a national scale.

Poston added that each institution is going to need a multiplicity of approaches for supporting students and collecting data at a national scale.

It was under his guidance that astronomy really took off in Canada, developing first at the national scale and then rising to international stature.

Students then go on to explore the use of ecological footprint at the national scale through a case study on Switzerland.

It begins with resources that set the context at the national scale and then starts to delve deeper at local scale factors where the spatial distribution of elderly impacts both rural and urban areas.

Our pivotal role is to lead a multidisciplinary consortium to provide schools and communities with technical expertise in: school improvement; teacher training and behaviour change programmes at a national scale; girls» education, protection and rights; community mobilisation and cash transfers; primary health care, school health and non-state slum education; and monitoring, research and evaluation in education.

She talks about the challenges of generating educational change at a national scale and how to take advantage of the technological rich infrastructure that Uruguay has in order to accelerate results.

Anyone who has been following FAOs leadership of the «climate - smart» agriculture agenda should be concerned that climate finance decisions will follow their priorities rather than those determined at a national scale.

There is an important need to change the focus of national debates on climate change policies at the national scale so that citizens understand the ethical problems with their country's national commitments.

The MRLC is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of environmental, land management, and modeling applications.

Improving energy efficiency (EE) can deliver a range of benefits such as improved air quality, enhanced economic competitiveness and, at the national scale, a higher degree of energy security.

We downscale four planetary boundaries (climate change, land - system change, freshwater use and biogeochemical flows) to per capita equivalents, and compare these to footprint indicators at the national scale.

We combine these two approaches to measure sustainability at the national scale, by comparing national consumption - based environmental footprints to «downscaled» planetary boundaries6.

Among the issues reviewed were: • The prospects for air pollution and climate change in the region up to 2030 in the absence of action on SLCPs; • The potential contribution of SLCP mitigation to climate, health and food security, and more generally to economic development; • Feasible mitigation technologies and strategies and opportunities for their implementation at national scale; • The relationship of SLCP mitigation to broader regional air pollution and climate strategies and their benefit for the MENA region.

While the above illustrates the challenges associated with comparing «raw» data taken at stations to the long - term time series for locations, the Bureau can show some comparisons at the national scale.

Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries: an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK (open access)

Interestingly, controlling graft was also highlighted by Venter and colleagues (2016) as a factor influencing why economically growing countries have differential human - footprint outcomes between 1993 and 2009; lower corruption scores and greater urbanization percentages were associated with decreased human influence at the national scale.

They are looking toward the future of how crypto - assets will be used and deployed at national scale.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Making Comprehensive Sexuality Education Available at a National Scale: A Case Study About Tailoring International Guidance for Kenya, Washington, DC: USAID, 2012.

To improve the lives of institutionalized children, Dr. Yildiz has designed, coordinated and conducted several projects at the national scale sponsored by the Turkish government including Evidence Based Mentoring Programs and Individualized Rehabilitation Models focused on utilizing healthy peer relationships for social and emotional rehabilitation of disadvantaged, institutionalized youth.

Not exact matches

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

Kate Mitchell, managing director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.

In the VC industry — where 89 percent of investing partners are men, according to a study by the National Venture Capital Association — sexual harassment can be especially troubling because of the power dynamics at play, said Kate Mitchell, co-founder of Scale Venture Partners and co-chair of the NVCA's Diversity Task Force.

Simulating x-ray Thomson scattering signals from high - density, millimetre - scale plasmas at the National Ignition Facility

Capital One's mortgage business is dwarfed by the volume of lending at larger national banks, but its smaller scale seems to produce an advantage in terms of superior loan servicing.

However, in the US — at least for now — Big Tech firms lack a regulatory «swimlane» to compete with banks in lending and payments on a national scale.

What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large - scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that «depended on work that had no other object than to keep people at work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained... an approximation of full employment» all without reference to the intrinsic quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction of the work that went into them.»

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.

«When you talk about the national scale you are talking about serious manufacturing of high - quality fresh food at a very high standard — that's the kind of capability we need to have and we are building now,» Mr Segal said.

ReFED was formed in early 2015 to create The Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste, the first ever national economic study and action plan driven by a multi-stakeholder group committed to tackling food waste at scale.

Day 2 of the Free - from, allergy and intolerance seminar programme at the inaugural Food Matters Live event began with a session on Delivering free - from products in the foodservice sector, and featured speakers from two providers at opposite ends of the size spectrum — a small independent, and a full - scale national casual dining restaurant.

bringing food safety net programs up to scale at the national level with investments that target better health, nutrition and formal education programs.

He is also an active member of the BJA University Judo development team, aiming to improve Judo at t universities on a national scale.

Eager to take his death - defying stunt live on a national scale, the X Games will debut a new discipline, big - air skateboarding, in August at the 10th annual games in Los Angeles.

Ramsey's comeback to form isn't going to be instantaneous, in fact he seems to perform on a completely different scale at Arsenal than he does for his national side.

For instance: The 1955 Oklahoma Sooners went undefeated and won the national title with a roster where the heaviest player — left tackle Steve Champlin — tipped the scales at a whopping 225 pounds.

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

«Buying raw frozen chicken at this scale is unheard of,» said Laura Stanley, of national co-operative School Food FOCUS, which helped the district procure the chicken.

Joined - up policy at a national level is often difficult for us to comprehend due to the scale and variance of circumstance.

The methodology used in the preparation of each set of results took as its starting point the gross national income (GNI) of the States Members of the United Nations during the corresponding base periods as a first approximation of the capacity to pay, and applied conversion factors, relief measures and limits to the scale in order to arrive at the final scale.

The wait for more information on the scale of the problem continues - with Labour expected to publish its first national guess at the damage the transition is causing shortly.

I will point out that I only looked at national - scale elections: Representatives, Senators, and the President.

Obama For America pioneered modern digital organizing in 2012, coupled with mobilization at scale, but even they failed to build a national engagement database, complete with every conversation volunteers were having with voters on the ground.

We need to look urgently at the options for getting large - scale private investment into the national roads network — from sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other investors.

Speaking at the second edition of the National Policy Summit (NPS) under the aegis of the Trade and Industry Ministry under the theme, «The Industrial Transformation of Ghana,» in Accra yesterday, he noted that during the period, «a significant number of small, medium and large scale operators were all brought to their knees as a result of four years of «dumsor» (intermittent power supply), induced by the mismanagement of the energy sector.»

He's rendered himself unelectable on a national scale - how could he possibly appeal to ANY minorities at his point, including gay people (after his AG Cuccelli wrote a memo essentially saying VA Universities could discriminate against gays?).