Sentences with phrase «by urban systems»

Lesley Cabott, a senior and experienced planner, was originally from British Columbia but had been living and working in Whitehorse when she was hired by Urban Systems Ltd. («Urban Systems»).

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What we're working on now is developing a national brand of locally grown produce that reinforces regional food systems by creating opportunity for local urban micro-agribusiness to augment year - round supply in any metropolitan area.

Jonathan Jackson, founder of Dimagi Dimagi is a technology company that helps organizations deliver health care to urban and rural communities around the world by designing health - information systems and mobile technologies.

Piece by piece, Mneefah is helping lay the backbone for the largest urban mass transit system ever built from scratch.

In addition to the Metro rail system, he said, Prince George's is sandwiched between major airports in Baltimore and D.C., features an urban area with ample space to build, and is surrounded by several universities, particularly Maryland's flagship school.

When the thickly clotted symbol system of a pre-urban society is replaced by a highly differentiated and individuated urban culture, modalities of religious experience shift.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

The draft copy of the Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems only reached Urban VIII by a tortuous route.

As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.

A cost effective travel system it is perfect for urban parents who are constricted by space.

Unmarried urban fathers are actively involved in taking care of their children, and they may need more support from the health care system, according to a new study by a Northwestern University pediatrician.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

[1] The state orphanage system designed to care for these children is characterized by a rural / urban dichotomy.

Sub-national government in the form of combined urban authorities and county regions headed by DEEMs will be more easily manipulated by central government than would be a system of local government.

The wage increase announced by Cuomo affects workers of the State University of New York (SUNY)-- but not those within the City University of New York (CUNY), the country's largest urban public university system.

Connected by a series of bucolic parkways and broad avenues lined with elegant homes, Buffalo's parks system remains an extraordinary urban amenity.

The Urban league is contracted by the Department of Social Services to provide preventive services that focus on vulnerable children who may be on the verge of heading into the foster care system.

This paper studies the relationship between urban transportation systems and social inequality, discusses sustainable mobility, and offers a case study of challenges presented by transit infrastructure.

Without GPS or cameras, seismic systems could allay privacy concerns by tracking urban activity in an anonymous way, researchers reported today at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis.

By integrating methods of statistical physics, computational science, and geographic information systems with classical network theory, the researchers have been able to find patterns that could help address problems as diverse as urban traffic congestion and the spread of epidemics.

To keep residents riding the rails and to win more drivers» hearts, Chinese cities are using various incentives and disincentives, as politicians promise to increase urban rail systems threefold and bus rapid transit 10-fold by 2015

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

«Large urban hospitals disadvantaged by Medicare / Medicaid patient satisfaction rating system.»

A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»

In fact, informal urban navigation can offer a richer, more complexly layered experience of the city; these sorts of unaddressed places, located not by numbers and grids but by human conversations, can have an altogether different quality precisely by existing outside of a city's official system.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

The new system transmits messages by reflecting and encoding audio and data in these signals that are ubiquitous in urban environments, without affecting the original radio transmissions.

One nearby example of a flywheel - driven urban transport system is the People Mover minitram, made by J. P. M. Parry & Associates of Cradley Heath, now in operation in Himley, near Dudley in the Midlands.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.

The Central Arizona - Phoenix LTER site is one of two urban LTER sites supported by NSF where researchers study the urban ecology of a complex, dynamic system.

With the seasonal skin dryness I've been experiencing, I've been a tad bit concerned about my lids lately — there are some dry spots which are usually covered quite well by shimmery shadows, but Naked Basics has stepped up to the plate, courtesy of Urban Decay's Pigment Infusion System ™.

As the Chinese government gradually relaxed its control over urban migration — by loosening the restrictions of the 1958 Hukou System, which afforded social benefits only to those who could prove identification from the local province — more and more individuals have taken advantage of new economic opportunities by migrating to cities.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

Being less reliant on the system and becoming self - sufficient by growing food, utilizing recycled material and using the urban environment to our benefit, is our passion and lifestyle.

It's too optimistic about chartering's ability to improve «the broader system» — that the good examples and competitive forces produced by charters will help urban districts get much better.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

«Leading and managing in the multifaceted and dynamic environment of an urban school system is an incredible challenge that is complicated further by the heavy day - to - day demands of the job,» says Kim Clark, dean of HBS.

In many urban areas, however, this was too little, too late: integrating urban schools was becoming increasingly difficult by the late 1960s and early 1970s because there were so few white students left in city school systems.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

In a total of 156 issues over the years, the «Oakes Newsletter» — researched, written, edited, and published by Ms. Oakes — earned a solid reputation as a source of information and insight into the workings of a major urban school system.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

I was contacted early on by a large urban district in New Jersey that... had a horrible evaluation system.

By contrast, the political forces that surround public schools - particularly schools in troubled urban systems - tend to promote excessive bureaucracy and to impede the development of the qualities that schools need to succeed.

As the traditional urban school district is slowly replaced by a system marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

And while this has helped stem the tide of decline — as well as reinvigorate the church's missionary zeal (the famous line from Cardinal Hickey of Washington, quoted by Kathleen, «we don't education [urban] students because THEY are Catholic, but because WE are»)-- it has also dampened the Church's once - powerful religious belief system.

Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems By Frederick M. Hess Brookings Institution, 2002, $ 45.95; 268 pages.

The task force, established by Senator Simon last May in the wake of several reports highly critical of the city's school system — one calling its dropout problem «a human tragedy of enormous dimensions» — was aimed at turning Chicago into an «urban laboratory» for educational experimentation.