Sentences with phrase «challenging environments such»

«In particular, extending the scope of scientific survey robots in challenging environments such as rainforests through the adaptable construction of recharging platforms or monitoring stations.»

Last June a prototype version managed to crawl through a box of plastic beads, a significant first step toward more challenging environments such as rubble.

Placement opportunities are available to a number of Northumbria's undergraduate Social Sciences students in challenging environments such as prisons, youth offending teams, homeless charities and parliamentary offices.

A challenging environment such as yours will give me the opportunity to make the best use of my skills and experience as a health care professional.

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Scaling such ambitious retail environments is a challenge.

This session addresses how areas such as investment opportunities and threats, economic environment, political landscape, and corporate finance optimization, could impact DB plan sponsors» decision making during these challenging times for pension investors.

But the way swing trades are managed in a challenging, choppy markets such as the current environment always determines whether one holds on to previously earned stock market profits or gives it all back due to churning the trading account.

Students born and raised in the United States face a challenge that was not faced in such acute form by their parents who grew up in a coherently Muslim cultural environment.

The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment.

Le Mans is a precious laboratory in which we can continue to take up the challenges related to the technologies involved, putting such technologies to the test in an extreme environment.

I am certain that it will be a great opportunity for all of our players to continue their development in such a competitive and challenging environment.

Since she started working in Piedmont 12 years ago, Foster has seen Piedmont undergo a large shift from a stressful and clique - y environment to a more open and comfortable campus through efforts such as Challenge Success.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

One such challenge is how to dispose them into the environment.

I am sorry to hear about your son secondary school is a challenging environment and for many - like me - it can be place that brings back awful memories and takes up such a huge chunk of your life.

Head Start and Early Head Start provide reliable assistance in securing resources for families in areas such as food security, safe and adequate housing, family counseling, and the many other challenges that parents face in creating a healthy and nurturing environment for their children.

As such, humanitarian agencies will need to change to keep up with new communications realities, but some domains will remain distinctly familiar: complex humanitarian emergencies; politically challenging environments; forgotten, difficult and smaller crises; and most vulnerable groups in major disasters.

«Yet despite the challenges that such an environment creates, coupled with the savings we have had to make in the era of austerity, I am proud that in Westminster we have continued to innovate, protect frontline services and still deliver the lowest council tax in the country.

Mary Creagh MP, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said: «The white paper fails to set out a clear plan for major challenges such as reforestation or biodiversity loss; nor does it deal with concerns about planning policy.

Finding solitude to concentrate in such environment will be challenging but don't let that stop you.

Our cover story, «The Ultimate Social Network,» by Jennifer Ackerman, describes the efforts to map our human microbiome — no easy feat when certain critters, such as the gut bacteria that prosper in an oxygen - free environment, are challenging to grow in petri dishes in a laboratory.

As in previous surveys, respondents named companies they considered the best employers and rated them in categories such as leadership and direction, work culture / environment, and intellectual challenge.

These results indicate that such a microorganism can find a way to survive even in intricate and challenging environments, where other creatures may become extinct, such as shallow water where a whale may become stuck.

This connection to the growth of our culture, society, and economy is all the motivation I need to face up to the challenges of working in such a dynamic environment.

One such challenge: how to get qubits to interact with each other while not engaging with their surrounding environment.

However, because the inner Milky Way is such a crowded environment, it has always been a challenge to disentangle stellar motions to probe the bulge in detail.

«In doing so, the hope is that evidence will be seen not just as another voice in the endless «he said, she said» of assertive discourse, but rather as a documented body of derived knowledge worthy of serious consideration as society addresses looming challenges in areas such as health and medicine, the environment and national security.»

Science in the Big League, an essay written by Norwegian particle physicist Egil Lillestol, who has spent a lot of time at CERN, is a great introduction to CERN's multinational environment and the joys and challenges of doing science on such a big scale.

This contact with international colleagues of such a high calibre is one of the most exciting aspects of working in such an organisation, plus the political and administrative challenges of working in a truly international environment are fascinating and rewarding.

My scientific background gave me the tools I needed to manage the challenges of the business environment in the pharmaceutical industry, such as working in cross-functional teams with varied objectives and agendas.

Their high densities reflect the challenge of retaining a substantial gas envelope in such extreme environments.

Despite the protection offered by the cellular environment, the integrity of DNA is continuously challenged by a variety of endogenous and exogenous agents (e.g. ultraviolet light, cigarette smoke, environmental pollution, oxidative damage, etc...) that cause DNA lesions, interfering with proper cellular functions, such as transcription, inducing premature cellular death and finally premature ageing and organs dysfunctions.

Further challenges include the identification of signaling molecules that promote the generation of beneficial populations of astrocytes, identification of appropriate stem and / or progenitor cell populations that can be the source of such cells, and determination of whether there are situations in which it is more useful to transplant astrocytes themselves rather than to transplant stem or progenitor cells that might generate astrocytes in vivo in response to signals present in the host environment.

If life was able to showcase such a tenacity on Earth, could it mean that life could have arisen on other parts of the Solar System, in equally challenging environments?

«Demonstrating quantum effects such as teleportation outside of a lab environment involves a whole new set of challenges.

While luxury brands wanted to reach newspapers» huge readerships, the newspaper environment — where ads might sit alongside news stories on, say, crime, or ads for everyday products such as washing up liquid — was a challenge.

Players will choose from 30 authentic Hot Wheels cars to compete in 24 stunt challenges on 12 different tracks set in environments such as Buccaneer Bay, Jurassic Jam, Zero Gravity Zone, Tiki Island, Spider Alley and Lava Land.

Other notable Unreal Engine 4 projects include the gorgeous Absention, a new survival horror title inspired by true survival horror greats such as Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness and Silent Hill so fans can expect a mixture of mental challenge, intense gameplay, and immersive environments.

Other Unreal Engine 4 projects of note include the gorgeous Absention, a new survival horror title inspired by true survival horror greats such as Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness and Silent Hill so fans can expect a mixture of mental challenge, intense gameplay, and immersive environments.

Based in Houston, the nonprofit in which McDonald serves as national director of strategic initiatives places low - income, urban high school seniors into challenging work environments such as Continental Airlines, Exxon, and NASA.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

Both steps would be politically challenging in a heavily unionized environment such as the one in place today.

As part of the Advanced Leadership Initiative, an interfaculty initiative that brings together accomplished leaders interested in complex social challenges such as education, health, environment, and poverty, the conference will consider how social entrepreneurs can help fill leadership gaps to support educational institutions that promote children and youth to develop the skills and dispositions necessary to get along and live...

In such circumstances, a negative feedback loop can emerge in which stressed, dysregulated children and chaotic environments strain EEC providers, interrupting their interactions with children and hindering their ability to manage behavior, cope with challenges, and provide high quality instruction.

Mounting evidence from fields like neuroscience and cognitive psychology, as well as studies on such topics as school turnaround implementation, shows that an academically challenging yet supportive and safe learning environment boosts both children's learning and coping abilities.

Creating such an environment where authentic learning is the norm rather than the exception is not without its challenges.

Why, then, do the majority of district, state, and federal education policies prioritize annual assessment results over equally important factors, such as challenging and engaging curricula; strong social - emotional and physical health supports; moral and ethical development; and safe, supportive learning environments?

Some students select the problem they will attempt to solve on the basis of the global development challenges they are most passionate about (such as hunger, health, education, gender equality, or the environment).

Factors such as increased class size, student engagement, challenging home environments, and school culture all have significant impact on overall student behavior.

Prison environments and prison cultures create a multitude of challenges, such as the physical environment itself, social dynamics and hierarchy, and interaction and relationships with incarcerated...