Sentences with phrase «conduct more community»

The applicants withdrew last month to conduct more community outreach.

Not exact matches

As Mitra got similar results again and again (to date, Hole In The Wall experiments have been conducted in more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselves.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

If we do need to move in the direction of giving asset price and debt developments more weight in the conduct of monetary policy than hitherto, we need to educate our respective communities about these issues.

Miner One conducted a survey of more than 1,500 community members, and reported that 31 percent believe bitcoin will go higher than $ 15,000 this year.

As a result, ICE is forced to dedicate more resources to conduct at - large arrests in these communities.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Determined to be more than just a resource for pre-recorded class videos, with MTRNL.com, Fillingham has been able to create a virtual community in which the classes are conducted live and allow for direct communication and support for her students.

Since then, more than 2.3 million home visits have been conducted in nearly 800 at - risk communities across the country.

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

But there is something to be said for conducting research which permits more nuanced and detailed answers from respondents and which engages with people within their communities.

So if Freddie Blay is openly in support of the lawlessness of the invincible forces, it makes it more compelling for us to draw the attention of the International Community to the irresponsible conduct of the Acting Chairman of the ruling party.»

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

They conducted 300 fundraisers to benefit more than 300 organizations and community groups.

We urge the Department of Transportation to release data, progress, conclusions, and recommendations from any traffic study at this intersection conducted in 2017 or that is underway, and to commit to developing a comprehensive plan for community review that will route bridge traffic to wider streets with more capacity.

Current federal efforts to revive the coal industry will likely do more harm than good to fragile Appalachian communities transitioning from coal as a major source of employment, according to a study conducted by Indiana University researchers.

«We found that more communication between people who experienced the tornado and their families, friends and neighbors was related to more post-traumatic growth among survivors,» said Vicky Mieseler, chief administrative officer with the Ozark Center in Joplin, who led the community mental health response to the tornado and helped conduct this study.

One study in the Journal conducted by researchers at the CDC finds that even relatively modest improvements — such as providing more latrines and community water pipes and disinfecting water with chlorine — could over the next two decades prevent up to 78,567 cases of cholera.

Though one might expect the report to focus on the types of hardware, software and networking required for conducting cybersecurity experiments, the main takeaway is even more fundamental: the research community needs to develop a «science of cybersecurity experimentation.»

Now, it is apparent from reading even the first few pages of The Skeptical Environmentalist that Lomborg proposes to make the case that not just environmentalists, but a considerable part of the heretofore respectable environmental - science community, have been misunderstanding the relevant concepts, misrepresenting the relevant facts, understating the uncertainties, selecting data, and failing to acknowledge errors after these have been pointed out in other words, that the scientist contributors to what he calls «the environmental litany» (namely, that environmental problems are serious and becoming, in many instances more so) have been guilty of massively violating the scientists code of conduct.

«To preserve the balance of NASA's science portfolio and maintain flexibility to conduct missions that were determined to be more important by the science community, the Budget provides no funding for a multi-billion-dollar mission to land on Europa,» OMB officials wrote.

The inadequacy of wet - lab training has, he notes, led «a number of prescient community colleges» to conduct «a «baccalaureate retread» business, allowing undertrained students to become competitive with students from more industry - responsive higher educational institutions.»

Although the scientific community widely sees nonhuman primates as essential for advances in biomedicine (they have facilitated major gains in the fights against AIDS and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, for example), researchers agree more can be done to treat the animals more humanely and conduct research less wastefully.

Specifically this Notice: 1) develops principles based on 20 years» experience of providing instruction in responsible conduct of research by the scientific research community; 2) is more specific about who should participate, how often instruction should occur, and the form that instruction should take; 3) addresses issues that have arisen as the practice of biomedical, behavioral and clinical science has evolved; and 4) provides guidance to applicants, peer reviewers and NIH staff in determining how well specific plans for instruction in responsible conduct of research compare with the best practices accumulated over the past two decades by the research training community.

These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.

Recipients participate in a variety of community engagement activities including operating free neighborhood clinics, helping patients pay for their medications, delivering healthy literacy education and mentorship to youth, handing out free bike helmets to kids, conducting medical and psychological examinations to those seeking asylum in the United States, giving out safe sleep sacs for newborn infants, and more!

True to our mission and values, the McLean Hospital community of more than 2,000 faculty and staff strives to deliver ever better compassionate care, conduct pioneering research designed to translate discoveries into better outcomes, and provide...

The presenter said that we needed more breeders and researchers to continue conducting experimental research projects to prove to the conventional academic community that «organic can compete.»

Also, at the same time I friended him on Facebook, which at the time his page was more like a Q&A forum where he answered any and all questions and it was a community of quite a few of us conducting personal experiments on ourselves and others with his methods.

After your yoga teacher training at the Yogalaya you will find you are one among a community of teachers that is confident and capable of conducting yoga classes more effectively.

An empirical study of the financial impact of online communities on commerce, conducted by the University of Michigan, found that engaged consumers spend more money.

PR WEB — Aug 17 — A new nationwide survey conducted by People Media, a provider of targeted online dating communities, in association with Chicago market researcher Synovate, found that half of all Americans know at least one person who has dated someone they met online, and the majority of that group actually know more than one person.

Likewise, according to The Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Generational Portrait (a survey of Americans conducted in 2002), students who reported that their teachers led discussions of politics and government were more involved in their communities and more attentive to the news than other students.

Each fortnight, more than a dozen student volunteers from Kincumber High School walk down to their local creek to conduct water quality tests — monitoring the health and the quality of the waterway in their local community.

The 2012 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that after taking all grants and scholarships into account, attending one year of community college runs dependent students from low - income families more than $ 8,000 in tuition, fees, and living costs (see the green «Net price of attendance» bars in Figure 2).

The class is in the midst of conducting an urban investigation, a unique, local service - learning project that asks students to confront challenging issues within their community to gain fuller understanding and become more engaged citizens.

In 2013, research conducted at Stanford University found that «students in high - achieving communities who spend too much time on homework experience more stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance in their lives, and alienation from society.»

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

The education sector is becoming more environmentally aware and realising the impact their operations have on the wider community according to a recent Leafield Environmental survey conducted ahead of WRAP Recycle Week.

With gamification and game - based learning producing some outstanding results, the scientific community is conducting more and more research into the power of gameplay in non-game scenarios.

A just - released study of the initiative, conducted by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, found that among the 3,000 students enrolled in the program, participants were, on average, more likely to graduate from high school, transition to a four - year college (rather than a two - year college), accumulate more college credits and persist in postsecondary education.

It includes administrative support, training conducted by teacher leaders and other teaching experts, opportunities to observe master teachers, participation in professional learning communities, and more.

In a research synthesis discussed in the executive summary of STEM Teachers in Professional Learning Communities: A Knowledge Synthesis conducted by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future and WestEd, Fulton and Britton (2011) stated, «STEM teaching is more effective and student achievement increases when teachers join forces to develop strong professional learning communities in their schools» (p. 4).

Rockman conducted a 19 - month study of The Big Read to learn more about how communities held a Big Read — what books they chose, what partners they enlisted, what promotional and programming strategies they devised, what NEA resources they used, and what audiences they reached.

In his This Week in Education blog today, Alexander Russo wonders if the education community will finally «move off its duff» and begin conducting more scientifically based research.

Those who conducted the survey also say the teachers who aren't satisfied with their jobs are more likely to feel their professional expertise is not respected in the community.

It brings together more than 400 national organizations and thousands of community leaders to focus the nation's attention on young people's lives and voices, lead bold campaigns to expand opportunity, conduct groundbreaking research on what young people need to thrive, and accelerate the adoption of strategies that help young people succeed.

Since then, SCASDP awards have helped more than 300 communities develop projects tailored to their own air service needs, such as providing financial incentives to carriers, conducting studies on the possibilities of expanded service, and carrying out marketing programs to promote existing local service.

Stephanie Chandler is the author of several books including The Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan: Online and Offline Promotion Strategies to Build Your Audience andSell More Books and Own your Niche: Hype - Free Internet Marketing Tactics to Establish Authority in Your Field and Promote Your Service - Based Business.Stephanie is also founder and CEO of NonfictionAuthorsAssociation.com, a vibrant educational community for experienced and aspiring writers, and NonfictionWritersConference.com, an annual event conducted entirely online.

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