Sentences with phrase «critical transition points»

«Reading and math are the core basics, and fourth and eighth grades are critical transition points in a child's educational experience.»

This strategy — which has so far been replicated nationally in eleven states, plus the District of Columbia — includes placing as many visits as possible during summer and fall to parents of teens entering high school — a critical transition point for many students — to begin building a net of support and to connect parents to the new school.

That's because the end of third grade marks a critical transition point in children's learning: It is the time when children shift from learning how to read — the key focus, along with social development, of the early elementary years — to reading to learn.

Not exact matches

The challenge of preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.

«AHS has reached a critical point where the only viable option for sustaining linen services that are core to patient care is to work with our existing linen contract provider and transition AHS facilities to them as effectively as possible,» says a briefing note from June last year.

We are at a critical point of transition from one era to another.

The nation's successful transition is rooted in its well - developed civil society, which intervened at a critical point during the constitutional bargaining process to reconcile the Islamist Ennahda party and more secular political factions.

Also, it must suffice to say that Ghana has reached a critical point in its democratic growth where it needs a coalescing force that will sustain the stability that this country has enjoyed for more than a decade of democratic transitions.

And «critical transitions» or «tipping points» as suggested by the planetary boundaries concept may not exist for many of the cases because those shifts, if they exist, have already happened.

The theory work, described in a paper recently published as an Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters (PRL), identifies key patterns that would be proof of the existence of a so - called «critical point» in the transition among different phases of nuclear matter.

Dr Royall said: «In doing so, they found that the dynamical interpretation of the glass transition seems to end at a «critical point», which is close to, or even coincides with, the temperature at which the ideal glass is formed.

The data may also suggest a possible critical point, where the type of transition changes from the abrupt, first - order kind to a continuous crossover at higher energies.

«Anytime you have a critical point like a phase transition, studying the details really close to that transition tells you about how systems further away from the transition behave,» Goodrich said.

Our goals are to address whether there is evidence for phase transitions or critical phenomena in financial data and to understand the behavioral processes that might move markets closer to critical points.

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

Hopefully with increased awareness and implementation of effective treatment methods, transitioning through and into these critical points in a woman's life can be improved.

The authors make the point that resilience is critical for successful transitions from home to school, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who possess the resilience attributes of social competence, autonomy, mastery, optimism and problem - solving skills are better able to adapt and learn.

Middle School Transition from middle to high school is a critical point in a student's academic career.

At the time of the MoMA's 1968 seminal exhibition, «The Machine,» modern technology was at a point of critical transition between the mechanical age and the rise of electronic development.

But in order to fulfill its critical role in the transition to lower - carbon and improved energy technologies, natural gas must be recognized by policy makers and energy planners as a moment in the process of energy modernization and innovation, not the end point.

In discussions of global change, the term tipping point has been used to describe a variety of phenomena, including the appearance of a positive feedback, reversible phase transitions, phase transitions with hysteresis effects, and bifurcations where the transition is smooth but the future path of the system depends on the noise at a critical point.

A number of components or phenomena within the Earth system have been proposed as potentially possessing critical thresholds (sometimes referred to as tipping points, (Lenton et al., 2008)-RRB-, beyond which abrupt or non-linear transitions to a different state ensues.

This multi-component program works with families at three critical high risk transition points:

The critical point where a profession transitions from an unregulated industry to a regulated profession (i.e. usually the assumption of legislative authority) is precisely the point at which the MINIMUM standards of behaviour are enshrined in regulation... not in a Code of Ethics.