Sentences with phrase «data 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.

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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.

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.

The group also analyzed data from national forest inventories across Europe, making the study one of the most comprehensive analyses of forest ecosystem functioning at this scale to date.

He and researchers at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)-- which is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and based on Princeton's Forrestal Campus — had an idea for solving this problem by using continental - scale data.

But Jacob Taylor, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, says it provides experimental data for «a quiet revolution» in statistical physics, the study of how heat flows both in microscopic systems and on the scale of everyday life.

The National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) hosted at SciLifeLab offers large - scale DNA sequence data generation and analysis.

And just as the Facebook debacle raises public concerns about the use of personal data, a new international test of ten and 15 - year - olds is to be introduced by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-- a powerful influence on national education policies at a global scale.

While models with parental education and parental occupation were marginally better at predicting pupil achievement, the potential costs of switching to either of these approaches far outweighed any slight gains.Switching to either approach would require significant investment to collect data, and collecting data on parents» education levels or occupations on a national scale could be a challenge.

The two of us, along with Tom Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center, undertook a literature review to try to move beyond the anecdotes and understand what scientists were really saying at the time regarding the various forces shaping climate on time human time scales.

Although EIA has provided annual estimates of capacity and generation for small - scale PV systems at the national level in the Annual Energy Outlook for many years, it has not previously developed monthly state - level estimates for small - scale PV that could be integrated with EIA data for utility - scale generation and capacity.

Warmest 12 - month periods 1895 - 2012 NOAA National Climatic Data Center At an even larger scale, note that all the 12 warmest 12 - month periods since 1895 have occurred since 2000.

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

(A) coordinate programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to ensure the timely production and distribution of data and information on global, national, regional, and local climate variability and change over all time scales relevant for planning and response, including intraseasonal, interannual, decadal, and multidecadal time National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to ensure the timely production and distribution of data and information on global, national, regional, and local climate variability and change over all time scales relevant for planning and response, including intraseasonal, interannual, decadal, and multidecadal time national, regional, and local climate variability and change over all time scales relevant for planning and response, including intraseasonal, interannual, decadal, and multidecadal time periods;

Researchers at CIRES» National Snow and Ice Data Center [About NSIDC] investigate the dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves, new techniques for the remote sensing of snow and freeze / thaw cycle of soils, the role of snow in hydrologic modeling, linkages between changes in sea ice extent and weather patterns, large - scale shifts in polar climate, river and lake ice, and the distribution and characteristics of seasonally and permanently frozen ground.

In order to test a possible CR - cloud connection, Sun & Bradley (2002) made use of long - term surface - based cloud data over land from national weather services at regional scales, and over ocean from observing ships over an approximately 50 year period from the datasets of Groisman et al. (2000) and Hahn & Warren (1999).

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.

When millions of customers can be affected by large - scale data breaches at national retailers and major airlines can be literally ground to a halt when technology fails, the increasing dependency of companies across the economy on technology is apparent to everyone.