Sentences with phrase «develop national activities»

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If the proposal goes through, FinTech companies applying for a special purpose national bank charter will have to have a robust, well - developed business plan, and a governance structure, capital levels, and liquidity that take into account the risks and complexity of its activities and services.

In addition, the party has pledged other key health - related initiatives, such as limiting the commercialization of genetically modified crops; developing national goals for pre-natal care; reducing cigarette smoking through education and taxes; and promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

We also described the tools of genetic modification (GM) that were used to develop Golden Rice, as well as our plans to seek government approval for our activities, and implement them in a way that we comply with the national policies in every step of the way.

Developed by the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) and Athletic Business magazine, the award recognizes programs that are doing superior jobs of conducting diverse activities with a focus on providing safe and positive experiences for all participants, including children, parents and coaches.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.

STAR - Ghana has initiated a series of activities to inject # 22 million to develop a vibrant, well - informed and assertive civil society, able to contribute to transformational national development for all Ghanaian citizens in an inclusive manner.

This paper summarizes four Canadian National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries held in response to a recommendation that the government «Establish clear legal norms in Canada to ensure that Canadian companies and residents are held accountable when there is evidence of environmental and / or human rights violations associated with the activities of Canadian mining companies.»

Nathaniel Pitts, director of the Office of Integrative Activities at the National Science Foundation (NSF), encouraged him «to gain the best training I could in a basic research setting and then apply that to developing world agriculture.»

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

«What you really want to know is if there's anything in there that can cause biological activity,» says molecular biologist Gordon Hager, at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who developed the assay.

Rochelle Sturtevant, an ecologist who studies the Great Lakes for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hopes Leprieur's study can serve as a cautionary tale as developing nations join the global market and undertake activities that threaten to introduce exotic species into their relatively pristine ecosystems.

-- The term «national deforestation reduction activities» means activities in developing countries that reduce a quantity of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation that is calculated by measuring actual emissions against a national deforestation baseline established pursuant to section 754 (d)(1) and (2).

Procedures for top - level sports students have been developed in dialogue with and according to wishes from students, departments at the university and sports organisations at local, regional and national level so that Uppsala University can to a greater extent facilitate the combining of academic studies and with top - level sports activities.

From 2015 to 2017, Nelson served as a vice chair for the Outreach Committee, participating in various committee activities such as planning of National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW), engaging NPA members through social media, and developing promotional campaigns and videos.

It does this by: Serving as a forum to develop practices that improve effectiveness of activities in an environmentally responsible manner; Facilitating and promoting international partnerships; Providing opportunities and systems for information exchange; and Providing the Antarctic Treaty System with objective and practical, technical and non-political advice drawn from the National Antarctic Programs» pool of expertise.

She is professor of statistics and former director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, where she led research and development for a national agro-environmental survey for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pursued research in geospatial data collection for land - based surveys, and developed statistical models for surveys aimed at assessing dietary intake and physical activity.

A new technique to image messenger RNA activity in real time has been developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland in the US and Xidian University in Shaanxi, China.

As part of the research, scientists Jun Lou and colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed a technique that allowed them to peer through windows created by an electron beam in order to measure the catalytic activity of molybdenum disulfide — the 2 - D material that shows potential for being used in applications using electrocatalysis to separate hydrogen from water.

Participants at the meeting agreed to consider establishment of a network of national science and research organizations along the Belt and Road route to develop joint STI activities.

Pre menopausal women who spend much of their leisure time in physical activities are less likely to develop breast cancer according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, May 2008.

It wants to use the national discussion paper consultation to establish a set of agreed principles for teaching sport and physical activity, and is working with academics to develop an Australian Physical Literacy Standard.

Commercial activity is already advanced and currently, Australian schooling now has the most developed national data infrastructure in the world, due to standardisation rollout, the study says.

One of the best examples of a school integrating rigorous academics with wraparound social services and enrichment activities, Neighborhood House has become a national model for developing a diverse student body's academic and socio - emotional skills.

For example, if a teacher and his or her students really enjoy the language arts activities available in the LearnToLearn pack, and would like to delve deeper into literacy learning using LEGO bricks, then we would recommend LEGO Education StoryStarter, the more comprehensive language arts solution specifically developed to help teachers achieve national curriculum objectives.

Although all activities and lesson plans are developed with learning goals and an awareness of related national standards, and in cooperation with teachers and instructional designers, we continue to learn new techniques from practitioners in the field.

Delivery of curriculum - related assignments and activities that require use of digital media technologies enable teachers to design and develop digital - age learning experiences and assessments that assist students in acquiring the creativity, communication, collaboration, information fluency, digital citizenship and technology, skills encompassed by the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (ISTE, 2007).

Other activities in which teacher candidates engaged have engaged in my courses are attending webinars hosted by the National Council of Geography Education on integrating online maps into pedagogical practice, using Google Earth ™ to create flyovers and virtual fieldtrips, retrieving and analyzing remotely sensed imagery of our town and university to visualize how these places had changed and developed over the years, using various functions in Google Maps ™, and reviewing school demographic and testing data in preparation for instructional planning.

The vision of Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is to develop an intrinsic desire and purpose within our students, that will nurture confidence for authentic leadership opportunities to investigate, collaborate, and resolve issues of inquiry, involving all academic disciplines and extracurricular and athletic activities, within an atmosphere of encouragement steeped in high expectations and natural rewards, thereby yielding healthy, well - rounded, moral, accountable, and compassionate advocates of human rights, national resources, independent means, and civic responsibility.

She has also developed and evaluated interventions for preventing adolescent alcohol use and her general school - based health promotion approach constituted the frame - work for the national Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) funded by NHLBI in 1986, the largest school - based intervention study to reduce cardiovascular risk through diet, activity and tobacco prevention.

Coordinate the launch and activities of a statewide Work Group to develop voluntary OST progarm quality standards for Texas using local, statewide, and national resources.

Every activity at KidZania has been developed and supported by qualified teachers with reference to the National Curriculum, to help bring the classroom to life!

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

Examples of explicit math instruction / activities Developed by National Center on Intensive Intervention

Currently, and in this regard, the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States have entered into a Trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with participation by the respective national Departments and Agencies to develop and implement appropriate emergency preparedness activities.

OST, NHTSA, FHWA, FMCSA, and the National Safety Council are launching new initiatives aimed at maximizing the impact of traffic safety activities in the near - term and developing a long - term vision for a zero - fatality future.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

Cusco develop a general program to celebrate the National Holidays with a series of military activities, school parades, concerts, food festivals, serenades, burning castles and others.

Colab was dependent on grants, too, starting with an encouraging sum of $ 6,000 received by the National Endowment for the Arts but, as David E. Little put it in an article on its early activities, the group also «developed a concept of an anti-hierarchical, artists - only organization that would serve as a hothouse for cultivating collaborative projects and would seek out flexible and multiple distribution outlets to reach audiences, from bars and movie houses to cable television and even alternative spaces.»

This programme has facilitated creative workshops, engagements with project artists, exhibitions, community events for school groups, young people and adult participants, and research and practice sharing activities for stakeholders, all developed to connect audiences with local and national art, artists and heritage.

In the late 1980s, Eveleen further developed her skills at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, before gaining experience in a diverse range of creative activities including theatre set - design, community art, and commercial design.

eg pg xii To improve our predictive capability, we need: • to understand better the various climate - related processes, particularly those associated with clouds, oceans and the carbon cycle • to improve the systematic observation of climate - related variables on a global basis, and further investigate changes which took place in the past • to develop improved models of the Earth's climate system • to increase support for national and international climate research activities, especially in developing countries • to facilitate international exchange of climate data

Encourages developing country Parties to contribute to mitigation actions in the forest sector by undertaking the following activities, as deemed appropriate by each Party and in accordance with their respective capabilities and national circumstances:

We also need to improve the systematic observation of climate - related variables on a global basis; to investigate further past changes; to develop improved models of the Earth's climate system; to increase support for national and international climate research activities, especially in developing countries; and to facilitate the international exchange of climate data.

This activity report provides a comprehensive snapshot of the significant progress and achievements made by the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD)'s 14 National Programmes and other partner countries, as well as the international support and outreach provided by the Programme throughout 2011.

The CRC helped develop climate - related NRC studies; interacted with government agencies on scientific aspects of climate and climate change; served as the U.S. National Committee for the World Climate Research Program (WCRP); coordinated with other NRC entities involved in climate - related activities; and organized meetings and workshops to promote progress in climate research.

This activity report contains information on support provided to developing country Parties and activities undertaken to strengthen existing and, where needed, establish national and regional systematic observation and monitoring networks, based on information contained in the relevant submissions from Parties and information contained in the fifth national communications of Parties included in Annex I to the Convention.

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-- The term «national deforestation reduction activities» means activities in developing countries that reduce a quantity of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation that is calculated by measuring actual emissions against a national deforestation baseline established pursuant to section 754 (d)(1) and (2).

The new report, backed by the prestige of the National Academy of Sciences of which the NRC is the working arm, now argues that we should develop a «portfolio of activities» including mitigation, adaptation and climate engineering.

At the national level, field experiments are currently being developed to test whether citizen monitoring or the provision of information about public services to citizens can limit corruption and the loss of resources for local environmental management activities.