Sentences with phrase «developments during the past year»

A look at major scientific and engineering advances in research developments during the past year.

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Triggered by development, Perth city has made a noticeable shift towards what is now known as the «west end» during the past 20 years.

My conclusion is that developments in the global economy during the past 50 years have greatly reduced the economic disadvantages of small nations enumerated for his time by Hamilton.

During the past year, the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the design, amounts, and effectiveness of the Company's compensation of senior executives, management succession planning, the Company's benefit and compensation programs, the Company's human resources programs, including review of workplace discrimination and harassment reports, and feedback from the Company's shareholder engagement.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

«During the past year, ICBC overcame the hard hit as a result of the financial crisis and realized healthy and stable development.

An interesting development during the past ten years is counterintuitive.

Peter Sachse, chief innovation and business development officer for Macy's, said in a statement his company has had «initial success in partnering over the past year with Alibaba on various projects, including accepting Alipay on macys.com and conducting a special promotion during Black Friday 2014.»

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past... (few) years.»

During the past several years, Blue California has devoted significant resources to the research and development of natural sweeteners as potential alternatives to sugar and artificial sweeteners.

«I have called Mount Snow home for the past 31 years, and look forward to leading this award - winning team during this period of expansion, innovation, and development.»

As a paediatrician who has spent the past 30 years trying to understand both normal sleep in infants and children and problems that can arise during such sleep, I was heartened to read this book, which builds effectively on what we know about infant sleep and development.

During the past 20 years, under Governments of different political stripes, significant developments have included the removal of most hereditary peers from the House of Lords, freedom on information legislation, the establishment of the Supreme Court, the introduction of fixed - term Parliaments, and the domestic legal entrenchment of human rights.

During the past few years the organization has grown significantly and I know this funding comes at a critical time in its development,» said Legislator Rath.

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

It provides new insight into the climatic relationships that caused the development of major ice - age cycles during the past two million years.

The service carries bilingual news releases and promotes bilateral science communication through professional development seminars for public information officers in China, including four such seminars during the past year.

Over the past 50 years, and especially during the past 20 years of social and economic reform, the Chinese government has attached great importance to the development of science and technology.

Over the past year, more than 140 governments from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean recognized the special vulnerability of children during critical periods of development and declared the need for more awareness, information and monitoring of EDCs including in children's products, pesticides, electronics, building materials and textiles.

I was fascinated to read how the double duplication of the SRGAP2 gene, which helps drive development of the brain's neocortex, appears to have propelled our ancestors» development at two distinct times during the past few million years (12 May, p 10).

During the past year alone, concerns about oversight of high - containment laboratories; vetting of personnel (personnel reliability); the efficacy of security measures in place for the select agent program; medical countermeasure research, development and distribution; bioterrorism and pandemic influenza preparedness; misuse of beneficial biological research and technologies; and microbial forensics have generated several policy evaluations and prompted the development of policy recommendations and legislation.

This past November, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization published their most recent global science report, analyzing the trends and developments that have shaped scientific research, education and industry during the past five years.

During the past few years, Downtown LA has undergone a dramatic development and exploded with tons of new trendy restaurants, shopping areas, entertainment and amazing rooftops with even better views.

James Cameron has spent the past few years hammering away at development on the upcoming trio of sequels to his 2009 mega-blockbuster Avatar, and with the films gearing up to go into back - to - back production the director has provided a brief update during a chat with Empire.

The past year, one thing that was constantly a point of discussion when it comes to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the illusive «Mission 51 (Kingdom of the Flies)», an additional mission that was cut during development.

«Unless concerted action is taken and education receives the attention that it failed to get during the past 15 years, millions of children will continue to miss out and the transformative vision of the new Sustainable Development agenda will be jeopardized,» said GMR Director, Aaron Benavot.

However, research we conducted last year amongst primary school teachers showed that seven in ten of participating teachers had not undertaken any professional development in «food» during the past two years.

CSN has piloted new advocacy initiatives during the past year, and is poised for exciting developments under Gomez's leadership.

While watching the Sixers string together a couple wins recently, I started to think about how the team's development over the past few seasons highlights some of the best lessons I learned about myself during my two years in ACE.

PARCC and Smarter Balanced are now past the halfway mark of their four - year grants — the Technical Review will help the Department support their work by analyzing their progress meeting the requirements laid out in the Race to the Top Assessment program and identifying how we can better partner with the consortia during this critical development phase.

The price increase «will greatly reduce the likelihood that we will buy their offerings,» said Jamie LaRue, director of Colorado's Douglas County Libraries, which has pioneered the development of library - owned, library managed ebook collections during the past year.

Only during the past 10,000 years, with the development of agriculture, have our ancestors lived in more complex societies where the ability to think long - term and plan for the future was an advantage.

Late last month we learned that The Other Brothers, a pixely retro - inspired platformer that's had something of a rocky road during its development the past year or so, finally had the finish line in sight and was shooting for a

In addition, these requests were supported by representations that have been made during the past two years to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, by samplings of public opinion, and by recent legislative developments in several provinces.

On the 24th August 2016, Malta joined several other Member States in the EU which during the past years have been reorganising development financial institutions or setting up new ones with a view to amplify their potential by promoting investment and growth.

One client who has been using a development version during the past year told us that, before using Insight Enterprise, collecting reports about outside counsel was a twice - yearly process that required as many as four full - time employees and up to four weeks to prepare.

Laurel S. Terry, The Impact of Global Developments on U.S. Legal Ethics During the Past Thirty Years, 30 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 365 (2017)

During this past year, questions have arisen regarding the development and use of lethal fully autonomous weapons in forums such as the Human Rights Council.

Google worked closely with HTC's hardware talent during the development of both the first - gen Pixel and Pixel 2, but now that they're officially working under the Google umbrella, the result should (hopefully) be even better hardware design and reliability than what we've seen from the past two years.

Apple is very insistent that the $ 349 HomePod has been in development for the past six years and that it's entirely focused on sound quality, but it's entering a market where Amazon is advertising Alexa as a lovable and well - known character during the Super Bowl instead of promoting its actual features.

With a desire to help job seekers garner secure positions, promotions and better career development opportunities, during the past seven years, Jim has been very successful in writing many resumes for his clients.

The Career Institute, a collaborative career development program, has been implemented in an early college (a 6th through 12th grade school) during the past seven years.

During the past 8 years of service in capacity of an information architect, I have established sound expertise in development of web based information structure.

Scientific research in the past 30 years regarding the neuro - development of the human brain during childhood directly challenges the basic premises of the behaviorist approach to treating children, and the scientific evidence on neuro - development during childhood offers more effective treatment alternatives beyond merely rewarding «good behavior» and punishing «bad behavior.»

This review addresses pediatric services that promote the optimal development of typically developing children from birth to 3 years of age in studies published during the past 2 decades.

The articles in this issue include the latest research about brain functioning during the first three years of life and the important role of early social interactions for later school readiness and lifelong learning; how toxic stress caused by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is having an impact on the health and development of children; a summary of what has been learned about early development during the past 15 years; and examples of how tribal communities using Federal funding opportunities and partnerships to build more coordinated, effective early childhood systems.

During the past year, the Australian Government has reviewed the operation of the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) and aligned it with mainstream employment programs.

Understanding the neuro - developmental role of child protest behavior is one of the major advancements in our understanding of child development during the past 50 years.

During my term though, I have had the privilege of working with a number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from across the country who have been actively engaged for the past 20 years with indigenous peoples from all over the world on the development of a United Nations document that promotes the protection and the full realisation of the rights of the world's most vulnerable peoples — Indigenous peoples.