Sentences with phrase «encourage use of the system»

In order to encourage the formation of an environmental ecosystem, the company has developed the system in open code, and has also founded a non-profit fund to encourage use of the system.

«[W] e will no longer invest directly in new initiatives based on teacher evaluations and ratings,» Gates said, adding his foundation «will continue to gather data on the impact of these systems and encourage the use of these systems to improve instruction at the local level.»

Not exact matches

The backup power system recently installed by Tesla in Australia — the world's largest lithium - ion battery — has already responded to two major power outages after just weeks in use, an encouraging sign for the future of renewable energy.

This is not fair to the working middle class because the Federal Government uses the tax system to encourage a lot of corporate behavior.

That bill would, among other things, help establish a system of «rewards for information leading to convictions related to terrorist use of digital currencies,» and «a FinTech Leadership in Innovation Program to encourage the development of tools and programs to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies.»

Some states help with homeownership There is a small but growing number of states that are using their tax systems to encourage would - be homeowners to save for their down payments.

The sale of the four - bed home, on 3.33 acres of land near Red Deer, Alberta, is one of the first in Canada that can be carried out using the peer - to - peer electronic money system and owner Penny Kander hopes it will encourage Chinese investors who are looking for development land.

The bible was written by a nation of people who believed a certain way and used those writings to encourage their people to stay with a belief system that worked for them and their way of life.

With the coming of television, people were further encouraged to meet the needs of capitalism: to consume without end, to use up, throw away and buy again; to repress individuality so as to not question the process which provided an endless stream of products; to seek the immediate and the sensational, changing the channel every few seconds if it did not provide immediate stimulation; and, above all, never to ask questions about the real meaning of the system itself.

If you recall the token system, perhaps a new entrant might get more development tokens for the first couple of years - there are some smart initiatives you can use to encourage people into F1.»

I try to encourage mothers by sharing with them my story of pumping for 2 weeks waiting for my milk to come in while my husband used a supplemental nursing system to feed our daughter (something they don't usually offer at my current hospital).

To encourage your baby to get used to an evening routine, feed them slightly earlier in the evening and then get them ready for bed; their digestive system will start to shut down as it gets later in the day, like adults and they will be able to sleep for longer periods of time between feeds.

Unfortunately, rather than encourage more active parenting in both parents, it's been used to create an even more adversarial system where suddenly parents are crazed and criminal and facts are taken out of context in smear campaigns.

They said a rewards system might encourage the use of such a card.

Behavior Redirection, also referred to as behavior modification, uses a child's natural interests (cars, food, movies, storybook characters, movement, games, etc) along with a system of natural consequences, obtainable goals, and rewards to encourage success.

The company is focusing on defending its actions in China, using the regulatory system to «encourage» rivals such as Microsoft to make changes in business practices, defending its acquisition of companies such as DoubleClick from anti-trust accusations, and working to open government information to searches.

An adoption of this method would also affect existing incentive structures within the international financial system as the risk of repudiating illegitimate debts would cause creditors to lend with increased caution, exercise due diligence and implement policies that encourage transparency of how the funds are used.

The HCRA was passed at the initiative of Governor George Pataki to replace the system of State - regulated payments to hospitals with a more competitive strategy that encouraged negotiations between the institutions and insurers and promoted the use of managed care organizations for the Medicaid population.

Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo of Brooklyn, chair of the Committee on Women's Issues, held a more than hour - long press conference yesterday to criticize Brattons» remarks encouraging women to use a «buddy system» in order to reduce the likelihood of being assaulted, and demanded a more thorough police strategy to combat sexual assault.

«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»

In the immediate post-war period, even before the creation of the West - German state, allied military governors used the license system to prevent divisions between parties and especially encourage the creation of a large Christian - Democrat political party (as opposed to the separate catholic and protestant parties that existed during the Weimar period).

Friends of the Earth's GM Campaigner, Clare Oxborrow said: «Instead of helping the GM industry to use the food crisis for financial gain, the Government should be encouraging a radical shift towards sustainable farming systems that genuinely benefit local farmers, communities and the environment worldwide.»

Ironically, the need to modernize the state's energy system dovetails with the goal of developing policies that encourage energy use reduction, efficiency measures, and the move to reliance on alternative energy sources, such as solar power.

In yet another example of Copycat Labour we learnt that Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham conceded that there were moral arguments for using the tax system to encourage marriage.

A longer - term approach entails reducing the demand for cybersecurity professionals in the first place by limiting the use of problematic computer applications or encouraging the development of harder - to - hack operating systems.

Study authors Dr. Robert C. Amland, Dr. James M. Haley, and Dr. Jason J. Lyons studied data from a hospital that uses the two - stage sepsis CDS system to encourage early detection of sepsis.

«It is still worthwhile to encourage the immune system to make a greater quantity of antibodies, even if their quality does not rise appreciably, and the value of vaccination may be greater when the flu vaccine strains are not identical to those used in previous seasons» vaccines,» he says.

In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care.»

E.V.: Under the old system, TTOs encouraged their academic scientists to maintain good records of their conception and reduction - to - practice of an invention, in case a patent or patent application was pulled into a patent interference used to determine who invented it first.

He is using growth factors to encourage severed nerves of the central nervous system to grow

«It's particularly encouraging that these analyses use the types of data available to any large health care system,» said NIMH Director Thomas Insel, M.D.» These methods could help us prevent civilian as well as veteran suicides.»

This uses a system of rewards and / or «punishments» to encourage patients suffering the consequences of «maladaptive behaviour», such as agoraphobia or compulsive hand washing, to alter their disabling or unacceptable response to some feature of the world in which they live.

The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; allows biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work with the tool - users (biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.

We encourage contributions on current and prospective observation technologies for GHGs, modeling studies to quantify budgets and / or uncertainties in GHG flux estimates, and evaluation and benchmarking of GHG estimates from Earth System Models using contemporary observations.

I have been personally approached many times and encouraged to sell these systems and there would have been large revenue streams had I chosen to do so, but I would never promote anything that I would never use personally, and I can assure you that I would never use most of the machines on the market that produce alkaline water as a regular source of water.

Ayurveda or Ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional medicine native to India, which uses a range of specialised PCOS natural treatments, including yoga, massage, acupuncture and herbal medicine, to encourage health and wellbeing.

«By including an HDMI input on the Xbox One, Microsoft is encouraging users to plug their other set - top devices in through the system so they can receive messages and game invites and do other things while watching TV or using other devices,» writes Kyle Orland of Ars Technica.

It's a nice way to encourage you to make use of the movement system's ins and outs.

The Stardew Valley Wiki permits editors to use any citation system that allows the reader to understand where the information came from, and strongly encourages use of inline citations to do so.

In the three years that we have been using the TAP system, we have found that the school - wide rewards part of the bonus encourages teachers to work together to make everyone more effective.

A clean washroom that has plenty of hand wash, and an effective hand drying system, will encourage students to use good hand hygiene practices.

Systems built around individual value - added calculations can stymie the smart use of personnel that reformers should encourage.

Use of these should be encouraged until contractors become used to the changes and are able to develop their own systems.

Regrettably, many states still don't consider student growth; alternatively, they may use a «growth to proficiency» system, which continues to encourage schools to ignore the needs of students above (or far above) the proficient level.

Once they're comfortable with the way that one thinking routine has worked in their classroom, they can branch out and focus on different kinds of inquiry, like Here Now / There Then, which could be used in a civics class to help students understand how past perspectives change over time; or Parts, Purpose, Complexities, which encourages observation and understanding of art objects or mechanical systems.

«Not only will this format give school systems the flexibility to use an assessment that reflects their curricular program, but also it will reinforce the kinds of content - rich academic instruction Louisiana wants to encourage statewide,» said State Superintendent John White.

The National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers could lead the development of common standards for evidence use within state school systems and encourage their implementation.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Data from this system show that using these programs: • increases educational achievement • encourages students to take more college - preparatory courses in high school • increases students» college readiness • promotes educational and career planning • promotes college readiness of underrepresented minority students • promotes educational achievement in college, college enrollment, and persistence in college

Congress could advance school improvement substantially, though, if members look at accountability systems and encourage states to adopt data dashboards in place of the relatively simple measures of school performance states currently use.