Sentences with phrase «examining issues of scale»

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While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

A set of seven papers was commissioned to examine experiences with and lessons from large - scale performance assessment in the United States and abroad, including technical advances, feasibility issues, policy implications, usage with English - language learners, and costs.

Students examine the reasons for the patterns in the health, the issues with the spread of the diseases and management at local and global scales.

Virtual groups comprised of partners across the network examine issues of growth, scale and sustainability.

The second - wave feminist and conceptual artist Mary Kelly has made a career out of combining the personal with the political, examining issues of gender, identity, and collective memory in large - scale narratives.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, he created large - scale oil stick and charcoal drawings that allegorically examined issues of family, identity, gender, love, death, loss, and the passage of time.

Most research related to grazing management, and thus carbon sequestration potential, on rangelands cited by Briske et al. [1,2,3] has been short - term and has examined the issue from a reductionist viewpoint that ignores the critical influences of scale, and does not use adaptive multi-paddock grazing to achieve sound animal production, resource improvement, and socio - economic goals under constantly varying conditions on rangelands [4].

Succession planning, talent retention and growing and scaling tech companies were just some of the issues raised in 2017 as Crain's examined challenges faced by small and midsize companies.