Sentences with phrase «focus increased effort»

First, the possibility of financial rewards tied to increased student achievement would motivate existing teachers to focus increased effort and innovation on student achievement.

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Morgan Stanley is increasing its focus in the international wealth management business and recruited Musa to lead its efforts.

After several months of brainstorming ways to drive traffic to the Orabrush website and increase sales, Wagstaff and freelance marketing consultant Jeffrey Harmon decided to focus their efforts on a YouTube video.

In an effort to improve sales productivity, organizations historically have invested in technology that's specifically focused on increasing efficiency: configure, price and quote (CPQ) solutions; deal desks; contract management software and the like.

This key piece of information helps you better understand which of your content pieces are hitting the right mark, and where you need to focus your content optimization efforts in order to increase your content marketing success.

Coach is focused on athletics, naturally, but also on Columbia's ambitious expansion efforts — and he's also managed to get the likes of Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner and another Columbia football teammate, to increase his involvement.

CareNet has indicated an increased interest towards information security efforts focused on risk mitigation, application security, and secure data transmission between clients.

Due to increasing complexity and length of annual and quarterly financial reports, meeting these criteria requires a focused effort and, perhaps, significant changes in the way research is created by most firms.

In light of the considerable efforts under way to implement a macroprudential approach to enhance financial stability and the increased focus of policymakers on monitoring emerging financial stability risks, I see three key principles that should guide the interaction of monetary policy and macroprudential policy in the United States.

By focusing on improving nurturing efforts, you will be able to increase the sales opportunities from inbound leads.

Kinder Morgan's Alberta lobbying efforts over the past nine months focused exclusively on the Trans Mountain expansion, seeking, amongst other objectives, to «convey economic importance and benefits of the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Project through increase market access for Alberta crude oil products.»

Since I've only been focused on getting my works published in printed magazines thus far, I'm shifting my efforts to increasing my blog traffic.

The recent meeting in Madrid was one example of the Catholic group's continuing creative efforts; one hopes that the number of such internationally focused events will increase.

Discussions with executives at several national and regional baking companies pointed to an increased focus on innovation and stepped - up marketing efforts.

The report details Novelis» efforts to increase its recycling capacity and the recycled content of its products to 80 per cent by 2020 with a focus on innovation and technology to accelerate the use of recycled aluminum.

ABOUT THE VIRGINIA DISTILLERS ASSOCIATION (VDA): The VDA is a nonprofit private trade association focused on promotional efforts to increase awareness of Virginia's growing craft spirits industry, as well as the regulatory and legislative needs of the industry.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Community education efforts should focus strongly on increasing exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life, decreasing parental smoking and smoking during pregnancy and educating parents, non-parental caregivers and hospital staff about the dangers of non-supine sleep positions for infants.

This in depth, intensive support - that focuses on healing the mother and baby where they were disrupted - and father witnessed, usually powerlessly - is what is missing from most efforts to stop crying, increase sleep, and feel that connection mother desires.

There is another lesson to be learned, too: the emphasis on «jobs tax» and the business - focused efforts on helping out»em ployers», have a strikingly similar overall effect to the very different - sounding income tax allowance increase backed by Nick Clegg's party.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

Meanwhile, the EU should focus on amplifying its long - term leverage in both Moldova and Transnistria by increasing the resources devoted to Moldova, and coordinating its approach with Ukraine, which will lead the OSCE resolution effort in 2013.

The reform effort is focusing on two key priorities: Enacting Kavanagh's bill to repealing the «vacancy bonus» landlords receive in increased rents when tenants leave, and reforming the so - called «preferential rent» (AKA «bait - and - switch») provisions that allow landlords to raise rents dramatically after tenants are occupying an apartment.

The 74 - year - old senator's success, including his upset victory in the Michigan primary last week, has been fueled by his appeal to younger voters, who so far have resisted Clinton's efforts to reach out to them through targeted TV ads and an increased focus on issues such as student debt.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

The study recommends government agencies focus efforts on enacting policies and programs to better protect rural households during a drought, such as supporting sustainable agriculture projects in the region, increasing transportation options to access city centers and providing access to insurance and credit schemes.

As a result, even though the sense of smell has a major contribution to the flavors of foods, most efforts to increase food intake in kidney disease patients have focused on the sense of taste and direct appetite stimulation.

«Alternatively, we can focus our conservation efforts on medium - high risk populations, where we can encourage the bats to move to more suitable areas through increasing connectivity with other populations and to areas where climatic conditions will remain more suitable.»

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

To date, the U.S. effort has focused largely on technology and policy solutions that would reduce energy consumption and increase renewable energy supplies.

Many research groups of oenological microbiology have focused their efforts to achieve these general goals, motivated by an industry that can understand that lower cost products can significantly increase their competitiveness.

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

«Because depression, anxiety and substance abuse appeared to be the most common diagnoses among the patients we studied, and because each was associated with increased readmission rates, these disorders may be the most appropriate for healthcare systems to focus their primary screening efforts.»

More broadly, efforts should be focused on strengthening government institutions in vulnerable countries and helping them invest in «green growth» policies aimed at increasing economic growth while fostering resilience to climate shocks, he said.

«Our study suggests that these efforts should consider time of day and also focus on increasing lower - intensity physical activity and reducing inactivity.»

«Efforts to increase organ donor consent rates by all parties should be a major focus of the transplant community and the general public,» Goldberg said.

The researchers suggest, based on their analysis of the data, that screening compliance could be increased by focusing educational and outreach efforts on certain groups who were less likely to get their infants screened for congenital CMV: less educated mothers, babies not born in a hospital and infants who received hearing tests later than 14 days after birth.

His 4 - year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget - cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

McIntyre stresses that it's a «trap» to think that increasing the focus on men somehow will detract from efforts to protect women.

The primary focus of future research efforts on these alloys is increasing the weight of the materials to make them more resistant to impacts.

This past year — 2016 — we took steps in a number of crucial areas to increase access to care through the expansion of our physical plant in Belmont, Massachusetts, as well as to focus efforts on emerging uses of technology to improve delivery of care.

We present here the latest developments of the Ensembl project, with a focus on managing an increasing number of assemblies, supporting efforts in genome interpretation and improving our browser.

We need to move beyond NIH funding and increase efforts in philanthropy focused on pancreatic cancer to solve this problem.

«For example, we should tailor our intervention efforts by focusing on increasing the integration of mental health services into primary care,» Rego said.

These were focused on your abdominal muscles as well as your glutes, but they had identical results — when you concentrate your effort, your neutral activation is increased and your musculature feels better.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

That makes the skin one of the most powerful (and most overlooked) areas of the body to focus on not just for our beautifying and anti-aging efforts, but also for calming our nervous system, increasing oxytocin levels, and boosting our immunity.

If estrogen, progesterone, and thyroid function / levels are normal, then the focus of your efforts should probably be on increasing testosterone naturally.

After all, you want to focus most of your efforts on the types of exercises, sequencing, and combinations that stimulate the biggest increases in testosterone and growth hormone response.