Sentences with phrase «for systematic change»

But it's no substitute for systematic change.
Create a blueprint for systematic change and instructional technology implementation across your district.
These problems underscore the need for a systematic change and true accountability of transgressions of law enforcement agencies in Westchester County.
Calling for a systematic change to American politics in Tuesday's State of the Union, President Barack Obama gave a somewhat surprising shout - out to bipartisan redistricting reform.
The results, published today in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, highlight a serious care disparity for these severely injured patients, and point to the need for systematic changes to improve care.
Since 1995, BT has empowered residents to work together for systematic changes that bring concrete improvement to their lives.»

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According to this meta - study (a fancy name for a literature review), there seems to be a systematic tendency to downplay the economic costs of climate change policies:
Investment and risk management processes need to adapt to these changes and account for systematic risks (including technical) in addition to company - level credit risks.
Its experimental character means it is a kind of theology well suited for times of uncertainty and change, when systematic, comprehensive construction seems inappropriate if not impossible.
Second, how and why does that systematic principle change when later theologians (especially Rahner in relationship to Aquinas, and Schleiermacher and Troeltsch in relationship to Calvin) attempt a new systematic construct for a particular religious tradition?
Evolutionary cosmologies may begin simply as rival evolutionist theories — alternative causal explanations for these observed phenomena of development, change, and transformation.3 An evolutionist theory becomes an evolutionary cosmology whenever the favored evolutionist theory is extrapolated from its original context as an account of geological or biological change, and made to serve as an overarching cosmological category, such that «evolution» in some idiosyncratic sense becomes the basis for a systematic and unified interpretation of a wide array of diverse phenomena beyond the domains of biology and geology.
Around the age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys, developmental changes will enable youth to slowly increase training distance and duration leading to participation in a systematic and competitive training environment.
[iii] Changes in health in England, with analysis by English regions and areas of deprivation, 1990 — 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Lancet 2015; 386: 2257 — 74 Published Online September 15, 2015 http://thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736 (15) 00195 - 6.
If there is majority support for replacing FPP with a PR voting system, is there a systematic approach that supporters of voting reform could follow to bring about this change?
It marks the victory of the party that believes, in the end, in a second chamber which will never mean very much, over the party, Ashdown's party, which has campaigned for years in favour of a systematic, joined - up approach to constitutional change that takes the need for checks and balances as seriously as the appetite all governments have for untrammelled power.
APC's National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi said: «With rrevelations of how money - for - votes and systematic rigging was brazenly perpetuated during the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress is mindful of the popular axiom, «A leopard can not change its spot.»»
Over the past thirteen months, the unending series of controversies and scandals that has rocked Albany and the preliminary findings of the Moreland Commission illustrate the urgent need for comprehensive and systematic changes.
Executive Summary The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was created to make the best possible estimate of global temperature change using as complete a record of measurements as possible and by applying novel methods for the estimation and elimination of systematic biases.
In their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intChange in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intchange during a long - term interval.
Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.
Nevertheless, Physica, Aristotle's treatise on the nature of motion, change, and time, stands out because in it he presented a systematic way of studying the natural world — one that held sway for two millennia and led to modern scientific method.
Trenberth says that the climate monitoring principles set by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the lead international organization for oversight of systematic climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising» climate - change results based on satellite data.
Conclusions — This systematic review identified and graded the evidence for a range of population - based strategies to promote lifestyle change.
We have used systematic molecular bioengineering of the meningococcal LPS through deletion of enzymes involved in LPS biosynthesis in combination with induction of LPS modifying enzymes (for example the deacylase PagL) to yield a variety of novel LPS mutant strains with changes in both lipid A acylation and phosphorylation.
«This systematic review and meta - regression analysis of 108 randomised controlled trials using lipid modifying interventions did not show an association between treatment mediated change in high density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk ratios for coronary heart disease events, coronary heart disease deaths, or total deaths whenever change in low density lipoprotein cholesterol was taken into account.
For this to succeed, it is important to build a systematic structure for the school's process of change, and the sequence of events needs to be consistently guided in this structuFor this to succeed, it is important to build a systematic structure for the school's process of change, and the sequence of events needs to be consistently guided in this structufor the school's process of change, and the sequence of events needs to be consistently guided in this structure.
Adjunct Lecturer Paul Natola agreed that professional development is a key issue in conquering math education and cited a need for mandates and systematic changes.
Amidst the debates on how best to strengthen our educational system, there is clear consensus on what motivates the need for change: many of our country's children and adolescents are being left behind, falling out of the educational system and further into cycles of systematic disadvantage.
As such, the principal should have the decision - making authority to effectively bring about systematic change necessary for school improvement.Collaboration Principals should strive for facilitative leadership, which is accomplished by delegating to and collaborating with teachers, developing teacher leaders by pursuing common goals, and engaging stakeholders in the decision - making process.
These and other pipeline strategies that effect broad - based systems must strike a balance between stability and flexibility in order for them to change as school improvement strategies evolve, say both The Wallace Foundation and education reformers such as Michael Fullan, whose concept of «motion leadership» reflects the need for a systematic culture of continuous reflection and growth.
Upon completion of the module, viewers will be able to 1) Select and define meaningful target behaviors for progress monitoring; 2) Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using Systematic Direct Observation versus Direct Behavior Rating; 3) Plan and carry out data collection to monitor a target behavior; individualize Direct Behavior Rating forms; and 4) Use graphed progress monitoring data to determine when intervention changes are needed.
We suspected that systematic district support might be the missing link between federal and state desires to improve schools and actual, demonstrable changes that improve learning outcomes for students.
A model of school change for culturally and linguistically diverse students in New Zealand: a summary and evidence from systematic replication
At the Denver Convening, fellows will expand their knowledge of family engagement through learning and discussion about Denver Public School's approach, specifically considering systematic change through a district lens and opportunities for a state - level approach.
TU Director of Communications Mary Moser provides a detailed starting point for creating and utilizing a digital classroom observation tool in order to answer the question «How do you make systematic change without basing your work on vague notions and «we think» statements?»
25 SEP 2017 - Paul Russo, co-COO of the Equities Franchise in the Goldman Sachs Securities Division, explains how technological change and regulatory reform helped develop a growing class of institutional investors - systematic traders - and what a rising interest rate environment could mean for the equity markets.
Applied animal behavior shares with experimental and theoretical efforts, the need for careful observation and documentation of behavior, identification of important variables, and the evaluation of behavioral changes following the systematic manipulation of identified variables.
A systematic review of changes in marine mammal health in North America, 1972 - 2012: The need for a novel integrated approach.
Unrelated to Levin's Instagram post, 303 Gallery made a decision — after its 34 - year history with the magazine — to halt advertising in Artforum «for a while,» director Lisa Spellman said, «until we see real systematic changes from the publishers and the board.»
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
This is why anomalies work better for changes over time — a station's systematic bias gets subtracted out (to the extent that it is constant).
In a collection of four strategy documents which together proclaim themselves «the most systematic response to climate change of any major developed country», the UK government plots out exactly how it plans to meet its legally binding targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
But the impacts are much less systematic than is the case for climate change: large scale mechanized war may affect hundreds of square miles, and that's impressive.
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.
However, by plotting monthly data that has been adjusted for possible systematic changes, such as the temperature «sine wave» by simply subtracting the long term average for each month from each individual datum — which I call «monthly differences» — as its cumulative sum rather than in its original form, the cusum pattern that emerges is often quite striking.
In the light of the satellite record, as well as the absence of any systematic change in global temperature for almost two decades, the proclaimed interpretation of this summer should be recognised for what it is: a simplistic explanation of a complex physical system.
It calls for the systematic design and use of participatory communication processes, strategies and community - media to share information and knowledge among relevant stakeholder, in a particular agro-ecological context, in order to encourage attitudes and practices that increase people's resiliency and offer livelihood options to cope with climate change.
This one foundation, the assessment found, now accounts for 25 percent of all traceable foundation funding used by organizations promoting the systematic denial of climate change.
As Fred wrote, even large systematic errors do not matter for the temporal change, if the error remains the same in all data.
«One can summarize these calculations as follows: whatever the «climate - change regime,» whatever surface heat from the Sun on any given day within that regime, that heat is fully absorbed and fully vertically redistributed throughout the troposphere — there is no propensity for CO2 to store heat in a systematic way over time to produce a climate change effect (as defined in the introduction).»
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