Sentences with phrase «from pioneering efforts»

«Parent participation has changed over time — has evolved from pioneering efforts to ensure that a child with disabilities gained access to services to making an impact on systems,» says Richard Robison, Executive Director of the Federation for Children with Special Needs (FCSN).

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But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

Last week, genomics pioneer Craig Venter announced that his team has passed an important milestone in its efforts to create a bacterial cell whose genome is entirely synthetic — constructed chemically from the building blocks of DNA.

Contributing to this global effort, the NUS team has successfully pioneered the development of aerogels using cotton fibres harvested from textile waste.

«We have focused our efforts on the oxidation of α - pinene, because it accounts for about half of global monoterpene emissions,» explains Dr. Mikael Ehn from the University of Helsinki, who is the first author of this study and did the pioneering work for the discovering of ELVOCs.

By helping laypersons better distinguish brain myths from brain realities, Barry Beyerstein was a pioneer in the ongoing effort to increase the public's scientific literacy.

The ESP was a pioneering effort in many ways, and its database of coding variation from thousands of exomes has been a critical resource for many research studies.

That's the driving idea behind a global policy effort we helped pioneer, known as REDD +, which stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

And Andrew Parker with five must - see performances and directorial efforts from the pioneering filmmaker

A pioneering effort of the Hudson School District and the Concord Consortium of Massachusetts allows students from around the world to schedule classes at their convenience in subjects not offered at their local school.

This essay contains considerable material from longer research projects on the history of efforts to establish a national curriculum in America (sponsored by the Pioneer Institute) and on the history of conservatives and the public schools in America (sponsored by the Hoover Institution).

Chartered in 1845 through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas and welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

This report by Education Pioneers, funded by the MetLife Foundation, provides a fresh look at the need for leadership and management in public education and reveals what efforts will be needed to strengthen the leadership pipeline from within education, and to bring in people and practices from beyond education.

This Award from Central Banking Journal recognizes our significant resolve and authority in fulfilling our mandate, pioneering policy efforts and powerful communication.

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The large scale Water Lily Paintings verge on abstraction and are unsurpassed in their pioneering efforts at creating viable pictorial structure from color, surface, luminosity, value, hue and chromatic shifts.

As the first nation to get adaptation money from the Least Developed Countries Fund, Bhutan is something of a pioneer among developing nations in their quest to adapt to a warmer future, and the struggles at Thorthormi glacier illustrate the enormous obstacles that adaptation efforts still face.

PHOTO CAPTION: Based on the pioneering work of UC Davis professor Andy Frank, the marketing efforts of Felix Kramer and the engineering efforts of EPRI, grid - chargeable hybrids like the one developed by Energy CS are beginning to get serious attention from both the media and policy makers, if not car companies.

The Tar Heel State is best known as a leader in solar energy, but Mike Muglia, a researcher from the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute, said the state was also pioneering efforts to harness the ocean's current to produce electricity.

The evening also recognized Adrian Grenier, who brought home an award for his work with SHFT.com, a media outlet pioneering eco-friendly life style; Steve Elfman, Sprint President of Network Operations and Wholesale, on behalf of Sprint for their eco-friendly phone, the Samsung Replenish, which is made from 82 % recyclable materials; Arthur Rubinfeld, Starbucks President of Global Development, on behalf of Starbucks for the company's global sustainability initiatives, including achieving LEED certification for all new company - owned stores beginning in 2010; and Bill McKibben and May Boeve, co-founders of 350.org, for their «efforts to raise awareness about the most threatening issue of our time: climate change.»

The space agency is confident that the GeoCARB mission will continue the nation's pioneering efforts in quantifying critical greenhouse gases and vegetation health from space, which in turn will help us better understand the Earth's natural exchanges of carbon between the land, atmosphere and ocean.

In its Wisconsin FRAND case Apple benefits greatly from Microsoft's pioneering efforts to enforce a FRAND promise and from the FRAND part of Judge Posner's ruling, which addressed some of the issues that Motorola was trying to relitigate in Wisconsin.

Aside from underwriting car insurance, Pioneer State Mutual focuses on helping the community and contributes efforts to many organizations such as the American Red Cross, Food Bank of Eastern Michigan and the Salvation Army.

But huge efforts by the Ethereum community to recover from the hack have left those takings much less valuable than they were in July — and stirred controversy among blockchain pioneers.