Sentences with phrase «handful of programs»

Research shows that in many disciplines, only a relative handful of programs in each field produce a large proportion of the Ph.D. recipients eventually hired for tenure - track positions.

The release, called Vault 7 «Dark Matter,» describes a handful of programs that the CIA has apparently used for nearly a decade — in some cases to surreptitiously monitor Apple device owners.

Employees don't expect to be offered every benefit and perk out there, but a handful of programs or amenities are important to them.

While President Obama proposed to save $ 28 million in his budget by cutting or eliminating a handful of programs, Representative Sam Graves, Republican of Missouri, declared that the president's cuts did not go far enough.

With no football, a non-ESPN television contract, and a handful of programs still attached with an unwanted «mid-major» stigma, it was a very realistic possibility that this sink or swim condition would end with Villanova and company discovering what the bottom of the college athletics pool feels like.

Since 1990, he had been the president of a well - respected local non profit organization called the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, which operated a handful of programs in upper Manhattan targeted at young people: afterschool drop - in centers, truancy prevention, antiviolence training for teenagers.

He then goes into some detail about the handful of programs that reliably are producing excellent results, focusing on what makes them different from the mainstream.

The educational program that Oneida County provides is one of only a handful of programs that provides parents with an educational element for youth and the entire family.

It remains to be seen if the UT Houston model is more successful in training patient - oriented scientists; outcome data are needed for the graduates of the handful of programs that pursue alternative pathways for training combined degree students.

A handful of programs exist for grants that are not for specific diseases.

While a handful of programs elsewhere in the nation provide one MAT drug or another to certain segments of incarcerated populations, Rhode Island's is the only one that makes the full suite of MAT available to every individual coming in or leaving the correctional system.

But legislators made room in the new CR for a handful of programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Census Bureau, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and NASA.

Established in 2013, the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP) is one of only a handful of programs in the country to provide intensive and evidence - based treatment for anxious youth.

The final part covers algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms using Perl and Python.

The third part of the course will cover algorithms for solving various biological problems along with a handful of programming challenges helping you implement these algorithms in Python.

Here we highlight a handful of programs that are taking steps — big and small — to change the way teachers are trained.

The main reason is that there are only a handful of programs with track records that can be compared.

Making reductions in a handful of programs rather than across the board would enable Secretary of Education William J. Bennett to avoid politically and educationally unpalatable cuts, officials said.

Also: Information about a handful of programs that help provide needed supplies for schools.

Second, a handful of programs that already promote school choice — aid to charter schools, the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program, etc. — could be expanded.

We know from those studies that a handful of programs as a whole worsened achievement but improved graduation rates (a set of Texas's charter schools, for example).

A handful of programs require no more than 200 hours.

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington - based research and advocacy group, has corrected scores for a handful of programs it rated in last year's controversial teacher - prep review.

At Pinnacle High School, Michaels Near Space Team is one of only a handful of programs in the country that do high altitude science and fly payloads to the edge of space via weather balloons.

I have a handful of programming classes under my belt, and years of programming computer simulations.

At least it's solid - state storage, which results in fast boot times and snappy program loading, but you're going to run out very soon if you install more than a handful of programs.

Fresh out of the box, with just Windows 8 32 - bit and a handful of programs installed, the available memory is already whittled down to a mere 28 GB of available space.

Most frequent flyer programs allow you to make reservations for other people without any restrictions, but a handful of programs limit redemptions to family members only.

The industry breathes a collective sigh of relief as lawmakers clarify the budget for a handful of programs.

As previously mentioned, most law firms have already moved a handful of programs or functions to the cloud.

Once she narrowed the field to a handful of programs, she began to look past functionality.

In - between the perfect products and Google Play Protect are a handful of programs that scored between 10 and 12.5 on AV - Test's scale.

The X51 keeps it clean on the software front, offering a handful of programs that let you customize how the machine looks and performs.

I only use a handful of programs every day, most of which are either pinned to my taskbar or as tiles in the start menu.

Highlights a handful of programs that have been successful in improving child welfare recruitment and retention initiatives.

Effective Practices in Foster Parent Recruitment, Infrastructure, and Retention (PDF - 444 KB) Casey Family Programs (2014) Highlights a handful of programs that have been successful in improving child welfare recruitment and retention initiatives.

The effect sizes were strongly influenced by a handful of programs with very large effects.