Sentences with phrase «human infrastructure as»

In the Capital Region water infrastructure tour, «We learned quickly it wasn't just capital and physical infrastructure but human infrastructure as well,» he said.

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It looks at five «input» categories: institutions, human capital and research, infrastructure, market sophistication and business sophistication, and «outputs,» which are categorized as either knowledge and technology or creative outputs.

Their strong results reflect their investment in infrastructure and important institutional processes such as human resources, finance, and internal technology.

Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

Instead, it suggested homeless people were little more than «helpless pieces of privilege - extending human infrastructure,» as ReadWrite put it.

These include the economy's lack of diversification away from the non-oil sector and high operating costs as a result of bureaucracy and a lack of competition, as well as low productivity due to relatively weak infrastructure and poor human capital development.

In its narrowest or most basic meaning, it refers only to those things that make human labor more productive, such as building, machinery, and infrastructure for industrial production.

The most taken - for - granted forms of online electoral collective action, such as donating money and contacting voters, are premised upon years of technical development, infrastructure building, and knowledge creation, as well as enormous investments of financial and human resources.

President Donald Trump has reportedly expressed interest in the concept, even as it has sparked derision among some infrastructure types, who question its viability and, relatedly, its potential impact on the human body.

The plan itemizes the approach towards investing in people, including promoting social inclusion through social investment programmes for the vulnerable and targeted programmes for the North - East and Niger - Delta, job creation and youth empowerment and investments in human capital while outlining the competitiveness imperatives as enhancing infrastructure (power, roads, rail, ports and broadband services, and leveraging public - private partnerships (PPPs)-RRB-, improving the business environment through the initiatives under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and promoting digital - led growth.

But one thing I want to let you know is that all the loans we have taken as the APC (government) in Edo State have all been directed to capital projects, infrastructure, and all the debts that we will eventually incur will be those that can be used to boost the economy of our state and human resources, not to pay salaries and claims, as is the tradition of the PDP.

The Asian bush mosquito can adapt to natural habitats such as mountain regions as well as to the infrastructure of human settlements.

By 2024, NASA experts expect to have enough infrastructure to support a permanent human presence with four astronauts rotating every six months, the same length of a stay as on the International Space Station.

This is why we need to protect buildings as well as humans in cities in future urban planning, so the strategic placing of hedges, trees and other green infrastructure can have a direct benefit as an air pollution control measure in cities.»

«I believe it's just as important to study how human factors influence local water policy as it is to study the science of water quality or the costs of upgrading water infrastructure,» said Haeffner.

«Our workgroup on genome editing included experts in several subfields of human genetics as well as from countries with varying health systems and research infrastructure,» said Kelly E. Ormond, MS, CGC, lead author of the statement and Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.

Results show clearly that forest elephants were increasingly uncommon in places with high human density, high infrastructure density such as roads, high hunting intensity, and poor governance as indicated by levels of corruption and absence of law enforcement.

Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.

They found that human needs, such as employment, utility consumption and housing, correspond directly with the population: As the number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio of user to facility simply riseas employment, utility consumption and housing, correspond directly with the population: As the number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio of user to facility simply riseAs the number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio of user to facility simply rises.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

iBET's infrastructure comprises 16 laboratories fully equipped with state - of - the - art technology (70 m2 each), including a BSL2 laboratory for working with viruses; a GMP Analytical Services Unit certified by the INFARMED (the Portuguese medicines authority, EMA Portuguese branch) and by DGAV (the Portuguese veterinary authority) for quality control and batch release of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals as well as experimental new drugs; a GMP Mass - Spectroscopy Unit that provides state - of - the - art MS services to the scientific community and Industry; a 2600 m2 bio-pilot plant supporting production and purification of proteins ATMPs and vaccines from bench top to 300 L scale and privileged access to GeniBET Biopharmaceuticals, an iBET spin - off producing ATMPs under cGMP certification for phase I / II / III clinical trials.

To achieve its mission, the Project is developing a Bioinformatics Hub as an open - source, multidisciplinary effort with the overarching goal of providing an enabling infrastructure to support the data processing, analysis and knowledge extraction procedures required to translate high throughput, high complexity human immunology research data into biomedical knowledge, to determine the core principles driving specific and durable protective immune responses.

With the new facilities VNSC is offering, coupled with NARIT's current and emerging infrastructures and facilities, we are also now taking human capacity building seriously as it is a new challenging task ahead of us to inspire the new generation to be exposed to science, technology and not astronomy alone.»

As an electronics engineer, spending 14 Sols at MDRS nudged me to think about the present and future technologies and infrastructure that has to be ready for future human habitation on Mars which I would consider working on, back at Skoltech.

Its main objectives are: to train SESAME staff in the storage ring and beamline instrumentation technology, research techniques and administration, to build - up human capacity in Middle East researchers to optimally exploit SESAME's infrastructure, and to train SESAME staff and user community in public outreach and corporate communications, as well as to support SESAME and its stakeholders in building awareness and demonstrating its socio - economic impact to assure longer term exploitation.

Believe it or not, testosterone, as well as a variety of other hormones, serves as powerful chemical messengers within the human physiology, transferring a wide range of instructions and crucial messages throughout the body's infrastructure.

Most of them are revolting, though Verhoeven is less interested in the inherent horror of rape than in rape as a kind of awful human infrastructure for the flow of power.

The LDCF plays a key role in addressing urgent and immediate adaptation needs of least developed countries, focusing on reducing the vulnerability of sectors and resources that are central to human and national development, such as water, agriculture and food security; and infrastructure, as identified and prioritized in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).

Maggie presently supports ConnectEd's organizational infrastructure as Associate Director, Human Resource and Administration.

Earlier, Tyler worked as minister at a local Atlanta church and led international development in Peru in areas of healthcare, education, poverty reduction, infrastructure, and human rights.

«Ratters» were required to have a short, very sturdy tail that could be easily gripped in order to hoist the dog down into a small space to catch vermin, such as early manholes and other infrastructure spaces slightly too small for humans.

Sustainability & Infrastructure — With a focus as stewards of conservation and research regarding ocean health as it relates to human health, the Aquarium makes its own salt water and filters it daily.

The dream of having a flourishing planet full of happy humans is a distant goal for the initial hour or two, though, as you first have to spend your time commanding a small army of drones and rovers in order to build the basic infrastructure needed to support life.

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Our responsibilities include taking care of the team, including transfers, human resource management, workout plans, and tactics, as well as brand management, e.g. developing the club's infrastructure.

If NASA's Human Outer Planets Exploration program takes place in the 2040s as hoped, there could be good infrastructure for space and time tourism by the year 2117.

As others have noted, Katrina the Hurricane didn't have to give rise to Katrina the Human Disaster; scientists and engineers had given much advance warning about the need for new levees and better infrastructure.

The real significance of extreme events is as harbingers, not just of a changing climate but also of a changing world in which human society and the infrastructure that supports it are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters.

Did Vecchi and Soden consider the possibility that if there were fewer hurricanes, there might be more of other types of storms that maybe just as destructive to human infrastructure?

Nature is kicking back on us because we're just slow learners about hurricane infrastructure preparations as well as not paying enough attention to the real world consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change.

The infrastructure efforts in all the coastal areas of the world could be thought of as simply the necessary human work, maybe even a full employment program of sorts.

SREX is accurate in that directly measuring trends in floods is extremely difficult, due to human intervention such as the creation of dams and other infrastructure.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (March 22, 2016)-- As the next step in their global alliance to accelerate the integration of human health and wellness in the built environment, Delos ™, the pioneer of Wellness Real Estate ™, and Lendlease, one of the world's leading integrated infrastructure and real estate groups, today announced their collaboration to advance the WELL Core & Shell Certification and pre-Certification programs as a pathway to WELL ready workplaces for building tenantAs the next step in their global alliance to accelerate the integration of human health and wellness in the built environment, Delos ™, the pioneer of Wellness Real Estate ™, and Lendlease, one of the world's leading integrated infrastructure and real estate groups, today announced their collaboration to advance the WELL Core & Shell Certification and pre-Certification programs as a pathway to WELL ready workplaces for building tenantas a pathway to WELL ready workplaces for building tenants.

Desire for more bike lanes was the clearest preference, but factors such as off - street bicycle paths, secure bicycle parking, and bicycling events — human infrastructure, in a sense — were important those surveyed as well.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

Also, we most certainly do know what infrastructure to build to lower the probability of humans in a specific region from being harmed as a result of adverse weather.

Answers to that question at the global and regional levels, as well as to equally complex questions of how ecosystems and human activities will be affected, should inform our choices about energy and infrastructure.

Detecting impacts of climate change on human vector - borne diseases remains difficult, in part, because active mitigations, such as vector - control, antimicrobials, and improved infrastructure can complicate detection of a climate signal.

Yet the many contributions of green infrastructure to our natural and built environments, as well as to human health, are not fully reflected in public policies pertaining to buildings, design practice, community planning or capital and operational investments in infrastructure.

Impacts from recent climate - related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires, reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability (very high confidence)-LSB-...] Risks are amplified for those lacking essential infrastructure and services or living in poor - quality housing and exposed areas