«I wanted to help make things that have
an impact on a large scale,» he says.
This is
impact on a large scale — five million K - 12 students in Brazil have accessed the Geekie learning platform over the last 18 months.
Although 98 % of these same teachers see their job as more than a profession, they don't feel as though their opinions make
an impact on a larger scale.
Implementing campaigns will help us to achieve
impact on a larger scale.
Wanting to make
an impact on a larger scale, he enrolled in Hofstra School of Law's evening program.
While they make great greetings cards, a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery showed that they struggled to maintain
their impact on a larger scale.
A transect would tell us nothing about whether there are urban
impacts on large scale or global TRENDS.
As a member of organizations like NAEYC's YPAC she's able to further make
an impact on a larger scale and directly influence those who work with our children on a daily basis.
Not exact matches
We often fail to realize, however, that there are certain strategic choices that
impact our time
on a
larger scale.
Among these questions, she includes, «What
impacts do changes in the Arctic have
on the
large -
scale climate and weather systems?»
This happened
on a
large enough
scale to have a positive
impact on national productivity, according to the study.
And being able to go around the country and see the
impact that my company and my work has done — teenage girls saying they love to play games because of me, and families saying, «we picked up a tabletop game because of [Geek & Sundry show] Tabletop,» and college kids who come up and say, «Hey, I'm really glad you made The Guild because I never knew I could say that I was a gamer until you made that» — that's why you need to be creative, whether it's
on a
large or small
scale.
Start with a showcase and by working
on a small model, show what you can do; something that is manageable but makes a significant
impact, if not
on a
large scale but even a village or a house.
How you are perceived by candidates, staff, and clients is
impacting companies
on a
larger scale than ever before, especially B2B organizations.
This
large -
scale diversion of corn has raised prices, distorted the market and had serious negative
impacts on food choice and availability globally.
«
Larger banks generally are more profitable and efficient than smaller banks, which may reflect increasing returns to
scale,» according to a 2012 GAO study looking at the
impact of Dodd - Frank
on the banking industry.
Even a
large -
scale market weakness from here is likely to have a fairly muted
impact on our returns.
While the update was clear — heavy hyperlinking in press releases, advertorials and
large scale guest - blogging are now considered link schemes — the repercussions of the update and it's lasting
impact on SEO have been far more murky.
The Skoll Awards distinguish transformative leaders whose organizations are disrupting the status quo, driving
large -
scale «equilibrium» change, and are poised to create even greater
impact on the world.
It's an entrepreneurial environment, you have space, you can really make an
impact, and
on a
large scale.»
MissionPoint Partners is a leading
impact investing advisor and asset manager focused
on solving
large -
scale environmental and social problems through the deployment of high
impact capital.
The 2010 Skoll World Forum focuses
on Catalyzing Collaboration for
Large -
scale Change, recognizing that social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to critical issues can not achieve
impact at
scale without forging cross-sector partnerships and alliances.
Among the issues raised were the $ 2 trillion valuation Saudi Arabia wants for the world's
largest oil producer, the
scale of dividends Aramco's prepared to pay and the
impact of the shale boom
on oil prices over the next few years.
«Value investing is a
large -
scale arbitrage between security prices and underlying business value» Seth Klarman The increasing short term focus of market participants often means investors place too much weight
on short term factors
impacting the company to the exclusion of the company's longer term potential.
Residents and local producers are concerned about the economic, social and environmental
impacts of
large -
scale industrial farming
on the region.
MASIPAG and its member organizations strongly oppose
large -
scale mining because of its
impacts on food and agricultural production, the loss of biodiversity and destruction of the environment.
Transformation of incumbent systems
on a
large scale is never easy, and we admire the food justice and sustainability goals Josh Tetrick and the Hampton Creek team are trying to hold fast and accomplish,» said Dan Skaff, Managing Partner Radicle
Impact.
The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat
on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the
impact that
large -
scale farming had
on the planet.
Such strengthening should focus
on potential high
impact operations, such as
large -
scale feedlots, broiler sheds, and indoor piggeries.
The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report
on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of
impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund
large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from
impact sensors.
A growing body of evidence from NBO research worldwide suggests that
large scale implementation could have a significant
impact on postpartum depression, parenting stress, and a range of other factors that have potential to derail healthy development.
Furthermore, there has been no
large -
scale study of the
impact of this intervention
on breastfeeding initiation and duration, although a study based in Scotland has provided some evidence for an association between birth in a Baby Friendly facility and increased rates of breastfeeding at 1 week of age.16, 17
setting up 2 flagship boroughs in London to demonstrate the
impact of improving school food
on a
large scale
The GLA is pleased to announce plans to set up two London flagship boroughs, intended to demonstrate the positive
impact of improving food culture in schools and across the community
on a
large scale, as part of the School Food Plan.
The
large -
scale infrastructure projects he championed are likely to go ahead without his chairmanship, because his approach is shared by the chancellor, who is keen to boost investment to offset the
impact of Brexit
on the economy.
Although the existing EU regulatory regime had largely satisfied UK scientific authorities about the safety of the crops themselves, there remained extensive concerns about the
impact of crop management practices
on a
large scale.
She says no new building can occur in the Two Bridges LSRD (a
large -
scale development area) unless the city shows there will be no negative
impacts on the existing community.
Researchers studied the
large -
scale impact of wildlife extinctions induced by over-hunting
on carbon storage right across the Amazon.
But addressing the global nature of human
impact may require help from belief systems
large enough to conceptualize
on a cosmic
scale.
To gain more insights into the
impact of this favoritism
on a
large scale, Naudts and colleagues reconstructed 250 years of European forest history using modelling that included forest management factors, such as changes in tree species.
«If we use the storage as the means to foster the adoption of significantly more renewables that offset the dirtiest sources, then storage — done the right way and installed at
large -
scale — can have beneficial
impacts on the grid's emissions overall,» Webber said.
«I take what the models tell us may happen to our climate at
large scales and try to understand what
impacts these changes could have
on society.
Choosing the right approach is vital as the
scale of human
impact on the planet becomes so
large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).
In the longer view, one of the insights of the book is the
impact which Los Alamos had
on the build - up of
large scale, publicly funded research laboratories in the postwar years.
This research is unique as it looks at the
impact of a
large scale reef matrix, such as the Great Barrier Reef,
on wave height.
A new University of Washington study shows that
impacts at individual armored sites can
scale up to have cumulative,
large -
scale effects
on the characteristics of Salish Sea shorelines and the diversity of life they support.
«There hasn't been a
large -
scale assessment of just the simple full topographic
impact of mountaintop mining, which occupies more than 10 percent of the land in the region we studied,» said Matthew Ross, an ecology PhD student and lead author
on the study.
In the first
large -
scale and comprehensive study
on the
impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan.
The forecasted
large -
scale uptake of electric vehicles (EV) will have an
impact on how we travel and
on where and when we will make demands
on the electrical grid.
Despite the hype during much of the 1990s, the product was never tested
on a
large scale because it would have had to be dropped by the trainload to have any real
impact.