Sentences with phrase «improve approaches used»

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The program uses U.S. Department of Homeland Security «threat information and other data to employ a risk - based approach to improve air cargo security through targeted vetting.»
Using a policy - driven approach aligned to business processes, customers leverage CloudHealth to drive cost savings, improve agility, enhance security, and reduce complexity.
CloudHealth Technologies is a leader in cloud service management, using a policy - driven approach that drives cost savings, improves agility, enhances security and reduces cloud complexity.
So far, its trials have shown it can improve outcomes when used alongside other multiple myeloma drugs and that could offer it some insulation if the market gets disrupted by new treatment approaches, such as gene therapy.
A trading journal is used to help you understand why you behaved in a specific manner, and so improve your approach in future.
Once value attributes have been identified, monitoring and using a scorecard approach can help to inform how an organization can improve as well as build new strategies to better align with buyers.
«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.
But, they can be helped to greater adequacy in living by varied counseling approaches involving the selective use of guidance, authority, instruction, along with a focus on improving interpersonal relationships (rather than effecting major intrapsychic changes) and seeing one's situation from a more constructive perspective.
The growth counseling approach uses action - oriented crisis counseling methods which aim at helping the couple: (1) activate their own latent coping resources quickly by providing a short - term supportive relationship, (2) understand the parts of their problem and their action options in each, and (3) begin immediately taking actions which will improve their relationship.
Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.
If proven to be efficacious and improve vitamin A status, Golden Rice has the potential to be an intervention that could be used to complement these proven VAD control approaches.
Now aged 27 he should be approaching his prime, and he certainly seems to be much improved and more confident this season now he has been given more freedom to attack with the gusto and flair that he has always possessed, but never quite had the confidence to use to the best of his ability.
Using a scientific approach to pitching analysis and teaching methods to create solutions, I can help you make the necessary changes to improve your pitching performance in terms of velocity, location, and pain - free and injury - free pitching.
I am not disputing that young players can not help to improve the team, and contribute to succeeding at the highest level, but it is an approach that needs to be used in tandem with a more ambitious transfer policy, where a marked, genuine and immediate improvement is made to the team; similar to the one Bayern Munich use, or how Arsenal in recent windows have bought key and top quality players (Özil, Sanchez, Cech and now Xhaka).
UNICEF uses innovative approaches to solve problems and improve the lives of children around the world.
This is a gentle play - based approach aimed at improving the attachment quality of the parent - child relationship using attachment mechanisms and child - oriented play with parents / carers and their children aged 3 - 15 + years.
Nilsson, Lennart and Lars Hamberger A CHILD IS BORN Vicenza, Italy rev. ed., 2003 A new and improved edition of the famed classic, A Child Is Born is an astonishingly beautiful book that approaches conception and birth very visually, and could be used as a resource to help children or adults learn about the mechanics of conception and birth.
We exist to advance play therapy, the treatment approach in which licensed professionals use the natural benefits of play to improve the mental health of children, families, and adults!
In the short term, some countries may decide to use two approaches: supplementation to save lives within a few months, while at the same time working on improving people's diets.
Programs that teach parents these approaches have been successfully used for decades to help noncompliant kids as well as those with diagnosed ADHD or conduct disorder; research suggests that they not only improve kids» behavior in the short term but that the benefits persist.
Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.
The approach makes use of available data to substantially improve the ability to identify genetic components of disease,» said Mark Johnston, Editor - in - Chief of the journal GENETICS.
The OSI is based on an approach called «audit and feedback,» which has been used successfully in other efforts to improve health care quality and safety.
The main advantage of the proposed approach is that it allows to improve the time horizon of the prediction compared to the methods currently used in India.
The researchers are using multidisciplinary approaches to make genetic modifications linked with all three traits, with the aim of improving sorghum for renewable energy and chemical production.
This nano - bio approach is believed to increase the breadth of the solar spectrum that is used to make energy and is expected to contribute to the development of biomimetic materials with enhanced photosynthetic activity and improved stability towards oxidative degradation.
If a similar approach can be used in thermal transport, that could facilitate development of more efficient thermoelectric and nanoelectronic devices, improved thermal barrier coatings, and new materials with ultralow thermal conductivity.
«Classic video game system used to improve understanding of the brain: Researchers use Donkey Kong to help guide new approaches in neuroscience.»
«We are hoping to help improve current mental health treatments by first predicting who is most at - risk so that we can intervene earlier, and second, by using these types of approaches to determine who might benefit from a given therapy,» Scult said.
Now, a novel approach that uses sound to track individual salmon has offered the first map of their saltwater trek — knowledge researchers say it will improve the management of salmon fisheries.
Early detection has been proven to improve outcomes, but screening approaches such as mammograms and colonoscopy, used in the developed world, are too costly to be implemented in settings with little medical infrastructure.
Using a robotics - based screening approach, researchers screened a library of 1,192 FDA - approved drugs for any that suppressed tumors in the fly and identified several that improved overall survival.
In this approach the auction revenue goes to government, which ostensibly uses it to improve air quality.
By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agreement will «improve submission of fishing data, which is crucial for scientific projections» and create a «framework for presentation of future scientific advice that will facilitate the use of a precautionary management approach
The researchers suspect that this approach might also be used more generally to improve sleep.
It should use the committee's report as an opportunity to correct its flawed approach and so improve its service to the public.
«The NREL approach uses nanorods to improve what is going on inside, while ensuring that the nest remains durable and resilient.»
That may improve the ability to use accommodating IOLs as a surgical approach to correcting age - related declines in near vision, or presbyopia, suggests the new research by Kathryn Richdale, OD, PhD, of State University of New York College of Optometry and colleagues.
While as a proof - of - concept the research group built a more energy - efficient incandescent light bulb, the same approach could also be used to improve the performance of other hot thermal emitters, including thermo - photovoltaic devices.
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust have successfully improved blood pressure control among patients with severe intolerance to antihypertensive medication — by using medicines in unconventional ways and treating patients with a «stepped care» approach (where the most effective yet least intensive treatment is delivered to patients first).
By using all the data and new statistical approaches that can handle short records, and by using novel approaches to estimation and avoidance of systematic biases, we expect to improve on the accuracy of the estimate of the Earth's temperature change.
«Can we use this video game approach to help improve hippocampus functioning?»
The new model uses a dielectric material rather than a metal for the nanoantennas, a change which greatly improves its efficiency and, combined with a new design approach, enables operation over a broad range of wavelengths.
Using this approach, we can improve the integration density and reduce the size of optical elements.
Using the multi-view approach improved the lateral, or horizontal, resolution of diSPIM to about 235 nm.
The study reflects an «antimicrobial stewardship» approach, guiding healthcare providers to prescribe the most appropriate antibiotic for a patient's specific type of infection, with the aim of improving individual outcomes and reducing the overall risk of antibiotic resistance — in which disease - causing microorganisms develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics.
The Southampton research team, led by Richard Sandberg, Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Aeroacoustics, and including Dr Andrew Wheeler and Professor Neil Sandham, has identified that Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), a model - free approach based on first principles (no assumptions or modelling are used) can help to develop an improved understanding of the role of turbulent phenomena in the flow - field and determine the validity of current turbulence modelling.
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.
The study, published in the Journal of Gambling Studies, found that the effectiveness ofGambers Anonymous needs to be studied further, but appeared to show better rates of abstinence, improved gambling symptoms and better quality of life, especially when used in conjunction with other approaches, such as stress management intervention and cognitive behavioural therapy.
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