Sentences with phrase «in the smaller scale world»

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Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

And perhaps what's true for world leaders stands, on a smaller scale, for young, aspiring entrepreneurs: in crisis lurks opportunity.

Mobile World Congress, the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry, was held in Barcelona in February 2017, while smaller - scale events like Barcelona Startup Week celebrate the best of Barcelona's disruptive starWorld Congress, the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry, was held in Barcelona in February 2017, while smaller - scale events like Barcelona Startup Week celebrate the best of Barcelona's disruptive starworld's largest gathering for the mobile industry, was held in Barcelona in February 2017, while smaller - scale events like Barcelona Startup Week celebrate the best of Barcelona's disruptive startups.

There are many small - scale businesses around the world — from organic vineyards in Australia to llama knitwear co-operatives in Ecuador — that are changing for the better how business is done.

By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities around the world.

While small - scale, in - person transactions have no issues being carried out without a middleman, the world has become far more complex than that.

This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments.

I guess I'm also trying to account for how similar patterns get played out on a much, much smaller scale in local churches the world over.

If anything matters, everything matters and the work today, the love we give and receive and lavish on the seemingly small tasks and choices of our every day all tip the scales of justice and mercy in our world.

This follows the model of TransfairUSA (now rebranded as FairtradeUSA) in lowering standards so that plantations could get certified in a system meant for the 25 million small scale farmers around the world.

In this International Year of Family Farming, farmers» leaders from every arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family farms rather than large scale agribusiness.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

Australian companies abroad are having severe negative impacts on the livelihoods and food sovereignty of small - scale farmers and fishers, and indigenous people around the world, especially in the Global South.

The Plantation: A small - scale reproduction of a tropical forest which features cocoa trees — where chocolate professionals can be immersed in the world of cocoa and see cocoa fruits in a natural habitat.

Irit Tamir of OxFam America outlined seven investments the world needs to make to feed our growing populations, such as investing in women, supporting small - scale farmers and securing everyone's right to water.

Godwin Amarh was speaking on the sidelines of a media round - table discussion on the place and role of Artisanal and Small - Scale Mining in Ghana's economy, organised by the Third World Network Africa.

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world — neutrons, electrons, photons — either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scalIn the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world — neutrons, electrons, photons — either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scalin small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scale.

In the world of nano - scale technology, where work is conducted at the atomic level, even the smallest changes can have an enormous impact.

Our corporate headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is also home to our research operations and small scale manufacturing facility, with an international headquarters in Switzerland and world - class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark.

This 20x - magnification image of the fish's scales captured sixth place in Nikon's 2009 Small World competition.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

The new study — by bringing together data from more than 20,000 people participating in 11 multi-ethnic studies around the world — builds a strong case for the role of genetics in PTSD, which had been previously documented on a smaller scale in studies of twins.

Los Alamos is one of a few places in the world that can perform both methods on samples ranging from the very small to the very large scale.

The eagerly awaited results from the world's first large - scale trial of a malaria vaccine are in, and they confirm what other, smaller studies had shown: The vaccine, called RTS, S, offers partial protection, cutting episodes of malaria in babies and toddlers in half.

Next, the association between brain network organization and individual variation in intelligence was examined by correlating the full - scale IQ scores with the λ and γ values of the individual brain networks within the clear small - world range of 0.3 ≤ T ≤ 0.5.

Small - world and scale - free organization of voxel based resting - state functional connectivity in the human brain

As the smallest structural change in the scale of biological world, the isomerization and the catalysis of this reaction by isomerases is of great interest, to bridge the dynamics of chemical bonds and the biological functions of the macromolecules.

«What we're interested in is the tools that allow us to understand the world at a very small scale,» said UCF professor Laurene Tetard, formerly of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

Researchers at various institutes and universities all over the world decided to study how the structure of these scales could contain «nature's smallest rainbow,» and published their findings in Nature Communications.

March 14, 2018 New studies detail the design and deployment of biodegradable ocean drifter for large - scale sampling experiments MIAMI — Studying small - scale ocean currents is important to understand how pollutants like oil and micro-plastics, or tiny sea creatures like plankton, travel in the world's oceans.

Abstract: Diverse and abundant, marine invertebrates have essential roles in ocean ecosystems and provide vital food and export resources for millions of people around the world through small - scale artisanal to large - scale commercial fisheries.

Whether that means utilizing small - scale and local production, or collaborating with artisan cooperatives in the developing world, she says beauty companies are making an impact.

So I really would suggest you take it slowly, item by item, and log your reactions to the same thing raw and cooked, and check quantities, and check combos... it IS hard and laborious and sisyphean, and by way of encouragement let me add it took me months of logging everything in a little notebook kept on the kitchen counter alongside a small digital scale, but the effort's worth it because in the end you'll know exactly what's nay and what's aye and that makes living in a world loaded with food so much easier.

The idea is simple: ecological and ethical fashion that supports small - scale artisan industry in countries all over the world.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

Holofcener's last film «Please Give» ended up on many of our year - end lists in 2009, so while we're not expecting «big things» exactly — that's hard to say about small scale dramas about regular people — we are, as usual, excited and grateful that we live in a world where, despite all the tentpole tendencies, there's still a very viable space for Holofcener to make movies.

What do we actually have to do in order to make a difference in the world, even on a small scale?

This style of fast paced zombies attacking in great numbers is reminiscent of World War Z, but the scale is kept just about small enough and less CGI - heavy to seem more realistically threatening.

The IMAX format, however, gives moviegoers a chance to see the movie as Nolan intended — epic scale to tell the epic story, set at the outset of World War II, when British civilians in small vessels crossed the English Channel to rescue more than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers surrounded and stranded on the French beach of Dunkirk.

After an auspicious start with small - scale gangster pulp (the «Pusher» trilogy) and stylish portraits of brutal men («Bronson,» «Valhalla Rising»), Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn has turned to the world of wispy ingénue models in Los Angeles for his latest, «The Neon Demon.»

Journey's End This is a small - scale, well - acted film based on a 1928 stage play, focusing on the horror of life in the trenches in World War I.

There are big questions about homesickness and how one fits in to a new world — the answer to both seems to be «through the kindness of strangers» — but also a romance that's as sweeping as it is small - scale.

Nonetheless, seeking a universal truth, Heckman asserts that positive results from a small - scale trial, conducted half a century ago, «prove» what policymakers should do with hundreds of billions today — and never mind the political, organizational, or practical complexities of trying to replicate that success in the real world.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Introducing the living world - small scale ecosystems 2 - How change affects ecosystems 3 - Global ecosystems 4 - Rainforests introduction 5 - Causes of deforestation in Malaysia 6 - The impact of deforestation in Malaysia 7 - Managing tropical rainforests (ICT lesson) 8 - Sustainable management in tropical rainforests Hot deserts also on the This is Geography shop to be taught alongside this module.

Even small changes in how we buy books could tip the scales and create catastrophe for brick and mortar bookstores, because profit margins are slim throughout the publishing world.

The cobblestone streets of the St. Augustine atrium at our resort near Orlando feature a small - scale replica of the oldest Spanish fort in the New World, Castillo de San Marcos, and displays treasures from the Spanish ship Atocha.

The scale of Tandjung Sari has purposely been kept small and today the hotel is a 26 bungalow holiday retreat steeped in old world charm unparalleled and unrivalled by other hotels.

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