Sentences with phrase «increased area of focus»

Diversity seems to becoming an increased area of focus for corporate counsel both internally and externally.

With the new name comes an increased area of focus, specifically on music and video content, as previously teased last September.

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The increase, while modest, is nevertheless indicative of higher uncertainty and potentially better trading opportunities for managers with flexibility to trade across asset classes (most notably in fixed income and currencies, which have traditionally been a core area of focus for discretionary managers).

Recent UMass Dartmouth studies show the biggest increase in Fortune 500 companies blogging in their 2013 report so blogging is definitely a future area of focus.

Since the issue of scalability tends to be at the forefront of cryptocurrency debates, developers have made increasing block size and improving transaction processing speeds their top focus areas.

James: Banks have seen an increasing focus by treasury teams on how they are capitalizing and funding their subsidiaries in problematic areas of the world.

Holistic health is concerned with increasing people's wellness levels in the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, interpersonal, and environmental (3) areas; but its primary focus is the whole person, who is more than simply the sum of these various aspects.

Instead of searching for the why of his drinking, counseling should focus on the facts about his drinking and its consequences, and on how he can avoid taking the first drink and thus increase his ability to be more responsible in other areas of his life.

The Big Plastics Debate will focus on two key areas — «the road ahead for packaging professionals» and «developing new approaches to plastics in the face of increasing government and consumer pressure».

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

Recognition of stevia as an ingredient in food and beverages sector, increasing awareness through online marketing, and strengthening supply chain particularly in countries such as India, Brazil, and Russia are key focus areas for companies in this market.

After a two - year hiatus, this year's show returns with an increased focus on golf travel (committed exhibitors already include those from Hawaii, Vegas, Mesquite and more), and a renewed commitment to providing Bay Area golfers with the best deals on golf clubs, country club memberships, rounds of golf, golf gadgets, apparel, equipment and more «'' all under one roof.

explains that the department's focus has been to increase the number of Certified Lactation Counselors (CLCs) in their state, especially in rural areas, through a scholarship program.

Maternal Infant Health Program Coordinator at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Jackie Moline, BSN, RN, CLC explains that the department's focus has been to increase the number of Certified Lactation Counselors (CLCs) in their state, especially in rural areas, through a scholarship program.

To answer this question, I focus on people's reaction to increases in the share of immigrants between 2001 and 2011, which can be extracted from Census small area statistics and constituency boundary files.

By exaggerating the economic benefits of road capacity increase and underestimating its negative effects, omission of induced traffic can result in overallocation of public money on road construction and correspondingly less focus on other ways of dealing with congestion and environmental problems in urban areas.

One solution to help meet increasing demand, and go some way to solving the unique issues around isolation from services in rural areas, could be to focus on increasing the number of smaller, satellite hospitals that are strategically located around existing central hubs in rural locations.

In addition, there is some evidence that although committee Chairs were not generally a focus of much press attention, in the growing area of 24 hour news TV (as well as in other broadcasting) their visibility to the public may well have increased.

With this focus on electrified urban centres, allied to escalating costs of operating conventionally - fuelled cars are oil prices increase, rural areas may require some further action to resolve mounting personal transport challenges.

Verizon, which sells high - speed internet access using fiber optic cable called FiOS, has stopped expanding the reach of FiOS in New York state, instead focusing on increasing subscription to the system in existing areas, most of which is located in densely populated metro areas.

While Ukip's projected national share of the vote fell, it increased its number of councillors by more than 150 — from just nine in 2010 — by focusing resources on target areas.

JumpStart's work within Northeast Ohio has focused in two areas: 1) providing resources (in the form of intensive technical support and investment capital) directly to high potential entrepreneurs leading early stage companies, and 2) supporting the creation and growth of a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, which increases entrepreneurs» access to equity capital, government grants, and other resources, and is delivered by a variety of collaborators across the region.

One area of rapid growth — and a good illustration of the current trends — is the increased focus on developing geographically precise climate models that can forecast conditions one to several years out.

The planetary boundaries expert group suggests a focus on abandoned cropland in Europe and North America, together with land in the former Soviet Union and «some areas of Africa's savannas and South America's Cerrado» for this unavoidable increase in cultivated area.

Whereas previous research had analyzed samples of emissions from sites across the county, this time researchers focused on the risk to one small, well - defined area, trying to assess the potential of risk increasing over time.

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

Given the difficulty of impacting change in small stores, much of the policy focus has been on decreasing food deserts by increasing the number of supermarkets in these areas.

Analysis focused on 22 regions of interest where brain activation increased during the task, with particular attention to those regions» interactions with an area previously shown to play a role in identifying speech sounds.

They estimate that a carefully prepared 5 % increase in conservation area would allow a dramatically improved capture of bird and mammal biodiversity facets; an approach focused on species numbers alone would be much less optimal, the researchers said.

The nine guidelines are focused around three areas: a commitment to science - based communications (increasing access to scientific data and analyses), providing appropriate context about data (ensuring health professionals are informed about emerging data on the safety and effectiveness of treatments) and accurately representing data (communications should be clearly communicated and incorporated into the existing knowledge of the intended audience).

Today, Sentient released five papers and a web portal reporting significant progress in taking this step, focusing on three areas: (1) DL architectures are evolved to exceed state of the art in three standard machine learning benchmarks; (2) techniques are developed for increasing performance and reliability of evolution in real - world applications; and (3) evolutionary problem solving is demonstrated on very hard computational problems.

This past year — 2016 — we took steps in a number of crucial areas to increase access to care through the expansion of our physical plant in Belmont, Massachusetts, as well as to focus efforts on emerging uses of technology to improve delivery of care.

Increased employment of people with disabilities is an important focus area.

SciDevNet — The initiative known as Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is focusing on eight priority areas — self - sufficiency in rice, intensification of cassava, food security in the Sahel, transforming savannas as a breadbasket, restoring tree plantations, expanding horticulture, increasing wheat production and expanded fish farming.

That makes the skin one of the most powerful (and most overlooked) areas of the body to focus on not just for our beautifying and anti-aging efforts, but also for calming our nervous system, increasing oxytocin levels, and boosting our immunity.

Follow up the rolling with stretching to take advantage of the increased range of motion that the rolling provides, focusing extra attention on the lats, pecs, hip flexors, groin, and calves — the most commonly tight areas.

The effects of neck - lock include: «helps to bring an internal focus for the practitioner «sealing the energy that is created in the upper brain stem area «stabilizes blood pressure that can change due to exercise and breathing «acts as a safety valve, regulating the pressure and reducing dizziness «creates nerve reflexes that balance / stimulate the thyroid and parathyroid glands «allows the flow of energy to remain natural and calming to the heart «Moon center energy is contained in the chin «increases the concentration of secretions from the pituitary gland «allows a new interrelatedness between the glands How do you know?

With The Stir, Match has two primary areas of focus, increasing customer lifetime value and converting free members and their friends into subscribers, all while we're checking in to locations, getting free drinks and chilling out with other singles at freeform early - week bar takeovers or more structured, fee - based events.

At the other end of the spectrum, the Foundation Stage, we see the opposite; there is an increasing focus of expenditure in all areas of the curriculum.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

The program focuses on three areas of leadership — planning, organizational strategy and change, and transformational learning — with an overarching goal of increasing your leadership and management capacity.

One of the focus areas of universal primary education is to increase access, enrollment of all children and reduce school drop outs.

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

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Other key areas of focus include providing strong teacher, parent, and administrator support; increasing student engagement; supporting flexible usage models; and facilitating collaboration.

However, most courts that have historically entered into educational policy areas other than funding have discouraged real structural changes, focusing instead on the continuation of past policies, such as class size reduction or across - the - board salary increases for teachers, which carry with them increased funding.

Meanwhile, Connecticut will hold a summit in partnership with educator preparation programs focused on increasing the number of teachers certified in priority shortage areas and recruiting more teachers from under - represented backgrounds.

The Leadership Requirements lens organises the Profiles through three focus areas, described at increasing levels of proficiency.

The Professional Practices lens organises the Profiles through five focus areas, described at increasing levels of proficiency.

In addition to programmatic areas such as membership, operations, and CCSA's annual conference, Daniel focuses on data - inspired efforts to drive growth and increase the organization performance, and on a new diversity, equity and inclusion undertaking to increase the number of school leaders of color in California.