As blockchain projects such as Gnosis, Factom, and Stellar, along with technology conglomerates and financial institutions, begin to integrate the blockchain with existing infrastructures and technologies, they are encountering
an increasing number of challenges.
What
the increasing number of challenges to the charter school industry reveal again and again is that support for these schools was never based on a strong foundation to begin with.
Not exact matches
Startups and small businesses often face a
number of unique
challenges including deficient funding, client dependence, insufficient staff and struggles with balancing out their desires to create top quality products and services, provide their users with the best possible experience and
increase their sales margins.
«Our results were negatively impacted by a
number of industry - wide
challenges, including a significant U.S. toy category slowdown in the holiday period, and
increased foreign exchange headwinds,» said outgoing Chairman and CEO Christopher Sinclair.
The
challenge claimed that a majority
of shareholders did not support the authorization, at the 2013 annual meeting,
of an
increase in the
number of shares used to reward Souki and other executives; the very
increase that made Souki the highest paid CEO in America (he received 6.3 million shares in February 2013).
As companies continue to
increase the
number of tests they conduct in cities, their vehicles are facing the kinds
of challenges — like pedestrians and intersections — that are more difficult for self - driving cars to handle.
The researchers said the
challenges would lead to an
increase in the
number of people uninsured due in part to the heightened uncertainty for insurers and beneficiaries.
Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these
challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place,
increasing the
number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.
One
of the biggest
challenges that we all face is the steadily
increasing number of things that we have to do on a daily basis.
The results
of Spain's elections will
challenge this narrative and — as with an
increasing number of movements in Europe — demonstrate a growing discontent with the status quo.
«Despite its successes in attracting both customers and in - demand tenants,» the statement reads, «there are still a
number of challenges that need to be solved in order to maintain its prominence in a city that is quickly evolving with
increased density, mix
of uses, and depth
of character.»
Most concerning, class sizes are growing and classrooms host an
increasing number of students with learning
challenges or other special needs — with too few staff and resources made available to support them.
In a time when the richness
of play (from recreational activity to the arts) is available to an
increasing number of Americans, and when some are finding sources
of pleasure, meaning, and power within such experiences, Christian theology is being
challenged to reassess its suspicions
of play.
And there are
increasing numbers of Christian businesspeople who are taking this
challenge seriously and seeking not only to create jobs but to do so in ways that genuinely liberate other people's talents, without long - term ties.
I think that the current
challenge of evangelism is why an
increasing number of people do not think they have the gift.
A second
challenge arises from the fact that
increasing numbers of people are transient and infrequent participants in religious communities.
8 One does not need a medical degree to recognize that admitting homosexuals into the military would bring about an
increase in the
number of AIDS cases and would put additional financial and personnel strains on military medicine, which must contend with a declining military budget and the
challenge of recruiting and retaining sufficient medical personnel.
Only as
increasing numbers of us catch this vision and accept this
challenge — to be where the action is in the church — can our congregations become redemptive communities, centers
of help and healing.
The
increase of the
number of Americans with non-Protestant orientations created for the first time a condition in which Protestantism's domination
of American culture could be
challenged.
Indeed, the use
of the investigative journalist stories to provide a basis for complaint allegations is the newest
challenge for food industry clients facing an ever -
increasing number of product labeling and advertising lawsuits.
«One
of the biggest
challenges today is that the
number of different tray requirements is
increasing,» he says.
The industry has changed significantly in recent years and, with
increasing regulations placed on commercial fishing, companies face a
number of challenges.
While strong on - the - hoof prices to Australian farmers for the past couple
of years have led to
increasing livestock
numbers, processors still face several
challenges, including:
A blatant disregard for procuring the required
number of quality players to bring a greater balance to your squad / team and thus
increase the potential for a
challenging side.
Besides the 2013 University
of Washington study, a
number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body
of evidence
challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to
increased reporting, and suggesting that one
of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes
of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus
of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all
of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.
Many districts remain
challenged by lunch periods that give children too little time to eat, and nearly half have used some strategies to expedite service, such as offering «grab and go» options,
increasing the
number of cashiers and adding more serving lines.
Step 1: To add some
challenge,
increase the
number of choices.
Step 1: Add more
challenge by
increasing the
number of choices.
The program
increases the
number of fathers that contribute financially and emotionally to their children and improves their marriage - ability by helping the men successfully overcome the
challenges that have led to their non-payment
of child support.
If the Democratic candidates
challenge the signatures
of rivals, it could narrow the field, which
increases the
number of votes needed to win.
There is a growing concern among residents and businesses over the
increasing number of mentally
challenged persons roaming naked in the Ho municipality.
The Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says the
increasing number of registered political parties is not a
challenge to it or the electoral process
of the country.
Notwithstanding those
challenges, he said, the NHIS had achieved some successes, among which were the
increase in the
number of subscribers and service providers and improved access to service providers as a result
of the
increase in the
number of Community - based, Health Planning Services (CHPS) compounds.
The college faces a
number of financial
challenges including an
increase in employee benefits
of $ 379,000 or 2 percent primarily because
of pension costs, and an
increase in contractual expenses and supplies
of $ 351,000 or 4 percent.
So one
of the main
challenges that the NHS faces in the coming decades is that
of providing high quality, cost - effective care for
increasing numbers of older people.
The
number of Democrats
challenging second - term Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
of New York's 21st district
increased this week when Ronald Kim, a Queensbury and Saratoga Springs attorney, entered the race.
«By strengthening collaboration and improving the co-ordination
of services, integrated care offers the most promising approach to meeting the
challenges posed by demographic change and the
increasing numbers of people with long - term conditions,» chief executive Chris Ham said.
Challenging waters also lie ahead for Westport Central, which continues to share an
increasing number of services with ELCS, including shared administrative staff and sports programs.
While an
increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a
challenge, especially since the bulk
of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human
numbers so much as human behavior.
In the past year, rival cryptocurrencies have sprung up to
challenge bitcoin, and an
increasing number of companies are actually beginning to build long - promised business models on the blockchain from real estate to voting.
The reports also identifies other
challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development,
increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing
number of global and ocean - class research vessels.
Gemma explained: «The
number of TAs in mainstream schools has almost tripled over the last decade and the
number of children displaying
challenging behaviour included in these schools has also
increased significantly.
As immigration
increases the
number of non-English speaking «culturally and linguistically diverse» students, schools will need to band together in networks focused on the
challenges of educating what has been called «the new mainstream,» according to a Boston College professor.
The
numbers of large carnivores, especially leopards, are
increasing in private lands and lands outside the protected - area systems in India, bringing new
challenges for coexistence.
«One
challenge to
increasing the
number of living organ liver transplants is donor ambivalence,» explains lead researchers Dr. Li - Chueh Weng with the School
of Nursing, College
of Medicine at Chang Gung University and Dr. Wei - Chen Lee with the Transplant Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
Increasing numbers of strains have become resistant to antibiotics, making their diseases more
challenging to treat.
«But with an
increasing number of parameters, experiments become increasingly
challenging in terms
of time, space and costs.
Data from the 1000 genomes project (1KGP) and Complete Genomics (CG) have dramatically
increased the
numbers of known genetic variants and
challenge several assumptions about the reference genome and its uses in both clinical and research settings.
New free software for home computers based on an algorithm created through NASA's Asteroid Grand
Challenge has the potential to
increase the
number of new asteroid discoveries by enabling amateur astronomers to analyse their own images.
A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA
challenge has the potential to
increase the
number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers.