Sentences with phrase «key changes implemented»

One of the key changes implemented by HexaDrive to solve the performance problem is the utilisation of the PlayStation 3's SPUs to handle the workload previously designed for PlayStation 2's vector units.

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VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Fink argues that a key reason for the limited payoff to reform efforts was insufficient attention to forcing through corporate governance changes and implementing capital market reforms that could provide alternative channels for funding and competitive pressure on lagging firms in the services sectors to improve their performance.

Their key strategy which could be implemented without any law changes is a stricter calculation of additional time.

Core training includes trauma - informed practice, key parent - child attachment principles and how to support parents in implementing these, as well as reflective strategies that support parents in feeling competent and empowered to make positive changes in their lives.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.

As part of their weeklong orientation, they worked with a media trainer and each other to develop and refine key messages about their climate change research, and they began to develop public - engagement plans to be implemented at each of their institutions.

Key changes must be implemented by June 2015, according to the five - page summary, which uses the words «as quickly as possible» or «as soon as possible» five times.

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

Working sessions during the conference will include articulating key concepts and competencies and how they are best assessed; student — centered learning including how students learn and appropriate pedagogy; the role of scientific research in the curriculum; implementing and evaluating educational innovations; expanding the toolkit of approaches to teaching for both current and future faculty; and changing institutional cultures to overcome barriers and create incentives for innovation.

The SENCO is going to be key in ensuring that all the changes within SEND policy are implemented in schools.

I recently caught up with Mary Ann Wolf, PhD, Elizabeth Bobst and Nancy Mangum to discuss some of the key takeaways of their new book, Leading Personalized and Digital Learning: A Framework for Implementing School Change.

The same is true in schools: ask any teacher and they will tell you how difficult it is to implement any change in policy without having key stakeholders — especially parents — onboard.

We asked organizations if there was any change in key performance indicators after implementing their learning technology, and the results are promising.

Some key takeaways from Mary Ann Wolf, PhD, Elizabeth Bobst and Nancy Mangum, authors of Leading Personalized and Digital Learning: A Framework for Implementing School Change.

The key mistakes identified include: late publication and frequent changes in the middle of the year; inappropriate content; lack of clarity on standards and contradictory guidelines; a focus on tick - box skills rather than the quality of work; lack of time to implement the new curriculum; and serious errors on the design of a reception baseline, leading to its cancellation.

«Australia's curriculum authority will have a key role in implementing any possible changes agreed to by the council and over the summer months ACARA will consider the review and report back early next year.»

Programme members will be introduced to key areas of content, including «Using Research» and «Strategic Planning and Implementing Change».

Key finding 2: Most headteachers appear to have taken a cautious approach to the reforms, choosing to implement only the statutory changes rather than to make more far - reaching revisions.

Key strategies outlined in the plan suggest systematic change at district / school levels, including increasing culturally relevant pedagogy, implementing culturally responsive approaches and best practices and building partnerships with Oregon's nine federally recognized tribes and native communities and organizations.

Meanwhile, the panel moved several other key education bills including one that would rewrite the rules implementing sanctions against school officials who fail to report changes in an employee's work status while an allegation of misconduct is pending.

«Implementing the Common Core State Standards: The Role of the Elementary School Leader» offers a primer on the standards and twelve key schoolwide changes that must occur with implementation.

Investigating Disciplinary Literacy says that for an action place to blossom, three key factors must be present: money (as in adequate resources), civic capacity (community or parent support and acceptance), and professional capacity (the «know - how» to implement instruction or change).

In particular, since a key goal of TURN is to create positive change in school and district practice by promoting innovative ideas among union and district leaders, APA's evaluation focused on the following target: To identify districts that have implemented substantive changes in schools as a direct result of participating in SW TURN.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

As former teachers, coaches, school leaders, and high - level district and state administrators, we appreciate the challenges, nuances, and opportunities of implementing large - scale change and we know the keys to making them stick.

To mark our 15th anniversary, we asked school leaders from our partner schools, who form our National Schools Forum, to write about the key challenges they face in their schools and communities; the innovative solutions that they have implemented, in collaboration with others, to address these challenges; and to offer thoughts on what more needs to change to ensure that the children from the least advantaged communities have the best possible education.

The new series of two - day institutes focuses on the theme «Leading the Change to Common Core State Standards: Essential Tools for School and District Leaders» and addresses how superintendents, principals, and key administrators can best implement the new standards in their schools and school systems.

I strongly believe that education to general practitioners is key; by implementing small changes to the way you handle and house your feline patients in a vet clinic environment you can make a huge impact on lowering their stress and pain

As a result of these changes, what we got was a design that was possible to implement in reasonable time frame without losing any of the crucial aspects of key gameplay.

The strategic plan, launched in October 2007, and the subsequent Action Plan released in 2008, outlined five overall directions for the Council over the next three to five years: reinforcing the Council's commitment to individual artists, working alone or collaboratively, as the core of artistic practice in Canada; broadening the Council's commitment to arts organizations to strengthen their capacity to underpin artistic practices in all parts of the country; enhancing the Council's leadership role in promoting equity in fulfilling Canada's artistic aspirations; making partnerships with other organizations, including other funders, a key element in the Council's approach to advancing its mandate; and enhancing the Council's capacity to support the arts and implement change by strengthening its structure, staffing and services.

3 November 2017 Washington, D.C. This year's climate talks may not be as glamorous or high - profile as the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that adopted the historic Paris Agreement two years ago, but the agenda for COP23 that starts Monday in Bonn is packed with key issues that need to be resolved to fully implement the Agreement.

To implement the forces of change, the first priority should be looking for key words in grants, budget justifications and memos including code words that convey the catastrophe is upon us now.

Implementing resource efficiency solutions to combat poverty and climate change were stressed as the key challenges.

Key uncertainties looking forward include: 1) the extent to which proposed adaptation strategies will be implemented given a range of factors including competing demands and limited funding; 2) the role of the private sector and individual action in adaptation, roles which can be difficult to document; 3) the extent of the federal role in adaptation planning and implementation; and 4) how changes in technology and the world economy may change the feasibility of specific adaptation strategies.11

The key areas of achievement of the project since 2014 have been in the areas of capacity building, generation of climate change adaptation decision support tools and strengthening partnership and collaboration among the PREPARED partners in implementing the program.

It is clear that the major world leaders of our key trading partners know that climate change is critical to our future and they are currently implementing economically acceptable solutions to combat climate change.

IFAD will implement the following four key actions in order to improve its strategy: take all possible measures to climate - proof IFAD operations; develop climate change strategy to ensure common understanding of potential effects of climate change; use core funding, plus new sources of funding and scale up engagement in climate change issues; work with partners to (a) support development of post-Kyoto regime that responds to needs of poor rural communities, and (b) work with them to benefit from the new regime once in place.

Under her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollution.

But the key point is that we still have several steps in the process before we should start talking about implementing actions to «mitigate» against human - induced climate change, as some are already proposing, invoking the «precautionary principle».

The key to preparing for this change is to implement up - and - down mentoring: older workers will still mentor younger ones, but younger workers will also mentor older people in their areas of expertise.

As with any change programme, the key question is how to implement these services successfully so that there is genuine support for the new operating model and the business case delivers on its promise?

As we previously reported, the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Supporting Survivors and Challenging Sexual Violence and Harassment) implemented key changes to the OHSA.

As a result, organizations must implement the following changes: Continue Reading AODA & Customer Service: 5 Key Changes Effective July changes: Continue Reading AODA & Customer Service: 5 Key Changes Effective July Changes Effective July 1, 2016

On one hand, a staggering 82 % of legal ops professionals believe that «corporate legal departments will be the primary driver of innovation and change in the legal sector,» and 52 % believe that driving and implementing change is a key challenge for the legal ops profession.

Some of the significant changes implemented with WPA included message integrity checks (to determine if an attacker had captured or altered packets passed between the access point and client) and the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).

One of the key criticisms of SegWit up to this point has been the fact that the increased capacity enabled by this upgrade is not implemented as soon as the change is activated; however, it's now looking much more likely that SegWit could offer a nice bump in capacity shortly after activation.