Not exact matches
Are reasoning and imagination — the twin faculties that most of us associate with innovation — enough for Ray Kurzweil to
know which of the formulas that he's dreamed up based on past technological trends will
lead to the best mathematical
models for predicting future trends?
«I'm just surprised how many people are willing to make that bet — go for the most eyeballs, not
knowing if its going to
lead to a profitable business
model for years,» Begelman says.
«We don't
know when or if this long - term unrest will
lead to an eruption, but Campi Flegrei is following a trend we've seen when testing our
model on other volcanoes, including Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, El Hierro in the Canary Islands, and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the Caribbean,» says Kilburn.
Lead attorney Matt Gonzalez has argued that the weapon was a SIG Sauer with a «hair trigger in single - action mode» — a
model well -
known for accidental discharges even among experienced shooters.
[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription
model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to
lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50]
Knowing the milestones to hit along the way
There is, in other words, actually quite a lot that we
know and understand about the
model, even if many of us seem to have forgotten much of it — including its typical weaknesses, one of the most obvious of which is the tendency for over-investment in the late stages of the miracle - growth period
leading to an unsustainable increase in debt.
As «The Place Where Great Talent Lives,» MDC Partners is
known for its unique partnership
model, empowering the most entrepreneurial and innovative talent to drive competitive advantage and business growth for clients, and for
leading in diversity and inclusion.
And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new
models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to
know the truths to which that experience
leads.
Yet we
know from repeated high quality, robust research that midwifery -
led care options (as opposed to midwife attended care in obstetric -
led units) is the safest
model of care for 85 % of women.
There's a fuzzy line between blogging and journalism, as many have discussed in other contexts, and the Mom Central
model (what little I
know about it) does seem like it could
lead to some misleading posts, even if the blogger has no intent to mislead.
We need to
know if the midwife -
led continuity
model is safe, and if it brings benefits to mothers and babies.
women allocated to midwife -
led continuity
models of care were more likely to be attended at birth by a
known midwife (RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven); however, the effect estimates for individual studies are highly variable, as reflected in substantial statistical heterogeneity (Tau ² = 0.31; I ² = 94 %; Analysis 1.15).
The midwife -
led continuity
model of care includes: continuity of care; monitoring the physical, psychological, spiritual and social well being of the woman and family throughout the childbearing cycle; providing the woman with individualised education, counselling and antenatal care; attendance during labour, birth and the immediate postpartum period by a
known midwife; ongoing support during the postnatal period; minimising unnecessary technological interventions; and identifying, referring and co-ordinating care for women who require obstetric or other specialist attention.
Women who had midwife -
led continuity
models of care were more likely to experience no intrapartum analgesia / anaesthesia (average RR 1.21, 95 % CI 1.06 to 1.37; participants = 10,499; studies = seven), have a longer mean length of labour (hours)(mean difference (MD) 0.50, 95 % CI 0.27 to 0.74; participants = 3328; studies = three) and more likely to be attended at birth by a
known midwife (average RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven).
Midwife -
led continuity
models aim to support women to experience a healthy pregnancy and birth, and provide care from a
known and trusted midwife during the pregnancy, birth and early parenting journey.
Comparison 1 Midwife -
led versus other
models of care for childbearing women and their infants (all), Outcome 15 Attendance at birth by
known midwife.
Little is
known about the interface between midwife -
led continuity
models of care and the multi-disciplinary network of support.
We
know it's the latest handset, but its characteristics might
lead us to thinking it's an older
model.»
Vancko estimates that this country will add four new reactors to its current stable of 104 in the next decade, and research into the safer small modular reactors, sometimes
known as micronukes, may
lead to a whole new
model for the nuclear industry.
A
leading cosmological
model,
known as inflation, predicts that our universe is just one part of a greater multiverse and that our Big Bang may have been one of many.
Although existing eating disorder risk
models comprehensively address psychological factors, we
know of very few biologically - based factors that help us predict who may be more likely to develop eating disorder behaviors,» said
lead author Laura Berner, PhD, who completed the research while pursuing a doctoral degree at Drexel.
This psychological effect,
known as social
modelling,
leads people to eat less than they normally would if alone when their companion consumes a small amount of food.
Such
model could
lead to three possible outcomes: the infinite expansion of the Universe at ever - higher velocities; the stagnation of the Universe expansion in a permanent basis; or an inverted process of retraction caused by the gravitational attraction exerted by the mass of the Universe, what is
known as Big Crunch.
The POLARBEAR experiment examined a small (30 degree square) region of the sky to produce high resolution maps of B - mode polarization, which enabled the team to determine that the amplitude of gravitational fluctuations they measured was consistent with the
leading theoretical
model of the universe,
known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological
model.
«We're showing the shortcomings of climate
models,» says Susan Lozier, a physical oceanographer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who
leads the $ 35 million, seven - nation project
known as the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP).
In previous research, Quaggin's lab showed that deleting the gene in mouse
models led to glaucoma, but the scientists didn't
know how mutations impairing the gene affected humans.
«We've long
known that exposure to traditional forms of media, such as fashion magazines and television, is associated with the development of disordered eating and body image concerns, likely due to the positive portrayal of «thin»
models and celebrities,» said
lead author Jaime E. Sidani, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant director of Pitt's Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health.
Lead author Sandra Rehan, an assistant professor of biological sciences at UNH, worked with colleagues Michael Schwarz at Australia's Flinders University and Remko Leys at the South Australia Museum to
model a mass extinction in bee group Xylocopinae, or carpenter bees, at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Paleogene eras,
known as the K - T boundary.
Researchers from the University of Wyoming and INRIA (France)
led by Henok S. Mengistu simulated the evolution of computational brain
models,
known as artificial neural networks, both with and without a cost for network connections.
Scientists thought they
knew why, but a new
modeling study from the Alternative Earths team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has fired the
lead actor in that long - accepted scenario.
«While we don't yet
know what dark matter is, our results show we can probe axion - like
models and provide the strongest constraints to date for certain masses,» Manuel Meyer from Stockholm University, who
led the study, said in the statement.
In the latest issue of Neuron, a team
led by Gladstone Investigator Anatol Kreitzer, PhD, and Salk Investigator Edward Callaway, PhD, combined mouse
models with a sophisticated tracing technique —
known as the monosynaptic rabies virus system — to assemble brain - wide maps of neurons that connect with the basal ganglia, a region of the brain that is involved in movement and decision - making.
An apparent mismatch between the
modeled estimate and the heat that could be accounted for on Earth,
led to well -
known climate scientist, Kevin Trenberth to lament that it was a travesty.
Some institutes are already applying new organizational methods by combining the expertise and interests of faculty members and experienced staff scientists (also
known as research scientists).1 This
model allows staff scientists to
lead ambitious projects while also working collaboratively with PIs, advancing complex projects that could not be accomplished otherwise.
In January 2016, no less than three studies published in the journal Science and contributed by collaborative teams
led by researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Tabebordbar M et al. 2016), the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Long C et al. 2016) and Duke University (Nelson, CE et al. 2016) reported using CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) / Cas9 (CRISPR - associated protein 9) genome editing approaches to permanently correct the genetic mutation in the well -
known Dmdmdx mouse
model for DMD (C57BL / 10ScSn - Dmdmdx / J — 001801).
Known for being the first plus - size
model to appear in Sports Illustrated (albeit in an ad), one of the faces of Lane Bryant's #ImNoAngel and, more recently, #PlusIsEqual campaigns, Graham
led a group of stunning
models of all shapes and sizes down the catwalk at New York Fashion Week on Tuesday.
On it's own merits though, West Of Memphis is a well - assembled, well - argued doc that shows how our advocacy
model of trial law can
lead to the state spinning stories they
know are probably untrue, and then using their authority to stand strong against any alternate theory,
no matter how many millions of people believe it.
Mary Harron: A Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter,
known for her socially - conscious independent films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) about Valerie Solanas» life that
led up to her failed assassination attempt of Warhol, and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a film about the 1950s pinup
model who became a cult icon of sexuality and helped popularize pornography.
Hugh Grant — best
known for the likes of Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually — takes the
lead as politician Jeremy Thorpe, who fell from grace after rumours of a homosexual affair began to emerge in late 1975 with former
model Norman Scott, along with an attempted murder plot to have him killed.
An actor and
model known for his roles in «Gone Girl,» «Hatfields & McCoys» and «Narcos,» Holbrook replaced Benicio Del Toro as the
lead in October.
He's going under with only his best friend Maceo (Charles S. Dutton) and sickly daughter China Doll (one of many black villainesses favoured on Tyra Banks's curiously self - hating «America's Next Top
Model», Yaya DaCosta) to bear witness,
leading him to make one last stab at saving the joint with an appearance by some phantom guitarist whom no one appears to
know by face.
And as a
leading man, he's a
model of easy elegance and
knowing experience.
Section 1 Experience and performance as a senior leader Section 2 Self - awareness and self - management Section 3 Delivering continuous improvement Section 4
Modelling excellence in teaching Section 5 Learning focus Section 6 Efficient and effective Section 7 Personal Drive and Accountability Of course, every form will be unique to the individual, however
knowing how much it would have helped me has
led me to offer it on here.
Our meeting format is based on the Paideia Seminar
model: I
lead a collaborative dialogue, and teachers are free to comment, and they debate freely,
knowing that their point of view is respected and valued.
Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one
Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different
Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You
Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?
So let me start with the half full portion.There is
no doubt that Texas has
led the nation in public education reform and has served as a
model for other states in the advancement of standards and accountability.
The mission of Great Public Schools Now,
led by Executive Director Myrna Castrejón, is to replicate successful schools
no matter their
model — charter, magnet, pilot, or traditional schools.
Through
modeling, thought
leading and simply providing an example of what is possible in public education, charter schools are helping to transform education as we
know it.
In addition to its partnership with PUSD, WINGS serves more than 1,100 students from vulnerable communities in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina through a direct - service afterschool program
model of their research - based curriculum
led by college students,
known as WINGSLeaders.
The
model employs a research
lead teacher (RLT), a person who is knowledgeable about research - based interventions and research methods, has expertise in staff development procedures, works as a mentor teacher in the school, and
knows the other teachers.