Sentences with phrase «large national effort»

Now, new results from a large national effort show that it may be possible to both reduce catheter use and UTIs at the same time, saving money and suffering.

Those working on a project funded by the largest grant in Kansas University history are part of a larger national effort to change the way testing is done at elementary and secondary schools.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

Not exact matches

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

ZERO TO THREE, in partnership with the Bezos Family Foundation, conducted a comprehensive research effort, including a series of in - home discussions and a large national parent survey with a diverse range of parents of children from birth to 5.

And, second, it's hard to see a large number of voters organizing such a concerted effort to oust an incumbent Democratic congressman without some broader coordination from national GOPers that, to date, has not developed.

The final recommendation of the All - Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group report «From Awareness to Action: Bringing Behavioural Insights to Poisoning Prevention Efforts», reveals how organising «default» safety requirements and recommendations through large, national bodies is an effective way of highlighting issues to people.

The RNC memo is part of a larger effort to neutralize MoveOn as a key cog in the Democratic Party's national organization.

Citing the Trump administration's efforts to scale back national parks, Cuomo vowed to open the largest state part in New York City, a 407 - acre plot of land on Jamaica Bay.

You are now involved in your largest effort yet, the National Children's Study.

Two of the largest efforts are the Human Microbiome Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (See «Your Microbial Menagerie,» page 4), and the European Union's Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract.

Dr. McCrea and his team are also co-chairing the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium (CARE) project, a major national effort that will enroll more than 30,000 college athletes, making it the largest study of concussions to date.

HFSP and other international biomedical research programs can serve as models for the far larger investment efforts needed to promote and maintain research networks and training across national boundaries.

That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

Such large - scale modeling and simulation requires the heft of a supercomputer, and for this effort the team used Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the U. of I.

The research that led to these findings is part of a larger effort to better understand gene regulation and expression, carried out by the GTEx Consortium, a National Institutes of Health - funded group that includes researchers from around 80 institutions founded in 2010.

Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.

President Obama called for a large national research study in January as part of a broader effort to use genetics and health information to tailor medical care to individuals.

The US National Institutes of Health has begun to fund a major effort, the Human Connectome Project, to generate a comprehensive map of large - scale brain connections in humans.

The team has applied for large block funding from the National Science Foundation Robotics Initiative to sustain this effort.

New research from Carnegie's Ivana Cvijanovic (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Ken Caldeira, as well as Douglas MacMartin of Caltech, shows that while an incredibly large effort could, in principle, restore vast amounts of sea ice by this method, it would not result in substantial cooling.

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

In the longer term, Revive aims to nucleate an even larger scale effort that will bring together an expanding number leading scientists, clinicians and biotechnology companies into a national Consortium for stem cell - based regenerative medicine and drug screening.

PHENOMIN, as a large scale national infrastructure for Biotechnology and Health, will primarily provide services for all French laboratories and also be a major player in the international strategic phenogenomics effort.

Our efforts in this area include exciting collaborations and visits to the worlds largest telescopes atop Mauna Kea Hawaii, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich and Chile, at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

The Science paper was part of a large effort by Karl and others at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, as well as climate analytics specialist James McMahon of LMI Consulting, to develop the most accurate possible record of the Earth's surface temperature, based on thermometers.

Their efforts gave rise to 2010's Dead Rising 2, a sequel that succeeded in expanding the Dead Rising concept with a larger playground, tweaked mechanics, and a weapon - crafting system that made zombie killing the new national past time.

The findings, which were released here last week during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, are part of a larger research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and classrooms affects student achievement.

In one of the largest such efforts, the Principals Public Relations Network is working on a national campaign to increase public awareness about the importance of principals.

A fundamental problem with national standards efforts, like Common Core, is that they are attempting to impose a single vision of a proper education on a large and diverse country with differing views.

EN: Can we generalize the results from well - designed, generously funded pilot programs to large - scale efforts at the state or national level?

Large national environmental organizations, kept afloat by a graying corps of backers, are mounting efforts to entice their future constituents — children and teens — out of doors.

The National Center for Literacy Education The National Center for Literacy Education is a large - scale collaborative effort to provide models for advancing literacy learning in every subject; to identify, support, and celebrate the work of inter-disciplinary professional learning communities in schools; and to pursue critical research questions about literacy learning in every content area.

Few literacy researchers have conducted research aimed directly at either state or national English language arts and, as we have noted previously, policy researchers interested in standards often analyze them in terms of larger reforms efforts, without specific regard for subject area.

With this month's newsletter theme of teacher evaluation, I want to focus my message on the larger national education conversation that has spawned, among other things, the effort to overhaul teacher evaluation and accountability systems.

And by and large, New Jersey has been a national leader in a number of efforts, from the aforementioned Abbott decrees to the takeover of four school districts that the state has claimed hit rock bottom.

Plus, MCPS already had skilled administrators throughout the system and was widely considered to be one of the best large districts in the country, with a national reputation for its efforts to address the achievement gap.

Before United Way, Liz spent 7 years in various volunteer leadership positions in theUK including founding her own not - for - profit organization, being chairperson of the largest branch of the National Childbirth Trust, acting as the lead member of the Epperstone Village Planning Council, being chair of the local village pre-school as well as leading fundraising and planning efforts to build two tennis courts and playground facilities in her village.

According to the Harvard Crimson, «The effort is part of a larger national movement started by United Students Against Sweatshops that criticizes Teach For America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.»

Given the influence of state legislation on local reforms and on national efforts, these battlegrounds will loom larger in school reform discussions.

More broadly, the Renewal effort's fate will have implications for the larger national debate over urban school reform.

WestEd is a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with national, regional, state, and local policymakers and practitioners to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.

In support of the film Waiting for «Superman,» Myles helped lead the development of the «Done Waiting» coalition, which with 200 groups, at the time, represented the largest collective effort of education reformers in national history.

Retrieved August 31, 2016, from The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles website: https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/segregation-again-north-carolina2019s-transition-from-leading-desegregation-then-to-accepting-segregation-now/Ayscue-Woodward-Segregation-Again-2014.pdf Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, once a national model for school integration efforts after Swann v. CMS (1971) has found itself with a large number of racially and socioeconomically isolated schools (a condition known as «double segregation»).9 Ibid.

«The Board Examination Consortium announced today by the National Center on Education and the Economy represents a bold, imaginative effort to design and implement a large - scale assessment system that will promote student achievement by building upon world - class standards of teaching, learning, and educational measurement.

I am hopeful that the financial pain that has been caused by this mistake had now grown large enough that we are going to be able to get some responsible people involved in the effort to start a national debate on the realities of stock investing.

PHOENIX — PetSmart Charities ®, the country's largest funder of spay / neuter efforts, has announced a new $ 1 million national spay / neuter grant program aimed at saving the lives of pets that have the highest risk of being euthanized due to overcrowding in shelters: cats and pit bull terriers.

, the country's largest funder of spay / neuter efforts, has announced a new $ 1 million national spay / neuter grant program aimed at saving the lives of pets that have the highest risk of being euthanized due to overcrowding in shelters: cats and pit bull terriers.