Sentences with phrase «large number of strategies»

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

It includes a large number of strategies that allow testing all the offered strategies on this platform and excludes the psychological factor of human «s incursion in decided actions.

(It makes the math really simple, and allows a large number of strategies to be rapidly compared.

Not exact matches

The patent purchases and the new prior art tool are thus part of Google's larger strategy to lower the number and the value of patents affecting the tech industry.

As evidenced by a number of recent rebranding strategies that failed miserably, even large companies with the staff and resources to implement such an effort sometimes fail to get it right.

«As part of the preparation of the new strategy, executives of Vnesheconombank met with representatives of leading financial institutes in Europe, Asia, and America multiple times during 2016,» the bank said, adding that the meetings took place «with a number of representatives of the largest banks and business establishments of the United States, including Jared Kushner, the head of Kushner Companies.

The strategy will see the company competing head - to - head with a larger number of Chinese manufacturers, as well North American sock manufacturers.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

For example, marketing might be evaluated on pure lead generation numbers, leading them to implement strategies and tactics that inbound a large number of prospects who are low value.

Former McKinsey employees, for instance, consistently approach strategy from a unique consulting perspective; they take pride in the number of the firm's alumni who become CEOs of large companies.

This global hub, also known as «Gateway of the Americas», has everything that EB - 5 investor might want besides a growing number of EB - 5 approved projects; largest concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations, rated Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.&number of EB - 5 approved projects; largest concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations, rated Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.&Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.&Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.»

So a large number of good and smart people in good faith developed an investing strategy that they thought was supported by the peer - reviewed research but in reality was the OPPOSITE of what the peer - reviewed research would support once all the peer - reviewed research needed to make intelligent choices had been published.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

They had worked out many strategies for dealing with the large number of religious groups who wanted to broadcast their messages, and with the religious mavericks whose fire - and - brim - stone preaching could be dangerously libellous.

He has spoken persuasively to that large number of Germans who, although they still pay the church tax, have not been active in church life, The bishops» strategy is to isolate Küng so that he will appear to be a religious philosopher (one thinks of Bloch or Jaspers) without a visible community.

Women like Tubman and Granson used subtle and silent strategies to liberate themselves and large numbers of black people.

Preparing for their communications strategy probably involved examining contingencies, arranging responses to a large number of possibilities and making sure the process of broadcasting on so many different channels was prepared.

«Any business that had done that would be looking very hard now at both its strategy and its management to see how we get some of that back - because otherwise we're going to lose a large number of seats at the next election.»

Advocates also expressed concern the plan would effectively lead to warehousing large numbers of homeless individuals in a single place, contrary to prevailing strategies for how best to house them.

MAD strategy suggests that you want to target a large number of population centers with big payloads to kill as many as possible.

Any business that had done that would be looking very hard now at both its strategy and its management to see how we get some of that back because otherwise we are going to lose a large number of seats at the next election.»

«Ultimately, we want to develop vaccination strategies that could both prevent large outbreaks and lower the number of animals requiring vaccination,» Rushmore said.

The change was a response not just to cost - cutting strategies but also to the availability of large numbers of highly skilled scientists unable to secure permanent jobs.

Subica believes strategies developed by South Los Angeles organizers and policy makers to reduce crime and violence around these properties may carry over to other large cities throughout the U.S., which also possess high numbers of tobacco shops and liquor stores.

He notes that the strategy opens up the possibility of repurposing a large number of existing drugs for PKD therapy.

In particular, the comparison of gene sequences in large numbers of patients and controls will be a key step in strategies for disease gene identification.

In an editorial accompanying the published article in Circulation, experts from the Technische Universität and the Munich Heart Alliance, Gjin Ndrepepa and Adnan Kastrati, affirmed that, if confirmed by a subsequent analysis of large numbers of patients, the results of METOCARD - CNIC trial are likely to lead to a change in clinical practice: «In this regard, a pharmaco - protective strategy able to reduce infarct size by 20 percent when used in conjunction with primary PCI nurtures great hope in clinical benefit.»

To address these limitations, Zimmer and senior study author Lorenz Studer of the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research developed a simple, efficient, and robust stem cell - based strategy for reliably producing a large number of diverse, functional pituitary cell types suitable for therapeutic use.

Looking at aggregate data over a large number of users and even courses could suggest specific strategies for improving learning effectiveness.

Teachers often come to the classroom with an unclear understanding of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and they are rarely provided with strategies that detail how to work with students who have been diagnosed with ADHD, even though such students make up an increasingly large number of their students — 11 percent and growing as of 2011, according to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The gamified system increased cooperation and productivity, resulting in a larger number of ground shipments, giving the company greater profit margins and allowing the cooperative to charge 2 % to 4 % extra for a commodity item (paper cups) to Starbucks due to increased efficiency of Hugo's gamified IT system.Hugos was able to achieve through gamification what Michael Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy, advocates is the purpose of a business strategy: to increase profits by cutting costs and / or rising the price of your product or service.

The question research seeks to answer is «what is the most effective strategy for the largest number of students»?

Techniques from real - time strategy games (RTSs) and massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) offer field - tested examples for teaching complex skills to large numbers of people in a way that is engaging, and encourages them to continue learning.

The powerpoint and resources walks students through the process of revision from using the specification to identify areas of strengths and areas for development, production of revision resources, strategies to understand and address the question and a large number of exam style questions to apply their knowledge to.

The best way to teach equitably to a large number of students is to use multiple strategies.

The strategies, and the report itself, are based in large part on an unspecified number of focus groups conducted with parents in four cities.

With this strategy, teachers can raise money for a wide variety of projects by collecting relatively small amounts of money from a large number of people, usually leveraging the help of a website designed for the purpose.

The authors used data on a large number of first grade students to see what strategies their teachers used to teach them math.

A number of systematic reviews and meta - analyses have consistently found strategies related to metacognition and self - regulation to have large positive impacts.

When I hear the word strategy, I think of people sitting around a long table, in a large conference room, with a whiteboard full of scribbles, arrows, and numbers.

As is the case with the election as a whole, both party platforms offer specific proposals related to immigration policy but provide few details on what their party believes to be the best strategy for supporting the large and growing number of ELLs who are in U.S. schools.

TFA's recent placement strategy in the Miami - Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members are placed as clusters into a targeted set of disadvantaged schools, provides an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the TFA program on broader school performance.

«A large number of students coming to school from poverty live in a chronic state of stress, with symptoms mimicking those of ADHD,» said Eric Jensen, an author and researcher who has consulted with secondary systems nationwide on strategies to educate students from impoverished communities.

Spending $ 929,000 of taxpayer dollars to import large numbers of teachers from Turkey, paired with the «failure to disclose the hiring strategy,» has aroused suspicion.

Due to the number of fatalities involving large trucks in work zones and the fact that each year approximately 25 percent of all fatal work zone crashes involve large trucks, FHWA has been working with FMCSA, NHTSA, and other stakeholders to develop strategies to reduce large truck crashes and fatalities in work zones.

The reason being that it is a black swan investment strategy that helps insulate you from black swan events, because he argues that no one can predict the future (I agree) and In his book The Black Swan, he advocates the Barbell strategy, putting 85 % to 90 % of your investments in ultra-safe cash and the remaining in a large number of highly speculative bets (eg venture capital style investments).

A large number of investors have climbed onto the smart beta bandwagon but some believe these strategies are set up for a fall.

In fact, we believe ETFs are an excellent vehicle to offer actively managed investment strategies, which is why we are the largest provider (by number of offerings) of actively managed ETFs in Canada.

Although it will depend a great deal on the allocation strategy you choose, you may see a larger number of positions in your portfolio than you would expect.

It now appears to me that the share price was pushed up by a number of people buying small positions before the record date so that they could participate in a large way in the oversubscription; that would have been perhaps the best strategy.