Sentences with phrase «larger scale effort»

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.

A new effort will be launched to craft research restrictions for geoengineering, or large scale efforts to tinker with the planet's climate system

He directs The GoodWork ™ Project, a large scale effort to identify individuals and institutions that exemplify good work.

Thinking this was an overpopulation problem, she launched large scale efforts to get the owned and unowned pets of Austin spayed and neutered.

Dogs for Defense was the first — and last — large scale effort to recruit civilian dogs into military service.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was the first large scale effort at addressing climate change.

Not exact matches

In an effort to promote renewable energy in the New York, Cuomo also announced $ 1.4 billion in awards for 26 large - scale renewable energy projects across the state.

Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.

The court concluded that Chinese efforts to create man - made islands on top of atolls and reefs, as well as its large - scale fishing in the disputed areas, are illegal.

Crowdfunding has become a popular way to fund a variety of projects, from small - scale endeavors to large - scale, literally earth - shaping efforts.

If anything, it seems to imply the opposite — listing off a series of large - scale efforts by Russia's Internet Research Agency (the name its hackers used) to shape the outcome of the election:

In an effort to restart the securitization market, on November 25, the Fed announced the Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).14 In December, the FOMC announced that it would begin to significantly expand its balance sheet through purchases of long - term assets including agency debt, agency mortgage - backed securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP program.

At Tuck, efforts range from coffee chats with prospective students to large - scale events such as the forthcoming Initiative for Women Symposium.

Moving forward, South Korea needs to maintain the momentum behind its effort to become the Northeast Asian hub for natural gas trade by building a large - scale commercial storage facility for natural gas and using international cooperation programs.

Our digital marketing efforts led to a large - scale operation with eight - figure ad budgets.

In the U.S. and Western Europe, both levels have been targeted for attention, though most large - scale efforts until rather recently were directed toward the practical concerns of adequate food, housing and health care.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

We're taught to regard large - scale efforts of understanding as ideologies; they are «meta - narratives» that serve as masks for power.

Dave co-founded the Sustainable Ranching Research & Education Project, a large - scale, long - term effort to develop, research and demonstrate economic, environmental and socially sustainable ranching practices.

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.

Such large - scale historic preservation efforts in Crystal Lake are relatively new.

Tuning In: Parents of Young Children Tell Us What They Think, Know and Need is the result of a large - scale research effort.

The meeting, the first large - scale effort to address prostitution in Wicker Park, was organized by five neighborhood groups.

The report recommends that efforts to attract CAV manufacturers and academics to the UK should include development of one or more large scale testing environments covering real world urban and rural sites.

Large - scale international conflict resolution efforts are much more likely to fail when civil wars contain more actors that can block an end to the war.

Lex Club in - coming President Peter Borock had a simple slogan for the large - scale effort the Club Executive Committee has embarked on this year, «Be Active.»

But investing in large - scale public works efforts has largely fizzled on the federal level.

The initiative is not quite as large - scale as efforts spearheaded by Councilman Mark Levine and Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson to establish a «right to counsel» — the right to a lawyer in any kind of court, not just criminal courts.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

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.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

But the Army's thought - helmet project is the first large - scale effort to «really attack» the much broader challenge of synthetic telepathy, Schalk says.

«Greater effort to track concussions using large - scale epidemiological data are needed to identify high - risk subpopulations and monitor prevention efforts,» the researchers wrote.

Twenty - eight percent say the United States should make a large - scale effort to address global warming, even if has large economic costs.

Carleton University geoscientist Richard Ernst, who has studied LIPs for two decades, launched a large - scale effort in 2010 to find answers.

As large - scale genome sequencing projects, such as the Human Genome Project, near completion, the research community's focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.

«It's one of the most valuable data sets you can have,» says Michael Snyder of Yale University, who pioneered a similar large - scale effort to localize proteins in yeast.

The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large - scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists.

«Previous efforts have focused on tornado reports, but the connection with changes in large - scale conditions hadn't been made,» he said.

A few months ago, massive outbreaks called for large - scale humanitarian efforts, including the construction of many large Ebola treatment centers.

To achieve this goal, her lab has developed technology platforms for large - scale immunostaining and systematic validation of antibody specificity, and has initiated citizen - science efforts to refine the Human Protein Atlas database.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

Some biomimicry efforts are tackling large - scale challenges such as supplying energy to an entire building.

«This study is part of a larger effort to improve our ability to model microclimates in urban areas and other climate phenomena at decision - relevant scales,» Jones said.

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the human gut.

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity.

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 cancer hasn't yet shown itself in North Dakota, but mounting evidence suggests that large - scale clean - up efforts should commence immediately, says Michele Carbone, a mesothelioma expert at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu who has worked in both North Dakota and the Turkish villages.

«Even the most advanced and largest - scale efforts to test automated vehicles today fall woefully short of what is needed to thoroughly test these robotic cars,» said Huei Peng, director of Mcity and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M.

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.