Sentences with phrase «largest challenges of the world»

Ease of transactions and available use cases remain the two largest challenges of the world's most popular cryptocurrency, not counting its general volatility that isn't a technological problem but an economic one.

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A beaten - down technology stock faces off against shares of the world's largest company in tonight's Fast Money Madness challenge.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

Google's inability to access China's large population of young, tech - savvy internet users poses a challenge for the firm whose search engine has expanded to become the world's largest and most ubiquitous.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

The president of the world's largest alumina producer has challenged accountants to help the resources industry come to grips with the concept of the environmental balance sheet.

Australian wealth manager AMP and French insurer AXA SA launched a new $ 13.1 billion - plus bid for AXA Asia Pacific, a move set to challenge banks» domination of the world's fourth - largest wealth market down under.

And even if Huawei does have its own OS, if the company is forced off of traditional Android and onto something else, it would still pose a huge challenge for the world's third largest smartphone maker.

One of the world's largest urban innovation hubs, MaRS supports a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

He has navigated Marriott through extremely challenging economic times and led the recent acquisition of Starwood to create the largest hotel company in the world.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs supporting a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.

I refer to the large spectrum of challenges that we now associate with ecology — world population, food supply, pollution, dwindling supplies of nonrenewable natural resources, and so on.

Second, a vital church will respond to how the larger society challenges (criticizes, attempts to discredit) the convictions and beliefs of the world of faith.

Two challenges seem to loom large in the modern world including India which is in the process of modernization; one, of humanizing the technological revolution to serve the poor and protect the ecological basis of life; and the other, of building a secular state and common civil society with openness to religious insights in a situation of religious pluralism.

I have one of the worlds largest sweet tooths and I definitely found this more challenging.

The challenges of setting up sourcing projects in developing countries are the subject of Sambazon; the enterprise has set up numerous agricultural projects in the Amazon to become the largest supplier of açaí berries in the world.

Entrepreneurs, Stanford researchers, investment bankers, and parents who run some of the largest hi - tech companies in the world, weigh - in on what children need to navigate the challenges of the 21st Century in order to find success, purpose, and joy in their lives.

How would I feel if I was a small person in a big world, a world where large beings were constantly jabbering at me in a language I barely understood, a world where everything was a challenge, from climbing out of a chair to learning to control my bodily functions, a world where every day, all day long, I was confronted with new things to taste, new things to explore, new things to discover.

Mrs. Mahama said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), report in the year 2015, indicated that sub-Saharan Africaremains the home to the largest out of school population of children in the world and although Ghana continue to face its our own challenges, it had achieved universal enrolment of children in primary school.

The Waziri of Adamawa said Nigeria should learn from Venezuela, a country with the largest oil reserve in the world that still faces so many challenges.

A new study by a team of scientists from the University of Malta and the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS / Université de Montpellier) could help develop treatment strategies for a crippling disorder that was the focus of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the world's largest global social media phenomenon.

Jessica Wyndham, director of AAAS» Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, represented the world's largest general scientific organization at the meeting and laid out the meaning of science, the benefits it contributes to human rights, the obligations of nations that are party to the underlying agreement and the challenges facing implementation.

As the two of us started to evaluate the feasibility of such a change, we took on an even larger challenge: to determine how 100 percent of the world's energy, for all purposes, could be supplied by wind, water and solar resources, by as early as 2030.

The reports on herbicide resistance and its challenges, and how modern agriculture is coping, were part of a symposium on the topic at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.

Two of the world's largest professional societies of human geneticists have issued a joint position statement on the promise and challenges of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a new procedure to test blood drawn from pregnant mothers for Down syndrome and other chromosomal disorders in the fetus.

Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider — the world's largest particle accelerator — the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid celebrates the start of its crucial data challenge: the analysis and management of more than 15 million Gigabytes of data every year, to be produced from the hundreds of millions of subatomic collisions expected inside the LHC every second.

Needless to say, it's also challenging for me to work as a member of the world's largest observatory that makes extraordinary discoveries.

«We are bringing together students and the world's best energy storage and powertrain engineers to tackle challenges in advancing vehicle technology,» said MaryAnn Wright, group vice president industry relations at Johnson Controls Power Solutions, which is the world's largest manufacturer of auto batteries.

The Dec. 10 event heralded the start of the largest and most advanced fusion experiment of its kind in the world and could yield promising solutions to some of the most difficult challenges in developing fusion energy.

INCF coordinates the development of a large - scale international collaborative cyberinfrstructure for Neuroinformatics, brings together the world's leading scientists, solves challenges in standardization and interoperability and helps facilitating the acquisition and annotation of diverse datasets.

I sincerely hope the film challenges people to take an introspective look at their lives and see how they fit into the world at large, and see what kinds of positive changes they can make, because in researching for this film we didn't find one person who had met Ernie who hadn't been positively influenced by him.

At a recent roundtable interview, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen talked about how the project first came together, what inspired the story, the influence of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig's work on the multi-layered storytelling approach, their collaboration on the vision for the movie, how they created this rich, lush cinematic world and brought the audience into it, how Anderson cultivated a communal atmosphere on set and made available a large selection of books and films to the cast during production, Stockhausen's favorite day of shooting, and the challenge of using different aspect ratios.

Given the enormity and diversity of challenges facing the world at large, and Asia, in particular, the transformation of societies requires creative and innovative responses, and individual and collective entrepreneurship.

Because preparation of principals has not kept pace with changes in the larger world of schooling, graduates of principal - preparation programs have been left ill equipped for the challenges and opportunities posed by an era of accountability.

It is suitable for students age 11 and up who are ready to read about a time and lifestyle that differ from their own, and are able to take an interest in larger, challenging themes of life (the passage of time, spiritual beliefs, the natural world, money and government affairs, history, etc.) This eBook contains reading comprehension sheets to go with the novel.

Deb Krizmanich was a team member leading a highly challenging project for a large technology firm that involved senior executives from many divisions around the world and she needed to get all of them together in one room for two days to get some key decisions made.

The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War online companion to our print book includes a rich multimedia collection of maps, videos, timelines, and teaching strategies that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia, and will challenge students to consider the complex questions this history raises about wartime violence, justice, and memory.

«Working with a trusted partner, one who knows Killeen ISD and the unique challenges we face in serving the students outside one of the largest military bases in the world, was important,» explained Killeen ISD Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Diana Miller.

With this edition, we probably say good - bye to the largest single - subject encyclopedia in the world in its print form, while we look forward to what editor Stanley Sadie called the «exciting and challenging possibilities» of its electronic future.

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, has been working on increasing student reading interest over the summer months with its reading challenges, aimed at encouraging students to meet or exceed goals outlined for them.

[The Penguin Random House merger] could set off a long - expected round of consolidation as the industry adapts to the digital marketplace... The merger will create the largest consumer book publisher in the world... [enabling] greater scale to deal with the challenges arising from the growth of electronic books and the power of Internet retailers.

«It's certainly helped that we have one of the largest catalogues of e-books in the world, and have treated this whole endeavour as much more a challenge of bookselling than a challenge of technology,» he said.

Last month, Microsoft challenged both Apple and Amazon with a $ 300m investment in Barnes & Noble, a stake in the digital operations of the world's largest bricks - and - mortar book chain to exploit and develop the Nook (the B&N e-reader) in direct opposition to the Kindle.

Explore miles of hiking trails, ride on the world's largest rotating tramcar, or challenge yourself to a round of golf at Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort in Palm Springs.

We have recently partnered up with Large Minority, a company that offers these amazing adventure challenges around the world (think: tuk - tuk driving across a country) and one of the things we love about them is their dedication to giving back to local communities from every person that joins their challenges.

INCF coordinates the development of a large - scale international collaborative cyberinfrstructure for Neuroinformatics, brings together the world's leading scientists, solves challenges in standardization and interoperability and helps facilitating the acquisition and annotation of diverse datasets.

Beginners can take lessons from one of the world's oldest surf schools and experienced surfers will find themselves challenged by larger swells, all against a breath - taking picturesque backdrop.

Dig your way underground and explore vivid worlds riddled with treasure, secrets and traps Combat dangerous enemies at every turn of the underworld's twisted paths, including shadowy creatures and the haunted remains of an ancient electrical threat Upgrade your gear to forge deeper into the earth and take on bigger challenges Swing across large chasms with your Hookshot and fly through caves with the jet engine!

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».